Overview

• Ukrainian General Staff logged 139 frontline clashes on August 15 with Russian forces deploying over 6,045 artillery rounds, 98 MLRS salvos, and 5,659 kamikaze drones.
• Russian strikes against Ukrainian positions included two missile attacks, 111 airstrikes, three ballistic missiles, and 213 guided aerial bombs across key regions like Sumy, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson.
• Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted 61 of 85 Shahed drones in an overnight barrage that featured an Iskander-M missile; several drones struck targets following the Putin-Trump Alaska summit.
• Ukrainian aviation, missile, and artillery units conducted counterstrikes on ten enemy troop concentrations, three command posts, an ammunition depot, and three Russian artillery systems.
• Ukrainian forces repelled assaults across hotspots from Northern Slobozhanshchyna to the Dnipro River sector; Huliaipole, Orikhiv, Volyn, and Polissia registered no enemy offensive actions.