Ukrainian troops engage in 165 clashes along frontlines on Wednesday- General Staff update
Source: Ukraine’s General Staff
On August 14, Ukrainian forces engaged in 165 combat clashes across the entire frontline. The enemy launched five missile strikes, 58 airstrikes, and conducted 4,365 shellings, including 135 from multiple rocket launchers.
Ukrainian aviation and artillery responded with nine strikes targeting enemy troop concentrations, command posts, and key targets, destroying four artillery systems, an air defense system, an ammunition depot, and another critical object.
In the Kharkiv sector, Ukrainian forces fought four battles near Vovchansk and Sotnytsky Kozachok, and repelled nine attacks in the Kupiansk area near Synkivka, Petropavlivka, and Berestove.
The Lyman sector saw 15 enemy attacks near Nevske, Terny, and Makiivka. In the Siversk area, Ukrainian defenders fended off 25 assaults near Bilohorivka, Verkhniokamianske, Pereizne, Spirne, and Vyiimka.
Russian forces launched five attacks near Chasiv Yar and Andriivka in the Kramatorsk direction, and 24 attacks in the Toretsk direction with air support near Pivnichne, Nelipivka, Zalizne, New York, and Toretsk.
In the Pokrovske sector, Ukrainian defenders halted 58 assaults toward Vozdvyzhenka, Yelyzavetivka, Hrodivka, Orlivka, Mykolaivka, Zhelanne, Skuchne, Yasnobrodivka, and Ptyche. The most intense fighting took place near Vozdvyzhenka and Hrodivka, with the enemy using intense air support.
In the Kurakhove sector, Ukrainian forces repelled eight attacks near Krasnohorivka, Kostyantynivka, and Heorhiivka. In Vremivka, Russian forces attempted seven assaults near Vodyane and Vuhledar.
The enemy launched three assaults in the Orikhiv sector near Mala Tokmachka and Novodanylivka and seven attacks in the Prydniprovskyi setor, but faced heavy losses.
No signs of enemy offensive formations were detected in the Volyn and Polissya directions. However, Russian forces continued shelling border areas in Chernihiv and Sumy regions from their territory.
In 2025, the deadliest year yet for civilians, Ukraine’s three largest charitable foundations raised a record 105.9 billion hryvnias. It is more than the years 2022–2024 combined. According to the UN, humanitarian aid in Ukraine was delivered by more than 450 organisations, reaching five million people over the course of the year. Civic foundations hold licences to purchase lethal weapons, which is a function states have monopolised for centuries. These record sums were underwritten by international government grants, which means foreign states now channel billions directly through Ukrainian civic funds, bypassing inter-state channels. It is hard to imagine a stronger institutional trust in civil society.
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On October 6, the Administrative Cassation Court within the Supreme Court of Ukraine continued hearing case No. 990/80/25, in which the fifth President and leader of the party “European Solidarity”, Petro Poroshenko, seeks to have Presidential Decree No. 81/2025 from February 12, 2025 — enacting sanctions by the decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) — declared illegal and annulled. The plaintiff claims the document was falsified and that the sanctions are a tool of political persecution of the opposition, contrary to international norms. Government representatives deny the allegations and insist their actions were lawful. Journalists of Bukvy were present at the hearing.