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Five people were injured in a Russian airstrike on Izium in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.

Russian forces launched nearly 20 attacks on four districts of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region since the evening of August 16, injuring five people.

The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, through August 17, 2026, stand at approximately 1,468,760 personnel, including 1,440 over the past day.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine will focus on upgrading the infrastructure of military medical facilities where Ukrainian defenders receive treatment and rehabilitation.

A total of UAH 15 billion worth of various projects were submitted this year to the state cultural program Tysiachovesna, while the program’s budget was UAH 4 billion, and the best projects were selected for funding.

Robert Serry, the first Ambassador of the Netherlands to Ukraine, who served from 1992 to 1996, believes that Ukraine could become more important to European security than Article 5 of the Washington Treaty.

Ukrainian border guards struck 13 shelters used by Russian forces in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.

Robert Serry, the first Ambassador of the Netherlands to Ukraine, serving from 1992 to 1996, said that Russia’s war against Ukraine will most likely end with a ceasefire rather than peace.

A memorial service for Yevhen Konovalets, the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, was held on Sunday at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv.

Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces Robert Brovdi (call sign "Magyar") has said that among the challenges Ukraine will face in the near future is an increase in Russian missile and jet-powered drone strikes.

Ukrainian forces have disabled seven of the ten largest logistics centers operated by Russian marketplace Wildberries.

A meeting of leaders and representatives of Ukrainian communities from various regions of Turkey took place in Ankara as part of the international project “A Two Way Journey” and the EmpowHER Summit.

The labor market in Russia is increasingly moving “into the shadows”; 41% of employed Russians are already working off the books.

Fifty mobile shelters will be installed in the Zaporizhzhia region by the end of October in cooperation with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).

Russian forces attacked Izium with guided aerial bombs (KABs), injuring at least four people and damaging several private residential buildings.

In the Zaporizhzhia district, the enemy launched an attack near a gas station, wounding a man and damaging the premises and equipment.

Ukrainian swimmer Nikita Sheremet won gold in the final of the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in Paris, France.

A protest march in support of Mykhailo Fedorov is taking place in downtown Kyiv.

On August 16, in Kramatorsk, the Russian military attacked a post office with a drone. One person was killed and at least six were injured in the attack.

Four people were injured in the Kherson region on August 16 as a result of Russian attacks. Homes, a hospital building, and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.