Five people, including a 9-year-old boy, were injured as a result of an enemy attack on the city of Izium in the Kharkiv region.

Since the start of the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian Defence Forces have wounded and killed 1,469,970 Russian occupiers.

In the Bogorodsky District of the Moscow Region, a drone struck a Wildberries warehouse near ‘Atlant Park’.

On the evening of August 17, Russian drones were detected moving through Ukrainian airspace. Air raid alerts were declared in several regions of Ukraine.

On August 18, following a recess, the Verkhovna Rada will not consider the appointment of defence and foreign ministers.

The High Anti-Corruption Court sentenced the former acting chairman of the Kominternivskyi District Court in the Odesa region to seven years in prison. The judge was found guilty of accepting a bribe of nearly UAH 50,000. According to media reports, the former judge is Pavlo Dobrov.

Since the start of the day on August 17, a total of 211 combat engagements have taken place along the front.

A video posted online shows Russians filming burning trucks carrying petrol after they were struck by the Defence Forces in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

The oil tanker Skiros, operated by a Greek company, was attacked in the Black Sea. It had been loaded with Russian oil at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal near Novorossiysk.

On August 16, during a strike on the Russian enterprise "Kombinat Kamensky" in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia’s Rostov region, the Ukrainian Defence Forces used Neptune cruise missiles.