NEW: A Kremlin-appointed Russian occupation official admitted that Russia has continued to place Ukrainian children up for fostering and adoption with Russian families in 2026.
Other Key Takeaways:
Russian officials continue to fund and facilitate the temporary deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children to summer camps in occupied Ukraine and Russia.
Enrollment in Yunarmia (Russian Young Army Cadets National Movement) appears to be increasing in occupied Ukraine.
The municipal and regional stages of the Zarnitsa 2.0 military-patriotic competition continue in occupied Ukraine.
Russian occupation officials continue to use social benefit incentives to increase the birth rates in occupied areas.
Russian occupation officials continue to downplay the severity of fuel shortages and present a facade of an effective government response in order to obscure the wartime challenges of their illegitimate occupation of Ukraine.
Russia continues to illegally prosecute Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) under “terrorism” charges in clear violation of international humanitarian law.
Occupation courts throughout occupied Ukraine continue to sentence Ukrainians to extensive prison terms on tenuous treason and espionage allegations.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister for Construction and Regional Development Marat Khusnullin visited occupied Ukraine in late May.
Coloro che vivendo in una democrazia non riscontrano alcun pericolo nelle azioni, specie violente, delle autocrazie e anzi ne favoreggiano la vicinanza, sono degli stupidi potenzialmente pericolosi. In quanto tali, vanno derisi e combattuti.
🔴 Russians are burning Kherson region down. Today, a drone hit a gas station on the hwy to Mykolaiv.
A woman, 35, killed
7 injured, 2 in critical condition
Several buildings set on fire in the last two days. Drones drop incendiary devices.
The skies are infested with drones
my home city Zaporizhzhia is under extra intense attack today. while Ukrainians hit russian oil refineries and military bases with deep strikes, russians lash out by targeting public transport with FPV drones during rush hour. russian culture is on full display here.
Russia is considering lowering the country’s working age to 12 and reopening Soviet child labour camps to solve the country's job crisis
🖇️ https://t.co/6uXSNubBCu
La tennista polacca Maja Chwalinska è arrivata in finale al Roland Garros dopo un periodo di depressione, partendo dalle qualificazioni e da 114esima nel ranking mondiale
https://t.co/jXs8CoRfdZ
russians just struck a baby food factory near Kyiv.
Yagotynske for Children — the plant that produces milk and food for Ukrainian infants and small children.
4 killed. More may still be under the rubble.
This isn’t war.
It’s the deliberate killing of civilians who feed Ukrainian babies. Pure evil.
A remarkable video:
Putin, an obscure 1991 Leningrad bureaucrat, warning against the return of totalitarian rule to Russia—paired with his reaction to those words as President in 2002. The irony writes itself.
❗️Zelensky's letter to Putin also targets the US and other partners of Ukraine and Russia
Presidential advisor Dmytro Lytvyn told reporters about this. The letter is also aimed at "Russians who are no longer satisfied with war," he added.
A Russian drone struck an ambulance in Kherson.
A 64-year-old medic and a 65-year-old driver were injured. They sustained blast injuries and concussions.
Kherson is bleeding.
At least 5 civilians killed in 24 hours after russian strikes on residential areas.
People killed in apartments — just trying to live.
This is deliberate targeting of civilians — a war crime in real time. And the world keeps watching.
This was real cocaine! The Russian Orthodox Church has been hit by one of its biggest scandals in a decade
Czech police said that the powder found in the car of Metropolitan Hilarion of the Russian Orthodox Church was indeed cocaine, according to Deník N.
Today he was reassigned to serve in Brazil. That raises questions — a promotion to a region often described as a global hub for cocaine production?
His new posting is considered one of the key transit points for cocaine flows to Europe and Africa, where major drug trafficking networks operate.
Meanwhile, in Hungary, more than 500 kg of cocaine from Latin America was discovered today (video). The shipment was disguised as bananas from Ecuador.
This is the largest drug seizure in the country’s history.
Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukrainian Presidential Office:
The Russian society was not morally prepared for the potential massive appearance of drones, and sometimes, missiles. For them, it is a shock.
They are not ready and refuse to accept it. They believed this would never happen because they are so strong and powerful, and everyone fears them. Turns out, that’s not the case.