Russian forces killed 27 civilians in strikes across Ukraine on 2 June

Russian military strikes across Kyiv, the Kyiv region, and the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Sumy Oblasts on June 2 killed 27 civilians and left at least 141 others injured, according to the National Police of Ukraine.

A residential building in Dnipro struck by Russian forces.

The victims of yesterday’s Russian strikes include:

• Rescue worker Anton Yarmolenko, who came under a Russian strike in Dnipro while responding to an emergency call;
• 10 adults and two children in Dnipro, which was one of the primary targets of the massive overnight Russian attack;
• Seven people in Kyiv;
• An elderly man in Malokaterynivka in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, killed in a drone strike;
• A man in Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast;
• An elderly woman in Kherson;
• A person in Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast;
• A driver whose car was targeted by a Russian drone in the Sumy Oblast;
• A resident of Kharkiv;
• Two farmers from Rokytne in the Kharkiv Oblast.

Dozens more civilians suffered injuries, most of them during Russia’s overnight attack.

Russian forces launched 73 missiles and 656 drones. Ukrainian air defences neutralised 642 aerial targets, including 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, 26 Kh-101 cruise missiles and three Kalibr cruise missiles.

Kyiv recorded the highest number of casualties. Among the 79 people injured were three children, three police officers and a rescue worker.

Rescued resident of Kyiv

In the Sumy region, 18 people were injured by Russian attacks, while another 14 were wounded in the Kherson Oblast. Five children were among those injured across the two regions. In addition, four people wounded in Russian attacks on previous days were included in the Kherson region’s daily casualty report.

Russian attacks injured 13 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, most of them in Dnipro, which was hit by another Russian missile strike.

In the Kharkiv region, nine people were injured, including a teenager who required hospital treatment.

Three civilians were injured in Russian strikes in both the Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv Oblasts, while one person was wounded in the Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated to countries in his evening address that no type of Russian missile or drone can be manufactured without foreign components. In light of this, he once again emphasised the critical need to block the supply chains that deliver these components and technologies to Russia for the production of strike weapons.

“This means that in every such strike there is – perhaps not always conscious, but still real – complicity of those who work for Russia, who supply Russia with money, who help it bypass sanctions and find not just one or two, but thousands of components without which Russian military production would simply come to a halt,” the president said. 

Zelenskyy elaborated that five Kalibr missiles contain 145 such components. Thirty-three Iskander missiles contain 1,122 components. Six hundred and fifty strike drones of various types contain more than 17,000 components, without which they could not be produced.

“These are large-scale schemes designed to bypass sanctions, and this is absolutely real complicity in the killings,” he added.

Later, Zelenskyy said during his address to participants of the NATO-Ukraine Council meeting in Kyiv that the occupying state has the capacity to produce approximately 120 ballistic missiles every month.

Zelenskyy also expressed disappointment over the delayed arrival of a U.S. delegation in Kyiv, but noted that Ukraine is still counting on the visit. At a press conference in Kyiv on 3 June, he confirmed that the arrival date for U.S. presidential envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner remains uncertain, despite his earlier announcement of the visit.

“We are indeed in constant contact with the American side regarding our negotiators. We are waiting for the negotiating team to arrive. But in my view, we have been waiting for them for a very long time,” cites Zelenskyy, the news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda as saying. 

He expressed regret that Washington is not prioritising the issue.

“I truly believe that the United States of America is the strongest player capable of pushing Putin to end the war,” he said.

To provide background, Russian strikes across Ukraine killed two civilians on 1 June.

Russian forces have intensified their attacks. As a result, the number of people killed and injured during the first four months of 2026 was 21% higher than in January–April 2025. Compared with the same period in 2024, the number of casualties increased by 93%.