❗TASS News Roundup, July 26:

▪ Russia will spare no effort to strengthen its Navy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at meeting with Russian Navy servicemen

▪ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi informed his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov about diplomatic efforts to deescalate tensions in the Middle East, the Russian foreign ministry said after their phone call

▪ Roscosmos cosmonauts Kud-Sverchkov and Mikayev and NASA astronaut Williams have returned to Earth aboard the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft, the state corporation said

▪ Russian air defense systems shot down 1,060 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones and eight guided aerial bombs in 24 hours, the Russian defense ministry said

◾ Israel is getting prepared to expand its military operation near the city of Nablus in the West Bank, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman told TASS

▪ One person was killed and 29 were injured after the car drove into people in central Berlin, the German Interior Minister said