Romania's Ministry of Defence has detailed how an F-16 fighter jet shot down a drone on 24 July after it breached Romanian airspace, the first time the country has used a fighter jet to down an airspace intruder.

Democrats in the US Senate have signalled to their Republican colleagues that next week they are willing to vote on the Russia sanctions package, which includes President Trump's last-minute demand to add Iran sanctions to the bill.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and his Polish counterpart Radosław Sikorski have discussed Russia's latest attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilian vessels in the Black Sea during a phone call, stressing the need to increase pressure on Moscow.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has said that Russia continues to pose a threat to Europe's security and that its Iskander missiles stationed in Kaliningrad could reach the German capital within minutes.

Berlin has said that claims by Russian intelligence that Germany is supposedly preparing to develop nuclear weapons are untrue and part of Russian propaganda.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the approach proposed by Russia in Anchorage last year failed because it was unacceptable to Ukraine.

Reuters has learned from sources familiar with the activities of US intelligence agencies that the US is investigating whether Russia may have helped Iran carry out strikes on CIA facilities in the Gulf region.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that, at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Philippines, he discussed the need to end the war against Ukraine.

Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin arrived in Kyiv on 23 July, where he will hold meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) Ruslan Stefanchuk.

A 26-year-old woman has been detained in the Polish city of Legnica on suspicion of assaulting two 13-year-old Ukrainian girls and another child near a swimming pool. She faces up to seven and a half years in prison.

Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal has said he has spoken by phone with Ukraine's newly appointed Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he will meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, on 23 July.

Ukraine and the United States have signed a statement of intent that lays the groundwork for an unprecedented defence partnership and allows Ukrainian drones to be exported to the US for military testing.

The European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has decided to terminate the current €2 million grant to Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia after the Russian pavilion resumed operations in a limited format at the Venice Biennale this spring.

A Russian warship monitored by a Royal Navy vessel conducted live gunnery drills on Monday about 40 nautical miles (approximately 74 km) south of Plymouth.