Russian strikes on Odesa ports push Ukrainian farms toward bankruptcy, Bloomberg reports
Weekly grain and oilseed exports have fallen by more than 90% since early July, Bloomberg reports. Oxford Economics estimates a 2.1% GDP loss in 2027.
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Russia’s defense ministry threatens to “freeze” Ukraine this winter
Moscow posted photos of attack drones captioned "like snow on your head," tying the taunt to its strikes on Ukraine's ports.
They find a sword, we find a shield: Ukrainian soldier on why drones will never replace infantry
He went from mortarman to drone operator — and says neither role can absorb the other.
NATO fighter, one drone, one district: a jammed intercept lands over Latvia
A NATO fighter shot down a drone over Latvia's Balvi district after Russian jamming pushed it off course, officials say
437 killed, over 2,600 injured: Ukraine’s deadliest month for civilians since 2022, UN says
437 killed, 2,610 wounded — the worst toll since May 2022, UN monitors say
Ukraine brings home 261 bodies in latest repatriation, as Russia claims the dead are Ukrainian soldiers
The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said the remains arrived on 13 August 2026, and that investigators will now work to establish the identities.
Poland would rather the next Russian missile be downed over Ukraine than over its soil. It may send Kyiv more Patriots
A Russian missile that fell inside Poland in July has shifted Warsaw's thinking.
Russia pulled its fleet back to Novorossiysk to keep it safe. Ukraine hit it there with 15 kinds of weapons at once
The overnight barrage fused jet drones, Neptune missiles and naval drones against the fleet's last major refuge.
5% of US Patriot stocks gets Ukraine through winter, 10% ends the ballistic threat — and Zelenskyy has just 1%, he tells CNN
Ukraine holds just 1% of the Patriot interceptors it needs to stop Russia's ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy told CNN. 5% gets it through winter.
Ukrainian drones black out occupied Sevastopol and hit the Balaklava power plant
Power was restored on a temporary scheme after the city's energy infrastructure was damaged
Two railway workers killed: a Russian jet drone hit their train’s locomotive in Odesa Oblast
The jet-powered Shahed hit the locomotive as the train neared a station — the latest strike in Russia's campaign against Ukraine's railways.
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.
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.
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.