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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 29, 2026
2026-06-30
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[Korrespondent] 22.44 The lives of six civilians were interrupted by a Russian attack on the Dnieper on Monday, 29 June. As a result of the attack, 29 more people were injured in the regional center and six more in other settlements of the region. The Dnieper still has businesses, schools, private settlements, and cars. Over 60 times the enemy attacked several areas with drones and missiles. Oleksandr Ganzha, the minister of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, informed about this.

21.08 The Russian army on Monday evening, the 29th, re-attacked the Zaporozhye regional government administration. Having appointed Ivan Fedorov as the head of the Zaporizhzhya OVA, there were no casualties.

19.44 On Monday, 29 June, the Russian troops launched an attack on the former Zaporizhzhya regional government administration. After getting caught in the morning, the vinyl was burned, so it was possible to quickly localize it. As Ivan Fedorov, the head of the Zaporizhzhya OVA, there are no casualties from the shelling.

18.38 The largest nafta companies in Russia - Lukoil and Gazpromneft - will enforce restrictions on the release of fuel at their gas stations near Moscow and the Moscow region, trying to escape from the ruins fire crisis, which has already covered almost the entire country. There are limits for gasoline and diesel fuel at gas stations. Filling the fuel to the canisters is blocked.

18.31 The Ukrainian military suppressed the words of the Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin about the “separation” of the military ZSU near Stary Oskol. This statement was published by the United Nations Unity Forces.

18.21 In the center of Kherson, Russian troops attacked from a drone a woman and three children who were in custody. The victims were hospitalized. The head of OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin, told us about this.

As a result of the attack, a 34-year-old woman, a 13-year-old boy, and two girls aged 6 and 3 were diagnosed with ligamentous injuries and a severe reaction to stress.

18.02 Near the Chornobyl zone, the fires of the fall of Russian drones appeared. The press service of the State Agency of Ukraine for the Management of the External Zone (DAZV) reported this.

17.46 The Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin, on the fourth occasion of a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, decided to increase the number of spies to the central apparatus of his defense. The new draft decree, which was published on the Russian portal of normative and legal acts, may become official. According to the document, the number of military services and civilian workers of the Federal Protection Service (FSO) increased from 785 to 812 individuals. The main tasks of this department are to ensure the special security of the President of the Russian Federation, members of his homeland and the Prime Minister.

17.34 Ukrainian military services will collect additional penny wines from the towns for taking full Russian military forces and reducing the enemy's manpower. The press service of the Ministry of Defense reports a new procedure for transmitting resolutions to the Cabinet of Ministers.

Apparently, before the order was established on the 12th digit No. 768, for the capture of one enemy military service member, the city’s wine was transferred to 100 thousand. UAH, also for the reduction of enemy manpower in rifle or hand-to-hand combat - 15 thousand. UAH

As a few military servicemen buried the whole thing, the city had 100 thousand wines. UAH will be distributed proportionally.

17.33 Defense forces of the 28th-29th attacked three bridges in the occupied territories (TOT) of Ukraine and for other purposes, also in Russia. I informed the ZSU General Staff about this.

It was also confirmed that there were two facilities in the Moscow region that secured military connections.

17.28 As a result of the Russian attacks near the Shostkinsky district on the 29th, seven people were injured, three of them were hospitalized. The resident of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Oleg Grigorov reported this.

“Under the attacks of Russian UAVs, the civil infrastructure of Glukhiv and Middle-Bud communities was damaged. The 52-year-old man from Middle-Bud suffered important injuries. A hostile drone was caught at his door. The victims are undergoing infection under the supervision of doctors. Also at the doctor’s office, two residents of the Glukhiv community are receiving treatment on an outpatient basis,” he said.

11/17 Russian troops attacked a bus near Zaporizhzhia with a drone on Monday. The head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov, informed about the heritage of the enemy.

“Through a drone that knocked over a bus, injuring passengers,” says a source.

Nina needed medical help from several people.

17.05 An evidence base has been collected for two representatives of the high command of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, who planned and ordered an attack on the Korosten town in the Zhytomyr region from 9 to 10 February 2022. The SBU reports this. As soon as the investigation was completed, the decision to attack civilian targets in Korosten was made by Colonel General Oleksandr Chayko - at that time the commander of the troops of the military district of the Russian Federation; Lieutenant General Volodymyr Kravchenko - commander of the grouped aviation of the operational group of military forces of the Russian Federation Skhid. It was established that, following the order of the Russian generals, they attacked Korosten with at least 12 high-explosive and high-explosive fragmentation bombs, fired at the factories of the Russian Scientific and Production Association Basalt. To attack the Ukrainian city, the Russians raised two bombers.

