On the night of 13 August, Ukraine’s Defence Forces carried out a series of strikes on enemy military facilities on Russian territory and in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) officers have found the flight recorder of the fighter jet that crashed while carrying out a combat mission in the Berezivka district of Odesa region on 10 August 2026.

A Russian drone attacked a Ukrzaliznytsia diesel locomotive in the Odesa region.

The remains of Yevhen Konovalets, a colonel of the Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and the first head of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), have been brought to Ukraine.

The night of 8 August turned into a tragedy for the Kucher family from the village of Pukhivka in the Brovary district of Kyiv region. Six Russian Shaheds attacked their family home, killing Halyna Kucher, principal of Spaskyi Lyceum No. 124, her husband and their three-year-old grandson Dmytryk.

Russian occupation forces have advanced in the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region.

On 12 August, law enforcement officers in Lutsk detained a 40-year-old Audi driver who injured a serviceman from a Territorial Centre of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR and SS) during notification activities.

The European Union has called on its member states to transfer missiles for Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine from their own stockpiles. Strengthening Ukraine’s air defence was described in Brussels as an "absolute priority."

The Defense Procurement Agency (DPA) has expanded the Prozorro Market electronic catalogue for procurements funded from decentralised budgets.

Parents of children affected by road accidents and civil society organisations are calling on the authorities to urgently strengthen liability for dangerous and systematic traffic violations in order to reduce road deaths.