Donald Trump said he would shorten his 50-day deadline for Russia to end the war in Ukraine and avoid sanctions to “10 or 12 days”. “I'm disappointed in President Putin,” the US president said, speaking alongside British prime minister Keir Starmer ahead of their meeting in Scotland.

Ukraine overnight into July 28. Ukraine’s Air Force reported intercepting or electronically jamming 309 drones and two cruise missiles. The primary target was the city of Starokostiantyniv, in Khmelnytskyi oblast,

The last lifelines into besieged towns along the eastern frontline for Ukrainian troops, caught in a web of increasingly lethal and sophisticated drone warfare, rely on a technology millennia old: a fishing net.

Russia and Ukraine have traded aerial attacks overnight, resulting in two deaths in each country, with many wounded on both sides

Russia has advanced around Pokrovsk for many months, but has so far failed to entirely encircle or seize control of the city.