[Korrespondent] 22.19 Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia on the evening of August 17. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhzhia OVA Ivan Fedorov. Two people were killed.
"The enemy attacked Zaporizhia with a drone. A fire broke out at one of the garden societies," he noted.
21:30 Under the procedural guidance of the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, a 26-year-old serviceman of the 237th Tank Regiment of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces was reported in absentia on suspicion of recruiting and using a child to participate in an armed conflict. The Prosecutor General's Office reported this.
19.47 Russian troops attacked four districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 80 times with drones, artillery and aerial bombs, two people were killed and one person was injured. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Ganzha, on August 17.
19.31 Ukraine is almost out of Patriot SAM interceptors. CNN showed footage of emptied Ukrainian Patriot complexes. The 16 tubes of the system, which the media saw, show signs of regular use, but its chief engineer in Ukraine, Dmytro, said that he had not seen a Patriot launcher fire for six weeks.
19.01 In the Odessa region, a private residential building was hit by an enemy attack. The roof of the building was completely destroyed, a fire broke out. This was reported by the head of the Odessa OVA, Oleg Kiper, on August 17. It is noted that the blast wave also damaged nearby private houses. Information about the victims is being clarified. All relevant services are working at the scene. Local media specify that the house is located in Chornomorsk.
18.49 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatiy denied information about public statements allegedly distributed by members of his family. He wrote about this on Facebook.
18.36 The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Dmytro Lubinets, reported that 60 citizens have been returned from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in 2.5 months, including seven people on August 13.
18.15 During the clearing of the village of Andriyivka-Klevtsove, Donetsk region, Volnovakha district, Donetsk region, on the administrative border with Dnipropetrovsk region, 30 Russian servicemen surrendered. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"Operators of the 3rd SSO Regiment, in cooperation with one of the SSO psychological operations centers, conducted a comprehensive operation to liberate the settlement... 30 Russian servicemen were forced to surrender. Those who continued to resist were destroyed. Andriyivka-Klevtsove is again under the control of Ukraine," the report says.
18.08 NATO countries have developed a three-stage plan in the event of a Russian invasion of the Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania. Bild reported this, citing sources.
17.27 Personnel decisions are being prepared to strengthen defense in the most intensive areas of the front. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram following the results of the military command's report.
16.42 The Ministry of Defense has codified the domestic unmanned aviation complex Dovbush T40. This was reported by the press service of the ministry. It is noted that this multifunctional strategic-level unmanned aircraft is designed for deep reconnaissance, fire adjustment, and high-precision strikes on enemy structures, equipment, and personnel at a considerable distance from the line of combat contact. Dovbush T40 has a wingspan of almost 5 m and can stay in the air for more than a day. The range of application is sufficient to hit targets beyond the Urals and in Russian Siberia.
16.37 NPC Ukrenergo employee Mykola Mironov died as a result of a Russian FPV drone attack on a civilian car in Sumy region. His wife is in hospital. This was reported by the company's press service.
The tragedy occurred over the weekend. According to Ukrenergo, the man had arrived at the store when a Russian drone attacked a civilian car. Mironov suffered serious, non-life-threatening injuries.
Mykola Mironov has worked in the energy sector for over 25 years. In recent years, he has continued to work in the frontline region, despite regular Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.
16.35 The "black box" of the Su-24M bomber, which crashed in the Khmelnytskyi region on June 16, has been deciphered. This was reported by the State Bureau of Investigation.
During the flight, the control system elements on the left wing failed. The cause of the damage could have been an external factor.
15.59 Russia brands foreign mercenaries of the occupation army to strengthen control and depersonalization. Instead of standard metal military identification tags for foreign mercenaries, the Russian Federation uses a system of serial “inventory numbers” that are applied to equipment or skin. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. It is noted that the brand is applied with resistant paints - henna or jagua, so such marks last for weeks and cannot be washed off with soap and water. If the mark is erased and becomes barely noticeable, it is updated. There have been cases when the Russian police stopped foreigners, in particular students and labor migrants, and checked the presence of numbers - this is how Russian security forces are looking for deserters.
15.39 This year, the police have received more than one and a half million requests from the CCK regarding the search for citizens who evade mobilization. This was reported by the acting head of the National Police, Maksym Tsutskiridze, in an interview with Censor.NET. According to him, since the beginning of martial law, law enforcement officers have investigated more than 20 thousand criminal proceedings on the facts of evasion of mobilization.
