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Friday, June 26
Skelia assault regiment commander suspended from duty amid investigation into alleged abuse
Skelia commander Yurii Harkavyi was suspended amid an investigation into alleged abuse and noncombat deaths in one of Ukraine’s largest assault regiments.
Russia launches fresh ballistic missile attack against Kyiv
At least two people have been injured, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Explosions have also been heard in Kremenchuk, Poltava Oblast, as a result of the attack.
Russia's 4th-largest oil refinery shuts down after Ukrainian drone strike, Reuters reports
The Lukoil-Nizhegorodorgsintez refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, is Russia's fourth-largest oil refinery and second-largest producer of gasoline. The facility went offline on June 24 after a drone strike, two industry sources told Reuters.
Thursday, June 25
Ukraine's SBU to wage 40-day pressure campaign against Russia, Zelensky says
The president said he gave his approval for the SBU to launch "a 40-day influence operation ... against the aggressor state aimed at compelling it to end the war."
Ukraine's wartime action thriller 'Killhouse' reaches global audience on Netflix
Ukraine's new action film "Killhouse" is set to reach a global audience, hitting the Netflix streaming platform on June 26. Few scenes hit as hard in "Killhouse" as when Ukrainian soldiers decide to launch a high-risk mission to rescue a near-death civilian from the gray zone, a territory sandwiched between Ukrainian and Russian lines. In the film, the Russian commander watching them from his position assumes that the civilian being rescued must be of extraordinary importance. For the Ukrainia
The problem at the top of Ukraine's judiciary
"Nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes" is an idiom often attributed to American statesman Benjamin Franklin. In Ukraine, another certainty has emerged over the years: society's persistent demand for judicial reform — and the judiciary's equally persistent resistance to it. Following the 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution, Ukraine's highest court was expected to become a flagship of the country's Western-backed reform agenda. Instead, the Supreme Court has become mired in controve
About Donetsk Oblast
The Kyiv Independent's news and on-the-ground reporting from Donetsk Oblast, covering 26,517 square kilometers (10,239 square miles) in Ukraine’s East with a pre-war population of approximately 4.1 million. The administrative center is Kramatorsk, as Donetsk city has remained under Russian occupation since 2014. Donetsk Oblast has been the scene of intense fighting, for example, around the cities of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Vuhledar, as Moscow attempts to capture the entire region.
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"I would like to say a few words about matters that are not directly related to today's specific agenda items," the Russian leader said during a video conference with members of the government.
