Overview
- The weekend’s renewed missile and drone strikes, on Sunday, struck Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Chernihiv and killed and wounded multiple civilians including children after a supermarket was hit in Chernihiv.
- Kyiv says July is its deadliest month in four years with roughly 377 civilians killed and about 2,129 injured, a sharp spike that Ukrainian officials link to the recent surge in long-range attacks.
- Moscow’s defence ministry reported shooting down large numbers of Ukrainian drones and said strikes hit sites linked to drone production while Kyiv condemned the attacks as deliberate terror and demanded tougher sanctions.
- The fighting has crossed borders as Ukrainian strikes have targeted Russian energy and supply nodes and Romania shot down several drones that breached its airspace, identifying at least one as a Shahed-type.
- Ukrainian leaders are pressing partners for faster deliveries and possible licensing to increase interceptor production because current shortages leave cities exposed and raise the risk of further civilian harm and wider escalation.