Overview
- Ukrainian forces have halted Russia’s advance in northern Sumy and established a stable contact line that has tied down around 50,000 enemy troops.
- The Pokrovsk sector saw over 180 combat clashes in a 24-hour period as Ukrainian defenders repelled dozens of Russian assaults.
- Russian forces carried out dozens of guided airstrikes and thousands of shelling and drone attacks while Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted 24 of 41 incoming drones overnight.
- European Union leaders approved a six-month extension of sanctions on Russia and Kyiv and Moscow completed a prisoner exchange on June 26 under terms agreed in Istanbul.
- Russian troops seized the Donetsk settlements of Novoserhiivka and Shevchenko even as shelling and missile strikes in Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions inflicted civilian casualties.