Russians kill elderly man with drone in Kharkiv Oblast and injure another

Russian troops killed a 75-year-old man and injured another when they attacked the village of Velyki Prokhody, the Kharkiv Oblast, with a drone on the evening of July 28, 2025, Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration. 

“The enemy has attacked the Derhachi hromada, a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, with a drone. A Russian FPV drone struck a car in the village of Velyki Prokhody at around 17:00,” Syniehubov stated.

Another man was injured, and medical personnel took him to the hospital, where they are providing all the treatment he needs.

US President Donald Trump set a new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Russian ruler Vladimir Putin to agree to a Ukraine deal. He said if Russia doesn’t come to a peace agreement, he may impose sanctions and secondary tariffs.

BBC News pointed out that while he refused to say whether he felt Putin had been “lying” to him, Trump highlighted the contrast between the Russian president’s rhetoric during their one-on-one conversations and the missiles “lobbed” at Ukrainian cities on a near-nightly basis.

“We were going to have a ceasefire and maybe peace… and all of a sudden you have missiles flying into Kyiv and other places,” Trump lamented, adding that he thought negotiations would be possible but that it was now “very late down the process.”

“I say, forget it. I’m not gonna talk anymore. This has happened on too many occasions, and I don’t like it,” Trump said, though he also insisted that he and Putin always got along very well.

Trump also said he was “no longer interested in talks” — a line which instantly flashed up on major Russian media outlets.

Putin has never commented on the timeframe. When the initial 50-day deadline was first announced, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov merely labelled it as “very serious” but added that Moscow needed time to analyse it.

On July 15, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, responded to US President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to impose tough sanctions against Russia if Moscow fails to reach a peace agreement within 50 days.

Medvedev dismissed Trump’s ultimatum as “theatrical.”

“The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care,” he wrote.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to strengthen support for Russia following a warning from Donald Trump that the US would impose secondary sanctions on Moscow’s trading partners, according to a report by The Moscow Times, citing the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti.

During a meeting in Beijing with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Chinese leader stated that the two countries’ foreign ministries must “effectively implement the important agreements” he reached with President Vladimir Putin.

Referring to the latest developments on Monday afternoon, Russian MP Andrey Gurulyov said Trump’s ultimatums “didn’t work anymore… not on the front line, not in Moscow” and that Russia had the force of its “weapons, principles and will.”

Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham highlighted the need for China, India, and Brazil, which help Moscow to kill Ukrainians, to stop funding the Russian military budget due to their trade with Russia.

Graham wrote on X that Putin has made a serious miscalculation regarding President Donald Trump.

Graham commented on Trump’s assertion that he will reduce the deadline for Putin to resolve the war he started against Ukraine.

He noted that Russia’s recent actions demonstrate “no real desire to come to the peace table.”

“Putin has seriously miscalculated President Trump. I hope countries like China, India, and Brazil – who prop up Putin’s war machine – are about to pay a long overdue price,” Graham wrote.

The senator also added that Congress stands ready, with an overwhelming majority of votes from both parties, “to help President Trump in his efforts to get the parties to the peace table.”

On July 26, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his evening address, stated that Russia’s economic losses are already tangible, but sanctions pressure must be increased to a level that forces the Kremlin to abandon its war. He emphasized the need for decisive international action.

“The economic losses are truly tangible. They will be even more so,” Zelenskyy said. “I want to thank everyone in the world who is helping — now is the moment when we need to put pressure on Russia, to press in such a way that there is no war next year.”

The head of the Ukrainian state added that sanctions should aim to deny Russia the ability to conduct aggressive policies.

“They must realize that they will not be able to endure it; sanctions must take away Russia’s potential,” he concluded.