War

The Russian military’s spring–summer campaign of 2025 has ended in failure, with over 291,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this in a statement on its Facebook page, as reported by Ukrinform. On August 30, Russian propaganda circulated a report by Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, summarizing the “results of the 2025 spring–summer campaign.” At its core, the report is an attempt to present wishful thinking as reality, filled with blatant falsehoods. After three and a half years of full-scale Kremlin aggression, yet another…

Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the killing of a civilian by a Russian soldier in the settlement of Novoekonomichne, Donetsk region. This was reported on Telegram by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, according to Ukrinform. According to the statement, another war crime committed by Russian forces against Ukraine’s civilian population was captured on video and shared via a Telegram channel. “According to the investigation, on August 28, 2025, in the settlement of Novoekonomichne, Pokrovsk district, a serviceman of the Russian Armed Forces hid behind a garage on private property. Upon seeing a man in the yard, he aimed and…

On the morning of Sunday, August 31, Russian forces shelled the town of Bilozerka in the Kherson region, injuring two civilians. This was reported on Telegram by the Kherson Regional Military Administration, according to Ukrinform. “Around 6 a.m. today, Russian forces shelled Bilozerka. As a result of the enemy attack, a 56-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man were injured,” the statement reads. The victims sustained blast-related injuries and concussions. Medical personnel provided assistance and prescribed outpatient treatment. Read also: Russian drones strike nine settlements in Kharkiv region, causing damage As previously reported by Ukrinform, one person was killed and eight…

Russian forces launched drone attacks on nine settlements in the Kharkiv region over the past day. This was reported on Telegram by Oleh Syniehubov, Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration, according to Ukrinform. “Over the past 24 hours, nine settlements in the Kharkiv region came under enemy drone strikes,” the statement reads. According to Syniehubov, the enemy deployed one Geran-2 UAV, one Lancet UAV, five Molniya-type drones, and four drones of unidentified type across the region. No casualties were reported, but damage was recorded. In the village of Kurhanne in the Kupiansk district, a private home was damaged, as…

During the night of August 31, Ukrainian defense forces neutralized 126 Russian drones in the skies over Ukraine. Another 16 enemy UAVs struck ten different locations. According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram. Starting at 21:00 on Saturday, August 30, Russian forces launched an attack on Ukraine using 142 strike UAVs of the Shahed type, along with various decoy drones. The drones were launched from Kursk, Millerovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, as well as Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea. The aerial assault was countered by anti-aircraft missile units, electronic…

Russia faces geographic and demographic challenges to its mobilization capacity, which is far from limitless—despite claims made by its propaganda. This was stated by Serhii Cherevatyi, Director General of Ukrinform, at the international forum “Information Warfare: From Resistance to Resilience,” according to an Ukrinform correspondent. “Society must remain resilient and not give in to Russian propaganda, which has many tools to spread panic. One of the narratives they push is that Russia allegedly has an inexhaustible mobilization resource. But if we look at their geography and demographics, we see that’s not true. Yes, it’s larger than ours, but it comes…

Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces killed two residents of the Donetsk region—in Sviatohirsk and Iverske—and injured six others. This was reported on Telegram by Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, according to Ukrinform. “On August 30, Russians killed two residents of the Donetsk region: one in Sviatohirsk and another in Iverske. Six more people were injured in the region over the course of the day,” the statement reads. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russian forces killed 3,441 residents of the region and injured 7,922. These figures exclude casualties from Mariupol and Volnovakha. Read…

On August 30, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 182 combat clashes with Russian forces along the frontline. According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Facebook in the operational update as of 08:00 on Sunday, August 31. The Russians carried out one massive missile-air strike with 48 rockets, two missile strikes and 79 airstrikes, deploying three missiles and dropping 161 guided bombs. They also conducted 4,475 artillery strikes, including 51 from MLRS, and deployed 5,563 kamikaze drones. Russian air strikes targeted settlements including Velyka Berizka, Rivne (Sumy region), Bilohiria, Komyshuvakha (Zaporizhzhia region), Chornobaivka,…

Russian forces launched a massive overnight drone attack at Odesa region, damaging energy infrastructure. Head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration Oleh Kiper reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform. “The town of Chornomorsk and its surroundings were hit the hardest. The strike damaged energy infrastructure,” he wrote. Currently, over 29,000 consumers are without electricity. Restoration work has already begun, critical infrastructure is operating on generators. Private homes and administrative buildings were also damaged. In some areas, fires broke out but were promptly extinguished by emergency services. One person has been reported injured. All authorized services are working to eliminate…

The overall combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to August 31, 2025, amount to 1,082,140 personnel, including 810 in the past 24 hours. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. Russian military losses also include: 11,151 (+2) tanks, 23,212 (+2) armored combat vehicles, 32,199 (+27) artillery systems, 1,476 (+0) MLRS, 1,213 (+0) air defense systems, 422 (+0) aircraft, 340 (+0) helicopters, 55,062 (+371) operational-tactical UAVs, 3,664 (+38) cruise missiles, 28 (+0) warships/boats, one (+0) submarine, 60,305 (+83) vehicles and fuel tankers,…