General Staff: Russia has lost 511,130 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022

8:21 AM

General Staff: Russia has lost 578,120 troops in Ukraine since Feb 24, 2022.

This number includes 1,060 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.

7:36 AM

Russia launches strongest drone attack of 2024 on Kyiv overnight.

The Kyiv City Military Administration reported the most extensive drone attack on Kyiv in 2024, with air defense forces destroying over three dozen drones in the city's airspace and nearby areas.

4:07 AM

US official tasked with imposing Russian sanctions to join Harris campaign as first major hire, Axios reports.

Brian Nelson, the U.S. Treasury Department's lead official tasked with imposing and enforcing sanctions against Russia, is preparing to leave the Biden administration to join Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, Axios reported on July 30.

11:20 PM  (Updated:  July 31, 2024 3:39 am)

Multiple explosions heard in Kyiv, Russia launches missile and drone attack.

An explosion was heard in Kyiv on the evening of July 30 as Russia launched yet another drone and missile attack on Ukraine. There is currently no information on whether the capital was hit.

1:47 AM

Finnish volunteer fighter killed in Ukraine.

A Finnish volunteer fighter was killed in Donetsk Oblast in mid-July, marking the fourth Finnish national killed fighting for Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, the Association of Finnish War Veterans confirmed on July 30.

12:35 AM

War update

Ukraine war latest: Kyiv strikes Russian oil depot; 2 Russian bombers hit in earlier attack

12:04 AM

Business

Ukraine businesses furious over government-proposed tax hikes to fund fight against Russia

11:21 PM

Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak reaches Olympic quarter-final.

Khyzhniak defeated Ukrainian Pylyp Akilov, who represents Hungary, by a majority decision. He will face Brazil's Wanderley Pereira on Aug. 2.

11:13 PM

Tech

Ukrainian startup Esper Bionics makes cyborgs a reality

10:20 PM

Ukraine state-owned enterprises weekly — Issue 142

9:39 PM

Opinion

Opinion: Europe must clamp down on Russian oil flows through Turkey

9:15 PM

Russia passes new cryptocurrency law in effort to dodge Western sanctions.

Russia on July 30 passed a law that will allow businesses to use cryptocurrencies in international trade, as the Kremlin seeks ways to circumvent Western sanctions, Reuters reported on July 30. The new law will go into force in September.

8:53 PM

Opinion

Timothy Ash: Is momentum building for peace talks?

8:48 PM

Lukashenko pardons German citizen sentenced to death by firing squad for 'terrorism.'

German citizen Rico Krieger has been sentenced to death by a court in Belarus after being accused of committing six crimes, including "terrorism," and "mercenary activity."

8:39 PM

2024 Paris Olympics

Ukraine's Marta Kostiuk reaches Olympic tennis quarter-finals, but heartbreak for Elina Svitolina.

Ukraine's Marta Kostiuk has reached the tennis quarter-finals at the 2024 Olympics, beating Maria Sakkari of Greece in three sets on July 30. Kostiuk won 4:6, 7:6, 6:4, and will play Croatia's Donna Vekich in the next round on July 31.

8:24 PM

2024 Paris Olympics

Ukraine loses to Argentina, fails to reach Olympic football knockout stage.

Argentina defeated the Ukrainian Olympic football team 2:0, kicking the latter out of the tournament. Argentina will be joined in the knockout round by Morocco, who defeated Iraq 3:0 to win the group.

7:38 PM

2 bombers damaged in last week's attack on airfield in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, HUR says.

Two Tu-22M3 bombers were damaged in the July 25 strike targeting the Olenya airfield in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, located about 1,800 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border.

7:09 PM

MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak: Developments in Ukraine’s parliament on economic reforms, international obligations — Issue 66

7:04 PM

Ukraine open to consultations with EU on Russian oil transit, Foreign Ministry says.

Kyiv is open to participating in consultations with the European Union on the transit of Russian Lukoil's oil if Brussels decides to use "an appropriate mechanism," Heorhii Tykhyi, Foreign Ministry's spokesman, said on July 30.

6:41 PM

Ukraine hit oil depot in Russia's Kursk Oblast, General Staff reports.

Ukrainian forces struck the oil depot Logistics Center №43 in the village of Vozy in Russia's Kursk Oblast overnight on July 30, the General Staff reported.

6:18 PM

US will provide its own weapons for F-16s to be delivered to Ukraine, WSJ reports.

The Pentagon has limited stocks and production capacities, but it will supply Ukrainian F-16s with air-to-ground munitions, precision-guidance kits for bombs, and advanced air-to-air missiles in sufficient quantities to meet Ukraine's most urgent needs, a senior U.S. official said.

5:53 PM

Ukraine signs two contracts with domestic defense industry worth $121 million, Umerov says.

According to Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin, Ukraine's defense industry has a capacity worth around $20 billion, but the state can muster only up to $10 billion to purchase weapons and equipment.

5:14 PM

Ukraine needs to increase nuclear power capacity to overcome problems with electricity generation, US official says.

In the long run, the Ukrainian government will decide how to generate electricity on its own, but building up nuclear power is a rational quick solution, Penny Pritzker, U.S. special representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery, said.

4:45 PM

2024 Presidential election

Here's where Kamala Harris's potential VP picks stand on Ukraine

4:11 PM

Clinic guard jailed for 4 years over locked shelter that led to deaths in Kyiv last year.

A Kyiv court found Vadym Moshkin, a security guard of one of Kyiv's clinics, guilty of negligence over a closed bomb shelter that led to the deaths of three people during a Russian strike last June, sentencing him to four years in prison, the Prosecutor General's Office said on July 30.