Inter reports SBU approval Forty-day operation

Jun 25

Inter/United News presenter Liliia Naliahaka reports that Zelenskyy approved a forty-day SBU operation intended to influence Russia to end the war, attributing the announcement to his Facebook post. She says he heard acting SBU head Major General Yevhenii Khmara's report on long- and medium-range sanctions and Alpha's frontline results, and relays his praise for the service's drone-based defence of Ukrainian positions over several months. The bulletin reports an approval; it does not provide a forty-day operational calendar or independently establish particular strike results.

Zelenskyy's June 25, 2026 written announcement says he approved a forty-day SBU influence operation intended to compel Russia to end the war after receiving Yevhenii Khmara's report on long- and medium-range sanctions and Alpha's frontline results. The same-night Inter/United News bulletin reports this approval and relays his praise for the service's drone defence. TSN.ua's June 26 follow-up repeats the authorization and presents Alpha's strikes on refineries and military stores as pressure on Russian war capacity. In his September 25 answer, repeated by Vremya on September 27, Putin retrospectively refers to a forty-day operation announced in June in the context of attacks on Russian refineries and acknowledges unspecified Russian losses. These source accounts are retained with their attribution. June 25 dates the public authorization, not a verified first strike, every day's operations or the campaign's completion; no exact forty-day execution calendar is established. The June 24 preemptive-strike instruction is an earlier separate statement.