❗️Russians hit a ship off the coast of Odesa again today

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇷🇺 FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational crime including fentanyl, cyber fraud and child sexual exploitation, - Reuters

🇩🇪 Russia launches new provocations ahead of German elections, - Reuters German security services note that information attacks from Russia are primarily targeting rivals of far-right AfD party. Russian resources are trying to discredit representatives of other parties.

🇺🇸👀 Donald Trump’s administration has paid out about $100 billion in tariff refunds since US Supreme Court struck down its use of emergency powers to levy duties on its trading partners earlier this year, - FT The sum is 60% of $165 billion collected from president’s “liberation day” tariffs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷👀 Reuters: The US has ‌removed counterterrorism sanctions from two aircraft ⁠and three airlines with links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard ‌Corps, ⁠according to details posted to the ⁠U.S. Treasury Department's website.

🇰🇷🇰🇵 South Korea will revive a long-stalled railway project near the DMZ that could eventually reconnect with North Korea's eastern rail network, - Reuters The move is part of Seoul's broader effort to improve inter-Korean relations, despite ongoing diplomatic deadlock…

‼️ The enemy struck Odesa, there is a dead and 8 wounded "As a result of the strike at one of the enterprises in the Odesa district, cars caught fire. Unfortunately, according to preliminary data, one person died," - OVA.

☢️🇺🇸 NBC News: The Pentagon is drafting a classified nuclear strategy that would place greater emphasis on the potential use of shorter-range tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict with 🇨🇳China or 🥴Russia.

🇰🇵🚀🇺🇦 Update: North Korea is transferring a missile unit of about 90 people to Russia for strikes on Ukraine, - Reuters DPRK military can be armed with 120 ballistic missiles and six launchers. Pyongyang has already delivered a new batch of 40 KN-23 and KN-24 missiles.

✉️❗️ The destroyed terminal of "Nova Poshta" on Obolon in Kyiv now.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Reuters: The U.S. is continuing talks to let Ukraine produce Patriot interceptor missiles or components, despite Trump's doubts about deal. Options include manufacturing parts in Ukraine for final assembly in Germany, but any agreement would take at least a year before delivering new missiles.

🤬 Russian killed 17 people in Kyiv region during night attack. 44 injured. Fires and destruction reported in Brovary, Bucha, and Fastiv districts.

🇺🇸 CNN: The U.S. has depleted nearly 80% of its THAAD interceptors, about half of its Patriot missiles, and significant numbers of other precision munitions during the Iran conflict. It prompted senior military commanders to warn that key stockpiles are dangerously low.

🇺🇦❗️Former convicts who joined the defense of Ukraine were equalized in rights with other military personnel: the corresponding law was signed by the President of Ukraine ➡️ After a year of service and termination of administrative supervision, they will be able to receive 15 days of basic leave. 1/2

🇺🇦 Day 20. Even the rain in the capital did not make people miss the rally against Fedorov's resignation. Actions are also ongoing in Lviv, Odesa, Cherkasy, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Kharkiv, Ternopil and other cities.

🇮🇷🇪🇺 Iran is considering allowing European countries to participate in demining the Strait of Hormuz, - Bloomberg. Publicly, Tehran has repeatedly stated that it will not allow other countries to participate in demining the Strait. However, according to diplomats, Iranian side has softened position.

🇺🇦❄️❗️ "We are not going to surrender this winter and will not allow anyone to surrender our country. Therefore, we will fight - each in his own place," — Zelensky

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Officially introduced the new Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Ihor Klymenko. I expect that Secretary, PM, officials, Office team, military, special services, will add efficiency and substance to all the work on preparing for winter.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 UK lawyers will help Ukraine prepare its first case for crimes against humanity related to the systematic use of Russian drones against civilians. While Ukraine has charged 912 Russian citizens with war crimes, this will be the first time charges have been brought for crimes against humanity.

😄 Yesterday Putin arrived in Krasnoyarsk. That same day, gasoline “suddenly” appeared in the city and lines at gas stations disappeared, - Ukraine Context

🇺🇦❗️ Detonation at the Khmelnytskyi training ground. State Bureau of Investigation is checking two main versions of the tragedy: violation of rules during the transportation and unloading of ammunition or sabotage. As of August 3, five servicemen are considered missing, eight more were injured.

💧💡🇺🇦 It's hard to live more than 3 days without water and sewage. Russia changes targets for strikes in winter, - Shmyhal This winter, the enemy plans to attack Ukraine's water supply, Energy Minister said to POLITICO.

⚡️ Websites of Russian banks, including VTB, Sberbank and Alfa-Bank, have become inaccessible in Chrome, Safari and Edge browsers The reason is called the revocation of foreign SSL certificates. After that, the banks switched to Russian certificates, which are not supported by most browsers.

🇺🇦❄️ Winter will be objectively difficult. The energy sector still lacks 650 million euros, — PM Koretsky Ukraine must not only restore the destroyed Soviet energy infrastructure, but also build a new distributed generation with the support of partners.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US will not be able to fulfill contracts to license Ukraine to produce Patriot missiles until winter. This was announced by US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker.

📉Russian oil refining plummets to its lowest level since 2002 after a record string of refinery strikes. In July, it was 3.6 million barrels per day, according to EA Analytics; this is the lowest since May 2002, Bloomberg reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump: Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say “beg,” talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about…

🇺🇸🇺🇦 “When it comes to protecting Ukraine, you can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” Senator Chris Murphy said, commenting on the debate surrounding the proposed “hellish sanctions” bill against Russia.

❗️🇺🇦 In Khmelnytskyi region, the deputy head of the OVA was exposed for "kickbacks" for road repairs According to investigation, the official demanded a bribe of 1.1 million hryvnias from the contractor (5% of the deal value) for guaranteed signing of contracts for the repair of inter-regional roads.

🕯️ 🇺🇦Today in Radushne Ukrainian are saying goodbye to the Voronov family, who were killed by a Russian missile in their own home Artem, Olena and their children Mark, Azariy Ilay, Emilia.