The Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck 36 vessels belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov between August 1 and 22.
The Pechenihy community in the Kharkiv region has declared August 18 and 19 days of mourning for those killed in a Russian missile strike on the central part of the settlement in the morning of August 18.
August 12 has been declared a day of mourning in the Zaporizhzhia region for those who died as a result of the Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia on the night of August 11.
Ukraine has consistently supported Poland's requests for search and exhumation work over the past two years by granting the necessary permits and facilitating the process. Another round of exhumation work is scheduled to take place in Lviv in August.
Ukraine hopes to begin the first search operations as early as August in the village of Lasków in Poland's Subcarpathian (Podkarpackie) Voivodeship in the country's southeast, where Ukrainians who died during World War II may be buried.
Operators of the 14th Regiment of Unmanned Systems Forces, in cooperation with other Ukrainian Defense Forces, successfully carried out 11 Deep Strike operations targeting Russian oil refining infrastructure in August.
In August 2025, demining units of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine cleared 5,973.1 hectares of liberated territory contaminated by explosive remnants of war resulting from Russia’s armed aggression.
In August 2025 alone, Russian military personnel losses in the war against Ukraine totaled 28,790, according to Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi.
The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Poland, and Lithuania will hold another round of political consultations on Friday, August 8, in Chernivtsi.