Overview
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed Tuesday that Ukrainian forces struck the Dubna Space Communications Center again as part of a campaign to hit Russian military communications and reconnaissance nodes.
- The Dubna facility is a large RSSC ground station that links terrestrial networks to satellites and, according to Ukraine's General Staff, suffered prior damage to a 32‑metre MARK‑IV antenna and the main control building in a June 22 strike.
- Russian authorities reported an overnight drone incident in Yegoryevsk that they say killed a six‑month‑old and injured others, and Moscow mobilized large air‑defence activations claiming hundreds of drone interceptions.
- The European Commission released €3.9 billion on June 30 to fund Ukrainian drone procurement, a move that will expand Kyiv's strike capacity and raises concerns about a wider escalation in the conflict.
- The strikes form part of a broader Ukrainian push against deep Russian energy, logistics and command nodes that has strained Russian fuel supplies, forced redeployment of air defenses, and coincided with Kyiv's detention of a former Russian‑installed Crimean energy official.