For nearly half an hour on the evening of 13 August, Russian invaders attacked Kramatorsk with eight FAB-250 bombs delivered by UMPK. They targeted blocks of flats.

On the night of 14 August, the enemy launched yet another attack on the Kirovohrad region. A fire broke out at an infrastructure facility, and a residential building was damaged.

Soldiers from the 425th Separate Assault Regiment ‘Skelia’ have published a video of an offensive operation in the Oleksandrivka sector. As a result of this operation, the regiment’s troops managed to liberate 126 square kilometres of Ukrainian territory.

Negotiations between Ukraine and Poland regarding the transfer of Polish MiG-29 fighter jets to Kyiv are entering the final stages. The aircraft could be handed over to Ukraine as early as the coming weeks, whilst Poland will receive Ukrainian drones and technology in return.

On the evening of 13 August, Russian invaders carried out air strikes on Kramatorsk and the village of Bilenke in the Donetsk region. Preliminary reports indicate that one person was killed and 15 were injured.

On the evening of 13 August, Russian drones were detected moving through Ukrainian airspace. Air-raid alerts were declared in several regions of Ukraine.

One-fifth of the Russian Wildberries logistics centre in the village of Chishmy, Bashkortostan, was gutted by fire following a Ukrainian strike on 13 August.

Yurii Butusov, commander of a UAV company in the 23rd Assault Regiment of the National Guard’s 2nd Khartiia Corps, analyses the successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Oleksandrivka direction and the new challenges facing Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi during a livestream.

NATO has said it is processing a request from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for demining assistance.

Ukraine has sent the Russian Federation, through an intermediary, a proposal for a mutual suspension of strikes on targets in the Black Sea.