⚡️ As a result of a Russian missile strike on Kyiv, a nine-story residential building has been damaged, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. People are trapped inside, according to him.

⚡️ Explosions are constantly being heard in Kyiv. Russia is attacking the Ukrainian capital simultaneously with kamikaze drones, ballistic missiles, and Zircon anti-ship missiles. Monitoring channels report that 25 missiles have already been fired at the city in the past hour.

💥 Explosions are rocking Kyiv one after another. In total, Russian forces have launched around 20 missiles at the Ukrainian capital so far.

💥 Explosions heard in Kyiv. Russia is attacking the Ukrainian capital with missiles.

Around 40 Russian drones are approaching from the south and north. Additional launches have been reported. Look at the northern group: the drones are reportedly flying exactly along the Ukraine-Belarus border. Map: war_monitor via Telegram

⚡️ Russian forces struck a luxury hotel in central Kyiv. The building caught fire after a drone strike. 📷 Korrespondent UA/Telegram

🚨 According to preliminary data, starting from around 1 a.m., Russia is reportedly planning strikes on Ukraine’s northern regions from the Bryansk and Kursk regions. ~25 missiles is reportedly being prepared, including 9M723 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 3M22 Zircon missiles.

🤬 At least 26 people have been injured at five locations hit by Russian strikes, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The youngest injured victim is just one year old. The oldest is 71.

🤬 Russia struck private homes in Kharkiv with five guided bombs, killing at least one person and injuring 13 others, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said. 📷 synegubov/Telegram

⚡️ Russia struck Kharkiv with five guided bombs, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. According to the regional governor, six people were injured in the attacks, including a 16-year-old boy.

🤬 Russia struck a residential building in Kharkiv with a guided bomb, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said. According to him, no casualties have been reported so far. Emergency services are working at the scene.

🇯🇵🇺🇦🫶 During the Ukrainian delegation’s visit to Tokyo, Japanese colleagues came to the talks wearing vyshyvankas.

⚠️ Monitoring channels report that Russia may be preparing a massive attack within the next 48 hours. Preliminary reports suggest the strike could involve ~1,000 drones launched from sites across Russia and occupied Crimea, as well as at least 60 cruise and ballistic missiles.

💔🕯️🩺 23-year-old Fatima Huseynova, killed in Russia’s attack on Kharkiv, was a student at Kharkiv National Medical University, the university said. She was a future doctor who chose a life of serving people, dreamed of medicine, and wanted to save lives. Russia took that future from her.

🤬 Locals have posted a video of a Russian guided bomb strike on downtown of Kharkiv. The strike killed a 23-year-old woman and injured 10 people.

💔🕯️A man cries over his niece, who was killed in a Russian strike on Kharkiv. According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the victim was Fatima, a young woman who received her university diploma today. A torn graduation cap lay near her body. 🎥 svoboda_radio/Telegram

⚡️ One person has been confirmed killed and five others injured, after a Russian guided bomb strike on Kharkiv, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. The strike damaged a tram and the power grid, more than 15 cars, an enterprise building, and nearby residential buildings.

💥 Russia has just attacked Kharkiv with a glide bomb. An explosion was heard in northeastern Ukraine's city.

🤬 Russian forces struck a public bus in Zaporizhzhia with an FPV drone, killing two people and injuring six others, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said. 📷 ivan_fedorov_zp/Telegram

💥 Explosions heard in Kharkiv. Russia is attacking the city in the northeast of Ukraine with kamikaze drones.

💥 Explosions heard in Dnipro. Russia has just attacked the city with ballistic missiles.

💥 Explosions heard in Kyiv. Russia has attacked Kyiv with ballistic missiles. Air defense systems are active in the capital.

🤬 A Russian kamikaze drone hit a residential building in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, on June 26. According to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, one person was killed and three others were injured in the strike.

🇺🇦🫂 “I am home. I am in Ukraine.” These are the words every family of a captured Ukrainian defender dreams of hearing. Today, 160 Ukrainian defenders who had been held in Russian captivity since 2022 finally came home. 📹 DPSUkr/Telegram

🤬 The number of people injured in Russia’s drone attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to 15, including one child, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. 📹 DSNS via Telegram

🫂🇺🇦 Preliminary reports say Ukraine and Russia have carried out a prisoner-of-war exchange, with 160 captives returned by each side. Welcome home!

