Russian army loses another 1,230 soldiers in Ukraine
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to 17 August 2024 amounted to about 598,180 people, including 1,230 people over the past day.
17 August 2024
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to 17 August 2024 amounted to about 598,180 people, including 1,230 people over the past day.
One enemy ship carrying cruise missiles is on duty in the Black Sea.
16 August 2024
Since the beginning of the day, 99 combat engagements have taken place at the front. In the Pokrovsk sector, the enemy lost nearly 350 occupiers killed or wounded.
Marines destroyed a Russian Pantsir-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun system in Kherson region.
Air defence forces have shot down two enemy missiles in the sky over the Dnipro region.
It can be expected that Russia will deploy the necessary forces to launch a counter-offensive and push the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the Kursk region.
Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) deputy chief of staff Lt Col. Mattias Puusepp has said that the course of Ukraine's operation in the Kursk region indicates that the Russian Armed Forces have command and control problems in this area.
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 Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) neutralised a network of Russian agents in Kherson who were reconnoitering the locations of the Defence Forces and spying on officials of the regional military administration.
In the Sumy region, 36 settlements were shelled over the past day, a civilian was killed and three civilians were injured as a result of the attacks.
The Canadian Ministry of Defence said that the Ukrainian military could use tanks and armoured vehicles provided by Canada in Russia.
Last night, the Ukrainian Defence Forces shot down five Russian drones.
Russia lost about 596,950 troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and August 16, 2024, including 1,330 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces may have captured about 2,000 Russian soldiers during an operation in the Kursk region.
The United States remains reluctant to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles inside Russia's Kursk region and thinks they would be better used to continue targeting Russian-occupied Crimea.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained a Russian informant who, under the guise of a taxi driver, was collecting intelligence for the invaders in Donetsk region, in particular, tracking the basing points of HIMARS missile systems in the Pokrovsk direction.
15 August 2024
Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, appealed to the head of the UOC (in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate), Metropolitan Onufriy and all the hierarchs with a call to launch a dialogue on having the two churches merge into one, without preconditions.
The Biden administration is "open" to sending long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine, a move that would give Kyiv's F-16s greater combat punch as it seeks to gain further momentum in its fight against Russia.
As part of Lithuania's military support for the Ukrainian army, Ukraine received loaders, trailers and folding beds from Lithuania on August 15.
British weapons can be used by Ukrainian forces in operations on Russian territory, but restrictions on the use of long-range Storm Shadow missiles remain.
Over the past 24 hours, 165 combat engagements took place at the frontline, 58 of them in the Pokrovsk sector.
On the night of 15 August, the Ukrainian Defence Forces destroyed all 29 Russian Shahed attack drones that Russia used to attack the territory of Ukraine.
On Wednesday, 14 August, soldiers of the 46th separate airmobile brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine discovered and destroyed 15 units of enemy military equipment in the Donetsk sector.
Russian invasion forces have lost an estimated 595,620 personnel killed or wounded since the full-scale invasion.
Military counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, in cooperation with the nation’s Defense Forces, destroyed a Russian Kasta radar in the Zaporizhzhia warzone.
14 August 2024
The number of wounded as a result of a Russian missile strike on Odesa's port civilian infrastructure has increased to two.
In Odesa on Wednesday evening, Russians launched a missile attack on civilian infrastructure near the port, injuring one person.
NATO's highest military body, the Military Committee, will meet in Czechia’s Prague on September 13-15.
A "buffer zone" on the territory of Russia’s Kursk region will protect Ukrainian communities near the Russian border from daily shelling.
In the city of Zaporizhzhia, several explosions rang out during the air raid alert after air defenses were activated to down incoming enemy missiles.