There can be no peace that will be imposed by Russia or anyone else without taking into account Ukraine's opinion. At the same time, the Ukrainian people must decide for themselves when they are ready for negotiations.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban travelled to Moscow to meet with Putin without an EU mandate and represented himself there, but now is not the time for such "ego trips".
In the morning of 31 July, a Russian air strike in Kupiansk killed Inna Zamesova, an employee of Gazmerezha. The husband of the deceased woman arrived with his colleagues to extinguish the fire.
The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets sent an immediate letter to the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova regarding the death of Mariupol defender Oleksandr Ishchenko in Russian captivity.
Viacheslav Zinchenko, the suspect in the murder of nationalist former lawmaker Iryna Farion, was not provided with additional security, and the issue concerns only enhanced security measures while he is in custody.
A group of MEPs is planning to send a joint letter to the European Commission calling for restrictive measures against Hungary due to Budapest's decision to simplify the entry procedure for citizens of Russia and Belarus.
The city of Toretsk in the Donetsk region remains a Ukrainian city as Ukrainian forces managed to thwart the enemy's plans to advance into the territory of the community.
Due to the security situation, the forced evacuation of 21 children with their accompanying persons was introduced in six settlements of the Donetsk region.
On July 25, special forces of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) carried out a complex strike on a Russian base in Syria.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has collected a large-scale evidence base on the Secretary of the State Council of the Russian Federation Oleksii Dyumin and the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation Yunus-Bek Yevkurov.