Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces are holding back a concerted summer push by Russia’s bigger army to break through defenses along parts of the front line

The two sides made little progress toward a ceasefire — despite President Trump's threats of harsh new economic penalties on Moscow should it fail to agree to a deal by early September.

Starlink systems used by Ukrainian military units were down for two and a half hours, part of a global issue that disrupted the satellite internet provider.

The Starlink satellite internet network has resumed operation after a major outage that lasted about two and a half hours and affected connection stability, including in combat zones. Source: Starlink Vice President Michael Nicolls on X (Twitter);

The outage was due to failure of key internal software services that operate the core network,” he wrote. “We apologize for the temporary disruption in our service; we are deeply committed to providing a highly reliable network,