Russian leader Vladimir Putin has used the example of killer whales supposedly eating polar bears at the North Pole to justify Russia's war against Ukraine. Putin asked whether he had seen any polar ...

Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Office of the President, has said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine need 30,000 people to be mobilised every month and called for mobilisation to be accepted "as it is".

The number of jet-powered Shahed drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine has risen by at least 67% in a month, from around 1,500 to more than 2,500. Source: Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, an adviser on ...

Russia's Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in Nizhny Novgorod suspended crude oil processing on 26 August following a Ukrainian drone attack. Source: Reuters, citing industry sources Details: ...

Drones attacked a key logistics centre belonging to the Wildberries online marketplace in the Russian city of Kotovsk in Tambov Oblast on the night of 25-26 August, sparking a fire. Details: ...

US Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, co-author of the Russia sanctions bill, has commented on CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Russia.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has said that CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow on 25 August was related to contact between the Russian and US intelligence services. Source: Peskov in a ...

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with seven S8000 Banderol missile drones and 96 strike UAVs on 28 August, most of them targeting Kyiv. Source: Ukraine's Air Force Quote: "Throughout the day on 28 ...

Details: According to the Russian side, the system has been put into mass production supposedly because of its effectiveness. The Russians claim that the system uses a radio signal to "blind" the ...

Details: The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 26 August 2026 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.]: The use of ...

A total of 250 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day, with the highest number of Russian attacks recorded on the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka fronts, where Ukrainian ...

Deep-strike (long-range) units of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF), working with the Unmanned Systems Forces and other defence forces units, struck Russia's fourth-largest oil refinery, the ...