Here is how things stand on Sunday, August 3:

Fighting

• Kyiv’s military administration warned residents of the Ukrainian capital to take shelter on Saturday night due to the takeoff of a Russian MiG-31K, the carrier of the Russian Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, in a post on Telegram.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that its team heard explosions and saw smoke coming from an “auxiliary facility” located 1,200 metres from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
• The Russian-installed administration of the plant said that a civilian was killed by Ukrainian shelling. A fire that broke out near the plant was brought under control, the administrators added in a post on Telegram.
• An elderly man was killed inside a house that caught fire due to falling Ukrainian drone debris in Russia’s Samara region, Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev posted on Telegram.
• A Ukrainian drone attack killed a guard at an industrial facility and caused a fire in Russia’s Rostov region, acting Governor Yury Slyusar said. “The military repelled a massive air attack during the night”, destroying drones over seven districts, Slyusar wrote on Telegram.
• Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR) said that an explosion killed five soldiers from the Russian-backed Akhmat unit on a minibus near Russian-occupied Melitopol on Saturday.
• A Russian drone attack killed a 12-year-old boy and left a 13-year-old hospitalised with shrapnel wounds in the village of Sveska in Ukraine’s Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said.
• Ukraine’s SBU intelligence agency said that Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at Ukraine. The SBU claimed it also hit a factory in Penza, which it said supplies Russia’s military with electronics.
• Ukrainian forces hit an oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, causing a fire on its premises, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said on Telegram.
• Residents of the Korabel neighbourhood in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson were urged to evacuate by the head of the region’s military administration after Russian forces damaged a bridge that connected the neighbourhood with the rest of the city.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said that Russian forces had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday.
• The Defence Ministry in Moscow said in its daily report that its defence units downed a total of 338 Ukrainian drones overnight into Saturday morning. It did not say how many Ukrainian drones were launched.
• Ukraine’s air force said it had downed 45 of 53 Russian drones launched towards its territory overnight into Saturday morning.
• Russia launched 6,129 Shahed-type drones against Ukraine in July 2025, the Kyiv Independent reported, 14 times more than the 423 drones it launched during the same month last year.

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