Daily Briefing

Key Takeaways

• Russia launched a massive overnight missile and drone assault on July 30 — involving ~50 cruise missiles (X-101/X-55) from Tu-160/Tu-95MS bombers, ballistic missiles, and Shahed-type drones — killing at least 7 people and injuring 30+ across Kyiv, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih, and Dnipropetrovsk region.
• A Russian cruise missile penetrated approximately 20 km into Polish territory (Lublin Voivodeship), triggering air raid sirens in Lublin, F-16 and F-35 scrambles, and leaving a ~10-meter crater near Tarnawa-Kolonia — the most serious NATO-territory incident of the war to date.
• Ukraine lost another F-16 fighter jet during a combat mission; the pilot safely ejected — confirmed by 18 sources, marking a further reduction in Ukraine's limited fleet.
• Ukrainian drones struck the Tamanneftegaz oil export terminal at the port of Taman (Black Sea) and continued a sustained campaign against Wildberries logistics warehouses in Penza, Sarapul (Udmurtia), and Ryazan — at least 10 strikes on the company in two weeks.
• Zelensky publicly appealed to Trump for an emergency 'winter package' of ~300 Patriot interceptors, warning stocks are nearly exhausted; separately, US envoys Witkoff and Kushner agreed to visit Kyiv for the first time to advance peace diplomacy.