The U.S. think tank reported on July 31 that Russian forces resumed ground attacks northwest of Sloviansk and southwest of Izium. They may also be “setting conditions” for an offensive into Kharkiv Oblast and towards Kharkiv. The ISW also reported that Russian forces made “marginal gains” near Avdiivka and resumed ground attacks towards Avdiivka and Pisky in Donetsk Oblast.
The meeting comes as a Ukrainian delegation — also including top presidential aide Andriy Yermak and Security Council Secretary Rustem Umerov — holds high-level talks with U.S. officials on defense, energy resilience, and sanctions.
The military monitoring group Belarusian Hajun was an open-source intelligence project that tracked Russian and Belarusian troop movements and other military activity in Belarus.
Polunin previously worked with the the Royal Ballet in London and later as the director of the Sevastopol Opera and Ballet Theater in Russian-occupied Crimea from December 2019 until the summer of 2024.
"Poisonous smoke floats over the city, which can be seen even from Stary Krym (25 kilometers away)," local media reported.
The comments come ahead of a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Oct. 15, chaired by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.
The IMF forecasted 2% growth in 2025 and 4.5% in 2026, unaltered from its April 2025 projections.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha urged U.N. member states to condemn Russia’s Oct. 14 attack on a U.N. aid convoy in Kherson Oblast, which left one truck destroyed and another badly damaged.
Speaking about past negotiations with Moscow, Trump said U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff "had no idea about Russia, had no idea about Putin too much" at the time.
The proposal, initiated by the Russian National Automobile Union, comes amid a deepening supply crisis exacerbated by Ukraine's escalating drone strikes on Russian oil infrastructure.
