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Whether it’s military updates, political changes, or international reactions — we bring you the latest Ukraine news as it happens. All reports are carefully curated from verified sources and KyivPost correspondents on the ground.
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev also allocated an additional $2 million in humanitarian aid to Ukraine on Monday after a weekend call with President Zelensky.
Azerbaijan is reportedly considering breaking its embargo on supplying Ukraine with military weapons if Russia continues to strike its interests in Ukraine.
The Azerbaijani pro-government media outlet Caliber has on Sunday claimed that Baku will “begin considering” supplying Ukraine with weapons following a Russian attack on an Azerbaijani oil depot.
European leaders have been vocal about their concerns that Kyiv and Europe are excluded from negotiations at the Trump–Putin summit in Alaska on Friday.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to hold talks with European leaders and US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before Trump meets Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska to discuss the Ukraine war.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has invited leaders from France, Britain, Finland, Italy, Poland, the EU and NATO to virtual talks alongside Ukraine, his spokesperson announced on Monday.
Vladimir Solovyov also said that Russia’s war in Ukraine “will not end” with the meeting in Alaska on Aug. 15, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin is poised to meet with US President Donald Trump.
Vladimir Solovyov, a propagandist for Russia’s state television channel Russia-1, has said that Russia’s full-scale invasion “may not be the last ‘SVO’ of our generation” amid intense diplomatic fallout with Azerbaijan.
SVO is the Russian acronym for “special military operation,” the official term Moscow uses to describe its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia has opened its first Navy UAV control center in Kamchatka to operate Forpost and Orion drones, monitor the Arctic, and guard its nuclear submarine base.
The Russian Navy has launched its first “UAV Control Center” to manage its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Kamchatka.
According to Defense Express, citing Russian media, the center will be a key hub in a planned network for operating reconnaissance and strike drones such as the Forpost and Orion (formerly Inokhodets).
Ukraine’s grain exports fell due to a smaller harvest, unfavorable weather, and the suspension of EU trade preferences. This impacted export volumes and revenue, along with GDP growth.
Ukraine’s grain and flour exports dropped 57.7% in the opening weeks of the 2025/26 marketing year, falling to 2.345 million tons from 5.539 million tons in the same period a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy.
The figures cover shipments from July 1 through Aug. 11, 2025 – just over one month into the marketing year, which runs from one harvest to the next. The comparison is to July-August 2024, during the 2024/25 marketing year.
If Trump were to make it to Russia, it would be his first trip to Russia as a sitting US president, following earlier visits during his business career before entering politics.
US President Donald Trump said he would go to Russia, not Alaska, to meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday for the upcoming talks on Ukraine.
Trump previously announced the talks would take place in Alaska, a US territory purchased from the Russian Empire in 1867.
Latest from the UK Ministry of Defence.
The UK Ministry of Defence issued a Defence Intelligence update on the war in Ukraine, dated Monday, Aug. 11, featuring a map.
The update states that Russia’s “illegal and unprovoked” invasion remains ongoing. The map shows active combat zones primarily in eastern and southern Ukraine.
After the video went viral, the man issued two public apologies – one, laced with profanities and delivered while holding a religious icon, to his villagers, and another to law enforcement.
A Russian man in the Krasnodar region has been charged with petty hooliganism after his friend sang a Ukrainian song at his birthday party.
The man was subsequently made to issue two public apologies – one to his fellow villagers, laced with profanities and delivered while holding a religious icon, and another to law enforcement.
No, it isn’t. I fact, the US cut off all new assistance to Ukraine six months ago. The US arms flow paid for by American taxpayers pretty much stopped completely in January.
US Vice President JD Vance in an interview with Fox News on Sunday, argued Europe needs “to step up” because Americans are “tired” of paying for arms and support to Ukraine.
In fact, Vance was complaining about something that isn’t happening. The US vice president misled viewers with a false narrative that Europe hasn’t taken on the burden of supporting Ukraine.
Stalking his quarry of Russian “worms” like a raptor, Robert Brovdi and his elite teams of drone operators, are now the emblem of Ukrainian entrepreneurial ingenuity in warfighting.
Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, Ukraine’s new drone commander, considered the NATO base at Wiesbaden with a hunter’s eye. Dressed as always in a baseball cap and displaying his trademark grey beard, the 49-year-old laconically estimated that his crews could turn it into another Pearl Harbor in 15 minutes without coming closer than 10 kilometers (6 miles).
“I’m not saying this to scare anyone – only to point out that these technologies are now so accessible and cheap,” he told NATO commanders in July.
The US senator, known as a Ukraine supporter, welcomed the Alaska summit but insisted on security guarantees for Kyiv before the inking of any territorial concessions with Moscow.
US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) welcomed the upcoming Alaska talks between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin but warned that security guarantees for Kyiv are essential before any land concessions.
Graham’s comments came after Trump hinted that a potential resolution on Ukraine would involve “some swapping of territories to the betterment of both” ahead of his Friday, Aug.15 talks with Putin.
