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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.
A high-ranking officer of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has been sentenced to life imprisonment for high treason. According to the SBU, he is the highest-ranking SBU employee convicted of espionage since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
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.
A Ukrainian drone attack sparked a fire at the Poltavskaya oil depot in Russia's Krasnodar region overnight, marking the second strike on the facility in less than two weeks, the Kyiv Post reports.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces killed 1,270 Russian occupiers on June 24, according to the General Staff.
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.
Twenty-two Russian regions have imposed restrictions on the sale of gasoline and diesel, affecting nearly a quarter of the country's federal subjects, according to the Kyiv Post citing The Moscow Times.
The fuel crisis in Russia has now reached Vladivostok in the Far East, according to Ukrainian broadcaster 24tv, citing military expert Roman Svitan, who says the situation is tense in many regions.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that Belarus has disabled signal repeaters used by Russia for attacks on Ukraine, confirming this to journalists.
Four Ukrainian sailors who were detained by Iranian forces in April aboard the container ship Epimonidas have returned home, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said.
A 24-year-old demining specialist from Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) was killed in Russian shelling of the village of Novopetrivka in the Kherson region. Three other NPA staff were wounded, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.
The Ukrainian military group 'Kursk' has dismissed Russian claims of capturing the village of Ivolzhanske in the Sumy region as false.
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.
Ukraine continues to carry out successful long-range drone attacks on Russian territory. As WELT reports, its reporter Max Hermes was the only German journalist to accompany such a medium-range drone strike.
A Russian drone strike on the city of Balakliia in Kharkiv Oblast killed a 56-year-old woman and injured a 21-year-old woman who suffered acute stress shock, according to regional military administration head Oleh Syniehubov.
Russian attacks in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions on June 23 killed two people and wounded two others, according to the heads of the regional military administrations.
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 26-year-old woman was killed and a 39-year-old man wounded in a Russian drone attack on Odesa on June 23, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the regional military administration.
A Russian missile attack on Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region has killed three people and injured more than ten. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, said industrial infrastructure was hit.
On the morning of June 23, Russian forces attacked a civilian with a drone in the Derhachi community, Kharkiv region. The 58-year-old motorcyclist was seriously injured, according to Vyacheslav Zadorenko, head of the Derhachi City Military Administration.
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.
Poland's Karol Nawrocki has revoked the Order of the White Eagle from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyy. The Polish presidential spokesman Rafał Leskiewicz confirmed receipt of the returned order.
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.
A Russian drone strike on the Saltivka district of Kharkiv on June 22 injured a 48-year-old woman, according to regional governor Oleh Syniehubov and Mayor Ihor Terekhov.
Ukraine has signed a contract with Germany for the delivery of 600 air defense interceptor missiles, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.
Since the start of 2026, Ukrainian drones have struck more than 800,000 confirmed Russian targets, killing or severely wounding around 167,000 Russian soldiers, according to Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
On June 22, 2026, the 85th anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Ukraine commemorates millions of war victims. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia for launching new attacks instead of honoring the dead.
A Russian drone strike on a residential building in Sumy Oblast early on June 22 killed three people, including a 13-year-old boy. Three other family members were injured, the Sumy Regional Prosecutor's Office reported on Telegram.
At least one person was killed and four others injured in a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov.
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.
A Russian missile strike on an agricultural enterprise in the Odesa region on the evening of June 21 killed one person and injured three others, according to Oleh Kiper, head of the Odesa Regional Military Administration.
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.
A Russian drone struck a multi-story residential building in Kharkiv, causing a fire and injuring several people, local authorities said.
Russian forces struck the Dnipropetrovsk region with over 30 drone and artillery attacks on Sunday, wounding five civilians, among them a two-year-old boy, according to Governor Oleksandr Hantscha.
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.