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More than 10 Shahed drone strikes hit five districts of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast overnight and into the afternoon of July 12, 2026, killing three people and injuring four in Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol district.

Overnight on July 12-13, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot near Vyazniki in Stavropol Krai for the second time in a week, while a mass drone attack on Moscow Oblast killed three people in the village of Pionersky.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko will step down after roughly a year in office; no successor has been named yet, with the Servant of the People faction set to discuss the changes on July 14.

Ukrainian drones struck 21 more Russian tankers and seven other vessels in the Sea of Azov overnight — 76 vessels hit in six days. Russia has now fully halted shipping through the Kerch Strait.

Russia struck civilian infrastructure in Odesa and attacked the region's port facilities, killing two people in the city and two more dockworkers on the coast — the second consecutive day of deadly port strikes.

Three FAB-250 guided bombs struck the center of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast, killing a 67-year-old man and injuring three others, and damaging dozens of buildings.

Three Russian guided bombs struck civilian areas of Sumy, killing five people — including a 13-year-old girl — and injuring 31 others.

Russian aircraft dropped guided bombs on central Zaporizhzhia overnight, killing two people — including a 22-year-old police officer — and injuring 33 others.

A Ukrainian drone strike set the Syzran oil refinery ablaze deep inside Russia's Samara Oblast — the third consecutive night that Russian fuel infrastructure has come under attack.

Overnight on July 11, Russia launched a ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv, injuring 10 people, including a child, and causing fires and damage across four districts of the capital.

On his tenth visit to Kyiv, Senator Lindsey Graham announced that the White House has agreed to back a version of a Russia sanctions bill, giving it a real chance of becoming law.

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi summed up the first half of 2026 on July 10: Russia's offensive narrowed from 13 to 6-7 directions and its rate of advance was cut by more than half.

Russian aircraft dropped seven guided aerial bombs on Kramatorsk and the nearby village of Bilenke around midday on July 10, 2026, killing four people, including a 14-year-old boy, and injuring nine others.

On July 10, 2026, Russian forces launched a massed strike on Zaporizhzhia city, killing a police officer, injuring at least 29 people, and destroying more than 15 private homes.

Overnight on July 9-10, 2026, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces and the General Staff reported a coordinated strike on Russian shadow-fleet tankers, Crimean electrical substations, and mainland oil infrastructure, with no casualties reported.

On July 9, a Russian drone struck the car of two Pension Fund employees in Kherson, killing both. Later the same day, a drone hit a passenger minibus in the city center, injuring eight more people.

Overnight into July 9, Ukrainian drones struck oil depots in Tver and Stavropol, a reserve fuel facility, and a pumping station in Ufa — nearly 1,500 km from Ukraine's border.

Slovenia has announced an additional $50 million contribution to the PURL initiative, which funds deliveries of US-made weapons to Ukraine, alongside co-financing for three new civilian shelters.

On the evening of July 8, Russia struck Odesa with a ballistic missile, killing four people and injuring seven. The city has declared a day of mourning as repair and rescue work continues.

More than 430 Ukrainian drones headed toward Moscow and its region on the night of July 6-7 — reportedly the largest raid on the Russian capital in two years. Airports suspended flights, and Zelensky vowed to keep up the pressure.

On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told President Volodymyr Zelensky about a new support package worth more than $900 million — ammunition, Canadian-built armoured vehicles, and engineering equipment.

Overnight into July 9, Russian forces struck the Bashtanka district of Mykolaiv region with guided aerial bombs. A 38-year-old woman and her 15-year-old daughter were killed in the Horokhiv community, with two more people injured.

Overnight into July 8, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck 53 military targets in temporarily occupied Crimea and southern Ukraine, including a key node of the Kuban-Crimea power bridge and three radar stations.

A Russian drone hit a gas facility and a high-rise in Kyiv's Desnianskyi district on the afternoon of July 8. Three people died and ten were injured, including two medics.

Over consecutive nights, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck at least 10-12 tankers from Russia's 'shadow fleet' in the Sea of Azov, vessels that had been supplying fuel to occupied Crimea.

At the NATO summit in Ankara, US President Donald Trump said Ukraine will get a license to produce Patriot missile systems on its own soil — the first time the US has allowed an ally to manufacture the technology domestically.

A combined drone and guided-bomb attack on Kharkiv killed one person and injured 20 residents, including four children.

Overnight drone strikes hit an oil refinery in Saratov, a petrochemical plant in Nizhnekamsk, and the Borisoglebsk military air base in Russia.

At the NATO summit in Ankara, Ukraine signed its ninth "Drone Deal" agreement, giving Denmark access to combat-tested Ukrainian weapons technology.

The Dutch defense minister announced €150 million in new funding to strengthen Ukraine's air defense, as Russian aerial attacks intensify.

Ukraine's long-range drones hit Russia's largest oil refinery in Omsk — the longest-range strike of the full-scale war so far, completing a campaign against all eleven of Russia's top gasoline producers.

A Russian missile struck homes in the Odesa region on the afternoon of July 6, injuring a three-year-old boy. The region continues to face repeated strikes on civilian infrastructure.

EU leaders agreed on June 18-19 to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another twelve months, through July 2027, as a 21st sanctions package moves forward.

A wave of missile, bomb, and drone strikes across Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions on July 3-4 killed one person and injured more than a dozen others.

Drones struck the Kronstadt naval base and an oil terminal in Russia's Leningrad region — roughly 900 kilometers from the front line.

A ninth convoy from the UK's fire and rescue services reached the Ukrainian border with 21 fire vehicles and over 2,300 pieces of equipment — replacing part of the nearly 1,800 vehicles Ukrainian firefighters have lost since the war began.

NATO leaders gather in Ankara on July 7-8 to discuss defense spending, industrial capacity and support for Ukraine — opening just after a massive missile strike hit Kyiv.

Overnight on July 6, Russia launched one of its heaviest combined strikes on Kyiv in months, combining ballistic and cruise missiles with attack drones. At least nine people were killed, with the Podilskyi district hit hardest.

A Russian drone strike on Bohodukhiv in Ukraine's Kharkiv region killed two people overnight, while shelling in Kharkiv city injured five more civilians.

On the night of 26 June, Russia launched a massive combined strike on Ukraine. Here is what is known about the aftermath.

On 15 June 2026, a Russian drone struck the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. What Europe is saying — and why the target was no accident.