What happened on the night of August 28. The main thing

As a result of the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporizhia region, a civilian was injured. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) hit an ambulance in the Belgorod region, killing a paramedic and injuring four others. Four civilians, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured due to drone attacks in the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR). The air defense forces destroyed two drones flying to Moscow. Air defense systems shot down three drones over Sevastopol, and four people were injured as a result of UAV attacks in the region. A Dominican Republic-flagged merchant ship sank after a fire caused by an unknown projectile attack in Romania's exclusive economic zone. All the details and other main events are in the Izvestia digest.

Ukrainian Armed Forces strikes on Russian territory

In the Zaporozhye region, a woman was injured in an attack on residential areas of Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, the local administration reported. The victim was hospitalized. Residential buildings were also damaged.

The operational headquarters of the Belgorod region reported that a paramedic was killed in Shebekin as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack on an ambulance. It was clarified that the second paramedic, the driver and two patients were injured by shrapnel.

According to the head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik, four civilians, including a 14-year-old girl, were injured during the UAV strikes. A teenager received shrapnel wounds during an attack on a transport near the Dolzhansky — Novoshakhtinsk checkpoint. Three more victims are truck drivers. During the day, the strikes affected 14 municipalities of the LPR.

In addition, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that air defense systems shot down two UAVs flying towards the capital.

The air defense forces destroyed three Ukrainian drones over Sevastopol, Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said. Four people were injured due to strikes by Ukrainian drones in the city. In addition, two buildings of kindergarten No. 34 were damaged.

As a result of the attacks, a fire broke out in one of the apartments of the apartment building, which was promptly eliminated. In addition, more than 15 cars were damaged. And because of the falling debris of the drones, the grass near the tanks caught fire, the fire was eliminated.

Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said that since the beginning of 2026, 43 Russians, including three children, have been killed and 329 others injured in attacks on buses by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. So far, 167 attacks on passenger buses have been recorded.

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Sinking of a ship in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania

Agerpres news agency reported that a Dominican-flagged merchant ship sank in the Black Sea after a fire in Romania's exclusive economic zone. All 12 crew members were rescued, one of them suffered a serious hand injury. The rescue operation took place with strong sea waves and a wave height of about 2.5 m. Later, Romanian President Nicusor Dan said that the ship had been attacked.

The death of Australian pilot Bramley

Australian pilot Bob Bramley died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north of the country in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Pulse Tasmania reported. Bramley, 23, was the only passenger on the Air Frontier plane that crashed on August 25. Two days later, the authorities confirmed that there was no chance of finding him alive. Bramley gained fame in 2019 when, at the age of 16, he flew around Australia alone, covering about 15,000 km, and set a world record.