{"id":785350,"date":"2026-07-26T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T10:56:09","slug":"ukraine-news-today-breaking-updates-live-coverage-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/785350\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine News Today: Breaking Updates &#038; Live Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-lead mb-2\">War in Ukraine &#8211; Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War on July 24, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Key Takeaways from the <a href=\"https:\/\/understandingwar.org\/research\/russia-ukraine\/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-25-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ISW<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin likely used a meeting with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev to justify his refusal to freeze the frontline in Ukraine and his decision to continue waging the war.<br \/>\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia continues to prepare for involuntary reserve call-ups and is preparing to receive about 30,000 new North Korean troops amid staggeringly high battlefield casualties.<br \/>\nRussia is expanding its gasoline export ban until the end of 2026.<br \/>\nA Romanian F-16 fighter jet intercepted an unidentified drone in Romanian airspace for the second time in two days on July 25.<br \/>\nUkrainian forces struck Russian energy, logistics, and military assets on July 24 and 25. Russia launched 157 drones and two Kh-59\/69 cruise missiles overnight on July 24 and 25.<br \/>\nNeither Ukrainian nor Russian forces made confirmed advances on July 25.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"single-image\" src=\"https:\/\/static.kyivpost.com\/storage\/2026\/07\/26\/c94e80fd49d80e3b086a329ae4f75737.webp?w=1280&amp;q=85&amp;f=webp\" alt=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-original-image-src=\"2026\/07\/26\/c94e80fd49d80e3b086a329ae4f75737.webp\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"War in Ukraine &#8211; Latest update, key takeaways and map from the Institute for the Study of War&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-785350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}