Overview

• A concentrated overnight drone barrage on June 12 killed at least six civilians and wounded over 60 in Kharkiv, with similar strikes reported in Donetsk and Kherson regions.
• Ukraine’s June 1 Operation Spiderweb deployed more than 100 drones to damage about one-third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet at Siberian airbases and was followed by raids on a Tambov gunpowder plant and a Moscow-area electronics factory.
• Ukrainian forces reported 168 frontline clashes on June 12, with the fiercest fighting in the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka sectors as Russia carried out dozens of airstrikes and hundreds of kamikaze drone assaults.
• Kyiv’s military says Russian casualties have now surpassed one million killed or wounded since the February 2022 invasion, highlighting the war’s enormous human cost.
• At the Globsec security conference in Prague, President Zelenskyy urged NATO and EU partners to impose stricter sanctions and finance expanded drone production as Germany’s defense minister visited Kyiv to pledge further arms support.