Russia’s morning strike on a Kharkiv high-rise kills two men and wounds 21
Regional and city officials watched the toll climb through the day, with a young child among the many people hurt in the residential tower.
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47 sites destroyed, 1,943 damaged: Russia’s toll on Ukrainian heritage keeps climbing
Ukraine's culture ministry counts close to 2,000 heritage sites hit since 2022, with 90 more added in just the last month.
Take Lyman, then Sloviansk, then Kramatorsk: Russia’s plan is still stuck on step one, the Ukrainian military says
Russian commanders treat the town as the necessary launchpad, yet their infantry cannot hold ground inside it, according to the report.
ISW: Russia has taken just 81 km² of Ukraine this year—while claiming 2,226
The false picture is not just propaganda for the public but material that appears to reach the desk of Russia's leader, the think tank says.
Pickup that can be replaced when lost is what hunted Ukrainian border regions need. Germany just sent 12
Kharkiv Oblast received 12 pickup trucks and two road rollers from Germany's Federal Agency for Technical Relief for emergency response, evacuation, and road repair.
Russian drone tracked moving car on Kharkiv road and killed man driving it
A Molniya drone hit a Peugeot on the Zolochiv-Maksymivka road in Bohodukhiv raion. Prosecutors opened a war crimes investigation.
Russia’s transport ministry quietly confirmed what happened to its border bridges in Belgorod
A month-long traffic ban on the Valuyki–Urazovo road followed within hours of videos showing both Urayeva River crossings wrecked.
Russia is bolting World War II-style bridges onto armored tractors. They’re slow—and Ukraine’s drones are fast
Every bridge over the Vovcha is gone, so Russian crews drive improvised spans into the river and bail out—leaving the vehicles behind as makeshift bridges. The drones find them anyway.
Russia attacks this one Ukrainian village every single day. It never works, the border service says
Each assault toward Vovchanski Khutory ends with Russian troops killed or in Ukrainian hands, per the service's spokesman.
Russian missiles kill three and wound six in Chuhuiv as drones injure 15 in Kharkiv, including a one-year-old
Beyond Kharkiv Oblast, Russian attacks killed civilians in Kherson, Sumy, and Donetsk oblasts and wounded dozens more over 8–9 June. Local authorities report at least 8 civilian deaths and 61 injuries.
ISW: Russian generals feed the Kremlin a false picture: leaked map claims towns that were never captured
Russian milbloggers complain that false reports of captured ground trigger pointless assaults to seize places the maps already show as Russian-controlled.
Russians stormed empty houses for the cameras 26 km from the town they claimed to take—and Russia’s top general announced its “liberation”
Ukraine's own military command does not even list fighting for the place, which stays under its control beind the frontline.
Ukraine clears private firms to down Russian drones—24 already in
A Defense Ministry project lets businesses defend their plants from drones with trained staff or licensed security firms, RFE/RL reported.
Ukrainian flag flies again over Odradne, six months after Russia overran the village
The 129th Brigade's storm units pushed Russian forces out of fortified positions, treelines, and strongpoints in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast.
A Kyiv Oblast kindergarten was hit hours after Russia’s “ceasefire” ended
Russia also targeted Dnipro locomotives, Mykolaiv power facilities, bombed Zaporizhzhia, and shelled more regions.
ISW: Russia’s “Victory Day ceasefire” reduced combat but didn’t stop it
Day 2 saw Russian attacks reach Ukrainian positions across six oblasts, killing at least two civilians in Kherson.
40 children narrowly escape Russian drone strike on bus near Dnipro: six wounded include a child and a pregnant woman
Russia's attacks across Ukraine killed at least eight civilians and injured 90 people. 26 were injured over the past day in Kherson Oblast alone.
Ukraine’s private-sector air defense groups downed their first jet Shahed — Russia’s drone that flies at 300+ km/h
A private group in Kharkiv Oblast made the interception, a minister reported. The network has grown from 13 to 19 enterprises it operates at since March, integrated into Air Force command.
Russian weapon Ukraine cannot intercept is now hitting civilian water supplies
Russia just bombed the dam that gives Kharkiv its drinking water.
Russia’s Easter “ceasefire” stopped Shaheds for a day — and nothing else
Russian forces shot four Ukrainian POWs after capturing them near Veterynarne, Kharkiv Oblast — after the truce had formally begun — while Russia accumulated 10,721 other violations across the front, Ukraine says.