Timeline: day 184 of Ukraine’s defense against russia’s aggression

Today is August 26. russia's military attack on Ukraine has been going on for 184 days. We're reporting on the current news. The article will be updated.

What about today?

Key points

Ukraine's Ministry of Defense Reznikov reacted to the news about the increase in the number of personnel in the russian armed forces to 2 million people. The defense minister announced that now russia will have to purchase the same number of body bags.

Ukraine's General Staff reports:

• In the Donetsk direction, the enemy doesn't stop trying to conduct assault and offensive actions. russia continues to focus efforts on the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas.
• In the Kramatorsk direction, he shelled our troops' positions and civilian infrastructure from artillery systems near Ivano-Daryivka, Serebrianka, Tetianivka, Hryhorivka, Zvanivka, and Rozdolivka.
• In the direction of Bakhmut, the districts of Bakhmut, Bakhmutske, Vesela Dolyna, Maiorsk, Zaytseve, Soledar, Bilohorivka and Yakovlivka were damaged by fire. Near Soledar, Bakhmut, and Kodema, the enemy waged an offensive battle without success.
• In the Avdiivka direction, shelling from tanks, cannon artillery, and rocket artillery was recorded near Nevelske, Vodiane, Netailove, Krasnohorivka, Novobakhmutivka, Niu York, Zalizne, and Opytne.

The website of the President's Office published information about the loss of the patrol boat Sloviansk and minesweeper Henichesk in the battles with russia. According to the director of Come Back Alive, Taras Chmut, the cruise missiles were launched from the same Novofedorivka, where a series of "strange explosions" took place already on August 9. "Ukraine has already taken revenge," Chmut said.

By the way, as a result of the "munitions detonation" at the airfield in Novofedorivka, according to preliminary data, more than 20 russian warplanes were destroyed.

Ukrainian aviation and missile forces hit the anti-aircraft defense and the cluster of russian troops in the south. As a result of the fighting, 20 occupiers were destroyed, two vehicles, the communications center of the 98th Parachute Regiment in Dudchane, and the ammunition depot in Novovoskresenske.

This week, the Ukrainian forces destroyed seven ammunition warehouses of the occupiers. And that's not the end. "Ammunition depots are one of the priority targets of our artillery, particularly air strikes because these are the supplies that the enemy would plan to use against our units. Although they are trying to disperse these supplies because they have already sensed that our interventions are rather spot-on and targeted, we still find places of new dislocation and destroy them," said Natalia Humeniuk, head of the joint coordination press center of the Defense Forces in Ukraine's south.

The russian occupiers killed 133 Ukrainian athletes. Minister of Youth and Sports Vadym Hutzait reported on such losses. "In honor of their sports victories, the flag will no longer be raised, and the anthem will no longer be played. russia invaded Ukraine and ended their lives. One hundred thirty-three athletes and coaches died on the battlefield and from enemy shells. We will never forget you and never forgive the enemy. We win victories for the sake of the memory of our angels," said Hutzeit.