16.40 Mayor of Dnipro Boris Filatov speaks about the victims of the Russian shelling of the place on 29 June.

"Today, Russia killed five more peaceful Dnipros. A woman who was an operator of a line of preparations for basic plastic dances. A person who was also involved in production. Three alarm workers, who They thanked the shop after the early enemy attacks. These people simply worked for the good of their native place,” he wrote on Telegram.

Filatov added that at the same time, Moscow hospitals are deprived of victims with serious shrapnel wounds and various fractures.

16.39 Russian troops hit a KAB in the Kholodnogirsk district. Nina knows about the deceased and at least about the five victims. Igor Terekhov informed about this.

“As of this moment, information has been confirmed about one dead person and five wounded, among them important ones,” said Kharkov’s hospital officer.

This year another “arrival” was recorded at the locality. However, the KAB did not detonate. Also, vibration technicians work on the spot.

16.22 From the beginning of the continuous killing, the Russian aggressors attacked the positions of the Ukrainian army 63 times. Most of the battles are fought on some direct lines, informing the General Staff of the ZSU in the operational level.

16.05 A participant in the military actions against Ukraine, Oleksandr Lunin, who had previously published a video against Russian dictator Volodymyr Putin about the threat of military stabbing, was arrested for calling a demonstration extremist and Nazi symbols (Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). The decision about the arrest of the Rossoshansky District Court of the Voronezk region. As the appearance suggests, on the right the court came to the court on the 27th of December at 10:00, and the hearing took place just over a year ago. The text of the decision has not yet been published, and representatives of the court decided to divulge details, relying on the cache of such documents. ZMI respects that for this article an administrative arrest is transmitted for lines up to 15 dB.

15.36 In the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region on Monday, the 29th of March, two civilians, father and son, were killed as a result of a Russian FPV drone hitting a car. According to local authorities, the incident took place on June 29, 2026, at approximately 7:20. A Russian drone using fiber optics attacked a civilian car, collapsing on the road between the village of Borova and the village of Gorokhovatka. As a result of this attack, two of Gorokhovatka's sacks died - an 87-year-old man and a 58-year-old son.

15.26 Special police unit of the GUR "Primari" to beg and bring out of order the military objects in the urgently occupied Crimea. Russians are exercising caution and are aware of serious logistical problems in the area. The press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate announced this, having made public the video of the combat action. It appears that to continue this dark fate, special forces fighters attacked the Kasta-2E2 radar station, six fuel tankers, two vantage locomotives, three tanks with and military equipment on the train.

15.17 In order to avoid being drawn into the war between Russia and Ukraine, the Belarusian regime will simply have to worry about it. This idea was expressed by the representative of the European Commission, Anita Hipper, who points to the possible need for current support to secure Belarus’s participation in the military war. Russia. Recently, the European Commission emphasized that Belarus is already an invisible part of Russian aggression. As the river girl said, Russia is gradually integrating Belarus into the war, sinking hundreds of dollars with the Lukashenka regime.

14.52 After the recent Russian attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for accelerating the development of missile defense, and decided against ballistics. I wrote about this on Telegram on Mondays.

14.46 Over the course of a month, the forces of unmanned systems hit over 30 elements of the Russian anti-aircraft defense in the rapidly occupied territories.

Since 2026, the operators of the grouped SBS have destroyed 194 elements of the enemy’s anti-aircraft defense system, and since the creation of the grouped SBS (11 June 2025) - 276 elements, including:

169 air defense missile systems and anti-aircraft guns;
76 radar stations;
31 radio-electronic warfare complexes.

In addition, 426 mobile radars and 3,838 mobile electronic warfare systems were damaged, so as not to enter the enemy’s air defense system, otherwise to ensure object protection.

14.25 The failure of repeaters in Belarus weakened the ability of the Russian military to attack kamikaze drones in real time. This was stated by the head of the communications department of the ZSU Air Force, Yuriy Ignat.

In other words, Russian drones have not gone anywhere and will continue to fly, so it is now much more important for the enemy to deliver precise strikes. Repeaters, which were installed around the Ukrainian cordon on the territory of Belarus, allowed the signal to be transmitted to the operator at the great distance. Now Russians have the ability to quickly coordinate their activities in these regions according to strict boundaries.

According to Ignat, previously, all operational information from repeaters of the Russians could move and change the coordinates of strikes directly during the attack.

“By viewing the video image in real time, the enemy can launch drone strikes against small objects or change the coordinates of attacks,” he explained.

Zokrem, despite the stable video signal, the Russians attacked the drafts and mobile fire groups with “Shaheds”.

