Contents tagged with War in Ukraine
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Germany to fund $500 million aid package for Ukraine
Germany will finance one of the first comprehensive aid packages for Kyiv totaling up to $500 million (€427 million) under the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) mechanism.
The announcement was made on Wednesday, August 13, by Germany’s Foreign Ministry.
The package covers military items either not produced by Europe’s defense industry or available more quickly from the United States than from European partners or Canada. These include, for example, critical air defense systems …
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Ukrainian drones strike Russia’s Volgograd, igniting fires and causing oil spill at LUKOIL refinery
Ukraine launched a mass drone attack on Russia’s Volgograd region overnight on August 14, with an oil refinery in Volgograd among the targets. The strike triggered a spill of petroleum products and ignited fires.
The facility hit was likely the LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery, where explosions were heard amid the drone attack, Russian outlet Astra reported.
The overnight assault on the Volgograd region began late on August 13. Around 23:00, Russia’s aviation regulator Rosaviatsia …
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Killed, wounded and captured: Azov reports Russian losses in recent days near Pokrovsk
Heavy fighting continues in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Several days ago, troops from the Azov unit of Ukraine’s National Guard were redeployed there, taking up a section of the defensive line on the Pokrovsk axis. The unit has reported Russian losses over the past 48 hours in this sector, where the situation remains tense and fluid.
Over the past two days, the Azov fighters say they killed 151 Russian soldiers and wounded more than 70 others. The report on Russian losses near Pokrovsk was …
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Kyiv says it’s ready to discuss halting air attacks with Moscow
Ukraine is prepared to consider an “air ceasefire” with Russia, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, said in an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera published Wednesday, August 13.
He said the United States, as one scenario, proposed to the Kremlin a full ceasefire - including a halt to missile strikes and drone attacks - but Moscow rejected the offer.
“None of these scenarios was accepted by Russia. Air strikes are a key instrument of …
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Ukraine reports initial successes as reserves block Russian sabotage groups near Dobropillya
Ukrainian troops have been redeployed to the Pokrovsk sector to help stop a Russian breakthrough near Dobropillya. Kyiv says there are first successes on the battlefield even as the enemy masses forces and presses the lines.
Small Russian sabotage groups infiltrated deep into Ukrainian positions near Dobropillya, the General Staff said on the StratCom AFU Telegram channel. Despite the push, Ukrainian forces have halted the advance and achieved “certain successes,” said General Staff …
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Ukrainian drones hit Druzhba pipeline hub in Bryansk
Overnight Wednesday, August 13, Ukraine’s armed forces launched a drone attack on the largest node of the Druzhba oil pipeline - the Unecha linear production-dispatching station (LPDS) in the village of Vysokoye, Unechsky district.
The strike was reported by several Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels and media outlets. The outlet Astra published footage showing a blaze, though the authenticity has not yet been confirmed.
Residents also reported explosions over the town of Unecha and …
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Zelensky heads to Berlin for video talks with Trump as Merz cuts short vacation ahead of Trump-Putin meeting
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is heading to Berlin on an unannounced visit. He will sit alongside Friedrich Merz at the Federal Chancellery, taking part in a videoconference with U.S. President Donald Trump. Bild reports that Merz cut short his vacation for the meeting.
The aim of the sudden summit in Berlin is to prepare for the August 15 meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska. Chancellor Merz will coordinate with several heads of state and government on potential …
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Kremlin adviser outlines Putin’s Ukraine terms: Ukrainian withdrawal from Donbas, no NATO bid
A potential peace deal on Ukraine could include the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Donbas, while Russia, in return, would pull its forces out of the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, Kremlin adviser Dmitry Suslov said.
A preliminary agreement would be struck by Russia and the United States without representatives of Ukraine or Europe, Suslov said in an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera. Suslov is deputy director of the Center for European and International Studies at …
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Russia’s 10-km breakthrough near Pokrovsk exposes systemic gaps as Dobropillya comes under threat
Russian forces made a push on the Pokrovsk axis, advancing toward the village of Zolotyy Kolodyaz. Analysts say Moscow exploited a systemic weakness and may try to build on those gains.
Russian troops moved into Kucheriv Yar and Zolotyy Kolodyaz through sustained pressure and an advantage in infantry, and are now massing in the area, the DeepState monitoring group said on August 11.
From Kucheriv Yar, Russian forces “slipped” into Vesele and are also concentrating there. Moscow is pressing …
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Europe surpasses U.S. in military aid to Ukraine
During Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine, European countries have outpaced the United States in delivering military aid to Kyiv through defense industry contracts. According to the Ukraine Support Tracker project, released by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), the total value of military supplies procured by European nations for Ukraine stood at €35.1 billion by the end of June 2025. This figure surpasses the U.S. contributions by €4.4 billion.
Europe has turned to defense …