Ukraine's newly appointed Cabinet of Ministers has held its first meeting, setting its immediate priorities.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Türkiye has reaffirmed its readiness to help facilitate a meeting at the leaders' level aimed at ending the war.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the new government led by Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi will focus primarily on preparing Ukraine for the coming winter and accelerating the implementation of agreements with international partners.

A protest against the dismissal of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov grew significantly larger on Thursday evening in central Kyiv.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte does not expect the appointment of a new Ukrainian defense minister to bring major changes to Kiev's strategy in its fight against Russia.

Russian forces struck the city of Dnipro, damaging warehouses belonging to a logistics company.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Sergii Koretskyi has said the next heating season is likely to be more difficult than the previous one due to intensified Russian attacks, adding that the government is accelerating preparations for winter.

On the afternoon of July 16, Russian troops fired on Sloviansk in the Donetsk region using a multiple rocket launcher system; a woman was wounded.

In Koriukivka, Chernihiv region, two women were injured as a result of a Russian attack on the evening of July 16.

Russian invaders launched an attack on Dnipro, resulting in damage to the warehouses of a logistics company.

The Verkhovna Rada approved the proposal by newly appointed Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi to form a new Cabinet of Ministers.

Russian invaders attacked the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region nearly 30 times today.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Yevhen Khmara as acting minister of defense of Ukraine and, once the necessary legal procedures are completed, will ask the Verkhovna Rada to endorse his nomination.

In the Kherson region, six civilians were wounded as a result of Russian shelling with various types of weapons.

Following the appointment of the government, the Verkhovna Rada’s next plenary session will take place in mid-August.

Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with guided bombs, killing three people and wounding three others.

Recently, the number of attacks on Zaporizhzhia has increased, and the Defense Forces have not been able to destroy all the drones and unmanned aerial vehicles heading toward the city.

Since the start of the day, the Russian army has attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces 54 times. The enemy is exerting the most pressure in the Sloviansk and Pokrovsk sectors.

Divers from the Omega Special Purpose Center of the Ukrainian National Guard, using strike drones, destroyed a Russian Su-24M bomber at the Saky Military Airfield in temporarily occupied Crimea.

Counterintelligence and investigators from the Security Service of Ukraine have detained the CEO of a defense enterprise and his deputy for production, who are suspected of allowing ammunition to be stored in warehouses located near residential buildings in the city of Vyshneve, Kyiv region.

Due to repatriation efforts, the remains of 501 individuals, who the Russian side claims may be Ukrainian service members, have been returned to Ukraine.

In Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, seven people were injured as a result of an airstrike by Russian forces.

One person was killed in Odesa as a result of a Russian attack, and the number of people injured has increased to three.

Ukraine was the largest recipient of German government arms export licenses in the first half of 2026, with approved exports worth more than EUR 2.52 billion.

Three elderly women were killed after Russian forces attacked civilians with an FPV drone in the Kindrashivka community of the Kharkiv region.

Russian forces carried out another missile attack on infrastructure in Odesa, killing one person and injuring another.

On the morning of July 16, the Russian military struck a civilian enterprise near Kharkiv, injuring four passengers aboard a minibus that was passing the area during the attack.

During the night of July 16, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck 11 vessels of Russia's shadow fleet in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, including five tankers, one tanker-gas carrier, three dry cargo ships, and two tugboats.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said that reform initiatives proposed by the Ministry of Defense had begun to be blocked and that Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi was not prepared to discuss existing problems openly.

Russian forces attacked people on the outskirts of the village of Hryhorivka in the Zaporizhzhia district with a drone, injuring two boys aged 15 and 17.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha drew the attention of Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of the Holy See to the humanitarian situation in the Russian-occupied communities of Oleshky and Hola Prystan, where thousands of civilians urgently need a humanitarian corridor.

Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has approved President Volodymyr Zelensky's nomination of Sergii Koretskyi as the country's new Prime Minister.

Ukraine supports Turkey serving as one of the main venues for a potential meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Moscow continues to rely on ballistic missile terror, launching another large-scale overnight attack that included 13 missiles, eight of them ballistic, and 151 drones.

During the night of July 16, Ukraine's Defense Forces struck six Russian tankers, two tugboats, an oil depot, bridges, and other military targets belonging to the Russian Federation.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is scheduled to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on July 16 during his final week in office, reaffirming that the United Kingdom's "cast-iron support for Ukraine will always endure."

As of the morning of July 16, Russian attacks left consumers without electricity in six Ukrainian regions, while nationwide electricity consumption has begun to decline.

Ukraine's Security Service (SSU), in cooperation with the Ukrainian Navy, struck the Russian shadow fleet tankers Louise 1 and Banda in the Black Sea.

Emergency services have extinguished all fires caused by Russia’s overnight attack on Kyiv.

Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized three Russian Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles and 129 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree enacting a National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) decision to amend the sectoral sanctions imposed on Russian financial institutions.

In the Kherson region, one person was killed and 19 others were injured over the past day as a result of Russian attacks.

A fire broke out at the military airfield in the city of Engels in Saratov region.

In Kharkiv, a Russian drone attack caused a fire in a residential area, and buildings on the grounds of the central park and civilian infrastructure were damaged.

Over the past day, July 15, there were 279 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian forces on the front line.

Russian forces attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones, causing fires and damaging infrastructure.

The total combat losses of Russian forces since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to July 16, 2026, amount to approximately 1,424,620 personnel, including 1,340 losses over the past day.

Russian forces attacked Odesa in the morning, damaging an educational facility.

Russia could soon stage a false-flag attack on Poland's critical infrastructure and attempt to shift the blame onto Ukraine, former Polish Minister of National Defense Janusz Onyszkiewicz has said.

Special forces of Ukraine's National Guard have destroyed a Russian Tor surface-to-air missile system worth an estimated $25 million in the temporarily occupied part of the Luhansk region.