Minimal gains on battlefield as Kyiv largely halts Moscow’s spring-summer offensive; Ukraine missile maker tests homegrown Patriot alternative. What we know on day 1,562

The war has not been going the Kremlin’s way, with battleground losses and growing casualties. With fiercer strikes, Moscow hopes to gain a better position for negotiations.

Russia's war in Ukraine will provide an unavoidable backdrop to the French Open women's semi-finals - and possibly the final.

Ukrainian drone units have carried out a series of successful attacks on the Russian-occupied Donetsk Airport, sabotaging Moscow's attempt to turn the facility into a military base, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) reported on June 4.

The size and regularity of Ukraine's drone attacks are steadily increasing.

Summary and Key Points: In the early days of the invasion, Ukrainian soldiers were dropping grenades through tank hatches using drones anyone could buy online. Four years later, the country builds them by the millions — and they now carry out the overwhelming majority of every successful strike against Russian forces.

Russia continues to attack civilian infrastructure in Dnipro and the region Russian forces struck Dnipro for the second day in a row. The latest attack hit a logistics company, causing a fire at the site.

Russia has lost around 1,369,340 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on June 4. The number includes 1,300 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.