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Protests against the resignation of Mykhailo Fedorov as defense minister have been ongoing for 30 days now.

In the Mykolaiv region, police and the Territorial Coordination Center detained a driver from the Kherson Rapid Response Unit of the Red Cross while he was evacuating civilians. As a result, evacuation trips from Kherson have been temporarily suspended.

According to a new survey, only 5% of internally displaced persons have received housing compensation, even though 57% of IDPs lost their homes in the occupied territories or in the combat zone.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree enacting the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose personal and economic sanctions against individuals, companies, and vessels involved in the illegal export of Ukrainian grain.

At least one person was killed and 22 others were wounded as a result of a massive attack by Russian forces on the Kramatorsk community in Donetsk Oblast on August 13.

The Russians attacked Kherson and the Kherson region with drones and aerial bombs; several neighborhoods are without power.

On August 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense published a provocative post stating: “You’ll be in for a freeze this winter.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stated that Moscow sees no point in returning to the 2022–2023 version of the “Black Sea Initiative” and suspending hostilities in the Black Sea. Sergey Lavrov also commented on Turkey’s proposal.

The ashes of Yevhen Konovalets, a colonel in the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, commander of the Sich Riflemen, and first chairman of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, were brought to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv. Currently, the coffin containing Konovalets’ remains is in the cathedral.

In the Polish capital, a Ukrainian woman was injured during a confrontation with a group of Polish adults. They allegedly reacted negatively to her Ukrainian accent and knocked out two of her front teeth.