Russia has launched another large-scale drone and missile assault across Ukraine, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 50 as fighting intensifies across the country. The attacks targeted several regions, including Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, and Kharkiv, damaging civilian infrastructure, industrial facilities, and medical buildings. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 122 attack drones and two ballistic missiles, with Ukrainian air defenses intercepting 101 drones. Explosions were reported across Kyiv after ballistic missile alerts, while officials confirmed damage to warehouses and other non-residential buildings. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine expects to begin domestic production of missiles for the U.S.-made Patriot air defense system by the end of the year, calling the project a historic step toward strengthening the country's defense capabilities.

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Russia has launched another large-scale drone and missile assault across Ukraine, killing at least 13 people and injuring more than 50 as fighting continues to intensify. The attacks targeted several regions, including Kyiv, Sumy, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, and Mykolaiv, damaging civilian infrastructure, industrial facilities, and medical buildings.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia launched 122 attack drones and two ballistic missiles, with Ukrainian air defenses intercepting 101 drones. Explosions were reported across Kyiv following missile alerts, while officials confirmed damage to warehouses and non-residential buildings.


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Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of breaching a unilateral ceasefire announced by Ukraine by launching a wave of drone attacks on several cities.

The Ukrainian president said Russia had carried out "active hostilities and terrorist shelling", targeting the front line as well as firing dozens of drones and missiles at civilian areas.


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Russia has intensified its strikes on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, causing widespread power cuts and threatening the region's maritime infrastructure.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Moscow was carrying out "systematic" attacks on the region. Last week, he warned that the focus of the war "may have shifted towards Odesa".

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (June 20) said that he did not ‘rule out’ his forces taking control of Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy as part of efforts to create a buffer zone along the border.&nbsp;"We have no objective to take Sumy, but in principle I do not rule it out... They pose a constant threat to us, constantly shelling the border areas," Putin told attendees at Russia's flagship economic forum in Saint Petersburg.&nbsp;Sumy is about 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Russian border and has been intensively hit since Russia began its February 2022 offensive. In a series of aggressive comments, Putin appeared to echo his refutation of Ukrainian statehood. "I treat Russians and Ukrainians as one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine belongs to us," he said.&nbsp;“There is a saying: wherever a Russian soldier puts his foot, that is ours.” The remarks cast new uncertainty over the potential for peace negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.Russia has long been dismissing demands for an unconditional ceasefire, and has insisted that Ukraine surrender even more land as a condition.&nbsp;Ukraine had launched a counter-attack into Russia's western Kursk region last August from its northeastern Sumy region. Kyiv's forces seized dozens of border villages, which they occupied for months, before being driven out by Russia's troops -- with the assistance of thousands of North Korean troops -- in earlier this year.&nbsp;Putin has now directed his forces to establish what he described as a "buffer zone" along the Russian border within Ukrainian territory. Russia's military has captured several border towns in the Sumy region over the past few weeks. Putin reported on Friday that his forces had moved up to 12 kilometers into Ukrainian territory in the area, which is not part of the five Ukrainian regions that Moscow reports as having officially annexed.&nbsp;In March 2025, Russia announced it had captured territory in Ukraine's Sumy region for the first time since 2022 in a cross-border offensive as Kyiv struggles to hold onto territory in Russia's neighbouring Kurskregion.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (June 20) said that he did not ‘rule out’ his forces taking control of Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy as part of efforts to create a buffer zone along the border. "We have no objective to take Sumy, but in principle I do not rule it out... They pose a constant threat to us, constantly shelling the border areas," Putin told attendees at Russia's flagship economic forum in Saint Petersburg. Sumy is about 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the Russian border and has been intensively hit since Russia began its February 2022 offensive. In a series of aggressive comments, Putin appeared to echo his refutation of Ukrainian statehood. "I treat Russians and Ukrainians as one people. In this sense, all of Ukraine belongs to us," he said. “There is a saying: wherever a Russian soldier puts his foot, that is ours.” The remarks cast new uncertainty over the potential for peace negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv. Russia has long been dismissing demands for an unconditional ceasefire, and has insisted that Ukraine surrender even more land as a condition. Ukraine had launched a counter-attack into Russia's western Kursk region last August from its northeastern Sumy region. Kyiv's forces seized dozens of border villages, which they occupied for months, before being driven out by Russia's troops -- with the assistance of thousands of North Korean troops -- in earlier this year. Putin has now directed his forces to establish what he described as a "buffer zone" along the Russian border within Ukrainian territory. Russia's military has captured several border towns in the Sumy region over the past few weeks. Putin reported on Friday that his forces had moved up to 12 kilometers into Ukrainian territory in the area, which is not part of the five Ukrainian regions that Moscow reports as having officially annexed. In March 2025, Russia announced it had captured territory in Ukraine's Sumy region for the first time since 2022 in a cross-border offensive as Kyiv struggles to hold onto territory in Russia's neighbouring Kurskregion.

