Overview

• President Trump notified Congress on July 23 of the second arms sale since January, allocating $172 million for Hawk missile spare parts and $150 million for Bradley armored vehicles.
• He has broken with the Biden administration’s large-scale transfers by pursuing smaller, focused shipments and using threat of severe sanctions to pressure Russia.
• The third direct negotiation session in Istanbul produced no breakthrough on ending the war beyond a fresh prisoner swap.
• Russian forces said they intercepted and destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones overnight, while a Ukrainian strike in Sochi killed one civilian and wounded another.
• Kyiv’s government has warned it will intensify strikes inside Russia after weeks of missile and drone attacks that have killed dozens of Ukrainian civilians.