Key Takeaways from the ISW:
- Russian forces conducted another devastating large-scale drone and missile strike series against Ukraine on the night of June 14 to 15, heavily targeting Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv cities.
- Russian forces continue to adapt their strike tactics to maximize damages.
- Russian strikes damaged significant cultural sites in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Kharkiv cities.
- The Russian information space is trying to deflect blame for the June 14 to 15 strikes by either blaming Ukraine for the damage or justifying the strikes as militarily necessary.
- Russia appears to be perpetuating sophisticated information operations that use artificial intelligence (AI)-generated footage of flag raisings to fabricate claims of Russian tactical successes in Kostyantynivka.
- Ukrainian officials continue to report that only about 100 to 150 Russian servicemembers have infiltrated into Kostyantynivka, however.
- Ukraine’s tactical situation in Kostyantynivka is deteriorating, but the Russian MoD is falsely framing the potential future seizure of Kostyantynivka as a harbinger of the immediate seizure of the entire Fortress Belt and the rest of Donetsk Oblast.
- Ukraine continues to express willingness for a leader-level meeting with Russia while the Kremlin demonstrates its continued pursuit of maximalist war aims and a total intransigence to negotiate.
- Russian forces recently advanced in northern Sumy Oblast.
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