The Verkhovna Rada will consider the president’s nominations of Yevhen Khmara as defense minister and Andrii Sybiha as foreign minister tomorrow, August 19.

Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov addressed Ukrainians on August 18, saying that the country cannot remain without a duly appointed defense minister and that its democracy cannot depend on the Kremlin’s will.

SIGNUM drone pilots destroyed an ATV and several logistics vehicles belonging to the Russian occupiers in the temporarily occupied territories of Donbas.

A new technology center for protection against unmanned aerial vehicles has opened in Germany. It is located at Cochstedt Airport in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Ukrainian Air Force fighter pilots struck a position of the Russian occupiers in the eastern direction.

Throughout 18 August, Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with 76 jet-powered Shahed-type UAVs. Air defence forces managed to shoot down and suppress more than 70 enemy jet-powered drones.

A group of three Russian soldiers attempted to approach the forward edge of the battlefield in the area of responsibility of the 66th Separate Mechanized Brigade, named after Prince Mstyslav the Brave.

On 18 August, Russia launched a massive attack on one of DTEK Energy’s thermal power plants. The facility sustained extensive damage and completely stopped generating electricity.

Ukrainian musician, member of the band Ruky’v Briuky and serviceman with the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade Anatolii Tkach has been killed in the war.

Today, 18 August, it was reported that Ukrainian Marine Yevhen Minzhener, call sign "Andatra," had been killed.