Ukraine's General Staff confirmed a series of strikes overnight on August 19. Ukrainian forces hit a road bridge over the Molochna River near Molochansk used for Russian military logistics, three UAV warehouses in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, a ground relay controlling Geran/Gerbera strike drones in occupied Crimea, and a UAV command post near Verkhnii Rohachyk. A logistics depot in Kadiivka and a...
Downing a Shahed with a machine gun is no easy task, says Serhii "Kapitoshka," commander of a machine-gun platoon in the anti-aircraft battery of Ukraine's 114th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade. He said every such shootdown brings "incredible emotions."
A Ukrainian drone attack completely destroyed AlmaFood's plant at the Severne Domodedovo logistics complex in Moscow region, including its equipment and warehouses. AlmaFood is described as Russia's largest producer of coffee and vending-machine ingredients. Commercial director Anna Abishina said: "Everything burned down. There is no equipment left in the workshop, nothing at all."
Ukraine's Fire Point put its FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile on display at DALO Industry Days 2026 in Denmark, alongside the FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missile systems and its FP-1 and FP-2 strike drones.
More Cheboksary, Russia, where a substation is burning.
A large fire broke out at a substation near the VNIIR-Progress microelectronics plant in Cheboksary, Russia. The plant itself was previously hit twice this year, in May and June, in attacks involving drones and FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles.
Ukraine's 426th Unmanned Systems Regiment of the Navy reported that marines destroyed a Russian BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system with an FPV drone.
Ukraine's General Staff confirmed additional damage from the August 15 strike in Samara. A workshop assembling engines for Soyuz launch vehicles and an aircraft maintenance workshop at the Aviakor aviation plant were hit. A fire covering about 5,000 square meters was also recorded at RKC Progress, which the General Staff described as a key Russian rocket and space industry enterprise involved in p...
A large fire broke out at a substation near the VNIIR-Progress microelectronics plant in Cheboksary, Russia. The plant itself was previously hit twice this year, in May and June, in attacks involving drones and FP-5 Flamingo cruise missiles.
Ukraine's Fire Point put its FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile on display at DALO Industry Days 2026 in Denmark, alongside the FP-7 and FP-9 ballistic missile systems and its FP-1 and FP-2 strike drones.
❗️A 22-drone attack struck the territory of Russia's 44th Separate Special Purpose Aviation Regiment, military unit 83122, at Savasleyka on August 15. Five of the site's 22 fuel storage tanks, each with a capacity of 50 tons, were damaged. A technical facility and aircraft hangar No. 18 were also damaged, while no military personnel were reported injured.
Ukraine’s NABU and SAPO launched Operation “Forrest Gump” against an alleged criminal organization that investigators say was led by current and former MPs and included senior Presidential Office officials and others. Lawmakers say searches are underway at…
❗️At least five grain ships were hit by drones near Russia's Black Sea ports of Novorossiysk and Tuapse on August 17-18, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Four vessels were hit on August 18 and a fifth on August 17, the first confirmed attacks on grain ships serving the affected Russian ports. The Russian-flagged Victoria V was among those hit, while a fire aboard the Lib...
Ukrainian drones struck Ufa, Russia, with one hitting an industrial zone and starting a fire, Bashkortostan head Radiy Khabirov said. Another UAV, diverted by electronic warfare, hit an apartment building, damaging upper-floor windows and parked cars. One person was injured and hospitalized.
A large drone attack hit Dzerzhinsk in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, with residents reporting intense explosions and air-defense fire. Preliminary reports say the Y. M. Sverdlov explosives and ammunition plant was a primary target. A residential high-rise was also damaged.