Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili accused European leaders of using relations with Georgia as a political tool, leading to the current tensions.
On the night of May 1, the Russian army struck Ukraine with five Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 170 drones of various types. The Odessa, Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, and Kyiv regions were damaged. In Odessa, two people were killed and 15 were injured. Several fires broke out, and multi-story residential and private buildings, a supermarket, a school, and cars were damaged.
Russian air defenses destroyed eight Ukrainian drones overnight in the Kursk, Voronezh, Vladimir, and Belgorod regions.
On the morning of May 2, the Stavropol region was attacked by Ukrainian drones. Their target may have been a military space reconnaissance unit. According to local authorities, there were no casualties or damage.
On the night of May 3, 47 drones were shot down in the Krasnodar region, and another nine were destroyed over the Rostov region. In Novorossiysk, a strike caused a fire at a grain terminal, injuring five people.
On May 4, several public groups reported the death in Ukraine of Colonel Abdulaziz Shikhabidov, a native of Dagestan and commander of the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division (Pskov Division).
On May 5, Ullubiy Khanmurzayev, head of Dagestan's Buinaksk District, announced on his Telegram channel his "decision to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense and travel to a special military operation zone." Among the reasons, he cited "duty to the Motherland" and "the call of the President of our country and the Head of the Republic of Dagestan." Apparently, the criminal case opened against Khanmurzayev for fraud, official forgery, and embezzlement of budget funds on an especially large scale also influenced his decision. The district head also reported that more than 2,500 military personnel from Buinaksk and the Buinaksk district are currently participating in the "SVO."
The human rights project "Go to the Forest" (designated a foreign agent), which helps people avoid military conscription, reported, citing a Dagestani lawyer, that youth roundups are underway in Makhachkala. Police are picking up young people off the streets, placing them in tinted buses, and taking them to military registration and enlistment offices for "one-day" processing and dispatch to the "SVO." Even students with draft deferments are being detained. In June, after repeated reports of police raids, the Dagestani military registration and enlistment office issued a denial. "Only those subject to conscription, as well as those wanted for evading military service, are receiving summonses," a representative of the agency stated.
On May 6, the Zheleznovodsk City Court sentenced Oksana Kazantseva, a resident of the Stavropol Krai, to a suspended sentence of two years and six months for "discrediting" the army. The sentence was based on an anti-war comment in a chat room on journalist Alexander Nevzorov's channel. She wrote, in part: "Your soft-spoken mug alone is already a major threat. It's the same as the Russian military who went to kill the brotherly people of Ukraine for a piece of meat. They're not just murderers, but child killers and rapists." In addition to the suspended sentence, the court banned Kazantseva from publishing anything online for the same period. Kazantseva stated in court that she fully admitted her guilt.
On May 7, Sheremetyevo Airport suspended flights twice due to the threat of Ukrainian drone attacks. A total of more than 140 flights to and from Moscow were delayed. Restrictions were also imposed at airports in Kazan, Nizhnekamsk, and Kirov. According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, airport restrictions have affected at least 60,000 passengers, with at least 350 flights disrupted. "It's absolutely true that Russian skies—the aggressor's skies—are also unsettled today," Zelenskyy said in a video address on the evening of May 7.
On May 8, a three-day ceasefire declared by Putin in connection with the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War took effect. Ukraine did not officially join the ceasefire, proposing a full 30-day ceasefire instead. However, according to Ukrainian media, military command ordered the military to return fire only.
On May 9, 18-year-old activist Alexander Klevitov was beaten at the Tverskoy District police station in Moscow after he went to Pushkin Square with a sign reading "No to war! Fascism will not pass." The protester was detained, charged with "discrediting" the Russian army, and held overnight at the police station. According to his lawyer, "there is a suspicion of a concussion."
In the Moscow region, two people were killed when a grenade exploded in a residential building. The grenade was brought by a veteran of the war in Ukraine and detonated after a drunken party celebrating Victory Day.
On May 10, the leaders of France, Great Britain, Germany, and Poland gathered in Kyiv and called on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire starting May 12, threatening to "increase pressure" if it refused. "We must think about this... We are open to dialogue, open to attempts to reach a settlement in Ukraine. We appreciate the mediation efforts. But trying to pressure us is futile," said Dmitry Peskov.
On May 11, Vladimir Putin proposed that Ukraine resume direct talks, "interrupted in 2022," starting May 15 in Istanbul without preconditions. Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded that he was ready to meet with Putin. Donald Trump stated that he could travel to Turkey for talks on May 15.
Ukrainian troops struck the border town of Rylsk in the Kursk region. Three people were injured.
