Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has opposed the countries' applications to join NATO, accusing them of supporting Kurdish militias in Turkey and Syria. The talks between Sweden, Finland and Turkey have so far seen little progress. They applied for NATO membership in May to boost their security amid Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has once again failed to appoint anti-corruption investigator Oleksandr Tsyvinsky as director of the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB), lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak said.
India has "always bought a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia, and are Russia’s largest buyer of energy, along with China, at a time when everyone wants Russia to stop the killing in Ukraine," Trump said on his Truth Social platform on July 30.
The revision marks the steepest downgrade among major economies in the Fund's report.
The ruling represents a significant win for PrivatBank, which has pursued the case in English courts since 2017 following the bank's nationalization.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law on July 30 enabling sanctions against vessels and aircraft involved in covert Russian schemes to transport oil, weapons, and military personnel.
The most common method of deployment involves first-person view (FPV) drones dropping chemical munitions directly onto Ukrainian defensive positions, Ukraine's Security Service said.
As part of the operation, Ukrainian cyber specialists gained access to servers belonging to the Russian occupation administration of Crimea, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) claims.
Olena Duma announced on July 30 that she is submitting her resignation as head of the Asset Recovery and Management Agency (ARMA), as the law reforming the body enters into force.
Nayara, partly owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft, has increasingly come under pressure since the EU adopted its 18th sanctions package on July 18.
"People gathered together to receive humanitarian aid – at that moment, Russian terrorists struck with multiple rocket launchers," the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 78 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy drones overnight.
"I don't know if it’s gonna affect Russia, because he (Russian President Vladimir Putin) wants to obviously probably keep the war going, but we're gonna put tariffs and various things," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
"We have a lot of people that came in from Ukraine, and we're working with them," U.S. President Donald Trump said.
"I think anyone who buys sanctioned Russian oil should be ready for this," U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
