Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Here is the gist of this Sunday, June 7, 2026, on the 1,565th day of the conflict.
Fact of the day
Russian strikes on a village in the Zaporizhia region (southeast) left at least two dead and three injured on Sunday, said the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, and the regional police. “The strikes occurred near a public transport stop,” he said. A 56-year-old bus driver had already been killed in his vehicle in the town of Zaporizhia, Ukrainian emergency services had indicated earlier. Nighttime drone attacks and aerial bombardments on the Dnipropetrovsk region (center-east) also left one dead, according to regional military governor Oleksandr Ganja.
Today’s statement
« “This is not the first time that Russian forces have put Ukrainian nuclear facilities in danger.” »
This sentence is a statement by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriï Sybiga, who accuses Moscow of “threats to nuclear safety”. Because a Russian drone strike “partially destroyed” a building on a used nuclear fuel storage site in the exclusion zone of the damaged Chernobyl power plant (north), the Ukrainian public nuclear operator Energoatom said on Telegram. He said the building was empty at the time and radiation levels remained normal.
The number of the day
236. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the number of drones launched by Russia which were intercepted during the night from Saturday to Sunday. According to them, 215 of these drones were intercepted. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed, as it generally does, to have carried out strikes on sites linked to the Ukrainian army.
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The trend
Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Sunday that he had arrived in the United Kingdom for a meeting with the British, French and German leaders on the defense of his country against Russia. “The main topic is our defense in war, greater cooperation for the security of all Europe in the field of air defense, and our shared vision on diplomatic prospects,†the Ukrainian president said in a Facebook post, accompanied by a video showing him getting out of a plane.
