Ukraine

Kherson forces you to confront an uncomfortable reality about modern war: the frontline no longer begins where civilian life ends.

Disinformation is spreading on social media about alleged new front pages of several international media outlets featuring quotes from an interview given by Zelensky’s former press secretary Yuliia Mendel to American pro-Russian blogger Tucker Carlson.

Ukraine has officially dismissed Russian claims alleging that Ukrainian forces are preparing attacks on Russia from Latvian territory, calling them part of a disinformation campaign aimed at destabilizing the Baltic region.

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Russian advances on the battlefield have largely stalled in 2026, as the Ukrainian military has learned to counter Russian infiltration tactics and Ukrainian drones continue to reap a terrible toll on its advancing infantry. Critically, Ukraine is now killing or seriously wounding more Russian soldiers than the Kremlin can recruit.

Deep in the Sumy forests of Ukraine, a special Ukrainian gunner unit called ‘Kraken’ spend their days plotting attacks against Russian opposition, while evading life threatening counter attacks, particularly from drones. Using the forest as their shield, these brave soldiers work tirelessly together continuing the fight to push back Russian forces, while expertly camouflaging their monstrous weapon.

Renat Suleimanov, a State Duma deputy from the Communist Party (KPRF), said in an interview with Russian outlet Kontinent Sibir that Russia needs the “swiftest possible end” to what Moscow calls its “special military operation,” the Kremlin’s term for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Kenyan authorities are facing mounting pressure to dismantle recruitment networks accused of luring young men into Russia’s war against Ukraine through false promises of jobs, money and migration opportunities.

‘We didn’t kidnap anyone’, Russia’s then-ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, insisted in 2023. ‘We saved these children’. The ambassador was not simply denying the systematic deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children by Russian occupation forces in Ukraine, a crime for which there is a growing body of evidence from international organisations, researchers, and human rights groups. He was using a well-known playbook – an information campaign seeking to paint the crime as humanitarian rescue.

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I am going to be honest, I don’t think the use of nuclear weapons by russia is off the table, especially in the case that Israel drops a nuclear bomb on Iran which is also not unfortunately out of the question and rather seems an increasing likelihood every day that passes.

A great rundown of a recent Ukrainian UGV clearing operation.

“Importantly, this is specifically a Russian internal assessment — one they are trying to conceal both from the world and from their own domestic audience,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

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Some of the posts have said that Yemenis who arrive on the front lines are generally prohibited from leaving until they complete a one-year contract with the Russian military.

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Denys has a good rundown of recent Ukraine successes on the frontline.

Ukraine just launched the largest drone attack of the war against Moscow, bringing the war home to the residents of the Russian capital city. And this is just the beginning. This wasn’t a lucky strike, it was the result of months of slowly degrading Russian air defense across the country to where Putin can no longer protect everything, everywhere.

Russian forces’ ability to advance on and eventually seize Shevchenkove requires first seizing Kupyansk, however, and Russia has proven unable or unwilling to dedicate the necessary forces and means to repelling Ukrainian counterattacks and conducting offensive operations at a large enough scale to make tactically- and operationally-significant advances near, within, and beyond Kupyansk.[2] Gerasimov and other senior Russian officials have repeatedly made aggrandized claims of Russian advances on the frontline as part of a cognitive warfare effort based upon the false premise that Russian forces are advancing simultaneously across the theater and that Ukrainian defensive lines are imminently collapsing. Ukrainian defensive lines are holding against Russia’s Spring-Summer 2026 offensive, and Ukrainian forces are contesting the tactical initiative in several areas of the frontline, however, including in the Kupyansk direction.[3]

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The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, reacted harshly after Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a decree simplifying granting Russian citizenship to residents of the Transnistrian region. The head of state said the measure could be aimed at recruiting people for Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Russia is in a “precarious position,” so it is necessary to continue to pressure it with sanctions rather than intensify negotiations, said Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna.

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won the WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL d’Italia tournament in Rome, securing one of the biggest titles of her recent career.

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I wonder if they used a shell company to do it?

Wow Putin so great! So popular!

A 12-year-old boy in Chernihiv Oblast has disabled an FPV drone heading towards his younger siblings after learning how to do so from soldiers he knew.

Rescue workers cleared more than 3,000 cubic meters of debris during the operation, while units of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service have now moved on to emergency stabilization and recovery efforts.

36 countries and the European Union have committed to supporting the Special Tribunal, and the Netherlands has carried out preparatory work to host the court in The Hague.

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Also see https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-battlefield-momentum-slows-as-ukrainian-drones-target-logistics-18835

This is what losing a war embarassingly badly looks like.

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All clusters in the negotiation process for Ukraine and Moldova’s accession to the European Union could be opened in July, with the first cluster expected to be launched by the end of June. The announcement was made by European Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, in Brussels.

Ukraine has been able to consistently strike military and military-industrial targets within Russia before, challenging the “safe rear” notion. However, 2026 has featured record levels of consistency.

Canada … is sanctioning an additional 23 individuals and five entities involved in the violations against Ukrainian children. These measures build on the sanctions Canada has already imposed. Canada has sanctioned over 80 individuals and entities for their involvement in violations of the rights of Ukrainian children in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

“The Force” emits as a Wi-Fi signal from the helmet, which contains a Wi-Fi hotspot inside.