At Petrograd, a Special Council called a Commission to investigate the head of the Military Air Fleet, Grand Duke Aleksandr Mikhailovich. Claims were made that he was connected with many cases of abuse; that aircraft unfit for service were purchased; that the receiving commissions did not trouble to open the cases on arrival; that many aircraft were dispatched to the front that could not be flown or were very dangerous.

The Commission issued a report detailing the abuses and shortages, and directed Rodzianko to contact the Russian Military Attache in Paris, Count Ignatiev, who failed to relay the message to French Marshall Joffre in a timely fashion. French Military Attache de La Guiche informed the Duma President that Russian orders had been placed and aircraft would be delivered shortly.

On learning of these matters, Chief of Staff General Alekseev sent a letter to Rodzianko notifying him of the Tsar's desire that he should “abstain from direct interference in war matters which did not concern either the Duma President or a member of the Special Council.”

On 23 July, on the Western Front, the Russians resumed their drive north of Baranovichi. Some small Russian successes were limited by German counterattacks.

On 24 July, on the Northern Front, the Russians repulsed the Germans in the Uxkull – Riga sector.

On 25 July, in the Baltic Sea, a German naval airship dropped 700 kg of bombs on the Russian-British submarine base at Mariehamm on Aaland Island in the Gulf of Bothnia.

On the Caucasian Front, Russian troops took Erzincan, 153 km west of Erzerum. The Turks were falling back towards Karput and Sivas.

On 26 July, at Petrograd, former War Minister Sukhomlinov was diagnosed with a mental affliction and was moved to an asylum from the prison at the Fortress of Peter and Paul. The Empress and her daughters returned to Tsarskoe Selo from their visit with the Tsar at Stavka.

On 27 July, on the Southwest Front, General Bezobrasov's newly formed Russian Guard Army, with the I and II Guard Corps, 1st and 30th Infantry Division, and Guard Cavalry, with 134,000 men, launched an attack on Kovel, gaining ground on the left bank of the Stokhod River. They were faced by von Linsingen's Germans and had little or no artillery support. The Russians managed to take 11,000 prisoners. By 2 August, the Guard Army had lost 30,000 men in just under a week. The Russian 7th and 9th Armies resumed their drive after several days of torrential rain, moving in the direction of Halicz.

On 27-28 July, in the Black Sea, German Army airship SL.10 flew from its base at Jamboli in Bulgaria to carry out a reconnaissance mission over Sevastopol. It was lost during a heavy storm on its return the following day.

On 28 July, on the Southwest Front, Sakharov's Russian 11th Army captured Brody, taking some 40,000 prisoners in twelve days.

In the continuing struggle for control of Central Powers forces on the Eastern Front, a conference was held at Pless chaired by the Kaiser. It was attended by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and Austro-Hungarian and Bulgarian commanders in chiefs. They discussed plans for dealing with the Romanians. It was decided that Hindenburg would take over new duties as the commander-in-chief of all forces between the Pripyat Marshes to just south of Lemberg, including the Austro-Hungarian 4th, 1st and 2nd Armies. It was apparent that von Falkenhayn was losing his influence over the Kaiser.

The plan called for a demonstration of German and Austro-Hungarian troops into Romania from the north, with a rapid advance of Bulgarian forces into the Dobrudja and river crossings at Silistria and Tutrakan. The main force was to cross the Danube River at Nikopol and drive on Bucharest. The Turkish VI Corps was to be deployed to serve with the Austro-Germans on the Romanian Front.

During July, at Petrograd, the chairman of a private bank, D. Rubenstein, a close friend of Rasputin, was arrested on a charge of profiteering. The Minister of Agriculture, A.N. Naumov, was replaced by V.A. Bobrinskiy.

On 29 July, on the Southwest Front, since Brusilov's offensive opened on 4 June, Austro-Hungarians losses had mounted to over 600,000 men, of which 345,000 became prisoners of the Russians.

On 30 July, on the Southwest Front, Russian forces were pursuing the Austro-Hungarians in the Kovel area and south of the Dniester towards Stanislau. At the end of July, the Turkish XV Corps was sent to Galicia to fight alongside the Germans and Austro-Hungarians. The Austro-Hungarian 4th Army, was led by General von Tertsezanski, with HQ at Vladimir-Volynsk, while the 2nd Army, headed by General Bohm-Ermolli, had HQ at Lemberg (Lvov).

In Berlin, German General von Hindenburg was formally appointed as Supreme Commander of the entire Eastern Front.

On 31 July, the German War Ministry appointed Major Wilhelm Siegert as Inspector of Flying Troops. He was responsible for re-organizing aircraft supplies and replacements from the rear.