- The Supreme Rada voted for a draft resolution on the formation of a new government
- Ukraine's newly-appointed Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and his predecessor Yuriy Yekhanurov discussed the main problems facing the country, the governmental press service said
- Ukrainian Communist Party's parliamentary faction is dissatisfied with the new government but supported the new prime minister's proposal to help stabilize the situation in the country, faction's leader Petro Symonenko said
- Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov congratulated Ukraine's Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych on his appointment, the Ukrainian governmental press service said
* President Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin called for immediate ceasefire in the Middle East and a political resolution of the Lebanese-Israeli conflict, the Kremlin press service said
* Russia's Navy took over command of the Black Sea Naval Cooperation Task Group from Romania prior to an active phase of a Blackseafor exercise, the press service of the Russian Black Sea Fleet said.
* Russia's Proton-M carrier rocker successfully put into orbit the French satellite Hot Bird 8 that was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said
* Russia's Defense Ministry said U.S. sanctions against Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport and state-owned aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi were linked with their contracts with Venezuela
* Georgia has not dropped the idea of a military resolution of its conflict with South Ossetia, Mikhail Mindzayev, the interior minister of the breakaway region said
* The next meeting of the Joint Control Commission for the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict resolution will be held in Moscow on August 17-18, Yury Popov, the Russian cochairman of the JCC, said
