In July of this year, nearly 8,000 combat engagements took place on the front lines. The enemy also deployed more than 8,300 guided munitions during July.
In Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, two men were killed by a strike from an enemy FPV drone, and four people were wounded in the village of Bilenke as a result of shelling from “Uragan” multiple-launch rocket systems.
In the Kherson region, one person was killed and seven were wounded—including three female healthcare workers—as a result of shelling throughout the day.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) lost its external power supply on August 4 and operated on diesel generators for about an hour. The generators serve as a backup power source to ensure nuclear safety.
Russian aircraft based in temporarily occupied Crimea have significantly reduced their activity over the Black Sea over the past two weeks. This may indicate that Russia is facing difficulties supplying its occupation forces on the peninsula.
Following yet another Russian drone attack on a civilian in Kherson, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for increased international pressure on Russia.
Following Ukrainian strikes on Russia's military and port infrastructure, a significant number of vessels that were scheduled to enter Russian ports for loading are currently reluctant to pass through the Turkish straits.
Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Mykhailo Drapatyi has ordered the Military Law Enforcement Service to conduct an inspection of the 225th Assault Regiment following a journalistic investigation by Anna Kaliuzhna.
On the afternoon of August 4, the Russian military launched a missile attack on an enterprise in the city of Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Region. Three people are currently known to have been injured.
The Russian military attacked the city of Balakliia in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region, injuring two people while rescuers saved a woman from a damaged residential building.
Units of Ukraine's Defense Forces struck a road bridge and a railway bridge, an FSB unit facility in Russia, and other objects belonging to the Russian invaders.
Russian forces have recently begun launching repeated strikes against ships that have been sitting idle in ports in the Mykolaiv region for years. According to the Ukrainian Navy, these attacks serve no military purpose and are intended solely to create propaganda content for a domestic Russian audience.