I went to the literary evening expecting to be bored. A poet from occupied Donetsk started reading—home as a doll left in a drawer, a grave she can't reach—and half the garden was in tears. So was I. Three years after a Russian missile killed the writer it honors.

Russian forces struck Kherson, Ukraine, injuring three people in an airstrike on a municipal site. The attack sparked fires in a non-residential building and vehicles. Ukrainian emergency crews extinguished the blaze while operating under the risk of renewed strikes. 📷Ukraine’s Emergency Service

Ukraine has brought home 160 service members in the 76th prisoner exchange with Russia, all held in captivity since 2022. “We remember everyone who is in captivity. We check every name. We must bring everyone back – both military and civilians,” Zelenskyy said. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/u...

Russia launched a drone attack on Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, today, injuring at least 15 people, including a child. The strike damaged a building, sparked a large roof fire, and set several cars ablaze. Ukrainian emergency crews worked to extinguish the fires at the scene. 📹Ukraine’s Emergency Service

Order Patriot interceptors now, and “you would probably receive them in 2031,” says Marc DeVore, a professor at the University of St Andrews, on Ukraine’s interceptor shortage. The fix: Ukrainian-built interceptors, Patriots from alternative sources, and strikes on Russia’s missile plants.

The SBU said its "Alpha" unit hit the cable ships Volga and Vyatka in occupied Crimea—built to run an undersea spying system and lay mines—plus the 96%-complete ferry Petropavlovsk, setting a large fire, and knocked out an S-400 covering the Kerch Strait. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/c...

By its own (unreliable) count, the Russian Defense Ministry claims more than 39,000 Ukrainian long-range drones shot down over Russia and occupied Crimea since January—roughly 6,000 a month. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/r...

The EU has renewed its economic sanctions on Russia for another year, to 31 July 2027, the Council said on 25 June. The decision keeps the ban on Russian crude, blocks on Russian banks, and a freeze on Kremlin propaganda broadcasts. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/t...

Italy and France are holding up an EU plan to bar Russia's war veterans from Europe. The two governments back the goal but worry the wording could widen into a ban on all Russian citizens, and argue it fits better in visa policy than a sanctions package. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/r...

Russia built occupied Crimea two power plants to end its blackouts. Both run on gas piped from the mainland—so Ukraine's strikes keep switching the grid off. Why the "energy-independent" peninsula can't keep its lights on, in 90 seconds. ▶️

Mariupol children brainwashed into thanking the Russian invaders for ‘saving’ them khpg.org/en/1608815870

Medical torture to the end against Crimean Tatar political prisoner with malignant tumour and his family khpg.org/en/1608815869

Russia has run out of bridges over the Vovcha River—every one destroyed in 52 months of war. So crews now bolt folding spans onto armored tractors, drive them into the water, and bail out, leaving the vehicle as the bridge. Ukraine's drones find them anyway. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/v...

More than 5,000 politicians, diplomats and investors gathered in Gdańsk to rebuild Ukraine. The EU released a first €3.2 billion tranche. But the loudest topic in the halls was Warsaw and Kyiv's deepest rift since 2022—and the two presidents who didn't show. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/u...

Ukraine unlocked a $3.39 billion World Bank package by completing 13 laws and 7 bylaws on procurement, EU energy integration, agriculture, and education A $1.04 billion loan is backed by guarantees from the UK and Japan euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/u...

Ukraine is about to field a class of weapon it has never had: a true long-range air-to-air missile. The Gripen's Meteor reaches 200 km, outranging Russia's R-27 and edging the newest AIM-120. It narrows the gap—but Russia's R-37 still reaches 300. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/24/r...

Britain may sell $46m of Russian oil it seized from a shadow-fleet tanker and put the money toward Ukraine. Royal Marines boarded the Smyrtos in the Channel on 14 June, officials say the cargo now belongs to the UK. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/t...

Russia's "debris" excuse is back. Ukrainian drones crossed 1,300+ km to Ufa and hit two of its three refineries—residents filmed them passing the windows. The governor says it was "repelled," only some debris crashed 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/d...

Foreign money is buying Ukrainian banking—but only the failures. Estonia's Iute took collapsed RwS Bank; Poland's ZEN.com won insolvent PINbank, both cheap, for the license. No one's bidding for the profitable state giants. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/u...

For three years Russia glide-bombed Ukraine in escorted pairs. Now Ukraine is doing it back—F-16s flying top cover with AIM-120s while a wingman drops the bombs on Russian positions. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/k...

A Russian strike killed two Norwegian People's Aid deminers and wounded four more in Kherson Oblast on 24 June, the charity said. They were clearing mines from farmland when the strike hit. Ukrainian prosecutors opened a war-crimes case. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/r...

Russia's Africa Corps and Mali's army killed four civilians in northern Mali, then arranged one victim's dismembered body into a swastika, RFI reports. Local sources say all four were herders with no ties to armed groups. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/i...

A war on bread, fought by drone. At one Odesa grain terminal, crews work for one hour, then spend the next 11 in shelters. Russia can't sink the ships, so it burns the docks instead—$1.5 billion in terminal damage so far. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/r...

Russia is about to score its "first strategic victory of the year": Kostiantynivka, a city of 67k reduced to ruins But some Ukrainian commanders would rather fight the 16 km of open field behind it—ground that suits drone-centric defense better than the ruin did euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/k...

