Ukrainian drones struck the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil-refining and petrochemical complex in Russia’s Bashkortostan on the morning of 13 August, setting off a fire — the second strike on one of Russia’s largest refineries in a month. The repeat hit lands as Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign forces Russian refining to itsContinue Reading
A Russian jet-powered Shahed drone struck the locomotive of a passenger train in Odesa Oblast on the morning of 13 August, killing the driver and his assistant, Ukraine’s national rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia reported. The train was carrying 340 passengers on the Odesa–Dnipro route. Russia has spent 2026 methodically dismantling theContinue Reading
The US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) forecasts that Ukraine’s grain exports will fall steeply in the 2026-27 season, with corn shipments dropping 39% to 14 million tonnes and wheat 26% to 10.8 million, World Grain reported. The agency tied the decline to Russia’s summer campaign against theContinue Reading
The flag came down from a building in central Prishtina on 9 August, Mayor Përparim Rama said in a Facebook post, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remarked on Kosovo during his visit to Serbia. Rama said “the state of Kosovo must be respected.” “Our compassion and solidarity will always be onContinue Reading
A World Health Organization humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro was destroyed in a strike on 7 August, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported on 9 August, without naming those responsible. Ghebreyesus’s account added to a pattern the organization has tracked since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion: 3,148 strikes on UkrainianContinue Reading
Demonstrators gathered in 22 Polish cities on Sunday, 9 August, to protest a rise in violence against Ukrainians, with most rallies beginning after 17:00, RMF24 reported. The Sunday rallies followed a demonstration two days earlier, on Friday, 7 August, under the slogan “My Poland doesn’t hit, insult, or incite,” whenContinue Reading
Ukraine has reached concrete agreements with the United States for monthly deliveries of interceptor missiles for its Patriot air defense systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a joint press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić in Belgrade on 8 August. The commitment does not close Ukraine’s gap. Zelenskyy said theContinue Reading
A Russian strike on the village of Pukhivka in Kyiv Oblast’s Brovary raion overnight into 8 August killed three members of one family: a three-year-old boy, his grandmother, and his grandfather. Four other people were wounded, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The boy’s parents and his 15-year-old brother were among theContinue Reading
Ukrainian forces struck two Russian oil refineries and a surveillance post mounted on a Black Sea drilling rig on the night of 8 August, Ukraine’s General Staff said. The strikes extend a months-long Ukrainian campaign against Russia’s refining sector. Ukrainian forces attacked Russian refineries about 50 times between mid-April andContinue Reading
The European Union has transferred an additional €30 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, raising its total contribution to the mechanism to €279 million, First Deputy Prime Minister and Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal wrote on Telegram. The transfer is the latest in a series of contributions to the fundContinue Reading
Polish President Karol Nawrocki used a speech marking his first year in office to restate that Poland will keep backing Ukraine’s war against Russia—and to frame that backing as cold strategic interest rather than solidarity, warning in the same speech that continued help does not extend to tolerating Ukrainian nationalistContinue Reading
Luxembourg contributed an additional €8 million ($8.7 million) to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, raising its total donations to €30 million ($32.7 million), Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy reported. The contribution arrives as the fund—which crossed €2 billion ($2.18 billion) in total lifetime contributions in July—races to close a €650 millionContinue Reading
North Korea has pulled in as much as $22 billion in foreign earnings since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022—nearly four times what it earned in the previous four years, and the most cash Kim Jong Un has commanded in his 15 years in power, Bloomberg Economics estimates. ThatContinue Reading