14.14 Leaders of Russia and Belarus Volodymyr Putin and Oleksandr Lukashenko discussed low “strategic principles” at a meeting in Valdai. The Kremlin river spokesman Dmitro Peskov said this at a briefing on Monday.

13.47 The security service also contacted all Russian agents, who registered Starlink satellite terminals for armed groups of the Russian Federation. The defendants were citizens of various regions of Ukraine from 18 to 44 years of age, who had stolen Russian intelligence services from Telegram channels in search of “easy money.”

13.43 French Russian troops were targeted by a drone in the Starosaltiv community of the Chuguivsky district. As a result of the attack, civilians suffered. The regional police press service informed about this.

13.17 Near the Black Sea, a sharp increase in the number of deaths of cetaceans is recorded. Over the past month, 56 dead dolphins were found on the shores of the Tuzlivski Limani National Natural Park. The park's press service was informed about this.

13.08 As a result of the Russian missile attack on the Dnieper, five people died, and the number of victims exceeded 20 people. Oleksandr Ganzha, a resident of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, told us about this on Telegram.

12.50 The Russian military attacked a minibus taxi in one of the districts of Zaporizhzhia with a drone. About this 29th century, the head of Zaporizka OVA Ivan Fedorov told. As a result of his words, two men and a woman were injured. I need medical help. Years later, Fedorov added that two people had died, and the number of victims had grown to six, among them a child.

12.28 In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, the military service of one of the military units was victorious, having made illegal sales of armor, ammunition and military drones. The DBR informs about this 29th chernya. According to the investigation, the senior soldier illegally saved and sold two Kalashnikov assault rifles and ten F-1 grenades with fuses. For unsafe goods, we have deducted 4 thousand US dollars from civilians, as we have no right to receive such an award. The same person is planning to sell a DJI Matrice 4T quadcopter for about 300 thousand hryvnia for 150 thousand hryvnia. The drone's movement, as well as other armor and ammunition, is being installed.

12.23 After entering combat positions, a recruit of the Russian army can live from 20 to 35 weeks.

Historian Petro Frankopan writes to Russian military bloggers that after enlisting in combat, soldiers can be insured to live from 10 days to three years - from arriving at the training ground until died in battle. Most Russian recruits undergo only a few days of training.

Russia's monthly spending exceeds 30,000. The biggest expenses since 2022 - over 1 million people, according to estimates of the latest investments. Russia recognizes eight expenses for skin expenses in Ukraine.

The recruitment of new contract soldiers from Russia has fallen by 30%. Today the Russian army is recruiting 800 to 1000 volunteers. Through difficulties with the sound of soldiers, they receive bonuses up to 80,000 dollars and write-offs of up to 140,000 dollars. To put it into perspective, the average monthly salary in Russia is close to 1000 dollars.

The extremely high level of spending on the side of Russia is explained by the hostile increase in the number of military drones, which have become the most effective defense of Ukraine.

12.19 The head of Russia, Volodymyr Putin, spoke at the meeting of the United Russia party on the 28th, declaring that the Russian Federation does not have enough strength, resources and political will to continue a large-scale war against Ukraine. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted that the head of the Kremlin is using vikory rhetoric about “victory for Russia” as a tool for putting pressure on Kiev and its allies.

Analysts say that the Kremlin continues to promote the inevitability of Russian victory and the imminent collapse of Ukrainian defense. Such rhetoric is called upon to persuade Ukraine and its foreign partners to act, so that Russia’s military capabilities to achieve its goals call on the future to demand more.

11.57 The Russian aggressors of the military launched a missile attack on the Dnieper. They died and were injured, reported Oleksandr Ganzha, a resident of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Police Department, on Telegram. The rocket warriors attacked private enterprise. Doctors are giving all the victims the necessary help.

11.33 Two Russian agents were spotted in Kiev, who were preparing a move against the military ZSU. The SBU reported this. The criminals planned to support the military service at their car from the pedestrian zone of Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

10.46 The agreement between Latvia and Ukraine, due to the cooperation in the sphere of unmanned systems, is transferring a large production, between which such enterprise may appear near the border of Latvia. Russia. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs stated this.

He explained that the agreement with Ukraine has been signed for cooperation with the sphere of unmanned systems, which also transfers large-scale production. Zokrem, the Swedes are planning to establish such an enterprise near the border with Russia.

The Latvian Prime Minister stated that it is necessary to clear everything from the side of the border so that this enterprise can be located near the cordon. Coolbergs noted that the region needs economic activity, investment and jobs.

10.39 The main intelligence department showed a video of a successful special operation - “Artan” finds the enemy “elita” in Zaporizhzhia.

