Ukraine Missiles Strike Russian Main and Reserve Command Posts Near Donetsk

Ukraine's Defense Forces struck the Russian occupiers' main and reserve command posts near occupied Donetsk with air-launched cruise missiles on August 26, into the overnight and morning of August 27, per the General Staff. Targets reportedly included an underground parking area of an unfinished residential complex and the buildings of the former UkrStateNDIplastmas research institute; OSINT monitor Exilenova+ assessed one site may have housed the command post of Russia's 51st Guards Combined Arms Army. The General Staff said it was still assessing damage and losses. The same operation also struck a repair-and-restoration unit near Chongar (Kherson region), a UAV control post at Olenivka (occupied Crimea), and concentrations of Russian personnel near Novopetrivka (Zaporizhzhia region) and Voskhod (occupied Crimea).