Ukrainian long-range strikes against Russian military targets in the rear are crucial, and the redeployment of Russian air assets from Russian air bases in range of ATACMS does not remove the utility of using ATACMS against other Russian military targets.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has called on the world to condemn the Russian attack on a hotel in Kramatorsk, where foreign journalists were staying.
Ukraine expects the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue new arrest warrants for Russian politicians and military officers in cases of crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine.
In Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, an 81-year-old woman was left injured in her own home after a Russian FPV drone with an explosive payload hit a five-storey apartment block.
The number of those injured as a result of the Russian strike in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, has increased to eight, including a minor. The number of killed is yet to be verified.
Soldiers of the “Revenge” brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed Russian positions and weapons depots with multiple rocket launchers and stopped the infantry offensive in the Serebriansky forest of Luhansk region.
Russian forces attacked the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, with artillery on the evening of August 21, damaging residential houses, administrative buildings and industrial premises, and killing one person.