❗TASS News Roundup, August 5

▪President Putin met with the Defense Ministry’s leadership

▪Donald Trump declined Vladimir Zelensky’s request for hundreds of additional Patriot interceptors at their meeting last week, The Financial Times reported

▪Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky complained that Western countries have cut their supplies of air defense missiles to Kiev threefold this year

▪Russian forces delivered a massive strike with high-precision weapons against targets in Ukraine, the Defense Ministry reported

▪Ukraine’s Hornet drone attacked a hospital in Donetsk, killing one person and wounding two

▪Russia’s artistic swimmers won gold in Acrobatic Routine event at the 2026 European Aquatics Championships in France

▪Four people were hospitalized as a result of a stabbing attack in central London’s Covent Garden district, the LBC radio station reported