Germany announced this morning it will deliver two additional Patriot fire units to Ukraine, with the first launchers to be handed over in the coming days and remaining components within two to three months, according to the German Ministry of Defense. Separately, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order implementing new tariffs on Aug. 1 for dozens of countries, including a 15% surcharge on European Union goods, in response to Canada's refusal to cooperate on combating the flow of fentanyl. These additional German Patriot systems will bring the total number of units supplied by the Bundeswehr to five by the end of the year, more than any other country. The announcement came as delegations from Lithuania, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, and Luxembourg walked out of an assembly hall in Geneva when Russia's Matvienko was to speak, citing discussions about further aid for Ukraine. The U.S. company Raytheon has also received a large contract for AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles for foreign customers, including Ukraine. In other developments, preliminary analysis of imagery from July 31 indicates damage to multiple buildings at the Penza Radio Plant following a drone attack, with one building appearing inoperable, according to Frontelligence Insight. Russian forces have advanced north of Rodynske, capturing the village of Zatyshok and reaching the rail line in the Pokrovsk direction. The United States sanctioned five entities and one individual on July 31 involved in Iran's UAV program procurement network. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry reacted sharply to the use of Armenian names for Azerbaijani cities by Russian propagandists, demanding corrections and threatening to use historical names for Russian cities, such as calling Kaliningrad "Königsberg." The Azerbaijani state agency AZERTAC published a list of proposed new names for Russian cities. Separately, an unmanned aircraft from Belarus was found at a landfill in Lithuania earlier this week. Belarusian President Lukashenka and Russian President Putin met on Valaam Island. A recent analysis by RFE/RL and CIT suggests Russia produces approximately four times more artillery ammunition than NATO, a figure disputed by some analysts.
