At least 45 Ukrainians, whom Russia has decided to deport, are being held in a basement without food or water at the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint on the border with Georgia.

Serhiy Dobrovolsky, a soldier born in the town of Zdolbuniv in Rivne region, who was released from Russian captivity as part of an exchange that took place at the end of May, has died.

More than 45% of the officers in the reserve units of Russia’s Southern Military District lack legal grounds to serve in rear positions.

The Kyiv community has handed over more than 2,300 FPV drones, 50 electronic warfare (EW) systems, three reconnaissance UAVs, and communications equipment to Ukraine’s Defense Forces.

Ukraine has signed an EUR 1.5 million agreement with Italy and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to bolster humanitarian demining efforts.

In the Nizhyn district of the Chernihiv region, a man was killed and houses were destroyed and damaged as a result of an attack by Russian drones.

As a result of enemy shelling of Kherson, a facility that supplies water to the city has been damaged, and restoration work is underway.

In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, six of the seven men who were injured by Russian shelling were police officers on duty on the highway.

In the Sumy community, a Russian UAV hit a residential building, damaging the roof and windows. Residents are being provided with assistance.

Russian military personnel pay for repairs to their service vehicles with combat grenades.

The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Great Britain, Andrii Sybiha and David Lammy, discussed the current situation on the battlefield and agreed on their positions ahead of important international events, in particular the NATO summit in The Hague.

Russian invaders struck civilian infrastructure in the Sumy community.

Seven men were injured in the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of Russian shelling, and they were provided with the necessary medical assistance.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that investments in the domestic defense industry will reach $43 billion this year.

On June 21, a 60-year-old man was killed in the village of Staryi Saltiv, Chuhuiv district, following a Russian drone strike.

On June 21, Russian forces launched a series of strikes on civilian areas in the Donetsk region, injuring six people.

Since the beginning of the day, 77 combat clashes have been recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, with fighting still ongoing in seven frontline sectors. The most intense hostilities are taking place in the Pokrovsk direction.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that after advancing only 200 meters in the Sumy region over the past week, Russian troops were pushed back by 200 to 400 meters by Ukrainian forces.

In Russian-occupied Mariupol, Russian air defense systems may have been damaged following a large fire and heavy smoke observed in the city’s Prymorskyi district.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that approximately 695,000 Russian troops are currently deployed on Ukrainian territory, with an additional 52,000 stationed across the border in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that during the latest exchange of fallen service members, Ukraine received the bodies of 20 individuals who had fought for the Russian Federation

Self-proclaimed President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko met with U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg in Minsk.

President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he has not held any discussions with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal regarding the possible resignation of the government.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied reports that Patriot air defense systems were damaged or destroyed during recent large-scale Russian missile attacks.

On the morning of June 21, Russian forces launched an air strike on the private sector of Kramatorsk, injuring three civilians and damaging 30 private homes.

Defense forces repelled a powerful Russian assault in the Kostyantynivka direction, destroying about 15 units of heavy armored vehicles and 50 invaders.

Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, was hit by three enemy attacks on Saturday morning, June 21.

The Ukrainian women's national 3x3 basketball team will play in the 2025 World Championship next week.

Russian security forces are increasingly forcibly mobilizing migrant workers from Central Asian countries and forming separate units from them, which they use in the most dangerous areas of the front.

The Russian army is concentrating its offensive efforts in the Novopavlivka direction and is trying to develop an offensive.

Over the past day, the Russian army has shelled the Sumy region more than 60 times, with 25 settlements coming under fire.

In the Kremenchuk district of the Poltava region, after a Russian combined attack on the night of June 21, cluster munitions were found.

Russians shelled the central district of Kherson at night, damaging apartment buildings and injuring an elderly woman.

Air defense forces destroyed 140 Russian drones and five missiles overnight, with another 115 air targets lost or suppressed by electronic warfare.

On June 20, Russian forces wounded three civilians in the Donetsk region.

On the night of June 21, Russian troops launched a large-scale combined attack on Ukraine’s Poltava region, striking energy infrastructure in the Kremenchuk district.

The Minefields Honey Project — created by Saatchi & Saatchi Ukraine with support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, agro-industrial company Kernel, and Dronarium Ukraine — achieved a historic milestone for Ukrainian advertising with its first Cannes Golden Lion win.

During the night, Russian forces targeted the Nikopol district with FPV drones and artillery, damaging civilian infrastructure but causing no casualties.

On June 20, a total of 188 combat clashes were recorded between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, nearly a third of them in the Pokrovsk sector.

In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, rescuers from the Special Aviation Detachment of the State Emergency Service found a five-year-old boy who had been missing for more than three days in a wooded area. The child was found at 05:54 on Saturday, June 21, with the help of drone surveillance.

As of 06:00 on June 21, Russia has one warship armed with Kalibr cruise missiles operating in the Black Sea, with a total volley of two missiles.

The Kyiv Regional Military Administration has handed over nine new Toyota Hilux pickup trucks to the unmanned aerial vehicle unit of the 114th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade.

The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to June 21, 2025 amount to nearly 1,010,390 invaders, including another 1,060 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.

Soldiers from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Revenge (Pomsta) brigade of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service have successfully destroyed an enemy armored personnel carrier, a tank, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system using drones in the Kupiansk direction.

Soldiers from the 14th Ivan Bohun Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, known as the Chervona Kalyna brigade, captured a group of Russian soldiers in the Pokrovsk sector.

Russian forces carried out 343 attacks on 11 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region in the past 24 hours, injuring a woman in the Zaporizhzhia district.

A Ukrainian company has secured third place at the JATEC hackathon focused on countering FPV drones controlled via fiber optics.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and ambassadors of the European Union countries discussed the issue of sanctions against the Russian Federation during a meeting on Friday.

In Kostopil district, a storm destroyed more than 700 hectares of forest and knocked down thousands of trees.

Since the beginning of the 2024/2025 marketing year, Ukraine has exported 40.04 million tonnes of grains and legumes.