Russian troops officially left Zmiiny Island, which Russia seized at the beginning of the invasion. The Russians left the island after heavy shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but called it a "gesture of goodwill", which they did in order to unblock the export of Ukrainian grain.

 At 6 o'clock in the morning, the Russians shelled Mykolaiv. In a residential 5-story building, the 3rd to 5th floors were destroyed. Four people died, two were injured.

 In Lysychansk, the Russian army opened fire from rocket salvo systems on local residents who came out to replenish supplies of drinking water.

Eight people died on the spot, including one child. Later, it became known about two more dead people. One woman died in a hospital, the second was found without signs of life.

 The Russians launched a missile attack on Kremenchuk. The missiles were launched from the Kursk region of Russia, from strategic bombers. One rocket hit the stadium, the second hit the shopping center, in which there were many people. As a result of the attack, 11 people had been killed, many were injured. The shopping center burned down completely.

 Last night there was a rocket attack on Sarny. The Russians destroyed a service station and a truck wash. 3 people died, 4 were hospitalized with injuries. Two of them are in serious condition.

      **** Since the very morning, the Russians launched a missile attack on Kyiv. There is destruction of residential buildings in the Shevchenkiv district. Injured and at least one dead are reported. Residents are being rescued and evacuated in two buildings. There are people under the rubble. In Kyiv, 3 or 4 buildings were damaged.

     **** In Sarny, under the rubble, the body of another deceased was found. Four people had been killed, men aged 30 to 51. The service station, tracker wash and truck dismantling department were completely destroyed. Trucks for the Ukrainian Army were repaired at this station.

     **** A 7-year-old girl was among the victims of the Russian missile strike, who was taken to the hospital with injuries.

 Missile strikes at night on 6 regions of Ukraine were carried out from the territory of Belarus, with the aim of involving Belarus in the war with Ukraine. 6 TU-22M aircraft were involved in the attack on Ukraine, which launched 12 X-22 missiles. The rocket launch site is Petrykiv district, near Mozyry. The bombers took off from the Shaikovka airfield in the Kaluga region of Russia. Then, the planes flew into Belarus through the Kaluga and Smolensk regions, launched missiles over Ukraine, and returned to Russia. The Russians shelled the Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Lviv, Mykoiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Kyiv regions. In addition, missile strikes were carried out from the waters of the Black Sea.

         Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, said that the Russians fired 48 rockets over the entire territory of Ukraine overnight.

 The Russians are trying to cut off Lysychansk from territories controlled by Ukraine. The Russian army destroys roads and bridges leading to the city. As a result of the shelling, the bridge was damaged, and now only light vehicles can pass through it.

       ****Ukrainian troops will have to be withdrawn from Severodonetsk, because it makes no sense to stay in broken positions. Despite this, fighting continues in Severodonetsk.

    *** The intelligence service of Ukraine declares the preparation of terrorist acts in Mozyr, Belarus. This is done by Russian saboteurs to draw Belarus into the war. The Russians plan to carry out a series of artillery and missile strikes on the Mozyr Oil Refinery and onto residential areas. Knows this information, officers of the Belarusian army began evacuating their families from Mozyr.

    **** Damages from the destruction of the Gostomel airfield are estimated at 1 billion US dollars, excluding the value of the destroyed aircraft. There is not a single surviving building left on the 400-hectare airport.

    *** The sports complex of the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute was destroyed by Russian missiles.

 Several thousand mercenaries of the "Wagner" PMC have arrived in Belarus.

*** A military operation to destroy Russian military equipment is underway on Zmiiny Island. Another "Pantsir-S1" anti-aircraft missile system was hit.

  *** For the second day in a row, large convoys of vehicles of Russian troops are leaving Mariupol and the Mariupol district in the direction of Berdyansk - Pology.

  *** 5 local women were killed as a result of mortar fire in the village of Pryshyb, Izyum district, Kharkiv region.

    *** Having launched a missile attack on Mykolaiv, the Russians destroyed a private grain storehouse.

*** The Russians dismantled and stole Ukraine's largest solar power plant. It was located near the city of Tokmak, Zaporizhzhia region. Solar cells were disassembled, packed and shipped over a long period of time. The Tokmak Solar Energy solar power plant covered an area of 96 hectares. The power of the station was 50 MW.

 The mayor of Energodar reports that the Russians are abducting citizens and employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

 Russian prisoners of war are held in a camp in western Ukraine and in precincts in almost every region in accordance with international law. The Ministry of Justice expects that the Russians will follow the same standards. A total of 51 precincts and 1 camp were formed. If it is not possible to deliver prisoners of war to the camp, they can be kept in ordinary isolation cells, but separately from convicts.

