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Reuters: After a week of heavy fighting, the real tests of Kyiv's counteroffensive lie ahead, with Ukrainian troops some distance from Russia's main defensive line and the bulk of forces prepared for the push still on standby.
Bloomberg: Since the Kakhovka dam burst on June 6, the floods have cut off any chance Ukraine’s troops might have had of crossing the Dnipro River in support of their counteroffensive. Yet that benefit to the Kremlin may not last.
FT Exclusive: Russia is to adopt powers to seize assets of “naughty” western companies and will make it harder for them to exit the country, as Vladimir Putin seeks ways to retaliate against US and European sanctions.
Reuters: Australia said on Thursday it would introduce legislation to parliament to cancel Russia's lease to build a new embassy in the national capital of Canberra, citing national security.
AP News: Russian forces have destroyed 262 educational institutions and damaged another 3,019 in their invasion of Ukraine, according to government figures. But the disruption to the education of Ukrainian children goes far beyond buildings turned to rubble.
WSJ Exclusive: A shoulder-fired missile that can travel over three times the speed of sound is being brought back into production after its deployment in Ukraine revives interest.
BBC News: Western allies are set to announce their plans to train Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16s when they meet in Brussels today. But it's still not clear which countries will be willing to provide the jets, how many, or even when.
ISW: Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in at least three directions and made gains on June 14.
UK Ministry of Defence: Prigozhin’s rhetoric is evolving into defiance of broader sections of the Russian establishment. 01 July 2023, the deadline for the volunteers to sign contracts, is likely to be a key way-point in the feud.
WSJ: Since invading Ukraine, Russia has experienced its worst labor crunch in decades after hundreds of thousands of workers fled the country or were sent to war.
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POLITICO: The U.S. Air Force has deployed F-22 fighter jets to the Middle East because of unsafe Russian aircraft activity, U.S. Central Command announced on Wednesday.
Newsweek: Pro-Kremlin military bloggers wrote that a division of Russian soldiers was taken out by a HIMARS attack during a long wait to hear their commander’s speech.
UNICEF: The war in Ukraine has forced more than 2 million Ukrainian children to flee the country and displaced more than 1 million children inside Ukraine.
Reuters: Ukraine reported incremental advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces on Wednesday in what it described as "extremely fierce" fighting. In a post on the Telegram messaging app, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said the Ukrainian actions had "partial" success.
RFE/RL: Bulgarian Foreign Minister Mariya Gabriel has called statements about Moscow's ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russian Ambassador to Sofia "propaganda and disinformation" that are "unacceptable and inappropriate."
Novaya-Europe: Jens Stoltenberg, the Secretary General of NATO, has stated at a press conference in the Brussels HQ that NATO member states would discuss the creation of a NATO—Ukraine Council on 15 and 16 June.
Bloomberg: Russia is ramping up a lobbying campaign to avoid new financial restrictions against money-laundering that may plunge its economy deeper into isolation over the war in Ukraine.
AFP: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was on Wednesday heading to France where he will meet President Emmanuel Macron, with Paris seeking intensified support from the oil-rich kingdom for Ukraine against Russia's invasion.
The Guardian: Western microchips and other components coming largely via China are being used to manufacture Russian cruise and ballistic missiles that are being launched at Ukraine, Kyiv has said in a presentation prepared for G7 members this week.
Reuters: The lower house of Russia's parliament said on Wednesday it had voted to give its initial backing to legislation that will allow the Defence Ministry to sign contracts with suspected or convicted criminals to fight in Ukraine.
AP News: The German government said Russia is the greatest security threat “for the foreseeable future” and advocated a balanced approach to China as it unveiled its first comprehensive national security strategy Wednesday.
Bloomberg: The website of the port of Rotterdam was targeted in a cyberattack blamed on Russia-aligned hackers last week.
AFP: Some 30 percent of Ukrainian territory may have mines, but it is "impossible to count and map" them while war is raging, said Baptiste Chapuis, senior advocacy advisor at the NGO Handicap International.
Reuters: Deputy foreign ministers from Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran will meet in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, on June 21, Russia's RIA Novosti news agency said on Wednesday.
Reuters: A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday there was no reason for Moscow not to destroy its enemies' undersea communication cables given what he said was Western complicity in the Nord Stream pipeline blasts.
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