Overview

• On June 14, Russia delivered the remains of 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers, marking 3,600 bodies returned from Russia over recent days.
• Both sides completed a fourth prisoner exchange in a week under a June Istanbul agreement to repatriate captured soldiers.
• Ukrainian troops halted a Russian push in the Sumy region after Kremlin forces advanced roughly seven kilometers across the border.
• Russian forces launched up to 479 Shahed drones and rockets in a single night, the largest wave of such attacks since the war began.
• At least 154 civilians have been killed and 900 wounded in recent Russian drone, missile and artillery strikes.