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Russian troops targeted Kremenchuk on June 27 with the same missiles that hit local shopping mall Amstor exactly a year ago, according to Poltava Oblast Governor Dmytro Lunin. The Kremenchuk shopping mall attack killed more than 20 people and injured 59.

Putin admits Russia fully funds Wagner Group. A Russian missile strike on the city of Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast killed four, including a child, and injured 42 others on the evening of June 27, the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.

Russian invasion forces dropped a chemical projectile on Ukrainian soldiers but with the wind blowing the chemicals back at them, a military spokesperson for the army in the Tauride sector, Valeriy Shershen, said on national television on June 25.

Ukrainian Defence Forces launched an offensive in several areas in the country's east late last week and had advanced by 1-2 kilometres as of the morning of 26 June. Source: Hanna Maliar, Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister, on Telegram Quote: "Our troops launched counteroffensive actions in the areas of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Bohdanivka, Yahidne, Klishchiivka and Kurdiumivka late last week.

Over the past day, Ukrainian defenders killed another 950 occupiers and destroyed a Russian tank, 14 armoured combat vehicles and 21 artillery systems. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Details: Total approximate losses of Russian troops between 24 February and 26 June 2023 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses - ed.

Ukraine’s armed forces advanced up to two kilometers in the east of the country by the end of last week, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar wrote on Telegram on June 26.

Sergei Shoigu has frequently been a target of complaints by Wagner Group's chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led an armed rebellion.

Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ), the Ukrainian railway operator, experienced instances of treason within its ranks during the early stages of the Russian invasion, with the Southern Melitopol directorate fully defecting to the Russian side, UZ head Yevhen Lyashchenko said in an interview with NV Business on June 20.

In a televised address on June 26, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that several Russian military pilots were killed during the recent mutiny led by the leader of Wagner Group private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Retired major general Mick Ryan told Insider that despite being exiled to Belarus after staging the coup, Prigozhin would still feel Putin's wrath.