The Cabinet of Ministers terminated the mandate of Mykola Hladyshenko, chair of the Supervisory Board of Sense Bank, amid NABU’s Forest Gump and Themis special operations.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a telephone conversation with UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Four people, including children, were killed in a Russian drone attack on the village of Tokarivka in the Mykolaiv region.

Former Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has spoken about the possible mobilization of women, and the issue immediately became fodder for panic and manipulation on Telegram.

The High Anti-Corruption Court will continue its hearing on imposing a preventive measure on former Deputy Head of the Office of the President Iryna Mudra on Monday, 24 August. She denies the NABU allegations in the Forest Gump case.

On 21 August, Russian occupiers attacked a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region. There are wounded people.

The Defence Procurement Agency DOT has announced its first tender for the procurement of deep-strike UAVs based on tactical and technical specifications received from the Ministry of Defence.

The National Bank of Ukraine is conducting unscheduled inspections of Sense Bank to determine whether officials interfered with its automated system during transactions involving the posting of UAH 150 million in bail for former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko.

Oleksii Yukov, head of the Platsdarm search group, was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. He was killed on 5 August 2026 while carrying out a combat mission to search for and recover the bodies of fallen Ukrainian service members.

In the village of Liutizh, Vyshhorod district, a 30-year-old man opened fire in a supermarket following a conflict with local residents. He fired two shots inside the store and another outside.