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Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 01:59
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.
Air Defense Forces neutralized 36 of the 49 drones with which Russian troops attacked Ukraine since the evening of August 22.
A Russian missile attack caused a fire at an enterprise in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia region, which was extinguished.
Yesterday, August 22, 143 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline.
The new Ukrainian missile can change the course of the war, and the fact that it is an "easy prey" for fighters is offset by deployment tactics and mass production
In the Kherson region, over the past day, August 22, 16 civilians were injured due to Russian aggression.
On the night of August 23, after completing a combat mission, the pilot of the MiG-29 fighter aircraft, Major Serhii Bondar, died during the approach to landing.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to August 23, 2025, amount to about 1,075,160 servicemen, of whom 840 were killed yesterday.
An air alert was announced in Kyiv due to the threat of UAV attacks.
During the day, the occupiers carried out 448 strikes on 17 settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region.
As a result of three hits in Konotop, residential buildings were damaged, previously without injuries.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, the servicemen of the "Hart" Brigade (1st Donetsk Border Guard Detachment) used FPV drones to hit a cannon, a mortar, and a large-caliber machine gun at the enemy's firing positions near Vovchansk.