As per reports, updates on the Ukraine-Russia crisis as of Thursday (21 August) are as follows:

• Reportedly, four civilians from Oleshky and two residents of Velyki Kopani were wounded as a result of strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In just one day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 67 strikes from barrel artillery and eight attacks with the use of strike UAVs on civilian infrastructure in the Kherson region.
• Russian troops attacked the village of Novodanilovka in the Zaporizhia region, as a result of which a local resident was killed on Wednesday (20 August).
• The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday (20 August) that its forces had taken control of three new towns in eastern Ukraine, killed 610 soldiers, and downed 217 drones. Reports indicate that Russian forces had captured a city in the Dnipropetrovsk region, along with two in the Donetsk region.
• Three civilians were killed as Ukraine launched drones and conducted ‘intensive shelling’ of Novaya Zburyevka village on Wednesday (20 August).
• Russian shelling killed a woman in the Polohy district of Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region on Wednesday (20 August).
• As of Wednesday (20 August), Russian forces are reportedly increasing their pressure near Lyman in the north of Donetsk, Oleksandr Syrskii.
• In the Dnipropetrovsk region, in the Pavlohrad district, Russian army targeted a critical infrastructure facility with drones on Wednesday (20 August).
• On the morning of Thursday (21 August), explosions thundered in Lviv during a combined massive attack by the Russian Federation.
• The danger of a UAV attack was declared throughout the Belgorod Region, the region’s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov on the night of Wednesday (20 August).