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AP News: Diplomats from dozens of countries are meeting Wednesday in London to drum up funds to rebuild Ukraine, a mammoth task whose cost is estimated by the World Bank at more than $400 billion – a figure rising daily alongside the human toll of the 16-month war.
Reuters: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will unveil a major package for Ukraine, including $3 billion of additional guarantees to unlock World Bank lending, on the first day of a summit aimed at spurring efforts to rebuild the country on Wednesday.
ISW: The Kremlin continues to lower the requirements for Russian military service in an effort to increase recruitment.
UK Ministry of Defence: Intense fighting continues in sectors of southern Ukraine. However, over recent weeks, Russia has continued to expend significant effort building defensive lines deep in rear areas, especially on the approaches to occupied Crimea. It highlights the Russian command’s assessment that Ukrainian forces are capable of directly assaulting Crimea.
Reuters: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an acceleration of Black Sea grain shipments from Ukrainian ports under a deal allowing safe wartime exports, a U.N. spokesperson said on Tuesday as Russia threatens to quit the pact next month.
AP News: Cuba said Tuesday it is reaffirming its alliance with Russia through a series of agreements considered key for the island nation, including on the supply of oil, the sale of wheat and the resumption of flights between both countries that were halted by the war in Ukraine.
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CNN: The Pentagon announced Tuesday that the accounting error revealed last month was significantly more than previously stated and aid provided to Ukraine was overvalued by $6.2 billion rather than $3 billion.
The Kyiv Independent: On Tuesday 20 June, the National Council of the Slovak Republic adopted a resolution recognising the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
The Irish Times: The arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was a “watershed” for foreign journalists in Russia and staying in the country “comes down to gut feeling now and personal choice”, the BBC’s Russia Editor told a European Broadcasting Union (EBU) conference in Dublin on Tuesday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine officially completes the process of joining the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), Ukraine's Finance Ministry reported on June 20. Ukraine became Development Bank's 43rd member.
Reuters: The destruction of the vast Kakhovka hydro-electric dam has caused 1.2 billion euros of damage, Ukraine's environment minister said on Tuesday, warning that mines unearthed by flooding could wash onto other European countries' shores.
Reuters: The World Bank is looking to enhance aid to Ukraine for urgent repair projects in the transport, energy and housing sectors, the bank's director for operations Anna Bjerde said on Tuesday ahead of the Ukraine Recovery conference in London.
Reuters: Ukraine has successfully used a domestically produced drone with a range of 1,000 km (620 miles), state arms producer Ukroboronprom said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Ukraine's military intelligence chief accused Russia on Tuesday of "mining" the cooling pond used to keep the reactors cool at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine's south.
Reuters: Russia on Tuesday struck at military and infrastructure targets in Ukraine's capital Kyiv and across other parts of the country, including western areas far from the front lines, Ukrainian officials said.
The Moscow Times: Four people have been killed in a blast at an explosives factory in Russia’s central Tambov region, state-run media reported Tuesday, citing local authorities.
AFP: European Union member states plan to train as many as 30,000 members of Ukraine's armed forces this year, including from territorial defence units, Kyiv said on Tuesday.
The Times Exclusive: Prince Michael of Kent’s private office lobbied a senior Foreign Office official to help obtain a fast-track UK visa for a Russian financier closely linked to a US-sanctioned oligarch.
RFE/RL: An investigation by a group of journalists led by IStories and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has revealed details on how Putin's inner circle has scrambled to hide assets amid waves of international sanctions imposed on Russia since it illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and its subsequent full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Novaya-Europe: Le Monde has stated that France has reconsidered its stance on Kyiv joining NATO: for the first time in history, the country will support Ukraine’s NATO ascension.
Novaya-Europe: “According to our data, the Ukrainian military leadership is planning on executing strikes against the Russian territory, including Crimea, using HIMARS and Storm Shadow missiles,” Russia's Shoigu said at a Defence Ministry meeting.
The Kyiv Independent: An analysis by the Sofia-based Human and Social Studies Foundation identified 370 websites spreading Russian propaganda and disinformation, Euractiv wrote on June 20.
WSJ: In occupied parts of Ukraine, Kremlin-installed school authorities have expunged Ukrainian history and literature in favor of classes lauding Russia’s military.
NY Times: Ukrainians released in prisoner exchanges have come home with tales of appalling suffering in Russian captivity. “I thought it was the end,” said one soldier who was left on a bed to die, with his jaw shattered and gangrene spreading across his tongue.
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