The Armed Forces of Ukraine made the Russian troops retreat in Kharkiv, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Southern Buh directions. The Ukrainian defenders inflicted losses on the enemy in several areas.
Russian forces launched a missile strike on the Chaplyne railway station in Dnipropetrovsk region. At least 15 people were killed, about 50 were injured.
Rescuers have finished search operations in a three-story building destroyed by Russian shelling in the Saltiv district of Kharkiv on August 17, the total number of dead is 19 people.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky released a video from Khreshchatyk showing Russian military equipment destroyed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and emphasized that the "parade" of Russian equipment in Ukraine can only be like this.
Teachers of a secondary school in the temporarily occupied part of Zaporizhia region are being subjected to psychological pressure with elements of intimidation as Russian security operatives are trying to force them to undergo “retraining” in Crimea to be able to teach children in line with the Russian curriculum starting September 1.
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.
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.
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.