“New, far-reaching strikes are also being planned,” Zelensky wrote to X after meeting with Ukraine’s top general, Oleksandr Syrsky.

“Our units continue to carry out the assigned tasks in the Donetsk region and methodically destroy the occupiers. Across the entire front, in the first eight months of this year alone, the Russians have lost more than 290,000 soldiers killed or seriously wounded. Most of these losses were suffered in the Donetsk region, failing to achieve any of Russia’s strategic goals. Stabilization measures are currently being taken in some sectors of the front. I am grateful to each unit that ensures the replenishment of Ukraine’s “exchange fund” – every week there are corresponding results. Thank you!” Zelensky writes.

Report from Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. First and foremost, about the Pokrovsk direction, where the Russian army is concentrating its greatest efforts and, accordingly, suffering the heaviest losses. Our units continue to carry out their assigned tasks in the Donetsk…

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 31, 2025

Ukraine has been intensifying attacks on Russia's energy sector - oil refineries and other energy-related strategic facilities - for several weeks now.