Ukrainian forces encircle Russian troops near Dobropillia, situation stabilizing
The Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, and Lyman sectors remain the hottest spots on the front, but near Dobropillia the major threat has been neutralized.
The Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, and Lyman sectors remain the hottest spots on the front, but near Dobropillia the major threat has been neutralized.
In the Sumy region, from the morning of August 23 to the morning of August 24, Russian troops shelled 36 settlements in 14 territorial communities of the region more than 90 times; a man was wounded.
In the Kherson region yesterday, a person died due to enemy shelling, two more were injured, one of them is a child.
Yesterday, 179 combat clashes took place between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops. The invaders put the most pressure on the Pokrovsk sector, and they also showed increased activity in the Novopavlivka sector.
On the night of August 24, the Defense Forces neutralized 48 Russian drones in the Ukrainian sky; enemy UAVs and ballistic missiles were hit at ten locations.
The enemy army attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region. A woman died in one of the districts; the infrastructure is damaged.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to August 24, 2025, amount to about 1,0760,70 soldiers of which 910 were killed yesterday.
During the day, the occupiers carried out 478 strikes on 11 settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region. A man and a woman were wounded as a result of an enemy attack on the Polohy district.
In temporarily occupied Sevastopol, a Russian patrol boat guarded the entrance to Striletska Bay.
Sumy was attacked by enemy UAVs, explosions rang out in the city, and there were hits.
The Russian soldiers dropped explosives from a drone on a minor in Novoraisk, Kherson region. The boy was injured.
23 August 2025
Throughout the day, 134 combat clashes took place on the front. In the Pokrovsk sector, Russian forces made 40 attempts to break through Ukrainian defenses near 17 settlements.
A strike UAV crew from the Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 39th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade of the 30th Marine Corps of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine raised the national flag of Ukraine on the territory of Kherson region temporarily occupied by Russian forces.
On Ukraine’s National Flag Day, drone operators of the RUGBY TEAM battalion from the 129th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade raised Ukrainian flags over the villages of Hornal and Huyevo in Sudzha district of Russia’s Kursk region — territories historically belonging to Ukrainian Slobozhanshchyna.
Fighters of the 37th Separate Marine Brigade, together with the 214th Separate Assault Battalion OPFOR, halted enemy advances and re-established control over the settlement of Zelenyi Hai in Donetsk region.
In Donetsk region, units of the Russian Volunteer Corps, together with Ukrainian forces, successfully stopped an attempted breakthrough by Russian troops and captured 16 soldiers.
In Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian attacks resulted in the death of one person and injuries to nine others.
In Kherson, a 69-year-old local man was fatally wounded as a result of Russian shelling of the city’s Central District.
In Russia’s Rostov region, the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery — one of the largest in the country’s south — has been burning for a third day following an attack by Ukrainian drones.
Since the beginning of the day, 71 combat engagements have occurred between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with fighting still ongoing in seven sectors of the front.
In Komyshany district of Kherson region, a school and an administrative building were damaged as a result of Russian drone attacks.
Early on Saturday, August 23, Russian forces dropped two guided aerial bombs on the village of Buniachyne in Novoslobidska community of Sumy region, injuring a civilian.
The Russians hit a residential building in Slatyne, Kharkiv region, with an MLRS, damaging residential buildings, power lines, and a gas pipeline.
Russian sources confirmed that on the night of August 23, Ukrainian drones struck two railway infrastructure facilities in southern Russia, in the Rostov and Volgograd regions, resulting in delays for nearly 40 trains.
An enemy drone hit a minibus in the Synelnykove district of the Dnipropetrovsk region. A man died, and five more people were injured.
A fire station was damaged in Dobropillia, Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region, as a result of the explosion, three Russian soldiers who committed war crimes in Bucha, Kyiv region, were killed.
In the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv, a Russian drone crashed into a road.
Three children and a young man have been returned from Russia to Ukraine.