15.27 In the Kherson region, the SBU counterintelligence detained another Russian informant: a resident of the Belozersk community was correcting the shelling of the frontline region.
The woman came to the attention of the Russians through an old acquaintance who lives in the Russian Federation and collaborates with enemy intelligence officers.
The participant drove around the area located 10 km from the line of contact and recorded the locations of the Defense Forces' deployments, as well as the routes of movement of military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards the front line.
The informant passed this data to the Russians in the form of coordinates of potential "targets" marked on a Google map.
14.52 On Monday night, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck a number of important military targets of the Russian occupiers in Crimea. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported details.
14.29 Russia's largest oil loading port on the Black Sea, Novorossiysk, resumed operations on Sunday after being suspended on Friday due to a drone attack, Reuters reported, citing two industry sources.
13.50 Last week, the area of control of the Russian occupiers over the territories of Ukraine decreased by 95.89 sq. km due to the confirmed liberation of territories along the administrative border of Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions. But apart from this section of the front, the area of occupation increased by 22.6 sq. km, which is almost half as much as the week before last. This is reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the data of the analysis of maps by the OSINT project DeepState.
12.58 Soldiers of the 1st Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine Azov successfully conducted Operation Hell-2 in the Donetsk region.
"Operation Hell-2 is an additional argument (for the Russian army - ed.). A month ago, we warned the occupier: Azov sees its movements and will strike at the right moment," the military said.
According to them, individual units of Russian troops ignored these warnings and continued to store fuel in the occupied part of the Donetsk region.
"The burning dots on the map indicate facilities involved in storing and supplying fuel to the Russians. In a month, these dots remained only on the maps, but in reality they are now scorched earth," the military noted.
The defenders also drew attention to the fact that the corps never strikes civilian gas stations or attacks civilians, as the Russian invaders do every day.
12.48 Ukrainian military inflicted critical damage on the Kamensky Combine in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
This plant produces solid rocket fuel for MLRS ammunition, a number of missile systems, and aircraft weapons.
12.43 The Defense Forces are effectively using resources during combat operations: the cost of losses of Russian troops is several times higher than Ukraine's costs of hitting targets. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense, citing data from the DELTA system.
Analytics are provided by the Mission Control module, which has been running in the combat system for six months. It currently processes about 50,000 missions and over 230,000 reports each week.
According to the Defense Department, in June, every dollar spent by the Defense Forces on hitting targets caused Russia losses of almost five dollars.
In particular:
Killing one enemy soldier cost the Defense Forces $3,032 (maintenance costs the Russian Federation approximately $65,000);
damage to a piece of equipment - $2,674;
damage to an infrastructure facility - $1,487.
12.33 The increasingly frequent incidents with drones and their debris on Romanian territory are a direct consequence of the Russian Federation's increased attacks on Ukrainian ports on the Danube. This was stated by the acting Minister of Defense of Romania, Radu Miruce.
"Recently, the shelling of Ukrainian ports on the Danube has reached its maximum. On the radars of the Ministry of Defense near Romanian airspace, but still in Ukraine, we recorded more than 100 drones that attacked Ukrainian ports on the Danube seven times in recent days," he noted.
According to the minister, Ukraine's air defense forces destroyed most of the UAVs, but in such a situation, it is very likely that their wreckage will later be carried to the banks of the Danube and the Black Sea on Romanian territory.
11.59 The Navy is deploying units of interceptor drones. Everything possible must be done to strengthen the security of civil shipping, said the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Oleksiy Neizhpapa.
11.35 Russian troops shelled settlements in Donetsk region 27 times over the past 24 hours. Two people were killed and 18 others were injured. The most casualties were in Kramatorsk, where two people were killed and 11 were injured.
11.31 Over the past week, Russian aggressors have attacked Naftogaz infrastructure in various regions of Ukraine 13 times. The company reported this on Monday.
The impacts have caused serious damage to equipment and production facilities. Part of the production volume has been lost.
11.12 In the temporarily occupied Crimea, on the evening of August 16, a fire broke out at the Yevpatoria aircraft repair plant due to falling drone debris. At about 19:30, one drone was shot down in the air approximately above the middle of the runway of the aircraft repair plant, the debris was burning. At 20:00, three drones arrived, aimed at a single target at the western end of the runway, where the antennas and transmitters are located.
