Large-scale fires break out in Odesa Region due to enemy drone attacks
On the night of Monday, August 4, Russian troops attacked the Odesa Region with strike drones, causing large-scale fires to break out.
04 August 2025
On the night of Monday, August 4, Russian troops attacked the Odesa Region with strike drones, causing large-scale fires to break out.
Soldiers of the Hart Brigade of the 1st Border Detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service used FPV drones and mortars to destroy an MT-12 cannon and two launch pads for Russian invaders' drones in the Vovchansk area.Soldiers of the Hart Brigade of the 1st Border Detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service used FPV drones and mortars to destroy an MT-12 cannon and two launch pads for Russian invaders' drones in the Vovchansk area.
Soldiers of the Hart Brigade of the 1st Border Detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service used FPV drones and mortars to destroy an MT-12 cannon and two launch pads for Russian invaders' drones in the Vovchansk area.Soldiers of the Hart Brigade of the 1st Border Detachment of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service used FPV drones and mortars to destroy an MT-12 cannon and two launch pads for Russian invaders' drones in the Vovchansk area.
Drone operators from the Phoenix unit of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service successfully destroyed a Russian drone control center and its personnel in the Kupiansk sector.
03 August 2025
Since the beginning of the day, 153 combat engagements have occurred along the front lines, with the Pokrovsk sector facing the heaviest fighting—38 Russian assaults were launched against positions held by the Defense Forces of Ukraine. In that area, nearly 90 Russian troops were reportedly killed.
Five people were injured in Russian attacks on the Kherson region on August 3.
Russian troops carried out more than 20 attacks on two districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day, causing infrastructure damage but no civilian casualties.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a decision by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to impose personal sanctions on 94 individuals and five legal entities.
Russian forces launched a drone attack on a village in the Putivl community of the Sumy region, damaging at least 16 houses.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky extended his congratulations to pilots, engineers, technical specialists, and air defense crews on the occasion of the Ukrainian Air Force Day.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees dismissing Serhii Haidai as head of the Mukachevo District State Administration in the Zakarpattia region and Andrii Yurchenko as head of the Rubizhne City Military Administration in the Sievierodonetsk district of the Luhansk region.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 60 Russian drones and one Iskander-M ballistic missile during a massive aerial assault overnight.
Drones targeted an oil depot in Russia's Sochi overnight on Sunday, August 3.
On August 2, Ukraine's Defense Forces engaged in 138 combat clashes with Russian invading forces. The most intense fighting was reported in the Pokrovsk, Northern Slobozhanshchyna, Kursk, and Lyman sectors.
In the first half of this year, border guards destroyed more than 6,500 pieces of equipment and 270 ammunition depots with the help of drones, and also hit more than 9,000 Russian shelters.
On the night of August 3, explosions were heard in Chuhuiv and Balakliia in the Kharkiv region due to enemy strikes, resulting in casualties and destruction.
Against the backdrop of the Kremlin's use of Iranian technology in the production of drones, which Russia is using to attack peaceful cities in Ukraine, activists staged a protest outside the Iranian embassy in London, demanding the expulsion of representatives of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and related organizations from Britain.
The International Atomic Energy Agency team at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant recorded explosions and smoke coming from one of the auxiliary facilities near the plant site on Saturday.
More than 170 Ukrainian manufacturers from the Brave1 defense innovation cluster have begun cooperation with Axon, a global technology leader in public safety.
In Kharkiv, 179 buildings were damaged by Russian shelling in July, and nearly 4,700 windows were shattered.
Russia's 247th Air Assault Regiment is experiencing mass desertion in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In July, demining units of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense cleared 5,136 hectares of territory liberated from Russian occupation.
02 August 2025
Russian shelling has destroyed private homes and damaged apartment buildings in Mykolaiv.
Russian forces are ramping up their offensive to seize key urban areas in the Pokrovsk, Dobropillia, and Novopavlivka sectors, attempting to push into Pokrovsk by employing a "total infiltration" tactic and increasing sabotage activities behind Ukrainian lines.
Since the beginning of the day, 104 combat engagements have taken place between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian occupiers, with 28 of them occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) have exposed an MP, the head of a district military administration, the head of a city military administration, as well as National Guard officers, in a scheme involving the procurement of UAVs and electronic warfare systems at inflated prices.
Throughout the day, the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region came under artillery and FPV drone attacks. The strikes hit the district center, as well as the Pokrovske, Marhanets, and Myrove communities, damaging an industrial facility, three private homes, and a power line.
A Russian drone strike in Ukraine's Sumy region has killed a 12-year-old boy and injured two other teenagers.
A six-year-old girl was injured when a Russian FPV drone struck a civilian car in the village of Ivano-Shyichyne, Bohodukhiv district, Kharkiv region.
Russian forces shelled the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region with cannon artillery, killing one civilian and damaging residential buildings and vehicles.