Overview
- A large Russian missile-and-drone strike on the night of 2 June caused civilian deaths and injuries in Kyiv and other regions with official casualty counts differing between city and national leaders.
- Ukraine's air forces reported dozens of rockets and hundreds of attack drones were launched during the barrage and said a large share were intercepted by air-defence units.
- Fighting on the ground has remained intense with the General Staff reporting well over 200 combat engagements across the front and naming the Pokrovsk and Huliaipole directions as the hottest sectors.
- Ukrainian officials publicly confirmed long‑range strikes inside Russia that were later corroborated by independent satellite images showing damage at a St. Petersburg oil terminal, a damaged corvette at Kronstadt and a fire at a Tambov‑region industrial site.
- Kyiv warned of a real threat from Belarus, is deploying counter‑drone experts to Baltic states and Romania, and continues domestic anti‑corruption prosecutions even as the conflict and cross‑border tensions rise.