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Hostilities in Donetsk region, 192 combat engagements, enemy shelling. How the 1637-th day of the full-scale war will be remembered.
Russian forces carried out four air strikes on Kramatorsk; three people were wounded, including a 11-year-old boy.
For the attacks the enemy used high-explosive aerial bombs FAB-250 with a UMPC module.
"One of the weapons struck a multi-apartment building. As a result of the shelling, a man and a woman aged 71 and 84 years and a 11-year-old boy were wounded at their places of residence. The victims were diagnosed with mine-explosion injuries, lacerations, abrasions, and concussions," the Donetsk region prosecutor's office said.
Four apartment buildings and three passenger cars were damaged.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 22:00 on 18 August there have been 192 combat engagements on the front since the start of the day.
The most fighting was recorded in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.
More about the operational situation as of the evening of 18 August — in the news.
On 18 August fragments of an enemy UAV fell in the yard of a five-story residential building in the Dnipro district of Kyiv.
Later it became known that drone fragments fell in the yard of another residential building at a different address in the Dnipro district.
Today in the capital air raid warnings were announced several times due to the threat of shelling.
On 18 August during the day the Russians struck Ukraine with 76 Shahed-type attack drones. The main direction of the strike was Kyiv region.
According to preliminary data, air defenses managed to shoot down and suppress over 70 enemy targets. However, impacts and the fall of downed drones were recorded at several locations. Information is being clarified.
After 18.30 hours on 18 August more than twenty jet UAVs entered Ukrainian airspace.
President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a nomination to appoint Yevhen Khmara as minister of defense.
Verkhovna Rada chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk reported that the parliament will consider the submission soon in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine and established parliamentary procedure. MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak said on his Telegram channel that the vote will take place tomorrow.
The president submitted the candidacy of Andrii Sybiga for the post of minister of foreign affairs.
Sybiga headed the ministry since September 2024, and after the government reshuffle this July he moved to acting status.
The Cabinet registered a revised Program of Activity in the Verkhovna Rada. Compared with the draft shown to the coalition parliamentarians, two of the most specific social figures disappeared from the text – the amount of the minimum pension and the hryvnia salary benchmark for teachers.
The revised document was registered in the Verkhovna Rada by the Cabinet in the evening of 17 August 2026. The draft that government officials asked MPs not to publish, calling it only a draft, had 86 pages – the final edition was reduced to 76.
Details — in the news.
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