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22 August 2025
The new Ukrainian Flamingo cruise missile is a promising development that could significantly impact the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s ability to deliver deep strikes against Russia’s rear infrastructure.
Two young people aged 21 and 22 were rescued from the temporarily occupied Crimea as part of the initiative of the President of Ukraine, Bring Kids Back UA.
Member of the Austrian National Council Veit Dengler is skeptical about the Kremlin leader’s willingness to stop the war against Ukraine and considers it unlikely that Putin would come to Vienna to take part in potential peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) exposed former officials of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre involved in the unlawful seizure of more than 500 hectares of land belonging to the state enterprise “DG Dnipro” of the National Scientific Center “Institute of Agriculture NAAS” in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ending the war with a genuine peace agreement and compensating Ukraine for its losses cannot be a rapid process; the Istanbul format and Turkey as a platform for negotiations may be the most appropriate option.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen commented on the EU’s allocation of a new EUR 4.05 billion financial aid package for Ukraine.
During a meeting in Kyiv with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal discussed defense cooperation between Ukraine and the Alliance.
Since the start of the day, Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops have engaged in 60 clashes, with active fighting ongoing across five sectors of the front.
Russian troops have again struck Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region, killing a 66-year-old woman and injuring four people.
Ukraine has received EUR 4.05 billion in international aid, including EUR 1 billion under ERA Loans financed from frozen Russian assets and EUR 3.05 billion under the Ukraine Facility for reconstruction and integration.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he does not understand why Russia needs security guarantees, since it is Russia that is the aggressor country.
NATO, together with its partners, is working on future security guarantees for Ukraine that must be credible and effective, avoiding the pitfalls of the Budapest Memorandum or the Minsk agreements.
A meeting between President Zelensky and Kremlin leader Putin is unlikely to happen anytime soon, as Russia hopes to achieve some success on the battlefield first.
In the near future, foreign exchange rates in Ukraine will remain within the corridor of UAH 41.05-41.85 for the U.S. dollar and UAH 47.80-48.70 for the euro.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting in Kyiv with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, during which he stressed his gratitude to the Alliance for its support — particularly the PURL program, which enables Ukraine to purchase weapons from the United States.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russians are doing everything they can to prevent a meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, the US, and Russia from taking place.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not agree to freezing the war because that would mean acknowledging the Kremlin’s failure of its so-called “special military operation,” which has achieved none of its objectives. Instead, he will continue dragging out time.
Russia’s withdrawal from the arbitration process under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) concerning the detention of three Ukrainian naval vessels in the Black Sea in November 2018 does not stop the case. Ukraine will continue to seek justice and compensation.
The development of the Flamingo missile with a range of 3,000 km is an achievement of the Ukrainian defense industry and will enable strikes against strategic targets deep inside Russia.
Russian forces shelled the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, injuring one civilian and causing extensive damage to a gas distribution station, residential buildings, and municipal infrastructure.
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.
Ukrainian Naval Forces have destroyed a Russian UAV base located in temporarily occupied Sevastopol.
Ukraine doesn’t need to tie its security guarantees strictly to NATO’s Article 5. At this stage, it’s more important to maintain the independence and flexibility of its armed forces while gradually aligning with the Alliance through shared understanding on key issues.
The future structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be based on a professional core and reserve, actively use technology and robotic systems, and security guarantees from partners should include not only the supply of weapons, but also funding and support for innovation.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that Ukraine has been fighting Russia for its independence longer than anyone in the world expected.
In Donetsk Region, special forces from the Bratstvo unit, part of the Timur Special Unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, stopped the enemy’s advance and eliminated more than 90 Russian invaders.
In Donetsk Region, special forces from the Bratstvo unit, part of the Timur Special Unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, stopped the enemy’s advance and eliminated more than 90 Russian invaders.
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.
The UAV Forces carried out a strike on the oil pumping station of the Transneft Druzhba pipeline in the city of Unecha, Bryansk region of the Russian Federation.
There will be no peace agreements with Russia until Ukraine, together with its Western allies, forces Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin to implement them.