- Invading Russian forces are conducting combat operations to create conditions for an offensive on Bakhmut and for taking over the territory of the Vuhlehirska thermal power plant, Ukraine’s General Staff said in a Facebook post on July 24
- Missiles have destroyed the first ambulance donated by Warwickshire’s Ambulance Aid in Ukraine. Ambulance Aid fundraises to buy ambulances to send to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict
- Russia’s state media-monitoring agency Roskomnadzor has blocked the website of the magazine Novaya rasskaz-gazeta at the request of the Prosecutor-General’s Office for allegedly “discrediting the Russian armed forces. The website lasted seven days and nine hours before being shut down
- British Navy special forces showed Ukrainian troops how to use Bond-like submarines in order to help Ukraine take back Snake Island from the Russians
- Explosions were heard at the airfield of occupied Melitopol; the railway used by the Russians to transport troops and equipment was damaged in the Melitopol district
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the outset of his wider Africa tour on Sunday. Most Arab and African countries have refused to take sides, as they share interests with both stakeholders. The fragile economies of countries in Africa and the Middle East have also suffered the most from the war due to skyrocketing oil prices and the food crisis
- The European Commission on Friday proposed a temporary suspension of EU crop rotation rules to increase cereal production and help head off a global food security crisis due to the impact of the war in Ukraine
- The United States will continue to “support Ukraine for as long as it takes,” expediting military aid in the country’s battle against invading Russian military forces, says the U.S. ambassador to Kyiv
- The city council in Lviv banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, even though that church has declared itself independent of the Russian church. This approach will define Ukraine’s way of handling a church that has blindly supported whatever Moscow wants in the past, but which has denounced the invasion and sought to position itself as a Ukrainian denomination
- Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova admitted that the missile strike on the Port of Odesa was carried out by Russian troops, but came up with an excuse for it, that Harpoon missiles had been allegedly destroyed in the port