Euromaidan Press Staff

Meanwhile, Russia's shadow campaign spreads beyond the front.

Three children were among the injured in Kyiv, and Russian air attacks interrupted lessons on the first day of school across Ukraine.

Meanwhile, a fired Ukrainian minister is pitching US investors on building a drone army in exchange for Patriot missiles.

Russia has launched nearly 2,000 attack drones and nearly 1,600 guided bombs at Ukraine this week, hitting Kyiv's civilian supply chains and a Kyiv Oblast book warehouse, while Ukraine tested new interceptors and struck Russia's second-largest oil refinery overnight.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's aviation commander says a new generation of domestically built aircraft is nearly ready for service.

Russian jet-powered drones have struck warehouses and logistics facilities around Kyiv for two days running, part of a wider campaign that has destroyed 90% of Ukraine's modern commercial storage capacity.

Separately, a Ukrainian-built Baton drone is now targeting the very roads Russia depends on to resupply that push.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian investigators traced the components of a downed Russian Su-35 fighter to 22 unsanctioned firms supplying its engines, guidance, and missiles.

In Kyiv, city officials put the cost of a single Russian attack at roughly $12 million, with more than 4,000 buildings damaged and strikes arriving nearly twice a week.

Russian forces are now just 12 to 13 km from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, with analysts warning the fortress-belt cities could see infiltration by late 2026.

As Kyiv warns of sabotage around its 24 August Independence Day, a daytime strike set the mall ablaze before a follow-up drone targeted the emergency crews sent in.

Croatian authorities separately arrested a Ukrainian diver sought by Germany in the Nord Stream pipeline investigation, reviving a long-stalled case.

Corruption investigators reach the President's Office again in a new wiretap probe.

The strike on a crowded crossroads in Pechenihy also wounded 18 people and set a cafe and cars ablaze.