A Russian presidential decree bans the purchase of foreign-made military uniforms starting in 2026 – but what does this mean for North Korea’s uniform supplies?
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to ban foreign-made military uniforms for the Russian Armed Forces starting in 2026.
Starting in 2027, the fabrics and materials should also be made domestically, as per the decree.
Ukrainian intel sources say Russia and India will meet in St. Petersburg on Sept. 15-18 to plan 2025-2026 defense cooperation, including joint training and military exercises.
Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) has obtained information about Russia’s plans to deepen military-technical cooperation with India, according to a Kyiv Post source in HUR.
Per the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the fourth meeting of the working subgroup of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission on military and military-technical cooperation is scheduled in St. Petersburg from Sept. 15-18.
In calls with global leaders, Putin repeatedly highlights his planned Alaska meeting with Trump – his first major visit to the West since the full-scale Ukraine invasion began.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been repeatedly telling world leaders about his planned meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska.
In a phone call on Monday, Aug. 11 with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, initiated by the Armenian side, Putin spoke extensively about his recent conversation with US Special Envoy Stephen Witkoff and the preparations underway for the Alaska summit with Trump. The Kremlin’s Telegram channel highlighted that this meeting is a key focus of Putin’s diplomatic agenda.
Kyiv’s child return task force says the 14-year-old daughter of a fallen soldier was covertly brought back to Ukraine a day before she was to be sent to a Russian boarding school.
Kyiv has secured the return of a 14-year-old girl, the daughter of a deceased Ukrainian soldier, from Russian abduction.
Russian leadership – including President Vladimir Putin – was served an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in 2023 for systematically abducting Ukrainian children to Russia.
SBU long-range drones struck the Arzamas Plant in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, damaging a key facility producing components for Kh-32 and Kh-101 missiles.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) launched a precision drone strike on Russia’s Arzamas Instrument-Building Plant in Nizhny Novgorod, a key military-industrial facility supplying components for cruise missiles used against Ukrainian cities.
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast is located in central Russia, northeast of Moscow and lies about 760 kilometers (471 miles) from Ukraine’s border.
Most of the time the Russian Air Force just bombs Ukraine without facing counterstrikes, but now Ukrainian and Russian combat pilots are starting to slug it out.
The Russian and Ukrainian air forces have traded air strikes across the front over the past week, in an intensification of air combat that for most of the war has been heavily in favor of Kremlin airmen.
Russian strike aircraft, since Aug. 4, kept to a long-established pattern of targeting Ukrainian frontline positions along with civilian infrastructure, using long-range glide bombs launched from outside the range of most Ukrainian air defenses, a Ukrainian army statement said.
“Russia refuses to stop the killings, and therefore must not receive any rewards or benefits,” Zelensky said in a statement published on social media.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday warned against capitulating to the demands of President Vladimir Putin ahead of talks Friday between the Russian leader and US President Donald Trump.
The US-Russia summit -- so far planned without Zelensky -- will be the first between a sitting US and Russian president since 2021.
Former Swedish PM Carl Bildt says Trump’s latest remarks on territory swaps show he plans to push Ukraine into making territorial concessions.
The latest statements by U.S. President Donald Trump about the exchange of territories indicate that he intends to try to force Ukraine to make territorial concessions, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2006-2014) and Prime Minister (1991-1994) of Sweden Carl Bildt believes.
“The idea with the Trump deadline was to force Russia into agreeing on a complete ceasefire. Now it looks like it will instead lead to Trump trying to force Ukraine into territorial concessions to Putin,” Bildt said on the X social network.
The liturgical year is a journey. The seasons guide us through Christ’s life. As the natural world changes, so does the church’s visual landscape - in colors and styles of liturgical vestments
The liturgical year is a journey, a cycle of seasons that guides us through the life of Christ. And just as the natural world transforms throughout the year, so too does the visual landscape of the church, reflected most prominently in the colors and styles of liturgical vestments worn by clergy and other ministers. Advent and Christmas, two of the most beloved seasons in the Christian calendar, offer a particularly striking example of this transformation.
Advent: A Season of Hopeful Anticipation
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský visited Ukraine for the sixth time since the war began, vowing that Prague “will not refuse to support Ukrainians in the fight against the Russian aggressor.”
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has arrived in Ukraine for an official visit. It marks his sixth visit since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, underscoring Prague’s consistent support for Kyiv.
On X, Lipavský wrote:
HUR drones struck the Lukoil oil refinery in Russia’s Komi Republic, 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) from Ukraine, damaging fuel tanks and gas processing units.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate (HUR) reported that on Sunday, Aug. 10, it carried out a long-range drone attack on the Lukoil-Ukhtaneftepererabotka oil refinery in Russia’s Komi Republic — more than 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Sources in HUR told Kyiv Post the targeted facility plays a key role in supplying Russia’s occupying forces with fuel and lubricants.
Discover 5 outdated school skills, the abilities kids will need by 2035, and how modern online education can prepare them for the future.
