In the early hours of August 23, Russian forces attacked Kharkiv with drones, with one jet-powered UAV hitting a residential building in the Osnovianskyi district. According to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov and Ukraine's State Emergency Service (SES), eight people were injured, including a 15-year-old; Syniehubov later revised the figure to seven. Two private homes and outbuildings caught fire.
In the Odesa region, a passenger train No. 147 Zhytomyr–Odesa came under attack. A jet-powered Shahed drone struck the locomotive, according to Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, head of Ukrainian Railways, and the company's press service. The train carried 593 passengers, including 15 children. Passengers and crew were evacuated in time, with no casualties, but the train had to be stopped urgently on the stretch.
In the Donetsk region, the village of Sofiivka was hit, damaging 141 private homes and killing two people, with two more wounded, the SES reported. Over the past day, Russian attacks across various Ukrainian regions killed four people and injured about 30 — two deaths in Donetsk region and two in Sumy region.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 127 drones at Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian forces reportedly shot down 25 of them. In Lviv, an explosion occurred at a pharmacy, killing a pharmacist; the cause has not been officially established.