No changes on border with Belarus - border guards
The situation on the border with Belarus remains unchanged as no amassing of Belarusian military equipment or personnel is being observed.
21 August 2024
The situation on the border with Belarus remains unchanged as no amassing of Belarusian military equipment or personnel is being observed.
Air defence forces shot down 50 enemy UAVs and one Russian missile on the night of 21 August and this morning.
Ukraine's air defense forces and means destroyed all Russian strike drones that were heading for Kyiv on August 21.
As many as 166 combat engagements between Ukrainian forces and Russian troops took place on the front lines in the past 24 hours, including a third of them on the Pokrovsk axis.
The estimated casualty toll of the Russian invasion forces in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war has amounted to 603,010 killed or wounded.
Russia has not deployed any warships on combat duty in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov as of Wednesday morning.
Any discussions of a possible weakening of support for Ukraine by allies, including Germany, would send the wrong kind of signal to Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
20 August 2024
Ukrainian military mounted a massive long-range drone attack on four different military airfields in Russia
The Ukrainian Armed Forces currently control over 1,260 square kilometers of territory and 93 settlements in Russia's Kursk region.
Since the outset of the full-scale invasion, the Russian military has already used more than 9,600 missiles and almost 14,000 attack drones against Ukraine.
The length of the active combat line at the front is now 1,040 kilometres.
The deployment of Belarusian aviation and air defence forces near the border with Ukraine is currently an information and psychological operation (PSYOP), but it cannot be ruled out that Vladimir Putin will ‘push’ the Belarusian dictator to "take more concrete actions".
Energy gigantomania in Ukraine is essentially over. We are rebuilding the domestic energy system on a new basis
Overnight Tuesday, Russian troops launched a missile strike targeting energy facilities in Sumy region, leaving nearly 20,000 residents in blackout.
Ukraine’s air defense forces intercepted a Russian Iskander-K cruise missile, two Kh-59 guided air missiles, and 25 Shahed-131/136 one-way attack drones.
During the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s military reported 158 combat engagements with the Russian invasion force along the frontline.
Fighters from the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade destroyed Russia’s combat positions in Kursk region’s Sudzha district, making full use of their Marder infantry fighting vehicle’s firepower.
The world should think about achieving peace in Ukraine, without stopping to support Ukrainians in their effort to repel Russian aggression.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from 24 February 2022 to 20 August 2024 amounted to about 601,800 people, including 1,330 people in the last 24 hours.
There are no Russian warships in the Black and Azov Seas as of 06:00 on 20 August.
In the morning, on 20 August, Russian troops attacked Kyiv from the north, allegedly with Iskander-K cruise missiles.
Since the full-scale war in Ukraine, 885 medical facilities damaged by Russia have been restored.
19 August 2024
Over the past day, 145 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops took place on the front lines, with the situation in the Pokrovsk sector being the hottest.
Russia lost about 600,470 troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and August 19, 2024, including 1,120 soldiers killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.
Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 11 Shahed strike drones launched from the Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk area on the night of August 18-19.
18 August 2024
In the Kyiv region, as a result of a morning missile attack by the Russian Federation army, 50 houses in three settlements were damaged, two of which were destroyed.
The number of Ukraine Army’s combat engagements with the Russian invasion force has reached 81 since day-start while the enemy remains most active in the Pokrovsk axis where they launched 24 assaults.
The Ukrainian President's spouse, Olena Zelenska, compared the proposal to exchange some of Ukrainian territories for peace with a fairy tale plot, where, in order to appease the dragon, people would annually sacrifice a young woman.
Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Ivan Khurs reconnaissance ship was seen off the coast of Sevastopol.
On Monday or Tuesday, the Council for the Restoration of Okhmatdyt will approve a phased plan to rebuild the National Children's Specialised Hospital Okhmatdyt, which was damaged by the Russian attack.