    **** The Russians cannot put out the fire on the drilling platforms of Chornomornaftogaz, which the Ukrainian military hit with missiles. The fire has already reached the wells.

 The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched missiles onto the drilling rigs of Chornomornaftogaz, which were seized by Russia in 2014, the so-called "Boiko rigs". Gas supply is suspended. The number of victims is unknown.

    *** Lithuania banned transit to Russia's Kaliningrad region. The Russians demand its cancellation and threaten Lithuania.

   *** Polish border guards said that the Belarusian military tried to do underground passage under the wall on the border between Poland and Belarus.

   *** The Russians increased the intensity of shelling of Kharkiv. The city has been shelled continuously since yesterday, at night and today all day.

    *** In the afternoon, over the course of three hours, the Russians launched 14 missile strikes in the south of Ukraine. In Odesa, a logistics food warehouse burned down as a result of a missile hit.

 During firefighting at an oil depot in Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region, a fuel tank exploded. One rescuer died, two others were taken to the hospital with burns. A total of 13 people were injured.

    **** Several commanders of the "Azov" regiment who were captured in Mariupol were taken to the "Lifortovo" detention center in Moscow.

 At night, the Russians struck Kremenchuk in the Poltava region. From 6 to 8 rockets hit the oil refinery and other objects in the city.

**** In the evening, the Russians launched a missile attack on an oil depot near Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region. Three rockets destroyed the oil depot. There is a big fire. Three people were injured. They were sent to the hospital with burns.

  **** In the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region, the Russians fired missiles at a gas processing enterprise. There was a big fire.

   **** There was an exchange of prisoners between Ukraine and Russia. Exchange according to the formula 5 for 5. All released civilians who were illegally detained by the Russian military during the fighting in the Kyiv region.

  **** Russia fired at Kharkiv from the Iskander missile complex.

**** Yevhen Sobolev, head of the local prison, was blown up in Kherson. After the occupation of Kherson, he went over to the side of Russia.

 The Russians launched an airstrike on Lysychansk. Many houses were damaged. Among the civilians, 8 were killed and 8 were wounded.

     **** The Ukrainian Navy hit the Russian tugboat "Spasatel Vasyl Bekh" with the TOR anti-aircraft missile complex on board. The tugboat shipped people and weapons to Zminiy Island.

     **** It is impossible to evacuate people from the "Azot" plant in Severodonetsk. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration, Serhii Gaidai. According to Gaidai, 568 people, including 38 children, are hiding from shelling on the territory of the plant.

    **** The US authorities have already announced the third missing American in Ukraine. It is likely that they were captured.

     **** Ukraine introduces a visa regime for Russians from July 1.

 During the air alert, a Russian missile was shot down. The wreckage fell in a field in Khmelnytskyi region.

     *** Russians from the "Legion Freedom of Russia" captured former Ukrainians fighting on the side of Russia.

 The Russians are slowly advancing near Kharkiv. In Severodonetsk, only one 74-year-old man went out into the evacuation corridor towards the occupied territories.

 During the daytime air aalarm, on the territory of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, air defense forces shot down a Russian missile.

         In Zolochiv, Lviv Region, 6 people were injured by falling debris from a downed missile. In addition to the Lviv region, the Russians launched rocket attacks on the Ternopil and Khmelnytskyi regions.

      The Air Force of Ukraine shot down a total of three cruise missiles launched from the Black Sea.

     **** The Russians offered the Ukrainian defenders of Severodonetsk, concentrated at the Azot chemical plant, to lay down their weapons by 8 o'clock in the morning. The Russians are offering to evacuate the civilians who were hiding on the territory of the plant through Svatovo, in the occupied Luhansk Region. Ukraine insists that 500 civilians sheltering in "Azot" should be evacuated to Lysychansk, controlled by Kyiv. The Russians say that this is impossible due to the destruction of three bridges across the Siverskyi Donets River.

 Russia launched a missile attack on Pryluky, Chernihiv region. The arrival of three missiles was recorded.

