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19 August 2025
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, Russian troops persist with daily attacks on Vovchansk, attempting to seize the city. However, Ukraine’s Defense Forces are holding their positions and repelling the assaults.
In the Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, a Russian drone struck an ambulance while it was responding to a call, injuring medical workers.
In the area of Lyptsi, Kharkiv region, Russian troops have intensified their actions, but failed to advance — they were stopped. Lyptsi remains under the control of Ukraine's Defense Forces.
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces carried out several airstrikes on the city of Kostiantynivka, leaving civilians injured. One person may be trapped under the rubble of a building.
Long-range drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have destroyed two ammunition depots used by Russian forces in the Luhansk region.
A Ukrainian sniper in the Bakhmut area took out two Russian soldiers from 4,000 meters away.
In Chornobaivka, Kherson region, an 11-year-old boy walking down the street was injured by Russian artillery fire.
Due to the attack on the Poltava region on the night of August 19, oil refining facilities and a gas transportation system production facility were damaged.
A local resident was killed in the city of Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, as a result of a morning attack by Russian strike drones.
In the early hours of August 19, fires broke out in the Russian city of Volgograd following the crash of drone debris. The blazes occurred at a local oil refinery and a hospital.
Nineteen people injured in yesterday’s missile strike remain hospitalized in Zaporizhzhia. In total, 34 individuals were wounded.
Ukraine’s Air Defense Forces neutralized 230 Russian drones, two Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and four Kh-101 cruise missiles.
Six people were wounded in the Kherson region over the past 24 hours due to continued Russian aggression.
On Tuesday morning, August 19, Russian drones launched an attack on the Chernihiv region, resulting in widespread power outages.
The Russian army killed five civilians in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours.
As many as 186 combat clashes took place between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian troops over the past day, with the heaviest attacks carried out by the invaders in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces carried out 441 strikes on 13 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region on August 18.
Russia suffered approximately 1,071,780 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and August 19, 2025, with 890 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has published on the War & Sanctions portal data on 42 vessels belonging to Russia's shadow fleet, a floating storage unit used by Lukoil, and ships involved in stealing Ukrainian grain and coal from temporarily occupied territories.
18 August 2025
In Zaporizhzhia, the number of people injured in today's Russian missile attack has risen to 30, with the figure continuing to grow.
The number of artillery strikes by Russian troops may increase significantly in the Orikhiv and Huliaypole directions.
In the south, Russian troops have increased their use of loitering munitions such as Lancet, Molniia, Kub, and Privet-82.
Russian occupation forces are regrouping their units in the Kherson direction in order to free up assault units for further redeployment to other directions.
In Kharkiv, the number of victims after the Russian drone attack this morning has increased to 23, with three more people seeking medical attention
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Oleksandr Syrskyi confirmed that he had received false reports from combat zones, so information from several sources is being processed for maximum objectivity.
Three more people may be trapped under the rubble of a building in the Industrial District of Kharkiv.
Ukraine’s domestically developed “Flamingo” missile systems could play a pivotal role in defeating Russian forces—even without the supply of American missiles, including Tomahawks.
Soldiers from the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully carried out assault operations that led to the complete liberation of the villages of Zolotyi Kolodiaz and Petrivka in the Donetsk region from Russian occupation.
A Russian missile attack on Zaporizhzhia early this morning has left three people dead and at least 20 injured.
Russian troops have suffered a defeat and lost control of several settlements in the Sumy region.