Shortly after midnight, Russia launched a combined attack on Kyiv that lasted several hours. The city was targeted by ballistic missiles, Kalibr missiles fired from Novorossiysk, hypersonic Zircons from the Kursk region, and jet-powered drones. The Ukrainian Air Force reports that 46 guided missiles of various types and 168 drones, plus an unspecified number of ballistic missiles, were launched overnight. The Air Force has not disclosed the number of ballistic missiles since early August because Ukraine has practically run out of anti-missile rounds for its Patriot systems, which were the only means capable of shooting down ballistic missiles. A total of 41 missiles and 145 drones were intercepted, with strikes reported from 28 locations. The main target of the attack was the Kyiv region. According to the latest figures available so far, at least fifteen people died in the capital and over thirty were hospitalized; the death toll continues to rise as the day progresses. In the Solomyanskyi district, the upper floors of a nine-story building burned down following an airstrike, claiming the lives of seven people there alone. Additionally, a children’s hospital, a school, warehouses, and non-residential buildings in the Darnytskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, and Shevchenkivskyi districts were damaged. About 90,000 households in Kyiv were left without power; DTEK restored service to more than half of them by mid-morning. In Boryspil, the Russians struck a food warehouse and a Red Cross facility. Zelenskyy added that the Russians also struck gas infrastructure in the Chernihiv region and a border crossing into Moldova in the Odesa region. The Russian Ministry of Defense, on the other hand, is, as usual, speaking of a “massive strike with high-precision weapons” against the defense and energy industries, an ammunition depot, and a logistics hub. According to regional military administrations, Russian attacks across Ukraine have claimed 23 lives and left 132 people injured over the past 24 hours. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko declared Friday a day of mourning. And this also happened:

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• Ukrainian drones struck the Taneco refinery in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, and the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal in the Krasnodar Krai overnight. Taneco is owned by the Tatneft group; it is one of Russia’s most modern refineries, processing over 17 million metric tons of crude oil annually, and is located roughly 1,200 kilometers from Ukraine. It was last struck on August 10. A fire at the Taman terminal—one of Russia’s key export hubs on the Black Sea—was detected by NASA’s FIRMS satellite monitoring system. According to Russian Telegram channels, the 500-kilovolt Taman substation, which is part of the power grid supplying the occupied Crimea, was also targeted.
• The Ukrainian intelligence agency HUR claims that Russia still has about fifty “Kinzhal” hypersonic missiles, even after suspending production. It reportedly halted production in order to improve the accuracy of the missile, which is essentially a modified Iskander launched from specially modified MiG-31K fighter jets. Ukraine estimates that Russia is capable of producing more than 200 guided and ballistic missiles per month, and that its stockpiles include a total of more than 600 “Oniks” missiles, more than 450 “Kalibr” missiles, 400 S-400 missiles, approximately 130 “Iskander-M” missiles, more than 120 “Zircon” missiles, and up to 100 “Kh-101” missiles.
• The General Staff reports that 189 combat engagements have taken place on the front lines over the past 24 hours. The heaviest fighting is taking place in the Pokrovsk sector, where the Russians launched 26 attacks, suffering 33 killed and 15 wounded. The Russians also carried out 70 airstrikes, dropped 224 guided aerial bombs, deployed 6,564 kamikaze drones, and fired artillery at the front line 2,260 times.
• • Romania scrambled two German Typhoon fighter jets overnight to monitor the airspace over Tulcea County as Russian drones attacked Ukrainian ports on the Danube. According to Reuters, one Russian drone crashed on Romanian territory in an uninhabited part of the county.
• Hungary has closed its investigation into suspected money laundering involving the transfer of $40 million, 35 million euros, and 9 kg of gold from a Ukrainian state-owned bank, finding no evidence that a crime had been committed.
• Belgium is preparing a “drone agreement” with Ukraine, through which it hopes to gain access to Ukraine’s experience with the actual deployment of unmanned systems.
• Switzerland will extend temporary protection status for Ukrainians until March 4, 2028. At the same time, however, it will tighten the conditions under which it can be granted.
• The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) detained two foreigners who, acting on orders from Russian intelligence agencies, set fire to an energy facility in Chernivtsi.
• Partisans destroyed three Russian military communication towers in the Kursk region, thereby weakening the Russian command system on the Kursk front.
• Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinec reports that, as of February 24, 2022, a total of 9,716 Ukrainians have returned home from captivity.
• In the Nikopol District of Dnipropetrovsk, 45 kilometers of roads are now covered by anti-drone nets.

