History: June 2025
11 articles
Retrospective · events of 1 June 2025
472 drones and seven missiles: Russia's record attack on Ukraine
Opinion
A retrospective on a day that combined a record Russian drone barrage, a deadly strike on a training camp and a Ukrainian operation deep inside Russia.
Retrospective · events of 2 June 2025
Istanbul talks came after a day of strikes
Security
A retrospective on 2 June 2025, when negotiators agreed a prisoner exchange one day after Operation Spider's Web, a record drone barrage and a deadly strike on a training camp.
Retrospective · events of 4 June 2025
What the Istanbul talks produced on 4 June 2025
Security
A look back at a prisoner exchange agreement and an exchange of ceasefire proposals between Russia and Ukraine.
Retrospective · events of 16 June 2025
What Russian drone strikes had done by 16 June 2025
Security
A look back at the drone attacks on Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa in the days before 16 June 2025.
Retrospective · events of 18 June 2025
What the 17 June strikes on Kyiv showed
Security
A look back at the scale of the overnight assault on the Ukrainian capital and Russia's claim of its own air-defence successes.
Retrospective · events of 19 June 2025
Can dual citizenship ease Ukraine's demographic strain?
Opinion
A retrospective on the days around 19 June 2025, when Ukraine's parliament moved on multiple citizenship as Russian strikes on Kyiv continued to kill civilians.
Retrospective · events of 23 June 2025
Kyiv under fire as NATO announces €35bn aid
Security
A retrospective on 23 June 2025, when a large Russian strike hit the Ukrainian capital and a major European and Canadian aid package was announced.
Retrospective · events of 25 June 2025
A tribunal signed as the strikes continued
Opinion
On 25 June 2025, Ukraine's president put his name to a deal on a special tribunal, days after deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv and Dnipro.
Retrospective · events of 28 June 2025
Iskander strike on Dnipro leaves 19 dead and 300 injured
Security
A look back at the Russian attacks on Kyiv and Dnipro and the NATO-announced aid package in the days before 28 June 2025.
Retrospective · events of 30 June 2025
What did the final days of June 2025 bring?
Security
A look back at two Russian strikes that hit Ukrainian cities in the last week of June 2025.
Retrospective · events of 30 June 2025
What the 29 June 2025 air attack showed
Security
A look back at the Russian strike that Ukraine described as the largest air attack of the war, and the infrastructure campaign behind it.