The aftermath of a Russian ballistic missile attack on a passenger train in Dnipro, Ukraine, June 24, 2025

Tuesday’s Coverage: “Dead and Wounded Everywhere” in Russia’s Missile Strikes on Dnipro

Map: Institute for the Study of War

UPDATE 1701 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has followed up on his meeting with Donald Trump:

UPDATE 1504 GMT:

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump have met for about 50 minutes on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague.

An aide said the President was “satisfied” with the encounter. Zelensky posted:

Trump told reporters that the meeting was “very nice” even though they “had little rough times” in the past.

I think he’d like to see an end to this [Russian invasion]. I do.

I think what I took from the meeting couldn’t have been nicer, actually, but I took from the meeting that he’d like to see it end. I think it’s a great time to end it.

I’m going to speak to Vladimir Putin see if we can get it ended.

He claimed Putin “would like to settle, he’d like to get out of this thing. It’s a mess for him.”

Trump added that his original promise to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine “within 24 hours” was “sarcastic”: “it’s more difficult than people would have any idea.”

He said, “Look, Vladimir Putin really has to end that war.”

Speaking to a Ukrainian reporter, whose husband is on active duty in Kyiv’s army, Trump said he will see about making more Patriot missiles available for Ukraine: “They are very effective, 100% effective.”

He confirmed that Zelensky spoke to him about buying more American air defense systems “to shield our cities, our people, churches and infrastructure”.

UPDATE 1213 GMT:

A Moscow court has sentenced programmer Ilya Vasiliev, 51, to eight years in a penal colony over a Facebook post.

Vasiliev’s crime was commenting on Russia’s assault on Kherson city in southern Ukraine, in a post on December 24, 2022.

Putin has rejected the Christmas truce. Now his missiles are shelling peaceful Ukrainian cities and towns. Just yesterday in Kherson, where my father’s family lives, 16 people died. Or did they live? Millions of Ukrainians are now without electricity and water. The picture is called Christmas 2022.

Vasiliev said he had “purely religious” and not political goals, wanting only the Christmas truce to take place and “people to remain alive”.

UPDATE 1205 GMT:

The Netherlands has approved a new €175 million ($203.4 million) military aid package for Ukraine.

The assistance includes 100 drone detection radars, 20 Ermine vehicles for casualty evacuation, and €80 million ($93 million) for the international drone coalition.

The Netherlands also signed a contract worth €500 million (about $508 million) with Ukrainian drone manufacturers to fund the production of 600,000 drones.

UPDATE 0950 GMT:

At least 23 civilians have been killed and more than 300 wounded by Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

Air defenses downed 52 of 71 drones launched by Russia overnight.

Almost all of the casualties are in the Dnipropetrovsk region in south-central Ukraine, after Russian missiles struck in and near Dnipro.

Three civilians were murdered in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, and 11 injured elsewhere in the Donetsk region.

Casualties were also reported in the Kharkiv and the Zaporizhzhia regions.

UPDATE 0947 GMT:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected further sanctions on Russia over its invasion and mass killings in Ukraine.

“If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire and then who’s talking to them?” Rubio said.

But he acknowledged that, despite any talks, the Kremlin is committed to pursuing its objectives by force.

Our sense of it is that the Russians are going to try to achieve on the battlefield what they’ve demanded at the negotiating table, which is certain territories, administrative lines, and the like.

We think it’s going to be a lot harder for them to achieve that than they think it’s going to be.

UPDATE 0836 GMT:

The UK is sending 350 advanced air defense missiles to Ukraine.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the initiative will be funded by £70 million interest from frozen Russian assets through the multilateral Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration scheme.

ORIGINAL ENTRY: At least 18 civilians have been murdered and more than 300 wounded in Russia’s latest strikes on and near Dnipro in south-central Ukraine.

Russian missiles hit civilian infrastructure, a passenger train, a dormitory, a gymnasium, a children’s hospital, and an administrative building.

Sixteen of the slain were in Dnipro city. The other two were in the town of Samarake, where four residents were critically wounded.

As emergency services were recovering and searching for victims, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was addressing the Dutch Parliament, on the eve of today’s summit in The Hague.

One way or another, life itself is the main target of these attacks – each one showing the true nature of Putin’s war. He did the same in Chechnya. In Syria. And now in Ukraine….

Putin destroys lives, that’s how he defines control. If he can kill people, destroy homes, blackmail others, he believes he has power. To Russia, power means being able to kill or intimidate – without that, they think that they have nothing.

Earlier, he posted footage of the damage: