Russian occupants have advanced in the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.

On the night of August 28, Russian occupiers fired a total of 629 missiles and drones at Ukraine.

Starting August 28, border guards began letting men aged 18–22 inclusive cross the border.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has commented on the massive strike by Russian troops in Ukraine.

On the night of 28 August, drones attacked two oil refineries in Russia - the Afipsky refinery in Krasnodar Krai and the Novokuibyshevsky refinery in the Samara region. Large-scale fires broke out at the facilities.

During a battle near Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukrainian serviceman Artem Smilyi carried out a heroic raid on a Russian pillbox and blew it up with an anti-tank mine.

German authorities have issued arrest warrants for all suspects in the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines. All of them are Ukrainian citizens.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that on Friday, August 29, Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak and National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump’s team in New York to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said that security guarantees for Ukraine, similar to NATO’s Article 5, are currently the main focus.

The Cabinet of Ministers has published a resolution on allowing men aged 18–22 to travel abroad.