Overview
- Ukraine confirmed on August 15 that long‑range 'Flamingo' missiles hit the Roscosmos Progress facility in Samara, a strike Kyiv says targets Russia’s missile and electronics supply chains.
- Ukrainian General Staff reported hundreds of daily engagements from August 16–18 with roughly 192–244 clashes per day and mass use of kamikaze drones and guided bombs against front‑line positions.
- The Pokrovsk direction in Donetsk was the busiest axis, where Ukrainian forces reported repelling dozens of Russian assaults and inflicting equipment and personnel losses on the attackers.
- Regional authorities said intensive Russian strikes caused civilian deaths, injuries and heavy damage to homes and infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kherson and left parts of occupied Crimea without power.
- Security services announced multiple counterintelligence arrests of agents preparing attacks and the conflict produced cross‑border incidents, including an unexplained explosion in Moldova and Russian reports of large UAV raids on the Moscow region.