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Here’s where things stand on Tuesday 10 June 2025:
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia launched 315 drones and seven missiles overnight on his country, calling on the United States to exercise its “power to force Russia into peace”.
- The war-torn country’s air force says the main target of the attack was the capital, Kyiv, adding that 284 drones and all the missiles were intercepted.
- At least two people were killed and several others injured in a drone attack on the southern port city of Odesa, according to Mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov.
- In Russia, officials say all airports serving Moscow and St Petersburg were temporarily shut down due to Ukraine’s overnight drone attacks that did not cause any damage.
Russia, Ukraine turn to long-range attacks amid ‘bloody stalemate on the ground’
Pavel Felgenhauer, a defence and Russian foreign policy analyst, has told Al Jazeera from Moscow that the memorandums published after two Istanbul talks held between Ukraine and Russia show that they are “miles apart” in their positions on how peace should be established.
“That means that there might be more meetings in Istanbul, but most likely they will be as fruitless as the previous ones at brokering a real peace,” he said.
“So, the war is actually picking up. Both sides are escalating and since there is basically a bloody stalemate on the ground, they are using long-range attacks. We can call it the war of the cities.”
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Ukraine-Russia swap sees POWs freed
Freed Ukrainian POWs – some held for over three years – have returned home visibly weakened and traumatised. Many had lost significant weight in captivity.
Families gathered in Chernihiv seeking news about loved ones still missing, with no word from military officials. Some relatives believe their husbands are still alive in Russian captivity despite months of silence.
This is the 66th prisoner swap since Russia’s full-scale invasion, with about 1,000 POWs expected to be exchanged.
Russia has agreed to return 6,000 Ukrainian military servicemen’s bodies, expecting Ukraine to reciprocate. The exchange is the main outcome of recent Istanbul talks, with the process set to continue for several days.
Ukraine claims to have intercepted two North Korean missiles
Two North Korean missiles were shot down by Ukrainian soldiers during a massive Russian attack on Kyiv overnight, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tykhyi.
“According to preliminary information, the two ballistic missiles used on the capital of Ukraine tonight were KN-23, North Korean ballistic missiles. They were shot down. This is preliminary information, what we have as of now from our military,” he said at a news conference in Kyiv.
The spokesman emphasised that these actions by the Russian Federation once again show how closely the security of Europe and the Indo-Pacific region is linked.
The Foreign Ministry emphasised that North Korea is actively helping Russia wage war against Ukraine and learn to conduct combat operations, improving its military capabilities.
“We call, first of all, to increase pressure not only on Moscow, but also on all its accomplices,” Tykhy added.
Photos: Kyiv residents take shelter in metro stations amid Russian drone attacks
Moscow claims to have targeted ‘military targets’ in Ukraine: Report
Russia’s Defence Ministry says its forces targeted “military targets” in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with “high-precision weapons and drones” overnight, according to the country’s TASS news agency.
Ukraine says the strikes hit civilian targets in various parts of the war-torn country. A maternity hospital and residential buildings were damaged in the centre of the southern port city of Odesa where at least two people were killed, according to local officials.
‘Curled up like a mouse’: Kyiv residents shelter in metro amid Russian attacks
Earlier today, plumes of smoke were visible in Kyiv as air defence forces worked to shoot down Russian drones and missiles, in what is being called one of the largest attack of the war.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian residents took shelter and slept in metro stations during the hours-long attack. Nina Nosivets, 32, and her eight-month-old son, Levko, were among them.
“I just try not to think about all this, silently curled up like a mouse, wait until it all passes, the attacks. Distract the child somehow because its probably the hardest thing for him to bear,” she told the AP news agency.
Krystyna Semak, a 37-year-old Kyiv resident, said the explosions frightened her and she ran to the metro at 2am local time (23:00 GMT) with her rug.
Putin set hold Security Council meeting on ‘traditional values’
The Kremlin says that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will hold a meeting of the powerful Security Council later today, which will focus on state policy on defending Russia’s “traditional values”.
The Security Council, an autonomous element of the Russian Presidential Administration, is the body responsible for formulating and executing security-related policies.
Moscow says it is still in talks with Kyiv over exchange of dead soldiers
Russia is still ready to return the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war and is in talks with Kyiv on the subject, the Kremlin says.
