Russian MoD claims it shot down nearly 40,000 Ukrainian long-range drones over Russia and Crimea
The figure comes from Defense Ministry tallies compiled by a Russian newspaper.
Crimea isolation: SBU hits two Russian spy ships and an S-400 in occupied Kerch as 2,760 cars piled up trying to get off the peninsula
Russia shut the bridge for six hours during the air alert, and the queue never recovered by midday.
Trade, banks, energy, crypto—the EU keeps its full Russia economic sanctions wall standing to 2027
The Council also held open the door to a 21st package still being negotiated.
Russia’s former soldiers may face a locked EU border—if France and Italy stop balking
The two governments worry the measure could open the door to keeping every Russian out, sources told Bloomberg.
The UK may turn a captured Russian tanker’s cargo into cash for Ukraine’s troops
The crude came off a shadow-fleet tanker that Royal Marines boarded in the English Channel.
Drones flew 1,300 km to Russia’s Ufa—then struck Bashneft refineries
Bashkortostan’s head claimed air defenses had shot down the drones and that the damage was caused only by falling debris.
In Mali, Russians and Malian army killed four civilians, then staged a corpse into a swastika
The victims near Timbuktu were herders with no ties to armed groups, local sources and a rights group told RFI.
Russian strike on a Norwegian charity’s demining team kills two, wounds four in Kherson Oblast
The workers were clearing mines to make farmland safe when the strike hit, the group said.
Occupied Crimea’s grid takes another night of strikes as Yalta and Sevastopol lose power
Drones came in from every direction while the occupation's air alert lagged hours behind.
A depot supplying two Russian regions with fuel is burning after an overnight drone strike
Russian officials again blamed "falling drone debris," the phrasing Moscow uses to avoid admitting a direct hit.
Zelenskyy: Ukraine’s ongoing Crimea operation is “carefully calculated”
The President linked it to a single condition: getting from G7 partners what Kyiv quietly asked for.
Washington just removed seven more Russians, two ships, and two Turkish firms from its sanctions blacklist
The Treasury's sanctions arm gave no reason for the 24 June deletions, which restore asset access and let American companies deal with the named parties again.
A “fiery” night over occupied Crimea: Ukraine’s drone forces logged a 60-target sweep
Among other targets, the Unmanned Systems Forces now count 23 Russian air-defense assets destroyed this month, with two launchers, a radar, and an AA-gun added overnight.
Ukraine arrests eight people accused of cheering on Russian strikes from inside the country and spying
The cases run from Kyiv to Odesa, and one suspect allegedly urged Russia to hit Ukraine with a nuclear missile.