The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) accused Ukraine of attempting to attack two Black Sea Fleet patrol boats with unmanned semi-submersibles on August 1. The Russian MoD initially claimed that Ukraine launched three unmanned boats at the “Sergey Kotov”
Likely Ukrainian forces conducted a drone strike near the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) building in Moscow on July 24. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) claimed that Russian electronic warfare (EW) suppressed two Ukrainian UAVs that
Analysts of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) note that the death of Russian Major General Sergei Goryachev indicates the probable redeployment of the Russian troops, as well as the apparent vulnerability of the occupying commanders "to accurate Ukrainian strikes".