Russian strikes kill five and wound 29 across five Ukrainian regions overnight
Russians killed five people and injured 29 others in strikes across Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions on June 22, 2026, local authorities reported.
The site of a Russian strike in the Dnipropetrovsk OblastAccording to Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, Russian forces killed three people on June 22 – two in Druzhkivka and one in Sloviansk. Another person was injured. The casualty figures for Donetsk Oblast do not include Mariupol and Volnovakha.
More than 40 settlements came under drone and artillery fire, including Kherson, Antonivka, Bilozerka, Chornobaivka, Beryslav and Stanislav. Four high-rise residential buildings, ten houses, a cultural institution, a public building, a filling station, a mobile phone mast and cars were damaged, Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, said.
Twelve people were injured on June 22. A 61-year-old resident of Kherson died in the hospital after being attacked by a Russian drone on June 21 in the city’s Dniprovskyi District of Kherson. Doctors attempted to save his life for several days but were unsuccessful.
Oleh Syniehubov, Head of Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration, reported that a 40-year-old man was killed in the village of Hrushivka in the Kupiansk District in the Kharkiv Oblast. Eight people were injured. In Kharkiv city, a 48-year-old woman was injured, while five women aged 32 to 57 and two men were injured in Bohodukhiv.
Aftermath of a Russian attack in the Kharkiv OblastRussian forces struck Kharkiv and 16 other settlements using missiles, Molniya drones, FPV drones and other types of weapons. Residential buildings, warehouses, industrial facilities, transport, a shop and a grain elevator were damaged.
Ivan Fedorov, head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, reported that seven people were injured in Russian attacks on the city of Zaporizhzhia and the Zaporizhzhia District. Fedorov said Russian forces conducted 1,050 strikes on 56 settlements in the oblast, using aircraft, artillery, multiple-launch rocket systems and hundreds of drones. Authorities reported 169 cases of damage to housing, cars and infrastructure.
According to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, the Nikopol, Synelnykove, Kamianske, and Dnipro Districts were also under attack. Russian forces used drones, artillery and guided aerial bombs.
A 60-year-old man was injured in the Bozhedarivka “hromada,” a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, in the Kamianske District.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Air Force has intercepted 118 out of 135 drones launched by Russia since the evening of 22 June, although some strikes have been recorded. As of the morning of 23 June, the attack is still ongoing. The drones were launched from the Russian cities of Oryol, Kursk, Bryansk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk and Millerovo.
Previously, ZMINA reported that Russian military strikes killed eight civilians in the Poltava, Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson regions on June 21, and injured at least 55 others, including in the Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions.
Speaking at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Mohammed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, said that the number of civilians killed and injured in Ukraine in May 2026 reached its highest level since April 2022, a UN official said, citing Russian aerial attacks.
As the news agency Ukrinform reported, Khiari said that, according to data from the UN Human Rights Office, at least 274 civilians were killed in Ukraine in May, with another 1,763 injured.
The UN succeded to confirme the deaths of 16,126 civilians, including 796 children. A further 46,590 civilians have been injured, including 2,835 children. Khiari said the actual figures are likely significantly higher, but the UN has been able to verify these numbers.
Yuri Ushakov, an aide to the Kremlin’s leader, Vladimir Putin, has stated in an interview with propagandist Pavel Zarubin that Moscow is seeking “victory” and the achievement of its own goals, rather than the fulfilment of the agreements reached during the meeting between Putin and Donald Trump in Anchorage.
Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
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