In Mariupol, a southern Ukrainian port city temporarily occupied by Russian troops, an assassination attempt has been made on the self-proclaimed "mayor" of the city, collaborator Kostiantyn Ivashchenko.
Russian paratrooper officers are refusing to participate in hostilities in Ukraine, so the command of the airborne forces of the occupying country has decided to appoint contract service members without officer ranks and experience of participation in hostilities to officer positions.
Russian forces have struck the city of Voznesensk, located near the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant (NPP). Fragments of a missile were found in the observation area of the station, so it is not ruled out that the missile could have been fired at the South Ukraine NPP.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has called on Austria to expel Russia's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, who called for the extermination of Ukrainians.
Service members with the anti-aircraft missile regiment of Ukraine's Air Command Center destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian invaders during the latest air raid alert on Saturday, August 20.
About UAH 855 million has already been collected for the purchase of drones for the Ukrainian military as part of the Army of Drones project, which was launched on the United24 platform.
Ukrainian Armed Forces marines have destroyed 180 Russian soldiers, 2 arms depots and more than 30 units of military equipment between August 13 and 19.
Tobias Ellwood, Chair of the UK House of Commons Defense Select Committee, has stated that any radiation leak due to a possible Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia NPP would mean a violation of Article 5 of the NATO charter.
U.S. President Joe Biden has signed a decree instructing the Secretary of State to send $775 million from the budget of the U.S. Department of Defense to help Ukraine.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine and the United Nations Development Program in Ukraine have agreed on joint projects in the field of development and digitization of forestry.
Rescuers have already retrieved the bodies of 15 people from under the rubble of a three-story residential building destroyed by Russia in the Saltivsky district of Kharkiv.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov has said that the issue on the agenda is the demilitarization of Crimea and its subsequent de-occupation.
The European Union furnished the International Court of Justice with relevant information in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation).