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A senior Ukrainian official said Ukraine has advanced in its counteroffensive against Russian soldiers by showing it can defeat a better-armed and numerically superior enemy. A US source stated last week that Kyiv was unlikely to regain Melitopol, a crucial southern city, after facing huge Russian minefields and trenches in the counteroffensive that began in early June.

The Danish military trains eight Ukrainian pilots to operate F-16 combat jets. The Ukrainian army says it holds Robotyne in the southern village as part of its counteroffensive against Russia. Russia alleges it destroyed a US military vessel on Snake Island, Ukraine.

Two jets were scrambled to intercept two drones during reconnaissance near the Crimean Peninsula. The Russian Aerospace Forces documented the flight of two unmanned aerial vehicles, the MQ-9 Reaper and TB2 Bayraktar, over the Black Sea on August 22 for aerial surveillance on the Crimean Peninsula.

The American Civil War, often known as the War Between the States, was a four-year battle (1861–1655) between the Union and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. After decades of rising sectional hostility over slavery, the Southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, in chronological order) seceded in 1860–61 and started these wars. Northern States economies rapidly modernised and diversified between 1815 and 1861. Industrialization had taken hold in the North, where small farms with free labour dominated agriculture. Northerners also invested in a vast transportation system of canals, roads, steamboats, and railroads; financial industries like banking and insurance; and a large communications network of cheap, widely available newspapers, magazines, books, and the telegraph.

The UK removed 43 Challenger 2 tanks that could have helped Ukraine confront Russia. The tanks were too damaged to fix economically. The British military has been criticized for underestimating tanks on modern battlefields.