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26 August 2025
Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and export infrastructure have disrupted Russia’s refining and export operations, triggered gasoline shortages in some regions, and served as a response to Moscow’s strikes on Ukraine’s gas and energy facilities.
The Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have struck Russian military logistics facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea.
On Tuesday night, Russians carried out a massive attack on the Sumy community. Rescuers were working at three locations.
On Tuesday night, Russians carried out a massive attack on the Sumy community. Rescuers were working at three locations.
The Russian government has proposed denouncing the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
On the morning of August 26, explosions rocked the temporarily occupied Crimea. In Dzhankoi, railway infrastructure was hit, and there was also a strike on the railway at the Urozhaina station in the village of Krasnohvardiiske.
In the Pokrovsk sector, border guards repelled an assault and captured nine invaders.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 47 of 59 Russian drones.
On the morning of August 26, Russian invaders attacked a car on a highway in the Kherson region with a drone, injuring two medical workers.
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.
If Slovakia decides to halt the delivery of diesel fuel to Ukraine, alternative suppliers can be found. At the same time, this may adversely affect the Slovak side itself.
Yesterday, four settlements in the Kharkiv region were under attack by Russia, and one person was injured.
Guarantees on paper are worthless unless backed by power
On August 25, Russian forces killed one civilian in the Donetsk region and wounded six others.
Over the past 24 hours, four people were injured in the Kherson region as a result of ongoing Russian aggression.
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.
Units from the State Border Guard Service used drones to eliminate a Russian UAV launch site and four enemy shelters in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha took part in a phone call with foreign ministers from several European countries and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, during which he outlined Ukraine’s position on security guarantees.
Over the course of the past day, Russian forces carried out 480 strikes across 17 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. One man was injured following an enemy attack on the Zaporizhzhia district.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine strongly condemns and deems null and void the Russian government’s decree of August 22, which added the temporarily occupied Ukrainian ports of Berdiansk and Mariupol to the list of Russian seaports open to foreign vessels.
Norway, as a key member of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children, is providing substantial assistance to Ukraine in this effort.
Units from the State Border Guard Service used drones to eliminate a Russian UAV launch site and four enemy shelters in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
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.
A court has sentenced a Russian agent to 15 years in prison with property confiscation for directing Russia’s missile and drone attacks on Ukraine’s southern region.
Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki announced on Monday that he had not signed an amendment to the law on aid for Ukrainian citizens.
Kremlin-controlled media are circulating disinformation alleging that servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the frontline town of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, supposedly killed a woman and a child in order to steal a car.
Ukraine is deepening its industrial cooperation with Denmark.
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.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and a delegation of the international parliamentary network United for Ukraine (U4U) discussed mechanisms for opening the first negotiation cluster this year regarding Ukraine’s membership in the European Union.
Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov met with Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, UK Chief of the Defence Staff, and his successor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine.