Aug 19, 2026
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck multiple Russian military targets across temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories overnight on August 19, including three UAV depots, drone control infrastructure, a logistics bridge, and concentrations of military equipment, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian forces targeted a road bridge across the Molochna River near the city of Molochansk. The General Staff said Russian forces had been using the bridge to support military logistics in the occupied territory.
Three Russian UAV storage facilities were also struck during the operation. Two were located near Novopetrykivka and Novotroitske in the Donetsk region, while another was targeted near Lobacheve in the Luhansk region.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukrainian forces struck a ground-based relay station near Olenivka used to control Russian Geran- and Gerbera-type attack drones.
A separate Russian UAV command post was targeted near Verkhnii Rohachyk in the occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region.
The strikes also extended to Russian logistics and military equipment in the Luhansk region. Ukrainian forces hit a material and technical supply depot in occupied Kadiivka, as well as an area where Russian weapons and military equipment were concentrated in Lysychansk.
The latest strikes come as Ukrainian units continue targeting specialized Russian military equipment on the battlefield. On August 19, the Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 68th Separate Airmobile Brigade reported the destruction of a rare Russian Zemledeliye remote minelaying system and released footage of the strike.
The brigade said Russian forces had used the Zemledeliye remote engineering minelaying system to rapidly deploy minefields, creating significant obstacles for Ukrainian troops. According to the unit, the system was destroyed in a precision strike and can no longer be used to lay mines.