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| Latest information on the situation on the front line as of August 22 (updated) |
| 2026-08-23 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [NewsFront] 21:30 "Geraniums" hit another enemy railway locomotive in the Khar'kov direction. ![]() 20:54 During the day, from 8:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 250 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kirov, Kursk, Oryol, Ryazan, Samara, Saratov, Tver, Tula, Ulyanovsk regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas. 20:41 Operators of attack UAVs of the Vostok group discovered and destroyed camouflaged positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with foreign howitzers M-114 and M-198 in the Zaporizhzhia direction. 18:54 During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued application of strikes on launch sites for unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as ports and sea vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result of an attack by Iskander operational-tactical missiles on heavy-duty vehicles converted for the transportation and launch of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, in the area north of the village of Boryspil in the Kyiv region, up to 40 vehicles with launchers were destroyed. The following were hit by air-launched precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles at the Chornomorsk port in the Odessa region: a dry cargo ship that was delivering weapons and military equipment to Ukraine; 17:33 Drone operators of the "Southern" group disposed of enemy delivery robots, disrupting the supply of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. 15:59 Geranium UAV operators burned two locomotives that delivered enemy military supplies. 12:34 Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue conducting a special military operation. Units of the "North" force group have improved their tactical position. They have defeated the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized and airmobile brigades and the territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Kiyanitsa, Ulanovo, Pisarevka, and Khrapovshchina in Sumy Oblast. 12:29 In the area of the village of Buzovo the enemy equipped the position of a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled gun, which was quickly identified by reconnaissance and destroyed by FPV drone strikes. 09:49 American artillery installation detected and destroyed via FPV strike in the Krasnopolsky district of Sumy region. 09:21 During the past night, air defense forces on duty intercepted and destroyed 457 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type flew over the territories of Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Saratov, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Oryol, Kaluga, Tula, Tambov, Kirov regions, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Black and Azov Seas. 07:58 Tonight, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with high-precision ground-based weapons and long-range unmanned aerial vehicles on transport infrastructure facilities and a logistics center in the city of Kyiv and the Kyiv region. In the city of Kyiv the following were affected: The Darnitsa locomotive depot is a key enterprise of the southwestern railway of Ukraine, where technical maintenance and repair of the locomotive fleet, providing transportation of weapons and military equipment for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is carried out. In the Kyiv region the following was affected: The Brovary logistics center is a large sorting complex of the Nova Poshta company, which stores components and finished products for long- and medium-range aircraft-type UAVs. 06:55 Tornado-S MLRS crew of the Vostok group destroyed reserve deployment points, manpower, Starlink antennas, and Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. |
| Posted by:badanov |