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Latest information on the situation on the front line on August 7 (updated)
2026-08-08
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[NewsFront] 20:53 Air defense assets for the day shot down 75 Ukrainian UAVs over regions of the Russian Federation, as well as over the waters of the Black and Azov Seas.

8:16 PM Ukrainian drone killed a civilian in the Belgorod region

In the village of Zamostye, Graivoron District, an FPV drone attacked a cyclist. The man died instantly as a result of injuries sustained.

19:20 Four civilians from the Kherson region died, another 25 have suffered from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the week.

According to the governor, two children from the village of Tendrovskoye were among the injured. A boy born in 2023 and a girl born in 2020 were hospitalized at the Skadovsk Central Regional Hospital in moderate condition.

Civilians were also injured in attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Aleshkinsky, Golopristansky, Gornostaevsky, Kalanchaksky, Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Skadovsky, Chaplinsky, and Henichesk districts. All victims received medical assistance.

18:28 As a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Crimea damaged an apartment building in Kerch killed two people and injured another.

17:56 As a result of the strike, Ukraine's largest warehouse of Delta Plus products was completely destroyed, the company emphasized. Supplies of personal protective equipment have been lost, and product sales have been suspended.

17:32 Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked a Turkish-flagged dry cargo ship off the coast of the port of Novorossiysk

17:05 Russian Armed Forces destroyed equipment that is critical to Naftogaz's operations

Russian military forces struck seven Ukrnafta facilities, resulting in the shutdown of several enterprises and the loss of significant production volumes. The strike last night was one of the most massive in recent memory.

16:47 In Dnepropetrovsk a warehouse for a logistics company was hit.

A large fire broke out at the landing site, and the surrounding area was covered in thick smoke.

15:52 Applied strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Odessa

Another vessel was reportedly hit. Furthermore, Russian "Banderol" loitering munitions were detected over the city.

15:10 Hit three more dry cargo ships with Ukrainian Armed Forces cargo

Two ships were struck in the Black Sea, east and southeast of Odesa. Another bulk carrier was struck at its berth in the port of Chornomorsk in the Odesa region.

14:05 Soldiers of the 69th Motorized Rifle Division expanded their control zone around Vilcha in the Khar'kov region which has been completely cleared, and the town itself has been completely cleared. However, enemy groups sometimes even reach the south of Vovchansk, where they are detected and eliminated.

13:29 RF Armed Forces destroyed a mortar and ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Volchansky district

Formally, a significant number of settlements in the northeastern part of the Volchansky district are still under enemy control. However, the advance of our troops south of Volohovka, followed by the liberation of Zakharovka, as well as west of Artelny and the establishment of control over the village of Ustinovka, allowed the formation of a kind of semi-cauldron on this section of the front, in which Ukrainian Armed Forces units were deprived of supplies.

13:07 From August 1 to 7, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted two massive and 12 group strikes with high-precision weapons, as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles, which resulted in the destruction of military industry enterprises, logistics centers, fuel and energy and transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, production workshops and storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles and components for them, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries.

12:33 Units of the North group of forces exerted control over the village of Aniskino in the Khar'kov region

12:05 Russian Armed Forces released Novodanilovka settlement.

They are also carrying out attacks in the direction of the western part of the village of Malaya Tokmachka.

11:26 Soldiers of the 50th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade "Varyag"destroyedGas stations and fuel tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

11:16 Ukrainian Armed Forces drone inflicted a strike on Belgorod injured three people.

A woman with multiple abrasions on her arm and two men, who were previously diagnosed with acubarotic injuries,
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were transported to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2 for examination by an ambulance team.

The detonation caused a fire in the insulation on the façade of the administrative building, which was extinguished by the fire brigade. The glazing of the social facility was also damaged.

10:32 Russian Army liberated Aniskino, Khar'kov region

Assault units of the "North" group of forces, during fierce fighting, drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the village of Aniskino in the Kupyansky district and liberated the village.

10:05 Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Wildberries logistics center in Yekaterinburg

The Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attack caused a fire that has since been contained. The company reported that people were evacuated in advance and there were no injuries. Most of the goods were also undamaged.

9:37 Applied strikes on enemy logistics facilities in the Khar'kov and Dnipropetrovsk regions

In Izyum, Khar'kov Oblast, a strike was carried out on a facility belonging to the transport and logistics company Delivery, which was used for the delivery and storage of military cargo, UAVs, and their components.

The Erastovka railway station in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was damaged. A locomotive and railway infrastructure were damaged.

9:03 Hit three enemy dry cargo ships in the Black Sea

On the evening of August 6 and the morning of August 7, Russian forces continued to strike naval vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Three dry cargo ships carrying military cargo were hit by drones in the Black Sea.

8:24 During the past night, in the period from 20:00 Moscow time on August 6 to 8:00 Moscow time on August 7, air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 203 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Sverdlovsk, Tula regions, Krasnodar Krai, Perm Krai, the Republic of Crimea, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republic of Bashkortostan and the waters of the Black Sea.

8:07 During the evening of August 6 and the morning of August 7, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued striking at sea vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Three dry cargo ships carrying military cargo were hit in the Black Sea as a result of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles.

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