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21 August 2025
On the night of August 21, the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ drone units, in coordination with other components of the Defense Forces, struck the Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery in Russia’s Rostov region.
On the night of August 21, Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces targeted a Russian train carrying fuel near the Dzhankoi railway station in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Soldiers from the 5th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade have returned most of the settlement of Tovste (Tolstoy) in the Donetsk region to the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In recent weeks, Russian occupying forces have launched large-scale airstrikes on settlements near the former Kakhovka Dam, aiming to prevent Ukrainian defenders from maintaining their positions.
In Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Russian occupying forces control only the western part of the city. Ukraine’s Defense Forces continue to hold their positions.
Following another massive Russian attack on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Moscow has yet to show any signs of its intention to engage in meaningful negotiations and end the war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that successful tests of the domestically produced Flamingo missile have already taken place, and mass production is set to begin in January-February.
On Wednesday night, drones attacked the Navoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, causing a fire at the facility.
The Russian command is deploying additional troops to Zaporizhzhia.
The number of people wounded as a result of the Russian strike on the enterprise in Mukachevo has increased to 15.
Air Defense Forces neutralized 546 Russian drones, one Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missile, 18 Kh-101 cruise missiles, and 12 Kalibr cruise missiles.
Yesterday, nine settlements in the Kharkiv region were attacked by Russia; two people died.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian defense forces engaged in 167 combat clashes as Russia continued its large-scale offensive across multiple fronts, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said.
One person was killed and two others injured in Lviv following a Russian combined drone and missile strike.
On the Dobropillia axis, Russian forces have suffered 1,116 irretrievable losses since the start of stabilization operations on August 4, including 206 soldiers killed in the past three days alone.
Russia suffered approximately 1,073,530 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and August 21, 2025, with 830 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
A combined Russian attack on Lviv overnight caused damage to dozens of residential buildings and left several people injured.
As of 07:00, 12 people have been reported injured following a Russian strike on Mukachevo, Zakarpattia region.
Russian troops carried out two overnight strikes on the city of Zaporizhzhia, damaging industrial facilities and nearby residential buildings.
In the Sumy region, explosives technicians have neutralized the warhead of a Russian attack drone.
Russian troops launched a missile strike on an industrial facility in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia region, overnight, with emergency services currently working at the scene.
Fighters from the 3rd Spartan Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, named after Colonel Petro Bolbochan, carried out drone strikes on a Russian shelter and an ammunition depot in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Kyiv region has handed over five pickup trucks to the 429th Separate Regiment of Unmanned Systems, known as “Achilles”.
20 August 2025
In the Zaporizhzhia sector, fighters from the 27th Pechersk Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard used strike drones to hit and destroy a Russian S-300V surface-to-air missile system.
A 46-year-old woman was killed as a result of Russian artillery shelling in the Polohy district, Zaporizhzhia region.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, problems with the operation of ATMs and cash registers in stores have been occurring for over a week due to the internet shutdown.
On December 1, 300 Dutch soldiers with two Patriot air defense systems and anti-drone complexes will head to Poland to protect military equipment deliveries to Ukraine from Russian attacks.
The Russian army attacked the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts of Dnipropetrovsk region during the day; one man was killed.
There are still 6,800 residents in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, and the situation in the town is extremely difficult.
The Polish Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the drone that crashed in a field in the village of Osiny in the east of the country turned out to be a Russian “Shahed.”