Henrietta Derman In June 2026, the Vorkuta authorities, at the request of participants in the invasion of Ukraine, dismantled a memorial sign at the Yur-Shor camp cemetery, the place where executed participants of the famous Vorkuta uprising of 1953 were buried. The formal reason for the demolition was the names of Ukrainian prisoners on the slab and national symbols.

The Samara region is regularly attacked by Ukrainian drones. The organizers of the youth electronic music festival Hydrostroyfest, which takes place annually in Tolyatti, announced the cancellation of the event this year. “We choose the safety of our spectators. Today we are not ready to risk the safety of those who come to the festival. In difficult times, sometimes we have to make such a difficult decision. We all know what is happening now in our hometown.

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Mobile fire group training in the Perm region, May 2026 By June 2026, the geography of air threats in Russia had expanded significantly: regular attacks by Ukrainian UAVs on industrial and residential facilities in the Volga region - one and a half thousand kilometers from the front line - became commonplace. In Kazan, Perm, Cheboksary, Izhevsk, Samara and Saratov, once or twice a week they announce either a drone or a missile threat.

Raid in Penza

Collage: Zyuganov, Putin, Mironov Does the Kremlin draw any conclusions after the attacks on Kapotnya? Federal television channels ignored the drone attack on Moscow in their final news releases. On June 18, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched the largest attack on Moscow since the beginning of the war, the main target of which was the oil refinery in Kapotnya. Vladimir Zelensky calls on Vladimir Putin to stop the war - otherwise, according to him, the strikes will continue.

Smoke from a fire at the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya, June 18, 2026 After the Ukrainian attack on the Kapotnya oil refinery, many Muscovites seemed to really pay attention to the war for the first time. Their overwhelming feelings range from fear to bewilderment, and the most massive attack on Moscow during a full-scale war has generated a number of emotional posts on social networks - both from those who emigrated from Russia and from those who remain in it.

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with France 2 television that US President Donald Trump expressed his opinion on the war in Ukraine after the G7 summit, which took place from June 15 to 17 in Evian. "He came thinking that Ukraine would lose. But he changed his mind. He also saw that Russia was not fulfilling its commitments. There really was a change [of attitude] at this G7 summit," Macron said .

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Illustrative photo According to a source of the publication NeMoskva Speaks, panic begins in the city. On June 17, a resident of Penza published a video in which women are trying to fight off men at the gates of the military registration and enlistment office, writes Mediazona. The publication found out that the video was filmed near the military registration and enlistment office building in the Oktyabrsky and Zheleznodorozhny districts of Penza on Skladskaya Street.

Prime Minister of Hungary Peter Magyar Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar said that, on his initiative, the provision on the accelerated accession of Ukraine was excluded from the declaration of the EU summit in Brussels at the last moment.

In Penza and the region, police, together with employees of military registration and enlistment offices, organized mass raids on men, report “NeMoskva Speaks” , “Mediazona” , “Movement of Conscious Objectors” and the human rights project “Walk through the Forest” . Raids take place in Penza, Kamenka and Kuznetsk. The men are allegedly forced to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense to be sent to war against Ukraine.

Mass raids in Penza: city residents report that military registration and enlistment office employees are detaining men and forcing them to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. They publish videos on social networks and talk about tortured conditions in military registration and enlistment offices.