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Russia struck the center of Pecheni in the Kharkiv region with two guided missiles this morning. According to the head of the regional administration, ten people were killed and eighteen were injured. The Russians deliberately targeted a busy intersection where a post office and shops are located, surrounded by residential buildings. The fire engulfed an area of approximately 400 m²; a café and seven cars were destroyed, and ten single-family homes, the post office building, five stores, and another fifteen vehicles were damaged. Overnight, Russia launched a total of 147 Shahed-type drones at Ukraine, including jet-powered versions and Gerbera and Parody decoys. Air defenses shot down or intercepted 111 of them, with strikes reported from nineteen locations. Over the past day, Russian attacks have killed at least nineteen people in six regions and injured fifty-three. And this also happened:

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• Ukraine struck the Moscow Region for the second time in three days overnight. Governor Vorobyov claims that Russian air defense forces recorded 150 intercepts. In any case, the Wildberries warehouse in Bogorodskoye was hit, though the company quickly managed to extinguish the fire. A retail pavilion at the Globus shopping center in Kolomna was also damaged. The most significant impact, however, is on the energy sector: Mosoblenergo reports 109 transformer stations taken out of service and more than 5,000 customers, plus 46 “socially significant facilities,” without power in Likino-Dulyovo and Orekhovo-Zuyevo. Monitoring channels also reported a fire at a Moscow aluminum plant.
• The first comprehensive estimates of the damage caused by the month-long campaign against Wildberries have emerged. According to the Verstka project, at least 22 of the company’s warehouses have been targeted since July 18, 19 of which have been seriously damaged or completely destroyed. This amounts to approximately 2.395 million square meters, or 43% of the company’s total warehouse capacity. The analytics firm Data Insight estimates the value of the burned goods at 445 to 507 billion rubles (5.24 to 5.96 billion dollars), while the APTEP suppliers’ association puts the figure as high as 600 to 700 billion. Wildberries itself has incurred direct losses of 147 to 223 billion rubles. In the destroyed town of Koledino alone, goods worth 78 billion rubles were lost to the fire. The company controls roughly half of the Russian e-commerce market and about 10% of all retail sales, so a wave of bankruptcies among individual retailers is expected.
• Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine that there will be no peace agreement by the end of the year and that Putin continues to insist on occupying the entire Donetsk region. According to him, this fall and winter, the Russians will target the energy sector, the gas network, and mining operations, as well as logistics, gas stations, and bridges. Russia has reportedly developed a drone specifically for attacking power lines, equipped with devices in its wings capable of cutting through metal.
• HUR does not rule out a new wave of mobilization in Russia following the fall elections. Russia currently has about 670,000 soldiers on active duty and another 65,000 in the operational reserve, with losses exceeding recruitment. However, following a mobilization, Moscow could assemble strike forces by February or early 2027 with the aim of opening a new front in northern Ukraine.
• Russia’s blockade of Greater Odessa is stifling Ukrainian exports. While 169 ships entered the ports of Odessa in July, only seven did so during the first eleven days of August. The Port Authority has recorded 160 attacks on port infrastructure this year, 87 attacks on civilian ships in ports, and 68 in the grain corridor.
• The Russian Embassy in London issued a warning to Britain over the supply of drones that Ukraine is using to carry out strikes deep inside Russia: “London’s actions will inevitably have consequences for which it will have to answer.” The British side responded that it would continue supplying Kyiv.
• According to Ukrainian military intelligence, foreign mercenaries in the Russian army are assigned “inventory numbers” that are applied directly to the skin as temporary tattoos instead of standard military identification tags.
• Drones struck the cargo ship ANNA S, which was sailing under the Liberian flag and operated by a Greek company, about 20 nautical miles from Novorossiysk. The ship was en route to pick up a cargo of Russian grain.
• Ghana has called on Moscow to stop recruiting its citizens to fight in the war. According to Foreign Minister Ablakwa, at least 62 Ghanaians have been killed in Ukraine, and another 15 are missing.
• Russia and Myanmar have signed a declaration on combating sanctions. The “axis of evil”—which includes Iran, North Korea, and China—has thus gained a new ally: Myanmar’s brutal military junta.
• A court in Stuttgart sentenced a Ukrainian citizen to one year and three months in prison for participating in an arson plot. The plot was allegedly organized by Russian intelligence.
• Ukraine has regained control of the village of Andriivka-Klevtseve in the Donetsk region. About 30 Russian soldiers were captured during the operation.
• The SBU detained a man in the Kharkiv region suspected of spying for Russia who had registered 27 Starlink terminals in Izyum.
• Rapper Kanye West, who claims to be a Nazi and has released a song named after the Nazi salute, is heading to Russia on tour.
• A Russian drone attack struck the distribution center of EVA, one of Ukraine’s largest drugstore chains.
• PepsiCo, which had promised to withdraw from Russia, paid $237 million in taxes to the Russian government last year.
• A Russian drone killed a farmworker while he was repairing a combine harvester in a field near Zaporizhzhia.

