EUR 1.5M for humanitarian demining: Ukraine signs agreement with Italy and UNDP
Ukraine has signed an EUR 1.5 million agreement with Italy and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to bolster humanitarian demining efforts.
22 June 2025
Ukraine has signed an EUR 1.5 million agreement with Italy and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to bolster humanitarian demining efforts.
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.
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.
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.
Defense forces repelled a powerful Russian assault in the Kostyantynivka direction, destroying about 15 units of heavy armored vehicles and 50 invaders.
Over the past day, the Russian army has shelled the Sumy region more than 60 times, with 25 settlements coming under fire.
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.
On the night of June 21, Russian troops launched a large-scale combined attack on Ukraine’s Poltava region, striking energy infrastructure in the Kremenchuk district.
The Minefields Honey project—created by Saatchi & Saatchi Ukraine with support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, agro-industrial company Kernel, and Dronarium Ukraine — achieved a historic milestone for Ukrainian advertising with its first Cannes Golden Lion win.
During the night, Russian forces targeted the Nikopol district with FPV drones and artillery, damaging civilian infrastructure but causing no casualties.
On June 20, a total of 188 combat clashes were recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, nearly a third of them in the Pokrovsk sector.
In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, rescuers from the Special Aviation Detachment of the State Emergency Service found a five-year-old boy who had been missing for more than three days in a wooded area. The child was found at 05:54 on Saturday, June 21, with the help of drone surveillance.
Soldiers from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Revenge (Pomsta) brigade of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service have successfully destroyed an enemy armored personnel carrier, a tank, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system using drones in the Kupiansk direction.
Soldiers from the 14th Ivan Bohun Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, known as the Chervona Kalyna brigade, captured a group of Russian soldiers in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces carried out 343 attacks on 11 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region in the past 24 hours, injuring a woman in the Zaporizhzhia district.
The Kyiv Regional Military Administration has handed over nine new Toyota Hilux pickup trucks to the unmanned aerial vehicle unit of the 114th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade.
A Ukrainian company has secured third place at the JATEC hackathon focused on countering FPV drones controlled via fiber optics.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and ambassadors of the European Union countries discussed the issue of sanctions against the Russian Federation during a meeting on Friday.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has codified and approved for operational use in the Ukrainian Armed Forces a domestically produced unmanned FPV aerial system "Svitlovod."
20 June 2025
On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, during which the situation on the front lines, including developments in the Sumy region, was discussed.
The West, namely Europe and the United States, must be consistent in their support for Ukraine, in particular, military assistance, which will increase the chances that Vladimir Putin will agree to negotiations.
In Sumy region, on the border with Russia, the enemy has somewhat reduced the activity of small assault groups.
Russia is trying to sow disbelief within Ukrainian society through terror. This includes intensified drone attacks against Ukrainian cities, fake and manipulative stories around the issue of POW exchange and repatriation of bodies.
During the spring campaign, fighters from the Russian Volunteer Corps, part of Timur's Special Forces, carried out a daring assault operation and captured enemy positions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted a decision by the National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions on individuals and entities involved in the development and production of drones in Russia, as well as those involved in schemes to circumvent sanctions.
There are not many combat clashes in the southern direction at the moment, but the enemy is regrouping and preparing to intensify combat operations in a few days.