Emergency services continue to remove unexploded ordnance from the area surrounding the military training ground near Khmelnytskyi, where an explosion followed by ammunition detonation occurred on July 31.

The Pentagon is giving up command of NATO's headquarters in Germany, which is led by the United States and coordinates military aid to Ukraine.

Russian forces suffered their highest personnel losses of 2026 in July, with 42,860 troops killed or wounded.

Ukraine’s top-ranked tennis player, Elina Svitolina, was defeated in the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 tournament in Washington, D.C. (USA), which had a prize pool of $1,637,982.

The Kremlin wants to demonstrate that there is no anti-war agenda in the parliamentary elections in September, but it has yet to decide what to do with the anti-war Yabloko party.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed the security of maritime routes and ways to strengthen the protection of human lives.

Ukraine is not expected to introduce electricity consumption restrictions on Sunday, August 2.

Russian forces launched 35 missiles, most of them ballistic, and nearly 190 drones of various types at Ukraine during the night of August 1. The primary targets were Kyiv and the Kyiv region. At least nine people were killed and 40 were injured.

As a result of Russian attacks in the Zaporizhzhia region on August 1, one person was killed and another was injured.

During the past 24 hours, Ukraine's Defense Forces engaged Russian troops in 193 combat clashes, with the largest number of enemy attacks recorded in the Pokrovsk sector.

The most important priorities at this time are partners' decisions to provide Ukraine with anti-ballistic missiles and to strengthen sanctions against the Russian Federation.

In the Mykolaiv region, as a result of a Russian attack on a gas station, three people were injured, including one child.

In the evening of August 1, a Russian drone struck a railway infrastructure facility in the Lubny district of Poltava region.

In Vyshneve, Kyiv region, as a result of a Russian missile strike on a logistics center on the night of August 1, the warehouse of one of the largest board game publishers in Ukraine, Rozum — board games and educational products, which is part of the Factor Group of Companies — was completely destroyed.

In Kyiv, rescue workers have completed cleanup efforts following the attack carried out by Russian troops on the night of August 1—105 people were rescued.

In Kherson, a woman was killed and seven other people were injured as a result of a Russian airstrike on the Central District.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two people were killed and 12 others were injured as a result of Russian attacks throughout the day on August 1.

In Kyiv, as a result of a Russian attack on the night of August 1, the mosque of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “Umma” was damaged for the third time.

On the morning of August 1, Russian troops attacked Rozetka’s warehouses in Brovary, Kyiv region, with a missile-equipped drone; one person was killed and seven others were injured.

In Kherson, a woman was killed and five other people were injured as a result of a Russian airstrike on the Central District.

Russian forces have attacked Ukrainian positions 59 times since the beginning of the day, with the heaviest fighting reported on the Pokrovsk, Sloviansk and Kostiantynivka axes.

A Russian drone struck a gas station in the Mykolaiv region on August 1, injuring three people, among them a four-year-old child.

Two young children, a 12-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother, were injured in a Russian drone attack in the Odesa region.

One person was killed and nine others were injured in Russian attacks in the Kyiv region.

Seven more civilians were injured in Russian attacks in the Kherson region.

Dutch analyst Patrick Bolder believes that Ukraine needs an international "security umbrella" under which missiles and drones that do not belong to Ukraine would be intercepted by a coalition of partner states.

The number of people injured in a Russian attack on Odesa has risen to three.

The number of people injured in the Russian attack on Kyiv overnight has risen to 33, while nine people were killed.

Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck three Podlyot-K1 radar stations and one Kasta-2E2 radar station in Russia's Krasnodar region.

The entrances and exits of the Vyrlytsia metro station underpass in Kyiv were damaged during Russia's overnight attack on August 1.

President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed damage to the sanctioned Russian container ship Yanina and to the infrastructure of three oil refineries in Bashkortostan.

A Russian drone attack on Kharkiv set a publishing company's warehouse on fire, injuring at least one person.

One person was killed and three others were injured in a Russian drone attack on Brovary, Kyiv region, on the morning of August 1.

Operators from the Unmanned Systems Department of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense struck a Pantsir-S1 surface-to-air missile and gun system, a Project 1100M Sargan boat, and a Russian ground-based UAV control station for the Forpost system in southern Ukraine.

Russian forces attacked Odesa, with a residential building reportedly struck.

Russian regions came under drone attack during the night of August 1, with reports from Ufa indicating black smoke rising over the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim oil refinery.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops attacked border communities in Ukraine's Chernihiv region using attack drones, damaging homes, a gas station, outbuildings, vehicles, and energy infrastructure.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on international partners not to delay decisions on strengthening Ukraine's air defense following Russia's massive overnight attack on Kyiv.

On Friday night, Russian forces fired 35 missiles at Ukraine—27 of which were ballistic—as well as 185 attack drones of various types.

As a result of last night’s Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv, residential and non-residential buildings in five districts of the capital sustained damage and destruction; emergency rescue operations are ongoing.

Air defense forces shot down one Russian “Iskander-M”/S-400 ballistic missile, one Kh-59/69 guided air-to-ground missile, and 154 drones.

Following a massive Russian attack on Kyiv on the night of August 1, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called on international partners to expedite decisions regarding the supply of additional air and missile defense systems to Ukraine.

In the Donetsk region over the past day, one person was killed and seven others were wounded as a result of Russian shelling.

Three people were injured in the Kyiv region as a result of a Russian attack on the night of August 1.

A total of 243 combat clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line on July 31.

Nine people were killed and 28 injured, including four children, in a Russian attack on Kyiv overnight on August 1.

The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to August 1, 2026, have reached approximately 1,447,620 personnel, including 1,470 over the past 24 hours.

Russian forces attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region nearly 30 times overnight, injuring two people.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched 1,026 attacks on 56 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and two others were injured in enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia district.

A court has sentenced a Russian agent to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property whom the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained in June 2025 while he was preparing a series of terrorist attacks in Kharkiv.