Overview

• The assault damaged over 40 schools and kindergartens along with eight medical centers, a cathedral, a music hall and passenger rail infrastructure in central Dnipro.
• President Zelenskyy pressed NATO leaders in the Netherlands for stronger military guarantees after the attack exposed critical air defense gaps.
• The U.S. has diverted unmanned aerial defense systems supplied to Ukraine toward the Middle East, heightening Kyiv’s vulnerability to Russian air assaults.
• Ukraine reported a record launch of 2,736 Russian Shahed kamikaze drones in June, illustrating an intensifying aerial offensive.
• More than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, according to United Nations data.