Ukraine's State Property Fund has put the Kotovsk Winery up for privatization auction with a starting price of UAH 24.8 million.

Russia continues to pressure Belarus, attempting to draw it into the war against Ukraine or to use its territory to redeploy its troops. At the same time, no strike groups are currently being formed near the Ukrainian border.

Soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine cleared a forest area where Russian units had been hiding for a long time, enabling Ukrainian forces to establish a foothold in a previously inaccessible area.

The price of diesel fuel in Ukraine could rise to UAH 90 per liter in the coming weeks, while gasoline could reach UAH 85 per liter.

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has described Ukraine as the most combat-capable and experienced army in Europe, noting that Ukrainians have effectively brought Russia's war to a stalemate while becoming innovators in modern warfare.

The Kremlin is preparing for upcoming elections and is finding it increasingly difficult to conceal public fatigue with the war.

The Ukrainian side is preparing for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and his team.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian state is updating its grain export protection plan.

A Russian attack drone hit near a multi-storey residential building in Kharkiv's Saltivskyi district.

This year, Ukraine will have strike drones with a flight range of up to 4,000 kilometers.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the weapons exhibition in the Kyiv region, which Russia struck on Friday, should never have been held there, and reminded everyone that in a war with an enemy like Russia, it is absolutely impossible to hold any weapons exhibitions with large crowds of people near residential buildings.

Russian forces attacked a scheduled passenger bus operating on the Sumy–Stetskivka route with an FPV drone.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a massive Russian strike on Ukraine may take place within the next two days.

Short-term rain and thunderstorms are likely in Ukraine on Saturday, while Sunday will be mostly dry.

Russian forces launched nearly 30 attacks on three districts of Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Region throughout the day, leaving two people injured.

On Friday, Acting Defense Minister of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara introduced the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's, Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi, and the new Chief of the General Staff, Major General Ihor Skybiuk, to the leadership of the General Staff.

Emergency crews have completed search and rescue operations at the site of a Russian missile strike in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region on July 24. The attack killed 10 people and left dozens of others injured.

Russian forces launched another strike on the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region on Thursday evening, injuring 15 people.

Russian forces struck the locomotive of a passenger train in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region with a drone, but passengers and railway workers managed to evacuate before the impact.

President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with members of the newly reshuffled Cabinet of Ministers to discuss Ukraine's defense, economic, and diplomatic challenges and tasks for August and the months ahead.