Ukrainian President thanked the US for releasing the last remaining package of weapons available for Ukraine under existing authorisation, as uncertainty surrounds further aid to Kyiv”, writes The Guardian.

Ukraine’s Airborne Assault Troops said that 3 servicemen who Ukrainian prosecutors have said were captured and shot dead by Russian forces this month were members of the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade. Russia has yet to comment on the allegation, the second accusation that it has killed prisoners of war levelled against it this month by Ukrainian prosecutors.

An investigation by Associated Press newswire found that Russian occupation authorities vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead after flooding that followed the catastrophic explosion that destroyed the Kakhovka Dam in Kherson region in June. Russia said 59 people drowned in the territory it controls. But AP determined the number is at least 200 to 300 in one town alone.

Ukraine and Hungary are preparing a meeting of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and prime minister Viktor Orbán in the near future, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said, amid recent steps by Hungary that have soured ties.

A fire broke out at a multi-story building in Odesa late on Thursday after drones were reported to be headed for the area, authorities said. Oleh Kiper, the regional governor, said that information about casualties was being verified and urged townspeople to stay in shelters amid an ongoing drone attack.

Shelling killed two civilians and wounded five others in a village on the banks of the frontline Dnipro river in southern Ukraine, local authorities said. “Russian armed forces carried out artillery shelling of the village of Bilenke of Zaporizhzhia Region”, Ukraine’s general prosecutor said.

Zelenskyy said he discussed Ukraine’s peace formula in a call with Pope Francis. “Over 80 countries are already involved in this process at the level of their representatives. And there will be more of them,” Zelenskiy said in a post on X.