On Thursday, August 21, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- The regional prosecutor’s office posted a picture on Facebook of the Russian attack that took place in the Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk, killing three people and injuring four others.
- One person was killed by Russian shelling in the Ukrainian town of Bilozerka, according to a post on Telegram from the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
- Oleksandr Syrskii, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, wrote on Facebook that Russian forces are putting more pressure on Lyman in the north of Donetsk.
- A 62-year-old man was killed in a Russian drone attack on a car in the Synelnykove district of the Ukrainian region, according to Serhiy Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration’s post on Telegram.
- Two elderly people in their 70s were killed in a Russian drone attack on a car, according to Kharkiv region police.
- Since the beginning of 2025, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine has recorded 40 000 fires in Ukraine’s ecosystems, according to Oleksandr Khorunzhyi, a spokesperson for the state.
- Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration, claimed a woman was killed by Russian shelling in the Polohy district of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region.
- One person was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on a truck in the Bryansk region of Russia’s Novy Varin, according to regional governor Alexander Bogomaz’s Telegram post.
- Russian-appointed local officials posted a single fatality on Telegram about a Ukrainian attack in Luhansk, according to Russian-appointed local officials.
- According to a report from Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, Russian forces shot down 217 Ukrainian drones in one day, according to a report.
Regional security
- Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, the deputy prime minister of Poland and minister of national defense, claimed Russia was “provocation” after a Russian drone detonated in the eastern Polish village of Osiny, noting that the incident occurred “at a special time, when there are ongoing discussions about peace,” according to Polskie Radio.
- Ruben Brekelmans, the country’s defense minister, announced that the Netherlands would send 300 airs and missile defense units to Poland to “defend NATO territory, protect supply to Ukraine, and deter Russian aggression.”
Peace talks
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, “Disclosing security issues without the Russian Federation is a utopia, it’s a road to nowhere,” in response to ongoing discussions between Ukraine’s allies after Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin to talk about peace in Ukraine.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a phone call on Wednesday that he supports efforts to secure permanent peace in Ukraine with the participation of all parties.
diplomacy and politics
- In a meeting with army officers from their overseas operation on Thursday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised “heroic” North Korean troops who fought for Russia in the conflict with Ukraine.
Sanctions
- The United Kingdom announced new sanctions against cryptocurrency networks that it claimed Russia had abused.
Source: Aljazeera
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