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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,221: Australian-donated to UKR, M1A1 AIM Abrams tanks, just arrived in Poland [1]

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Date: 2025-06-27

1/ Leaked Russian Navy documents indicate that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is keeping several unseaworthy vessels in active service, as part of a scam by senior officers to skim off the large sums of money being allocated to their indefinite repairs. ⬇️ [image or embed]

The Russians filmed the first confirmed evidence that Ukraine has been deploying their Peklo drone "cruise missile" with a range of 700 km and speed of about 600 kmh. - ukr_informant Channel

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched two Kh47M2 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missiles from airspace over Ryazan Oblast, six Kalibr cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea, and 363 Shahed and decoy drones from the directions of Bryansk, Oryol, and Kursk cities; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai .[90] The Ukrainian Air Forces reported that Ukrainian forces downed six Kalibr cruise missiles and 211 drones and that 148 drones were ”lost” or suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) systems. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian strikes primarily targeted Starokostyantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast. Ukrainian officials reported that the Russian strikes targeted Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kyiv, and Kherson oblasts and damaged civilian and energy infrastructure in Kherson, Kyiv, and Kharkiv oblasts.[91]

Russian forces conducted a series of drone and missile strikes against Ukraine on the night of June 26 to 27.

**General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine**

*Operational information as of 22:00 27.06.2025 on the Russian invasion*

Since the beginning of the day, 117 combat clashes have taken place, the enemy has launched four missile and thirty-three air strikes against the positions of our troops and settlements, using twelve missiles and forty-nine guided aerial bombs.

There were 1375 enemy strikes by kamikaze drones, and 3875 artillery attacks were carried out.

- Seventeen combat engagements took place today in the North Slobozhansky and Kursk sectors, three of which are still ongoing. The enemy made 323 artillery attacks, including two from multiple launch rocket systems; conducted twelve air strikes, dropping twenty-two guided bombs.

- Ukrainian troops repelled five attacks in the South Slobozhansky sector near Vovchansk, Figolivka, and in the direction of Petro-Ivanivka and Dovhenke.

- In the Kupyansk sector, the enemy tried to advance five times on our defensive positions in the areas of Pishchane, Kindrashivka, and in the direction of Novoplatonivka and Petropavlivka. The defense forces stopped two enemy attacks, and three more clashes are still ongoing.

- The enemy attacked seventeen times in the Liman sector, trying to advance in the areas of Lypove, Shyikivka, Novosergiyivka, Ridkodub, Torske and in the directions of Hlushchenkove, Hrekivka, Shandryholove and Novyi Myr. One firefight is still ongoing.

- In the Siversky sector, our defenders successfully stopped two enemy attacks near Ivan-Daryivka.

- In the Kramatorsk sector, the invader's troops attacked five times near Markove, Predtechyno and in the direction of Bila Hora.

- The enemy tried seventeen times to break into our defense in the Toretsk sector towards Yablunivka, Diliyivka, Pleshchiyivka, Oleksandr-Kalynove, Rusyn Yar, near Shcherbynivka and Novospaske.

The enemy is intensively attacking Ukrainian defenders in the Pokrovske sector. The aggressor made 53 assault and offensive attacks there during the day. Russian occupants were highly active in the areas of Malynivka, Myroliubivka, Promin, Novosergiivka, Udachne, Novomykolaivka, Troitske and in the directions of Volodymyrivka, Myrnohrad, Serhiivka, Novopidhorodne, Poltavka, Oleksiivka, Myrne, Novopavlivka. One firefight is still ongoing. The settlements of Poltavka, Popov Yar, Pokrovsk, Horikhove and Myrnohrad were hit by Russian guided aerial bombs. ,

According to preliminary estimates, Ukrainian troops have neutralized 104 occupants in this area today, 63 of them irrevocably. Ukrainian troops also destroyed nine vehicles, seven motorcycles and four unmanned aerial vehicles.

In the Novopavlivka sector, our defenders stopped ten attacks in the vicinity of Shevchenko, Fedorivka and in the direction of Zaporizhzhia, Myrne, Perestroika, Yalta and Komar, and six more engagements remain incomplete. ,

The enemy did not conduct any offensive actions in the Huliaipil sector. ,

With the support of aviation in the Orikhiv sector, the enemy attacked the positions of the Defense Forces near Kamianske three times without success. ,

In the Prydniprovskyi sector, the enemy made two unsuccessful attempts to advance. ,

Today, we should recognize the soldiers of the 34th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade and the 17th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, who are steadfastly holding back the enemy's attacks.

Glory to the Ukrainian soldiers!

Glory to Ukraine!

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