7 June 2026

June 2026 in brief

HRMMU recorded 293 civilians killed and 1,990 injured in Ukraine in June, its highest monthly death toll since April 2022, and 1,396 killed from January to June. ^[1][2][3] An attack with 73 missiles and 656 drones overnight into 2 June killed at least 22 people, 16 of them in Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said, and later overnight strikes on Kyiv and Kharkiv killed civilians and damaged the grounds of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the UN said. ^[1][2] HRMMU counted at least 423 Russian attacks on electricity facilities between October 2025 and March 2026 and verified 129 executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war since 2022. ^[1] A drone damaged the spent nuclear fuel storage site in the Chornobyl zone without exceeding radiation safety limits, according to Zelensky, who called it a Russian attack, and the IAEA reported a heavy attack on the thermal plant that links the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant to the grid. ^[1][3] Ukraine's General Staff said its drones struck the Moscow Oil Refinery, the second attack there in a week, in what the Moscow mayor described as the largest reported drone attack on the capital, and Russian-installed authorities declared an emergency in Crimea on 26 June amid Ukrainian strikes on its supply routes and power. ^[1][2] A drone attack on two cargo ships in Taganrog Bay killed five Azerbaijani sailors, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said, and Ukraine's Southern Defence Forces said troops raised the national flag on the Kinburn Spit. ^[1][2] Ukraine and Russia exchanged 185 prisoners of war each and later 160 each, Bulgaria's new government said it would stop sending arms to Ukraine, and the EU extended temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees to March 2028. ^[1][2][3][4]

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