Daily review

Corruption investigators reach the President's Office again in a new wiretap probe.

The strike on a crowded crossroads in Pechenihy also wounded 18 people and set a cafe and cars ablaze.

Russia's Arena-M active protection system, despite finally reaching the front, is struggling to stop the volume of Ukrainian FPV drones.

From a burned cathedral to a bombed book market, Russian strikes hit Ukraine's culture as Kyiv strikes back at Moscow's missile supply chain.

Meanwhile, Kyiv is also racing to defend an industrial pillar at home, as new EU quotas threaten to idle half of Zaporizhstal's steelmaking capacity.

Russian attacks killed 437 people and wounded more than 2,600 in a single month, the worst civilian toll UN monitors have recorded since May 2022.

Ukraine hit Russia's fleet at Novorossiysk, its refinery at Salavat, and its radar in Sevastopol overnight, as Zelenskyy told CNN that even 5% of US Patriot stocks would get Ukraine through winter.

Meanwhile, Russia is reportedly building 3,000 jet-powered drones a month to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses, even as it ends production of the older Geran-3 model.

Meanwhile, grain corridors crumble as Russia halves Ukraine's export forecast.

Repeated Ukrainian strikes on refineries like Yaroslavl have pushed Russian fuel production to a two-decade low.

Zelenskyy suggested the slowdown in deliveries may be less about scarcity than pressure to make Kyiv more compliant.

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.

Meanwhile, Europe's pro-Ukraine coalition faces a leadership vacuum as the war grinds on.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elsewhere, Ukraine and NATO opened a new joint grant program pairing Ukrainian firms with allied ones to turn battlefield prototypes into fielded weapons.

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.