By the end of this year, the value of military aid provided by NATO countries to Ukraine to defend against Russian aggression will total roughly $50 billion, matching last year.

Since January, alliance members have already allocated $33 billion for this purpose, said NATO Military Committee Chairman Giuseppe Cavo Dragone in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

Asked about next steps as hopes for peace talks fade, Cavo Dragone said: “We intend to continue military assistance …

Russian soldiers and officers from the so-called “elite” 83rd Air Assault Brigade in the war in Ukraine resorted to widespread self-inflicted gunshot wounds that were registered as combat injuries, with the aim of securing cash payouts, state honors and other benefits, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reports.

According to Russian media, 35 people have been identified in the scheme, including Col. Artem Gorodilov and his deputy, Lt. Col. Konstantin Frolov, known by the nickname “Executioner.” …

Overnight from Tuesday into Wednesday, a Russian drone crashed in eastern Poland, setting a cornfield on fire and blowing out windows in several homes. An hour earlier, air-raid sirens had sounded in western Ukraine, but Polish air defenses did not register any violation of Poland’s airspace.

Local media report the drone came down in a cornfield in the village of Osiny in eastern Lublin Voivodeship, just over 100 km from the Ukrainian border and roughly 40 km from Warsaw.

At the blast site, …

Russian forces are managing to hold positions along the Lyman axis, a Ukrainian unit says, citing manpower advantages rather than superior training or equipment.

Small infantry teams backed by drones are trying to pierce Ukrainian defenses on the Lyman front, according to Vasyl Denysiuk of the 66th Mechanized Brigade, who spoke to Ukrainian media. He said Russian troops attack not only during the day but also at night, RBC-Ukraine reported.

Denysiuk said Russian forces build up at night and …

Russia agrees that security guarantees for Ukraine should be provided on an equal basis with the participation of countries such as China, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on August 20.

He added that Russia itself should also be among those providing Ukraine’s security guarantees.

“As for reports that Britain, France and Germany want to create and develop collective security guarantees, we are in favor of those guarantees being truly …

Russian forces attacked the city of Okhtyrka in Ukraine’s Sumy region early Wednesday, August 20, the regional prosecutor’s office said.

The strike was carried out with unmanned aerial vehicles; 14 people sought medical help and at least 13 private homes were damaged or destroyed.

A pretrial investigation has been opened into alleged war crimes.

The regional administration and the National Police reported 12 wounded. Police said a multi-story residential building, a garage and an outbuilding …

At least 18,500 people have been convicted in Russia for desertion and unauthorized absence from their units since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new analysis.

Over 3.5 years of war, Russia’s garrison military courts handed down at least 18,341 convictions in cases of desertion and leaving one’s duty station, the research center led by Kirill Parubets found in a study by The Insider.

Since February 2023, the Judicial Department of Russia’s Supreme Court …

Ukraine’s “Stalevyi Kordon” (Steel Border) border guard brigade says Russian forces are pressing forward on only one axis - the Kursk direction. Moscow has not met its objectives there but is building up troops.

“In the Sumy region, the situation remains quite tense specifically on the Kursk axis — within the Khotin and Yunakivka territorial communities. That’s where the enemy is concentrating the largest number of personnel — about 50,000,” Ivan Shevtsov, head of the Steel Border brigade’s …