Published On 6 Aug 20256 Aug 2025
Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 6:
Fighting
- Russian forces launched attacks on six settlements in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, regional Governor Oleh Syniehubov said, with three people killed and 10 injured in the village of Lyman and the town of Vovchansk.
- Russian forces also shelled a railway station in the town of Lozova, killing a duty mechanic. Four other railway workers were among the 10 people injured, Syniehubov said.
- Russian forces launched 431 air attacks on 16 settlements in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, killing four people and wounding three others, Governor Ivan Fedorov said.
- A Ukrainian drone attack killed four employees of the water utility in the district of Svatovsky, in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to the region’s Russia-installed governor, Leonid Pasechnik. The head of the region’s health service, quoted by Russia’s state-run TASS news agency, later said that a fifth worker wounded in the strike had died in hospital.
- TASS also reported that a 30-year-old man was killed and a 51-year-old woman was injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on a car near the Russian-occupied village of Nyzhnia Duvanka in the Svatovsky district on Monday.
- Ukraine’s military intelligence claimed that Ukrainian forces killed 334 Russian troops and wounded more than 550, in a failed attack on Ukraine’s Sumy region. Al Jazeera was not able to verify the report.
- Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on Telegram that Kyiv has found components from India in Russian drones used for attacks on Ukraine. Al Jazeera could not independently verify the information.