Lviv city authorities signed international development agreements worth over €2.5 million during Lviv Resilience Day at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk Czech company AS&HC is supplying three heat pumps for a maternity hospital 📷 Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories

Three guided bombs fell on a Ukrainian town at 11:30 a.m. A 56-year-old woman was killed, four more were wounded. Russian jets struck Druzhkivka, in Donetsk Oblast, with FAB-250 glide bombs on 25 June, the regional prosecutor's office reported. 📷 Donetsk Oblast PO

Ukraine raised its flag where Russian soldiers stood this morning on the Kinburn Spit Southern Defense Forces Joint Task Force Odesa reports that Ukrainian forces delivered a powerful fire strike that forced Russian occupiers to abandon their positions 📹 Joint Task Force Odesa

Russian forces dig in, reinforce their bunkers, pull camouflage netting over everything, and wait Bomber crews from the APACHI unit of the 81st Brigade read the coordinates and drop precisely. Every bunker has an expiration date 📹 APACHI

Ukrainian drones blacked out cities across occupied Crimea again overnight into 25 June, hitting two thermal power plants, monitoring channels reported. 🔗https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/crimeas-grid-takes-another-night-of-strikes-as-yalta-and-sevastopol-lose-power/

Russia is running a new wave of AI-generated disinformation targeting Ukrainian military morale Fabricated videos show people presented as wounded Ukrainian defenders delivering Kremlin talking points about the need for peace at any price 📷 Center for Countering Disinformation

Ukraine has put its first domestic guided glide bomb into serial production, unshackling itself from Western supplies. Now it can do more airstrikes on hardened targets: many of Russia's air defenses have been destroyed. Yet juicy targets near the front are growing more scarce for the same reason. 🔗

Russia keeps trying to keep this fuel depot running. Ukraine keeps lighting it up. The Poltavskaya depot—hit before on 16 June—is burning again, in a region that ran dry weeks ago. Moscow's word for it, once more: "falling debris." 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/a...

A Russian strike killed a Ukrainian railway worker in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Three Ukrzaliznytsia locomotives were struck in the attack Russia has struck Ukraine's railway network over 1,200 times in 2025 and killed roughly 40 railway workers since 2022 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/r...

Ukraine's strikes on Crimea's bridges and fuel infrastructure have halted political prisoner transfers from Simferopol for a week Ukraine is turning the peninsula into an island, and the occupation cannot manage its own logistics anymore euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/u...

Ukraine's strikes on occupied Crimea are "carefully calculated," and the right G7 aid would let Kyiv quickly force Russia to choose peace, President Zelenskyy said on 24 June. He won't say what the aid is—only that partners "know exactly" what he means. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/z...

Ukrainian drones have just struck oil refineries in Ufa, Russia, 1300 km away 📷 Exilenova+

The US wiped seven Russians, two ships, and two Turkish firms off its sanctions blacklist—with no reason given. The Treasury made the deletions on 24 June. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/w...

Russia is opening a drone engineering training center at a university in occupied Donetsk, partnered with Innopolis University Analyst Andriushchenko called it the "Alabuga model" — the same structure that put teenagers on Shahed assembly lines in Tatarstan euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/25/n...

Russia cripples tortured 23-year-old Ukrainian POW then convicts him of ‘terrorism’ for defending Ukraine khpg.org/en/1608815862

Fire at Russian oil depot in Krasnodar Krai According to local reports, two fuel tanks are ablaze in Poltavskaya rural settlement. The facility was previously struck on 16 June. 📹 Exilenova+

Ukrainian soldiers destroyed up to ten Russian infantry fighting vehicles and one tank along a 25-kilometer stretch of front in Zaporizhzhia Oblast over several weeks Russia is running low on armored vehicles, but continues sending them to support assault operations 📹 412th Brigade Nemesis

Ukrainian drone operators from the Khartia unit destroyed a Russian tank, and they want you to understand why that matters more than it used to A tank on a modern killzone battlefield has become a rare sight. When one appears, operators treat it as a priority target 📹 Khartia

Ukrainian border guards destroyed two howitzers, an artillery piece, and several vehicles in a single operational stretch The confirmed kill list includes an Msta-S self-propelled howitzer, a towed Msta-B howitzer, and a D-30 artillery gun 📹 State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

Russian forces drove in an ammunition resupply. Border guards from the Apex company of the Forpost brigade sent an FPV drone back as a receipt The vehicle carrying the ammunition did not make it 📹 State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

Pilots from the Ukrainian Ronins Unmanned Systems Battalion are now hitting Russian logistics with a new generation of drones The drones are claimed to be electronic warfare-resistant, to carry a range of over 50 kilometers 📹 Ronins / 65th Brigade

Ukraine got $4 billion in military aid at Ramstein, around $1 billion for Patriots. Its own interceptor, Freya, would cost five times less. It left Brussels with a partnership and no cash. So what does it actually buy?

Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski warned that Russia may stage a false-flag attack on its own territory to justify striking European countries "I'm expecting an attack on Russian territory under a false flag, to which Putin will respond," he claimed euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/24/p...

Ukraine's General Chereshnia is combat-testing the Sweetheart reconnaissance drone It flies 150 km deep, stays airborne 3 hours, goes silent within 50 meters of launch, and costs 6 to 10 times less than comparable systems euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/24/u...

Russia struck a beach in Zaporizhzhia on 24 June, wounding four people, including three children The city of 700,000 has no metro shelter system and is located in a region 70% occupied by Russian forces euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/24/i...

Russia killed a 24-year-old Norwegian People's Aid deminer and wounded four colleagues in Kherson Oblast The team was clearing mines Russia left behind in a village liberated in 2022. It is not the first time Russia strikes deminers euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/24/2...