War in Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that personnel decisions are being prepared to strengthen defenses along the most intense sections of the front.

Officials from the State Bureau of Investigation have decoded the data from the flight data recorder and are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash of a Su-24M military aircraft in the Khmelnytskyi region, which resulted in the deaths of two pilots.

The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine demonstrated the ground phase of the operation to liberate the village of Andriivka-Klevtsove in the Oleksandrivka sector.

Russian security forces use a serial number system to identify foreign mercenaries recruited into the occupying army.

Russian intelligence agencies are blackmailing Ukrainian volunteer and soldier Mykhailo Puryshev, threatening to kill his son.

On the night of August 17, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of key military targets belonging to the Russian occupiers.

On August 17, one of DTEK’s mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region was damaged as a result of a massive Russian drone strike.

In July, the occupying forces killed at least 437 civilians in Ukraine and wounded another 2,610 people. This is the highest monthly toll of civilian casualties since May 2022.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck one of Russia’s largest chemical plants, which produces gunpowder for ammunition. On the night of August 16, the “Kamensky Plant” in the Rostov Region was attacked.  

Russian troops have advanced near Novooleksandrivka in the Donetsk region.