Multiple Russian attacks and Ukrainian strikes across eastern and southern regions caused numerous civilian casualties on August 21. Three people were killed and four injured in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk. Russian shelling killed one person in Bilozerka, Kherson, and another woman in Polohy, Zaporizhia. Russian drone attacks killed a 62-year-old man in Synelnykove, Dnipropetrovsk, and two people in their 70s near Petrivka, Kharkiv. A Ukrainian drone attack on a truck killed one person in Novy Varin, Bryansk region, and one person was killed in Russian-occupied Luhansk. Three civilians died in Novaya Zburyevka during Ukrainian drone launches and intensive shelling. There have been 40,000 ecosystem fires recorded since early 2025. Russian forces reported shooting down 217 Ukrainian drones in one day.
Three people were killed and four others injured in a Russian attack on the city of Kostiantynivka, in Ukraine's Donetsk, the regional prosecutor's office said in a post on Facebook. Russian shelling killed one person in the town of Bilozerka in Ukraine's Kherson region, the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office said in a post on Telegram. Russian forces are increasing their pressure near Lyman in the north of Donetsk, Oleksandr Syrskii, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, wrote on Facebook.
A Russian drone attack on a car killed a 62-year-old man in the Synelnykove district of Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, said in a post on Telegram. Kharkiv region police said that a Russian drone attack on a car killed two people in their 70s near the village of Petrivka in the Zolochiv territorial community.
Russian shelling killed a woman in the Polohy district of Ukraine's Zaporizhia region, said Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration. A Ukrainian drone attack on a truck killed one person in the village of Novy Varin, in the Klimovsky district of Russia's Bryansk region, regional governor Alexander Bogomaz wrote on Telegram. Three civilians were killed as Ukraine launched drones and conducted intensive shelling of Novaya Zburyevka village, the Russian-appointed governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said in a post on Telegram.
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