On May 12, Russia launched 108 attack drones and drone simulators at Ukrainian territory.
On May 13, Russian forces dropped three aerial bombs on the village of Nechvolodovka in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region. Two people were killed and four were wounded.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukraine had abandoned its attempts to disrupt the May 9 parade in Moscow at China's request.
On May 14, Russia launched a missile strike on an industrial facility in the Sumy region. One person was killed and seven were wounded. Three of the wounded are in serious condition.
On May 15, Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a press conference in Ankara dedicated to the upcoming talks between Russia and Ukraine. He said that Moscow had shown disrespect to the United States and Turkey by failing to announce the time and agenda of the meeting and by sending an unrepresentative delegation.
On May 16, the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in three years were held in Istanbul. The Russian delegation was led by Presidential Aide Volodymyr Medinskyy, and the Ukrainian delegation by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. The parties agreed to a major prisoner exchange and promised to present a "vision for a possible future ceasefire."
One of the American F-16 fighter jets, transferred to Ukraine by its allies, was lost during a combat mission. The pilot ejected. The cause of the crash has not been reported.
On May 17, a Russian Lancet drone attacked a minibus in the Sumy region. Nine people were killed and seven were injured, three of whom were in serious condition.
On the night of May 19, Russia launched 112 drones at Ukraine. The Kharkiv, Sumy, Donetsk, Cherkasy, and Kirovohrad regions were hit. Two people were injured, and four residential buildings were damaged.
The presidents of Russia and the United States spoke by telephone. Putin promised to offer Ukraine a "memorandum on a future peace treaty."
On May 20, a UAZ Patriot vehicle carrying four officers from the Akhmat unit exploded between the towns of Skadovsk and Antonivka in the Kherson region of Ukraine. All of them were killed, according to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine.
Russian forces launched a missile strike on a shooting range in the Sumy region. Six Ukrainian service members were killed and more than 10 were wounded.
Drone attacks disrupted mobile internet in the Lipetsk region. Internet disruptions were also observed in the Moscow region.
On May 21, Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow for the first time since early May. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported the destruction of four drones. Operations at Sheremetyevo Airport were suspended. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 34 Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed over Russian regions in just one day, and at least 159 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia on the night of the 21st. In the Oryol region, a semiconductor device plant building and several private residential buildings were damaged.
On May 22, the Russian army broke through Ukrainian defenses along the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway in Donbas and captured several villages north of the road.
Kommersant newspaper reported on a criminal case against five Russian attack aircraft, accused of banditry, looting, and murder committed with particular cruelty. The gang operated in the Kursk region while repelling an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On May 23, Russian forces launched two ballistic missiles at the port infrastructure of Odessa. A port worker was killed and eight others were wounded, four of whom are in serious condition.
A Mi-8 military helicopter crashed in the Oryol region. The pilot and flight mechanic were killed. The cause of the crash was a technical malfunction.
Russia and Ukraine have begun a large-scale prisoner exchange.
A St. Petersburg court fined siege survivor Lyudmila Vasilyeva 10,000 rubles for "discrediting" the army for a picket on February 24, where she held a sign reading, "People, stop the war! We are responsible for peace on planet Earth." Sixty people came to support her, but only two were allowed into the courtroom. Vasilyeva was detained several times at anti-war rallies in 2022, and in 2024, she ran for governor of St. Petersburg.
On May 24, overnight, Russian troops fired 14 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and 250 Shahed attack drones and drone imitators at Ukraine. The Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Zaporizhia regions were damaged. Eight people were injured in Kyiv, and two more were wounded in the city of Berezan. The Security Service of Ukraine reported that the Chernivtsi District Court found Dagestan's head, Sergei Melikov, guilty in absentia of financing actions aimed at changing Ukraine's borders and sentenced him to eight years in prison. The charges stemmed from regional payments to contract soldiers and the operation of a special fund in Dagestan assisting military personnel.
On May 25, Russian troops launched nearly 300 drones and 70 missiles at Ukrainian territory. Thirteen regions were hit. Twelve people were killed, including three children from one family, and dozens were injured.
A three-day prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine has concluded. The 1,000-for-1,000 exchange was the largest of 65 prisoner exchanges conducted during the three-year war. Russia announced the return of 880 military personnel and 120 civilians—100 political prisoners and 20 pensioners from the Kursk region. Soldiers captured in 2022-2024 have returned to Ukraine, but not a single Azov soldier was among them.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree imposing personal sanctions against a number of Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Among them is Akhmed Dudayev, an aide to the head of Chechnya and the republic's Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press, and Information.
