Russian drones strike outskirts of Sumy, infrastructure damaged
A massive Russian drone attack on the Sumy community caused damage to infrastructure facilities.
27 August 2025
A massive Russian drone attack on the Sumy community caused damage to infrastructure facilities.
26 August 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yesterday, four settlements in the Kharkiv region were under attack by Russia, and one person was injured.
25 August 2025
When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many in Western capitals believed Kyiv could fall within days. However, the efforts of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) and U.S. support reshaped the course of the war and pushed it onto the aggressor’s territory.
Russian troops fired on the village of Slatyne in the Kharkiv region with multiple launch rocket systems, injuring a resident and damaging private houses, a gas pipeline, and power lines.
In the Kharkiv region, one person was killed and six others were injured during the day as a result of Russian shelling.
Yesterday, Russian troops shelled five settlements in the Kharkiv region; there were no casualties.
24 August 2025
Russian forces shelled the city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, killing an 82-year-old woman and injuring two others.
Russian channels fake local news headlines from Kharkiv and Sumy regions to accuse Ukrainian serviceman of violent crimes
Eight Ukrainian civilians have returned home from Russian captivity as part of the latest prisoner exchange, alongside Ukrainian military personnel.
23 August 2025
The Russians hit a residential building in Slatyne, Kharkiv region, with an MLRS, damaging residential buildings, power lines, and a gas pipeline.
As of August 22, 2025, Ukrainian farmers gathered 27.25 million tonnes of early grain and leguminous crops, and began to harvest sunflowers and soybeans.
22 August 2025
Russian troops have again struck Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, killing a 66-year-old woman and injuring four people.
Today, evacuation measures are continuing in a number of frontline regions, most notably in Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk. The total number of people requiring evacuation is almost 1,100,000, of whom 84,000 are children and 16,000 are citizens with reduced mobility.
On the morning of August 22, Russian invaders shelled the city of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, killing a local resident.
In the Derhachi territorial community in the Kharkiv region, residents of seven villages were left without electricity as a result of a nighttime Russian attack.
Yesterday, nine settlements in the Kharkiv region were under the Russian attack, one person was killed, and three people were injured.
In the village of Kurhanne, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, a Russian FPV drone attack on the morning of Friday, August 22, killed one person and injured three others.
21 August 2025
Investigators of the State Bureau of Investigation, with the support of the Security Service of Ukraine, uncovered a corruption scheme and served notices of suspicion to officials of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and to the director of a private enterprise, whose actions caused losses to the state amounting to 25.7 million UAH.
Yesterday, nine settlements in the Kharkiv region were attacked by Russia; two people died.
20 August 2025
Kherson was the first front-line city I visited after arriving in Ukraine one year ago.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Russia's latest strikes "demonstrative strikes" that underscore the need for new sanctions and tariffs against Moscow until diplomacy can function in full.
Near the village of Petrivka in the Zolochiv territorial community, Russian troops struck a civilian car with a drone, killing a man and a woman.
Yesterday, six settlements in the Kharkiv region were hit by Russian strikes, injuring two men.