⚡️ Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia, injuring at least six people, the regional military administration said. Earlier, authorities had warned of the threat of ballistic missile strikes, aerial bombs, and drones in the region. 📷 ivan_fedorov_zp/Telegram

💥 Explosions heard in Kyiv. Russia is attacking the capital with ballistic missiles.

The attack was reported as a Ukrainian drone strike on an oil refinery in Ufa. The city is located about 1,400 km/870 miles from Russia’s nearest border with Ukraine.

🚨 BREAKING: UKRAINE SAYS BELARUS-BASED REPEATERS USED TO AID RUSSIAN DRONE ATTACKS HAVE STOPPED OPERATING President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said signal repeaters in Belarus, which had helped Russian drone attacks against Ukraine, have stopped operating since June 22.

💔 Druzhkivka, a city in Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast just 15 km from the front line, is slowly becoming scorched earth. Russia is methodically destroying it day by day, house by house, turning another once-peaceful Ukrainian city into ruins. 📹 bogdanzuyakov/Telegram

⚡️ On the night of June 15, Russia struck one of Ukraine’s most important religious sites — the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. The attack damaged the Dormition Cathedral, a symbol of Ukrainian faith, history, and spiritual resilience. 📹 DSNS/Telegram

The footage is described as the first publicly released video showing the use of Ukrainian-made guided aerial bombs. The weapon is believed to be Ukraine’s Vyrivniuvach guided bomb.

Lukianivka is one of Kyiv’s neighborhoods that has learned to live under Russia’s constant threat. A few days ago, I visited this part of the city again. The local Lukianivka market had burned down after a Russian attack. A shopping center nearby was destroyed.

🇺🇦🇵🇱 I believe the Presidential Office's decision that Volodymyr Zelenskyy will not travel to Gdańsk for URC2026 is both logical and correct. After all, this is a conference organized at the governmental level. In that sense, Yuliia Svyrydenko’s participation is appropriate and sufficient.

Ukraine’s military intelligence strike drones are targeting Russian equipment along a logistics route leading to occupied Crimea. Ukraine is steadily turning Russia’s supply route to occupied Crimea into a kill zone.

⚡️ Russian forces struck trolleybuses in Sumy, injuring three people, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said. Impacts were recorded at three locations. At one of them, a trolleybus caught fire. 📷 DSNS/Telegram

💔 This is what childhood looks like in Ukraine: children are playing next to the impact site left by a Russian guided bomb strike on the Palace of Children’s Creativity in Zaporizhzhia. 📹 zprezonans via Telegram

Russia continues to erase the cities of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast from the map. This time, Russian forces struck residential buildings in Druzhkivka – another Ukrainian city targeted by Russia’s campaign of terror and destruction.

⚡️📢 Just an ordinary beginning of the week: air raid alert across the whole Ukraine as the Air Force recorded the takeoff of the MiG-31K. It's the carrier of the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched ballistic missile.

🇵🇱🇺🇦 Ukraine-Poland relations are now at one of their lowest points in decades. Four Ukrainian presidents have returned Polish orders, while dozens of Ukrainian politicians have already given back Polish awards of different ranks.

🫂 Rescuers continue to deal with the aftermath of Russia’s June 15 drone strike on the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. They are covering the damaged roof of the historic landmark with a temporary protective layer to shield it from rain. 📷 DSNS/Telegram

💥 Russia struck a residential building in Kharkiv with a drone, according Mayor Ihor Terekhov. A fire broke out at the site of the strike.

KyivPride’s 10th Equality March drew around 5,000 people in central Kyiv on June 21, organizers said. The two-hour march covered 1.2 kilometers and called for equal rights and recognition of LGBTQ+ families in Ukraine.

✉️🇵🇱🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has returned the Order of the White Eagle to the Polish president. Zelenskyy said Ukraine believed the award, presented in 2023, was addressed to the Ukrainian people and its army.

🇺🇦🇵🇱 Polish President Karol Nawrocki has stripped Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of the Order of the White Eagle. I reached out to Ukraine’s Presidential Office for comment, but they declined to respond.

🕯️🧸 Russia killed 8-year-old Alina in its attack on Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. She should have been going to school, playing, and simply living her childhood. Instead, a Russian attack took her life. Since the start of the invasion, Russia has killed 707 Ukrainian children.

Ukraine imposed kinetic sanctions on Moscow on the morning of June 18. Each such package of sanctions brings peace closer.

💥 Three explosions heard in Kyiv. Russia is attacking the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles.

Our Senior Advisor @dooleydooley.bsky.social live on Scripps News TV today from Ukraine frontline city of Kharkiv, where he is back working alongside local activists.