LONDON — The Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) on Tuesday claimed to have carried out a brand new assault on Russia’s Kerch Strait Bridge — which hyperlinks occupied Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar Krai area — two days after the service’s dramatic drone strikes on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.
The SBU posted a video, {photograph} and assertion to its official Telegram channel detailing the operation, which it stated “lasted a number of months.”
“SBU brokers mined the helps of this unlawful facility,” the assertion learn. “And in the present day, with none civilian casualties, at 4:44 am the primary explosive system was activated.”
“The underwater helps of the piers had been severely broken on the backside degree — 1,100 kg of explosives in TNT equal contributed to this,” the SBU stated. “Actually, the bridge is in a state of emergency.”
SBU chief Vasyl Malyuk stated in an announcement, “Beforehand, we hit the Crimean Bridge twice in 2022 and 2023. So, in the present day we continued this custom beneath water.”
This photograph reveals the Kerch Strait Bridge in Crimea on July 25, 2023.
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In the meantime, a minimum of seven individuals had been killed and 27 had been injured throughout Ukraine in a single day into Tuesday as Russia continued long-range assaults on a number of cities, native officers stated.
Ukraine’s air power stated it recorded 112 Russian drones launched into the nation in a single day, 75 of which had been both shot down or neutralized in flight. The air power reported impacts in 11 places throughout the nation.
A lot of the reported deaths had been clustered in two northeastern areas of Ukraine, near the entrance traces.
Three individuals had been killed and 20 had been injured by a Russian cluster rocket assault on the town of Sumy, native authorities stated. At the very least 5 rockets landed in open areas of the town heart, the Sumy Regional Administration stated, together with alongside a busy street full of vehicles and morning commuters.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a publish to social media that the “savage strike” was a “absolutely deliberate assault on civilians.”
Firefighters extinguish vehicles hit by a Russian army strike in Sumy, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025.
State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/through Reuters
One other three individuals had been killed and 6 had been injured within the Kharkiv area on account of Russian shelling, the regional army administration stated.
One particular person was killed and 13 had been injured by Russian fireplace within the southern Kherson area, stated Oleksandr Prokudin, the pinnacle of the native army administration.
5 individuals had been additionally injured by strikes within the northern metropolis of Chernihiv and 5 others within the southern Black Beach metropolis of Odesa, in line with officers there.
In his Tuesday morning message, Zelenskyy stated the continuing Russian assaults point out that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no real curiosity in peace, regardless of the Kremlin’s participation in ongoing U.S.-brokered talks to finish its 3-year-old invasion.
Ukrainian and Russian representatives met in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday for a second spherical of direct negotiations, the 2 sides having beforehand gathered within the metropolis for the primary spherical in Could. That assembly allowed the primary face-to-face peace talks between the 2 sides because the spring of 2022.
Ukraine is demanding a full 30-day ceasefire throughout which era peace negotiations can happen. Zelenskyy additionally stated forward of Monday’s assembly that Kyiv needs the discharge of all prisoners and the return of Ukrainian kids forcibly taken to Russia throughout Moscow’s invasion. Zelenskyy additionally steered direct future talks with Putin.
In a “peace memorandum” delivered to Ukraine’s negotiating crew on Monday, Russia set out related maximalist calls for to these issued throughout the opening days of its spring 2022 invasion.
Among the many calls for are a Ukrainian withdrawal from all 4 Ukrainian areas that Russia claims — Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk — together with areas that Russian troops don’t occupy. Moscow stated it will settle for a ceasefire if Ukraine agreed to cease receiving international weapons and finish mobilization — two calls for Kyiv has rejected.
Moscow can be demanding limitations on the dimensions of Ukraine’s armed forces, a everlasting block on Ukrainian NATO accession, worldwide recognition of Russian management over the areas of Ukraine it claims, the lifting of all sanctions and Ukraine to desert its demand for conflict reparations to be paid by Moscow.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov advised journalists on Tuesday that there was no vital breakthrough throughout Monday’s talks. “It might be fallacious to count on any quick selections or breakthroughs right here,” he stated. “However work is ongoing.”
A gathering between Putin, Zelenskyy and President Donald Trump “is unlikely within the close to future,” Peskov continued.
Dmitry Medvedev — the previous Russian president and prime minister now serving because the deputy chairman of the nation’s Safety Council — wrote on Telegram that the talks “aren’t meant to attain a compromise peace based mostly on some imaginary and unrealistic circumstances invented by others, however fairly to safe our swift victory and the entire destruction” of Zelenskyy’s authorities.
Zelenskyy on Tuesday stated it’s “apparent: with out international strain — with out decisive actions from america, Europe, and everybody on this planet who has the ability — Putin is not going to agree even to a ceasefire.”
“Not a single day goes by with out Russia hanging Ukrainian cities and villages,” the president continued.
“Day by day, we lose our individuals to Russian terror. Day by day, Russia offers new causes for more durable sanctions and stronger assist for our protection. I’m grateful to everybody around the globe who’s selling precisely this agenda: sanctions for aggression and the killing of individuals, and help in defending the lives of Ukrainians.”
Firefighters work at a terminal of a non-public postal firm the location of a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on June 3, 2025.
State Emergency Service Of Ukrai/through Reuters
Ukraine continued its personal long-range strike marketing campaign into Russia in a single day. The Protection Ministry in Moscow stated its forces downed eight Ukrainian drones on Monday evening into Tuesday morning.
Monday’s Istanbul talks had been held regardless of Ukraine’s audacious covert operation concentrating on Russian strategic bombers on Sunday, wherein drones hid behind vans attacked a minimum of 5 airfields deep inside Russian territory.
Zelenskyy advised ABC Information’ Chief World Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz that the assault was a “strategic operation” that “is unquestionably lowering Russia’s potential, and demonstrates that Ukraine is engaged on sure steps.”
“Except they’ll cease, we are going to proceed,” he stated.
Requested whether or not he was happy with the Trump administration’s involvement, Zelenskyy advised Raddatz, “We’re on the lookout for very robust steps on the a part of President Trump to assist the sanctions and to power President Putin to cease this conflict, or a minimum of proceed with the primary stage of placing an finish to this conflict — that’s the ceasefire.”
ABC Information’ Will Gretsky, Oleksiy Pshemyskiy and Patrick Reevell contributed to this report.
