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AP News: A regional governor says at least three people were killed and 25 wounded after missiles hit civilian buildings in an overnight attack in the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
Reuters: Ukraine said on Monday its troops had recaptured seven villages from Russian forces along an approximately 100-km (60-mile) front in the southeast since starting its long-anticipated counteroffensive last week.
Bloomberg: Putin’s annual economic forum in St. Petersburg was a magnet for global politicians and investors until his invasion of Ukraine. Now it’s become a measure of Russia’s deepening isolation.
Reuters: The United States is concerned that North Korea is planning to deliver more weapons to Russia, a U.S. State Department spokesperson said on Monday after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster strategic cooperation with Moscow.
ISW: The Russian MoD formalization efforts are likely intended to centralize control of Russian irregular personnel and supplies to respond to Ukraine’s counteroffensive, as well as restrict Prigozhin's independence.
UK Ministry of Defence: In recent months, Russia has highly likely worked to ensure its long-term, high-volume supply of one-way-attack uncrewed aerial vehicles (OWA-UAVs). By supplying these weapons, Iran continues to breach UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
BBC News: The head of Radio New Zealand has apologised for publishing what he called "pro-Kremlin garbage".
Bloomberg: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell praised US military aid to Ukraine that he said is helping its counteroffensive against Russia, defending the billions of dollars spent just days after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy signaled wariness over further funds that may breach new caps on spending.
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AP News: The leaders of France, Germany and Poland met in Paris Monday for talks focusing on military support for Ukraine’s counteroffensive and future security guarantees to be given to the country, ahead of a NATO summit in July.
Reuters: French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said that a long-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive against occupying Russian forces had started, and he promised more military aid to the Kyiv government.
ISW: The destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant Dam on June 6, 2023, is significantly changing the geography and topography of the Kherson frontline sector in southern Ukraine.
Bloomberg: NATO should respond to steps by Russia aimed at deploying nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus, according to Polish President Andrzej Duda.
AP News: The trailer for the documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” has been released ahead of the film’s first theatrical showing in New York next month. The feature-length documentary is a co-production between The Associated Press and Frontline PBS.
AFP: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voiced hope Monday that a successful offensive by Ukraine would force Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending its invasion.
POLITICO: Author Elizabeth Gilbert, best known for her bestselling debut novel “Eat, Pray, Love,” said Monday her upcoming book won’t be released as scheduled after a backlash from Ukrainians over the tome’s Russian setting.
AFP: Ukraine on Monday said 41 people were still missing in the floods caused by a dam breach that it blamed on Russia, and which killed 10 people in the southern Kherson region.
Reuters: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he is concerned that Russia will on July 17 quit a deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizers from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
Novaya-Europe: The Kakhovka dam break has dealt a major blow to Crimean ‘authorities’: the region’s harvest is under threat.
Reuters Exclusive: Ukrainian pilots could begin training to fly U.S.-manufacture F-16 fighter jets as soon as this summer, the Dutch defense minister has told Reuters, a first step toward supplying Kyiv with a powerful, long-term capability in its war with Russia.
The Kyiv Independent: NATO ministers to meet defence manufacturers amid capacity woes - Euractiv
WSJ Exclusive: Chinese parts help Iran supply drones to Russia quickly, investigators say. After Ukraine downed an Iranian drone, a Chinese part in the weapon showed it had been built and sent to Russian forces in three months.
Reuters Exclusive: Pakistan paid for its first government-to-government import of discounted Russian crude in Chinese currency, the South Asian country's petroleum minister said on Monday, a significant shift in its U.S. dollar-dominated export payments policy.
The Moscow Times: Shebekino, Russia. Weeks of relentless shelling have turned this once-thriving district center near the Ukrainian border with a pre-war population of about 40,000 into a ghost town.
Bloomberg: Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has cost Russia tens of billions of dollars already due to sanctions and revenue slump. Now with the conflict crossing into Russian territory, the price of war is likely to grow even further.
AP News: Russian forces are learning from their mistakes over the course of the war with Ukraine, with Moscow now changing its tactics and using improved weaponry including building heavily fortified defenses, and using GPS-guided bombs and electronic warfare.
SIPRI: A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday that “the number of operational nuclear weapons started to rise as countries’ long-term force modernization and expansion plans progressed.”
Reuters: Russia's Defence Ministry said on Monday it has signed a contract with the Akhmat group of Chechen special forces, a day after Russia's powerful mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin refused to do so.
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