Residents shelter in a metro station amid Russian drone and missile strikes on Kyiv, Ukraine, June 29, 2025 (Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine/Getty)

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UPDATE 1245 GMT:

At least six civilians have been killed and 26 injured by Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

Air defenses downed 74 of 107 drones.

Two people were killed and eight wounded in the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine. Two were slain and eight injured in the Kherson region in the south, and one was murdered in the Zaporizhia region in the south and the Donetsk region in the east.

Casualties were also reported in the Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions.

UPDATE 0645 GMT:

President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree withdrawing Ukraine from the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines.

Zelensky noted, in his nightly address to the nation, that Russia had never been a party to the convention “and is using anti-personnel mines with utmost cynicism” along with munitions such as ballistic missiles: “This is a hallmark of Russian killers. To destroy life by all means at their disposal….We see how our neighbors in Europe react to this threat.

Finland, Poland, and the three Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have withdrawn from the convention or indicated that they will do so.

UPDATE 0614 GMT:

The head of Russian intelligence, Sergey Naryshkin, says he spoke with John Ratcliffe, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, in their first conversation since mid-March.

“I had a telephone conversation with my American counterpart, and we agreed to call each other at any time to discuss issues of mutual interest,” Naryshkin said without giving details.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: Russia has set a new daily record for drone and missile strikes in its 40-month full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Russians fired 477 drones and 60 missiles early Sunday as they try to break the resistance of Ukrainians to Vladimir Putin’s conquering of the coutnry.

Air defenses downed 211 of the 477 drones, and 225 were lost to electronic counter-measures. The defenses intercepted 38 of 60 missiles, and one was lost to counter-measures.

Civilians sheltered from the bombardment, but three were slain and another two were killed bym shelling.

Ukraine also lost one of its F-16 fighter pilots, Maksym Ustymenko. President Zelensky gave him the title of Hero of Ukraine, explaining how Ustymenko downed seven targets but could not eject from his damaged jet after the last success.

In his nightly address to the nation, Zelensky focused on measures to restrict Russia’s attacks:

Global sanctions against Russia must now be one of the top priorities. They are a real tool for limiting Russia’s strategic capabilities and potential, and they must increasingly and painfully restrict Russia’s ability to continue its war against our independence.