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1572nd day. Ukrainian drones attacked at least 14 regions of the Russian Federation. A multi-storey building in Orel was damaged. “Oil rain” fell in the Yaroslavl region. A chemical plant caught fire in the Tula region
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Russia and Ukraine
Ukrainian drones again attacked Russian regions. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 249 Ukrainian drones were shot down over 14 Russian regions, annexed Crimea and the Sea of Azov.
In the Yaroslavl region, drones hit industrial facilities where fuel was stored, and a fire started, said the head of the region, Mikhail Evraev. He did not specify what these objects were. There were no casualties. During the attack, authorities blocked traffic from Yaroslavl towards Moscow.
Journalists from the Russian publication Astra, after analyzing photos and videos from social networks, came to the conclusion that the target of the attack in the region was the Rosrezerv oil depot - the Temp plant, which is located in Rybinsk. Among other things, the plant stores fuel. Ukraine has already attacked this plant on December 31, 2025.
Thick smoke rises over Rybinsk; local residents, after the drone attack, said that there was “oil” rain in the city. After rain, a black film appeared on leaves and buildings in the SNT of the Rybinsk region near the village of Volkovo, 20 kilometers from Rybinsk itself.
In the Tula region, debris from downed drones fell on the territory of one of the industrial enterprises of Novomoskovsk, said Governor Dmitry Milyaev. He did not specify what kind of enterprise this was. No casualties were reported.
According to Astra and the Ukrainian monitoring telegram channel Exilenova+ , after an attack by Ukrainian drones, a fire occurred at the Azot chemical plant. Ukraine has already attacked this plant, the last time on June 8 . The plant’s website states that Azot is the largest domestic producer of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizers. Nitric acid is used in the production of explosives.
In the Oryol region , according to Governor Andrei Klychkov, “the night turned out to be restless.” In Oryol, according to authorities, a Ukrainian drone hit a multi-storey residential building. As journalists established, we are talking about the Green Island residential complex. Fires started on several floors. As a result, one person was killed and eight more were injured. Residents of damaged apartments were resettled in hotels.
In Vyazma, Smolensk region, debris from a Ukrainian drone fell on a private residential building, Governor Vasily Anokhin said. There was a fire there. The injured local resident was taken to the hospital. The Russian-appointed head of annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, reported that a local resident was killed in a drone attack in the city of Saki.
In addition, late in the evening of June 13, the Russian-appointed governor of the annexed Zaporozhye region, Yevgeny Balitsky, announced that energy facilities in the region were damaged as a result of Ukrainian attacks. The region was partially left without power supply.
In the Kherson region annexed by the Russian Federation, all 14 municipalities were left without electricity, the Khersonenergo company reported. The reason for the outages was called “technological disruptions in the energy system of the Zaporozhye region.”
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky confirmed attacks on enterprises in the Tula and Yaroslavl regions. At the same time, he emphasized that Ukraine attacked targets more than 700 kilometers from the border.
“Ukraine is implementing the long-range sanctions plan against Russia and the assigned tasks of conducting medium-range strikes in response to Russia’s refusal to end this war. We offered the Russian leadership all possible formats for negotiations, but the answer was only a continuation of aggression and attempts to expand it. It is logical that the war returns to where it came from. Ukraine needs peace,” Zelensky added.
The leader of Ukraine also recalled that the Russian military, in turn, inflicts hundreds of strikes on Ukrainian cities and other populated areas. According to him, over the past week alone, “the Russians launched 1,920 attack drones, 1,790 guided bombs and 17 missiles of various types into Ukraine.” He promised to discuss strengthening protection against shelling and attacks at the G7 summit, which will be held in France from June 15 to 17, 2026.
According to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russian troops launched 98 drones of various types across Ukraine on the night of June 14. The Ukrainian military managed to shoot down 91 drones, including the Shahed attack drones. Authorities in Ukrainian regions reported Russian drone strikes in Nikolaev , Dnepropetrovsk , Zaporozhye and other regions. In particular, transport and energy infrastructure came under attack in Nikolaev .
War in photographs. Russian troops dropped aerial bombs on Vasilyevka
On June 13, the Russian military struck the village of Vasilyevka in the Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine, using 12 guided bombs, local authorities said . The main blow fell on the territory of the local market, there was a fire there. Shops were damaged and a multi-storey residential building was partially destroyed. Nine people were injured, six of them remain in hospitals.
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Eva (Russia). The war changed and broke something in me. In the first months after February 24, 2022, I looked at my colleagues, my relatives and friends and did not understand where so much anger and cruelty suddenly came from in them. My hopes for a decent future were replaced by despair, shame, bitterness and helplessness.
There was only one person in my circle who in the same way considered this war to be an inhuman crime of a distraught old man - it was my grandfather, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. We tried not to talk too much about the details of what was happening in front of him. He reacted violently to every news: he cried bitterly, became very angry and repeated: “Why?”
Every day of my life, he taught me to know the value of peace, human life and never allow the thought that war could be good. In our city, he was the last person to survive the Second World War. In 2023, his place in the victory parade was given to a returning “hero” criminal. Apparently, he could not stand this, and very soon he was gone.
Every day I felt hard, scared and hurt for everyone into whose home the tyranny of the Russian authorities came. I can't stand to see people who still believe a bunch of crooks in the government, rejoice in human death and don't even know what's happening right now in the neighboring country. I would like to say one thing: “People, wake up!!!”