Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- The Kremlin is recycling several longstanding informational narratives, including nuclear threats, in a renewed effort to break the United States away from Ukraine and the NATO alliance.
- Western officials provided additional details about the new US-led effort to arm Ukraine.
- Russian forces conducted a large series of missile and drone strikes against Ukraine overnight on July 15 to 16, heavily targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
- The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) accepted the resignation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on July 16, dissolving the current Ukrainian government.
- Ukrainian forces recently advanced in northern Sumy Oblast. Russian forces recently advanced in northern Kharkiv Oblast and near Borova, Lyman, and Novopavlivka.
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Authors: Angelica Evans, Jennie Olmsted, Olivia Gibson, Anna Harvey, Jessica Sobieski, and Frederick W. Kagan.
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