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Zelenskyy Claims Battlefield Successes as Ukraine, Russia, US Set to Meet
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In Short: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed significant battlefield successes, stating that these victories were strengthening Kyiv's negotiating position ahead of new trilateral talks involving Ukraine, Russia, and the United States.
Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Monday that Ukrainian forces were responding to Russia's war in a justified manner, demonstrating that the conflict must end.
Zelenskyy wrote in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 4, 2026, his first public message to Putin since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
Zelenskyy emphasized that as long as the war continues, Russia must not receive anything it could invest in further killings and destabilization in Europe.
Zelenskyy rejected Russian claims that Moscow’s forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, challenging Putin to meet him there if the Kremlin’s statements were true.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this evening that a Russian strike on an aid station and shelter killed at least 26 people in Southern Ukraine.
Zelenskyy emphasized that Kyiv would follow through on its promise of an intensified 40-day, long-range strike campaign against Russia, announcing on Tuesday, June 30, that a Moscow satellite communications center was struck overnight.
Zelenskyy said energy facilities, logistics, and infrastructure in 10 other regions had also been attacked overnight.
Zelenskyy emphasized that the distance from Ukraine's state border to the Moscow satellite communications center was more than 500 kilometers, and that Kyiv's Defense Forces had reached four such Russian centers in the Moscow and Vladimir regions.
What's confirmed
- Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Monday that Ukrainian forces were responding to Russia's war in a justified manner, demonstrating that the conflict must end.
- Zelenskyy wrote in a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 4, 2026, his first public message to Putin since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.
- Zelenskyy emphasized that as long as the war continues, Russia must not receive anything it could invest in further killings and destabilization in Europe.
- Zelenskyy rejected Russian claims that Moscow’s forces had captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, challenging Putin to meet him there if the Kremlin’s statements were true.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this evening that a Russian strike on an aid station and shelter killed at least 26 people in Southern Ukraine.
- Zelenskyy emphasized that Kyiv would follow through on its promise of an intensified 40-day, long-range strike campaign against Russia, announcing on Tuesday, June 30, that a Moscow satellite communications center was struck overnight.
- Zelenskyy said energy facilities, logistics, and infrastructure in 10 other regions had also been attacked overnight.
- Zelenskyy emphasized that the distance from Ukraine's state border to the Moscow satellite communications center was more than 500 kilometers, and that Kyiv's Defense Forces had reached four such Russian centers in the Moscow and Vladimir regions.
What's still developing
- They welcomed recent Ukrainian successes on the battlefield, including the recent liberation of territory and ground-breaking use of drone technology.
- They discussed how to use the upcoming G7 summit at Evian, the next meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, and the NATO summit at Ankara to best coordinate further support for Ukraine based on its prioritised needs, including further pressure on Russia’s war economy and an increased pledge of military and defence support for Ukraine at the NATO Summit.
- What we know on day 1,721 Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that battlefield successes were strengthening Kyiv’s position in negotiations, on the eve of new US-led trilateral talks on resolving the war.
- Earlier, The New York Post, citing historian Peter Frankopan and Russian military bloggers, reported that newly recruited Russian soldiers may survive only 20 to 35 minutes after reaching frontline positions, with Ukrainian drones identified as the primary cause of the mounting battlefield losses.
- “Right now, on the eve of America’s Independence Day, Putin decided to lie to the world and to the President of America about the situation on the front: claiming that Russian forces have supposedly captured Kostiantynivka in Donbas. Of course, this is not true—it’s just another Russian lie to generate at least some kind of news,” Zelenskyy said.
- Speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin described Zelenskyy’s open letter proposing the meeting as “boorish,” particularly after a May 22 drone attack on a college dormitory in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region that Moscow said killed 21 and wounded scores of others.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, welcome back to the "News Hour." Thank you for joining us.
- It was sending out false alerts about chemical and nuclear threats in Ukraine.
- What we know on day 1,708 Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukrainian forces are retaking territory through a series of offensives, adding Kyiv’s battlefield position was the strongest it had been in some time.
- “Today, our long-range sanctions against Russia for this war once again reached the Dubna space communications center in the Moscow region. This is a special satellite communications facility used, in particular, for reconnaissance and for coordinating the activity of Russia’s occupation contingent in Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said.
- Zelenskyy wrote on Saturday that “Russia is escalating every single day,” and he listed “numerous strikes on residential homes” in the cities of Kyiv and Zaporizhzhia and in the Odesa, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.
- “We’ve actually developed a good relationship,” Trump added.