 At night, rather late yesterday evening, the Russians bombed Chortkiv, Ternopil region. Although I was born in Germany, Chortkiv is the first city I remember from childhood. I started go to a school there. Therefore, I consider Chortkiv, and Ukraine in general, my Motherland. As a result of the bombing, the city was left without gas supply. Panic began among the residents of the city. People tried to leave the city at night, despite the fact that there was a curfew. It is reported that there were four rocket assaults. A military facility and four residential block of flats were partially destroyed. 22 victims who were hospitalized. Among them is a 12-year-old child who was evacuated from the Kharkiv region not long time ago. Due to significant destruction, it is not excluded that the dead may be found under the rubble.

 Belarusian dictator Oleksandr Lukashenko suggested that Belarusian troops may have to fight for Western Ukraine so that it is not occupied by the "West".

*** State Russian news agencies report that Russian-occupied passports will be issued in Kherson and Melitopol. It is not specified how many passports were issued in Melitopol, but it is reported either 23 or 25 passports were issued in Kherson.

 Two Britons and a Moroccan, who served in the Foreign Legion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were sentenced to death by the so-called DPR court. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the British authorities will seek the release of their citizens.

***The Russian agency "Intefax" reported that the occupation authorities of Melitopol have started exporting cherries to the annexed Crimea and are planning deliveries to Russia.

 Around one o'clock in the morning, a Russian rocket damaged a multi-story building in the city of Novograd-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr region. The city of Novohrad-Volynskyi is located 160 km east of us.

*** Night shelling of Kharkiv. Again a school, library, cafe. The shelling led to large-scale fires. Two people died, another 4 were injured. Air television broadcasting has disappeared in Kharkiv.

*** The Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, reports that up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers are killed and up to 500 are wounded every day.

 Severodonetsk remains the hottest spot on the entire front line. Russians spare neither equipment nor people. There is a threat of encircling Lysychansk and cutting the Bakhmut - Lysychansk road.

   **** The defenders of Mariupol were transported to the territory of Russia. Russian bodies are working with them now. Their liberation is handled by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Ukraine.

 Representatives of the self-proclaimed DPR claim that during Monday the Ukrainian military shelled Donetsk and neighboring Makiyivka.

    **** There is a threat of a Russian landing near Odessa. The Russians hitі ground targets with anti-ship missiles.

   **** As a result of the morning shelling of Mykolaiv, one person was killed and there are other victims.

 In the morning, the Russians fired rockets at Kyiv. The objects of the railway were struck.

*** In the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russians are training mercenaries who speak the Ukrainian language well.

***Yesterday, the Russians launched a missile attack on the port of Nika-Tera in Mykolaiv, where grain was stored.

*** A message appeared on the BBC website that Russian rockets hit the Darnytsia Rail Way Car Repair Plant in Kyiv. The Russians claim that they destroyed military tanks there, but "Ukrzaliznytsia" reports that only grain trucks were damaged.

 In Sevastopol, Ukrainian grain is loaded onto ships every day.

*** The Ministry of Defense of Russia once again announced the downing of a Ukrainian military transport plane near Odessa. They made such statements on May 26 and April 17. Then the Russians also allegedly targeted military transport planes near Odesa. In total, the Russians said they had already shot down 187 Ukrainian planes. According to the international analytical center Global Firepower, as of 2021, Ukraine had only 172 aircraft, including 2 transport aircraft.

 The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, D. Medvedev, said that if the American salvo missile systems in Ukraine fire on Russian territory, Moscow will respond with a blow to the decision-making centers.

        Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, said that Ukraine is waging a defensive war and does not plan to use the provided missile systems to attack objects on the territory of Russia.

      ***Ukrainian troops began training on American missile systems. The first phase of training is expected to last about three weeks.

     **** The Russians launch missiles on Ukrainian territory from warships that are hidden between civilian vessels of the merchant fleet.

 At night, the Russians launched rocket attacks on Striy. The news reports that was attacked the railway. Five people were injured. The movement of three passenger trains was delayed. In addition to Striy, was attacked the Sambir district. Two people were injured.

  **** The Senate of Ireland passed a resolution recognizing Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide.

    **** Citizens of Lithuania gathered more than five million US dollars in three days to purchase the "Bayraktar" strike drone from Turkey for the needs of Ukraine.

         Turkey decided give the Bayraktar to Lithuania for free. The Lithuanians say that with the gathered money they will buy the necessary ammunition for the attack drone, and the rest of the money will be transferred to Ukraine as humanitarian aid.

 The Russians control up to 80 percent of Severodonetsk, including the eastern quarters of the city.

***** Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, more than 234,000 children from Ukraine have been forcibly deported to Russia, Belarus, or to the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

**** Ukrainian troops made some progress in the north of the Kherson region and liberated two dozen settlements.