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22 June 2025
The total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022, to June 22, 2025, have reached approximately 1,011,490 personnel, with 1,100 invaders eliminated in the past 24 hours alone.
The Russians attacked communities in Nikopol district with FPV drones and artillery late on June 21 and throughout the night.
In Donetsk region, a 17-year-old boy was killed and four people were injured as a result of Russian strikes. Apartment buildings and over 30 private homes were also damaged.
In the evening of June 21, Russian forces struck the outskirts of Sumy, damaging private homes.
Serhiy Dobrovolsky, a soldier born in the town of Zdolbuniv in Rivne region, who was released from Russian captivity as part of an exchange that took place at the end of May, has died.
More than 45% of the officers in the reserve units of Russia’s Southern Military District lack legal grounds to serve in rear positions.
21 June 2025
In the Nizhyn district of the Chernihiv region, a man was killed and houses were destroyed and damaged as a result of an attack by Russian drones.
As a result of enemy shelling of Kherson, a facility that supplies water to the city has been damaged, and restoration work is underway.
In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, six of the seven men who were injured by Russian shelling were police officers on duty on the highway.
In the Sumy community, a Russian UAV hit a residential building, damaging the roof and windows. Residents are being provided with assistance.
Russian military personnel pay for repairs to their service vehicles with combat grenades.
Russian invaders struck civilian infrastructure in the Sumy community.
Seven men were injured in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of Russian shelling, and they were provided with the necessary medical assistance.
On June 21, a 60-year-old man was killed in the village of Staryi Saltiv, Chuhuiv district, following a Russian drone strike.
On June 21, Russian forces launched a series of strikes on civilian areas in the Donetsk region, injuring six people.
Since the beginning of the day, 77 combat clashes have been recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, with fighting still ongoing in seven frontline sectors. The most intense hostilities are taking place in the Pokrovsk direction.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that after advancing only 200 meters in the Sumy region over the past week, Russian troops were pushed back by 200 to 400 meters by Ukrainian forces.
In Russian-occupied Mariupol, Russian air defense systems may have been damaged following a large fire and heavy smoke observed in the city’s Prymorskyi district.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that approximately 695,000 Russian troops are currently deployed on Ukrainian territory, with an additional 52,000 stationed across the border in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that during the latest exchange of fallen service members, Ukraine received the bodies of 20 individuals who had fought for the Russian Federation
President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied reports that Patriot air defense systems were damaged or destroyed during recent large-scale Russian missile attacks.
On the morning of June 21, Russian forces launched an air strike on the private sector of Kramatorsk, injuring three civilians and damaging 30 private homes.
Defense forces repelled a powerful Russian assault in the Kostyantynivka direction, destroying about 15 units of heavy armored vehicles and 50 invaders.
Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, was hit by three enemy attacks on Saturday morning, June 21.
Russian security forces are increasingly forcibly mobilizing migrant workers from Central Asian countries and forming separate units from them, which they use in the most dangerous areas of the front.
The Russian army is concentrating its offensive efforts in the Novopavlivka direction and is trying to develop an offensive.
Over the past day, the Russian army has shelled the Sumy region more than 60 times, with 25 settlements coming under fire.
In the Kremenchuk district of the Poltava region, after a Russian combined attack on the night of June 21, cluster munitions were found.
Russians shelled the central district of Kherson at night, damaging apartment buildings and injuring an elderly woman.
Air defense forces destroyed 140 Russian drones and five missiles overnight, with another 115 air targets lost or suppressed by electronic warfare.