UAPP in partnership with Kyiv Independent continues its monthly column — a selection of key photographs that most accurately convey the events, mood and challenges of the next month of full-scale war.

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People at a protest during the performance of the anthem of Ukraine. Demonstration against a law that undermines the independence of anti-corruption bodies. Kyiv, Ukraine, July 24, 2025.
Photo by Petro Chekal

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A multi-storey building damaged by Russian shelling, during a thunderstorm in Dobropillia, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 12, 2025.
Photo by Ksenia Tomchik

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First aid at the stabilization point of the Da Vinci Wolves battalion. Soldier wounded by FPV drone in Pokrovsky direction, Donetsk region, Ukraine, July 2025.
Photo by Konstantin Liberov

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A fighter of the unit “Nobody” as part of the “Timur Special Unit” GUR of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine during rotation to one of the gas production platforms, which have now become the extreme outposts of Ukraine in the waters of the Black Sea, Ukraine, May 2025.
Photo by Vitaly Yurasov

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Flowers sprout through fortifications known as “dragon's teeth,” installed to hold back heavy machinery in the event of a breakthrough or large-scale Russian offensive. Zaporozhye region, Ukraine, July 2025.
Photo by Sergey Morgunov

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Mich team members during training in Ukraine, location unknown, July 2025.
Photo by Karina Pilugina

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72 OmbR named after Black Zaporozhts. Adaptation of recruits “18-24" in the area of combat operations. The infantryman took off his armor and rested until the sergeant arrived and gave the order. Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk region, May 2025.
Photo by Arseniy Prilipka

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Two women hold on to each other as they watch the top floor of a high-rise building burn after Russia's massive air attack on Kiev using missiles and drones of the Shahid type, July 10, 2025. As a result of the attack, two people were killed and 13 others were injured. This was part of an intensive Russian campaign against Ukraine's civilian infrastructure in the summer of 2025.
Photo by Serhiy Korovaynyi

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Ukrainian servicemen of the mobile air defense unit of the 59th Brigade open fire from a Soviet ZU-23 anti-aircraft twin gun on a Russian drone from a field of sunflowers during an air attack near Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, July 19, 2025.
Lethal Russian-made Geranium drones, created on the basis of Iranian technologies, have been terrorizing Ukraine since the beginning of the war three years ago. But since May 2025, their numbers have increased, with hundreds of drones attacking cities and killing civilians almost daily.
Photo: Romana Filipia/AFP/Getty Images

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Portrait of a masked protester with the inscription “Are you hiding corruption?” in Ukrainian during a rally against the law abolishing the independence of two key anti-corruption bodies, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 24, 2025, amid the Russian invasion.
Photo by Mykhailo Palinchak

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The selection was worked on:
Georgy Ivanchenko
Olga Kovalyova
Irinka Gromotska