Northern Ukraine campaign

Ukraine is working to address personnel shortages in its military, but delays and deficiencies in Western military aid are hampering its efforts to form effective combat units capable of defending critical areas and challenging broader military initiatives, according to an analysis by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

Nine people sustained injuries in a Russian airstrike targeting Ukraine's Sumy region last night. The attack on a factory in Sumy resulted in one fatality, a woman who later succumbed to her injuries in the hospital. Fires erupted from the strike, prompting local authorities to advise residents to remain indoors and close their windows.

Ukrainian servicemen drive Soviet-made T-64 tanks in the Sumy region, near the border with Russia, on August 11, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Russia on Monday ordered more evacuations in a region bordering Ukraine as it battled to contain an unprecedented push onto its territory by Kiev forces.

A Russian military convoy was destroyed near the town of Rylsk, located in the Kursk region, resulting in significant casualties. The Belarusian channel NEXTA estimates that between 200 and 490 Russian soldiers may have been killed in the attack.

Russia's army was fighting a major Ukrainian border incursion for the third day running, Moscow said Thursday, with independent analysts saying Kiev's troops had advanced up to 10 kilometres (six miles) into Russia.

Ukrainian Armed Forces have taken control of the gas measuring station in Sudzha, a key transit point for Russian gas exports to Europe. In response, Kremlin officials have hinted that President Vladimir Putin may soon issue an ultimatum to the West. This ultimatum would demand that Western countries cease their arms supplies to Ukraine or face the threat of a large-scale missile strike.

The initiative is part of Europe’s efforts to provide Kyiv with weapons to repel Russian forces after the stalling of US military aid

The director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute stated they found evidence from a recent attack