Mykyta Poturaiev, an MP from the Servant of the People faction, believes that if Russian attacks on the capital intensify, a decision must be made on how parliament will hold plenary sessions under such circumstances.

The government has decided to suspend Mykola Hladyshenko, chairman of the supervisory board of state-owned Sense Bank, and has also initiated the suspension of Oleksii Stupak, chairman of the bank’s management board.

On the evening of August 19, Russian drones were detected moving through Ukrainian airspace. Air-raid alerts were declared in several regions of Ukraine.

Former MP Maksym Mykytas was at Iryna Mudra’s home when NABU and SAPO arrived to conduct searches.

Police Captain Artem Zubchuk, 32, and Lieutenant Colonel Yuliia Yevdokymova, 39, were killed in a Russian strike on a police building in Zhytomyr. Emergency rescue operations following the attack are still underway.

FPV drone operators from the 42nd Separate Mechanized Brigade detected and destroyed two Russian UAZ Bukhanka vans that the occupiers were using to transport ammunition for multiple-launch rocket systems.

Russian forces shelled Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with a Tornado-S multiple-launch rocket system on the evening of August 19.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Junior Lieutenant Vladyslav Polskyi, commander of an assault company in the 475th Code 9.2 Regiment, who single-handedly evacuated two wounded soldiers from the battlefield in the Kharkiv region.

Investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach posted two images on social media, ironically juxtaposing Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 2019 presidential campaign slogan with materials from the high-profile NABU and SAPO investigation dubbed "Forrest Gump."

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named the main task for Ukraine’s Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara.