Last month was the deadliest since Putin launched his full-scale war on Ukraine three and a half years ago. In July alone, 286 civilians were killed and another 1,388, according to official data.

Russia launched one of its biggest aerial attacks this year at Ukraine overnight, killing at least one person and injuring more than a dozen others, Ukrainian officials said. The attack, which mostly targeted western regions of the country that are far from the battlefield's front line in the east and south,