Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported more than 200 combat engagements and thousands of drone and shelling incidents in daily fighting, with a command summary for 13 August saying forces repelled dozens of attacks on the Kostyantynivka and Pokrovsk axes.
- The U.N. human‑rights mission recorded a sharp rise in civilian casualties in July, reporting at least 437 killed and 2,610 wounded and attributing much of the increase to long‑range missiles, guided bombs, and drones.
- Kyiv has expanded strikes into Russian territory and occupied Crimea, with Ukrainian authorities claiming damage to the Novatek‑Ust‑Luga complex and hits on radar and drone‑control sites in Sevastopol and Sakі/Novofedorivka, though some of those claims lack independent verification.
- Ukrainian officials told U.S. counterparts that over 100 successful strikes hit Russian or occupied strategic targets in the past 40 days and warned of a critical shortage of Patriot interceptor munitions needed to stop ballistic and quasi‑ballistic threats.
- Security and force‑protection actions continued: the SBU announced the disruption of a 14‑person GRU agent network, the DBR recovered a MiG‑29 flight recorder for investigation, and Kyiv reported a reported but not yet confirmed rail‑transit discount deal with Moldova to reroute exports.