It is recognized that at the end of the year 2026, the Russian army of occupation sent reconnaissance units of the “Airborne Forces”, which are respected in the summer, to storm the village of Stepnogirsk, Zaporizhzhya region. warlords of the army. The goal of the zagarbniks was to create a propaganda picture about the occupation of a populated area with further information to the great leaders of the aggressor power.

“Under the cover of the night, rainy weather and anti-thermal capes, the witch’s group managed to infiltrate Stepnogirsk. However, the attack aircraft of the special police unit of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Artan” were ready for such a development: they allowed the enemy come closer and they pulled him into the shepherd,” says the acquaintance.

10.22 On Monday, five regions of Ukraine experienced new attacks through Russian attacks on civil energy infrastructure facilities. Ukrenergo reported about this.

Energy workers ask Grodny residents to use electricity as sparingly as possible between 16:00 and 23:00.

9.56 The Russian military attacked two districts of the Poltava region with drones at night and in the early hours. The head of the regional military administration, Vitaly Dyakivnych, informed about the 29th. It appears that at night an enemy UAV hit a gas station near the Poltava region. As a result of the attack, one person became injured and needed help. Another drone caught fire in the territory of one of the enterprises near the Mirgorod region. There were no casualties. Through the sorcery attack, frequent insanity among the inhabitants of the Gadyatsky community was recorded.

09.54 Detectives of the State Bureau of Investigation continue to establish all the circumstances of the tragic death of two military servicemen during the Su-24M plane crash in Khmelnytskyi region on the 16th.

The investigators established that this flight was for the same flight as another that day. The technical personnel of the military unit did not show the same respect for the technical work of the ship, neither before the first nor before the next one. All service documentation was completed duly prior to the establishment of benefits.

It was confirmed that the pilots were leaving the battlefield, the details of which were reported to the investigation. At the same time, in the interests of national security, this information will not be made public.

Rounding out the investigation is simple information that has been spreading around the world about the ejection of one of the pilots. This data does not indicate effectiveness.

Within the framework of the investigation, dozens of additional investigations were carried out, the surveillance of members of the homelands of the dead, and the command and control of their service colleagues. According to eyewitnesses, both military servicemen underwent the necessary medical examination before the flight, did not worry about themselves, and were in a good mood. They are characterized as professional soldiers, who have been well-known among their colleagues, and whether there are any problems in family life that could be significant for the investigation has not been established.

Based on the results of molecular genetic testing, the DNA of the dead was identified, which confirms the identity of military servicemen.

09.30 At the front, 249 days were paid for the extraction, Pokrovsky and Gulyapilsky directives are the hottest. Aircraft, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces hit five areas of concentrated manpower, two artillery systems and several enemy control points.

9.27 Last year, the Russians attacked the Mykolayiv region with drones, cabs and artillery, as a result of the attacks in Mykolayivsky and Voznesensky districts there was a fall of occupied wheat and dry grass, and damaged booths. The head of the Mykolayivska Regional Administration, Vitaly Kim, told us about this. In his words, yesterday and last night the occupiers launched attacks with strike drones of the Molniya type in the Galician community, as a result of which the village. Ukrainian poshkodzheno private booth. In addition, yesterday the enemy attacked with an FPV drone and launched a forward attack on the Ochakiv community with KABs. The Kutsurub community was shelled by the firemen with artillery.

08.39 At the beginning of the 29th, Russia attacked Ukraine with 108 attack UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas types and simulator drones of the Parody type.

The anti-aircraft defense shot down/suppressed 82 hostile UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas type and drones of other types at night, day and night. The presence of 25 attack UAVs at 11 locations was recorded, as well as the fall of downed UAVs at several locations.

08.00 On the evening of the 28th, Russian troops hit an infrastructure facility near Kropivnitsky, and the fire broke out. The ritualists extinguished the fire. There are no many dead or injured.

07.25 From February 24, 2022 to February 29, 2026, military expenditures to the special warehouse of the Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,402,200 individuals (+1230 per addition).

06.12 Gauleiter TOT of the Kherson region, declaring Volodymyr Saldo about the outside invasion of the territory under his control. It is also reported about the fire in the occupied Melitopol and the blackout in Donetsk.

03.25 This past Monday, the 29th century drones immediately attacked the occupation of Crimea. Zorema has a lot of vibukhiv chuli near Kerch. And late in the evening in the Bakhchisarai district they felt a heavy vibration, after which it was light. It is assumed that the power station was attacked there.

00.50 Evening this week, the Russian military launched three new attacks on Zaporizhzhya. Three people were injured. We bewitch with a blow the private living quarters.

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