Portal:Current events/2025 June 29

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure, Kyiv strikes
    • Russian forces launch more than 500 drones and missiles at Ukraine, targeting critical infrastructure, and injuring at least 12 people. Ukraine says it is the largest Russian air attack on the country since the start of the war. (AP)
    • A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes while repelling a Russian airstrike, killing the pilot. (Reuters)
• Gaza war
  • Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, Gaza Strip famine
    • UNICEF reports that at least 66 children have died of malnutrition in Gaza throughout the war due to the Israeli humanitarian aid blockade. (Al Jazeera)

Disasters and accidents

• 2025 Vienna Township Cessna 441 crash
  • Six people are killed when a Cessna 441 aircraft crashes into the backyard of a house shortly after takeoff from Youngstown–Warren Regional Airport in Howland Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. (WFMJ-TV)
• At least 11 people are killed and seven others are injured after a gold mine collapses in Houeid, Sudan. (DW) (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Law and crime

• Mass shootings in the United States
  • 2025 Coeur d'Alene shooting
    • A mass shooting ambush situation is reported when at least one person opens fire on firefighters and law enforcement responding to a wildfire on Canfield Mountain, believed to have been set by the perpetrator. Three people are killed, including the shooter, and seven others injured in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, United States. The FBI is deployed and the shooter is later found dead. (BNO News) (Coeur d'Alene Press) (MSN)
• Two teenagers are injured, including one critically, in a shooting outside of the Stonewall Inn historic gay tavern and monument after the 2025 NYC Pride March in New York City, New York, United States. (ABC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024–present Serbian anti-corruption protests
  • Over 140,000 people demonstrate in Belgrade and other major Serbian cities to protest against the Serbian government, call for President Aleksandar Vučić to be removed from power, and for snap elections for his replacement after dozens of students and protestors were arrested by police last night. (DW)