Ukraine-Russia war live: Russian strike on training camp kills three after Trump’s 10-day ultimatum to Putin

Ukrainian special forces have captured a Russia-occupied island in the Black Sea near Kherson oblast and inflicted heavy damage to Russian personnel and weapons, officials in Kyiv said last night.

The special forces carried out a combat operation on the Tendra Spit, an island off the coast of the occupied area of Kherson oblast, said Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (HUR).

“On the night of 28 July, reconnaissance troops landed on the Tendra Spit and eliminated the position of the occupying forces along with personnel,” HUR said in a Telegram post.

Situated on the occupied mainland of Kherson oblast, Tendra Spit is a shoal a narrow island in the northern Black Sea.

HUR said the operation was a “daring landing” and confirmed no losses for the Ukrainian special forces. The forces also flew a Ukrainian flag over the island.

Among the damages inflicted, Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian “Zont” electronic warfare complex and “Rosa” radar station, the HUR said. Russian personnel losses – deaths and injuries – are not immediately clear.

HUR described the operation as a “daring landing” and said Ukraine sustained no losses during the raid. The Ukrainian flag was flown over the island.

Speaking alongside prime minister Sir Keir Starmer on the steps of his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, US president Donald Trump complained that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had too often talked a good game about wanting to reach a ceasefire in the conflict only to resume bombing civilian targets in short order.

“We thought we had that settled numerous times. And then president Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv, and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever. You have bodies lying all over the street. And I say that’s not the way to do it,” Mr Trump said.

“I’m very disappointed. I’m disappointed in president Putin. Very disappointed in him. So we’re going to have to look, and I’m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number.”

During a separate media availability alongside Sir Keir at the top of a bilateral meeting, Mr Trump told reporters that the new deadline would be “about 10 or 12 days from today.”

The interim head of Nasa says he is looking to find common ground with Russia on space issues when he meets his counterpart later this week.

Russian news agencies reported earlier this week that US transportation secretary Sean Duffy was set to hold talks with the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, for the first in-person meeting at the agencies’ heads level since 2018.

“We have wild disagreement with the Russians on Ukraine,” Duffy said, noting that the US has a partnership with Russia on the International Space Station.

“We’re going to continue to build alliances and partnerships and friendships as humanity continues to advance in space exploration.”

Donald Trump has said he was not worried about the potential impact of Russian sanctions on the oil market or prices, vowing to boost domestic oil production to offset any impact.

“I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia, because (Russian president Vladimir Putin) wants to, obviously, probably keep the war going,” Mr Trump said, speaking aboard Air Force One yesterday.

“But we’re going to put on tariffs and the various things that you put on.”

The US president, who has in the past spoken about having a good relationship with Mr Putin, has grown increasingly frustrated with Moscow’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire. The fresh deadline suggests Mr Trump is prepared to move forward on his threat of sanctions, after previously hesitating on doing so.

Speaking in Scotland on Monday, he threatened sanctions on both Russia and buyers of its exports – also known as secondary sanctions – unless progress is made.

Russian glide bombs and missiles struck a Ukrainian prison and a medical facility overnight, killing at least 21 people, officials said yesterday, as Russia kept up its bombardment of civilian areas despite US president Donald Trump’s threat to soon punish Russia with sanctions and tariffs unless it stops.

A Russian airstrike on a prison in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region killed at least 17 inmates and wounded more than 80 others, officials said.

In the Dnipro region, authorities reported at least four people were killed and eight injured.

A Russian journalist has been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of “extremism” over her links to an opposition group, part of an unrelenting crackdown on dissent.

A court in the city of Ufa in Russia’s Bashkortostan region found Olga Komleva, 46, guilty of involvement with an organisation of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny that was officially branded “extremist”.

Following her closed-door trial, the judge also found Komleva guilty on charges of “spreading false information” about the Russian military. She rejected the charges.

Komleva, who has been in custody since her arrest in March last year, had worked as a volunteer at the regional branch of Navalny’s Foundation for Fighting Corruption before it was outlawed in 2021.

She also worked for an independent news outlet and covered protests in the region.

Navalny, who was Vladimir Putin’s fiercest and most prominent foe and relentlessly campaigned against official corruption, died in February last year in an Arctic penal colony while serving a 19-year sentence on a number of charges, including running an extremist group.

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent warned Chinese officials that continued purchases of sanctioned Russian oil would lead to big tariffs due to legislation in Congress.

Wrapping up two days of US-China trade talks in Stockholm, Mr Bessent said he also expressed US displeasure at China’s continued purchases of sanctioned Iranian oil, and its sales of over $15bn worth of dual-use technology goods to Russia that have bolstered Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

Mr Bessent said legislation in the US Congress authorising Mr Trump to levy tariffs up to 500 per cent on countries that purchase sanctioned Russian oil would draw US allies into taking similar steps to cut off Russia’s energy revenues.

Mr Trump on Monday shortened a deadline for Moscow to make progress toward a Ukraine war peace deal or see its oil customers slapped with secondary tariffs of 100 per cent in 10 to 12 days, reflecting his growing frustration with Russia’s actions.

“So I think anyone who buys sanctioned Russian oil should be ready for this,” Mr Bessent told a news conference.

Donald Trump has said he was not worried about the potential impact of Russian sanctions on the oil market or prices, vowing to boost domestic oil production to offset any impact.

“I don’t know if it’s going to affect Russia, because (Russian president Vladimir Putin) wants to, obviously, probably keep the war going,” Mr Trump said, speaking aboard Air Force One yesterday.

“But we’re going to put on tariffs and the various things that you put on.”

The US president, who has in the past spoken about having a good relationship with Mr Putin, has grown increasingly frustrated with Moscow’s refusal to agree to a ceasefire. The fresh deadline suggests Mr Trump is prepared to move forward on his threat of sanctions, after previously hesitating on doing so.

Speaking in Scotland on Monday, he threatened sanctions on both Russia and buyers of its exports – also known as secondary sanctions – unless progress is made.