11.04 Counterintelligence officers prevented a series of terrorist attacks in the city of Izmail in the Odessa region. The SBU reported this. The enemy agent made three bombs, which she filled with metal nuts to enhance the striking effect.
10.52 Russia may use North Korean soldiers to replace its units in border areas in order to free Russian servicemen and transfer them to the most active areas of the front. This was reported by Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Volunteer Army.
Their locations may include the Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions, as well as the northwestern part of the Voronezh region.
10.43 Two people were killed in a night attack by Russian aggressors in Sumy, the local OVA reported. Residential buildings, non-residential and warehouse premises, garages and transport were destroyed and damaged in the city.
10.27 On Monday morning, power outages were recorded in five regions of Ukraine due to Russian attacks on civilian energy infrastructure facilities. Ukrenergo reported this. Where security conditions currently allow, emergency restoration work has already begun.
10.23 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published data on 10 individuals and two legal entities involved in the militarization and indoctrination of Ukrainian children in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
At the Zarnitsa 2.0 competition, which took place at the TOT of Ukraine in May, Putin's First Movement taught children how to handle weapons and explosives, fly drones, and spread militaristic propaganda among minors.
"The goal of such measures is to destroy Ukrainian identity in children and prepare them to participate in a criminal war against their own country," the GUR emphasized.
09.40 On the night of August 17, Russian troops attacked the port infrastructure of the Odessa region. A civilian ship flying the flag of the Republic of Togo was damaged. Four people were injured, three of whom were hospitalized, one in serious condition.
The attack caused fires that have now been completely extinguished.
09.14 On the night of August 17, Russia attacked Ukraine with 128 Shahed attack UAVs (including jet-powered ones), Gerber, and Parody-type simulator drones.
Air defenses shot down/suppressed 106 enemy Shahed, Gerbera UAVs and drones of other types in the north, south and east of the country. Drone hits were recorded at 14 locations, as well as the fall of downed drones (fragments) at two locations.
08.43 Russia has recruited at least 2,982 citizens from 37 African countries into its army. About 486 of them have died. Another 35 people are in Ukraine as prisoners of war. Most of those recruited for the war against Ukraine come from Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Algeria and Mali.
Russia uses various methods of deception and pressure, including offering civilian jobs or training, promising high salaries, Russian citizenship, and other migration or social benefits. In many cases, foreigners are forced to sign military contracts in Russian under threat of deportation or imprisonment.
08.16 Over the past 24 hours, 236 combat clashes were recorded on the front. The largest number of assault actions was recorded in the Pokrovsky direction, where the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped 33 attacks.
Over the past 24 hours, the aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck 12 areas of concentration of enemy manpower.
07.40 A statement allegedly made by the wife of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapaty about "powerful internal resistance" to his reforms and possible early resignation is being spread on social networks. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.
The Central Intelligence Agency continues to record the spread of disinformation and manipulative materials aimed at discrediting the Major General. This time, the pretext was allegedly a statement by his wife, which refers to "pressure" from the entourage of the former leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and political circles, as well as the possible early resignation of the Commander-in-Chief.
"This time, a statement by the Commander-in-Chief's wife about "powerful internal resistance" to Mykhailo Drapaty's reforms, "pressure" from the entourage of the former leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and political circles, as well as possible early resignation is being spread online. There is no confirmation of the authenticity of this statement or its belonging to the Commander-in-Chief's wife," the Center emphasized.
It is noted that such publications are a continuation of an information campaign aimed at creating a false impression in society about an internal split in the military leadership and undermining trust in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
07.18 From February 24, 2022 to August 17, 2026, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,468,760 people (+1,440 per day).
06.29 The European Union plans to impose the largest sanctions against Russia since the start of the war in the coming months. After its adoption, the number of Russian entities under sanctions will increase by a third, said EU foreign policy chief Kaia Kallas.
03.24 Over the past six months, the number of attacks on Russia by Ukrainian Flamingo missiles has almost doubled. This is reported by Russian media with reference to data from the Russian Defense Ministry. If in the spring the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 16 Flamingo missiles were allegedly shot down, then in the summer their number is already approaching 60, 25 of them in the last two weeks.
01.21 The Russians massively attacked Sumy with jet drones. Large-scale fires broke out in the city. Civilian infrastructure and a large number of residential buildings in the private sector were hit.