US forecasters see Ukraine’s corn exports falling 39% as Russia bombs ports
Corn stocks are set to jump more than tenfold — the grain is there; the way out is not.
Ukraine and Moldova discuss rail corridor for grain amid Russian Black Sea attacks
Kyiv is requesting a 50 percent discount on transport costs as Chisinau seeks guarantees on cargo volumes, Reuters reports.
US House takes up Graham sanctions bill targeting Russia’s oil money and shadow fleet
Lawmakers moved during recess, and the House text is word-for-word identical to the bill the Senate already passed 86-11.
Two Russian refineries burn – Orsk hit by drones 1,500 km out, Komsomolsk ablaze 6,500 km east
Explosions rocked Orenburg Oblast before flames engulfed a Rosneft plant in Khabarovsk, as monitoring channels flagged the second blaze as possible sabotage.
Ukrainian drones set a newly opened Wildberries mega-hub ablaze near Voronezh
Ukrainian drones burn a giant Wildberries logistics complex near Voronezh, killing one and forcing mass staff evacuation
With Ukraine short of Patriot interceptors, Russia sees no reason to enter real negotiations, ISW says
Kyiv's dwindling air defenses now face freshly built weapons fired straight off the assembly line, not pulled from stored reserves, military intelligence warns.
Russian ballistic missiles struck the grounds of a Kyiv children’s hospital and set a warehouse ablaze — overnight strikes across Ukraine killed at least 9
Young patients and medical staff had reached the shelter before impact, sparing them, though a 28-year-old man was wounded at a nearby fire.
July was Ukraine’s deadliest month for civilians since 2022 — and Russia is scaling its ballistic missile salvos toward 200 at once
Kyiv’s unmanned-forces commander warns the Kremlin is racing to swamp a depleted air shield, echoing intelligence that Moscow now overfulfills its monthly weapons plans.
Russian plants are overfulfilling monthly missile production quotas by 110-120% and unlikely to pause strikes, Ukraine’s intelligence says
Moscow met its full-year Zircon and Onyx output targets by early August, seven months into 2026, Ukraine's deputy intelligence chief said.
Ukraine’s Crimea campaign could strike seven times more targets with faster funding, Brovdi says
To clear the skies over the peninsula, the force destroyed more than 300 Russian air defense assets in recent months, its commander said.
Russia’s advance in Ukraine slows as casualties per square kilometer rise 3.5-fold, Radio Svoboda reports
Ukrainian drone operators say Russian infiltration units moving on foot lose all but one soldier out of every fifteen.
ISW: Russia strikes the Mayaki bridge linking southern Ukraine to Romania and Moldova
Moscow's overnight hit on the M-15 highway forced Kyiv to halt traffic toward the Danube ports, its main grain outlet after sea exports collapsed.
Zaluzhnyi, Fedorov, and Budanov lead Ukraine’s trust ranking as Zelenskyy places fourth – KIIS
Three of Ukraine's most recognizable wartime figures now command the strongest public confidence, a late-July sociological study found, even as the president's standing lags noticeably behind.
Zelenskyy says Russia could receive up to 50,000 North Korean troops
Kyiv says North Korean deployment numbers have grown from hundreds to tens of thousands within roughly two months, according to Ukrainian estimates.