On May 26, the Russian military launched a massive drone strike against Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the attack involved 355 Shahed drones and drone simulators, as well as nine Kh-101 air-launched missiles. This is likely the largest attack of the war. The strikes targeted Kyiv and the Kyiv region, Kharkiv, Odesa and the Odesa region, as well as the Khmelnytsky and Dnipropetrovsk regions. Regional authorities reported damage, but there are no casualty reports.
On May 27, Moscow's Basmanny Court sentenced Anastasia Burakova, the founder of the Kovcheg project, in absentia to seven and a half years in prison for spreading "fakes" about the army. The criminal case was opened following her speech at a rally in Tbilisi on February 24, 2023, where she said that Putin had "gone mad and is destroying cities."
On May 28, Russia launched five Iskander ballistic missiles, an X59/69 guided missile, and 88 drones at Ukraine; 71 drones were shot down by air defense forces. The overnight attacks injured 15 people across Ukraine.
Ukrainian Armed Forces and Security Service of Ukraine units struck enterprises in Dubna, Moscow Region: Kronstadt JSC, which produces Orion, Inokhodets, Molniya, Grom, Termit, Helios, and Sirius drones, and the Raduga plant, which produces cruise missiles. Ukrainian drones also struck Angstrem JSC, which produces microelectronics, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated. According to Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov, 42 drones were shot down in the region overnight, damaging three residential buildings.
On May 29, air defense forces shot down 48 Ukrainian drones over Russia, including three over the Moscow region. Throughout the night, the Federal Air Transport Agency temporarily imposed restrictions on the arrival and departure of aircraft at several airports. In Stavropol, an explosion killed two local residents, including Zaur Gurtsiev, a veteran of the Ukrainian war and a participant in the presidential "Time of Heroes" program who served as the city's first deputy mayor. He led the airborne portion of the Russian operation to capture Mariupol and holds several orders and medals. One of his awards was for Avdiivka, a town in the Donetsk region captured by the Russian army in February 2024. The explosive device was carried by the second victim, Nikita Penkov, an acquaintance of Gurtsiev's.
On May 30, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a drone attack in the Kursk region. In Rylsk, drones struck two five-story residential buildings, starting a fire. Seven people were injured. A family of four, including children aged 13 and 16, was taken to a local hospital. Two more women and one man suffered shrapnel wounds.
Two explosions rocked Desantnaya Bay in Vladivostok, near the deployment area of the 47th Separate Airborne Assault Battalion of the 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade. Ukrainian sources reported a "successful operation" by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which resulted in the destruction of personnel, military equipment, and special equipment. The 155th Brigade participated in battles in Mariupol and Vuhledar in the Donetsk region, as well as in the Kursk region. The Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced a 17-year-old native of the Dagestani city of Buynaksk to eight years in a correctional facility for setting fire to a Su-34 fighter jet at the Shagol Air Base in early January 2024. The FSB claims he was carrying out a mission for an unnamed client who promised him 4.5 million rubles. The teenager received 25,000 rubles for a train ticket to Chelyabinsk, where he bought gasoline and infiltrated the air base. On January 4, Ukrainian military intelligence posted a video of the burning jet.
On the night of May 31, Russian troops launched 107 drones, two S-300 missiles, and three Kh-59/69 missiles at Ukrainian territory. A 9-year-old girl was killed and a 16-year-old boy was injured in a frontline village in the Pologovsky District.
In the Bryansk Region, an explosion caused a road bridge to collapse as a passenger train passed underneath. Seven people were killed and over 100 injured. That same day, two explosions occurred on railway sections in the Kursk and Bryansk regions. Authorities claim that the bombings were orchestrated by Ukraine.
In the Sumy region, "due to the constant threat to civilian life as a result of shelling of border communities," mandatory evacuation of residents of 11 more villages was imposed. In total, 213 settlements in the Sumy region are subject to mandatory evacuation.
On June 1, the SBU conducted Operation "Spiderweb," during which dozens of drones attacked Russian military airbases at Olenya in the Murmansk region, Belaya in the Irkutsk region, Dyagilevo in the Ryazan region, and Ivanovo-Severny in the Ivanovo region. The drones took off from containers transported by trucks. The truck drivers were targeted "blindly"—they were unaware of what they were carrying. The SBU claims that 41 aircraft were hit, 12 of which were completely destroyed. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the aircraft were "not destroyed, but damaged" and "will be repaired," but did not specify the extent of the losses.
