A Russian Su-34 supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/strike warplane
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UPDATE 1344 GMT:
Overnight Ukrainian drone strikes destroyed helicopters at a Russian airfield in occupied Crimea, claims the Ukraine State security service SBU.
The SBU said the strikes demolished Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28 attack helicopters, as well as a Pantsir-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun system.
Ukrainian military intelligence said they also struck a Russian missile and drone arsenal at the 1060th Material-Technical Support Center in Bryansk in western Russia.
Local residents heard explosions and gunfire throughout the morning. Photos showed smoke billowing from an industrial area in the southern part of the city.
Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz acknowledged a drone attack, claiming four civilians were injured and ten homes and a vehicle damaged.
Later in the morning, Bogomaz claimed that all the drones had been downed and no damage had been inflicted.
UPDATE 0859 GMT:
Ten civilians have been killed and at least 50 injured by Russian attacks across Ukraine over the past day.
Air defenses downed 21 of 23 drones launched by Russia overnight, and one other was lost to electronic counter-measures.
Five people were murdered and at least 25 wounded in the city of Samar in the Dnipropetrovsk region in south-central Ukraine (see 0643 GMT).
Two civilians were slain and at least 14 injured, including three children, in Odesa city in the south (see 0722 GMT).
Two civilians were killed in the Donetsk region in the east and one in the Kherson region in the south.
Casualties were also reported in the Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Sumy regions.
UPDATE 0736 GMT:
Vladimir Putin has again restated his ultimata for Ukraine’s surrender.
Putin said of Russian and Ukrainian conditions for an end to his 40-month, full-scale invasion, following two rounds of talks in Istanbul, “As for the memoranda, as expected, nothing surprising happened….These are two absolutely contradictory memoranda.”
Despite — or because of — his ultimata, Putin said he is ready to hold another round of talks, potentially in Istanbul, although the time and venue has yet to be agreed.
At a press conference in Belarusian capital Minsk, Putin also denounced what he called an “aggressive” pledge by Nato members to increase their defence spending to 5% of GDP.
UPDATE 0722 GMT:
A married couple have been murdered and at least 14 people injured, including three children, by an overnight Russian drone attack on Odesa in southern Ukraine.
The couple were in a 21-story building. Fire from the 7th to 9th floors trapped residents in their apartments.
A Russian drone strike hit a high-rise in Odesa, killing 2 and injuring 9.
A direct hit on the 9th floor set the building ablaze.
A rescuer carries out a smoke-inhaled 3-year-old as his mother runs behind.
“The blast wave threw us. Our neighbor was covered in blood.” pic.twitter.com/VSzbApM2po
— Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress) June 28, 2025
UPDATE 0640 GMT:
The toll from Friday’s Russian missile strikes on Samar in the Dnipropetrovsk region in south-central Ukraine has risen to five murdered and 25 wounded.
At lesat four of the injured are in serious condition.
On Tuesday, two residents were among 16 civilians slain in the province.
In the Kherson region in the south, authorities urged residents on Friday to prepare for extended periods without power after a Russian attack hit a key energy facility.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Ukrainian drones have struck four Su-34 fighter jets in southwest Russia.
The attack, carried out by special forces and the State security service SBU, was on the Marinovka airfield in the Volgograd region, around 900 kilometers (560 miles) south of Moscow.
Ukraine’s General Staff said 2 Su-34s, used to launch guided aerial bombs, were destroyed and two damaged.
A fire was set in the airfield’s technical and operational unit, where combat aircraft are serviced and repaired.
On Friday, Volgograd governor Andrei Bocharov said the Kalanchyovsky district, where Marinovka is located, was among three areas targeted by Ukrainian drones. Traffic on the bridge over the Don River in the district was temporarily restricted.
Ukraine has carried out a series of attacks on Russian airfields, destroying or damaging the warplanes used in Moscow’s 40-month full-scale invasion.
On June 1 in Operation Spiderweb, remote-controlled Ukrainian drones, smuggling in trucks onto airfields, destroyed 13 strategic bombers and damaged up to 28 other warplanes.
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