August 2024
1 August
Two people were killed by Russian shelling in Nikopol. [1]
A Bulsae-4 anti-tank missile vehicle was reportedly spotted by a Ukrainian drone in Kharkiv Oblast, suggesting that Russia is using North Korean-made armoured vehicles. [2]
Exiled Russian politician Ilya Ponomarev was injured in a drone attack on his residence near Kyiv. [3]
Forbes claimed Ukraine launched more attack drones than Russia during the month of July. [4]
The vessel Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky was launched in Istanbul as the second Turkish-built corvette commissioned for the Ukrainian Navy. [5]
2 August
Russian-installed officials and residents in Crimea reported missile and drone attacks across the peninsula, particularly in Sevastopol, Simferopol, Yevpatoria and Balaklava. [6] Ukrainian forces claimed the submarine Rostov-na-Donu "sank on the spot" in the attack on Sevastopol while an S-400 launcher was also damaged. [7]
The bodies of 250 soldiers were repatriated to Ukraine in exchange for those of 38 Russian soldiers. [8]
Russian forces captured the village of Vesele in Donetsk Oblast. [9]
Forbes estimated that 20 Russian regiments and brigades, "potentially" 40,000 troops, were advancing against six Ukrainian brigades of around 12,000 troops near Pokrovsk, and that the Russians were just 11 miles from the city. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conceded that "this is where the fighting remains the most intense." [10]
Romania and Ukraine announced a plan to manufacture and improve the Neptune missile. [11]
3 August
In Russia, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in Gubkinsky, Belgorod Oblast. The regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that an explosion occurred at one of the storage tanks. Ukrainian drones struck a 16 story building in Zhylyna, Oryol Oblast causing a fire, however no casualties were reported according to the regional governor Andrey Klychkov. Drones also hit Morozovsk, in Rostov Oblast, targeting an airfield where explosions were reported by locals. Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) later claimed that a "fuel and lubricants warehouse” was hit by 15 drones in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast. The regional governor also said that warehouses in the said areas were damaged. [12] [13] [14]
The Ukrainian Air Force claimed that Russia fired 29 "Shahed-type drones", two S-300 missiles and two Kh-31 missiles. A Ukrainian official said that "critical infrastructure" in Vinnytsia was hit by Russian drones. In Kherson, according to the regional governor, "critical infrastructure", administrative and civilian buildings were damaged. Ukrainian forces claimed to have shot down 24 of the drones. [15]
4 August
Zelenskyy confirmed the arrival and deployment of the first batch of F-16 fighter jets pledged by Western countries in Ukraine and their usage by the Ukrainian Air Force. [16]
Russian-installed officials in Luhansk claimed that a Ukrainian missile strike caused a fire in a machine repair and storage facility used by the Russian military. [17]
Ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of 744 children and their families from four frontline settlements in Donetsk Oblast due to Russian attacks. [18]
5 August
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) announced the discovery of a "large-scale" sabotage network organised by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) that was operating in six oblasts, adding that nine people, including two city councilors in Dnipro and Yuzhne, Odesa Oblast, had been arrested on suspicion of membership of the group. [19]
6 August
In Russia, officials claimed that one person was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike in Belgorod Oblast, [20] while two others were killed in a separate attack in Kursk Oblast, where Ukrainian forces reportedly attempted to make an incursion into the districts of Sudzha and Korenevo. [21] [22]
The SBU claimed to have damaged a Russian Mi-28 helicopter in Kursk Oblast with an FPV drone, calling it the first successful intercept of a helicopter mid-flight using a drone. [23] Ukrainian military blog DeepState claimed that two Russian tanks were destroyed and a Ka-52 helicopter was also shot down in Kursk Oblast. [24]
7 August
The HUR claimed that it had carried out a raid with Ukrainian Special Forces on the Tendra Spit in occupied Kherson Oblast that inflicted casualties on Russian forces and destroyed MT-LB amphibious personnel carriers, electronic warfare systems and fortifications. [25]
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) estimated that Ukrainian forces had advanced up to ten kilometers into Russia’s Kursk Oblast from their common border since the start of the incursion on 6 August and had seized a total area of some 45 square kilometers. [26] The Ukrainian incursion involved some 1,000 soldiers, armoured vehicles and was supported by artillery and drones according to a Russian official. [27] A state of emergency was declared in Kursk Oblast due to the ongoing incursion. [28]
Ukrainian authorities ordered the evacuation of 6,000 people from 23 border communities in Sumy Oblast due to Russian attacks. [29]
8 August
Two people were killed in separate Russian attacks in Nikopol and Sumy Oblast. [30] [31]
Wagner Group units were deployed to Kursk Oblast to repel the Ukrainian incursion. [32]
