Ukrainian forces struck a missile and space centre in Russia's Samara region and shelled the Savasleyka military airfield, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced, escalating long-range strikes after Kyiv's earlier territorial gains.
Zelenskyy also requested five percent of the United States' Patriot interceptor stockpile, which the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates at 800 missiles following the Iran conflict, with Ukraine already holding 600. Meanwhile, Russia is planning a massive strike on Kyiv before 24 August and has received up to 120 ballistic missiles from North Korea into the Voronezh region.
On the battlefield, Russia's defence ministry claimed the capture of 19 settlements in the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, with eastern group commander Pjotr Bolgarev reporting the seizure of Rybalskoje. The Institute for the Study of War independently assessed Ukraine has recaptured at least 627 square kilometres in Dnipropetrovsk alone. Moscow fired 198 ballistic and hypersonic missiles in July, the highest monthly total this year, while Ukrainian FPV drones caused over 70 percent of Russian casualties in June and July.