Ukraine-Russia battle newest: Putin ‘will be seeing things happen’, warns Trump after Kharkiv maternity ward hit

The United States has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Zelensky, speaking in his nightly video address, also set out a long list of areas in Ukraine, where the military is facing challenges in resisting the slow advance of Russian forces in the 40-month-old war.

Zelensky restated that Ukraine had received high-level signals from Washington and its other Western allies that arms supplies, paused for a time last week, had now resumed.

“According to all reports, deliveries have resumed. We are currently working with partners on new supplies, increased weapons production in Ukraine and better support for our army,” he said.

“Next week, we will continue working with the U.S. side on a military level, including between our military and General Kellogg. We are also preparing new European defence packages. We expect strong sanctions soon, including sanctions against Russia for this war. The pressure must work.”

Kellogg, interviewed by the Ukrainian media outlet Novyny.LIVE while attending a conference about Ukraine in Rome, said: “We’ll be in Kyiv Monday. We’ll be there all week.”

Donald Trump has said the US is selling weapons to Nato to give to Ukraine.

“We’re sending weapons to Nato, and Nato is paying for those weapons, 100%,” Trump said in an interview with NBC.

“So what we’re doing is, the weapons that are going out are going to Nato, and then Nato is going to be giving those weapons (to Ukraine), and Nato is paying for those weapons.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that some of the US-made weapons Ukraine is seeking are deployed with Nato allies in Europe.

Those weapons could be transferred to Ukraine, with European countries buying replacements from the US, he said.

“It’s a lot faster to move something, for example, from Germany to Ukraine than it is to order it from a (US) factory and get it there,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.

Nine people were injured in drone strikes in Kharkiv; some of the women attending the maternity ward were a part of this figure.

Three women and three newborns suffered acute stress and received medical help, according to Kharkiv’s regional prosecutors.

Oleksandra Lavrynenko was at the hospital after just giving birth. “We woke up and heard a very loud whistle. My husband and I got up and quickly went to our little one, and at that moment there was a hit and the windows shattered,” she said.

They rushed to shelter one-day-old Maksym underground.

“It was very scary, because I was so full of adrenaline that I probably forgot that I had stitches. Now I am slowly recovering from the shock,” Lavrynenko said.

“It is very difficult and scary to give birth at this time,” she said, laying next to her son.

Russia is awaiting the “major statement” that US president Donald Trump announced he would deliver on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

Trump told NBC News on Thursday that he will make a “major statement” on Russia on Monday, without elaborating what it will be about.

In recent days, Trump has expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Russia-Ukraine conflict.

When asked about the new NATO weapons deliveries to Ukraine, Peskov called it “just business” as Kyiv had already been receiving weapons prior to this development.

• A senior intelligence officer for Ukraine’s security service has been gunned down in Kyiv.
• CCTV footage published on social media showed the agent was slain in a residential parking lot on Thursday morning before a gunman clad in dark clothing fled the scene on foot in broad daylight.
• The victim’s name has not been publicly disclosed and the identity of the suspect remains unclear. A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) official said that the intelligence officer had been a colonel, according to Reuters.
• Ukrainska Pravda has claimed the agent was Colonel Ivan Voronych, adding he died at the scene after the assailant fired five aimed gun shots.
• The New York Times claimed that Voronych was a part of the SBU’s Centre for Special Operations Alpha and had been within the organisation for decades.
• It remains unclear whether the agent’s death was a domestic issue or an assassination.

He replied: “I know. You’ll be seeing things happen.”

Correspondent Andrew Feinberg reports from Washington DC:

The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved $500 million in security assistance for Ukraine as part of its draft language for its Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, which also restricts A-10 aircraft retirements.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is an annual policy bill that authorizes funding levels and provides authorities for the U.S. military.

It ensures that American forces have the necessary resources to carry out their missions and is closely watched by weapons makers like Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co.

The NDAA, passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee with a vote of 26-1 on July 9, 2025, includes a provision to extend the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative through 2028, increasing authorized funding to $500 million from $300 million in 2025.

The initiative aims to bolster Ukraine’s defense capabilities as it battles Russian forces which invaded in 2022.

The bill also prohibits a controversial request made in President Donald Trump’s June budget request to retire the Air Force A-10 fleet. The draft requires that the inventory of the A-10 cannot drop below 103 aircraft in FY26, ensuring the continued operation of these close air support planes.