During a summit meeting in Bavaria, G7 leaders have agreed to announce their indefinite support of Ukraine in its defense against the Russian invasion.

Over the course of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military’s elite 4th Guards Tank division, also known as the Kantemirov division, has virtually ceased to exist, Andriy Nikolaychuk, an officer of the mechanized battalion of the 93rd Independent Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade, told Radio NV on June 25.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu allegedly visited the command posts of the Russian military in the occupied territories of Ukraine on June 26, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

Luhansk Oblast, part of the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine, is one of the most damaged territories in Ukraine, with massive losses among the local population, as well as infrastructure.

Overnight on June 26, the Russian military conducted a new round of shelling against the city of Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine.

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A nine-story residential building in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district is on fire, after being hit by a Russian cruise missile, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (DSNS) said in a Telegram post on June 26.

Missile strikes from the territory of Belarus are a large-scale provocation by the Russian Federation with the goal of drawing Belarusian forces into the war against Ukraine, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) said on June 25 via Telegram messenger.

Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill (Vladimir Gundyaev) slipped and fell during a service at the Church of the Holy Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia in Novorossiysk, Russia, Russian news outlet The Insider reported on June 25.

Enemy helicopters took off from the territory of the Russian Federation and launched six unguided missiles against the town of Krasnopillya in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service reported via Telegram messenger on June 25.

Russian forces launched 24 cruise missiles from the territory of Belarus against military bases and other facilities around Zhytomyr, reported the mayor of Zhytomyr, Serhiy Sukhomlin, on his Facebook page on June 25.

Ukrainian presenter, public figure and volunteer Serhiy Prytula together with Ukrainian blogger Igor Lachenkov raised 600 million hryvnias ($20.5 million) — enough for four Bayraktar drones in the space of three days, according to the Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation update on Facebook posted on June 24.

Russians are using gas drilling rigs in the Black Sea (colloquially called "Boyko towers") to protect their ships from Ukraine’s anti-ship Neptune missile system, Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov said in an interview with ICTV on June 24.

Invading Russian forces have concentrated their efforts on an offensive near the villages of Dovhenke and Dolyna, on the administrative border between Kharkiv and Donetsk Oblasts, Ukraine’s General Staff reported in a daily update on June 25. They are likely heading towards the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk.

Aiming to degrade Ukrainian troops’ morale, Russian forces fire up to 1,000 artillery rounds every hour, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told Ukrainian TV channel ICTV on June 24.  

Russia is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to block the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine, a senior US Defense Department official told Reuters on June 24.

France’s General Staff has denied reports of a French Caesar self-propelled howitzer being captured by Russian forces in Ukraine, Russian media outlet TASS reported on June 24.

Before resuming their offensive on the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk in Donetsk Oblast, Russian troops are seeking to encircle Ukrainian forces in the city of Lysychansk in Luhansk Oblast, and cut off the ground supply route to the city’s north-west, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its assessment of the Donbas battlefront on June 24.

Multiple Russian cruise missiles struck a military facility in the Yavoriv district of Lviv Oblast, reported Maksym Kozytskyy, the head of the Lviv military administration, on June 25, via Telegram messenger.