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Crimean Solidarity, the movement that supported political prisoners and their families on the Russian-occupied peninsula, has shut down because continuing to operate risked sending even more people to prison.

Zelenskyy replaced Oleksandr Syrskyi with Mykhailo Drapatyi after a week of nationwide rallies, military consultations, and political pressure over the war's leadership.

A Turkish-owned bulk carrier came under Russian fire off Odesa, killing ten of the eighteen people aboard, including the pilot who had just come on to guide the ship out.

The capital's heaviest single-hour ballistic assault killed at least one person and wounded 16, even as Ukraine set three Russian oil depots ablaze in Stavropol Krai and pushed Russian forces out of Kostiantynivka.

Ukraine has formally adopted the Tsyklop interceptor drone, a high-altitude hunter-killer credited with downing more than 100 Russian air targets.

Meanwhile, Zelenskyy passes over the frontrunner for defense minister as protests continue across Ukraine.

Rallies timed to the parliamentary vote spread across Ukrainian cities as citizens pushed back against the ousted minister's removal.

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Meanwhile, Russia's oil refining has collapsed to its lowest level since 2005 after months of sustained Ukrainian drone strikes, sending global diesel prices climbing.

Ukraine out-produces NATO on drones as Europe eyes a wider alliance.

Ukraine's drone campaign against Russian fuel shipping reached a new scale this week, with strikes on tankers, oil terminals, and depots across the Azov coast and Crimea in what ISW calls a new phase of the peninsula's isolation.

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On the battlefield, Russia's fleet of early-warning radar planes is thinning out.

Ukraine's drone campaign against Crimea's fuel lifeline and a missile strike on Belgorod's gas and power infrastructure show the war's energy front intensifying on both sides.

Ukraine now intercepts an estimated 92–96% of gasoline-powered Shahed drones, pushing Russia to shift production toward jet-powered variants.

As Ukraine reported record deep-strike numbers for June and struck a Russian airbase in Crimea, Moscow's growing vulnerability surfaced in an unusual place: a help-wanted ad for drone operators to defend the capital.

That pressure comes as CSIS reports Russia has lost the battlefield initiative for a second straight month.

Refineries, naval bases, and power plants took hits across Russia and occupied Crimea even as Moscow's strikes killed 19 civilians over the last day and left 30 dead in Kyiv yesterday.

A record 52,500 people sheltered in the Kyiv metro overnight as Russia mounted its heaviest strike on the capital in months; separately, Kyiv stayed silent on its first ballistic missile and left Moscow's defense ministry to announce the weapon.

Denmark meanwhile signaled a shift in how Europe backs Kyiv, unveiling a €590 million package of ammunition and training funding alongside a ministerial visit to the capital.