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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 10 June 2025:

Fighting

• Russia launched large drone attacks on Kyiv and the southern port of Odesa on Tuesday morning, regional authorities said.
• Timur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, said that several districts of the capital were being attacked simultaneously, resulting in damage to buildings and fires.
• Oleh Kiper, the governor of the Odesa region, said on Telegram that a “massive” drone attack struck an emergency medical building, a maternity ward and residential buildings. Kiper said that a 59-year-old man was killed and four others injured in the attack on residential buildings, but there were no casualties at the maternity ward.
• Russian air defence systems destroyed 76 Ukrainian drones over a two-hour period on Monday, Russian media outlets reported.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces “continued to advance into the depths of the enemy’s defence” in Ukraine’s east-central region of Dnipropetrovsk and taken control of more territory.

Diplomacy

• Russia and Ukraine on Monday carried out an exchange of prisoners of war aged under 25. The exchange followed talks between the sides earlier this month in Istanbul.

Transportation

• Russia’s civil aviation authority said early on Tuesday that it had temporarily suspended flights at all four major airports serving Moscow in response to Ukrainian drone attacks.

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One dead in Russian strike on Odesa, officials say

Russia has launched a “massive” drone attack on the capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, while a maternity ward in Odesa has also been targeted.

The Odesa drone attack hit medical facilities and residential buildings, killing a 59-year-old man and injuring four, Governer Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.

In the capital, emergency services were called to four districts a couple ofhours after midnight on Tuesday, Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app.

The latest attacks come after Russia’s biggest drone strike on Ukraine on Monday. Moscow said that strike was a retaliatory measure for Ukraine’s recent attacks inside Russia.

After a covert Ukrainian drone strike named “Operation Spider’s Web” struck air bases deep inside Russia on 1 June, US President Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin. Trump said the Russian president had promised to respond “very strongly” to the attacks.

Air raid alerts were in place across large parts of Ukraine during the attack early on Tuesday, the country’s official air raid map showed, including the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions in the east.

“Stay in shelters! The massive attack on the capital continues,” Kyiv MayorKlitschko warned on Telegram.

The head of Kyiv’s military administration Timur Tkachenko said on Telegram that the attacks on various districts happened “simultaneously”.

Debris from “downed targets” fell on several different buildings across the city and fires broke out at a residential building and in warehouses, he added.

In Odesa, Governer Kiper said patients and staff managed to evacuate the medical station and maternity ward that were targeted, while ambulances were damaged.

Those that were injured were receiving medical assistance, he added.

The 59-year-old who was killed has not been publicly identified.

This attack follows the start of a prisoner swap on Monday that will see sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war, those under the age of 25 and the bodies of 12,000 soldiers returned.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would unfold “in several stages”, describing it as a “complicated” process with “many sensitive details”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Families of missing Ukrainians gather as prisoner exchange begins

Families of missing Ukrainians gather as prisoner exchange begins

The families of missing Ukrainian soldiers gathered close to the border with Belarus on Monday, as a planned prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine took place.

As the bus carrying prisoners of war arrived, a crowd of relatives surged forward, many brandishing photos of missing fathers, brothers and sons.

Faces were filled with apprehension. Few expected to be reunited, and most were just desperate for information after waiting years for any news.

During the latest round of direct talks in Turkey last week, the two warring sides agreed to exchange sick and heavily wounded prisoners of war, those aged under 25, and the bodies of 12,000 soldiers.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said the exchange would unfold “in several stages” over the coming days.

Writing on Telegram, he said: “The process is quite complicated, there are many sensitive details, negotiations continue virtually every day.”

Russia’s defence ministry said “the first group of Russian servicemen under the age of 25 were returned from the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime” and that a “similar number” had been returned to Ukraine. Neither side provided an exact figure of how many people had been exchanged.

As with past exchanges, Moscow said the repatriated Russian soldiers were receiving psychological and medical assistance in Belarus.

Officials in Kyiv said some of the Ukrainian prisoners who returned on Monday had been in Russian captivity since the beginning of the war.

Tetiana, who had gathered with other Ukrainians in the Chernihiv region close to Belarus, carried a cardboard sign with photos of her father, Valentyn, and cousin, Mykola, both still missing.

“When my father went to fight, my biggest fear was that he would go missing,” she said, her eyes filling with tears. “I hoped maybe he’d be wounded and come back.”

The war has exacted a heavy toll on the family. Tetiana’s uncle was killed last September, but his body was only recently returned for burial.

When one of the returned prisoners appeared at an upstairs window, women waiting below hurled the names of regiments at him, hoping he might have news.

He apologised, made a heart sign with his hands and called out “slava Ukraini” – glory to Ukraine. “Heroiam Slava” – glory to the heroes – the crowd replied in unison.

Glimpsed briefly through the crowd as they were escorted inside, some of the soldiers looked gaunt.

“They spent a lot of time in Russian places of detention, without any visits of International Red Cross,” Petro Yatsenko, of Ukraine’s Coordination HQ for prisoners of war, told the BBC.

“Their health conditions are very poor. They have not had sufficient food. Of course they need a long period of rehabilitation.”

But 23-year-old Valera, back on home soil after three years and three months of captivity, seemed happy enough after a bowl of Ukrainian soup.

As he turned to leave, women pressed forward, pushing pictures of the missing into his arms, hoping he might recognise someone.

Last week, Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of disrupting the planned repatriation of the bodies of dead soldiers.

Russia said that the bodies of more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been taken to an agreed exchange point but that Ukrainian officials had never arrived. Ukraine accused Moscow of “playing dirty games” and alleged that Russia was not sticking to the agreed parameters of the swap.

In late May, Russia and Ukraine each handed over 390 soldiers and civilians in the biggest prisoner exchange since Russia launched the full-scale invasion in 2022.

Meanwhile, war continued overnight, with Moscow launching a record 479 drones at Ukraine, including in the western region of Rivne that had been largely spared from attacks.

Russia’s defence ministry said it had targeted Rivne’s Dubno base and described this as “one of the retaliatory strikes” in response to Ukraine’s audacious drone attacks on Russian airfields on 1 June.

The overnight Russian launches caused damage in several Ukrainian regions but there were no reports of casualties.

Russia has recently escalated its attacks on Ukraine, with each week bringing a new record of drones fired at the country.

For its part, Kyiv said it attacked another Russian airbase in the Nizhny Novgorod region, which lies 400 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Ukraine said the base houses planes that launch hypersonic missiles and that it had damaged “two units of enemy aircraft”.

It also targeted an electronics factory that Kyiv says manufactures equipment to guide drones and aerial bombs.

Video shows one of the explosions caused by an attack drone, and a large fire at the plant. Production there has been suspended.