Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Decree No. 555/2025, imposing new sanctions targeting Russia's critical resources. The measures hit 95 companies and individuals working for the Kremlin's defense industry.

Auterion’s “strike kits” — miniature computers known as Skynode that run the company’s software and include a camera and radio — can transform manually controlled drones into “AI-powered weapons systems” that cannot be jammed and can track a moving target from as far away as 1km, said Meier.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone attacks, with five people dead in the strikes, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was optimistic about military progress.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday toured a factory producing interceptor drones, increasingly seen as a solution to protecting Ukrainian cities from Russian air attacks, and said a goal had been set to make up to 1,

On the night of July 27, the Russian troops attacked Kharkiv and its suburbs with drones. There were fires, and there was damage, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Russia attacked the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv with 10 drones.

Russia fired 597 drones and decoys, along with 26 cruise missiles, into Ukraine overnight into Saturday, Ukraine's air force said.

Ukraine has occasionally targeted the Russian capital, but has doubled down on drone strikes on Moscow in recent days.

Ukrainian security officials claim that long-range drones launched by Kyiv targeted and damaged a key Russian military-industrial facility in an overnight operation on Saturday, July 26. The reported strike hit the Signal plant in the city of Stavropol,