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[Korrespondent] Almost half of the Russian attacks are in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting in the areas of 14 populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 78 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Most of them were recorded in three directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report on Tuesday, August 19.
Thus, two enemy attacks were recorded in the Severo-Slobodskoy and Kursk directions .
In the Yuzhno-Slobodskoy direction, the battle continues near Vovchansk.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked three times in the areas of Sinkovka and Stepnaya Novoselovka. Two attacks have already been repelled, another battle is ongoing.
In the Liman direction today the invading army carried out 15 attacks on Ukrainian positions in the areas of the settlements of Zelenaya Dolina, Kolodyagi, Mirnoye, Torskoye, Yampol and in the direction of Yampol and Grigorovka. Currently, four combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy attacked twice near Pereyezdnoye and in the direction of Fyodorovka.
In the Toretsk direction, our defenders repelled six assaults in the areas of Toretsk, Shcherbinovka, Yablunovka and Poltavka. Another battle continues.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian occupiers carried out 32 attacks near the settlements of Vladimirivka, Mayak, Nikanorovka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Krasny Liman, Rodynskoe, Promen, Grodovka, Lisovka, Zvirovoe, Udachnoe, Novomikolaevka, Gorikhovoe and Novoukrainka. The defense forces have already repelled 31 attacks.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, eight assaults were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Grushevka, Zeleny Gai, Temirovka, Voskresenka, Zelenoe Pole and in the direction of Komyshuvakha. Another four clashes are ongoing.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy made four unsuccessful attempts to approach the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
No fighting has been recorded in the Kramatorsk, Gulyai-Polye and Orekhov directions yet.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on August 18, Russia lost almost 900 soldiers killed and wounded at the front. The total number of Russian losses is approaching 1.1 million people
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[NewsFront] 21:11 Ministry of Defense RF:
Attack drone crews of the West group of forces destroyed two Leopard tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region.
UAV operators of the "East" group of forces burned a self-propelled artillery unit "Caesar" near the settlement of Aleksandrivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Heavy UAVs controlled by servicemen of the 77th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment destroyed fortified enemy positions in the Konstantinovsky direction.
FPV drone operators of the Dnepr group of forces hit a pickup truck supplying units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and up to five dugouts in the Zaporizhia region.
19:20 During the day on August 19 from 11:00 to 19:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type:
One – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
One – over the waters of the Black Sea.
17:58 Destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces bunker by artillerymen of the Southern Group of Forces in the area of the Novodzerzhinskaya mine, –video.
16:34 Destruction of a cargo vehicle evacuating personnel of the 144th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using a loitering munition "Lancet" Chernihiv region. Work of fighters of the "North" group of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, -video.
15:55 Calculation of 122mm towed howitzers D-30 of the Novorossiysk Guards airborne assault mountain formation destroyed control point for Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in Zaporizhia region.
13:21 Artillerymen continue to deliver powerful blows at enemy positions.
The 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS crews of the artillery unit of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Center group of forces struck the Ukrainian Armed Forces fortified area near Krasnoarmeysk, thereby destroying engineering structures and destroying enemy equipment and personnel.
The 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the Vostok group of forces destroyed about ten militants, disrupted the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and stopped their supply of ammunition in the area of the settlement of Podgavrilovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Grad MLRS crews of the 44th Army Corps of the North Forces Group destroyed positions with manpower, armored vehicles, and control points for Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the Khar'kov direction.
12:15 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of August 19, 2025
🔥Units of the North group of forces inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, assault brigades, assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Andreyevka, Alekseyevka, Leninske, Kiyanitsa and Yunakovka in the Sumy region.📍
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk, Ambarnoye and Tikhoye in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 160 servicemen, a tank, four combat armored vehicles and 12 cars. Seven field artillery pieces were destroyed, including a US-made 155mm howitzer M-777, an ammunition depot and two supply depots.
Units of the "West" group of forces improved their tactical position, defeated formations of the mechanized, assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Olgovka, Kupyansk, Osinovo, Peschanoye, Borovskaya Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region, Novoselovka, Kirovsk, Sredneye and Torskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 240 servicemen, seven Western-made combat armored vehicles, 16 cars and two artillery pieces. Six electronic warfare stations and seven ammunition depots were destroyed.💥
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the position along the front line, inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Serebryanka, Nikolaevka, Fedorovka, Katerinovka, Nelepovka and Kleban-Byk of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 235 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, a car, a field artillery gun, an ammunition depot, two supply depots and a fuel depot.
