War

In a suburb of Kharkiv, cleanup efforts are underway following the Russian strike that occurred on August 23. According to preliminary reports, three people were killed. Rescue workers evacuated eight residents, some of whom were injured.

The former U.S. presidential special representative to Ukraine, retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, called for the fair reintegration of Ukrainian veterans.

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.

Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces dealt yet another devastating blow to the enemy’s military equipment and strategic positions. In total, the Defense Forces struck 14 targets on Russian territory and in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

On the morning of Sunday, August 23, in the Odesa region, a Russian “Shahed”-type jet-powered drone struck the locomotive of passenger train No. 147 traveling from Zhytomyr to Odesa, which was carrying nearly 600 passengers.

The number of people injured as a result of the Russian strike on the “Sunny Gallery” shopping and entertainment complex in Kryvyi Rih, which took place on the evening of August 21, has risen to 140.

On the night of August 23, a Russian attack drone struck private homes in the Osnovyanskyi district of Kharkiv. According to preliminary reports, four people were injured.

On the evening of August 22, Russian forces attacked Mykolaiv with a “Shahed”-type attack drone. A 46-year-old man was injured in the attack and was hospitalized.

On Saturday afternoon, August 22, Russian forces launched a ballistic missile strike on the Boryspil District in Kyiv Oblast. One person was killed in the attack, and at least five others were injured.

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.