Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed gratitude to Pope Leo XIV for his appeal to end the war and killings in Ukraine.

One man was killed and another injured in a shooting incident in Fastiv, Kyiv region, the regional police said.

Ukraine expects to raise at least $1 billion every month under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program, which enables Kyiv to directly purchase weapons from the United States.

A shooting occurred on Volodymyra Velykoho Street in Lviv.

Ukraine expects the G20 countries to take a strong and united position regarding Russia's attempts to drag out the war.

All necessary resources have been mobilized to investigate the murder of former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, with the police, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and the prosecutor's office working virtually around the clock to establish all the circumstances of the crime.

Ukrainian forces are actively defending their positions across all key sectors of the frontline, particularly on the Donetsk front.

Russian forces shelled the village of Preobrazhenka in the Zaporizhzhia region, injuring a woman.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has released footage from the village of Dachne in the Dnipropetrovsk region, refuting claims that the settlement was captured by Russian forces.

Throughout the day, six people were injured in Russian attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, including a child.

Russian shelling across the Kherson region throughout the day left one civilian dead and twelve others injured.

On September 4 and 5, the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine will hold a series of art auctions featuring paintings from the collection of PJSC Prominvestbank, which is currently undergoing liquidation.

Ukrainian air defense units are actively targeting Russian drones spotted over the Kyiv region.

In Crimea, Phantoms special forces unit of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) struck the Utyos-T radar system, the RT-70 radio telescope, the Glonass dome complex, the MR-10M1 Mys airborne radar, and 96L6-AP radar of the Russian S-400 missile system.

The prime targets of Russian disinformation operations in Canada are Ukrainian, Baltic, and Belarusian communities.

Since the start of the day, Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops have engaged in 77 combat encounters, with fighting ongoing on four fronts.

Russia has been conducting various disinformation operations around the world for more than 80 years, aimed at justifying its imperial ambitions.

At the conclusion of Sunday prayer, Pope Leo XIV prayed for those affected by the recent massive Russian airstrikes on Ukraine, urging an immediate ceasefire and serious steps toward dialogue.

Russia is still not showing genuine interest in a peaceful settlement and must be forced to sit down at the negotiating table.

Two people were injured as a result of Russian strikes on Kupiansk district in Kharkiv region.

Former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrii Parubii, who was killed in an armed attack on August 30, will be buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv on September 2.

In central Kherson, artillery shelling damaged an administrative building, a residential house, as well as medical and educational institutions. Utility workers are currently eliminating the consequences of the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received a report from the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, on the frontline situation, particularly in the Pokrovsk sector, where Russian forces are concentrating their main efforts.

On Sunday, August 31, a massive fire broke out at a chemical plant in the Moscow region.

In Kherson's Dniprovskyi district, a woman was killed after Russian forces dropped an explosive device from a drone.

A civilian vessel struck an unidentified explosive device in the Black Sea near the coast of Odesa.

In Kherson's Tsentralnyi district, a 74-year-old man was killed on August 31 due to Russian artillery shelling of a park area.

In the Sumy region, Russian forces attacked a 64-year-old man riding a moped on the morning of August 31, leaving him injured.

In the Nizhyn district, Chernihiv region, a Russian drone attack damaged a critical infrastructure facility, leaving more than 30,000 households without electricity.

Russian troops launched an artillery strike on Kherson's Tsentralnyi district at around 10:00 on Sunday, hitting a medical facility.

The Russian military’s spring–summer campaign of 2025 has ended in failure, with over 291,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded.

Prosecutors have launched an investigation into the killing of a civilian by a Russian soldier in the settlement of Novoekonomichne, Donetsk region.

On the night of August 31, Russian forces launched drone attacks on four DTEK energy facilities in the Odesa region.

On the morning of Sunday, August 31, Russian forces shelled the town of Bilozerka in the Kherson region, injuring two civilians.

Russian forces launched drone attacks on nine settlements in the Kharkiv region over the past day.

During the night of August 31, Ukrainian defense forces neutralized 126 Russian drones in the skies over Ukraine. Another 16 enemy UAVs struck ten different locations.

Russia faces geographic and demographic challenges to its mobilization capacity, which is far from limitless—despite claims made by its propaganda.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces killed two residents of the Donetsk region—in Sviatohirsk and Iverske—and injured six others.

On August 30, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 182 combat clashes with Russian forces along the frontline.

Russian forces launched a massive overnight drone attack at Odesa region, damaging energy infrastructure.

The overall combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to August 31, 2025, amount to 1,082,140 personnel, including 810 in the past 24 hours.

On August 30, Russian forces carried out 391 strikes on 16 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, killing one person and injuring 37 others.

Kherson region has received three powerful generators from American partners, worth nearly one million dollars.

Twelve more civilians have been evacuated from Kostiantynivka community in Donetsk region.

Operators of the Phoenix UAV unit from the Pomsta Brigade of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service destroyed six trucks, a UAZ vehicle, and an armored car belonging to Russian forces, and eliminated around ten enemy troops on the Kramatorsk front.

In Zaporizhzhia, work continues to restore electricity and gas supply after the massive air attack carried out by Russian forces last night.

From January to June 2025, a total of 4,273 million square meters of residential buildings were commissioned in Ukraine, which is 6.4% less compared to the same period in 2024.

Beginning September 1, Latvia is introducing stricter entry requirements for foreign nationals, including citizens of Ukraine, Russia, and other countries outside the EU, NATO, OECD, Switzerland, and Brazil.

For the successful future reintegration of Ukrainian citizens from de-occupied territories, a systematic, step-by-step approach must be developed, according to Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR).

In temporarily occupied Crimea, Russian authorities have reported the detention of a 52-year-old resident of Zaprudne village on the Southern Coast, allegedly for involvement with the religious organization Jehovah’s Witnesses.