A 26-year-old man suspected of involvement in the death of a 46-year-old refugee from Ukraine in the city of Rostock was detained in Germany last night.

Two Polish F-16 fighter jets intercepted a Russian Il-20M reconnaissance aircraft on a reconnaissance mission in international space over the Baltic Sea the day before.

Estonia has provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine in the form of five fully equipped ambulances and medical equipment.

A bipartisan delegation from the United States has supported the actions of the Ukrainian defence forces in Russiaʼs Kursk Oblast and called the operation "historic" and hopeful during an official visit to Kyiv.

Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Oleksandr Serhii met with Christian Freuding, Head of the Planning and Management Department of the German Ministry of Defence, during his visit to Kyiv.

French Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu has had a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umierov to discuss the war unleashed by Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan delegation from the US House of Representatives – Donald Norcross, Celeste Maloy and Jimmy Panetta – on Thursday, 8 August.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has had a telephone conversation with his Norwegian counterpart Espen Barth Eide, during which they discussed, among other things, the possibility of expanding the F-16 initiative and involving more countries in the Peace Formula.

The White House has reiterated that Russian occupation forces are attacking Ukraine from the territory of Kursk Oblast, where Ukrainian troops are allegedly conducting an operation. 

Raytheon, an RTX Corporation business, has been given a US$478 million contract by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to supply Germany with Patriot GEM-T missiles.

A court in Prague, Czechia, has sentenced a former Czech soldier, Filip Siman, who went to fight as a volunteer in Ukraine, to seven years in prison for looting. 

Matthew Miller, spokesman for the US Department of State, answering a question about the possibility of NATO countries being able to shoot down Russian missiles over the territory of Ukraine, has said that this is a decision that must be made by the Alliance members collectively.

Russia has released Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan as part of a large prisoner exchange between Russia and the US.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, has announced the transfer of a €1.5 billion tranche from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.

The Russian detained in Paris on 19 July on suspicion of preparing provocations during the 2024 Olympics turned out to be Kirill Griaznov, a 40-year-old Russian chef. He revealed his plans in a drunken conversation which caught the attention of special services.