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⚡️President Zelenskyy approved new SBU operations to counter Russian aggression.
“Oleksandr Poklad reported on the Security Service of Ukraine’s priorities for August. I also approved further steps to cleanse the Service’s ranks of those who work for themselves rather than for Ukraine,” the president said.
🇸🇪 Sweden is allocating 6.9 million kronor to strengthen Ukraine’s healthcare system, the Swedish government announced.
The funding is intended to enhance Ukraine’s capabilities in several areas, including cancer treatment, rehabilitation, prosthetics, infection prevention, combating antibiotic resistance, and healthcare management.
🇧🇪 Belgium has become reliant on Russian gas due to the war in the Middle East.
According to Bloomberg, all of Belgium’s imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) last month came from Russia.
The shift was caused by a sharp drop in LNG supplies to Europe as shipping through the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted by the conflict in the Middle East.
HIMARS strikes Russian artillery positions and concentrations of enemy personnel in the Pokrovsk sector of the Donetsk region.
😏 July was one of the most difficult months for Russia’s oil industry, according to Bloomberg.
Based on the outlet’s calculations, Ukraine carried out at least 30 strikes on Russian oil refineries, oil depots, tankers, ports, and pipeline infrastructure during the month.
In the first half of July, the main targets were oil refineries, including Russia’s largest facility—the Omsk Oil Refinery, located more than 2,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. In the second half of the month, the focus shifted to tankers, ports, and the logistics infrastructure used to export Russian oil.
According to Bloomberg, the strategy is already producing results. Russia’s oil refining output fell to 3.6 million barrels per day in July—the lowest level since May 2002 and about one-third below the typical seasonal level.
🛢📉 Refinery strikes: Ukraine pushes Russian refining output back nearly 25 years.
According to Bloomberg, Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil facilities in July reduced refining output to 3.6 million barrels per day—the lowest level since May 2002.
🔥 Ukrainian forces have destroyed a new Russian four-engine “Molniya” (“Lightning”) drone in the Zaporizhzhia sector for the first time.
🇰🇿 Russian companies are increasingly shifting their logistics operations to Kazakhstan, with Wildberries building two major logistics hubs.
Kazakhstan's Minister of Trade, Arman Shakkaliyev, said that Wildberries is constructing logistics complexes in Astana and Almaty with a combined area of about 260,000 square meters. Both facilities are expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of 2027.
According to the minister, the projects are part of the company's expansion of its logistics network in Kazakhstan.
For context: Russian businesses have increasingly relocated parts of their operations abroad since the start of the full-scale invasion, with Belarus and India becoming key refining hubs, China playing a growing role in metal processing, and Kazakhstan emerging as an important logistics center.
🤬 A Russian FPV drone deliberately targeted a fruit vendor in Kherson.
The moment the civilian was pursued by the drone and the subsequent explosion were captured on video and shared by a local Telegram channel. https://t.me/United24media/44837 [It's brutal]
🇺🇦 Ukraine is launching the Carpathian Initiative, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced.
“This is a new initiative. The idea emerged because not every country is ready to strengthen us with weapons, but many want to cooperate in the humanitarian, security, and economic spheres. They are also thinking about Ukraine’s reconstruction, and that is important.
The Carpathian Initiative will bring together countries connected not only geographically and as neighbors, but also through shared economic and security interests centered around the Carpathian Mountains.
It will focus on logistics, the economy, and security. We also see potential in culture and tourism. I presented this idea to the presidents of the European Council and the European Commission, and they welcomed it.
We plan to launch this format in the fall and are currently discussing the dates. We have already received a positive signal from the European Union.
In the future, we will develop programs for the Carpathian region covering financing, tourism, the economy, and security—not only for Ukraine’s Carpathians, but also for Romania, Austria, Serbia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
This is an initiative that can unite us all,” Zelenskyy said.iddle East.
😔 Russians destroyed an 18th-century wooden Cossack church.
In Beryslav, Kherson region, the Holy Presentation Church—an 18th-century architectural monument—burned down following a drone attack.
According to the regional military administration, it was the only surviving example of Ukrainian wooden Cossack sacred architecture from that era. The church was built in 1725 at the Perevolochna Fortress from oak logs without the use of metal nails.
❗️An 89-year-old woman was killed in a Russian strike on Mykolaiv, and seven people were injured, including two children, according to State Emergency Service.
The injured include two girls, ages 2 and 12. Two private homes were destroyed, and seven others were damage