27 June 2025

June 2025 in brief

June was marked by 232 civilians killed and 1,343 injured, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission recorded, and an overnight attack on Kyiv killed 30 people and injured 172, according to Ukrainian officials, the deadliest attack on the city in almost a year. ^[1][2][3] Local officials said a daytime ballistic missile attack on Dnipro and nearby Samarske killed at least 21 people and damaged a passenger train, and Russia's largest air attack of the war, with 477 drones and 60 missiles, killed two civilians and an F-16 pilot. ^[1][2] Ukraine's SBU said drones launched inside Russia hit 41 military aircraft at four air bases, Russia confirmed aircraft fires in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, and the SBU said an underwater blast damaged supports of the Crimean Bridge. ^[1][3] Putin told Trump Russia would have to respond, and days later Russia launched more than 400 drones and 40 missiles, killing four people including three emergency workers in Kyiv, Zelensky said. ^[2] A second round of talks in Istanbul ended without a ceasefire but with agreement to exchange all seriously wounded and sick prisoners and young soldiers, and Ukraine's prisoner coordination body said Russia returned 1,200 bodies under the deal. ^[1][2] Russian forces took a series of border settlements in Sumy oblast, and Russian state media claimed the first capture of a village in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, which Ukrainian officials did not confirm. ^[1][2] WHO recorded attacks on health care in places including Kherson, Kupiansk and Kremenchuk. ^[1][2][3]

Written from the records it cites; every figure appears in a cited record.