Ukrainian strikes halve Russian oil exports from Ust-Luga port – Reuters
Successful Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's oil and gas infrastructure have caused a 50% drop in oil exports from the Ust-Luga port on the Baltic Sea.
28 August 2025
Successful Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia's oil and gas infrastructure have caused a 50% drop in oil exports from the Ust-Luga port on the Baltic Sea.
Unmanned Systems Forces, in coordination with other components of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, carried out strikes overnight on Thursday, August 28, targeting the Kuybyshev and Afipsky oil refineries in Russia’s Samara region and Krasnodar territory.
On August 27, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 139 combat clashes with Russian invaders.
The total combat losses of Russian forces from February 24, 2022, to August 28, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,079,630 personnel, including 880 in the past 24 hours.
Prosecutors have charged 16 individuals and submitted 12 indictments to court in cases concerning losses to the state worth UAH 248 million in the defense sector. The abuses involved procurement of substandard uniforms, defective software, theft of fuel, and fraud in food supplies for the military.
A delegation from the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC) met with the leadership of Ukraine's Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications during an official visit to the country.
27 August 2025
Since the beginning of the year, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed more than 27,000 Russian army vehicles.
Russian forces have not ceased assault operations in the area of responsibility of the Dnipro Operational Strategic Group of Troops, but their assault units are becoming exhausted. As a result, the intensity of offensive operations is likely to decrease by early autumn.
Russia suffered approximately 1,078,750 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and August 27, 2025, with 920 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
On August 26, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 130 combat clashes with Russian occupiers, with the heaviest fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors.
26 August 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump warned that Russia would face an economic war if it refuses to conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine.
Reports circulating in the media about the alleged capture of the villages of Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region by Russian forces are untrue.
At the border of the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Ukrainian Defense Forces have halted the advance of Russian invaders and continue to retain the control of the village of Zaporizke, despite persistent enemy attempts to seize the settlement.
On the Toretsk sector, fighters from the Spalakh Unmanned Systems Battalion, the Kurt&Company unit, and the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Knights of the Winter Campaign" destroyed six cannons and two tanks belonging to the Russian army.
Yesterday, there were 174 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. The invaders put the most pressure on the Pokrovsk sector of the frontline, but they were also highly active in the Lyman and Novopavlivka sectors.
As of August 26, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine—since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022—amount to approximately 1,077,830 personnel. This includes an additional 890 troops lost in the past 24 hours.
Soldiers from the 102nd Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, known as “Ivano-Frankivshchyna,” have destroyed a Russian heavy flamethrower system, the TOS-1 Solntsepyok, in the Zaporizhzhia sector.
25 August 2025
On August 25, the Armed Forces of Ukraine engaged in 136 combat clashes with Russian forces, with the Pokrovsk sector remaining the hottest spot, where the enemy attempted attacks 43 times.
On August 24, a total of 159 combat engagements took place between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders along the front line.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to August 25, 2025, have reached approximately 1,076,940 personnel, including 870 eliminated in the past 24 hours.
24 August 2025
Since the day-start, as many as 85 combat clashes have taken place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with 31 of them in the Pokrovsk sector. Fighting is still ongoing along five frontline directions.
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.
23 August 2025
Yesterday, August 22, 143 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline.
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.
22 August 2025
Ending the war with a genuine peace agreement and compensating Ukraine for its losses cannot be a rapid process; the Istanbul format and Turkey as a platform for negotiations may be the most appropriate option.
Ukrainian Naval Forces have destroyed a Russian UAV base located in temporarily occupied Sevastopol.
On August 21, there were a total of 157 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops along the frontline, 43 of them occurred in the Pokrovsk sector. The enemy also intensified activity in the Novopavlivka and Lyman sectors.
In the Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Kupiansk, Lyman, and Southern Slobozhanshchyna sectors of the front, Russian forces carry out dozens of infantry assaults every day.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to August 22, 2025, amount to about 1,074,320 personnel, including 790 troops lost in the past 24 hours.