On June 2, the second round of talks between Russia and Ukraine took place in Istanbul. The parties agreed to exchange prisoners and the bodies of the dead. Russian media published a Russian memorandum "on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis." In it, Moscow demands that Kyiv recognize the annexation of five regions: Crimea, the LPR, the DPR, and the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
On June 3, Russia attacked Odessa with attack drones. Five people were injured. A food warehouse burned down, and residential buildings and cars were damaged.
On June 4, a massive mobile internet outage occurred in Rostov-on-Don. Users were unable to download apps and were unable to access messaging apps. The regional government attributed the outage to "measures to ensure the safety of residents." A trial has begun in London for the March 2024 arson attacks on warehouses containing humanitarian aid to Ukraine, carried out at the request of the Wagner PMC. Eight people are on trial. Two of them are also accused of plotting to set fire to a store and restaurant in London belonging to Russian businessman and "foreign agent" Yevgeny Chichvarkin. They planned to kidnap Chichvarkin and bring him to Russia.
On June 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region. A 32-year-old woman was killed. Six more were injured. Several residential buildings were damaged.
On June 6, Russian armed forces attacked Kyiv. Four people were killed and approximately 20 were injured.
That night, Russian air defense forces shot down 174 Ukrainian drones in 12 regions and Crimea. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine claims that the Engels airfield in the Saratov region and Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan region were hit. "Multiple hits on at least three fuel and lubricant tanks have been confirmed, followed by ignition and a large-scale fire," the Ukrainian military states.
In the Belgorod region, a diesel locomotive was derailed by an explosion. No one was injured. This is the fifth railway explosion in Russia in the past week. Three explosions occurred on May 31 in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, and on June 5 in the Voronezh region.
On June 7, Russian drones and missiles struck Kharkiv twice. Four people were killed and more than 60 were injured.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces claim to have shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet over the Kursk region. According to the Telegram channel Fighterbomber, the pilot survived.
On June 8, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that units of the 90th Tank Division of the Center Group of Forces had entered the Dnipropetrovsk region. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that this information was untrue: "Fighting continues in the Donetsk region. And the quoted text is Russian disinformation."
On June 9, Russian forces struck a military airfield near the village of Dubno in the Rivne region. "This is one of the retaliatory strikes for the terrorist attacks carried out by the Kyiv regime on Russian military airfields," the Russian Ministry of Defense stated.
On June 10, Russian drones struck Kyiv, damaging the façade of St. Sophia Cathedral. Odessa was also hit, damaging the Odessa Film Studio. Ukraine launched 102 drones into the skies over Russia. There were no casualties. Mobile phone and internet restrictions were imposed in the Leningrad Region. Rosaviatsiya imposed temporary restrictions overnight at all airports in the Moscow air hub (Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky), as well as in Saratov, Samara, Kazan, Kaluga, Nizhnekamsk, Izhevsk, Kirov, and St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport. The restrictions were lifted by morning.
On June 11, Russian troops attacked Kharkiv with drones. Four people were killed and more than 60 injured, including seven children. Russian drones also attacked the Odessa Region, damaging summer cottages, outbuildings, and cars.
Russia handed over the bodies of 1,212 fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to Ukraine and received the bodies of 27 fallen Russian service members.
On the night of June 12, Russian drones again attacked Kharkiv. Fourteen people, including four children, were injured. "Residential areas, educational institutions, kindergartens, and infrastructure came under fire. Dozens of cars were damaged, and windows in schools and homes were shattered," said city mayor Igor Terekhov.
On June 13, the European Union extended asylum for Ukrainians until March 4, 2027. The decision applies to 4.2 million Ukrainians who received temporary protection status in the EU following the outbreak of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.
Israel struck uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordow, missile bases in Kermanshah and Khorramabad, as well as Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, and other major Iranian cities. The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, several other IRGC officers, and nuclear scientists were killed.
On June 14, Ukrainian drones attacked a chemical plant in the Stavropol Krai. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that eight drones were intercepted.
Russia and Ukraine began open-ended medical exchanges, under which the two sides transfer seriously wounded prisoners from the front lines. The exchanges were the result of talks in Istanbul.
On June 15, Ukrainian drones attacked a plant in Tatarstan that produces Russian attack drones. Two people were killed and 13 wounded.
On June 16, Russia and Ukraine, as part of the Istanbul agreements, conducted the final round of repatriation of bodies. Russia handed over more than 6,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces service members to Ukraine, while Kyiv returned the bodies of 78 fallen Russian service members.
On the night of June 17, Russian forces launched a massive airstrike on Kyiv. 175 drones and 14 missiles, including two ballistic missiles, were launched at the city and the region. Twenty-eight people were killed and 134 were injured.
On June 18, Russian troops struck the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones and artillery. One person was killed and four were wounded.
