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💬 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News' Martha Raddatz his country is ready for a ceasefire brokered by the United States, accusing Putin of aiming for the "total defeat" of #Ukraine abcnews.go.com/Politics/zel... #USA #Russia

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🇫🇷 France's defence ministry has approached Renault with a view to helping to manufacture drones, the automaker said on Sunday, after the ministry last week floated the idea French companies could help with production in #Ukraine www.reuters.com/en/france-ap...

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces continue their efforts to break into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine's Southern Defense Forces reported on June 8, saying that the situation around the 31st Separate Brigade's positions remains "tense." kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-mi... #Russia

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🇷🇺🇲🇱 The Russian paramilitary group Wagner has left Mali and its units there have been taken over by the Moscow-run #Africa Corps, diplomatic and security sources told AFP on Sunday. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/08/w... #Russia

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🇺🇲 🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Trump's administration diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles originally intended for #Ukraine to American forces in the Middle East. kyivindependent.com/trump-redire... #USA

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The exchange of the bodies of deceased soldiers, agreed upon during Ukraine-Russia negotiations in Istanbul on June 2, is scheduled for next week, Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, said on June 8. kyivindependent.com/exchange-of-...

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🤡 Errol Musk, the father of U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, has arrived in #Moscow to attend the Forum of the Future 2050, a pro-Kremlin event scheduled for June 9-10, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on June 8. kyivindependent.com/elon-musks-f... #usa #russia

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🇸🇰 #Slovakia will block any European Union sanctions against #Russia that damage its national interests, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Sunday after parliament approved a resolution calling on the government not to back any new measures. www.reuters.com/world/pm-fic...

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces have occupied the village of Loknia in Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, the open-source battlefield monitoring group DeepState reported on June 8. kyivindependent.com/russia-captu... #russia

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Trains with the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers will start moving to the border in an hour, TASS quoted Russia's Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin as saying on Sunday. uk.news.yahoo.com/russia-sendi... #russia #ukraine

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🇫🇮 Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on June 7 criticized a weakened #Russia sanctions bill amid reports that #Trump is pressuring the Senate to weaken the legislation. kyivindependent.com/finnish-pm-c... #Finland #USA

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The Azot chemical plant in Novomoskovsk caught fire after it was reportedly targeted a second time in a drone attack overnight on June 8, independent news channel Astra reported. kyivindependent.com/chemical-pla... #Ukraine #Russia

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🇺🇲 The United States believes that Putin's threatened 'retaliation' against #Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/aer... #USA #Russia

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ISW: 🇺🇦 The continuation of Western military aid to #Ukraine remains pivotal to the execution of a pressure campaign against #Russia that could force Putin to recalculate his theory of victory. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia attacked the city of Kharkiv with KAB guided bombs the evening of June 7, killing one woman and injuring at least 18 people. kyivindependent.com/russia-bombs... #Ukraine

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🇩🇪 #Germany is drawing up plans to rapidly expand its network of bomb-proof bunkers and shelters, the government’s most senior civilian protection official has said, warning the state needs to be prepared for an attack from #Russia within the next four years. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 French automotive and defense companies will produce drones on Ukrainian soil, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced on June 6, Le Monde reported. kyivindependent.com/france-to-pr... #France #Ukraine

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🇨🇦🇺🇦 #Canada will provide #Ukraine with over $25.5 million in military equipment, the Canadian Defense Ministry said in a statement on June 6. www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

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🇧🇷 Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday called on the United Nations to assemble a group of countries tasked with seeking a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war. www.barrons.com/news/lula-ur...

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#UPDATE 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Russia's claims that #Ukraine is delaying exchange of soldiers' bodies are untrue, Ukrainian officials said on Saturday, urging Moscow to stop "playing dirty games" and return to constructive work. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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💬 President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected Trump’s comparison of Russia’s war against #Ukraine to “children fighting in a park”. "We are not kids with Putin at the playground in the park," Zelensky said. "He is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids." kyivindependent.com/zelensky-ref...

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Ukraine says it has submitted lists to #Russia for prisoners to exchange "in accordance with clearly defined categories agreed" in Istanbul last week. It claims Russia submitted lists "that do not correspond to the agreed approach". www.bbc.com/news/live/cg...

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🇺🇸 An international neo-Nazi terrorist organization is boldly continuing to build in the US and planning a new paramilitary training event without fear of local authorities or the FBI, which once dismantled it in a nationwide effort. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #usa #russia

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🇩🇪 Germany's armed forces have three years to acquire the equipment to tackle a possible Russian attack on #NATO territory, the head of military procurement said Saturday. www.barrons.com/news/germany... #russia

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💬 A Ukrainian drone attack last weekend likely damaged around 10% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet and hit some of the aircraft as they were being prepared for strikes on #Ukraine, a senior German military official said. www.reuters.com/world/ukrain...

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💬 Ukraine’s Security Service used exclusively domestically produced drones and did not deploy any equipment from allied stockpiles in its recent attack on Russian heavy bombers, President Volodymyr Zelensky told ABC News in an interview published on June 7. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-ukr...

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#UPDATE 😁 Musk on Saturday deleted a controversial post in which he claimed that #Trump appears in the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein files. #usa #elonmusk

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🇷🇺 Russia’s Federal Security Service has learned to intercept messages sent by Russians to bots or feedback accounts associated with certain Ukrainian Telegram channels, potentially exposing anyone communicating with such outlets to treason charges. novayagazeta.eu/articles/202...

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🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇺🇦 The parliamentary foreign affairs committees of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania issued a joint statement on June 6, affirming their firm support for #Ukraine both in its defense against Russia and in its pursuit of EU and #NATO membership. kyivindependent.com/baltic-state... #Europe

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine's air forces shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet on Saturday morning, the Ukrainian military said. www.reuters.com/business/aer... #Russia

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces attacked Kharkiv with drones, missiles, and KAB guided bombs overnight on June 7, killing at least three people and injuring 19, officials said. kyivindependent.com/russian-atta... #Russia #Ukraine

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russian military command’s purported objectives for 2026 extend far beyond Russia’s formal territorial demands and aim to seize a significant part of central #Ukraine and most of southern and eastern Ukraine. understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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🇷🇺📉 #Russia will take years to replace nuclear-capable bomber planes that were hit in Ukrainian drone strikes last weekend, according to Western military aviation experts, straining a modernisation programme that is already delayed. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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🇺🇸 The #Trump administration is trying to get Sen. Lindsey Graham to significantly weaken his Russia-sanctions bill while the White House seeks to patch up its relationship with Moscow instead of punishing it for the continued invasion of Ukraine. kyivindependent.com/trump-quietl... #usa

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🇬🇧 #Russia is at war with #Britain, the US is no longer a reliable ally and the UK has to respond by becoming more cohesive and more resilient, according to one of the three authors of the strategic defence review. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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#UPDATE 🇺🇦 Ukrainian authorities on Friday denied claims from pro-Russian officials that the two countries had begun a major operation to return the remains of fallen soldiers. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/06/r... #Ukraine #Russia

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🇺🇲 #Trump is holding back from pushing #China to halt support for Russia’s war machine as he focuses on other issues in the relationship with its biggest geopolitical rival, Bloomberg reports. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Archive: archive.is/949Af #USA

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russia and Ukraine have started exchanging the remains of fallen soldiers under an agreement reached during peace talks in Turkey earlier this week. www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/06/r...

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 #Russia asked the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Friday to mediate between Moscow and Washington to resolve the question of what to do with U.S. nuclear fuel stored at a Ukrainian power plant controlled by Russian forces. www.reuters.com/world/europe... #usa

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukrainian drones struck Bryansk International Airport in #Russia overnight on June 6, destroying one combat helicopter and damaging another, according to Russian emergency officials cited by independent media outlet Astra. kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-dr... #Ukraine

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 #Europe is capable of sustaining Ukraine's resistance against Russia, even if the United States were to decide to completely halt its military support to Kyiv, the senior military official in charge of coordinating Germany's arms supplies told Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

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💬 The Russian Tu-95 bombers hit in a Ukrainian drone strike were among those most frequently used to bomb Ukraine and were preparing for another operation against Ukraine on Sunday, said Col. Ants Kiviselg, head of the Estonian Defense Forces' intelligence center news.err.ee/1609715574/d... #russia

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🇺🇸 Some U.S. lawmakers do not understand the scale of Russia's rearmament campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday, a day after he held talks with Trump in the White House. www.reuters.com/business/aer... #usa #germany

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Brief: - Trump says it may be better to let Ukraine, Russia ‘fight for a while’ - Ukraine hits out at Europe's payout from frozen Russian cash - US says Russia-N.Korea cooperation must end - NATO allies agree to boost weapon inventories - EU sanctions score a legal win over Russian oligarchs 🧵

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🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The European Union is considering adding #Russia to its 'grey' list of countries with lax money laundering controls, the Financial Times reported on Friday citing officials. A final decision regarding the addition, however, has not been taken yet, the report said www.reuters.com/markets/emer...

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Drones struck a Russian military plant in Michurinsk, Tambov Oblast, in the early hours of June 6, according to media outlets in #Russia Attacks were also reported in Russia's Saratov, Moscow, Tula, Belgorod, and Kaluga oblasts. kyivindependent.com/russian-weap... #Ukraine

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🇺🇦 🇷🇺 An oil refinery in the city of Engels in Russia's Saratov Oblast was engulfed in flames after an overnight drone attack on June 6, Russian officials and media outlets reported. kyivindependent.com/explosions-r... #Ukraine

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #Russia launched drones and ballistic missiles at multiple targets across #Ukraine, Kyiv authorities said on Friday, in a deadly air assault that left at least four people dead and 20 wounded in the capital. www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/e...

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian forces are reportedly sustaining an average of 1,140 casualties per day and suffering disproportionately high personnel casualties for marginal, grinding territorial gains. www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder... #Russia #Ukraine

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