Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,217

Here are the key events on day 1,217 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Sappers of the Russian armed forces walk along a motorway as they search for explosives and demine an area near the town of Maryinka, in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of Ukraine, on June 24, 2025 [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

Here is how things stand on Wednesday, June 25 :

Fighting

Russian missile strikes on southeastern Ukraine killed 17 people in the city of Dnipro and injured more than 200, damaging dozens of buildings and infrastructure facilities.
Two people were killed in a Russian attack on the city of Samara.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Hennadii Shapovalov as the new commander of Ukraine’s ground forces. He will also oversee military recruitment efforts overseas as part of a broader mobilisation effort.
Russia says it intercepted dozens of drones overnight across its territory, including the Voronezh region on the border of eastern Ukraine.
Russian forces say they captured the village of Dyliivka in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.
Zelenskyy said on X that Russia and Ukraine have not moved any closer to a ceasefire. “The Russians once again openly and absolutely cynically declared they are ‘not in the mood’ for a ceasefire. Russia wants to wage war. This means the pressure the world is applying isn’t hurting them enough yet, or they are trying very hard to keep up appearances.”

Diplomacy

The White House said United States President Donald Trump will meet Zelenskyy during a NATO summit in The Hague this week. The meeting will be a second attempt after Zelenskyy failed to meet Trump earlier this month in Canada when the US president abruptly left a G7 summit.
En route to the NATO summit on Tuesday, Trump declined to say whether he supported NATO’s Article 5 clause calling for collective self-defence. “Depends on your definition. There’s numerous definitions of Article 5,” he told reporters on board Air Force One, adding, “I’m committed to being their friend.”

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the security bloc’s “military edge is being aggressively challenged by a rapidly rearming Russia, backed by Chinese technology and armed with Iranian and North Korean weapons” before the summit.
NATO members are expected to support a push to raise defence spending to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) over the next 10 years. The move is seen as a bid to appease Trump and deter Russia.

Finance

The Netherlands, the host of the NATO summit, announced a new 175-million-euro ($203m) aid package to Ukraine, which includes drone detection radars. The news follows another 500-million-euro ($580m) deal to make 600,000 drones with Ukraine.