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Overnight, Ukraine carried out what appears to be the largest drone strike on the Moscow region since the war began. From Saturday evening until 6:30 a.m., around 600 drones flew toward the region, 201 of which were shot down over the Moscow region in Domodedovo, Podolsk, Stupino, Odintsovo, Naro-Fominsk, Ramenskoye, Chekhov, Kolomna, Kashira, and Yegoryevsk. The main target was the Wildberries warehouse in Koledino near Podolsk. The facility, covering an area of approximately 250,000 m², was one of the company’s largest logistics hubs and was completely destroyed by fire following the airstrike. A second fire broke out in Warehouse No. 15 at the MLP Severnoe Domodedovo complex. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced that Ukraine had already taken seven of the company’s ten largest logistics centers out of commission. And this also happened:

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• The Russians attacked Kyiv, Kremenchuk in the Poltava region, and Kryvyi Rih overnight. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the targets were struck by Onyx anti-ship missiles, Iskander-M ballistic missiles, S-400 missiles, North Korean KN-23 missiles, Kh-59/69 guided missiles, and 106 attack drones, including Shaheds. Air defenses shot down three Kh-59/69 missiles and 85 of the 106 drones; strikes were reported from thirteen locations. In Kryvyi Rih, a missile struck a plant belonging to ArcelorMittal, Ukraine’s largest steel producer. Two people were killed, thirteen employees were injured, and operations had to be partially halted. In Kyiv, a commercial building in the Obolon district and another building in the Holosiivskyi district caught fire; three people were injured. Over the past day, Russian attacks on Ukraine have killed at least seven civilians and injured fifty-one.
• Overnight, the Ukrainian Navy struck a Russian “Bastion” coastal missile system in occupied Crimea—a rare and expensive system from which the Russians launch supersonic “Onyx” missiles and hypersonic “Zircon” missiles at southern Ukraine. The General Staff also reports a strike on a railway bridge near Svitlodolynske in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, which the Russians were using for military logistics and troop movements, as well as strikes on logistics facilities and ammunition depots in occupied Karlivka in the Donetsk region.
• Citing sources within the Ukrainian armed forces, The Sunday Times reported that Ukraine has been using British drones for the past six months to carry out deep strikes into Russia. Among the drones deployed are the BAE Systems Nyan jet drone, tested by the British Royal Navy, and another, unnamed model. Targets included refineries near Moscow, in Yaroslavl, and in Volgograd; according to the newspaper, the Nyan was also used against Belgorod.
• Another drone was shot down over Romania during a nighttime air raid. The Ministry of Defense stated that it was destroyed by a Spanish F-18 fighter jet as part of the NATO Air Policing mission. The drone entered Romanian airspace from Moldova, approximately 24 kilometers north of Galați. The ministry did not specify the drone’s origin. The incident occurred at 5:01 a.m. local time, and the wreckage fell in an uninhabited area of Galați County.
• The General Staff confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck an industrial complex in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky in the Rostov region overnight, causing a fire to break out on the premises. The facility produces solid rocket propellant for ammunition used in the Uragan, Smerch, and Tornado-S rocket launchers, as well as for a number of other missile systems and airborne weapons.
• In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian attacks killed one person and wounded eight others. Over the past 24 hours, the Russians have carried out 1,034 strikes on 55 communities there. In Novoivanivka, guided aerial bombs destroyed nearly half of the village in a single night, and police evacuated five people from the area.
• One person was killed and nine were injured near Kherson. The Russians targeted residential neighborhoods and critical infrastructure in their airstrike; houses, apartment buildings, a store, farm equipment, and cars were damaged.
• In addition to the physical attacks on Wildberries, on August 15, a Ukrainian cyberattack targeted the company’s payment and customer systems, temporarily paralyzing the entire e-shop and preventing orders from being processed.
• Andrej Klepač, chief economist at the Russian bank VEB, stated that Russia will not be able to win a war of attrition as long as Ukraine continues to receive support from the West.
• The ISW notes that, ahead of the State Duma elections, the Kremlin has further hardened its stance against negotiations and continues to insist on demands that amount to Ukraine’s de facto surrender.
• Meanwhile, in Poznań, two drunk Polish women attacked Ukrainian men; both have already been arrested. However, the number of reported hate attacks against Ukrainians continues to rise.
• Someone left a dead pig in front of the Moscow home of the daughter of Russian General Roman Yurchenko, along with a note that read: “This is for you, Nastya.”
• In Kyiv, the Pochaina book market burned down following a Russian attack, resulting in the destruction of rare and antique books.
• World Archery will allow Russian archers to compete again under their own flag.
• Today marks one year since the Anchorage summit.