It said some of the bodies were still waiting inside refrigerated trucks for a handover.
Russia has previously said that the trucks, initially carrying more than 1,000 bodies, have been parked near an exchange point since at least Saturday for Ukraine to collect and has complained that Kyiv has not yet done so.
Such an exchange was agreed during the second round of direct peace talks in the Turkish city of Istanbul on June 2.
The Kremlin said it did not yet know exactly how many bodies of Russian soldiers Ukraine was ready to hand over.
Ukraine says Russia took nearly 20,000 children since 2022. Will they be returned?
Russian President Vladimir Putin faces criminal charges for the “unlawful deportation and transfer of children”.
That is the definition of the 2023 arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court, the intergovernmental tribunal based in The Hague.
On June 2, as ceasefire talks rumbled on, Ukrainian diplomats handed their Russian counterparts a list of hundreds of children that they said were taken from Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions since 2022.
The return of these children “could become the first test of the sincerity of [Russia’s] intentions” to reach a peace settlement, Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, told media. “The ball is in Russia’s corner.”
But Ukraine claims the number of children taken by Russia is much higher. Kyiv has so far identified 19,546 children who it says were forcibly taken from Russia-occupied Ukrainian regions since 2022.
Read more of this story here.
Russia continues to aid North Korea with weapons: Ukrainian millitary intelligence
North Korea is still supplying Russia with weapons, head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) has told The War Zone news outlet, according to the Interfax news agency.
According to Kirill Budanov, Moscow is also assisting Pyongyang with setting up the production of kamikaze drones.
Russia and Pyongyang have recently agreed to begin “creating facilities for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Harpy and Geran types [the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed-136 drones] on the territory of North Korea”, Budanov added.
“This will certainly lead to changes in the military balance in the region between North and South Korea,” he asserted.
In April, North Korea confirmed for the first time that it sent troops to Russia to support Moscow’s war against Ukraine, and that its forces had contributed to taking back Russian territory held by Ukraine’s military in the Kursk region.
At least four people injured in Russian attacks on Kharkiv region
The Russian army has shelled eight settlements in the Kharkiv region over the past 24 hours, using missiles, precision-guided bombs, and UAVs of various types, according to Kharkiv Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
The Kharkiv region is located in the country’s northeast and is home to Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv.
“A 63-year-old man was injured as a result of shelling in the city of Kupiansk; a 56-year-old man was injured in the city of Derhachi,” Syniehubov wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to him, two more men (58 and 26 years old) were injured as a result of an explosion at an unknown object in the village of Tsyrkuny.
Russia briefly halts flights in four airports due to Ukrainian drone attack
Russia’s Defence Ministry reports that its forces have downed 102 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and occupied Crimea, without specifying the total number of drones launched by Ukraine.
The drones were downed both over regions on the border with Ukraine and deeper inside Russia, including central Moscow and Leningrad regions, according to the Defence Ministry’s statement.
Because of the drone attack, flights were temporarily restricted in and out of multiple airports across Russia, including all four airports in Moscow and the Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg, the country’s second largest city.
Kyiv main target in Russia’s overnight attack: Ukraine air force
Ukraine’s air force reports that Ukraine’s capital was the “main direction” target of Russia’s overnight attack, which saw a reported 315 drone attacks and seven missiles launched at Ukraine.
Plumes of smoke were visible in Kyiv as air defence forces worked to shoot down drones and missiles this morning.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said four people were injured in the attack.
Fires broke out in at least four districts after debris from shot-down drones fell on the roofs of residential buildings and warehouses, according to Kyiv’s municipal military administration.
Two people killed in Odesa, says regional head
A maternity hospital and residential buildings in the centre of the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa were damaged in the attack, regional head Oleh Kiper has said.
Two people were killed and nine injured in the city, according to a statement from the regional prosecutor’s office.
Russia’s attack ‘one of the biggest’ in the war: Zelenskyy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said in an online statement that Russia’s overnight attack was “one of the biggest” in the war, saying Moscow’s forces fired over 315 drones, mostly Shaheds, and seven missiles at Ukraine overnight.
“Russian missile and Shahed strikes are louder than the efforts of the United States and others around the world to force Russia into peace,” Zelenskyy said, urging “concrete action” from the US and Europe in response to the attack.
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