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At least three civilians were injured on Sunday morning when Russian forces struck a residential area in Zaporizhzhia with guided glide bombs, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.
In the early hours of Sunday, June 28, Russia attacked Ukraine's capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles, injuring at least two people and sparking fires in the Darnytskyi district. Chernihiv and the Dnipropetrovsk region were also hit, the Kyiv Post reports.
Former frontline soldier Alexander Lunin demanded a conversation with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. Instead, the police are now searching for him, as he has disappeared for the time being.
The Ukrainian army attacked an arms factory in the Russian million-strong city of Volgograd overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the facilities of the Titan-Barrikady plant and set them on fire.
Ukraine plans to deploy its 'Katran' naval drones to intercept vessels violating international sanctions, a representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency HUR told Business Insider.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has tasked the Defense Procurement Agency DOT with a new competitive tender for an expanded batch of long-range 155mm artillery shells, the Kyiv Post reports.
After losing their home in Huliaipole to Russian troops, a Ukrainian family bought an old house and spent over 750,000 hryvnias on the roof and extension alone, as Olena reported on social media.
Ukraine's 28th Separate Brigade destroyed a rare Russian vehicle used as a launch platform for Shahed attack drones at the occupied Donetsk airport on Friday, the brigade reported.
Ukrainian and Polish scientists have signed an agreement to cooperate in the Arctic, giving Ukraine the opportunity to conduct bipolar research on both poles for the first time.
Russian-installed authorities on occupied Crimea have declared a state of emergency following massive Ukrainian drone strikes.
Russian forces struck energy and civilian infrastructure in the Vilkove community of Odesa region early Friday, sparking a fire and injuring one person, according to the Izmail District Military Administration.
Ukraine's relentless drone campaign has isolated Crimea from Russia, cutting off supply lines and forcing Moscow to withdraw its Black Sea Fleet. The peninsula, which Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin once called 'sacred and eternal,' could soon fall back under Ukrainian control.
Belarus has deactivated the retransmitters that Russia used to guide Shahed drones toward targets in Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky. The systems were taken offline on Monday, Zelensky said, citing military and intelligence reports.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Belarus has disabled signal repeaters used by Russia for attacks on Ukraine, confirming this to journalists.
Ukraine has continued its strikes on Russian infrastructure. The power supply was cut off in the port city of Sevastopol in Crimea.
Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Nikopol killed five people overnight, according to Deutschlandfunk.
Russian missile and drone attacks on Kryvyi Rih and Odesa on Thursday killed four people, including a 26-year-old woman on a beach, local authorities reported.
A deputy of the Bohodukhiv district council in the Kharkiv region allegedly stole municipal special equipment worth about 14.5 million hryvnias under the pretext of evacuation.
The Belarusian opposition has submitted an official report to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha detailing the systematic war preparations of the Lukashenko regime. The document lists indicators of an imminent involvement in Russia's war of aggression.
Russian forces dropped six guided glide bombs (KABs) on the city of Sumy on June 22, seriously injuring a trolleybus driver, according to the head of the Oblast Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov.
In the Russian-occupied city of Sevastopol in Crimea, sweeping restrictions will take effect from June 22. Occupying chief Mikhail Razvozhayev announced drastic limits on fuel sales and store opening hours, among other measures.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki of exploiting anti-Ukrainian sentiment for domestic political gain, after Nawrocki revoked Zelenskyy's Order of the White Eagle.
The Russian occupation administration on the Crimean peninsula is introducing scheduled power cuts and has banned gas stations from selling fuel to ordinary citizens and businesses.
Ukrainian forces hit an oil refinery in the Russian city of Tyumen overnight on June 21, the General Staff of Ukraine reported on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.
Poland's Karol Nawrocki has revoked the Order of the White Eagle from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, citing the naming of a Ukrainian special forces unit after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which Poland holds responsible for wartime massacres of Poles.
Ukrainian drones hit multiple fuel depots and military facilities on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula and in Russia's Krasnodar region overnight on June 21, causing fires at a liquefied gas terminal and a fuel depot in Kerch, as well as at a port on the Russian side of the Kerch Strait, the Kyiv Post reports.
Polish Karol Nawrocki has stripped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest honor, over Zelensky's decision to name a Ukrainian special forces unit after the 'Heroes of the UPA' – the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Nawrocki said the move was not directed against the Ukrainian people and does not alter Poland's strategic security policy.
Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Tyumen region on June 20. President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the attack.
Former Ukrainian Leonid Kuchma has returned the Polish Order of the White Eagle in protest after Karol Nawrocki revoked the same award from Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainska Pravda reports.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has sent back the Polish Order of the White Eagle, which was revoked by Poland's president, via postal service to Warsaw on June 20.
A nationwide air alert was declared in Ukraine on Saturday evening after a Russian MiG-31K fighter jet took off. The Ukrainian Air Force warned of a possible attack with Kinzhal missiles.
Ukraine plans to scale up production and deployment of experimental technologies to counter Russian attack drones and FPV drones, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi announced, as reported by the Kyiv Post.
Ukrainian forces attacked gas infrastructure on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula overnight on June 20, 2026. The General Staff of Ukraine confirmed a hit on the road bridge over the Henichesk Strait.
Ukrainian defense forces attacked the road bridge across the Henichesk Strait near Henichesk in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast on the night of June 20, 2026, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
In Oblast, three civilian drone operators have independently destroyed a Russian Shahed combat drone using a Ukrainian experimental interceptor drone for the first time, the Izmail district administration reported.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, has issued new threats against Ukraine following recent attacks, declaring that 'there are no more rules' in dealing with Kyiv.
Two children aged two and four were killed and seven others injured in a head-on collision between an old Zhiguli and a bus in Brovary, east of Kyiv, on Friday evening.
Russian troops carried out 887 attacks on 47 settlements in Ukraine's Oblast in a single day, wounding 19 people, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.
At least two people were killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine on Sunday. In Chernihiv, a 16-year-old boy died in a drone strike, and in Kherson, a man was killed. Ukraine meanwhile struck a drone factory in Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked for further support for the coming winter amid Russia's war of aggression, fearing renewed Russian attacks on energy infrastructure.