In Berdyansk, in the Russian-occupied part of the Zaporizhia region, the Russian-appointed deputy mayor, Mykhailo Gritsai, was killed. Ukrainska Pravda reported that he was shot dead as a result of a special operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. The official statement from the Main Intelligence Directorate stated that Gritsai "after the city's enslavement in 2022, voluntarily collaborated with the Russian invaders and received a position in the occupation administration" and "de facto plundered state property."
On June 19, Russia and Ukraine conducted the latest round of prisoner exchanges. Neither side disclosed the number of prisoners.
On June 20, the internal security ministers of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and Finland called for a ban on travel within the Schengen area for those who fought in the war in Ukraine. "Hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens have participated and continue to participate in the war against Ukraine, and individuals with military experience from there will likely supplement and strengthen Russian organized crime groups, thus posing a significant criminal threat to the European Union," their joint statement read.
On June 21, Rustem Zainullin, Vice Governor of the Belgorod Region, was detained. He is suspected of embezzling 32 million rubles during the construction of a defense line in the region.
On June 22, a Russian missile strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces training ground in the Mykolaiv Region killed three people and wounded 11.
On June 23, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) placed Apti Alaudinov, deputy head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense and commander of the Akhmat special forces, on the wanted list. He is accused of "encroaching on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine." "It's still a question of who will be looking for whom and who will get to whom first," Alaudinov commented on the news.
The Serpukhov City Court in the Moscow Region sentenced Russian language and literature teacher Natalia Taranushenko in absentia to seven years in prison. She was found guilty of spreading "fakes" about the army: in 2022, she held a class where she told students about the Russian army's crimes in Bucha, showed several videos from Ukrainian media, and called Russia's invasion of Ukraine a violation of international law. Parents of schoolchildren reported her. Taranushenko was fired from her job, left Russia, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs placed her on the wanted list.
On June 24, Russian troops attacked the Dnipro and Samara regions. Twenty-three people were killed and over 200 were injured.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that since the beginning of the month, Russia has launched 2,736 drones of various types, including drone imitators, into Ukrainian territory.
The Russian State Duma passed a law allowing stateless persons to sign contracts for military service in the Russian army.
June 25 was declared a day of mourning in Dnipro.
On June 26, Mediazona published judicial statistics on cases of refusal to serve in the army. Since the beginning of the war, 20,662 such cases have been filed in Russian military courts. By the end of May 2025, 17,721 people had been sentenced. The majority of cases (18,159) were initiated under the article on unauthorized abandonment of a military unit (Article 337 of the Criminal Code), which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The remaining cases relate to failure to obey an order (Article 332 of the Criminal Code) and desertion (Article 338 of the Criminal Code).
On June 27, Russian troops again struck the city of Samara in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Five people were killed and 23 were injured, four of whom are in serious condition.
Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Marinovka military airfield in the Volgograd region. The SBU claims that two Su-34 aircraft were destroyed and two more were damaged. The Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on the Ukrainian agencies' statements, but reported that 13 drones were shot down in the Volgograd region.
The BBC Russian Service and Mediazona have released the latest casualty figures: at least 115,857 Russian service members have died on the front lines since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war. At least 240 of them signed contracts immediately after finishing school and died at the age of 18. "Russia spends 13.5 trillion rubles out of the country's 223 trillion rubles GDP on military needs," Putin said at a press conference following his visit to Minsk.
On June 28, a nighttime attack by Russian drones set fire to apartments on several floors of a 21-story building in Odessa. A married couple was killed and 17 people, including three children, were injured.
Ukrainian drones struck Bryansk. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate, the drones struck facilities at the 120th Arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported a successful drone attack on a military airfield in Crimea, destroying three helicopters and a Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system.
On the night of June 29, Russian forces launched 477 attack drones and drone simulators, four Kinzhal missiles, seven Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles, 41 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles, five Kalibr cruise missiles, and three S-300 surface-to-air missiles at Ukraine. Six people, including a child, were injured in the city of Smila. F-16 fighter pilot Maksim Ustimenko was killed during the attack. According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, he shot down seven aerial targets, but his aircraft was damaged and began losing altitude. The pilot diverted the falling fighter jet away from a populated area but was unable to eject.
On June 30, a Russian "Shahed" drone struck a military recruitment office in Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. A fire broke out, injuring three people.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Samara Oblast has opened a criminal case for "rehabilitation of Nazism" based on "information from social media." The case concerns a video recording of graduates of a Tolyatti school singing the Ukrainian national anthem and the song "Our Father Bandera" in Victory Park.