During an operation by the Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the Black Sea, one of the strike sea drones broke through to the bay of Novorossiysk, where Russia keeps the remains of large ships of its Black Sea Fleet.

Russian troops intensified their offensive near Serebrianka and Olhivske, but Ukrainian defenders drove the enemy back from the Tolstoy area.

Rescuers have localised a large-scale fire of 7,000 square metres caused by a rocket attack in Mukachevo.

On the evening of 21 August, the 14th Regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces struck at the "Unecha" oil pumping station in Russia.

The Anti-Corruption Action Center has published a list of MPs who voted to restrict access to property registers in order to conceal their corrupt assets.

U.S. President Donald Trump has set yet another two-week deadline to determine whether a peaceful settlement of the Russia–Ukraine war can be reached.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of its territory.

On August 19–20, the chiefs of general staffs of Ukraine, the United States and several European countries worked out military options to support negotiations aimed at establishing lasting peace.

Despite the enemy’s numerical superiority in the Pokrovsk direction, Ukraine’s Defense Forces cleared six settlements of Russian troops, killing hundreds of occupiers.

US President Donald Trump has told his top advisers that a trilateral meeting with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will take place only after the leaders of the two warring countries first meet one-on-one.