Ukraine liberates more settlements in Kherson, Luhansk oblasts

The victims include a 5-month-old baby, along with a 9-year-old and 10-year-old boy, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported. Five of the 10 victims have been hospitalized.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed on August 1 the creation of three working groups for new online peace talks with Ukraine — but insisted the format would remain behind closed doors.

"Based on the highly provocative statements of the Former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions," U.S. President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The U.S. president added that Ukraine has suffered an estimated 8,000 military deaths since January, not including missing personnel.

At least four oil tankers carrying Russian crude are idling off India's western coast as Indian refiners reconsider purchases under sanction pressure from the United States and the European Union.

"Customs must become a modern service-oriented institution that meets European Union standards and works with full integrity to support the state budget," Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said.

"In fact, the issue was not only Repin's nationality and identity, but also the fact that this painting is a landscape from Chuhuiv, and Repin himself wrote that it was Chuhuiv," art historian Oksana Semenik said.

"As for any disappointments on anyone's part, all disappointments arise from excessive expectations," Vladimir Putin said.

"There is no objective reason why HIV should be decreasing across the world —except in Russia," the report said.

Despite heavy militarization and a surge in state defense orders since the start of the war against Ukraine, Russia's industrial production growth has begun to slow.