Global War Analysis

🇺🇦 Ukraine may receive laser weapons to combat aerial targets within the next 2-3 months, according to Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Lebedenko. According to him, these systems are already capable of hitting FPV drones, and work is currently underway to adapt them for use against "Shahed" drones. Laser weapons may be more effective than machine guns in combating aerial attack assets. Teams within the Armed Forces of Ukraine and private Ukrainian companies are working on the development of these systems.

🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen: I welcome the agreement on the 21st sanctions package against Russia. We’re adding 32 more Russian banks to our transaction ban list. As well as crypto firms and oil trading platforms. Freezing the oil price cap adjustment for a year, so that the Russian war machine does not benefit from market shocks. For the first time, we’re targeting vessels assisting Russia’s shadow fleet. And we took an important step towards formally banning Russian combatants from entering the EU.

🇷🇺🛢Russia's fuel crisis begins to ease after Ukraine shifts focus of strikes - Bloomberg Ukraine has recently shifted the focus of attacks from major oil refineries in Russia to tankers of the "shadow fleet". In some regions of the Russian Federation, quotas for gasoline sales per car are gradually increasing. However, in July, oil refining in Russia will average 3.511 million barrels per day, which is the lowest figure since May 2002. This is more than a third below the seasonal norm for the country.

🤡 Wildberries CEO Tatyana Kim stated that Ukraine's attack on Wildberries' civilian infrastructure is an act of international terrorism.

🇮🇪🇺🇦 Irish Prime Minister arrive in Kyiv today to meet with Zelensky.

🇺🇦🇷🇺😄 Members of a Russian mobile fire team watch as a suicide drone hits a truck on the Bedyansk-Mariupol highway

🇪🇺🇷🇺 EU Ambassadors Agree on 21st Sanctions Package Against Russia, - Radio Liberty Currently, technical work is being finalized. The written procedure for approving the package is planned to begin this afternoon, an EU diplomat said.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 U.S. Secretary of State Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov met in Manila, Philippines.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Dnipropetrovsk region: Russian troops attacked four districts of the region at night Nikopol and three nearby communities were hit. A gas station, apartment buildings and private houses, as well as cars, were burned.

🇺🇦🇷🇺(LPDS) "Subkhankulovo" after the UAV attack Republic of Bashkortostan

Tuymazy... A drone attacked the LDPS (Livestock and Poultry Depot) Subhankulovo in February.

🔥 Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian drone units have struck or destroyed 1931 enemy targets. These include 420 enemy personnel, of whom 165 were killed, 60 drone launch points, 30 electronic warfare (EW) systems, 128 vehicles, 14 artillery systems, and 375 enemy unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) of the "Kopter," "Krilo," "Shahed," and "Gerbera" types. Since the beginning of July, Ukrainian drone units have struck a total of 38,059 enemy targets, including 8,009 personnel of the occupying forces.

Novosspasskoye... two attack locations: oil depot and oil refinery.

Ukraine’s air defenses downed or suppressed 156 targets overnight, including 2 Kh-59/69 missiles and 154 drones. Russia launched 1 Iskander-M ballistic missile, 5 Kh-59/69 missiles, and 168 Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, and decoy drones. Nine impact sites were recorded.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Tuymazy, Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia) - (LPDs) "Subhankulovo"

Russian losses per 23/07/26 reported by the Ukrainian general staff. +1480 men +28 (!) tanks +12 ACVs +78 artillery +3 MLRS +2 AD systems +1688 UAVs +13 GRCs +3 cruise missiles

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Novospasskoye, Ulyanovsk Oblast... The NS-Oil refinery (LLC) has been attacked.

Ukraine recorded the first case of Russian Molniya drones being controlled through a Gerbera drone, presidential adviser Serhii Beskrestnov said. He said both systems use mesh modems operating in the same frequency range and made by the same Chinese manufacturer, but had previously been incompatible due to licensing restrictions. Beskrestnov warned the relay scheme may spread and said destroying the Gerbera should cause the linked Molniyas to fall.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Voronezh is came under a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack overnight, with a series of explosions reported across the city. Russian monitoring channels said the Wildberries logistics hub may have been one of the targets.

❗️🇺🇸🇮🇷 More from Shalamcheh border crossing with Iraq Man in the video says they targeted an Iranian telecommunications tower.