In Venezuela on Wednesday evening local time, two powerful earthquakes occurred, which led to numerous casualties and destruction. The first earthquake of magnitude 7.2, whose epicenter was 160 km west of Caracas, was followed a minute later by an even more destructive earthquake of magnitude 7.5. According to the latest government data, 32 people were killed, at least 700 were injured, and thousands were left homeless.

On the night of June 25, Russian troops launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile and 90 attack drones into Ukraine, of which the Ukrainian military shot down 83 drones. This was reported by the press service of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces; there is no independent data. In particular, gas stations in a number of regions came under attack. Sumy region Acting Mayor of Sumy Artem Kobzar said that at about 06:00 a drone hit a gas station in the Zarechny district of the city.

In Venezuela on the evening of June 25, local time, two powerful earthquakes occurred, which led to numerous casualties and destruction. The first earthquake of magnitude 7.2, whose epicenter was 160 kilometers west of Caracas, was followed a minute later by an even more destructive earthquake of magnitude 7.5. According to the latest government data, 32 people were killed, at least 700 were injured, and thousands were left homeless.

In Belarus, former soldier of the Kalinovsky regiment Vasily Veremeychik, sentenced to 13 years in prison, was placed in a PKT - a cell-type room. His wife Evgenia told Nasha Niva about this. Veremeychik was detained on November 13, 2024 in Vietnam, and the very next day he was taken to Minsk. In December 2025, he was convicted under 12 articles of the Criminal Code, including participation in a criminal organization, actions to seize power and insulting Alexander Lukashenko.

In Sochi, a 60-year-old local resident was fined 50 thousand rubles under an article about “discrediting” the Russian army. According to the police, the man wrote anti-war and insulting inscriptions against the Russian military on banknotes, and then deposited them through ATMs. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Krasnodar Territory reported the man’s arrest. The department claims that damaged banknotes regularly appeared in ATMs in Sochi, Tuapse and Gelendzhik.

The Citizen Lab research organization has established that the FSB hacked the iPhone of former Open Russia director Andrei Pivovarov using a product from the Israeli company Cellebrite. The politician himself spoke about this.

On June 25, the European Union will transfer to Ukraine the first tranche in the amount of 3.2 billion euros from a previously approved loan of 90 billion euros. The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced this at a conference in Gdansk, Poland. Also, according to her, funds will soon begin to be transferred to Ukraine from another aid package, worth 6 billion euros, intended for the production of drones.

On the night of June 25, Ukrainian drones again massively attacked energy facilities in the annexed Crimea, in particular in Simferopol. In Yalta and a number of other settlements, according to Supernova+, after the attacks there was a power outage. According to a number of reports , the Tavricheskaya Thermal Power Plant near Simferopol was attacked.

On the night of June 25, the Krasnodar region again found itself under attack by drones. In the village of Poltavskaya, Krasnoarmeisky district, after the fall of UAV debris, an oil depot caught fire, and in the Abinsk region, fragments of drones were found at several addresses at once. According to the regional operational headquarters, the fire on the territory of the oil depot in Poltavskaya began due to the fall of debris from a drone. Preliminarily, there were no casualties.

The United States removed seven Russian citizens and two cargo ships from the sanctions list. This was reported on the website of the American Ministry of Finance. Sanctions were lifted from Ivan Potanin, the son of billionaire and one of the main owners of Nornickel Vladimir Potanin, member of the supervisory board of Sovcombank Mikhail Klyukin and Maxim Smirnov, as well as Russian dry cargo ships Vyacheslav Arshinov and Gennady Egorov.