Australian police charged Russian-Australian dual citizen Vladimir Teslov on August 21, 2026, with attempting to engage in intentional foreign interference. They allege he joined Ukraine’s armed forces to obtain military information for people he believed were linked to Russian intelligence; the charge carries a 20-year maximum penalty.
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on August 16, killing at least six people, Russian authorities said. Kyiv said it also hit a rocket-fuel factory in the Rostov region, but the target and damage could not be independently verified.
Ukrainian drones struck Nizhnekamsk, an oil hub in Russia's Tatarstan region, on August 10, killing 13 people and injuring at least 75, regional authorities said. Ukraine said its forces hit the Taneco refinery, while Russian officials said a drone struck a worker hostel where nine people died.
Overnight strikes killed five people in Russia's Belgorod region and two in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on August 9, local authorities said. The attacks also injured civilians and damaged homes and other buildings on both sides of the border.
Russian missile and drone attacks killed 17 people and wounded at least 44 in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into August 5, Ukrainian officials said. None of the incoming missiles was stopped, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said interceptor deliveries had fallen sharply.
Drone attacks killed seven people at a Russian Black Sea resort on August 3 as strikes across Russia and Ukraine caused more civilian casualties. Two Turkish-owned ships were also hit after leaving Novorossiysk, extending the danger to merchant shipping.
Russia's embassy in Rome said on August 3 that five people were killed and 19 injured in a bombing at a Moscow restaurant two days earlier. An initial Russian security committee report listed three dead and 21 injured, while the intended target remains unconfirmed.
Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on July 23 that a government review had found no definitive link between Irish alumina and Russian weapons makers. The review also could not rule out such a link, leaving Ireland and the European Commission to consider controls beyond a direct product ban.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Maj. Gen. Mykhailo Drapatyi commander-in-chief on July 21, replacing Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi after days of protests. Drapatyi inherits demands to change the command structure while keeping battlefield operations running without interruption.
