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26 August 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, UK Chief of the Defence Staff, and his successor, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton.
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.
The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has uncovered an organized criminal group in the Odesa region that was engaged in the illegal smuggling of men subject to military service to the unrecognized Transnistria.
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.
The total amount of Ukraine’s state and state-guaranteed debt reached $186.13 billion at the end of July, increasing by $1.29 billion over the month.
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.
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.
Zbigniew Bogucki, head of the Chancellery of Polish President Karol Navrocki, has denied claims that the president’s veto of an amendment to the law on aid for Ukrainians would result in Starlink being shut down in Ukraine.
The Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have struck Russian military logistics facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea.
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.
In the Pokrovsk sector, border guards repelled an assault and captured nine invaders.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 47 of 59 Russian drones.
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.
Guarantees on paper are worthless unless backed by power
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.
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.