Overview
- Ukrainian forces carried out long‑range and drone strikes on the night of 28 June that Kyiv says hit two Russian refineries in Slavyansk‑na‑Kubani and Yaroslavl, workshops at the Titan‑Barikady plant in Volgograd, a railway bridge in Ichok in occupied Crimea and an ammunition depot near Amvrosiivka with fires still burning at the Slavyansk‑na‑Kubani site.
- Ground combat intensified with Ukrainian reports of as many as 249 engagements on 28 June and persistent heavy fighting concentrated on the Pokrovsk, Huliaipole and Sloviansk directions.
- Russian attacks on Ukrainian population centers continued to cause civilian deaths and injuries, including a reported rocket strike on Dnipro that killed five people and dozens wounded and a drone strike on a Zaporizhzhia bus that killed and injured civilians.
- Ukraine's Security Service said it arrested two alleged Russian agents who planned to plant an explosive under a military officer's car near Maidan and seized a GPS tracker and explosive materials during the operation.
- The campaign reflects a Ukrainian push to disrupt Russian sustainment by targeting fuel, transport and communications nodes using missiles and drones, a strategy that analysts say can strain Russian supply lines but also risks wider civilian infrastructure outages and remains partially constrained by limited independent verification.