SSU detains Russian spy preparing terrorist attacks in Kyiv
Cyber specialists of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) exposed in Kyiv a Russian agent who was helping the occupiers prepare new strikes on the capital and terrorist attacks.
27 August 2025
Cyber specialists of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) exposed in Kyiv a Russian agent who was helping the occupiers prepare new strikes on the capital and terrorist attacks.
Another Ukrainian child has been returned from the territories temporarily occupied by Russia.
Over the past week, 47 people—including nine children—were evacuated from border communities in the Sumy region.
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.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is joining the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children as part of President Zelensky’s initiative Bring Kids Back UA.
Fighters from the Phoenix Unmanned Aerial Systems Unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine used drones to destroy three command posts, a Russian electronic warfare (EW) system, and other electronic equipment, while eliminating about 10 enemy soldiers on the Kupiansk front.
On August 26, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the use of an additional UAH 4.8 billion for the eRecovery program to fund certificates for destroyed housing.
Russian forces struck a high-rise building in Kherson’s Central District with a drone, injuring two women and damaging several apartments, Ukrinform reports.
The United States has announced it is ready to provide intelligence assets and battlefield surveillance for any Western security plan for post-war Ukraine, as well as participate in a European air defense shield for the country.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced upcoming international contacts that could become a step toward ending the war.
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.
Throughout the day, Russian troops carried out nearly 40 attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region using drones, artillery, and guided aerial bombs (KABs), targeting the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts. A 65-year-old woman was injured.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has reported positive developments on the frontline, particularly in the border areas of Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
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.
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.
In Kherson, police bomb disposal experts destroyed Russian anti-infantry high-explosive mines (PFM-1 or Flower Petal Mine) that were found on one of the streets in the Dniprovskyi district.
Russian forces once again targeted the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region with strike-capable FPV drones, resulting in the death of one woman and injuries to two men.
A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, who recently fled Ukraine to the United States because of the war, was killed at a train station in the state of North Carolina.
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.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 71 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian troops. Fighting continues in six front areas, with the enemy showing the greatest activity in the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors.
In Kherson, police bomb disposal experts destroyed Russian anti-infantry high-explosive mines (PFM-1 or Flower Petal Mine) that were found on one of the streets in the Dniprovskyi district.
The Benelux countries have reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, on the country’s path of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, and pledged to deepen cooperation in the fields of security, reconstruction, and humanitarian issues.
Since the start of the weapons registration process in Ukraine, citizens have registered 11,738 firearms and over 5 million rounds of ammunition.
European Commission's Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos will meet today in Brussels with the Head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) Oleksandr Klymenko and the Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Semen Kryvonos.
Agents of the ATESH guerrilla movement, who are employees of a plant in Yelabuga, Russia, have documented the construction of a tower with a Pantsir missile system next to the Shahed-136 loitering munition manufacturing plant.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with military officials to discuss the situation on the frontlines and in the border areas, as well as to hear a report on cooperation with all partners within the Coalition of the Willing.
In Vovchansk community of Kharkiv region, a Russian drone struck a vehicle delivering humanitarian aid to a frontline settlement.
Sappers from the Tsunami assault regiment of the National Police brigade Liut destroyed a strategically important site in Toretsk that could have fallen under Russian control.
In Donetsk region, Russian shelling has caused a power outage at mines in Dobropillia community, leaving 148 miners trapped underground.