In the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, a non-residential building caught fire during an attack by Russian drones.

Soldiers from the 5th Border Guard Detachment in the Kursk direction captured a private from the 40th Separate Marine Brigade of the Russian Pacific Fleet.

A woman who was hit by a car driven by a prosecutor's office employee in Kyiv has died in the hospital. The suspect, identified as Andrii Molochnyi, has already been formally charged.

The World Bank will provide an additional $116 million to restore heating systems and strengthen the energy resilience of seven Ukrainian cities whose critical infrastructure has suffered severe damage due to Russian attacks.

The Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy does not plan to initiate an extension of the tax incentives for electric vehicle imports beyond January 1, 2026.

On July 20, Ukrainian forces engaged in 122 combat clashes with Russian invaders, including 34 assaults repelled in the Pokrovsk sector.

More than UAH 105 million was raised to support Ukraine's air defense during the Atlas Festival, which took place in Kyiv over three days and welcomed over 70,000 visitors, both locals and guests of the city.

The Ukrainian government is launching a pilot project called "Design and Build" aimed at accelerating the construction and restoration of housing, hospitals, schools, and other critical infrastructure.

The Czech initiative "A Gift for Putin" has raised CZK 60 million (over EUR 2.4 million) in public donations to purchase six howitzers for the Ukrainian army.

The Ukrainian government is planning to launch a grant program next week to support the production of ammunition and explosives.

The Ukrainian government, in coordination with law enforcement agencies and the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), is preparing to introduce a one-year moratorium on business inspections, starting next week.

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has published its Mortgage Lending Development Strategy, approved by the Financial Stability Council and the NBU Board, aimed at improving housing affordability through market-based mechanisms.

Russian Ambassador to the Vatican Ivan Soltanovsky says it is "very hard to imagine" the possibility of holding peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in the Vatican, as proposed by Pope Leo XIV.

Russian troops shelled the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day, injuring two people. A missile strike also targeted the Pavlohrad district.

The driver of an Audi, who was seriously injured in a collision on the morning of July 20, has died in the hospital, bringing the total death toll from the accident to four.

On Sunday, July 20, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, together with Ukrainian ambassadors, visited frontline positions in the Zaporizhzhia region, including the Orikhiv district.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) decision “On the Application of Personal Special Economic and Other Restrictive Measures (Sanctions),” which imposes sanctions against five individuals, including politicians and bloggers known for their pro-Russian narratives.

The number of victims of the Russian drone strike on the center of Sumy has increased to two people, including one child.

Since the beginning of the day, there have been 56 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian troops, 17 of which occured in the Pokrovsk sector.

President Volodymyr Zelensky received a report from Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi on the situation at the front and discussed the issue of increasing the production and supply of drones for the Armed Forces.

Arms supplies and the development of arms production, reconstruction projects, and effective legal mechanisms for holding Russia accountable are priorities for ambassadors in their work with partner countries for the next six months.

The first case of cholera in Poland in six years has been reported in the city of Stargard.

Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal held a meeting with National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov and deputy defense ministers responsible for international cooperation and procurement. They discussed the production of weapons, in particular interceptor drones.

There are no prejudices against Ukrainian writers' works about the war in the world literary sphere.

During the day, a Russian strike UAV attacked the Sumy territorial community, causing damage, affecting the power supply system, and injuring a child.

Ukraine is taking specific steps to collect funds from the Russian corporation Gazprom under international arbitration awards.

Apples imported from North Korea have begun appearing on the shelves of Russian supermarkets.

After the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin's regime established a network of contacts in Germany, in particular to restart the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.

On Sunday morning, a Russian drone attacked the city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv Region, damaging an administrative building and residential houses.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to take measures by September 1 this year to restrict the use of foreign software in Russia, including messengers developed in “enemy countries.”

Andriy Pyshnyy, the Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, called the 18th package of sanctions against Russia particularly significant for its financial sector.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out nearly 70 shelling attacks on 33 settlements in 13 territorial communities of the Sumy Region.

In the morning, the occupiers struck the village of Zymivnyk near the city of Kherson, wounding a minor girl and a man.

Defense Forces shot down 18 drones used by the Russian army to attack Ukraine since yesterday evening, while seven more enemy UAV simulators were lost/jammed by electronic warfare means.

Four civilians were killed and six were wounded in the Donetsk Region over the past 24 hours.

Over the past day, the Russian army shelled five settlements in the Kharkiv Region, injuring six people.

On July 19, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 154 combat clashes with Russian forces along the frontline.

Over the past day, Russian forces shelled social infrastructure, residential neighborhoods, private homes, and vehicles in Kherson region, resulting in one civilian killed and six injured, including a child.

In Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region, the number of people injured in yesterday’s missile strike has risen to five.

As of July 20, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine have reached approximately 1,041,990 personnel, with 1,040 killed or wounded in the past 24 hours alone.

In Kyiv, an employee of the Prosecutor’s Office struck a woman in a pedestrian area and fled the scene. He has been detained, and Ukraine’s Prosecutor General has taken the case under personal control.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, combat units of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have destroyed 2,000 enemy tanks.

Former U.S. Secretary of State (2005–2009) Condoleezza Rice believes that Donald Trump’s recent statements about Russia mark a “turning point” in the effort to achieve peace for Ukraine.

In Zaporizhzhia region, a man was injured and private homes were damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack. Several fires were also reported.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Oleksandr Usyk on his victory, as he defended his title of undisputed heavyweight boxing world champion in a bout against Britain’s Daniel Dubois.

Fighters from the Freedom of Russia Legion, a unit of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), carried out a successful ambush against militants from the Russian National Guard's Akhmat unit near the village of Velyka Bilozerka in the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region.

Russia is weaponizing the deportation of Ukrainian citizens through Georgia. Ukraine proposes that Russia instead transfer the deported individuals directly to the Ukrainian border.

A critical deterioration in the condition of local water bodies has been recorded in temporarily occupied Simferopol, where sections of the Salhyr River — the longest in Crimea — have completely dried up.

Eleven more children have been successfully returned to Ukraine from the Russian Federation and temporarily occupied territories.

Russian forces have established a field hospital at the storage base of the 810th Marine Brigade in Sevastopol due to a lack of available space for treating wounded soldiers.