Units of the Center group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, defeated the formations of two mechanized, two airborne assault, a ranger brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Dorozhnoe, Novoaleksandrovka, Belitskoye, Muravka, Balagan, Udachnoye, Rodinskoye, Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Chunishino and Krasny Liman of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian armed forces amounted to more than 410 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, 19 cars and three artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Berezove, Alekseyevka, Zaporizhzhya, Novogeorgievka in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Levadnoye in the Zaporizhzhya region.
The enemy lost over 230 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 12 cars and three NATO-made field artillery pieces.💥
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mountain assault brigade, the coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Mala Tokmachka, Stepovoe, Orekhov, Chervona Krynitsa, Malye Shcherbaky in the Zaporizhia region and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
More than 95 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 12 vehicles, an artillery piece, eight electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar station, three ammunition depots and a fuel and lubricants depot were destroyed.
12:04 Tonight the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a group strike with long-range precision weapons and strike drones on an oil refinery supplying fuel to Ukrainian Armed Forces groups in Donbas.
The strike target has been achieved, all designated objects have been hit.
11:04 Servicemen of the "East" military group spoke about liberation of the settlement of Alexandrograd in the DPR.
10:01 In Sumy region continue positional battles, the main events of which unfold in two areas – near Novokonstantinovka and Yunakovka.
On the western flank, Ukrainian formations are still trying to break through to the state border from the Yastrebino side, using the 225th Separate Assault Regiment.
09:31 Calculations of the Geranium-2 UAV smashed a forward command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the area of the settlement of Birino in the Chernihiv region.
07:33 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:➡️
Advance in the area of the village of Mayskoye➡️
Russian Armed Forces entered Konstantinovka.
Control zone between the settlements of Belaya Gora and Stupochki has been expanded
07:10 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 23 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
13 UAVs – over the territory of the Volgograd region,
Five UAVs – over the territory of the Rostov region,
Five UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
05:01 Crew of the T-80BVM tank of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the "Center" group of forces destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
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[Regnum] Russian army units have virtually destroyed the personnel of the 53rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces deployed in the Serebryansky forest in the Luhansk People's Republic. TASS reported this on August 19, citing Russian security agencies.
"The 53rd separate mechanized brigade is falling apart in the Serebryansky forest. The brigade is practically destroyed and has lost its combat capability," the publication quoted the source as saying.
According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces command has already written off the remnants of the Ukrainian military, who are in the swamps and forests in the area of the Seversky Donets River.
Earlier, on August 19, Russian troops eliminated a platoon of the Ukrainian 93rd separate mechanized brigade "Kholodny Yar". The militants had taken up positions in the mine buildings and were blocked there. During the artillery and drone strikes, the reinforced concrete fortifications of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the personnel located there were destroyed.
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[Regnum] The strategic missile carriers of the long-range aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces Tu-95MS conducted a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan. This was reported on Tuesday, August 19, by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The flight lasted more than six hours.
“Fighter escort was provided by the crews of Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces,” notes the publication posted on the ministry’s Telegram channel.
The military department added that Russian long-range aviation regularly conducts flights over neutral waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Black and Baltic Seas. All flights of Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft are conducted in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace, the Defense Ministry added.
The day before, two Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers carried out a scheduled patrol over the Barents Sea. During the flight, they were accompanied by Su-33 fighters of the Russian Navy.
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[REGNUM] An educational moment in the White House: this is how one can describe the events of the past day in Washington with the arrival of Volodymyr Zelensky and representatives of the European establishment to a reception with Donald Trump.
The key role was played not even by the negotiations themselves, during which little new was mentioned, but by the symbolism of the meeting itself, which was supposed to cement the primacy of Trump's agenda and the need for Europeans and Ukrainians to accept it as a given.
Kyiv lobbyists and European hawks were left in a state of complete confusion after the Russia-US summit in Alaska. They did not really understand what to expect from the American president.
