**Evening Briefing: Key Events of August **

​  Russian forces liberated **Andreyevskaya Obshchina in the DNR** and **Novosoloshino in the Zaporozhye Region**.

​  The AFU lost **1,450 servicemen**, a tank, seven armored vehicles and two **Grad MLRS** over the past day.

​  Vessels and fuel tanks, hangars containing **Western military equipment**, and warehouses storing unmanned boats were struck at the ports of **Odessa, Izmail and Nikolaev**.

​  An AFU missile strike on **Koloskovo in the Belgorod Region** killed **six people**, Shuvaev reported.

​  Ukrainian military recruitment offices submitted more than **1.5 million requests to locate draft evaders** in 2026, according to acting National Police chief Tsutskiridze.

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