Danielle Bell, head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, has said that the testimonies of freed Ukrainian soldiers confirm the systematic practice of torture in Russian captivity.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a draft law laying down for the military participating in combat missions on Russian territory all bonuses and preferences to which other servicepersons are entitled who are deployed in the warzone.
The number those injured as a result of a Russian airstrike on a civil enterprise in the village of Prylokotne of the Kupiansk district in Kharkiv region has increased to six.
Thursday evening, Russian artillery opened fire on the village of Verhnyokamianske of the Zvanivka community in Donetsk region with artillery, killing two residents.
One person was killed and three others were injured in the Donetsk region on August 15 after Russian forces shelled the Kostiantynivka community and the Pokrovsk district.
The strategy for the return of Ukrainian citizens from Russian captivity was presented at a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Staff on August 15.
In the village of Bilyi Kolodiaz, Kharkiv region, Russian forces attacked a vehicle of the Hospitallers medical battalion with an FPV drone, killing two volunteers and injuring three more people.
Long-range drones of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out the largest wartime attack on Russian military airfields in Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleyka and Borisoglebsk overnight.
Soldiers from the National Guard of Ukraine repelled an enemy assault in the Pylne-Lyptsi and Pylne-Hlyboke sectors in the Kharkiv region, destroying and damaging five Russian tanks and eliminating almost fifty invaders.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that hundreds of Russian soldiers have already surrendered in the Kursk region and are being treated humanely.
The transit route for the supply of Russian gas to Europe through Ukraine continues to function despite fighting near the Sudzha gas transport station, according to the Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko.