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Ukraine handed the US a multi-billion dollar weapons shopping list after Trump's administration stopped providing new military aid — Zelenskyy says. The weapons package was delivered to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during high-level meetings in Canada. ⤵️

Day 1215 of Ukraine having to fight to exist. And today it's a fight to even get any media time to expose Russia's crimes, as events in Iran and Washington dominate the agenda. All the🇺🇦 news, all the time, let's begin Sunday's thread..

Ukraine surpasses Russia in FPV drones, but lags behind in fibre-optic craft

Ukrainians launch assault on Yunakivka after liberating Andriivka in Sumy Oblast The top general says Ukrainian troops advanced up to 700 meters in a new push near the Russian border. euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/22/u...

Is it our turn to use “why aren’t you at the frontline” on the yanks

Whilst "Key Nuclear Sites" are in the news... Just a reminder that England's key Nuclear Site is in Scotland...less than 40 miles west of Glasgow at Faslane where England's Trident Nuclear Submarines are based. Instead of basing them on the Clyde, perhaps base them on the Thames.

🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi: ▪️America and Israel crossed a major red line by attacking our nuclear facilities. ▪️The U.S. only understands the language of threats and force. ▪️It is irrelevant to ask Iran to return to diplomacy.

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway and Ukraine jointly train drone operators

Ukraine’s 60-year-old Leopard tank switched from sniper mode—and Russian troops never saw it coming Ukraine’s Leopard 1A5 tanks are back in the fight—because when you’re defending a place like Kostyantynivka, you use whatever still shoots straight. euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/20/u...

I’d like to see the same tough stance on Russia’s threat to Europe, a key US trade partner, and Ukraine - a partner in mineral deal, Budapest Memorandum guarantor, and a military partner. No one is calling for bombing - just a firmer line on Russia: stronger aid and sanctions

My mum died yesterday. She was 85, a retired school teacher. A while back we were discussing the issue of trans people, she said she had no problem with trans women in women's toilets & added if you need to check a person's genitals before letting them pee, you're the problem. She was a wise woman.

Those who are doing all they can to stop UK involvement with objectively obscene violations of international law are officially treated as the real criminals, writes Owen Jones ✍️

Things you won't see reported by the British national public broadcaster in Scotland: People in Scotland today demonstrating their desire to regain independence. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 #ScottishIndependence

You can't bomb a sovereign nation to the negotiating table - even if there was anything left to negotiate. You don't have to be pro Iran to see this. Just moderately intelligent. Which lets Trump out.

If you ever doubted Trump and Netanyahu were joined at the military hip you ken noo.

Russian propagandists claim that a “non-nuclear version of the Iranian scenario” is being applied to Russia—conveniently forgetting that they were the ones who started this war. As always, they’re calling for others to fight to the last Russian—just not themselves.

🇺🇸🤔 Trump administration briefed top Republicans before strikes on Iran, but failed to inform Democrats, - CNN 🗣️ Chuck Schumer: "No president should have the right to single-handedly drag this country into something as serious as war, with unpredictable threats and without a strategy."

🇷🇺 The Kremlin has turned Crimea into a military staging ground and a tool to pressure the Muslim world, warns the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People. In a statement to the OIC, they describe the peninsula as a place of fear, repression, and forced erasure of Tatar identity.

🇮🇷 Iran's state media: The three nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan were evacuated some time ago. Nuclear sites bombed by the United States do not contain materials that could cause radiation.

OTD in 1941 USSR involuntarily switched to allied side of WW2.

❗️🇮🇷 Iran accuses the US of grossly violating the UN Charter with its strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. FM Abbas Araghchi called the facilities peaceful and warned of serious consequences, stating that Iran reserves the right to self-defense.

Iran, USA, Israel, these are all interesting, of course, but don't forget…

‼️🇺🇦 Syrskyi: The situation in Sumy region is stabilized, our advance in Yunakivka is from 200 to 700 meters. The enemy offensive actions have been stopped along the line of Kindrativka, Andriivka, Yablunivka, Yunakivka.

🇺🇦 Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi: Ukraine leads Russia in FPV drone use, but Russia has the edge in fiber-optic drones. Russian drones can reach up to 40 km, while Ukrainian-made versions are catching up with 20 km range. Work is ongoing to close the gap.

"With his unprecedented decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites, directly joining Israel’s air attack on its regional arch foe, U.S. President Trump has done something he had long vowed to avoid - intervene militarily in a major foreign war." @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/str...

🇺🇦🐝 AFU have superiority in FPV drones, but the Russian Armed Forces have superiority in fiber-optic drones, we are trying to catch up with Russia in this area, — Syrskyi

When our water goes south - we’re all Britain. When our oil and gas goes south - we’re all Britain. When our renewables go south - we’re all Britain. When our rubbish goes south - we’re an incompetent badly-run separate country which is crapping on our neighbours’ doorstep.

Talks between Lukashenko and Trump’s envoy Keith Kellogg lasted over 6 hours, according to Russian media. Topics included US-EU sanctions on Belarus, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and ties with Moscow and Beijing. Lukashenko pardoned 14 political prisoners at Trump’s request.

🇮🇷 Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei Has Been Hiding in a Bunker and Has Already Chosen Successors in Case of His Assassination, — NYT ❗️Khamenei has chosen three senior clerics who could claim his place in the event of his assassination.

Welcome to another daily thread - THE place for honest assessment and analysis of all the news around Ukraine and Russia. It's Day 1214 of the full-scale war. I still have an unblemished record - every single day. Why not show your support with a ☕️? ko-fi.com/twmcltd

UN Security Council should visit Ukraine to look into eyes of mothers who have lost their children, said Ukraine’s Envoy to the UN, Andrii Melnyk Moscow doubled its attacks on Ukrainian civilians amid US President Trump’s peace efforts 📷 UkrInform euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/21/c...

Cluster munitions, appearing as metallic spheres approximately 10 cm in diameter, have been discovered in Kremenchuk following a Russian attack. Their resemblance to toys or balls makes them particularly dangerous for children - police reports.

🇮🇷👀 "Russians" will not be able to really support Iran, because they do not have the strength, — Zelensky ❗️Russians want to receive 860 additional machines for the military complex. They are supplied by more than 50 companies from China, Taiwan, Germany, the Czech Republic, South Korea, Japan, etc.,

⚡️ Russia 'afraid to admit' scale of losses, trying to hide by dumping soldiers' bodies on Ukraine, Zelensky says. Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers.

/1. Trump’s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, met with Alexander Lukashenko — the most pointless meeting that will achieve nothing except legitimizing Lukashenko’s dictatorial regime in Belarus.

🇺🇦⚔️ Zelensky: This year we found $43 billion for Ukrainian defense industry. Ukraine is part of Europe's security, and we want 0.25% of the GDP of a partner state to be allocated for our defense industry, for domestic production next year.