Overview

• The General Staff logged 130 clashes on Aug. 26, noting the heaviest fighting in the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors and reporting 40 airstrikes, 57 guided bombs, 1,708 kamikaze drones and 2,947 artillery attacks in one day.
• Kyiv acknowledged Russian troops have entered Dnipropetrovsk region, while Ukraine’s military denied Russian claims of capturing Zaporizke and Novoheorhiivka, which open‑source monitor DeepState assessed as occupied.
• Kherson’s M‑14 highway faced repeated drone attacks with officials warning of temporary closures and reporting injuries to a prosecutor and driver as outlets described an evolving ‘drone siege’.
• An FPV drone strike in Kostiantynivka killed a woman and wounded two men, with additional civilian casualties reported by regional authorities in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk.
• Ukrainian forces reported inflicting significant losses in the Pokrovsk sector on Aug. 25–26, including more than 100 Russian personnel neutralized and multiple vehicles, drones and command posts destroyed.