Russia says its forces advance in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region
Russian forces have made advances in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. They captured the village of Novoheorhiivka. Russia's defense ministry reported the territorial gain. They also claimed strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure. These strikes targeted fuel supplies and drone assembly. Volodymyr Zelenskiy reported a strike on a gas distribution station in Odesa. Russian forces also captured Pankivka and Sukhetse.
AP Photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, Emergency Ministry employees carry a wounded person through debris of an industrial plant after a fire at the facility in the Shilovsky District, Ryazan region, around 250 kilometers (155 miles) southeast of Moscow, Russia. Russian forces have advanced in the east of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, taking the village of Novoheorhiivka close to the Donetsk region, Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday. Russian forces said in July that they had taken their first village in Dnipropetrovsk, and U.S. estimates of the battlefield indicate Russian forces control less than 1% of the region. Dnipropetrovsk is not one of the five regions of Ukraine that Russia has claimed as its own territory. "Soldiers of the 57th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade pushed out the enemy from Novoheorhiivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region," Russia's defence ministry said. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield report. Russia controls nearly 114,500 square km (44,600 square miles) or 19% of Ukraine, including Crimea and a major chunk of territory in the east and southeast of the country, according to open source maps of the battlefield.
Russia's defence ministry also said its forces had hit port infrastructure used to supply fuel to Ukrainian forces and a plant used to assemble drones. The statement didn't name the port. Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said earlier that Russia had struck a gas distribution station in the southern region of Odesa. Russia's defence ministry also said that its forces had captured the settlements of Pankivka and Sukhetse in eastern Ukraine.
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