From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / June 16, 2025
As Ukrainian agents ignite substations in Kaliningrad and destroy drone factories in Tatarstan, Moscow retaliates by deliberately targeting American businesses while world leaders gather for critical G7 talks
Summary of the Day – June 15, 2025
The war’s shadow warfare reached new depths as Ukrainian intelligence operatives successfully sabotaged an electrical substation in Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave—6,800 kilometers from the front lines—while drones struck the heart of Russia’s Shahed production facility in Tatarstan. Moscow’s response came swift and calculated: a deliberate strike on Boeing’s Kyiv offices, marking a dangerous escalation in targeting Western businesses operating in Ukraine. As world leaders gathered in Canada for the G7 summit, the battlefield reality exposed the hollow nature of recent ceasefire talks, with nearly 200 Russian missiles and drones pummeling Ukrainian cities just hours after Putin’s latest conversation with Trump. The grim mathematics of war continued unabated: 1,200 more Ukrainian bodies returned home, North Korean casualties in Kursk exceeded 6,000, and five Ukrainian citizens died in Iranian missile strikes on Israel—underscoring how this conflict’s tentacles now reach across continents.
Fire Across Continents: Ukraine’s Deep Strike Campaign
In the pre-dawn darkness of June 14, Ukrainian special forces accomplished what many military analysts deemed impossible: infiltrating deep into Russian territory to sabotage critical infrastructure in Kaliningrad, Russia’s heavily fortified Baltic exclave. The operation, conducted by Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate (HUR), targeted an electrical substation serving military production facilities, causing $5 million in damage and cutting power to nearby defense sites.
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