In total, over the past 24 hours, on August 18, 2026, 239 combat engagements were recorded on the front lines.

Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov "went all in" with his statement yesterday.

Starting in the evening of August 18, Russian occupiers launched ballistic missiles, various types of UAVs, and "Banderole" loitering munitions at Ukraine.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have wounded and killed 1,471,160 Russian occupiers.

Former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov stated that the country's main problem is not corruption itself, but a "systemic governance crisis," in which the old system protects its own rules rather than focusing on results.

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.