Russia is preparing larger-scale strikes against Ukraine, as evidenced by the increase in missile and attack drone production in the country, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) report.

The plant manufactures countermeasure stations for front-line aircraft and is a major part of Russia's military-industrial complex.

Ukrainian drones hit Russia's Sochi resort while Russian forces bombarded Odessa's residential areas and historic Pryvoz market, hours after ceasefire talks collapsed.

According to the daily air force report, Russia targeted Ukraine with 208 drones and 27 missiles overnight. It said according to preliminary data, air defense and electronic warfare took down or intercepted 183 drones and 17 missiles but nine locations recorded hits from 10 missiles and 25 drones.

Video footage released on social media purports to show the moment when a Ukrainian drone hit a critical Russian military site, sanctioned by the EU and the U.S. A clip showed the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flying across the sky before striking the facility in the Stavropol region of southern Russia.

The barrage of exploding drones and missiles appeared to be the most intense attack since President Trump announced a plan to get more weapons for Kyiv.

Russia and Ukraine again exchanged a series of major overnight drone strikes as the two sides maneuvered ahead of a possible resumption of ceasefire talks.

In late July 2025, amid high media interest in Derek Huffman, a Texas man who moved his family to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ values in the U.S., a claim ( archived) circulated online that Huffman had died in combat after enlisting in the Russian armed forces.

At night, Russians attacked Dnipro and the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones and missiles. As a result of the Russian strikes, fires broke out, and there were killed and injured, according to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration,