Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1630: Chinese modem keeping Russia’s jam-resistant drones flying
Meanwhile, grain corridors crumble as Russia halves Ukraine's export forecast.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1629: Russia races to swamp Ukraine’s air defenses as July becomes deadliest month for civilians since 2022
Britain's nuclear umbrella could replace the failed 1994 security guarantees that left Ukraine exposed.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1625: Ukraine’s 81st Brigade holds gate to Sloviansk almost alone
Repeated Ukrainian strikes on refineries like Yaroslavl have pushed Russian fuel production to a two-decade low.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1624: North Korean missiles join Russia’s arsenal as Kyiv reels from twin barrages
Zelenskyy suggested the slowdown in deliveries may be less about scarcity than pressure to make Kyiv more compliant.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1623: Ukraine has shot down 445,000 Russian aerial threats since 2022, but Moscow’s tactics and missiles are testing the limits of that shield
A near-miss strike by Lithuania's Kyiv embassy and a rising ballistic-missile share point to a Russian air campaign growing harder to stop, even as Ukraine's intercept record holds.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1622: Russia fires missiles faster than Ukraine can shoot them down
Meanwhile, Europe's pro-Ukraine coalition faces a leadership vacuum as the war grinds on.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1621: Overnight strikes hit Russian airbase and refinery as a Russian drone crosses into NATO territory
Ukraine's deep-strike campaign continued into the early hours of 2 August, striking the Engels airbase, the Saratov oil refinery, and drone production facilities, even as a Russian drone drifted into Romanian airspace for around 20 minutes before being shot down over Ukraine.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1620: Russian barrage killed nine people and struck foreign embassy in Kyiv
July was Russia's bloodiest month of the year so far, with 238,650 losses racked up since January and no sign of the front stabilizing.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1618: Russia’s latest mass strike kills a family and sends a cruise missile 95 km into Poland
A Russian mass missile attack on Ukraine killed a family overnight, and one Kh-101 cruise missile flew on into NATO territory before crashing in a Polish field.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1617: Senate hands Trump power for 500% tariffs on Russian oil
Ukraine says its campaign against Russia's shadow fleet has now struck 201 vessels in three weeks, cutting off Crimea's main supply route for good.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1616: Zelenskyy pushes Patriot production in Washington
Elsewhere, Ukraine and NATO opened a new joint grant program pairing Ukrainian firms with allied ones to turn battlefield prototypes into fielded weapons.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1615: Russia’s ship strikes choke Ukraine’s grain corridor
Not a single ship crossed Ukraine's grain corridor on 22 July, at the peak of harvest, and the blockage is now rippling into farms and railways across the country.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1615: Ukraine’s top commanders drew up a new target list for long-range drones and vowed to keep striking, after more than 1,000 strikes into Russia this year
A Russian strike killed a 9-year-old girl and another person in a Chernihiv supermarket; guided bombs killed a 46-year-old man in Zaporizhzhia.
President Zelenskyy said Russia asked North Korea for 30,000 more soldiers and new missile launchers, with reception sites readied in Voronezh Oblast since June.
Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1613: Romania shot down its second drone incursion in two days
A Romanian F-16 downed an intruding drone as Ukrainian long-range strikes hit a Russian missile boat, S-400 components, and logistics sites overnight.