Sumy is about 30 kilometres from the Russian border and has been intensively hit since Russia began its February 2022 offensive

Russian forces hit a medical centre in Sumy in northeastern Ukraine on Saturday morning then struck again as the building was being evacuated, killing ten people, Ukrainian officials said.

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Twenty-one people, including two children, were killed in airstrikes on the besieged northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy, the authorities said.

"The bodies of 21 people, including two children" were found at the site of strikes, the regional public prosecutor said on Facebook.&nbsp;

Evacuations of people fleeing embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors began Tuesday, while UN&nbsp;officials said the exodus of refugees from Russia’s invasion reached 2 million.

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The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.

Previous attempts to lead civilians to safety have crumbled with renewed attacks. But on Tuesday, video posted by Ukrainian officials showed buses with people moving along a snowy road from the eastern city of Sumy and yellow buses with a red cross on them in southern port of Mariupol.

"We have already started the evacuation of civilians from Sumy to Poltava (in central Ukraine), including foreign students," the foreign ministry said in a tweet. "We call on Russia to agree on other humanitarian corridors in Ukraine."

Those buses are headed to other cities in Ukraine, but many people have chosen to flee the country instead. Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the UN’s International Organisation for Migration, tweeted that 2 million have now left, including at least 100,000 people who are not Ukrainian.

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Russia’s coordination center for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk both said a cease-fire was agreed to start Tuesday morning to allow some civilians to evacuate, but it was not clear where all the corridors would lead to, amid disagreement between the two sides.

Russia’s coordination center suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the UN, however, the Russian ambassador suggested corridors from several cities could be opened and people could choose for themselves which direction they would take.

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Vereshchuk, meanwhile, only said that the two sides had agreed to an evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy, toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Those to be evacuated include foreign students from India and China, she said.

She reiterated that proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and its ally Belarus, which was a launch pad for the invasion, were unacceptable.

Later, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a video of yellow buses with a red cross plastered on the side that he said were being used for evacuations from Mariupol toward the city of Zaporizhzhia. He said that humanitarian aid was also being sent in to Mariupol.

Demands for effective passageways have surged amid intensifying shelling by Russian forces. The steady bombardments, including in some of Ukraine’s most populated regions, have yielded a humanitarian crisis of diminishing food, water and medical supplies.

(With inputs from agencies)

Twenty-one people, including two children, were killed in airstrikes on the besieged northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy, the authorities said. "The bodies of 21 people, including two children" were found at the site of strikes, the regional public prosecutor said on Facebook.

Twenty-one people, including two children, were killed in airstrikes on the besieged northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy, the authorities said. "The bodies of 21 people, including two children" were found at the site of strikes, the regional public prosecutor said on Facebook. Evacuations of people fleeing embattled Ukrainian cities along safe corridors began Tuesday, while UN officials said the exodus of refugees from Russia’s invasion reached 2 million. The Russian onslaught has trapped people inside cities that are running low on food, water and medicine amid the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II. Previous attempts to lead civilians to safety have crumbled with renewed attacks. But on Tuesday, video posted by Ukrainian officials showed buses with people moving along a snowy road from the eastern city of Sumy and yellow buses with a red cross on them in southern port of Mariupol. "We have already started the evacuation of civilians from Sumy to Poltava (in central Ukraine), including foreign students," the foreign ministry said in a tweet. "We call on Russia to agree on other humanitarian corridors in Ukraine." Those buses are headed to other cities in Ukraine, but many people have chosen to flee the country instead. Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the UN’s International Organisation for Migration, tweeted that 2 million have now left, including at least 100,000 people who are not Ukrainian. Also see | Why Ukraine has been able to stall Russian advance? Russia’s coordination center for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk both said a cease-fire was agreed to start Tuesday morning to allow some civilians to evacuate, but it was not clear where all the corridors would lead to, amid disagreement between the two sides. Russia’s coordination center suggested there would be more than one corridor, but that most would lead to Russia, either directly or through Belarus. At the UN, however, the Russian ambassador suggested corridors from several cities could be opened and people could choose for themselves which direction they would take. Also see | How Ukraine's 'Punisher' drone is targeting Russian supply lines Vereshchuk, meanwhile, only said that the two sides had agreed to an evacuation of civilians from the eastern city of Sumy, toward the Ukrainian city of Poltava. Those to be evacuated include foreign students from India and China, she said. She reiterated that proposals to evacuate civilians to Russia and its ally Belarus, which was a launch pad for the invasion, were unacceptable. Later, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko posted a video of yellow buses with a red cross plastered on the side that he said were being used for evacuations from Mariupol toward the city of Zaporizhzhia. He said that humanitarian aid was also being sent in to Mariupol. Demands for effective passageways have surged amid intensifying shelling by Russian forces. The steady bombardments, including in some of Ukraine’s most populated regions, have yielded a humanitarian crisis of diminishing food, water and medical supplies. (With inputs from agencies)

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