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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: August 15, 2026
2026-08-16
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[Korrespondent] 23.56 Russian troops attacked with a drone a living quarters near Novodmitrivtsia, Bilozersk community, Kherson region. As a result of the blow, the 49-year-old man died. The head of the Kherson Regional Police Department, Oleksandr Prokudin, told us about this.

23.25 Russia has increased the production of kamikaze jet drones Geran-4 and Geran-5. According to the assessment of the Head Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, its current one-thousandth release already outweighs the proliferation of Geranium-2 attack drones from internal combustion engines. According to reports, at the beginning of 2026, the number of jet drones in Russian attacks began to increase steadily, and this trend became especially noticeable in the Chernivtsi region.

According to GUR data, the Russian industry can now produce nearly 3 thousand jet Geranium-4/5 per month. Currently, the production rate of Geranium-2 is estimated at approximately 2.8 thousand units.

23.03 The Russian Ministry of Defense, called “Pandora's screenshots”, plans to transfer American missiles and artillery ammunition from Turkish arsenals to Ukraine, praised by the US Department of State. The official representative of the department, Maria Zakharova, told about this on Telegram.

22.21 As a result of the continuous killing at the front, 170 combat operations were launched. This was reported to the ZSU General Staff in the operational formation at 22:00. The main focus of the Russian occupiers is on the Pokrovsky and Kostyantynivsky directions.

21.35 In Ukraine, the European Union will agree to standardize new rules for eliminating time-limit protection for Ukrainians. This is reported by Interfax-Ukraine through communications to the MZS press service.

“The Ministry of Health is aware of the outbreaks, if in other EU member states the citizens of Ukraine, close their wives, under the hour of registration of the emergency protection, were asked for information from the Reserve+,” it is reported.

20.21 Near the Dnipropetrovsk region at 18:30 on Saturday, 17 people were injured due to Russian attacks. The enemy attacked five districts more than 50 times with drones and air bombs, the local OVA reported.

19.19 Russian fire fighters modernized the BM-35 attack drones, increasing their speed due to the development of Ukrainian over-swimming drones. About this, the Presidential Adviser on the development of technological areas of defense, Sergey “Flash” Beskrestnov on Telegram.

18.00 Before Independence Day, a bill on Ukrainian national shrines will be prepared. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this at the local ceremony marking the anniversary of the establishment of the 975th Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

The status of the national shrine of Ukraine, confirmed by law, may give more opportunities to everything that is done to protect the sovereign collapse.

17.08 Russian aggressors attacked Krivyi Rih. We know about at least two injured people, according to Oleksandr Vilkul, a local police officer, on Telegram.

In his words, as a result of the attack, there was a fire and a power outage, but the situation was already stabilized.

15.39 The defense forces hit the low-priority goals of the Russians in the urgently occupied buried territories (TOT) of Ukraine. The ZSU General Staff provided details.

13.32 Ukrainian intelligence unit Cyber ​​Corps 10-11 carried out a cyber operation against the digital infrastructure of the Russian company Wildberries. The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported this.

According to the data of the State Security Administration, the attack caused large-scale disruptions in the company's work: the main remote channel for customer service was destroyed, the payment infrastructure was often destabilized, and additional interference was created in the contact center.

The intelligence agency reported about the mass scum of the private sector, due to the impossibility of carrying out financial transactions.

The GUR noted that the cyber operation enhanced the effect of the Ukrainian Defense Forces’ strikes on Wildberries warehouses. According to the department, the company plays an important role in the logistics and financial sector of the Russian economy.

12.37 The three European countries are working together to ensure their participation and protect their interests in the peace talks ahead of Ukraine, although they are afraid that the US wants to completely exclude them from them Whose process.

France, Germany and Great Britain are preparing a plan for the next round of negotiations, although there is little indication that the ruler of Russia will be ready for serious peaceful regulation in the near future.

European diplomats are afraid that US President Donald Trump might negotiate with Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin without the participation of European countries.

12.08 Ukraine ordered an attack on the Russian military airfield Savasleyka near the Nizhny Novgorod region, where missile carrier aircraft are based, which the Russian Federation is using to attack Ukrainian towns and villages. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this.

According to the words of the head of state, the Roztashovani airfield is approximately 700 km from Ukraine. The President stated that the results of the Ukrainian long-range strike were recorded there, but he did not provide details.

In addition, Zelensky confirmed the establishment of the Progress rocket and space center in the Samara region of the Russian Federation. In other words, one of the key enterprises at the warehouse of Roscosmos, for example, is engaged in the manufacturing of electronics.

To strike at Progress, Ukraine used Flamingo missiles. The enterprise was distributed approximately 900 km from the Ukrainian border.

Zelensky also reported on the damage to the nafta facility in Ust-Luzia. It is 800 km from the new border of Ukraine.

11.40 Russian troops attacked a combine harvester with an FPV drone, which was working near the harvesting field in the Zaporizhzhya region. The people of 30 and 32 were wounded.

