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According to the Deputy Police Chief of Kharkiv Oblast Serhii Bolvinov, during the occupation of the city of Balakliia, Kharkiv Oblast, Russians were holding at least 40 people captive at the same time. "According to witnesses, they were tortured in different ways," Bolvinov said, adding that the "easiest" torture was with an electric shock. According to Bolvinov, Russians were searching for Ukrainian war veterans and volunteers who helped the Ukrainian army.
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Sunday, June 21
Russia launched 105 long-range kamikaze Shahed-type drones and four ballistic missiles overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said.
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Russian forces launched a missile attack on the city of Poltava on the evening of June 20, injuring 11 people, including five children, officials reported.
The number includes 1,290 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
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Ukraine's military reportedly struck an oil terminal in occupied Crimea overnight on June 21, Telegram media channels reported, citing resident accounts.
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Russian forces launched nine glide bombs on the regional capital, according to preliminary information, Governor Ivan Fedorov said. One victim's body was recovered from the rubble of a destroyed home.
According to the outlets, the date of death is known in 209,300 cases, accounting for 92% of confirmed casualties.
Saturday, June 20
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"Tonight and in the coming hours, we must pay particularly close attention to air raid alerts," Zelensky warned Ukrainians in his evening address on June 20.
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Sending the medal back via Nova Post, Ukraine’s leading postal service, President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the Polish people for their support and solidarity during Russia’s full-scale invasion.
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Ukrainian forces hit four gas compressors in Russian-occupied Crimea and an oil refinery in the Siberian city of Tyumen on June 20.
The scheme involved men pretending to be musicians going on charity tours abroad, with the former minister signing documents to the State Border Guard permitting them to cross the border.
The decision by Viktor Orban's Fidesz party to block 12 Ukrainian newspapers in September 2025 only sought to deepen divisions between Kyiv and Budapest, said Hungarian Social Relations and Culture Minister Zoltan Tarr.
In the city of Kharkiv, two people were killed and 10 were injured, including a child and a teenager, after Russian drones and glide bombs struck apartment buildings in an overnight attack, Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Synehubov wrote on his Telegram channel.
The number includes 1,240 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"Without a reliable power supply, the plant cannot continue assembling unmanned systems and manufacturing electronics for new batches of drones for the occupying forces," the group claimed.
