War

For the fifth day, a large-scale fire at the Kavkaz oil depot, targeted by the Ukrainian military, is being extinguished in Proletarsk, Rostov Oblast of the Russian Federation, local media report.

The United States has warned its citizens that over the next few days, there is an increased risk of nighttime and daytime Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine in connection with Ukraine's Independence Day on August 24, reads the warning of the US Embassy in Ukraine.

The military of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine attacked the Savasleyka airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia. As a result, three aircraft were destroyed and five others were damaged.

Overnight, units of the Naval Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the position of the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near Novoshakhtinsk in Russia’s Rostov Oblast, reported the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.