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AFP: Russia and Ukraine will hold new peace talks Wednesday as a follow-up to two rounds in Istanbul that made little progress on ending their war, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.

Britain on Monday imposed new sanctions on Russia's so-called "shadow fleet", targeting 135 oil tankers along with two Russian firms, shipping company Intershipping Services LLC and oil trader Litasco Middle East DMCC.

UK: More than £150 million worth of air defence and artillery has been delivered to Ukraine in the last two months, as procurement of hundreds of air defence missiles and thousands of rounds of artillery to provide to Ukraine ramps up.

AFP: NATO allies Germany and Norway agreed on Monday to step up surveillance against maritime and airborne "threats" in the northern Atlantic region amid high tensions with Russia over the Ukraine war.

The Kyiv Independent: The United States hopes European allies will join potential secondary tariffs on Russia, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC in an interview published on July 21.

Reuters: Ukrainian security services arrested officials from the country's main anti-corruption agency on Monday and conducted dozens of searches, in a crackdown that the agency said went too far and had effectively shut down its entire mission.

Politico: Russia’s attempts to disrupt German society have grown significantly this year, according to Germany’s military counterintelligence chief.

Euronews: Germany and the United States have agreed to deliver five Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine, Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday.

Reuters: A Russian factory, described by its director as the world's biggest maker of strike drones, has been shown on the Russian army's TV channel with teenagers helping make kamikaze drones to attack Ukraine. The footage also showed American-designed Ram pickup trucks with Shahed-style drones ready for launch in the back.

Euractiv: Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has announced an agreement with “Serbian and Russian colleagues” to build a new oil pipeline between Serbia and Hungary, aimed at consolidating imports of Russian crude oil – just as the EU moves to finally freeze the Kremlin out of its energy market.

Reuters: Poland is preparing a manual on how to cope in case of war or natural disaster, an interior ministry official told Reuters, aiming to strengthen national resilience amid heightened regional uncertainty including the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

AP News: A concert by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been canceled, organizers in Italy announced Monday, following protests against giving the stage to the conductor who has been largely barred from European venues for failing to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters: Foreign vessels will require the approval of Russia's FSB security service to access the country's ports, according to a decree signed by Putin.

The Moscow Times: Ukrainian drone attacks triggered another wave of flight disruptions at Moscow’s airports over the weekend, with more than 1,000 flights delayed or canceled, according to Russian media reports.

Meduza: Halfway through 2025, the share of businesses in Russia that are planning to cut jobs has nearly doubled from the beginning of the year, rising from 6.9 percent in January to 11.5 percent in July, according to a report by the Russian Central Bank on regional economic trends.

Bloomberg: Russian precious metals exports to China almost doubled in the first half of the year, as record gold prices boost revenue (archive).

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