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Reuters: French police have arrested a 26-year-old Ukranian-Russian man after he blew himself up with explosive materials in a hotel room north of Paris, a source at the French PNAT anti-terrorism prosecutors office said on Wednesday. A subsequent search of his room led to the discovery of products and materials intended for the manufacture of explosive devices.

The Kyiv Independent: France will provide Ukraine with over $700 million in loans and grants to bolster critical infrastructure targeted by Russian forces, the French outlet 20 Minutes reported. Ukraine and France are expected to finalize the agreement on June 7, during President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Paris.

AP News: Putin warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty.

POLITICO: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said his country must prepare for war because of increasing Russian threats. “We must be ready for war by 2029,” news magazine Der Spiegel quoted Pistorius as saying in the German parliament on Wednesday.

The Kyiv Independent: Russia has not resumed operations at the Kerch ferry crossing in occupied Crimea after Ukraine's attack in late May, Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for the Southern Defense Forces, told Suspilne.

AFP: French President Emmanuel Macron will attend a conference on Russia's war against Ukraine scheduled for mid-June in Switzerland, his office said on Wednesday.

EBRD: In response to Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing further funding to the country’s state-owned energy companies, including EBRD clients Ukrenergo, Ukrhydroenergo and Ukrnafta.

POLITICO: European finance ministers are leaning toward a U.S.-led idea of Western governments jointly securing a multibillion euro loan for Ukraine ― rather than the EU doing it by itself. But during an online meeting Wednesday, the alternative option of the EU using the might of its €1.2 trillion seven-year budget as collateral for an EU-only loan remained on the table.

The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence agency was behind a large-scale DDoS attack that "paralyzed" the work of several Russian ministries and companies, a source in the agency told the Kyiv Independent on June 5.

Meduza: Leaked documents from a source close to the Putin administration reveal that Russian propagandists have a new target in their sights: government critics and opposition supporters.

POLITICO: Ukrainian officials are pressing the U.S. and other countries to ramp up their F-16 pilot training, saying the current pipeline isn’t producing enough aviators to fly the jets that will be soon donated to Kyiv.

The Insider: The Insider has accessed Telegram correspondence between former Chief of the Moldovan General Staff Igor Gorgan and his GRU handler, Russian Colonel Alexei Makarov. Gorgan regularly reported to Makarov on Moldova's domestic political situation and provided information on visits from Ukrainian Ministry of Defense representatives, who came to Moldova to purchase military equipment and ammunition.

AP News: A special commission tasked with investigating Russian and Belarusian influence in Poland was beginning its work on Wednesday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced.

Reuters: Russia will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the west African country boost its defence capabilities and fight terrorism, Russian state media quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday.

The Independent: A Russian group of cyber criminals is behind the ransomware attack affecting major London hospitals, the former chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre has said.

FT: Gazprom is unlikely to recover gas sales lost as a result of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for at least a decade, according to a report commissioned for the Russian energy group’s leaders. The company’s exports to Europe will average 50bn-75bn cubic metres a year by 2035, barely a third of prewar levels, the research predicted (archive).

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