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AP News: The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang's global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday.
ISW assesses that ongoing Ukrainian offensive operations are likely setting conditions for wider Ukrainian counteroffensive objectives that are not immediately clear and therefore represent the initial phase of an ongoing counteroffensive.
UK Ministry of Defence: General-Major Sergei Goryachev was almost certainly killed in a strike on a command post on or around 12 June 2023, in southern Ukraine. There is a realistic possibility that Goryachev was the acting army commander at the time of his death.
Bloomberg: NATO seeks common ground on Ukraine membership.
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Reuters: A spokesman for the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that gunfire briefly halted a convoy heading back to Ukrainian-held territory after a visit to the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station, but the delegation was in no immediate danger.
Reuters Exclusive: African delegation might ask Russia to withdraw troops from Ukraine.
NY Times: As floods recede after the collapse of the Kakhovka dam last week, the scale of the destruction is only now beginning to come into focus. Nearly 19,000 buildings in four settlements on the Russian-held east were inundated by water, a new study showed.
Reuters: Russia announced plans on Thursday to stage elections in occupied parts of Ukraine in just three months, Moscow's latest bid to signal it is in control even as a Ukrainian counteroffensive has pushed its forces back in some areas.
The Kyiv Independent: A bipartisan bill is being filed to authorise US president Joe Biden to seize and transfer Russian sovereign assets to Kyiv for the long-term reconstruction of Ukraine.
Ukrainska Pravda: Several countries, including Italy and Canada, have announced new military aid packages for Ukraine during the meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.
UK Government joins international partners in delivering air defence equipment to Ukraine. A major new fund will deliver hundreds of vital air defence missiles, the result of a partnership between Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA.
The European Parliament approved a resolution on June 15 calling on NATO to accept Ukraine into the alliance after the war is over.
Bloomberg: Top Russian officials at Putin’s flagship business forum painted a picture of an economy that’s adapting to unprecedented sanctions, while avoiding any mention of the war against Ukraine.
Reuters: The Kremlin said on Thursday it saw no positive prospects when it came to renewing the Black Sea grain deal given that parts of the accord affecting Russia remained unfulfilled, but said it had not yet taken a final decision on the issue.
Reuters: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday urged Switzerland to allow the re-export of weapons to Ukraine, saying the move would be vital in combating the Russian invasion.
RFE/RL: Czech President Petr Pavel says security services should monitor Russians living in the West, calling it "simply the cost" of the Kremlin's war against Ukraine.
AFP: Kyiv on Thursday reported progress in its newly-launched counteroffensive despite contending with strong resistance from Russian troops, including on the southern front.
Reuters: Norway and Denmark have agreed to donate an additional 9,000 rounds of artillery to Ukraine, the Norwegian ministry of defence said on Thursday.
WSJ Exclusive: Tokyo looks for workaround to help Kyiv’s counteroffensive despite curbs on weapons exports.
CNN: Clandestine Ukrainian unit claims successes against Russian forces in Bakhmut.
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