Overview
- France will send additional Aster air‑defence missiles within days and provide Mirage fighter jets, though President Emmanuel Macron did not specify quantities.
- Macron urged partners to step up support focused on air defence, long‑range strike, drones and counter‑drone systems.
- French broadcaster TF1 reported that three of six promised Mirage 2000s have reached Ukraine so far and that one aircraft was shot down in July.
- Macron said the latest European Union sanctions should affect the financing of Russia’s military actions.
- Earlier reporting said the United Kingdom accelerated a missile production program to deliver more than 100 extra air‑defence missiles to Kyiv ahead of schedule and that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would press for more long‑range capabilities.