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FT: South Africa’s opposition Democratic Alliance has accused former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party, whose spectacular electoral debut has upended the country’s politics, of receiving campaign finance from Moscow (archive).
Bloomberg: The sharp surge in support for a new pro-Russian political party is posing a conundrum for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The startup party, led by hard-left politician Sahra Wagenknecht, is draining support from the Alternative for Germany.
Reuters: Russia and China, which hold veto powers in the U.N. Security Council, raised concerns on Thursday with a U.S. draft resolution that would back a proposal - outlined by President Joe Biden - for a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas.
The Kyiv Independent: Taiwan's Ministry of Economy has decided to expand sanctions against Russia and Belarus by prohibiting the export of nitrocellulose, a crucial component used in projectile production.
ISW: Putin may assess that select Western actors will be more concerned about Russia providing long-range strike capabilities to actors willing to attack the West than the Kremlin's tired rhetoric about direct confrontation between the West and Russia.
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AP News: The U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, in a new package that includes ammunition Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault.
The Kyiv Independent: Germany has procured thousands of 155-millimeter artillery shells for Ukraine and to replenish its own stocks, the country's defense ministry announced on June 6.
With the EU election under way, POLITICO has looked at the data to find out which MEPs have been the Kremlin’s top allies in the European Parliament.
The Telegraph: An intelligence assessment shared with Western governments claims that Russia’s notorious GRU military intelligence agency, known for its attacks on foreign soil using highly-trained agents, is now turning to criminal gangs to carry out attacks in Europe (archive).
AP News: Four Russian warships, including a nuclear-powered submarine, will arrive in Havana next week, Cuban officials said Thursday, citing “historically friendly relations” between both nations and as tensions escalate over Western military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia.
France 24: France will transfer Mirage-2000 fighter jets to Ukraine and train their Ukrainian pilots as part of a new military cooperation with Kyiv as it fights the Russian invasion, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday.
Reuters: The United States encourages China to attend a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told reporters on Thursday, with China thus far saying it will stay away as Russia had not been invited.
POLITICO: Germany is opposing European Union efforts to close a loophole that allows high-end goods, including luxury cars, to reach Russia via Belarus, four EU diplomats told POLITICO. Three of them said that France was also not on board.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces are using multiple-launch rocket systems equipped with thermobaric munitions in attacks on the Donetsk Oblast town of Chasiv Yar, the spokesperson for the Khortytsia group of forces said.
BBC News: US President Joe Biden has drawn parallels between Russia's invasion of Ukraine and World War Two, in a speech commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France.
POLITICO: Several websites of political parties in the Netherlands suffered a cyberattack on Thursday, as the country kicked off the election for the European Parliament. The cyberattacks were claimed by a pro-Russian hacker group called HackNeT.
ABC News: President Joe Biden was adamant that U.S. weapons would not be used to strike Moscow or the Kremlin after he authorized Ukraine to use them in Russia.
Reuters: Former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has lost another legal bid to reverse a decision to strip him of his government-funded office taken after the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine amid public outcry over his ties to Russia.
RFI: Russia on Thursday detained a Frenchman working for a Geneva-based conflict mediation NGO, accusing him of gathering military information and failing to register as a "foreign agent", Moscow officials said.
Reuters: Ukraine's Ukrhydroenergo said on Thursday it had initiated international arbitration seeking damages for Russia's destruction of the Kakhovka Dam and power station in June 2023. The state-run hydro-electric company estimated the damage at 2.5 billion euros.
Bloomberg: NATO is planning to expand cooperation with Ukraine on defense technology and share more intelligence about Russia’s electronic warfare capabilities, as some of its members lift constraints on Kyiv’s ability to wage war (archive).
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency carried out a naval strike in occupied Crimea overnight on June 6, destroying a Project 498 "Saturn" raiding tugboat, the agency said.
Euromaidan Press: Ukraine allegedly struck three fuel facilities in Russia with drones overnight on 6 June – refineries in Novoshakhtinsk and Slavyansk-na-Kubani, and a depot near Stary Oskol.
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