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[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

In our new investigative documentary, No God but Theirs, the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit uncovers the persecution of Ukrainian Christian communities in Melitopol — a city in eastern Ukraine now under Russian occupation.

Watch here: https://t.co/YQKj8DYaLQ

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Russia reviving efforts to expand LNG exports after US sanctions, Bloomberg reports.

An LNG ice-class tanker has reportedly docked at Russia's Arctic LNG 2 facility for the first time since October, according to ship-tracking data and satellite images.
https://t.co/HcCtba1uR8

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Russian mass missile attack targets Ukrainian regions far from front lines.

A large-scale Russian missile and drone attack terrorized Ukraine overnight on June 29 as air raid alarms sounded across the country, including the far-western oblasts.
https://t.co/8jrCSSMjZW

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Russian cruise missiles bound for western Ukraine, Air Force warns.

Russian cruise missiles are flying toward multiple Ukrainian regions, including Ternopil, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts, the Air Force warned in the early hours of June 29.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Serbian police crack down on protestors at mass anti-government rally in Belgrade.

100,000 people demanded early elections and an end to the 12-year rule of President Aleksandar Vucic.
https://t.co/GtVkGrIQ5W

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️McDonald's to open 10 new restaurants in Ukraine this year, NYT reports.

The 10 new locations will bring the total number close to 120 — more than were operating in Ukraine before the war.
https://t.co/IAl0a6e3mq

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Former Kharkiv deputy mayor charged with embezzling funds allocated for defense fortifications.

https://t.co/pQhrvhVN8f

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Ukraine's parliament working on bill to organize post-war elections, speaker says.

https://t.co/XMo8dteQZM

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Ukrainian drones reportedly strike missile, drone arsenal in Russia's Bryansk Oblast.

https://t.co/GfT7f0aIfQ

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Slovak PM sees 'no reason' to meet with Zelensky, claims Ukrainian president 'hates' him, after reportedly blocking Russian sanctions.

https://t.co/2TNG7RHYeZ

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Germany reportedly scrambles fighter jets to intercept Russian spy plane over Baltic Sea.

https://t.co/KZsutXcC9c

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck the Kirovske military airfield in occupied Crimea overnight on June 28, the SBU told the Kyiv Independent.

The attack destroyed Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28 attack helicopters, and a Pantsyr-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft missile and gun system, the SBU claimed.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Russia revives obsolete T-62 tanks amid equipment shortages, Ukraine's intel claims.

https://t.co/cRYETAZYcC

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

"The key factors limiting the ability to produce modern armored vehicles in Russia are a lack of industrial capacity and a shortage of imported high-tech components," Ukraine's military intelligence said.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Ukraine downs new Russian Grom-1 bomb missile near Dnipro city, official says.

https://t.co/ZkLu5zkiTM

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Russia launched its new Grom-1 bomb missile at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast for the first time on June 28, but it was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses, Governor Serhii Lysak said.

To date, neither Russian guided aerial bombs nor the Grom-1 bomb missile had previously reached the city of Dnipro.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

The Atesh partisan group set fire to a signal cabinet that helps control traffic on a railway line near the Russian-occupied city of Yasynuvata in Donetsk Oblast, a route used for Russia's military logistics, the group claimed on Telegram on June 28.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Pro-Ukraine partisans disrupt Russian military logistics in occupied Donetsk Oblast, group claims.

https://t.co/iuEuyxrNqJ

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 10, injure at least 50 over past day.

https://t.co/6ccNQgKlxt

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️Poland's Duda arrives in Kyiv to meet with Zelensky.

https://t.co/Qqpi3kHnL2