On August 16, in Kramatorsk, the Russian military attacked a post office with a drone. One person was killed and at least six were injured in the attack.
Four people were injured in the Kherson region on August 16 as a result of Russian attacks. Homes, a hospital building, and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.
In Kyiv, on the night of August 16, the office of the publishing house “Nash Format,” located near the Pochaina metro station, was damaged as a result of a Russian ballistic missile attack.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said he had a phone call with his Greek counterpart, George Gerapetritis, with the situation in the Black Sea being the central topic of the discussion.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has thanked Switzerland for its decision to provide approximately $730,000 for the preservation and restoration of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery.
The number of people injured in a Russian attack on a Nova Poshta facility inside an Epicentr store in a suburb of Odesa on August 16 has risen to four.
The driver of an evacuation vehicle who was stopped in the Mykolaiv region while transporting people from Kherson was not informed that he would be taken to a Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Center for a military medical examination, potentially followed by mobilization.
Robert Serry, who served as the first Dutch ambassador to Ukraine from 1992 to 1996, said the West failed to understand Putin's true intentions and left Ukraine in a "gray zone" between Russia and NATO.