Russian jet-powered drones struck a home in Ukraine's Sumy region Friday, killing a 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son and wounding four others, including the boy's father and grandmother, who were hospitalized with severe burns. The strike came a day after the UN reported July as the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since the invasion's early weeks, with at least 437 killed and 2,610 wounded, up 70% year-on-year.
Russia's foreign minister warned of harsher strikes ahead even as U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected to travel to Kyiv; Zelenskyy has accepted an unconditional ceasefire that Putin has refused, demanding a full peace deal first. A separate glide bomb strike in Donetsk killed one person and wounded 16 when it demolished six floors of an apartment block, part of what Zelenskyy said is roughly 220 glide bombs launched daily near the front.
Russia also struck tugboats escorting Western weapons shipments in the Black Sea and hit a railway station in Izmail used for military cargo, while Ukraine struck a Wildberries warehouse in Russia's Tver region and an oil terminal at Ust-Luga. NATO jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, and separate drones crashed in Romania near the Ukrainian border.
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