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EU sanctions Georgia’s only oil refinery over processing Russian crude. Company says it will switch suppliers. Brussels has imposed sanctions on Georgia's only oil refinery for processing Russian crude, expanding efforts to curb Moscow's energy revenues while giving the company six months before the restrictions take effect. |
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A Cold War submarine hunter is Ukraine’s newest Shahed killer. Ukraine's tiny interceptor drones need a little help getting into the air. An old naval helicopter is just the thing. |
Military
Ukraine draws up a new target list for its long-range drones—and vows to keep firing. The updated priorities came out of a meeting of Kyiv's top commanders, who cleared the way for a campaign that has already run more than a thousand strikes into Russia this year.
Russia is massing for Dobropillia again using quad bikes and motorcycles, Ukraine’s National Guard says. Defenders of Ukraine's Pokrovsk sector report the enemy clearing mines and flying drones to move small storming groups toward the town north of the ruins of Pokrovsk.
As of 27 JUL 2026, the approximate losses of weapons and military equipment of the Russian Armed Forces from the beginning of the invasion to the present day:
- Personnel: 1440580 (+1590)
- Tanks: 12225 (+8)
- APV: 25032 (+13)
- Artillery systems: 46831 (+37)
- MLRS: 1969
- Anti-aircraft systems: 1519
- Aircraft: 439
- Helicopters: 354
- UAV: 429555 (+1269)
- Cruise missiles : 4950 (+6)
- Warships/boats: 34
- Submarines: 2
- Vehicles and fuel tanks: 126302 (+491)
Intelligence and technology
Russia can’t fill its own ranks—so it asks North Korea for 30,000 more soldiers and new missile launchers, Ukraine says. Ukrainian intelligence points to reception sites readied in Voronezh Oblast since June, President Zelenskyy said.
Russia’s destroyed vehicles are being melted into buggies that save Ukrainian lives under drone fire. Two Ukrainian army corps received 10 new "Predator" evacuation buggies, a volunteer-built vehicle partly made from aluminum salvaged from destroyed Russian equipment.
International
Poland promised a 700-kilometer shield against Russia—two years on, satellites show four short fortified zones. Warsaw has spent since October 2024 on the project, yet only about 10 kilometers of actual linear fortifications have gone up. The situation in the Baltic States is even worse, a French analyst says.
Romania knocks a third Russian drone from its sky in 72 hours. The Sunday intercept happened over the sea near the Danube delta, as Bucharest prepared to lodge a protest with Moscow.
Humanitarian and social impact
Russia kills a 9-year-old girl in a Chernihiv supermarket, bombs Zaporizhzhia. Two people died at the supermarket and a 46-year-old man was killed by guided bombs hundreds of kilometers south, in daytime attacks on two Ukrainian cities.
Russia destroys a Home Depot-style megastore in Kryvyi Rih—the third one it has erased in the same region since 2024. Shahed drones set the Epicenter hypermarket ablaze on 26 July, and firefighters battled a blaze covering more than 16,000 square meters.
Russia hit Palau-flagged grain ship twice as it left port for Greece. Two sailors are missing. Eight crew members were rescued.
New developments
Works Ukraine evacuated for safekeeping are caught not by Russian shelling but by Polish ownership claim in court. Heirs of Polish prince Andrzej Lubomirski are suing to keep two paintings from going home.
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