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Reuters: More pressure must be exerted on Russia to secure a ceasefire in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday, and urged the G7 nations to ramp up sanctions to achieve that goal.
The Kyiv Independent: North Korea has suffered more than 6,000 casualties during offensive operations in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, according to a June 15 report from the United Kingdom’s defense intelligence.
Reuters: French President Emmanuel Macron, during a visit to Greenland to offer his support to the Arctic island, said on Sunday that Russia lacked the credibility to mediate the crisis between Israel and Iran as Trump has suggested.
15.06.2025
The Guardian: China and Russia are stepping up sabotage operations targeting undersea cables and the UK is unprepared to meet the mounting threat, according to new analysis.
FT: A building used by Boeing in Kyiv was badly damaged in a recent large-scale Russian air attack, in what appeared to be a deliberate strike on the US aerospace company (archive).
Reuters: Ukraine has received the bodies of another 1,200 Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war with Russia, as part of agreements to exchange both prisoners of war and the dead, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday.
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine’s military intelligence ignited an electrical substation during a sabotage operation in the Russian city of Kaliningrad, causing $5 million in damage and cutting electricity to a military production site.
CNN: The increase in the number of drones Russia is deploying against its neighbor is stunning: seven of Moscow’s largest drone attacks in its war on Ukraine have happened in the past four weeks, according to a CNN tally.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia attacked Ukraine with nearly 200 missiles and drones and shelled residents in Kherson and Donetsk oblasts, killing one and injuring three, Ukrainian authorities reported on June 15.
14.06.2025
The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine's military intelligence destroyed three Russian air defense systems using drones in the occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast on June 14.
AP News: Putin and Trump held a lengthy call Saturday to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Euronews: A warehouse in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia was struck by Russian drones in the early hours of Saturday, rendering some 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid unusable.
France 24: Ukraine and Russia conducted another POW swap -- the fourth one in a week -- the warring sides said on Saturday, under agreements reached in Istanbul earlier this month.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had recaptured Andriivka village in northeastern Sumy region as part of a drive to expel Russian forces from the area.
The Kyiv Independent: Efforts are underway to rapidly expand Ukraine's ability to counter Russian drone attacks, Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on June 14.
RBC-Ukraine: Ukrainian forces struck key defense industry plants in Russia on the night of June 14. The troops targeted facilities involved in the production of explosive materials, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: The United States is opposing a proposal by other Group of Seven nations to lower the price cap on Russian oil, Bloomberg reported on June 13.
13.06.2025
Reuters: A Russian aircraft was intercepted over the Baltic Sea by two British fighter jets on Friday after it flew two kilometres inside Polish airspace, the Polish armed forces said on Friday. The planes intercepted and identified the Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft, which then left Polish airspace.
Politico: The Baltic countries on Friday signed a deal pledging to jointly plan for mass evacuations as the specter of bellicose Putin looms over the region.
The Kyiv Independent: Iranian commander killed in Israeli airstrike oversaw Shahed drone supply to Russia. Amir Ali Hajizadeh was sanctioned by the European Union in 2022 for overseeing Tehran's supply of Shahed-type drones to Russia.
Politico: Latvian members of parliament are no longer allowed to travel to Russia and Belarus.
United24 Media: The Latvian Parliament has adopted amendments to the National Security Law that prohibit Russian and Belarusian citizens from working in or providing services to the country’s critical infrastructure.
The Kyiv Independent: There is no confirmed information that Russian troops have entered Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, spokesperson Victor Tregubov of the Khortytsia group of forces told Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne on June 13, refuting earlier claims published by the New York Times.
Ukrainska Pravda: Moldovan President Maia Sandu believes Russia may trigger an even deeper crisis in Transnistria, the Russian-backed breakaway region on the left bank of the Dnister, in an effort to destabilise Moldova ahead of this autumn’s parliamentary elections and influence voting there.
The Kyiv Independent: A Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jet carried out a precision strike on Russian positions in the Zaporizhzhia direction, targeting a command post for drone operators and a combined ammunition and fuel depot, Ukraine's Air Force reported on June 13.
EU Council voiced its unanimous support for a proposal to extend the temporary protection for the more than 4 million Ukrainians fleeing from Russia’s war of aggression until 4 March 2027.
Reuters: The European Union will demand companies disclose details of their Russian gas deals to the EU, under upcoming European Commission proposals to ban Russian gas imports by the end of 2027, an internal Commission document seen by Reuters showed.
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