Daily Briefing

Key Takeaways

• Ukraine launched one of the largest drone strikes on the Moscow region in the war's history — 600 drones dispatched, 201 intercepted over the Moscow Oblast — with confirmed hits on the Wildberries logistics hub in Koledino (200,000 m²) and the Domodedovo 'Severnoye' logistics complex, killing 1 and wounding 6 in the region.
• Russia struck Ukraine overnight Aug 15–16 with a combined salvo of Oniks anti-ship missiles, Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles, Kh-59/69 guided missiles, and 106 Shahed-type drones; Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 88 targets but Kyiv, Kremenchuk, and Kryvyi Rih were all hit.
• Ukraine's Patriot interceptor stockpiles have fallen more than 70% according to a Guardian/Jack Watling analysis, with the FT separately reporting launchers were empty during a recent Russian attack — a critical vulnerability ahead of winter.
• Russia's monthly output of jet-powered Geran-4/5 drones now exceeds Geran-2 production at ~3,000 units/month (3 sources corroborated), while Ukrainian FP-5 'Flamingo' missiles struck the TSSKB-Progress rocket facility in Samara and Savasleika airbase (22 sources corroborated).
• Ukraine's GUR cyber corps attacked Wildberries digital infrastructure on Aug 10–11, disrupting payments and customer services — the physical drone strike on the same company's warehouse on Aug 16 represents a rare combined cyber-kinetic operation against a single Russian economic target.