The New York Times, citing sources, has reported that Iran considered launching a ballistic missile equipped with a small warhead to attack a Ukrainian port. However, the situation has reportedly been defused through diplomatic efforts, at least for now.

Ukrainska Pravda has learned that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spent a long time observing Serhii Koretskyi's work before personally selecting him as prime minister.

Russia launched 80 attack drones against Ukraine overnight. Ukrainian air defences destroyed 65 of them, while drone strikes and falling debris were recorded at multiple locations.

Russian forces attacked 24 settlements across Sumy Oblast over the past day, injuring a woman and damaging civilian infrastructure facilities.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the sanctions bill drafted by late Senator Lindsey Graham sends a strong signal to Europe while providing important support for Ukraine.

Russian forces attacked two petrol stations in Sumy Oblast with drones on the evening of 28 July.

A car exploded while in motion in Odesa on 28 July, killing the driver at the scene and leaving a female passenger hospitalised.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski believes the current situation in the Russia-Ukraine war is putting pressure on Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and could push him into "something risky".

One person has been killed and one injured as a result of Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Four people have been injured in Mykolaiv Oblast.

The Pivdennyi Mining and Processing Plant has begun the process of suspending extraction and temporarily scaling back operations. The decision was made because of continued Russian attacks on civilian merchant vessels heading to Black Sea ports.

A Shahed drone struck a five-storey residential building in Kharkiv, injuring two people; emergency crews are dealing with the aftermath of the attack.

DeepState, a Ukrainian group of military analysts, has recorded an advance by Russian forces near the border village of Artilne in the Kupiansk district in Kharkiv Oblast.

Two Russian servicemen have been formally notified of suspicion for the rape and murder of a civilian woman during the occupation of Bucha in 2022.

Those detained on suspicion of the beating of Ukrainian citizens in Wrocław, Poland, face up to five years in prison.

The new French ambassador to Ukraine, Brice Roquefeuil, has arrived in Kyiv, presented copies of his credentials and paid tribute to Ukrainian defenders.

Ukrainian company Robotic Complexes has presented the Murakha CaseEvak, a robotic system for the remote evacuation of wounded soldiers from dangerous areas.

The Wall Street Journal has reported that US President Donald Trump has begun to express new optimism about Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in recent weeks.

A Russian drone has attacked firefighters while they were extinguishing a forest fire in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast, injuring four of them.

A Ukrainian court has found two major generals and four battalion tactical group commanders from Russia's Rosgvardia (National Guard) guilty in absentia of violating the laws and customs of war and sentenced each to 12 years' imprisonment for the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in 2022.

Mykhailo Drapatyi, newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, has outlined his vision for Ukrainian victory and the capabilities that will help achieve it during a conversation with General Alexus Grynkewich, Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Commander of US Forces in Europe.

Ukraine's new Prime Minister, Serhii Koretskyi, has made it mandatory for ministers to present government bills in person and to attend key parliamentary sessions.

A total of 272 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day, with the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka fronts seeing the heaviest fighting.

Russia's Ryazan came under a large-scale drone attack, with reports in social media suggesting that a Wildberries logistics centre was among the targets.

Ukraine's General Staff has updated data on Russian losses: Russia lost 1,310 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met more than 60 US senators in Washington to discuss sanctions against Russia and Ukraine's defence needs.

Russian forces launched a drone attack on Kherson Oblast on Tuesday 28 July, killing a man in the village of Mykilske in the Darivka hromada. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met representatives of the defence company Lockheed Martin in the US. The company produces ATACMS, HIMARS, F-16 fighter jets and missiles for Patriot systems.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has spoken by phone with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, stressing that Ukraine wants to avoid escalation.

A civilian Liberian-flagged vessel in the Black Sea has been hit in yet another Russian attack. The ship was at anchor without crew or cargo on board.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he has discussed licences for the production of Patriot interceptors and efforts to accelerate the diplomatic process with US President Donald Trump.

The European Union has said it considers all individual sanctions it has imposed, including those against Tatiana Navka, the wife of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, to be justified and well-founded.

A prolonged blockade of Ukrainian seaports could leave the market awash with agricultural produce throughout the marketing year and purchase prices are already falling below the full cost of production.

A meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump in Washington on 28 July will be held behind closed doors, with no journalists present, and the two leaders are not expected to make any public statements.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said following the brutal attack on a Ukrainian couple in Wrocław that the recent rise in violence in Poland is linked to the fact that radical groups feel they have political backing. He also addressed Polish President Karol Nawrocki.

Dmytro Koziatynskyi, the veteran who called on Ukrainians to protest against the dismissal of former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov, has announced that a protest march in support of dialogue and defence reforms is to be held in Kyiv on the evening of 31 July and urged other cities to join in.

Russian forces bombarded residential areas in Kherson's Tsentralnyi (Central) district from the temporarily occupied left bank of the Dnipro River on the morning of 28 July, killing a 61-year-old local resident.

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has categorically denied claims by Russian ruler Vladimir Putin that Ukraine would be divided in the future and that part of its territory would be ceded to Poland.

Poland is divided over continued military support for Ukraine, and the majority of its citizens oppose Ukraine's accession to the European Union.

A 58-year-old man has died after being injured in a Russian drone attack on Kherson on 29 July

Polish government spokesman Adam Szłapka believes the rise in cases of violence against Ukrainians is linked to the rhetoric and actions of right-wing politicians.

Russian forces continue to increase pressure on Kostiantynivka while preparing to intensify operations towards the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk front.

US President Donald Trump said his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House was very successful.

The US Senate has approved a procedural vote on a sanctions bill targeting Russia and Iran. The legislation now moves to debate, a final vote and, if passed, the president's signature.

Iran says Ukraine should compensate it for the sinking of a merchant vessel in the Caspian Sea following an attack.

Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the President's Office, has announced that agreement has been reached to step up the negotiation process following a meeting between Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump in Washington, in which he took part as part of the Ukrainian delegation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met his Finnish counterpart Alexander Stubb in Washington.

The Ukrainian authorities have to carry out 25 reforms or steps to receive more than €10 billion in support for the Ukrainian budget under the EU's €90 billion loan and the Ukraine Facility.

The bilateral meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump at the White House has concluded.

A bipartisan group of US senators has reached agreement on a long-awaited bill that would enable President Donald Trump to impose additional sanctions on major buyers of Russian energy resources and on Iran.

Following a series of systematic drone strikes on Russian oil refineries and tankers in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, Ukraine has expanded its campaign to target Russia's logistics infrastructure. Since last week, warehouses belonging to Russia's largest online marketplace, Wildberries, have come under what Ukraine describes as "long-range sanctions".

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry has rejected as baseless and unsubstantiated the claims made by Iraqi National Security Adviser Qasim al-Aboudi alleging Ukraine's involvement in attacks on Iraqi territory.

Russian attacks have left some consumers without electricity in parts of Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy oblasts.

The conservative American influencer Laura Loomer has called Ukraine an ally of the United States and called for support for Ukrainians in defeating Russia, warning that if Russia were to take Ukraine, it would attempt to start a war with NATO, other European countries and the US.

The American far-right blogger Laura Loomer has said that future US-mediated negotiations on Russia's war against Ukraine should no longer be held in Moscow.

Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov has denied reports that there are no petrol stations left intact on the road from Kharkiv to Poltava.

Ukrainian forces have struck a strategic Rosrezerv facility in Udmurtia and a number of Russian military depots in temporarily occupied Crimea and Luhansk Oblast.

Ukraine's defence forces repelled 227 Russian attacks along the line of contact over the past day, according to the latest General Staff report.