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Politico: The Pentagon has halted shipments of some air defense missiles and other precision munitions to Ukraine due to worries that U.S. weapons stockpiles have fallen too low.

The Insider: Azerbaijani media have published a leaked sworn statement from Russian soldier Dmitry Paladichuk, in which he explains that he received orders to open fire on an Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) flight during a Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny in December 2024.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine is launching a joint weapons production program with members of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, or Ramstein summit participants, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on July 1.

Reuters: Germany has pledged additional measures to further counter Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" operating in the Baltic and North Sea, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday in a statement.

The Moscow Times: The Kremlin has launched an online bot campaign to justify the country's steepest utility rate hikes in years, the exiled news outlet Agentstvo reported Tuesday.

France 24: Macron and Putin on Tuesday spoke by telephone for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, with the French president urging a ceasefire in Ukraine but the Russian leader hitting back that the West was to blame for the 'conflict'.

Bloomberg: Putin signed a decree in an attempt to attract new foreign investment into Russia’s financial markets, despite sweeping sanctions over the war in Ukraine (archive).

Euronews: There are "no objective reasons" to prevent Ukraine from launching the first phase of its accession process, the European Commission has said in response to Viktor Orbán's veto, which the Hungarian leader reconfirmed during last week's EU summit.

The Moscow Times: Business activity in Russia’s manufacturing sector registered its most significant drop since the early months of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to new data released by S&P Global.

Reuters: Post-mortems on two Azerbaijani brothers who died in Russian police custody have shown that they were beaten to death, authorities in the South Caucasus country said on Tuesday as tensions rose sharply between Moscow and Baku.

AP News: Russia’s former deputy defense minister was convicted on Tuesday on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and handed a 13-year prison sentence in a high-profile case that exposed rampant military corruption widely blamed for Moscow’s military setbacks in Ukraine.

The Moscow Times: Russia’s largest ferroalloy producer will shift to a four-day workweek for its administrative staff starting Sept. 1, the Kommersant business daily reported Monday, as the country’s metallurgical industry continues to grapple with mounting financial pressures.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukrainian drones struck a major Russian military plant in the city of Izhevsk, over 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) from the front in Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency released on July 1 video footage showing domestically produced drones striking multiple Russian air defense assets and a fighter jet in occupied Crimea.

Reuters: Ukraine's top general ordered military officials on Tuesday to prohibit troop buildups in tent encampments and to build new shelters at training centres to protect soldiers against deadly Russian air strikes.

US: A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced a resolution in Congress demanding the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, according to a press release published on June 30.

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