Overview

• Ukrainian Security Service chief Vasyl Malyuk disclosed that in 2024 a retired Polish military veteran, recruited by Russian intelligence, planned to kill Zelensky at Rzeszow Airport using a sniper rifle or FPV drone
• Two colonels assigned to the State Guard of Ukraine were arrested for collaborating with Russia’s FSB on a plot to assassinate President Zelensky in Kyiv
• Russian drone, missile and artillery strikes on June 24-25 killed at least 19 civilians and wounded more than 270 in Dnipro and nearby towns, according to Ukrainian officials
• Ukraine launched retaliatory drone attacks on Russian border regions, damaging a grain facility, school and sports complex in Rostov, Taganrog and Azov, Russian authorities reported
• At the NATO summit in The Hague, Zelensky is lobbying allies for a binding 5 percent of GDP defense spending pledge and expanded arms aid to counter Russia’s escalating offensive