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Combat Operations

• Russia Unleashes Record Number Of Air Strikes Overnight On Ukraine RFE/RL 09 Jun 2025 -- Ukraine said Russia launched almost 500 air strikes overnight, the largest total in more than three years of war, as Moscow continues to increase pressure on Kyiv ahead of an expected summer offensive and ongoing peace talks that have made little progress.
• Russia Returns First POWs Under 25 in Istanbul Deal Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- On June 9, in line with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on June 2 in Istanbul, the first group of Russian servicemen under the age of 25 was returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
• Zelenskyy Says Still Pressing For Prisoner Swap, But Accuses Putin Of 'Dirty' Games RFE/RL 09 Jun 2025 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would press on with plans for a prisoner swap with Moscow, although he expressed doubts about a successful outcome, while his military leaders denied Russian claims that its forces had for the first time advanced into the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region.

Ukraine

• Andriy Yermak Holds Online Call with Advisors to Leaders of Northern Europe, Baltic States, and EU Officials President of Ukraine 09 Jun 2025
• Andriy Yermak Discusses Strengthening Sanctions Against Russia with Lithuanian Foreign Minister President of Ukraine 09 Jun 2025
• Every One of Our Units That Successfully Fulfills Its Mission on Its Front Is Protecting the Entire Country - Address by the President President of Ukraine 09 Jun 2025
• Andriy Yermak Holds an Online Meeting With Advisors to the Leaders of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy President of Ukraine 09 Jun 2025
• Ukraine's Zelensky says US diverted military aid promised to Kiev to West Asia Press TV 09 Jun 2025 -- Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the United States gave the military aid promised to Kiev instead to West Asia.

Russia

• Russia accuses Ukraine of postponing prisoner swap People's Daily 09 Jun 2025 -- Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of indefinitely delaying a planned exchange of prisoners and the handover of fallen soldiers' bodies.
• Russian Delegation Head Reflects on Ukraine's Shifting Negotiating Position Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- The Ukrainian delegation in 2022 appeared more autonomous and willing to engage, but by 2025 seemed more constrained, resembling corporate executives with limited decision-making authority, Vladimir Medinsky said in an interview on The Rick Sanchez Effect RT show.
• Massive Strike Launched on Ukrainian Forces Airfield Near Dubno Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Russian troops launched a massive strike with long-range precision weapons on one of the airfields basing tactical aircraft of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Dubno region of the Rovne region in response to Kiev's attacks on Russian military airfields, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• Russia Pushes Into Dnepropetrovsk Region to Build Buffer Zone - Kremlin Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the latest military moves in comments to the press.
• Unfriendly States Caught Red-Handed Trying to Arm Ukraine With Russian Tech Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- The number of attempts by unfriendly countries to obtain weapons and military equipment for Kiev in Russia is unprecedented, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday.
• Russian Army Destroys 26 of 31 Abrams Tanks Supplied to Ukraine Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- The Russian armed forces have destroyed 26 American Abrams tanks, leaving Ukraine with just five of the 31 tanks received from the United States, Sputnik calculations revealed on Monday.
• SSU detains enemy agents who spied on Ukrainian combat aviation Security Service of Ukraine 09 Jun 2025 -- The SSU Military Counterintelligence has detained two russian agents who were providing data on the combat aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions to the enemy.
• SSU detains FSB agent who adjusted russia's combined strikes on Kyiv Security Service of Ukraine 09 Jun 2025 -- The Security Service of Ukraine has detained an enemy agent who adjusted ruscist massive air strikes on Ukraine's capital.

United States

• Zelensky Knows Ukraine is Losing - US Senator Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky knows that Kiev is losing and for that reason is trying to lure NATO into a conflict with Russia, US Senator Tommy Tuberville has said.

NATO

United Nations

Foreign Reactions

• Budrys in Kyiv: we must seek solutions to accelerate Ukraine's EU membership process Lithuania MFA 09 Jun 2025 -- On 9 June, during a working visit to Kyiv, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Kęstutis Budrys, met with the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna.

News Reports

• Hugs, Tears, And Flags Greet POWs Returning Home In Russia-Ukraine Swap RFE/RL 09 Jun 2025 -- Russia and Ukraine exchanged several busloads of prisoners of war under the age of 25 on June 9, sparking what are expected to be days of emotional scenes in both countries as the massive swap continues under an agreement reached last week at talks in Istanbul.