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Tuesday, 16 June 2026, 18:57
The Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a series of strikes overnight on June 16, hitting a Russian Osa surface-to-air missile system, five coastal radar stations in Crimea, weapons and military equipment depots, a drone workshop, and other Russian military assets in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories.
The number of people injured in Russia’s June 15 attack on Kyiv has risen to 44, while five people have been confirmed dead.
The number of people injured in Russia’s June 15 attack on Kyiv has risen to 44, while five people have been confirmed dead.
On the morning of June 16, the Russian army attacked the Kyiv and Kholodnohirskyi districts of Kharkiv with drones.
Two police officers were injured in Kherson following a second strike on a minibus.
Russian forces attacked a car in Zaporizhzhia with a drone, injuring two people.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 1,198 strikes on the Donetsk region, damaging 22 civilian facilities.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, a fire broke out at the Prolotna railway station in the Simferopol district following a nighttime attack.
In Kherson, a Russian drone attacked utility workers, injuring three people.
Russian invaders have attacked two districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 10 times using drones and artillery fire, injuring a 39-year-old man.
An oil depot is on fire in Russia’s Krasnodar region following a drone attack on the night of June 16.
Russian invaders attacked a residential area in Shostka, Sumy region; a woman and a three-year-old girl were injured.
Over the past 24 hours, on June 15, 228 combat clashes were recorded between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders on the front lines.
Air Defense Forces shot down 114 of the 132 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine since the evening of June 15.
Russian invaders struck a minibus in Kherson with a drone this morning, killing one man.
On the night of June 16, Russian forces struck an ambulance in Kherson with a drone, injuring two medical workers.
An oil refinery is on fire in Moscow following an attack.
Total combat losses among Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to June 16, 2026, amount to approximately 1,385,420 personnel, including 1,230 over the past 24 hours.
Russian forces launched a drone strike on Balakliia, injures eight people, including two children.
Over the past 24 hours, on June 14, Russian forces targeted energy and communications infrastructure in the Chernihiv region.
15 June 2026
On June 15, there were 192 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with the highest number of attacks recorded in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces launched a missile strike on the village of Dobrenka in the Berestyn district of Ukraine's Kharkiv region, injuring five people, including a child.
During the summer months, neither side in the war will be capable of conducting genuine operational-level maneuvers, partly due to the “transparency” of the battlefield.
Warsaw has not yet transferred the MiG-29 fighter jets to Kyiv, as the issue of transferring Ukrainian technology to Poland remains unresolved.
In Kyiv, police seized the combat unit of a Russian “Geran-2” drone near a roadway in the Shevchenkivskyi district.
In May, more than a thousand Russian invaders were killed by engineering munitions.
Cleanup efforts are currently underway following Russian strikes at three locations in Kyiv and one in Kharkiv.
Russian forces attacked the village of Komyshuvakha in the Zaporizhzhia region with drones while people were receiving humanitarian aid; four people were injured.
A Russian drone attacked the Korabelnyi district of Kherson at noon, injuring four civilians, including a 17-year-old girl who is in critical condition.