10.31 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine commented on the plans of the FSB of Russia to liquidate the border zones between the Russian Federation and the immediately occupied territories of Ukraine.

“In fact, we are not talking about the implementation of border control, but about the damned attempt to erase the cordon between the territory of the aggressor power and the territory of Ukraine occupied by it,” the department said.

Diplomats said that the Russian law, the decree and the executive order were not issued to change the legal status of the Ukrainian territories. The MZS stated that occupation does not create sovereignty, and attempted annexation does not give rise to territorial rights.

09.58 Defense forces hit the Progress Rocket and Space Center (RSC) near Russian Samaria with FP-5 Flamingo missiles. The press service of the Ukrainian defense company Fire Point reported this.

RSC Progress is one of the key enterprises of the Russian rocket and space industry. The center is disintegrating and vibrating mid-class rockets, including the Soyuz-2 family, as well as spacecraft for remote sensing of the Earth and scientific programs.

The Soyuz-2 carrier rockets are launched into orbit by satellite Internet devices Rassvet, which is the Russian analogue of Starlink.

Not far from the RCC is the Aviakor plant, which repairs and modernizes aircraft. First, the fire could immediately seal up building No. 106 - the key workshop for assembling the letaki.

09.23 At the beginning of the 15th sickle, Russia attacked Ukraine with 152 attack UAVs of the Shahed type (including jets), Gerbera, Banderol barrage ammunition and Parody type simulator drones.

The anti-aircraft defense destroyed/suppressed 124 UAVs of the Shahed type, Gerbera and drones of other types, as well as three Parcels at night, day and night.

The occurrence of enemy attacks in 16 locations was recorded, as well as the fall of those killed (tricks) in one location.

09.11 Russian troops attacked the Odessa region with drones. In the Bilgorod-Dnistrovsky region, as a result of the attacks, there will often be factories built up.

After the attack on the territory of the enterprise, a furnace, a boiler room and a car were burned down. The Vibukhov Hill and streets also damaged the walls and façade of the administrative building.

At one location, an abandoned private living cabin and dry grass nearby caught fire. The ritualists salvaged the legacy of the Russian attack. According to the latest information, there are no dead or injured.

08.25 During the last battle, 233 combat operations were recorded at the front. Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit two control points, five enemy manpower concentration areas, three artillery systems and all control points of unmanned lethal vehicles.

07.36 At the beginning of the 15th sickle, Russian troops hit drones on a rich surface in Marganets in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As a result of the attack, a three-month-old boy died, another 11 people were injured, seven of them were hospitalized at the hospital. Among the wounded are two children: a five-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl.

07.12 From February 24, 2022 to September 15, 2026, military losses to the special warehouse of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,465,810 individuals (+1370 per addition).

06.01 Near the hour-long occupied Crimea, on the night before the 15th sickle, moons began to pierce. Residents of the city report an attack by drones, the operation of the Russian software and power outages near Sevastopol. There is also information about a large-scale fire in the Balaklava area, which occurred after three severe vibrations. The infection will begin to burn, almost like detonation.

05.29 On Saturday night, 15th September, a series of moonlights appeared in Russian Samara. Monitoring and OSINT channels reported on a possible attack by Flamingo cruise missiles on the industrial zone, destructing two enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex - the Aviakor aircraft plant and the Progress rocket and space center. In the widened footage of eyewitnesses above the industrial zone of the Russian city, a parking lot can be seen.

04.30 On Saturday, 15 September, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with strike drones. The shopping center and industrial area collapsed under the attack. As a result of the incident, fire broke out near the shopping center. There is no information about the victims. The details of the attack and the scale of the destruction will need to be clarified, according to the head of the Zaporizhzhya Oblast Ivan Fedorov.

03.04 Near the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia on the night before Saturday, the 15th sickle, drones attacked the Savasleika military airfield. On the territory of the summer camp, vibukhas sprouted and burned. According to the data from the monitoring devices, the drones attacked the airfield, based on the small MiG-31K carriers of the Kinjal aeroballistic missiles. Monitors also suggest that the Russian military could move the planes through the threat of a drone strike.

01.10 The German Embassy in Kiev has issued recommendations for safety and security for FRN citizens who are in Ukraine. On the eve of Independence Day, the 24th sickle, the Germans are happy for the opportunity to avoid travel with the sickness. The embassy noted that on the eve of Ukrainian Independence Day it is impossible to stop the intensification of Russian attacks on the energy infrastructure and transport hubs of Ukraine.

With particular respect, German diplomats attacked the siege. In other words, the Ukrainian transport infrastructure and transport operators will be deprived of the targets of Russian airstrikes.

00.42 Ukrainian armies pushed Russian armies beyond the administrative boundaries of the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Ukrainian military was told about the possible success of the Defense Forces from the positive “Bala”. The ZSU General Staff at the time of publication did not officially confirm the release to the region. Recently, one of the Russian military Telegram channels announced the “immediate exit” of the Russian Federation from the Dnipropetrovsk region

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