The attacks took place near Bohorodnyche, Verkhnyokamyanske, Yakovlivka, Bakhmut, Vershyna, Zaitseve, Avdiivka, Pisky, and other settlements, Ukraine's General Staff said.
The remarks follow former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's July 28 statement that U.S. President Donald Trump's "ultimatum game" with Moscow amounts to a threat to Russia and pushes the United States itself closer to war.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russian forces launched 309 Shahed-type attack drones and decoy drones, along with eight Iskander-K cruise missiles, in an overnight assault.
The overnight attack comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on Russia within 10 days unless the Kremlin agrees to halt its full-scale war against Ukraine.
The so-called Peace Act would establish a fund at the U.S. Treasury through which NATO allies could contribute money, enabling the Pentagon to replenish weapons sent to Kyiv, the Wall Street Journal reported.
One of the main targets was a radio factory in the western city of Penza, which produces advanced communications systems for the Russian Armed Forces, according to Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation.
Occupation authorities threaten parents in occupied Kherson Oblast to obtain Russian passports or risk losing parental rights, the Center of National Resistance reported on July 30.
Following a "deliberate" Russian air strike that killed 16, all remaining convicts have been evacuated from a prison in Bilenke, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the Justice Ministry said on July 30.
Fifteen minors have been convicted of political charges in Belarus thus far in 2025, including for insulting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, according to data released by the country's Supreme Court on July 29.
Valentina Matviyenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and one of Russia’s most senior officials, echoed Kremlin disinformation about Ukraine during her appearance at the Geneva conference earlier this week.
"The training process must be moved underground as much as possible. We must respond to air raid alerts and enemy drones immediately," Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has once again failed to appoint anti-corruption investigator Oleksandr Tsyvinsky as director of the Bureau of Economic Security, lawmaker Yaroslav Zhelezniak said.