Imagine meticulously preparing your child for a marathon, only to discover on race day that the event is a swimming competition. This captures the anxiety of many parents whose children are navigating the traditional school system. The world has changed profoundly, yet the school curriculum often seems stuck in the past. Are the skills acquired over 11 years truly preparing them for success in a job market that has already been transformed?
The global statistics are alarming. The PISA 2022 results revealed a decline in achievement equivalent to losing roughly 75% of a school year, while the World Bank reports on “learning poverty,” where seven out of ten children cannot understand a simple text. This isn’t just data; it’s the risk of a “lost generation” entering a world where, according to McKinsey, up to 30% of work hours could be automated by 2030—a world where employers seek creators and analysts, not just executors.
The situation and choices as seen from the Ukrainian capital.
Ukrainians are indeed tired of the war that Russia has imposed on them, of the immense sacrifices, destruction and losses it has caused, and also of the procrastination of its Western supporters, especially the US under Donald Trump which is now insisting, in the words of Vice President DJ Vance, that Russia and Ukraine can be “forced” to make peace by the American leader.
Yes, Ukrainians want an end to the war, but not at any price: above all, they do not want to surrender by giving Russia everything it has seized or is demanding at this point in time.
At least 145 of the 193 UN members now recognise or plan to recognise a Palestinian state, including France, Canada and Britain.
Three-quarters of UN members have already or soon plan to recognise Palestinian statehood, with Australia on Monday becoming the latest to promise it will at the UN General Assembly in September.
The Israel-Hamas war, raging in Gaza since the Palestinian militant group’s attack on October 7, 2023, has revived a global push for Palestinians to be given a state of their own.
A truly grim outlook.
My early morning reads today were:
First, political machinations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as the Central Electoral Commission of the central administration of the state of BiH removed the mandate of President Dodik of the Republic of Srbska for failing to regard the rulings of the High Representative and the state-level Constitutional Court.
The idea of a US-Russia meeting without Zelensky has raised concerns that a deal would require Kyiv to cede swaths of territory, which the EU has rejected.
European leaders on Sunday pushed for Ukraine to be a part of negotiations between the United States and Russia, ahead of talks between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
The two leaders will meet in the US state of Alaska Friday to try to resolve the three-year war, but the European Union has insisted that Kyiv and European powers should be part of any deal to end the conflict.
Drones struck a defense plant in Arzamas, Russia. Meanwhile Ukraine reported shooting down 59 of the 71 Shahed and decoy drones Moscow launched overnight.
Drones struck the city of Arzamas in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region early on the morning of Aug. 11, reportedly hitting the Arzamas Instrument-Making Plant.
The Russian Telegram channel Mash reported the attack began at around 3:55 a.m., with witnesses hearing three booms followed by a powerful explosion. Eyewitnesses counted at least five drones flying at very low altitude.
The forthcoming meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska will be a repeat of the meeting between Chamberlain and Hitler.
Appeasement negotiations with an aggressor don’t work. History already gave us this lesson when Great Britain tried it with Adolf Hitler.
On Sep. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off the plane after the infamous Munich Conference and read a joint statement drafted with Adolf Hitler: “We… are agreed in recognizing that the question of Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for our two countries and for Europe… We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions… and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.”
ICSID has dismissed a $700M claim linked to Kolomoisky against Ukraine over AeroSvit’s bankruptcy after the claimant failed to pay arbitration fees.
The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has permanently dismissed the arbitration case filed by Gilward Investments B.V., a company linked to Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, against Ukraine, due to non-payment of the arbitration fee, Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice announced Friday.
The lawsuit, initially filed in 2015 by Gilward Investments B.V., whose ultimate beneficial owners include Ihor Kolomoisky and Hryhoriy Hurtovy, sought approximately $700 million in damages.
Latest from the Institute for the Study of War.
Key Takeaways from the ISW:
“I certainly think it’s possible,” NATO ambassador says about Ukrainian presence at Trump-Putin summit. Meanwhile Vice President Vance says the days of US funding Ukraine’s defense are over.
The US envoy to NATO said on Sunday that President Volodymyr Zelensky could attend Friday’s summit in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, on the same day that US Vice President JD Vance told American audiences that they were “done with the funding of the Ukraine war business.”
The US Ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, told CNN on Sunday that Zelensky might join the US president in his talks in Alaska with Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Rescuers are still searching for bodies in the rubble after Russian glide bombs hit a busy transport hub on Sunday, in attacks that killed six nationwide.
Emergency crews in the city of Zaporizhzhia have taken at least 19 people to the hospital while continuing to comb the rubble for survivors of Russian glide bomb attacks on a busy bus station there on Sunday.
Nationwide, the death toll from Sunday’s barrage of shelling, bombing and drone attacks has risen to six. The civilians were killed in the eastern regions of Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.
European foreign ministers will discuss next steps before the talks in an extraordinary meeting on Monday, joined by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha.
European leaders on Sunday pushed for Ukraine to be a part of the negotiations between the United States and Russia, ahead of talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
The two leaders will meet in the US state of Alaska Friday to try to resolve the three-year war, but Europe has insisted that Kyiv and European powers should be part of any deal to end the conflict.
