SEN. COONS: The combination of Trump administration actually imposing sanctions on Russia, buyers of Russian oil and sanction evaders, and giving Ukraine the Patriot PAC-3 interceptors they need and deserve, could resolve this war in a matter of weeks, if not months at the most.

​Russians destroyed the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Darivka, Kherson Oblast. The local community built the church themselves along the Beryslav highway to honor fallen Ukrainian soldiers from their village. "Defenders of Christianity" strike again.

In ​Moscow Region fire reported at Roscosmos’s main research Institute in Korolyov 👀

North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to western Russia and could be equipped with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers for strikes against Ukraine - Reuters. Peachy, just freaking peachy.

Ufa Oil Refinery in Russia this morning 🔥

At least 17 people were killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv last night. We weren't able to intercept a single one. ​I haven't felt this angry since Russia was launching daily ballistic strikes on Kharkiv from right across the border, while our allies forbade us from using

8 ordinary civilians were standing on a train platform, waiting for their ride home. Moments later, a Russian ballistic missile killed every single one of them...

Okay okay, I promise I'll stop posting burning Wildberries in Tula. Soon. 😍🔥😍🔥

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14h ago

Wildberries. Tula region. Pure art 🔥

Wildberries. Tula region. Pure art 🔥

Attack on a Wildberries warehouse has been reported in Aleksin, Tula Region of russia 🔥

@toonietuesday.bsky.social Russia attacks Kyiv with ballistic missiles right now ‼️

Rick Wilson: Trump is still on Russian side. Trump is on the side of Putin. Even now, as Trump shifts back to Zelenskyy a little bit. That’s only because Zelenskyy is essentially winning, and Trump doesn’t want to be stuck with a loser. He still ideologically believes in Putin.

APPLEBAUM: Kushner and Witkoff didn’t understand Putin. They don’t really know the geography of Ukraine. They were seen by Russians, and really by everybody, as incompetents who were bumbling along. Russians thought, "Well, we can rip these people off, and win the war that way."

Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania: At Vilnius Summit in 2013, Ukrainian President Yanukovych refused to sign EU association agreement. He came and said that Russia was threatening economic sanctions, and that they would lose billions of dollars if they moved further toward Europe.

BROWDER: American people support Ukraine, think Putin is a war criminal, and would like to see U.S. military aid for Ukraine. Every day that Trump pursues pro-Putin policy, he thinks he can sort of whitewash whatever is going on behind the scenes. But it’s not happening.

@toonietuesday.bsky.social As a result of a Russian airstrike on Kramatorsk, 24 people were injured. ​Fire broke out in a 14-story apartment building. Emergency workers rescued 9 people from trapped apartments.

ZELENSKYY: In total, during this July, all our units destroyed 30,272 Russians on the battlefield, mostly using drones. These are killed and wounded, and only those with clear video confirmation. So the trend on the front is unchanged and Ukraine will soon have even more drones.

APPLEBAUM: Witkoff and Kushner had a pretty profound effect on how peace negotiations been conducted, and it’s not positive. They prolonged war in Ukraine because their attitude was, "We’re going to Moscow to do deals with Russian companies." Russians were delighted by this,

KASPAROV: How much will China gain from the collapse of Russian Empire? China has the largest territorial claims against Russia in the world. That's 1.5 million square kilometers. Russian Empire took these lands from China in 1860. China's goal is to recover these lands.

KASPAROV: Imagine that war ends. It must end with Ukraine’s victory and Russia’s defeat. In Russian history only military or political defeats have led to changes. Furthermore, I believe that because of the lost war, Russia will most likely not remain within its current borders.

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Sean Wiswesser, former CIA officer: Let's talk about an example of Russian coercive intelligence espionage operations. Russians love to use honey traps. They call them compromising material operations. Material part changes. It can be sex, gambling, whatever vulnerability of their target.

Sean Wiswesser, former CIA officer: Russians believe in the stick, terror, and intimidation. That's practiced both domestically and bleeds into their foreign intelligence work. Russians tend to want to use compromising material in their operations. What I mean is sexpionage.

KASPAROV: Everything went contrary to Putin's expectations. Kyiv was not captured in 3 days, nor even in 3 years. Moreover, Ukraine demonstrated ability to act as a free state, to very dynamically develop its defense industry.

Oil refining volumes in Russia have dropped to a more than 20-year low, Bloomberg reports. 👀

A Russian drone completely burned down the Holy Protection Church (Sviato-Vvedenska) in Boryslav, Kherson region, built in 1726. The church was an architectural monument of national significance and one of the few surviving examples of Cossack wooden sacral architecture.

Wildberries warehouse in Novosemeykino, Samara region, Russia, attacked on August 2. The fire raged for two days, turning it into a pile of ash and cinders. 🔥

Russian "human safari" in Kherson continues. Police have released footage showing Russians using a drone to hunt a civilian in the city. The victim is a 52-year-old market vendor from the Mykolaiv region, who suffered a blast injury, shrapnel wounds, and a concussion.

Overnight in Sumy, russian attack killed a 75-year-old woman and two children, aged 5 and 10‼️ Three other people were injured after russians struck the city's civilian infrastructure with 6 guided aerial bombs.

In Mykolaiv, an 89-year-old woman was killed and seven others were injured, including two young girls, ages 2 and 12, in a Russian strike on a residential area of the city overnight.