On the night of 15 August, a series of explosions rocked the Russian city of Samara. The strike is believed to have targeted an industrial zone housing enterprises belonging to the Russian defence industry.

The Tsentralnyi District Court of Mykolaiv has imposed a measure of restraint on the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Territorial Centre of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR and SS), who was detained the previous day while allegedly accepting a $10,000 bribe.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on the outcome of a meeting with the military command, including the reinforcement of the Sloviansk and Kostiantynivka sectors and the army’s need for additional funding.

Ukraine is implementing its plan for long-range sanctions, with more and more mid-range strikes. The strategic operation to block southern Russia will be expanded.

On 14 August, hundreds of people gathered for a peaceful rally on Ivan Franko Square in Kyiv, demanding that Mykhailo Fedorov be reinstated as Ukraine’s Minister of Defence.

In the Polish city of Poznań, two women hurled insults at two Ukrainians because they did not like that the men were speaking Ukrainian and Russian. Both women have been detained by police.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that after victory and the end of the war with Russia, he dreams of spending more time with his family and being by the sea.

Wildberries, Ozon, Yandex, Avito and Kuper have appealed to the Russian government to provide budget funding to businesses that suffered losses from drone attacks. The proposed measures include direct payments, tax deferrals and the cancellation of late-payment penalties and fines.

Fragments of a drone were discovered on Friday afternoon on a beach at the Saturn resort in Romania, prompting the evacuation of holidaymakers.

The coffin containing the remains of Yevhen Konovalets, the first leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), has been brought to the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) in Kyiv.