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Russo-Ukraine War - 15 August 2025 - Day 1269

A number of claims and counterclaims are being made on the Ukraine-Russia conflict on the ground and online. While GlobalSecurity.org takes utmost care to accurately report this news story, we cannot independently verify the authenticity of all statements, photos and videos.

On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]

The UK Ministry of Defence reported that it has been reported that Russian President Putin has reiterated longstanding maximalist demands regarding Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, including for the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the four internationally-recognised Ukrainian oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson.

Based on the rate of Russia's incremental battlefield advances so far in 2025, it would take Russian forces approximately 4.4 more years to gain 100 per cent of the four Ukrainian oblasts' territory.

Based on Russia's average daily casualty rate in 2025 so far, as reported by Ukrainian General Staff, 4.4 more years of war would lead to approximately 1,930,000 further Russian casualties (killed and wounded). This is in addition to the approximately 1,060,000 casualties Russia has already likely sustained since launching the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including around 250,000 killed or missing (presumed dead).

Russia announced the illegal and erroneous annexation of the four internationally-recognised Ukrainian oblasts, including those areas under Ukrainian control, in September 2022, contradicting Russia's own formal recognition of Ukraine's independence and sovereignty following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in total, 97 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of this day. Ukrainian defenders continue to decisively interrupt the attempts of the Russian enemy to advance deep into Ukrainian territory, giving him a fiery impression.

Today, Russian zagarbniki carried out two missile and 77 aviation strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements, using three missiles and dropping 133 controlled aviation bombs. In addition, involved for impressions 1 568 Kamikadze drones and carried out about 4 000 shelling.

Five combat clashes have taken place in the North Slobozhansky and Kursky directions since the beginning of the day. In addition, the Russian enemy launched 13 air strikes, dropped 32 controlled air bombs, and carried out 165 shelling positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements, including four from reactive fire systems.
In the South Slobozhansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled three Russian attacks near the settlements of Vovchansk and Kamyanka. One fighting encounter continues so far.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Russian aggressor twice tried to go forward in the areas of the settlements of Petropavlivka and Zagrizove. Ukrainian defenders have successfully stopped Russian attacks.
In the Lyman direction Russian zagarbniki eight times attacked the positions of the Defense Forces near the settlements of Karpivka, Shandrigolove, Kolodiazi, Yampil, Grigorivka. Four fighting clashes are going on so far.
In the Sivers таkomu direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled five attacks of Russian occupation troops near Grigorivka, Serebryanka, Fedorivka, Pereiznogo and in the direction of Sivers верk. So far, not a single confrontation has subsided.
In the Kramators райkomu direction Ukrainian defenders stopped the Russian attack in the area of Orihovo-Vasilivki.
In the Toretsky direction, Russians six times stormed the positions of Ukrainian units near Pleshiyivka, Stepanivka, Yablunivka and Rusynoy Yar.
In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of this day, Russian forces 35 times tried to advance in the areas of settlements Poltavka, Volodymyrivka, Fedorivka, Novoekonomíčne, Rodins Наke, Suhetske, Beam, Pokrovsk, Zvirove, Udačne, Dachne, Novoukrainka. So far, two combat clashes are ongoing.
Today, according to preliminary data, 172 occupants were defecated in this direction, 132 of them - irrevocably. Seven cars, four motorcycles, 106 drones and two drone control points were also destroyed.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Russian enemy tried twelve times to break through the defense of Ukrainian defenders in the areas of the settlements of Komyshuvakha, Zelene Pole, Maliivka, Zaporizhye, Olgivka. The two fighting clashes are still going on.
In the direction of Gulyaipil, the Russian occupiers launched an airstrike on the settlement of Bilogir.
In the orihiv direction today Russian forces did not carry out offensive actions.
In the Pridniprovsky direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled five Russian attacks towards Primorsky, Antonivsky Bridge and the island of White Chest.