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NY Times: A Ukrainian official confirmed that the country's military had fired American weapons into Russia, days after President Biden lifted a ban on such use (archive).

Reuters: European Union finance ministers will hold a videoconference on Wednesday on a G7 proposal to leverage Russian central bank assets immobilised in the West to allow Kyiv swiftly to receive a loan of around $50 billion, senior euro zone officials said.

RBC-Ukraine: Russian troops continue to destroy Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region with shelling. Moreover, in the temporarily occupied part of the city, Russia has created filtration camps, according to the head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov.

RFE/RL: Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security said that an investigation had been opened based on data showing that war crimes had been committed in Ukraine by members of the Wagner mercenary group.

The Insider: Russia's armed forces entered Putin’s full-scale war against Ukraine with a relatively small but nominally professional force. Two years later, the image of the army has drastically changed.

The Guardian: The billionaire owner of Allwyn, the company that runs the UK national lottery, will sever his last remaining ties with Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom by the end of June, more than two years after winning the UK’s largest public sector contract.

Reuters: The Danish Centre for Cyber Security has raised its threat level assessment for destructive cyber attacks against Denmark to "middle" from "low" due to increasing threats from Russia, the defence minister said on Tuesday.

The Moscow Times: While the Kremlin states that it has a standard level of security, the special services control practically every aspect of Putin’s life — down to testing all of his meals for poison using a portable lab, a source close to the Kremlin told MT.

Novaya-Europe: The only hospital in Russia that specialises in treating cystic fibrosis is to be redesignated for the treatment of Russian soldiers wounded in Ukraine, a source with knowledge of the situation has told Novaya Gazeta Europe.

Reuters: Russia's two largest banks expect to open branches and offices in July in the regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed to have annexed in 2022, the heads of Sberbank and VTB said on Tuesday.

Reuters: Language learning app Duolingo has deleted references in Russia to what Moscow calls "non-traditional sexual relations" after being warned by Russia's communications regulator about publishing LGBT content classed as "extremism".

Reuters: Manufacturers and distributors need to step up compliance with Russia-related sanctions amid the war in Ukraine, U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told CNBC on Tuesday.

POLITICO: Russia responded with a new threat of escalation on Tuesday to reports that France could soon send trainers to help the Ukrainian military. “No instructor involved in training the Ukrainian military has immunity,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the press.

AP News: The number of attempted illegal border crossings from Belarus into EU-member Poland has shot up in recent months to almost 400 a day — from only a handful a day earlier this year, Polish officials say.

The Kyiv Independent: At least 210,000 buildings in Ukraine have been destroyed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion, an analysis by The New York Times has found. An examination of satellite data reveals the destruction includes 106 hospitals, 109 churches, temples, mosques and monasteries and 708 schools, colleges and universities.

POLITICO: In Estonia, Latvia and Poland, residents near the Russian border say the war has ruined their livelihoods and shattered their sense of safety.

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