On June 22, 2001, at dawn, a resident of the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan district, Ruslan Khuseinovich Shakhtamirov, born in 1975, was killed from automatic weapons. Residents of the settlement testify that the crime was committed by the Russian military.

The Council of the European Union approved the 11th package of sanctions against Russia, the main goal of which is to strengthen previously imposed restrictions and combat sanctions circumvention.
 

During the shelling of the city of Chasov Yar and the village of Antonovka in the Donetsk region, 1 person was killed and 1 was wounded.

On June 20, 2001, on the border of Chechnya and Dagestan, a clash took place between the Russian military and members of the CRI armed formations. The shootout lasted about two hours.

On the night of June 19, 2001, in the village of Karpinsky kurgan of the Zavodskoy district of Grozny, the Russian military organized a pogrom, beaten and captured local residents.

Ukraine reported the liberation of 8 settlements in the Berdyansk and Melitopol directions.
Yevgeny Prigozhin reported that 32 thousand former prisoners returned to Russia from the front.

On June 18, 2001, at about one in the morning, up to 15 Russian military men entered the house on Lenin Street in Shali. They lifted Muslim Rashidov out of bed, who returned from Stavropol only two weeks ago.

Ukrainian drones attempted to attack the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Bryansk region.
The Center for National Resistance in Ukraine reported that Russian authorities in the occupied territories are putting pressure on the local population, forcing them to receive Russian passports.

On June 17, 2001, at about one in the morning, the Russian military, who arrived in two armored personnel carriers in the village of Karpinsky Kurgan in the Zavodsky district of Grozny, broke into house 1 along Krasnovodskaya street and took away Islam Alievich Dzhansurkaev, born in 1968, and him the same age as Lem Bai-Alievich Kantaev.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the southern direction. However, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov said that partners have high expectations from the Ukrainian counter-offensive.