ISW Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, Map and Update, June 28, 2025

Key Takeaways from the ISW:

• Ukrainian forces conducted a series of strikes against Russian military infrastructure and defense industrial base (DIB) facilities from June 26 to 28.
• Russia’s deployment of an experimental Grom-1 missile-bomb and likely efforts to increase its Shahed production are part of ongoing efforts to adapt Russian strike packages against Ukraine to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses and cause maximum damage.
• Ukrainian forces advanced near Lyman. Russian forces advanced near Novopavlivka.

Authors: Olivia Gibson, Daria Novikov, Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, Jennie Olmsted, Jessica Sobieski, William Runkel, and Frederick W. Kagan.

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