Ukraine’s 40th Marine Brigade burned down enemy positions in Kherson region using Baracuda marine drones carrying FPV drones on board.
❗️Finland will provide Ukraine with a new defense aid package worth about €128 million, according to the Finnish Defense Ministry. Another major contribution to Ukraine’s defense effort.
❗️Russian-installed authorities warned against non-essential travel on the "Novorossiya" highway after reporting remote mining attacks near the Berdyansk area. Officials said drones deployed motion-triggered explosive devices targeting transport routes.
❗️Occupied Crimea and Donetsk region imposed Ai-95 gasoline purchase limits, with 20 liters per person per day allowed in Crimea and 30 liters in Donetsk. Sevastopol reported a temporary lack of Ai-95 and Ai-92 gasoline.
Ukrainian sanctions gaining traction in occupied Simferopol, Crimea.
Destruction of a Russian BM-21 Grad MLRS.
❗️Japan joined the NATO-US PURL mechanism and allocated its first $14.6 million to support accelerated deliveries of critical American weapons to Ukraine. The initiative was created to speed up procurement of key capabilities, including air defense systems and ammunition for Ukrainian forces.
Putin claimed a Ukrainian drone attacked a Romanian apartment block while saying he did not know what happened in Romania. He also demanded that the drone debris be handed to Russia for examination, mirroring Moscow’s own framing of alleged drone incidents involving Russian sites.
Russian-installed Kherson collaborator Volodymyr Saldo said a Ukrainian Baba Yaga hexacopter scattered mines on the "Novorossiya" highway near the Kherson-Zaporizhzhia border, killing a KAMAZ driver and damaging several vehicles.
Japan will send four Self-Defense Forces officers to NATO’s NSATU command in Wiesbaden for the first time. The officers will help coordinate military aid deliveries and training programs for Ukraine’s Armed Forces, but will not take part in combat, which Japan’s constitution strictly forbids.
Storm Shadow missiles hit Taganrog Central airfield on May 27, causing impacts and destruction at the communications and radio-technical support battalion area. The damaged site is critical to the airfield’s functioning, a direct blow to operational support infrastructure.
Ukraine’s SBU hit a key FSB electronic intelligence facility in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai with drones, disabling core systems at the site. The facility was used for reconnaissance and for guiding missile and Shahed strikes against Ukraine, making the loss operationally significant.
Additional footage from Chuvashia. It is still unclear what happened.
❗️Russia issued missile alerts in Yamal and the Urals for the first time, pushing warnings deep into the country as Yamal sits more than 2,500 km from Ukraine.
Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed overnight strikes on Russia’s Volgograd oil refinery, halting production processes at the 15m-ton-per-year plant. The facility sits 500 km from the front and functions as a fuel hub between enemy frontline and rear units. AVT-1, AVT-3, AVT-5, AVT-6 and secondary processing units were hit.