New York Times journalist Nanna Heitmann spent six days in Russia's Kursk region near the front lines, where she was accompanied by members of the Russian special forces unit Akhmat, according to The New York Times,

A Russian Su-27UB fighter jet caught fire at the Armavir airfield in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) reported on July 26, hinting it was an act of Russian sabotage. "Resistance to the Kremlin regime inside Russia is growing," HUR said in a statement.