Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff said it recorded 219 combat engagements over a 24‑hour period, with the fiercest fighting in the Sloviansk, Kostiantynivka and Pokrovsk sectors and repeated Russian artillery, air and drone strikes on frontline positions.
- Ukrainian long‑range strikes reached deep into Russian regions and hit logistics hubs linked by Ukrainian officials to military supply chains, including multiple Wildberries warehouses in St. Petersburg and Simferopol that were set ablaze and temporarily closed.
- Russian authorities reported a strike on a Kirov enterprise on July 24 that they say killed six and wounded at least 26 people, and Kyiv sources and monitors identified the facility as a military‑linked Avitek plant.
- Both sides reported heavy use of drones and air defences with Russia’s defence ministry claiming hundreds of Ukrainian drones were shot down and Ukraine saying its air forces intercepted many incoming missiles and scores of drones.
- Protests demanding the reinstatement of dismissed Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov are continuing in Ukraine and are increasing pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky as military leadership changes coincide with the latest surge in attacks.