The United States and South Korea have decided to scale back their annual joint military exercises, which began earlier this week. The changes will also affect field training, the scope of which will be reduced as well.

On the night of Tuesday 19 August 2026, drones attacked Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod Region of the Russian Federation.

In the early hours of 19 August 2026, a Russian guided aerial bomb destroyed a private house in one of Zaporizhzhia’s districts.

One person was killed and six others were injured as a result of a Russian drone attack on Zaporizhzhia.

On the evening of August 18, Russian drones were detected moving through Ukrainian airspace. Air-raid alerts were declared in several regions of Ukraine.

On the evening of August 18, Russian forces attacked Zaporizhzhia with a drone. A man was injured in the strike.

Operators of the 422nd Luftwaffe Unmanned Systems Regiment destroyed a base used by Russian drone operators, along with the enemy’s equipment and materiel.

The Odesa Regional Territorial Center of Recruitment and Social Support (TCR and SS) has launched an internal investigation after a video circulated on social media showing a man in military uniform clashing with a teenager.

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.