Overview
- At the two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk on 25–26 June roughly 160 agreements worth more than €10 billion were signed and the EU transferred a first €3.2 billion macro-financial tranche.
- Ukraine’s finance minister said available international instruments will cover the 2026 budget but warned that financing for 2027 remains unsecured and urged partners to move on using frozen Russian sovereign assets to help fund rebuilding.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian long-range strikes hit two refineries in Ufa and an oil depot in Krasnodar Krai on the night of 25 June, citing those operations as part of a campaign to degrade Russian logistics.
- Kyiv reported that retransmitters in Belarus used to help guide Russian Shahed drones stopped operating from 22 June, while Ukrainian intelligence says Belarus is finishing roads and ammunition and fuel storage near the border that Kyiv views as a potential threat.
- Ukraine is reporting high-intensity combat at the front, with the General Staff recording 257 engagements in a single day, and the military is expanding layered northern defenses using engineering work and robotic unmanned systems to protect towns and supply routes.