According to CIT volunteers, per day from 20:00 on August 21 to 20:00 on August 22 in Russia and Ukraine, including at least seven civilians in the occupied territories, another 40 were injured. Last weekend, 11 civilians died, another 59 were injured.
Losses
The air forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that on the night of August 23, 2025, after completing a combat mission, when entering the landing, the pilot of the MiG-29 fighter, Major Sergey Bondar, born in 1979. The causes and circumstances of the crash are established.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on the exchange of prisoners of war according to the formula “146 by 146”. In addition, eight residents of the Kursk region returned to Russia. According to the Ukrainian project “I want to find”, more than half of the exchanged Russians were captured during hostilities in the Donetsk region (58%), about 20% in Kharkov and about 15% in Kursk. Commenting on the exchange, the assistant to Vladimir Putin and the head of the delegation of the Russian Federation at negotiations in Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky, said that the “exchange fund of Ukraine” was approaching zero, while thousands of prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are supposedly remained in Russia. Vladimir Zelensky confirmed the fact of exchange and said that journalist Dmitry Hilyuk, who was kidnapped in the Kyiv region in March 2022, had returned from Russian captivity. According to the head of the office of President Andrei Ermak, the former mayor of Kherson Vladimir Nikolayenko, captured in April of the same year, also returned home. The UNIAN agency reports that journalist Mark Kaliush, detained in Melitopol in 2023, returned from captivity.
Weapons and military equipment
President of Poland Karol Navrotsky imposed a veto on amendments to the law on extension of financial assistance to Ukraine. Because of this from October 1 legal grounds will stop for payment Starlink In the interests of the Ukrainian military. “This is the end of the Internet Starlink, which Poland provides the War of Ukraine. This also means stopping supporting the storage of data from the Ukrainian government in a safe place, ”said Krzyshtof Gavkovsky, Minister of Digital Technology.
The Norwegian government allocates a package of military assistance to Ukraine in the amount of € 700 million. The funds will go to pay for the supply of two Patriot air defense systems from Germany. The purchase of radar and air defense systems of European production will also be financed.
The Canadian government allocated € 1.2 billion for military assistance to Ukraine after the June Summit G7. On August 24, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Karney said during a visit to Kyiv on the occasion of the Independence Day of Ukraine that these funds will go to the purchase of armored vehicles, small arms, ammunition and other equipment and equipment, financing for arms of the USA under the PURL program, the purchase of drones and RAB funds, including joint Canadian-Ukrainian enterprises, and support for procurement of procurement of procurement. Ammunition in the framework of the Czech Initiative.
Ukraine will receive Bastion armored vehicles, followed by the report of the Belgian company John Cockerill Defense for 2024. According to the report, the total contract is concluded by 61 units, 11 of which have already been set.
The above article by The Wall Street Journal states that the US President Donald Trump presidential administration approved the sale of 3350 air -based missiles Extended Range Attack Munition (Eram) with a reference term for the first batch delivery after six weeks. A package in the amount of $ 850 million, which also includes other weapons and financed by European countries, was postponed until Trump’s meetings with Putin and Zelensky were completed.
On the video in the account of the Ukrainian State Portal “Zbroy” on Instagram The public was first demonstrated by the so -called “long Neptune” – The modification of the Ukrainian anti -ship missile “Neptune”, designed to strike on ground targets with the declared range of up to 1000 km.
