War

On the evening of August 15, Russian troops attacked a farm in the Zaporizhzhia district. A 61-year-old man was injured in the attack, and hangars and farm equipment were damaged. A fire broke out on the farm’s grounds.

Throughout the day, Russian troops attacked five districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 50 times. As a result of the strikes, 17 people were injured, including a 12-year-old boy.

Throughout August 14 and into the night of August 15, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out strikes against a number of key military targets belonging to the Russian occupiers in the Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

Ukrainian experts from the Cyber Corps community carried out a cyber operation against the digital infrastructure of the Russian marketplace Wildberries. The attack caused widespread disruptions to the company’s services.

Putin’s trip to the Kuril Islands has once again highlighted the main problem facing future peace between Ukraine and Russia: there will be no peace treaty.

On the night of Friday, August 15, Ukrainian forces carried out a series of long-range strikes against strategic targets within the Russian Federation. In particular, one of the key facilities within Roscosmos – the Progress Center in the Samara Region – was hit.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has drafted departmental orders to abolish border zones in certain areas of the Rostov and Voronezh regions that border the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as between occupied Crimea and the Kherson region.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupation forces launched massive strikes on the territories of the Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv regions. The enemy used aircraft, artillery, and hundreds of drones of various types in the attacks. As a result of the shelling, more than 30 people were wounded, including a child.

On the night of August 14–15, Russian sources reported a strike on the Savasleika military airfield in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, where MiG-31K fighters—carriers of “Kinzhal” aeroballistic missiles—are based. In Samara, there was also reportedly a strike on one of the industrial facilities.

On the night of August 14–15, a fire broke out at a shopping center in Zaporizhzhia, and a drone strike on the grounds of an industrial facility was also reported.