According to the latest opinion polls, the incumbent president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is losing ground in his bid for re-election in the next presidential election.

Russia has attacked border areas in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions. Buildings, cars, and civilian infrastructure have been damaged; there have been fatalities, injuries, and fires.

In Sumy, on the evening of 16 August, a Russian drone carried out a targeted attack on a civilian vehicle. As a result of the strike, a 59-year-old man was killed; his wife was injured and taken to hospital.

A video has been posted online showing Russians watching the Wildberries marketplace warehouse on fire in the Moscow Region.

On the night of August 16, the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out strikes against a number of key military targets of the Russian occupiers. The strikes hit an area where a missile unit was concentrated in occupied Crimea, a railway bridge in the Zaporizhzhia region, and warehouses in the...

On the night of 16 August, forces and assets of the Ukrainian Navy struck the launch positions and deployment site of the ‘Bastion’ coastal missile system in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

A road traffic accident involving three cars – a Ford, a Volkswagen Passat and a Lexus – took place on the evening of 15 August in the Vinnytsia district.

On the night of June 16, PJSC "ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih" was hit by a missile strike from the aggressor country.

Following a hostile ballistic attack on Kyiv, a market in the Obolonskyi district is on fire. The fire has now been contained to an area of 2,000 square metres.

On the night of Saturday 15 August 2026, drones attacked the Moscow Region. Although Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, reported that the drones had been shot down, there were hits.