Ukrainian defense forces shoot down 14 Russian Shahed drones overnight
The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 14 of 16 Shahed attack drones launched by Russia at Ukraine on the night of August 23.
23 August 2024
The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 14 of 16 Shahed attack drones launched by Russia at Ukraine on the night of August 23.
As of Friday morning, no Russian warships were spotted on combat duty in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
On the eve of National Flag Day and Ukraine's Independence Day, President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska honored outstanding individuals with the National Legend of Ukraine award.
Since the full-scale invasion, 605,330 have been wounded or killed in action, including 1,190 in the past day alone.
22 August 2024
The Implementation of the Peace Formula began with “Energy Security” clause as a thematic international conference was held online on Thursday.
We need a plan for a victory, not for a peace
It is vital for Ukraine not to allow the enemy to amass forces close to its borders, and it is equally important to be able to destroy military targets deeper inside Russia using long-range capabilities provided by partners.
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
The number of those wounded in Russian strikes on Bohodukhiv in the Kharkiv region has increased to six, among them a 15-year-old boy.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down two Shahed-131/136 strike drones overnight into August 22, and most of the missiles that Russia launched from the airspace over the Black Sea and from the Belgorod region and Crimea did not reach their targets.
Russian forces attacked Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region with four Kh-35 missiles, an Iskander missile and seven FPV drones on August 21, injuring three people.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to August 22, 2024 amount to nearly 604,140 invaders, including another 1,130 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Ukraine Radek Pech has said that Czech companies will actively participate in the post-war reconstruction of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
As of Thursday morning, there were no Russian warships on combat duty in the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov.
21 August 2024
Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko visited the National Guard units that are serving in the most difficult areas of Donetsk region as part of the Defense Forces.
One person died and 11 were injured in the Kherson community during the day.
The Minister of Defense of the Netherlands, Ruben Brekelmans, says the Netherlands is buying mobile radars for Ukraine, to be delivered before the end of the year.
The situation on the border with Belarus remains unchanged as no amassing of Belarusian military equipment or personnel is being observed.
Air defence forces shot down 50 enemy UAVs and one Russian missile on the night of 21 August and this morning.
Ukraine's air defense forces and means destroyed all Russian strike drones that were heading for Kyiv on August 21.
As many as 166 combat engagements between Ukrainian forces and Russian troops took place on the front lines in the past 24 hours, including a third of them on the Pokrovsk axis.
The estimated casualty toll of the Russian invasion forces in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war has amounted to 603,010 killed or wounded.
Russia has not deployed any warships on combat duty in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as of Wednesday morning.
Any discussions of a possible weakening of support for Ukraine by allies, including Germany, would send the wrong kind of signal to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
20 August 2024
Ukrainian military mounted a massive long-range drone attack on four different military airfields in Russia
The Ukrainian Armed Forces currently control over 1,260 square kilometers of territory and 93 settlements in Russia's Kursk region.
Since the outset of the full-scale invasion, the Russian military has already used more than 9,600 missiles and almost 14,000 attack drones against Ukraine.
The length of the active combat line at the front is now 1,040 kilometres.
The deployment of Belarusian aviation and air defence forces near the border with Ukraine is currently an information and psychological operation (PSYOP), but it cannot be ruled out that Vladimir Putin will ‘push’ the Belarusian dictator to "take more concrete actions".
Energy gigantomania in Ukraine is essentially over. We are rebuilding the domestic energy system on a new basis