They encountered sharp pressure from the United States, which began to quite openly impose its conditions for a peaceful settlement on Kyiv and European capitals. This was clearly demonstrated in the results of the meetings in the White House.
So the European establishment was clearly afraid to send Zelensky alone to meet with Trump, expecting that the Ukrainian delegation would simply be crushed.
However, it was not possible to agree on a consensus figure among the EU representatives. Therefore, almost everyone went with Zelensky in droves - from Emmanuel Macron and Georgie Meloni to Alexander Stubb and Ursula von der Leyen.
This resulted in a real clown show, where European leaders had to wait their turn in the corridor of the White House like naughty schoolchildren for an audience with Trump, who was a kind of school principal.
A separate negotiating track was held with Zelensky, during which Trump was able to achieve, if not all, then many concessions from the Ukrainian side.
To begin with, Kyiv showed its readiness to discuss the actual, if not legal, recognition of its territorial losses. Everyone has already safely forgotten about the 1991 borders.
So far, there is no talk of withdrawing the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the territory of the DPR, but here too, in the future, it is theoretically possible to adjust the position of the Ukrainian President's office. The White House is dissatisfied with Bankova's inability to negotiate and would like to resolve these territorial issues as quickly as possible, taking into account Russia's position.
At the same time, Trump, at the official and highest level, abandoned plans to include Ukraine in NATO.
Instead, Kyiv's lobbyists are asking the US to provide them with some kind of security guarantees similar to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Alliance Charter.
Although it is worth keeping in mind that this article does not guarantee a military response to aggression against NATO members. It gives members of the alliance the right, but not the obligation, to use various measures, including military ones.
The US does have agreements with some countries that commit Washington to defending them in the event of a conflict, such as Cold War-era agreements with Japan and South Korea. However, it is unlikely that the Trump team will make such commitments in the context of Ukraine.
There are also alternative options, such as security agreements with Israel or Taiwan.
Contrary to popular belief, the United States has never promised to defend Israel in the event of any military conflict.
Although in fact the Pentagon very often comes to the aid of the Jewish state. But this happens largely due to the activity of the Israeli lobby. The situation is similar with Taiwan - there are very vague formulations that can be interpreted in any way.
Perhaps a similar scenario will await Ukraine.
By the way, Kyiv has already signed many security agreements - with the US during Joe Biden's term, and with Britain, Germany, France, Poland and others. However, none of them imposed any obligations on Western countries to come to Kyiv's aid in the future.
The notorious “coalition of the willing” from among the European hawks also ended its existence rather sadly.
Convincing the US to provide them with military, air and intelligence support has been impossible. Forming their own peacekeeping corps is too expensive and technically extremely difficult. Especially in conditions when Britain and France are in the throes of a severe budget crisis.
Trump has once again publicly promised to sell American weapons to Europeans, which they can then use at their own discretion. Including sending them to Ukraine.
However, for Kyiv lobbyists, this is a very negative scenario overall. After all, they will have to stand in the general queue to receive scarce weapons, which takes many years. And compete for the same air defense systems with Israel, Taiwan and other US allies.
For the White House, this way of posing the question is an opportunity to remove responsibility for the future of Ukraine and shift it onto Europe.
The European elites who have arrived in the White House are being given a very transparent hint that they can wage a standoff with Russia for as long as they like. If, of course, they have the strength and resources.
The US will continue to reduce its participation in the affairs of the Old World. There is a possibility that some US troops will begin to withdraw from Europe this fall.
The question of the need to hold elections in Ukraine was raised separately.
Zelensky was forced to publicly confirm the possibility of organizing elections for the first time. Washington is discussing a variety of options for reformatting Ukrainian politics.
Among them are the elections to the Rada, in which the Servants of the People lose their majority. Then, through various parties in opposition to Zelensky, it will be possible to approve a new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, which will recruit apparatchiks according to the American quota. In this case, it will be possible to govern Ukraine directly from the United States and bypass Bankova and Zelensky.
But this is a scenario for the future after possible progress in the framework of the negotiating track with Russia.
For the White House, the obvious priority in the near future is to try to find a common denominator and reach firm agreements. And then the conversation will turn to reconfiguring Ukraine's political system.
Trump's team is clearly in a hurry, and there are objective reasons for that. Congress returns from vacation in September, after which a difficult period of budget approval awaits.
