One person was killed and two others injured in a Russian drone strike on a shopping mall in Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district.

Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the main and reserve command posts of the Russian army near temporarily occupied Donetsk with missiles on August 26 and overnight on August 27, 2026.

Russia is drawing up plans for an additional wave of mobilization in 2026–2027, targeting 300,000 recruits this year and another 300,000 next year.

Smoke was seen rising over the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil refinery in Ufa, the capital of Russia’s Bashkortostan Republic, following a drone attack.

The aftermath of a Russian drone attack was reported in Kyiv’s Holosiivskyi and Pecherskyi districts, with a sports complex damaged and a car set on fire.

Following Russia’s massive overnight attack, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on Ukraine’s partners to strengthen protection for Ukrainian grain exports and civilian shipping in the Black Sea.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, following another overnight Russian air attack, called on partners to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense, including through the PURL mechanism.

Russian forces attacked industrial enterprises and an energy facility in Ukraine’s Poltava region overnight on August 27, leaving consumers in seven settlements without electricity.

Drones attacked logistics facilities belonging to the Russian e-commerce company Ozon in the cities of Orenburg and Ufa overnight on Thursday, August 27.

A total of 229 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line over the past day, August 26, with the heaviest fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka sectors.

Warehouses are on fire in Boryspil district of Kyiv region as a result of a Russian attack.

Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized one Oniks anti-ship missile, seven Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, three S8000 Banderol missiles and 222 drones used by Russian forces to attack Ukraine from the evening of August 26.

Premises of a gymnasium and a medical facility were damaged in Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi district as a result of a Russian attack on August 27.

The number of people injured in the overnight Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk region has risen to three.

Russian forces have been attacking two districts of Dnipropetrovsk region with missiles and drones and shelling them with artillery since the evening of August 26. Two people were injured.

Russian forces shelled 22 settlements in the Sumy region over the past day, killing one person and injuring five others.

A Russian attack damaged infrastructure, an educational institution and a multi-story residential building in Odesa.

The total combat losses of Russian forces from the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, through August 27, 2026, amount to approximately 1,482,150 personnel, including 1,400 over the past day.

Russian forces launched a missile strike on an enterprise in Kryvyi Rih, injuring two people.

Presidential adviser Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov said Russian forces will attempt to destroy large shopping centers in Ukraine.

Around 30,000 residents currently remain in the Sloviansk urban community in Donetsk region. The situation along evacuation routes is deteriorating.

Explosions were heard in the capital during an air raid alert.

Ukrainian experts from the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training and Education Centre (JATEC) advised Alliance troops during exercises on repelling UAV attacks.

A Moscow court has arrested Michael Martens, a journalist for the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), in absentia on charges of "inciting hatred or enmity."

The counterintelligence unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the National Police foiled a terrorist attack organized by Russian intelligence services and prevented the assassination of the head of a Ukrainian defense-industry company in the Kyiv region.

Ukraine has agreed with international partners on about $10.5 million in assistance for farmers in frontline regions to organize temporary grain storage.

Fragments of two unmanned aerial vehicles were found on two beaches near Varna, Bulgaria, in the morning of August 26.

A new training ground with railway infrastructure is being built in Belarus's Gomel region, near the border with Ukraine, allowing heavy military equipment to be unloaded quickly and in large quantities directly from railway cars.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, exposed a Russian-recruited mobilized serviceman serving in one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ mechanized brigades who was coordinating Russian strikes in southern Ukraine.

A total of 189 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on August 26, with the Pokrovsk sector remaining the hottest area of the front.

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development has considered the Cabinet of Ministers’ Program of Activities and recommended that Parliament approve it.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry has received a report that contact has been lost with 46 Ukrainian citizens in Nepal. According to the country’s Tourist Police, a total of 53 Ukrainian nationals are currently considered missing.

The leaders of Luxembourg and Estonia, during their visit to Ukraine, saw the aftermath of Russian strikes on Kyiv.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 1.7 on the Richter scale was recorded in the Rakhiv community of the Zakarpattia region on August 26.

In the evening of Wednesday, August 26, an unmanned aerial vehicle violated Moldova’s airspace amid Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.

NORSI (Nizhny Novgorod Oil Refining Company), Russia’s fourth-largest oil refinery and the country’s second-largest gasoline producer, halted oil processing on Wednesday following a Ukrainian drone attack.

Italy’s Ministry of Defense is already preparing a new aid package for Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces have carried out an operation north of Kupiansk, squeezing the Russian bridgehead and making logistics more difficult for Russian forces attempting to infiltrate the city with small infantry groups.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said that President Volodymyr Zelensky asked him to raise with U.S. President Donald Trump and businessman Elon Musk the issue of Ukraine’s use of the Starlink satellite system over Russian territory.

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal hopes that the House of Representatives could approve Russia sanctions bill, initiated by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, in September.

Russian forces struck a business center in a residential area of Lozova, Kharkiv region, twice on August 26, injuring at least ten people.

Operators of the 413th Regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces Raid struck a number of important Russian military targets in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on August 24 and 25.

On the canals of Amsterdam, Dutch volunteers demonstrated a water drone that will be delivered to Ukraine, primarily for rescue and logistical missions.

During his visit to the front, President Volodymyr Zelensky held a security meeting focused primarily on the actual situation on the frontline.

No electricity consumption restrictions are planned in Ukraine on Thursday, August 27.

Thirteen missile strikes have been recorded in several districts of temporarily occupied Donetsk.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said that Vilnius had been informed in advance about CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow.

Denys Prokopenko and Andrii Biletskyi have been appointed commanders of two restructured military groupings in the Donetsk region.

President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded the Golden Star Orders to Hero of Ukraine Andrii Biletskyi and Eduard Kolodii and presented state awards to soldiers taking part in the Oleksandrivka operation.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, a Russian drone attacked a vehicle carrying miners, killing two of them.