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Ukraine said its forces struck Russia’s Dubna satellite communications center in the Moscow region. Russia’s TASS later reported the site faced a massive drone attack but that television broadcasting and communications were not affected and no staff were injured as authorities addressed the aftermath.
Four people were killed and 28 wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea, with fuel stations halted for the public and supplies restricted to government agencies; separately, a Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Krasnodar region killed one person on a ferry and set an oil terminal ablaze. Russia said 239 Ukrainian drones were shot down overnight, and outages, plus suspended ferry traffic across the Kerch Strait and a nine-hour halt to Crimea–Russia bridge traffic, disrupted energy and transport as holiday-season pressures mounted.
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and sparked a fire at the Temryuk sea terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar region, part of overnight strikes that also hit the Tamanneftegaz oil and gas terminal and an oil-processing facility in Volgograd region, highlighting persistent damage to Russia’s energy infrastructure as peace talks stall.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published an open letter to Vladimir Putin proposing a direct meeting to negotiate an end to more than four years of war, arguing that most Russians want peace and advocating a full ceasefire during negotiations; he urged setting a date and suggested Switzerland, Turkey, or Arab nations could host, while warning Kyiv will continue fighting if Moscow refuses; the Kremlin said Putin would be briefed on the proposal.
Ukraine said its forces hit Russia's Sheskharis oil terminal and the nearby Grushova depot in the Black Sea, sparking a fire, and reported damage to a tanker Chrysalis; Kyiv has escalated strikes on Russian oil refining and transport facilities to cut Moscow's war revenues. Kyiv-linked drone forces said they attacked 13 major Russian oil facilities in May, and claimed six of Russia's 10 largest refineries had halted crude processing, though Reuters could not verify all claims. Zelenskiy also cited a drone strike on Metafrax Chemical in the Perm region, and Brovdi said Ukrainian drones hit a Russian frigate and a hovercraft near Novorossiysk; the extent of damage remained unknown.