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Situation Summary
In the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces largely halted Russia’s cross-border offensive northeast of Kharkiv city, with Russian forces seizing no new settlements and only making limited territorial gains near and within Vovchansk throughout the past four weeks. While clashes in the region decreased, they remained almost four times higher than the weekly average this year before the start of the cross-border offensive on 10 May. Having successfully diverted some of the Ukrainian troops to the north of the region, Russian forces continued pushing towards Kupiansk, marginally advancing from several directions and seizing several villages. In the Donetsk region, Russian forces continued making incremental advances west of Donetsk city and near Bakhmut. The frontlines remained largely unchanged in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, despite the number of clashes nearly doubling in the latter region compared to the previous four-week period.
Ukrainian forces continued their long-range strikes on Crimea, targeting Russian military equipment, command posts, air defense positions, and airfields. On 30 May, Ukrainian naval drones destroyed two Russian military high-speed boats in a bay near Chornomorske in western Crimea and damaged two others. Additionally, on 8 June, Ukrainian forces reportedly struck a Russian Ropucha-class landing ship in the Sea of Azov.
Russian shelling, missiles, and drones killed almost a hundred civilians across the country. Among them, Russian strikes on Kharkiv city killed 27 civilians and wounded over a hundred, including a strike on a construction hypermarket on 25 May that killed 19 people. On 12 June, Russian missiles hit Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killing nine civilians and wounding over 30 others. On 17 June, a Russian missile attack on the central Poltava region wounded 22 civilians. Russian forces also continued strikes on critical infrastructure, targeting thermal and hydroelectric power plants in the Dnipropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhia region, a gas storage facility in the Lviv region, and other energy infrastructure across Ukraine.