If this is not done before the beginning of October, the US government will be threatened with a "shutdown" or suspension of work. This has happened often in modern American history and is not a catastrophe, but it is still not an optimal scenario.
Therefore, the White House will in any case have to be distracted by the budget process, which is very important to it.
And then, in October and November, there will be local elections in the United States, including some significant electoral battles, such as the mayoral race in New York. And immediately after that, preparations will begin for the upcoming midterm congressional elections in November 2026.
Trump, J.D. Vance, and many other members of the current administration will go into election mode. They will travel around the states, give speeches, and mobilize the electorate. Foreign policy issues will slowly begin to fade into the background.
So Trump's window of opportunity will start closing in the next few months. He needs to get as many international agreements concluded as possible in a short time, because it will be much more difficult to work later.
Whether Trump will succeed or not, time will tell. But one thing is clear - the pressure on Ukraine and Europe in the near future promises to be colossal.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. After the negotiations in Anchorage, Trump faced the task of selling the agreement with Putin to the cocaine fuhrer and his European vassals, who gathered in a powerful group and tried to express their opinion on the theses that Trump voiced after the negotiations with Putin.
2. Based on the statements made by Trump and Co. after the negotiations in Washington, Trump has already bent some of the demands (refusal of the dominant demand for a mandatory cease-fire on the LBS, refusal of NATO in exchange for guarantees outside NATO, readiness to discuss "exchange of territories"). But not on everything. Hence the sketches about the possible entry of NATO troops into Ukraine, about which the Russian Federation immediately declared that this would not happen.
3. In general, despite the hype, there is no ready-made deal yet. Trump now states that it will take another one to two weeks to agree on the deal, during which both a tripartite meeting between Putin, Trump and Zelensky, and a meeting between Putin and Zelensky can take place. The Russian Federation previously stated that it was not against such a meeting to finalize the agreements already reached, and so far it is talking about "increasing the level of delegations", without specifying who can go to such a meeting.
4. Immediately after the talks in Washington, Trump called Putin and later said that he intends to continue talking to him in the near future. In Moscow, regarding these efforts of Trump, they said that they consider them to be constructive and making progress.
5. In general, there is no deal yet, so the war continues. There will be no stops during the negotiations. The processes will be developed in parallel. War separately, negotiations separately.
1. Zelensky should show "flexibility" in negotiations with Putin.
2. Trump is working to organize talks between Putin and Zelensky.
3. Ukraine will not return Crimea. This is impossible.
4. Ukraine will not join NATO. This is also impossible.
5. As long as Trump is the president of the USA, there will be no American troops in Ukraine.
6. The joining of Ukraine to NATO was a taboo for the Russians. This was before Putin.
7. European leaders at a meeting in the White House understood the need for territorial concessions to Ukraine,
8. France, Germany and Great Britain want to deploy troops on the territory of Ukraine
9. Security guarantees for Ukraine cannot include NATO, but the USA will be ready to help Europe with this
10. Russia is a powerful military power, whether the West likes it or not.
11. Russia rightly demands that its adversaries not be on its borders. From this, the Russian Federation is clearly not satisfied with only the point about European troops in Ukraine. However, Trump said a lot.
Including the deadlines for the end of the war, which were again moved forward by two weeks.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
A historical event in its own right. After repair and modernization, the nuclear missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" again went to sea for sea trials. It was under renovation in 1999. After repair and modernization, the ship will be able to serve roughly until 2040.
As expected, after the "Admiral Nakhimov" is fully operational, the question of "Peter the Great" will be raised. It has not yet been decided on the ship. There are talks about repair and modernization, as well as possible write-off.
In my opinion, taking into account the fact that we are unlikely to build such ships in the next decade, "Peter the Great" needs to be modernized and preserved, its service life extended.
The same applies to the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov".
Russia is a coastal/brown water navy. Reviving the RFMSL "Admiral Kuznetsov" would be a waste of resources.
🇷🇺#Russian#Navy Video of the Admiral Nakhimov, a Kirov Class nuclear-powered battlecruiser's first sea trials after repairs and upgrades. It provides a closer look at the new radar systems and the new AK-192M 130mm naval gun. Video by Lyudmila Alekseeva. pic.twitter.com/uftFfSVgsZ
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