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What the late-June 2025 strikes meant for Ukraine
Summary
A look back at the Russian attacks on Kyiv and Dnipro and the NATO-announced aid package in the days before 28 June 2025.
What had the final week of June 2025 shown about the pressure on Ukrainian cities? By 28 June 2025, the preceding days had brought two deadly Russian strikes and one major announcement of foreign support.
On 23 June, Russian forces launched a large-scale drone and missile strike on Kyiv. It damaged residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure, killing nine people and injuring at least 33 others.
On 24 June, an Iskander missile strike hit Dnipro, killing at least 19 people and injuring 300. In the same attack period, a Russian air attack on Samar, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, killed two civilians and injured nine.
Support announced alongside the attacks
On 23 June, the same day as the Kyiv strike, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte announced that European countries and Canada would send Ukraine a combined aid package of €35 billion (US$40.3 billion).
What the sequence showed
The reported facts place these events within two days of each other. Civilian areas, including hospitals and homes in Kyiv, were damaged, and the casualty figures in Dnipro were far higher than those in the capital. The aid announcement came from European countries and Canada, not from a single state.
The figures from this period, nine dead in Kyiv, at least 19 in Dnipro and 300 injured in that single missile strike, give a measure of what the strikes cost in the days before 28 June 2025.
