In Poland, there are proposals to extend the right to free accommodation and health insurance to several more categories of Ukrainians. These include, in particular, single mothers, low-income pensioners and their family members.

On the night of August 17, 2026, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a number of key military targets belonging to the Russian occupiers.

Putin is escalating tensions in the Baltic Sea. A few days after the destroyer "Admiral Levchenko" arrived in the Baltic Sea, the modern guided-missile frigate "Admiral Kasatonov", part of Russia’s Northern Fleet, also arrived.

Ukrainian assault troops continue to effectively clear out the positions of Russian invaders in built-up areas.

The Security Service’s counter-intelligence unit has detained another Russian informant in the Kherson region. She turned out to be a resident of the Bilozerka community who, acting on the enemy’s orders, was coordinating shelling of the frontline region.

Russia uses a system of serial numbers to identify foreign mercenaries recruited into its occupying army. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate (DIU), the numbers are marked on equipment or skin using permanent dyes, and Russian security forces check for these markings, particularly...

In Moscow, outside the Supreme Court building, security forces carried out mass arrests of activists and members of the public who had gathered whilst the Yabloko party’s appeal against the decision to remove its federal list from the State Duma elections was being heard.

In Kyiv, charges have been brought against the head of a branch of one of the district TCR and SS and the head of a civil society organisation, who organised a scheme to accept bribes from conscripts.

The police are investigating the circumstances of a road traffic accident in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital.

The police and the Armed Forces of Ukraine discussed cooperation on matters relating to mobilisation, the search for draft dodgers, the detection of abuses during the reservations and the work of MMC, as well as the response to cases of AWOL.