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Ukraine

Ukraine War Situation Update: 31 May – 6 June 2025

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Key trends

  • In the Donetsk region, Russian forces made territorial gains in the area of Pokrovsk, north of Velyka Nososilka, south of Kramatorsk, and north of Lyman, occupying at least four settlements.
  • Russian forces seized five settlements near the international border north of Sumy city and advanced north of Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region.
  • ACLED records at least 40 Russian long-range missile and drone strikes, including in Kyiv city and the Kyiv region, as well as in the western regions of Lviv, Volyn, Khmelnytskyi, and Ternopil.
  • Russian shelling, missiles, aerial bombs, and drones killed at least 46 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Sumy, Volyn, and Zaporizhia regions and Kyiv city.

Key events

  • 2 Jun. | Luhansk – Russian forces transport 150 Ukrainian children from occupied Rovenky to a camp in Russia
  • 3 Jun. | Sumy – Russian shelling kills four civilians and wounds 28 in Sumy city
  • 6 Jun. | Kyiv city – Russian drones and missiles kill three emergency workers and wound over 30 people