EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kallas said she hopes EU foreign ministers will agree on Monday on 250 additional sanctions targets against Russia; no agreement has been reached yet on the 21st sanctions package.

Tropical Storm Bavi, the year’s ninth system, was centered at 08:00 on July 13 over Sixian County, Suzhou, Anhui (33.4°N, 117.9°E) with maximum outer winds of force 8 (20 m/s) and central pressure 992 hPa. Bavi is moving northeast at 10–15 km/h, expected to weaken slowly, cross the Shandong Peninsula into the northern Yellow Sea during daytime July 14, and gradually become extratropical after July 15.

Iranian outlet Fars News reported the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) earlier targeted a U.S. rocket-launch system in a drone operation in Kuwait.