On Sunday, August 3, 2018, this is how things are going.
Fighting
- Residents of the Ukrainian capital were advised on Saturday night by the military administration of Kyiv to seek shelter following the launch of a Russian MiG-31K, the launch pad for the Russian Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile.
- The “auxiliary facility” 1, 200 meters from the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is under Russian control, was reported to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
- A civilian was killed by Ukrainian shelling, according to the plant’s administration, which was headed by the Russians. The plant’s administrators posted a message on Telegram claiming to bring a fire that broke out close to the facility under control.
- Vyacheslav Fedorishchev, the governor of Russia’s Samara region, reported a fatal accident involving an elderly man who was a victim of falling Ukrainian drone debris inside a house that caught fire.
- According to acting governor Yury Slyusar, a Ukrainian drone attack on an industrial facility claimed the lives of two workers and the blaze in the Rostov region of Russia. Slyusar wrote on Telegram that “the military resisted a massive air attack during the night,” destroying drones over seven districts.
- Five soldiers from the Russian-backed Akhmat unit were killed on Saturday in an explosion near Russian-occupied Melitopol, according to the military intelligence agency (HUR) of Ukraine.
- In the village of Sveska in the Sumy region of Ukraine, a 12-year-old boy was killed by a Russian drone attack, and a 13-year-old was taken to a hospital with shrapnel wounds, according to Governor Oleh Hryhorov.
- Ukrainian drones have been launched into Ukraine’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been the site of long-range drone launches. The SBU claimed it also targeted a Penza factory, which it claimed provides electronics to Russia’s military.
- According to Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Ukrainian forces struck an oil refinery in Ryazan, which is located about 180 kilometers (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, igniting a fire on its premises.
- The head of the military administration in the southern port city of Kherson, Ukraine, urged residents to flee after Russian forces damaged a bridge that connected the neighborhood to the city’s rest of the city.
- Oleksandro-Kalynove, a village in eastern Donetsk, was taken on Saturday by Russian forces, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
- 338 Ukrainian drones were downed overnight into Saturday morning, according to the Moscow-based defense ministry’s daily report. The number of Ukrainian drone launches was not specified.
- The air force of Ukraine reported that 45 of 53 Russian drones had been shot down as of Saturday morning, overnight.
- According to the Kyiv Independent, Russia launched 6,129 Shahed-type drones against Ukraine in July 2025, a total of 14 times as many as the 423 drones launched in the same month last year.
diplomacy and politics
- Two unnamed Indian officials, according to The New York Times, claimed that their nation would continue to buy Russian oil despite President Trump’s recent announcement toimpose an undisclosed fine for buying Russian military equipment and oil.
- The Armenian Ministry of Defense announced that its peacekeeping brigade would conduct joint exercises with the US military, according to Interfax. Russian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan claimed that Russia’s war in Ukraine prevented it from meeting Armenia’s security requirements ahead of a previous joint drill with the US in September 2023.
- Just days after lawmakers restored the independence of the country’s two main investigative bodies, several officials were detained by Ukrainian authorities for a “large-scale corruption scheme” in the defense sector.
Source: Aljazeera
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