Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 251 combat engagements on June 23, with the Pokrovsk sector seeing the heaviest fighting where defenders repelled 44 Russian attacks.
- Starting the evening of June 23, Ukraine reported Russia launched 101 combat drones from directions including Orel, Kursk and occupied Donetsk.
- As of 08:30 on June 24, preliminary Ukrainian Air Force data said air-defense forces shot down or neutralized 95 of the 101 drones while six drones struck five locations and debris fell at six sites.
- Ukrainian officials credited aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare, unmanned systems and mobile fire groups for the defence, though local damage included an industrial facility in Poltava.
- The concentrated use of kamikaze drones, missiles and heavy shelling shows a continued multi-domain Russian tactic that will keep Ukraine’s air-defence and frontline units at high tempo and raise risks to civilians and infrastructure.