Raivis Melnis handed over 14 British-made CVR(T) combat vehicles to Ukraine's Third Army Corps during a frontline visit, replacing aging Soviet equipment near Borova and Lyman
Ukrainian crews will fit the vehicles with anti-FPV drone protection https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/latvias-defense-minister-brings-14-british-made-combat-vehicles-to-ukraines-frontline-from-box/
Ukrainian defense company Global Mark unveiled the Sea Trident, a heavy underwater drone built to strike targets and to hunt other underwater drones
Presented in Paris, the platform carries a 1,000 kg payload and ranges 2,000 nautical miles https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/at-paris-top-defense-exhibition-ukraine-unveiled-10-ton-sea-trident-that-can-hunt-underwater-drones/
Macron is pressing Washington at the G7 to say three words to Ukraine: "We are with you."
He says Europe now carries nearly all of Kyiv's war costs, while the US still supplies arms and intelligence. Trump and Zelenskyy are both due in vian — but no bilateral is set.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/macron-wants-washington-to-tell-ukraine-we-are-with-you-as-the-g7-summit-in-evian/
For Ukraine's special operators, seizing a target is only half the mission. The most valuable phase often begins after the shooting stops
Once soldiers secure the objective, operators comb through it for documents and data storage to hand to their commanders
📷 Ukraine's Special Operations Forces
Russia struck the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra with a Shahed-type drone overnight, and Ukraine's SBU confirmed it from the wreckage
Markings on the fragments indicate the parts were manufactured in Russia's Alabuga region, where Moscow mass-produces these drones
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Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, called Russia's overnight strike on a UNESCO cathedral in Kyiv a war crime — and the bloc answered the same day
New EU sanctions hit 81 Russian targets: weapons firms, oil-smuggling ships, and state propagandists
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/kallas-calls-the-lavra-attack-a-war-crime-and-announces-new-eu-sanctions/
Logistics Lockdown continues.
Ukraine's military intelligence released footage of its drone hitting a Russian fuel truck on an occupied southern highway Nova Kakhovka - Melitopol
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Ukraine's border guards just sent 23 Russians a one-way ticket home
"Hart" Brigade met an enemy assault with drones, artillery, and mortars, and the occupiers discovered that Ukraine's frontier is not an invitation
📷 State Border Guard Service
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Art Arsenal today and confirmed that two Russian drones deliberately targeted part of Kyiv where the sites are located
Across Ukraine, tonight's mass Russian attack killed 11 people
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Russia patches the road to occupied Crimea, Ukraine breaks it again. Overnight, drones hit the Chonhar and Henichesk bridges
Russians shut the Dzhankoi checkpoint, then reopened one-way car-only traffic across a pontoon crossing.
Russian long-range bomber Tu-22M3 crashed in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast north of Mongolia
Russia uses its Tu-22M3s to launch Kh-22 cruise missiles — a large, imprecise Soviet-era anti-ship weapon, now also upgraded as the Kh-32 — at Ukrainian cities.
📹 Nikolaevsky Vanyok, Exilenova+
Russia has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites since 2022, prosecutor general says — and looted 7.8M museum objects from occupied land.
He spoke as a missile strike set the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra's Dormition Cathedral alight.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/russia-has-damaged-or-destroyed-nearly-2000-ukrainian-cultural-heritage-sites-since-2022-prosecutor-general-calls-lavra-strike-deliberate-erasure/
Ukraine's navy received its fifth minehunter from the Netherlands on 15 June—the Alkmaar-class Henichesk, named after a minesweeper lost on a combat mission in 2022
All five vessels are transferred under the Maritime Capabilities Coalition and will be based in the UK until the war ends
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/netherlands-transfers-fifth-mine-countermeasures-vessel-to-ukraine-named-henichesk-after-ship-sunk-in-2022/
"For us French, this equals bombing Notre-Dame" — France's FM Barrot on Russia's strike on Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg demanded expanded sanctions. Lithuania says Rosatom, Rosneft & Lukoil must be added to the 21st package now
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/frances-president-macron-compares-lavra-strike-to-bombing-notre-dame-calls-for-tougher-sanctions/
Nearly 42,000 people—including 3,400 children—sheltered in Kyiv's metro overnight as Russia fired 681 missiles and drones at Ukraine
Five were killed in the capital; strikes hit the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra cathedral and destroyed Ukraine's largest film costume collection
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/nearly-42000-kyiv-residents-sheltered-in-metro-during-overnight-russian-attack-including-3400-children/
📷 Kyiv Metro
Last night, four Kharkiv firefighters ran toward a fire that Russia's strike had just started. While they fought it, Russia struck the same spot again and killed them.
They were squad commander Dmytrii Boiko, firefighter-rescuers Danylo Tishchenko and Serhii Makovetskyi. driver Vadym Zinchenko.
Russian drones struck Dnipro overnight on 15 June, damaging the House of Organ Music, a college, a school, and an enterprise — injuring a 64-year-old man.
Air defenses destroyed 24 drones over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/russian-drone-strike-on-dnipro-damages-organ-music-house-college-and-injures-one/
📷 Dnipro Oblast governor
New footage filmed from a truck rolling past Russia's Rosrezerv depot in Yaroslavl Oblast shows the scale of the blaze, raging for more than 24 hours after Ukrainian drones struck the strategic wartime reserve.
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At least 5 people were killed and 35 injured as Russia fired 681 missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight
Kyiv was the main target: the Lavra caught fire, the Dovzhenko Film Studio was hit, and Ukraine's top anti-corruption court sustained damage.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/in-another-massive-attack-russia-kills-4-injuries-30/
A Russian drone hit the roof of the Dormition Cathedral at Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra overnight.
Fire damaged a large number of objects.
Monks evacuated ancient icons and relics. "A crime against humanity, history, and Christianity," Metropolitan Epifanii said.
Russia launched 70 missiles and 611 drones.
📷 DSNS
