❗TASS News Roundup, August 2:

▪ Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated paratroopers on Airborne Force Day, highlighting their heroism and courage

◾ A Ukrainian combat drone hit a site several meters away from the reactor building of power unit No. 3 at the Zaporozhye NPP, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said

◾ Russian air defenses destroyed 6 smart bombs, a HIMARS rocket, 1,158 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs over the past day, the Russian defense ministry said

▪ Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan appointed Civil Contract party leader Nikol Pashinyan as the country’s prime minister, following the results of the parliamentary elections

▪ The Brazilian Workers’ Party nominated incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as candidate for president

▪ The seven OPEC+ nations agreed to increase daily oil output in September by 188,000 (on August), OPEC said

▪ Iran-Oman talks on the navigation in the Strait of Hormuz are nearing completion, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said