Poland will cut value-added tax on fuel in the final two weeks of August, Prime Minister TUSK said.

Ukraine's General Staff said on social media on the 13th that Ukrainian forces struck a large refinery in the Republic of Bashkortostan in Russia's southwest in the early hours, triggering a fire. The General Staff said the target was about 1,300 km from the Ukraine–Russia border and said Kyiv would continue strikes on Russian critical infrastructure to systematically degrade its combat capability. The refinery was reported to belong to Salavat Petrochemical Company, described as one of Russia's largest refining and petrochemical complexes with annual refining capacity of about 10 mln tonnes.

Mexico urged the United States to reduce automobile tariffs.