⚡ Nine EU countries push to cut funding for the International Olympic Committee over Russian and Belarusian athletes’ return. 🔗 united24media.com/world/eu-cou...

Svitlana was abducted and raped at gunpoint by a Russian soldier. By the time she finally managed to escape, she discovered she was pregnant. 📹: @Slidstvo_info

🔴 Second Russian strike on foreign vessel today kills two. Two people died after an attack by Russian forces on a Marshall Islands-flagged merchant ship caused a fire, marking the second such assault on a foreign-flagged craft within Ukraine's Odesa region today.

🔴 Ukraine is aggressively dismantling Russia’s war machine, striking over 1,500 military targets in a single day as part of their 40-day operation. 🧵 1/3 ⬇️

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EU imports of Russian Yamal LNG surged 18% to a record 9.89M tons in H1 2026. The buying spree comes just months before the bloc's ban on long-term Russian LNG imports takes effect on Jan 1, 2027. 🧵 1/3

🤨 Bulgaria is leaving the "Coalition of the Willing" supporting Ukraine. Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev, who advocates for "pragmatic" ties with Moscow, stated that Bulgaria opposes further military aid to Kyiv.

⚡ European Commission is withdrawing a €2M grant from the Venice Biennale over the return of the Russian pavilion. "Culture and support must not become vehicles of whitewashing aggression," EU High Representative Kaja Kallas stated.

⚡ BREAKING: The Ukrainian Navy destroyed the Russian FSB border patrol ship "Izumrud" near Novorossiysk using a Sargan-3000 naval drone. In 2018, the "Izumrud" infamously led the attack and capture of three Ukrainian vessels and 24 sailors in the Kerch Strait.

⚡ For the first time, Ukrainian troops marched in Paris's Bastille Day parade, while Ukrainian pilots co-piloted French Mirage fighter jets overhead.

👀 The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed overnight strikes hit the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat plant in Bashkortostan, one of Russia’s largest petrochemical complexes, and the Afipsky refinery in Krasnodar Krai, a key fuel supplier in the south.

⚡️ Ukraine’s relentless drone campaign has struck 105 Russian vessels in eight days, turning the Sea of Azov into a no-go zone for Moscow’s fleet. 🔗 united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Here’s what’s wrong with @economist.com platforming Russian oligarch Melnichenko 👇

🔴 Ukraine strikes over 1,700 Russian military targets in one day. Patrol boats, fuel hubs, and ferries, bringing the total to 105 Russian vessels disabled over the past eight days of intensified drone operations. 🧵 1/3 ⬇️

⚡️ BREAKING: France to provide 16 Rafale jets and missile licenses to Ukraine. President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will deliver 16 Rafale fighter jets between 2028 and 2029 and grant Ukraine licenses to manufacture Aster-30 interceptors, AASM Hammer bombs, and SCALP cruise missiles.

⚡️ President Zelenskyy says the new Ukraine-led European anti-ballistic shield project, FREYJA, could be operational within 12 months. “Europe needs more anti-ballistic defense. Together, we can create such a system and the interceptor missiles for it,” the president said.

Putin’s "inland sea" dream has been shattered by massive Ukrainian strikes in the Sea of Azov.

⚡️ BREAKING: Ukraine and partners launch Antiballistic Coalition. Ukraine, along with France, the UK, Germany, and six other European nations, has formed this alliance to develop an integrated missile defense system for Europe by leveraging collective industrial capacity and combat experience.

⚡️ Russian attack on Sumy kills 13-year-old athlete. Thirteen-year-old track and field competitor Uliana Vorona was killed on July 11 while waiting at a bus stop after a Russian guided aerial bomb struck the city of Sumy.

⚡️ Zelenskyy awards Order of Liberty to Macron. The Ukrainian president honored his French counterpart with the distinction, citing the French leader's significant personal contributions to elevating the diplomatic and strategic cooperation between their two nations.

⚡️ Putin claims again that Russia is advancing on the battlefield and strengthening its economy, despite opposition from the "Russophobic" West.

🔴 Russian forces have published footage showing them dropping a 3-ton aerial bomb on the Ukrainian town of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region.

⚡️ BREAKING: Ukrainian firm Fire Point just teased a new pan-European anti-ballistic shield, the FREYJA system, in a video posted online.

⚡️ Ukraine receives additional mobile F-16 simulators. The nation has acquired new, highly portable flight training systems provided by the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, and Austria to enhance pilot combat proficiency without relying on active aircraft during the ongoing war.

🤯 WOW: Ukrainian troops execute world's first remote robotic landing mission. Soldiers from the 123rd Territorial Defense Brigade utilized an unmanned raft to remotely deploy a combat robot onto the occupied Kinburn Spit, marking the world’s first successful remote combat landing.