Two Majors [#Summary](?q=%23Summary)** for the morning of August 18, 2026**

The night was marked by a massive attack by the enemy on **Moscow**. According to enemy footage, the targets were logistics and energy infrastructure facilities, and all air defense systems were actively engaged. There are casualties and damage in the **Moscow region**.

The Russian Armed Forces conducted pinpoint strikes overnight on the **enemy's capital region, Zaporozhye, and facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk region.**

In the **Bryansk region**, a local resident was killed yesterday in the village of Ponurovka, Starodub district, as a result of a strike by an enemy drone.

In the **Sumy region**, the "North" group of forces captured a pair of enemy soldiers during offensive operations in Ulanovo. Fighting continues in Pisarevka, Maryino, Khrapovshchina, and the village of Khoten'. Near Mogrytsa, another counterattack by two assault groups of the **68th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade** of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was repelled.

In the **Kursk region**, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone detonated yesterday evening, damaging the windows of apartments in a residential building and vehicles.

The **Belgorod region** is under intense shelling and attacks. In Shebekino, a bus driver was injured. Civilians were injured in Belgorod, the villages of Zozuli, Proletarsky, Novosadovy, Proletarskoye, Nechayevka, Malinovka, Dubovoye, Tavrovo, and on roads in the region. One person was killed in Shebekino. Yesterday morning, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the village of Koloskovo in the Valuyevsky district with rockets. Six civilians were killed, and four were injured, including a child.

On the **Kharkov front**, the "North" group of forces continues fighting in the village of Kazachya Lopan and near Goptovka. On the Volchansk section, fighting is taking place in the village of Vasilievka, near Shevchenkovo and Petropavlovka. On the Velikoburluk section, our forces continue fighting near the village of Olkhovata, near Dolzhanka, and west of Ustinovka.

On the **Druzhkovka front**, the Russian Armed Forces continue offensive operations. There is mutual penetration of the forward positions of assault groups on both sides.

In the **DPR**, it has been announced that Andreyevka has been liberated, although the enemy denies this. The village is located 15 km from the previously known line of defense deep within enemy territory. In the DPR, one person was killed and ten civilians were injured on roads and in settlements in the region as a result of enemy strikes.

In the eastern part of the **Zaporozhye region**, the "East" group of forces liberated Novosoloshino.

On the **Kherson front**, strikes are being carried out by both sides across the Dnipro River.

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