The summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was Ukraine-focused in every respect, and one of its key outcomes was the first dedicated hearing on policies to support Ukrainian veterans.
In Semenivka, Chernihiv region, a 57-year-old man was wounded as a result of a Russian drone strike on the evening of June 26 near a “Nova Poshta” branch.
Ukraine has reiterated its readiness for potential meetings at the leadership level and discussions on ending the war, but Russia must also take a step toward peace.
Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has announced that he is relinquishing all of his current championship belts, but is not retiring from professional boxing.
The United States has restored full sanctions on Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil after several postponements, as the latest sanctions waiver expired on June 16.
Estonia has called on European allies to show greater “strategic patience” and intensify pressure on Russia, which is currently facing Ukrainian long-range strikes.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed decrees implementing a decision by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) to extend sanctions against entities supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex and to impose new restrictions on collaborators.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces carried out an airstrike on the command post of Russia’s 41st Combined Arms Army, located in a building of the former mine in temporarily occupied Makiivka, Donetsk region.
Ukraine's Engineering Forces are continuously expanding a layered defensive system in the country's north, including along the border with Belarus, to prevent any surprise enemy actions on potential axes of attack.
Two NATO countries on the Alliance's eastern flank have warned that Russia may stage provocations in the Baltic states or Poland if it perceives the war front moving closer to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Naftogaz Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed a memorandum to expand cooperation. In addition, JSC Ukrnafta will receive a €44.6 million grant to build distributed generation facilities.
Russian forces currently have no naval vessels deployed in either the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov, and most of the functions previously performed by Russia's Black Sea Fleet are now being carried out by naval aviation.
President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 160 Ukrainian servicemembers, all of whom had been held in Russian captivity since 2022, had been released.