[Korrespondent] 22.59 Since the beginning of the day, 197 clashes have taken place. It was especially hot in the Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsky directions. In the Kostyantynivka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 22 enemy assaults, in Pokrovsky - 15.
19:55 The Russians attacked the Aurora retail chain's distribution center twice on Saturday, August 22. After the first hit, the enemy launched repeated strikes to inflict maximum casualties while emergency services were on the scene.
19.30 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin commented on Ukrainian strikes on Russian infrastructure and said that the Ukrainian authorities themselves "let the genie out of the bottle" when they started hitting civilian enterprises. He also added something incomprehensible about Kyiv's "exotic" and "unacceptable" peace proposals for Moscow, but when asked by a journalist, he refused to clarify what he meant.
19.05 Russian troops launched a prolonged combined strike on the Odessa region, there are injuries. On the afternoon of August 22, Russia launched a prolonged combined strike on the civilian infrastructure of the region, three people were injured. Among the injured is a 16-year-old girl.
18.40 Russia has released a pseudo-documentary film, Witnesses, in which it is trying to impose its own version of the destruction of the Mariupol Drama Theater. For the filming of the propaganda film, the Russians used the stage of the rebuilt theater - the place where civilians died after the airstrike on March 16, 2022. Russian propaganda is trying to show the tragedy as the result of an alleged "bombing from within", but this version is not supported by any independent investigation, and Russia began to spread it even before the theater was hit.
17.25 The Government of Ukraine has allocated UAH 5.14 billion to pay compensation for destroyed housing under the "eReconstruction" program. This will allow more than 3,600 families who lost their homes due to Russian strikes and received a housing certificate to purchase new homes.
15.40 Since the start of the full-scale invasion, two radiation shelters and two dual-purpose structures have been added to the capital's protective facilities. In total, they are designed to accommodate 2,735 people.
15.21 Russian military on Saturday. August 22, carried out seven strikes on Zaporizhia district. Three dead and 15 wounded are reported.
14.25 Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck tanks with fuel and lubricants of the Yeisk oil-tanking complex in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
It was also possible to confirm damage to the Niobium radar station and 18 warehouse buildings for storing UAVs at the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield.
13.56 Suspicion has been reported against a 25-year-old Lviv man who stabbed a military CCC three times and threatened to kill a police officer. The Prosecutor General's Office reported this.
13.24 In the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region, two people were killed and eight others were injured, including one child, as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike. This was reported by the head of the OVA, Timur Tkachenko, on Telegram.
Judging by the videos published on public forums, the strike on the Boryspil district was a missile with a cluster bomb. The moment of the detonation of the cluster bombs appeared on the network.
12.52 The city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region has been officially recognized as a zone of active hostilities since August 21. This was announced by the head of the Sloviansk MVA, Vadym Lyakh, on Facebook.
12.29 A Russian Su-24M bomber was destroyed in temporarily occupied Crimea. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported this on Facebook.
11.42 On Saturday night, the Novokuibyshevsk refinery in the Samara region of the Russian Federation was attacked. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck the facilities of the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in the Samara region of the Russian Federation, with a subsequent fire on the territory of the enterprise. The extent of the damage is being clarified," the report says.
10.53 Every day of lack of air defense in Ukraine means victims that could not have happened. President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote about this on Facebook, commenting on Russia's latest attacks.
10.11 As a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike on a railway enterprise in Darnytsia in Kyiv, an employee was killed and a train station at the Rozdilna station of the Odessa Railway was damaged. This was reported by the chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia Oleksandr Pertsovsky on Facebook.
09.54 On Saturday night, Russia attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and 217 drones of various types. Air defense units intercepted most of the enemy targets, the Ukrainian Air Force reported.
09.05 On Saturday night, drones first attacked the logistics complex of the Ozon marketplace in the Chapayevsk industrial park in the Samara region of the Russian Federation. 500 employees were evacuated from the warehouse. It is now completely engulfed in flames.
08.23 Over the past 24 hours, 202 combat clashes were recorded on the front. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational briefing on Saturday. The hottest areas were the Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsky directions, where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped almost 50 assaults by the Rashists.
07.44 Over the past 24 hours, the Russian occupation army has lost 1,240 servicemen killed and wounded on the front in Ukraine. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational report on Saturday morning.
The Ukrainian military destroyed more than 2,300 units of Russian equipment, including 64 guns, two MLRS, and three air defense systems.
07.28 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump and stressed the need to urgently find a negotiated solution to resolve Russia's war against Ukraine. He announced this on the social network X the previous evening.
03:49 Nine people are preliminarily considered missing in Kryvyi Rih after a Russian strike on a shopping center, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Emergency Management Agency, Oleksandr Ganzha, reported.
"At this moment, 9 people are preliminarily considered missing in Kryvyi Rih. Among them are two children," he noted.
Ganzha added that rescuers are currently continuing to clear the rubble of the shopping center destroyed by the Russians.
01:47 In Kryvyi Rih, rescuers unblocked the body of a woman from under the rubble of a shopping center. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Oleksandr Ganzha.
The death toll from the Russian attack has risen to 16 people.
Currently, 63 injured people remain in hospitals. They have shrapnel wounds, head injuries, and burns. Doctors diagnosed the condition of 29 victims as "serious", five of them children.
01:14 Explosions were heard in Kyiv during an air raid alert. Prior to this, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine warned of a threat from the northeast.
Later, the military recorded several ballistic missiles aimed at the capital. Meanwhile, monitoring channels reported that some of the missiles were aimed at the Bortnytsia aeration station.