Overview

• Air defenses destroyed 140 drones plus five missiles overnight, with electronic warfare units neutralizing 115 additional aerial targets.
• Ground forces recorded 77 combat clashes by 4 p.m. on June 21 following 188 engagements on June 20, with the Pokrovsk sector bearing the brunt of assaults.
• Russian forces are concentrating offensive efforts on the Novopavlivka axis, launching repeated attacks around Vilne Pole, Bahatyr, Shevchenkove plus other settlements.
• Russian strikes injured at least six civilians in Donetsk, wounded seven in Nikopol plus caused casualties in Sumy/Kherson regions.
• Russian drones struck Odesa and Kharkiv overnight, killing at least one plus wounding nearly two dozen civilians.