Overview

• The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense released a Spanish-language TikTok video inviting Latin American volunteers to join via joinuarmy.org, which lists 109 vacancies across 21 units offering up to $2,380 monthly.
• Russia has declared foreign fighters “legitimate targets,” reporting the elimination of dozens of mercenaries and pursuing criminal charges against captured volunteers.
• A Russian airstrike dropped a 500-kilogram bomb on a Donetsk shopping mall on July 16, killing two civilians and wounding 27 more in a strike on non-military infrastructure.
• Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine issued a joint appeal for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire as President Trump threatened sanctions on Russian energy exports if hostilities persist beyond his 50-day ultimatum.
• President Zelenski proposed Yulia Sviridenko as prime minister to deepen political and economic ties with the United States and improve coordination of Ukraine’s defense industry.