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Reuters: The United States will confront Russia at the United Nations Security Council on Friday over violating a North Korea arms embargo, and will push for China's view on growing ties between Moscow and Pyongyang, said deputy U.S. Ambassador Robert Wood.
Bloomberg: Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov instructed the army’s General Staff to take “rapid response measures” against US drones over the Black sea as their increased activity raises the likelihood of incidents in airspace (archive).
AFP: Lacking sufficient anti-aircraft systems to repel Russia's unrelenting attacks, Ukraine is pushing its European allies to establish a no-fly zone in the west of the country by deploying air defence systems in neighbouring Poland and Romania, officials told AFP.
ISW: Russian offensive operations in the Toretsk direction suggest that the Russian military command does not consider a large-scale operation to advance towards Kostyantynivka from multiple operational directions feasible.
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FT: The US, Israel and Ukraine are in talks to supply Kyiv with up to eight Patriot air defence systems, dramatically improving its ability to counter Russian air strikes. While not finalised, the arrangement would likely involve the highly prized Patriot systems being sent first from Israel to the US, before being delivered to Ukraine (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: German members of the European Parliament, Daniel Freund and Damian Bezelager, sent a letter to European Council President Charles Michel, demanding to suspend Hungary's presidency of the EU Council.
Bloomberg: Microsoft is informing additional customers that emails they exchanged with the technology giant were accessed by Russian hackers, a sign that a previously reported state-sponsored breach has had wider repercussions than initially thought (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: The Czech Republic has delivered the first 50,000 shells to Ukraine as part of the Prague-led initiative, the country's defense minister Jana Cernohová said on June 27.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) falsified evidence against a 15-year-old schoolboy who was jailed last week on terrorism charges, the independent news outlet Mediazona reported Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency has carried out a cyberattack on several facilities in Russian-occupied Crimea on June 27.
Novaya-Europe: The Kremlin’s expropriation campaign, which began alongside its invasion of Ukraine just over two years ago, appears to be gaining steam: over 220 private companies with assets collectively worth €12.7 billion have become state property since February 2022.
Bloomberg: Germany pushed European Union leaders to drop language on joint defense spending, a stance that triggered resistance from other member states that believe extra resources are needed to ramp up the bloc’s capabilities (archive).
NY Times: May was a particularly deadly month for the Russian army in Ukraine, with an average of more than 1,000 of its soldiers injured or killed each day, according to U.S., British and other Western intelligence agencies (archive).
Bloomberg: Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic asked the European Union for financial support to help cover the cost of hosting Ukrainian refugees since the three countries have taken in the lion’s share since Russia’s invasion (archive).
AFP: NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that Russian forces were not capable of making a "big breakthroughs" on the battlefield in Ukraine, and that Kyiv was inflicting heavy losses with its deep strikes.
Reuters: Support for Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK party has fallen ahead of a July 4 election, a poll showed on Thursday, after he said the West had provoked Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: Dmitry Rogozin, a Russian official heading the Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, said on June 27 that it is "time to burn everything Ukrainian down to the root" so that "there is no trace left."
Reuters: Poland's biggest energy company Orlen warned gas companies in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria that it could seize their payments for imports from Russia's Gazprom.
Reuters: U.S. spy chief Avril Haines will be in South Korea and meet President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula and a recent pact between Moscow and Pyongyang pledging closer military ties.
Reuters: The European Union and two of its member countries, Lithuania and Estonia, signed security agreements with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a summit in Brussels on Thursday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine received another disbursement of 1.9 billion euros from the EU's Ukraine Facility on June 27, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
AFP: Sri Lanka has asked Russia to allow its former soldiers fighting in Moscow's war against Ukraine to return home voluntarily, the government said Thursday.
Reuters: Russia is considering a possible downgrading of relations with the West due to the deeper involvement of the United States and its allies in the Ukraine war, but no decision had yet been taken, the Kremlin said on Thursday.
Bloomberg: Russia has deployed roughly 10,000 immigrants who recently received citizenship to the front in Ukraine after ramping up efforts to enforce military registration among its newest nationals (archive).
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