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Overnight, Ukraine carried out one of the most extensive waves of strikes in recent weeks and, for the first time in a long while, struck both ends of Russia’s oil logistics chain simultaneously. The General Staff confirmed that the Unmanned Systems Forces, together with the military intelligence agency HUR, struck the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery in Volgograd on the night of August 13–14, where intense fires broke out. It is the largest producer of fuels and lubricants in the Southern Federal District—processing over 15 million metric tons of crude oil annually, which accounts for 5.6% of Russia’s total refining capacity, and producing diesel, gasoline, and jet fuel, all of which are critical to the Russian military’s logistics. At the same time, the Leningrad Region came under attack, with reports of damage and a fire in the area of the port of Ust-Luga, one of Russia’s largest ports on the Baltic Sea. The port houses an oil terminal through which Russia exports crude oil and petroleum products—one of the main sources of revenue for the state budget. And this also happened:

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• Robert Brovdi “Maďar,” commander of the Unmanned Systems Forces, announced that between August 1 and 13, his units struck 240 power nodes used by the Russian military. The goal of Operation “Crimean Switch Off” is to cut off power to stationary radars and other elements of Russia’s air defense system, thereby paving the way for further strikes. In the latest round alone, 29 targets were added in the south of the occupied territories. Among them are, for example, the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant in Sevastopol, a gas distribution station in Mariupol, and a long list of 110- and 150-kV substations in Berdyansk, Mariupol, Prymorsk, Svatove, and other towns.
• Trump signed a proclamation imposing tariffs of up to 100% on imports of drones “particularly sensitive from a national security perspective,” as well as their docking stations and components. Smaller drones will be subject to a 25% tariff; drones from the EU, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan will face a 15% tariff; and those from the UK will face a 10% tariff. The measure will take effect in 21 days. This comes a few weeks after Zelenskyy announced an agreement to sell Ukrainian drones to the U.S. worth between $10 billion and $30 billion.
• This morning, the Russians struck a residential building in Burynska Hromada, Sumy Oblast, with two jet-powered drones. A 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son were killed at the scene. Four other people were injured; the boy’s father and grandmother were hospitalized with severe burns. In Smile, Cherkasy Oblast, a Russian drone loaded with shrapnel struck a nine-story apartment building overnight. Fortunately, the apartment at the epicenter was empty. Five people were injured nonetheless.
• Poland and Ukraine are in the final stages of negotiations on the transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets in exchange for Ukrainian drones and know-how. The aircraft are expected to arrive in Kyiv within a matter of weeks. The Polish Ministry of Defense reports that the negotiations have accelerated following the appointment of Rustem Umerov as head of Ukrainian foreign intelligence.
• Japan is considering tightening sanctions against Russia after Putin visited Iturup Island in the Kuril Islands. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stated that, according to historical facts and international law, the islands are Japanese territory and that the Russian president’s visit is “completely unacceptable.”
• The Ukrainian Air Force will stop reporting exact numbers of Russian ballistic missiles fired and shot down in its morning briefings, spokesman Yuriy Ihnat confirmed. The last specific figure was reported on August 8. The official reason is national security.
• Zelenskyy stated that since January, Ukraine has liberated 745 km² in the Oleksandrivka sector, and Russian losses there have reached at least 9,550 killed and over 6,600 wounded.
• The governor of the Orenburg Region acknowledged that the refinery in Orsk has completely halted oil processing following a recent Ukrainian strike, and repairs will take months.
• Drones struck the Wildberries logistics complex in the Emmaus Special Economic Zone in the Kalinin District of the Tver Region, 150 kilometers from Moscow.
• Polish Prime Minister Tusk announced that Polish intelligence agencies had foiled a Kremlin plot to assassinate U.S. and Ukrainian citizens.
• Lavrov stated that there would be no ceasefire, because it is a matter of “responsibility for Russia’s thousand-year history.”
• NATO fighter jets shot down an unidentified drone over Latvia last night.

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