The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to September 3, 2025, have reached 1,084,570 personnel, including 780 in the past 24 hours.
On Tuesday evening, ahead of the Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot held a phone call with his U.S. counterpart, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss ways of increasing pressure on Russia.
Russian propaganda media are circulating a video claiming that Russian army units eliminated 17 servicemen of the National Guard’s Azov Regiment and destroyed two U.S. armored vehicles near Hlushchenkove, Kharkiv region.
Defense Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and NATO Senior Representative in Ukraine Patrick Turner met to discuss ways to meet the priority needs of Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
Another group of children and young people, aged 3 to 18, has been returned from territories temporarily occupied by Russia and directly from the Russian Federation, as part of the Ukrainian President's Bring Kids Back UA initiative.
Throughout August, the Defense Forces of Ukraine eliminated 21,668 enemy personnel, 63 tanks, 102 armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), and 148 enemy ammunition depots on the eastern front alone.
In August 2025, demining units of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine cleared 5,973.1 hectares of liberated territory contaminated by explosive remnants of war resulting from Russia’s armed aggression.
A total of 122 combat engagements took place on the front line today, with the Pokrovsk, Lyman, and Novopavlivka directions seeing the most intense fighting.
Following the end of active hostilities, Ukraine must remain prepared for continued Russian information and psychological operations (IPSO), which will not cease, warned Andriy Yusov, representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate.
The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine considers any attempts by the Russian Federation to introduce new forms of management or control at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) a deliberate escalation of the threat to nuclear safety.
On Tuesday, Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss ways to end Russia’s war and ensure future security guarantees for Ukraine.
The United Nations General Assembly will hold a session on Thursday, September 4, to discuss the situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tomorrow, September 3, in Paris, ahead of the Coalition of the Willing summit.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) said that the corruption charges brought against Brigadier General Illia Vitiuk are retaliation for the recent detention of two National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) detectives.
The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO) have charged a senior officer of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) with illegal enrichment and false asset declarations.
Since the start of the day, Ukrainian Defense Forces have engaged in 76 combat clashes with Russian troops, with the heaviest fighting reported on the Pokrovsk front.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces shot down or jammed 48 drones launched by Russia in a renewed wave of attacks, while new enemy targets are detected in the north.
The State Service for Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience (DESS) has filed a lawsuit to terminate the activities of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP).
In the village of Drobysheve in the Donetsk region, a Russian drone attacked a civilian car, injuring three people, including a paramedic from the local ambulance station.
The Russian army is reducing its activity in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions due to the redeployment of forces, while increasing pressure in the Serebrianskyi Forest area.
The film 2000 Meters to Andriivka has qualified for the Oscars in another category besides Best International Documentary Film, thanks to its victory at the DocAviv Festival (Israel).
Finnish President Alexander Stubb announced on Tuesday, September 2, that progress had been made on security guarantees for Ukraine, but added that a peace agreement must be reached before such measures could be implemented.
Ukraine’s National Police have exposed a scheme involving the embezzlement of UAH 25 million allocated for electricity supply to the Armed Forces. The scheme implicated a former head of housing and maintenance departments in two regions and the director of a company under their control.
Before the start of a court hearing at the Halytskyi District Court in Lviv, the man suspected of murdering MP and former Speaker of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada Andriy Parubiy admitted his guilt while speaking to journalists.
On Tuesday, September 2, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico met Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Beijing, where the two discussed issues related to Ukraine.
Russian forces carried out two targeted FPV drone strikes on civilian infrastructure in the town of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, wounding three municipal workers and damaging equipment.
In Lviv, at St. George’s Archcathedral of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the funeral service for Andriy Parubiy — Member of Parliament and former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada — has begun.
Around 2,000 North Korean troops sent to Russia to fight in the war against Ukraine have been killed, according to estimates from South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS).
The Defense Forces of Ukraine have liberated the settlement of Udachne in Donetsk region, driving out Russian troops and raising the Ukrainian flag over the community.
In Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, nine high-rise buildings and a school were damaged as a result of an attack by Russian drones, 29 garages were destroyed, and a garage cooperative security guard was killed.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of the attack by Shahed drones and missiles on the night of August 30, 25 apartment buildings and 325 private houses were damaged or destroyed. Some of them cannot be restored.
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