🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Brief - Russian strikes killed at least 265 civilians in Ukraine in June: UN - Russia subjecting 1.6 mln Ukrainian kids to military brainwashing: OSCE - Russia's Saratov oil refinery at a halt since Wed.'s drone attack - Ukraine hits more Russian fuel tankers as Crimea campaign intensifies 1/2

🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian forces are intensifying strikes against Russian fuel tankers as #Russia increasingly relies on seaborne transportation of gasoline to occupied #Crimea from Russia. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russia’s refusal or inability to address the gaps in its rear air defense umbrella has led to the current issues #Russia is facing, such as repeated Ukrainian strikes on major cities and the wide-scale gasoline shortages in Russia and occupied #Ukraine understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces are taking advantage of Ukraine’s depleted stocks of anti-ballistic missile interceptors to maximize the destructive potential of their strike packages. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW Special Report: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine’s strike campaigns against Russian oil infrastructure and logistics in #Russia will likely continue to degrade Russia’s struggling wartime economy and will have growing consequences for Russia’s frontline operations. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 #Russia continues to face mounting manpower allocation challenges as it struggles to build out a robust air defense umbrella to defend Russia’s vast rear. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian technological adaptations and strike package innovations continue to lead to increasing amounts of civilian harm. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia #ukraine #russianwarcrimes

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces have made and continue to make tactical gains in Kostyantynivka — Russia’s assessed main effort for the spring-summer 2026 offensive — during June 2026. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine

ISW: 🇷🇺 #Putin is tolerating milblogger criticisms of the strikes and gasoline issues because he is trying to promote the idea that such hardships are necessary to endure in order to achieve Russia’s inevitable battlefield victory. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 The Russian military command likely continues to generate new formations on paper, but it remains unclear how or if #Russia will be able to staff these formations to doctrinal endstrength. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺🇧🇾 The Kremlin may attempt to invoke the Union State collective security treaty in an attempt to draw #Belarus into the war so that #Russia can leverage Belarusian manpower and training resources. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 Russian authorities have reportedly been trying to strengthen air defenses covering #Moscow City in recent weeks, including possibly at the expense of frontline areas. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Kerch Strait strikes are part of an ongoing systematic Ukrainian campaign to deny Russian forces the use of the main ground lines of communication to occupied #Crimea via occupied southern #Ukraine understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Repeated Ukrainian strikes against heavily defended Russian deep rear areas like #Moscow City continue to expose Russia’s weaknesses and inability to defend its domestic populace. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Ukraine’s tactical situation in Kostyantynivka is deteriorating, but the Russian MoD is falsely framing the potential future seizure of Kostyantynivka as a harbinger of the immediate seizure of the entire Fortress Belt and the rest of Donetsk Oblast. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 Available information suggests that Russia’s monthly missile production surpasses the US’s monthly PAC-3 Patriot air defense interceptor missile production. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian sources released several pieces of footage showing Russian forces operating in Kostyantynivka as part of a deliberate cognitive warfare effort to exaggerate the Russian presence in the city. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia #ukraine

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Continued Ukrainian strikes against Russian ground lines of communication will likely have cascading battlefield effects and may complicate Russian preparations for offensive operations. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #ukraine #russia

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces will likely make tactical gains in Kostyantynivka in Summer 2026 but are unlikely to make operational gains against the Fortress Belt writ large. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia #ukraine

🙃 Russia's Finance Ministry does not consider the country's widening budget deficit a crisis despite the shortfall surpassing 6 trillion rubles ($83.5 billion) in the first five months of the year, Deputy Finance Minister Irina Okladnikova said Wednesday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/06/10/r...

🇷🇺 The Russian military command reportedly prohibited military cargo traffic along Russia’s main highway connecting mainland #Russia to #Crimea due to Ukrainian strikes. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine’s successful intermediate and long-range strike campaigns are generating discontent and panic in the Russian milblogger community. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Different sources continue to conclude that the Russian military’s performance is declining, despite utilizing differing mapping methodologies to visualize the battlefield situation. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia #ukraine

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian officials, including Putin, are again leaning on the lack of clear information about the August 2025 Alaska Summit to falsely portray #Russia as willing to negotiate with #Ukraine understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia’s declining gains appear to be unrelated to the seasonal weather shifts that traditionally hinder advances, but is likely the result of more comprehensive battlefield shifts in 2026. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #Ukraine

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine’s mid-range strike campaign against Russian ground lines of communication is disrupting Russian logistics across the theater, from occupied Luhansk Oblast to Crimea. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Putin has likely developed a false perception of the Russian military’s successes in #Ukraine based on heavily exaggerated maps from the Russian high military command. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia

ISW: 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine’s successful mid-range and frontline drone strike campaigns are limiting Russia’s ability to transport personnel to the frontline and to supply and sustain frontline positions. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺🇧🇾 #Russia and Belarus appear to be setting conditions to justify Russia launching drone strikes at #Ukraine from Belarus. understandingwar.org/research/rus...

ISW: 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian nationalist milbloggers dismissed the May 24 strikes as mostly symbolic and noted that the strikes come amidst Russian failures on the battlefield. understandingwar.org/research/rus... #russia #ukraine