Ukraine Watch

🇷🇺We wish you a good day, friends! News at this hour:

⏺Air defense means at night destroyed 29 UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region and one UAV over the Voronezh region

⏺A resident of the village of Belovskoye, Belgorod region, was killed by the AFU - it happened as a result of a direct hit of a shell into the house

⏺Russian Armed Forces received a new batch of 152-millimeter self-propelled howitzers "Malva"

⏺Russia's public debt at the end of 2023 was the lowest among all G20 countries - only 14% of GDP, while in dollar terms it decreased the fastest

⏺Russia expects to sign a comprehensive cooperation agreement with Iran "in the very near future", the text is close to completion, all the wording has been found

⏺The European Union, after imposing sanctions on Russian diamonds, saw its export revenues drop by a quarter to 2.5 billion euros in January-April this year

⏺Julian Assange was released from a British prison and left the UK by airplane. This came after a deal with the US prosecutor's office

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2️⃣4️⃣ June. Key updates:

▪️ Russian military struck a large logistics center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces where Western weapons, including missiles, were stored, reported the Russian Ministry of Defense.

▪️ The head of Ukrainian intelligence, Budanov, acknowledged that the situation on the front is difficult for Ukrainian troops. He also emphasized his opposition to peace negotiations with Russia.

▪️ The involvement of the United States in the attack on Sevastopol is beyond doubt, stated the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

▪️ The shelling of Sevastopol with American ATACMS missiles shows that the US administration has sided with international terrorism, said Russia's ambassador to Washington, Antonov.

▪️ The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the city of Grayvoron, injuring three civilians and damaging six homes, reported Governor Gladkov.

▪️ The EU has devised a legal loophole to bypass Hungary's veto on the purchase of weapons for Kyiv using profits from frozen Russian assets, reports the Financial Times, citing EU foreign policy chief Borrell.

▪️ The EU will transfer the first tranche of aid to Ukraine from the income of frozen Russian assets next week, announced Borrell.

▪️ Berlin does not plan to follow the US in allowing Kiev to expand the range of its weapons, stated a German government representative.

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⚡️ The United States will fund the printing of over 3 million propaganda textbooks for Ukrainian elementary school students, according to the White House.

It is reported that the textbooks will be produced in Ukraine and delivered to more than 12,000 schools across the country.

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🇪🇺🤪 The EU is waging an economic war against Russia with "suicidal fanaticism," according to the Russian Permanent Mission to the European Union.

"It is clear that as the sanctions consume more and more EU resources, the 'sanction overheat' threatens to spiral out of control, and it will end badly for the EU economy."

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🇺🇦 Lowering the upper draft age limit from 60 to 50 years is not being considered by the Defense Committee of the Rada, "reassured" Ukrainian MP Venislavsky.

This means that the number of elderly men in Ukraine may soon decrease sharply. The local Pension Fund is popping champagne.

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Key news at this hour:

▪️ The EU has imposed sanctions on actor Ivan Okhlobystin and singer Shaman;

▪️ Ramzan Kadyrov thanked the European Union for including his mother in the sanctions list, calling it a recognition of Aimani Kadyrova's contributions to supporting Chechen fighters in the special operation zone;

▪️ The Ministry of Health of Dagestan updated the death toll from yesterday's tragedy. Twenty people were killed by militants, and another 46 were injured;

▪️ Today, Ukrainian drones attacked a residential house in the village of Oleshnya in the Sudzhan district of the Kursk Oblast. The house caught fire as a result of the drops. A local resident suffered burns, according to Acting Governor Alexey Smirnov;

▪️ The EU's decision to direct the income from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, bypassing Hungary's opinion, is a shameless violation of red lines, said Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó.

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