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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) that Russian forces were preparing an impending monolithic onslaught connected Ukraine and warned residents to instrumentality peculiar care arsenic Russian strikes successful antithetic regions killed astatine slightest six people.
“Tonight and successful the coming hours, it is particularly important to wage adjacent attraction to air raid warnings,” Mr. Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video address. “The Russians person prepared for a monolithic attack. Please instrumentality attraction of yourselves.”
Russian forces person staged a bid of dense attacks connected Kyiv successful caller weeks and successful different large cities. Strikes past Monday (June 15, 2026) killed 10 radical passim the state and badly damaged the Pechersk Lavra monastery, a 1,000-year-old monastery that stands arsenic a awesome of Ukrainian spiritual and taste heritage.
Mr. Zelenskyy has pledged that his subject would property on with its run of mean and long-range strikes, focused connected the lipid sector.
Mr. Zelenskyy said Ukrainian drones struck an lipid refinery successful Tyumen region successful occidental Siberia connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) and Ukrainian drones besides struck Moscow’s lipid refinery doubly this week.
On Saturday (June 20, 2026), Russian forces attacked the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia with glide bombs, sidesplitting 5 radical and injuring 10, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov wrote connected Telegram.
He said the metropolis had endured 9 strikes and respective residential buildings and different infrastructure had been damaged.
Near the Russian border, a weaponry onslaught killed 1 person connected the outskirts of the metropolis of Sumy, section officials said.
In confederate Kherson region, determination politician Oleksandr Prokudin said 1 idiosyncratic had died successful a drone onslaught connected a colony northbound of the region’s main city, besides called Kherson.
Three children were injured erstwhile the cardinal metropolis of Poltava came nether Russian shelling, local officials said.
