drones

On the night of August 26–27, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and strike drones. As a result of the attacks in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, and Sumy regions, several people were injured, and a woman was killed in the Sumy region.

An unusual parade of military equipment took place at several locations in Kyiv. Early in the morning, dozens of ground-based robotic systems (GRS) secretly drove down Khreshchatyk, drones took to the sky, and naval drones sped down the Dnipro River. All of this was captured on video on August 24—the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.

Unmanned aerial systems struck a MiG-29 fighter jet, four radar stations, and a number of military facilities on Russian territory and in temporarily occupied areas.

Ukraine released a video showing a parade of ground-based robotic systems along Khreshchatyk in honor of Independence Day.

On Monday, August 24, Russian troops struck a residential building in Chernihiv. The regional military administration emphasized that the enemy’s attack took place on Ukraine’s Independence Day.

Ukraine and Finland are deepening their cooperation in the field of defense technologies. Ukrainian companies have agreed to develop and manufacture drones in Finland, advance the development of unmanned maritime systems, and establish a company to produce ground-based robotic systems.

Throughout August 22 and into the night of August 23, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out successful strikes against a number of military targets belonging to the Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied Crimea, in the Luhansk region, and in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation.

On the night of August 22, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck facilities at the Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery in the Samara Region of the Russian Federation. The attack caused a fire to break out on the refinery’s grounds.

In Kryvyi Rih, the Russian Federation carried out an attack on a shopping center and a second drone attack on rescue workers.

Russian occupiers attacked a vehicle carrying humanitarian aid in the Kushuhum community of the Zaporizhzhia district with an FPV drone.