Russia

American blogger Laura Loomer reported that during her visit to Kyiv, she met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and recorded an interview with him.

A Russian Su-57 fighter jet crashed in the Moscow region. The Russian Ministry of Defense cited a technical malfunction as the preliminary cause of the crash. At the same time, Z-bloggers speculate that the aircraft may have been shot down by Russian air defense forces.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that a new round of trilateral talks between Ukraine, the United States, and Russia aimed at ending the war should take place by fall.

On the night of July 23, the Defense Forces struck an oil refinery in the Ulyanovsk region and a Transneft oil transportation hub in the Urals.

A fuel tank was damaged during a Ukrainian drone attack on the “Armavir” production and dispatch station on the night of July 22.

Combustion products from the massive fire at the Wildberries warehouse in Krasnodar could spread as far as the Black Sea coast, specifically to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s palace on Cape Idokopas in Gelendzhik.

On the night of July 22, the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions of Russia were attacked by drones. Large-scale fires broke out at Wildberries logistics centers.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that a secret meeting between former high-ranking officials from Germany and Russia took place this month in the country’s capital, Baku, during which they may have discussed ways to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The night of July 20-21 was turbulent for a number of Russian regions and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Off the coast of Romania, approximately 20 nautical miles from shore and outside the country's territorial waters, the Liberian-flagged LPG tanker Gas Lisbon suffered an accident.