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Commentary: Sizing up Ukraine’s counteroffensive is difficult in the fog of war

After months of speculation about when Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive will begin, we now have an answer: right now. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, many of them trained at military bases in Europe and outfitted with heavy Western armor, are now launching simultaneous operations at several points along the 600-mile-long…

Chicago Tribune

South African ties to Russia shadow Ukraine peace mission

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead a delegation of African leaders on a peace mission to Ukraine and Russia this week amid attempts to assuage Western concerns that South Africa is siding with Russia in the conflict despite its proclaimed neutrality – which has Ramaphosa doing a round of…

France 24

Ukraine: We will rebuild everything destroyed by Putin, says Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of London recovery summit

Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Thursday to “rebuild everything” destroyed in Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s war ahead of a recovery summit in London.

Evening Standard

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Russia-Ukraine war: Ukrainian fighter pilots learning to fly F-16 jets as Kyiv claims progress in counteroffensive – as it happened

Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says Ukrainian personnel being trained so when planes are delivered, pilots are ready

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 477 of the invasion

Ukraine counteroffensive making slow progress, say western officials; Chechnya ruler Kadyrov says right-hand man alive after all

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine attacks the front line; Russia says big losses inflicted

Ukraine says its forces recaptured 100sq km, but Russia’s President Putin says counteroffensive attacks failed.

Al Jazeera

House passes resolution calling on Putin to release reporter Gershkovich and others

WASHINGTON -- The House unanimously passed a resolution late Tuesday calling on Russia to immediately release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained since March.

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Putin sides with military chiefs over placing Wagner under direct control

Russian leader says move must be made ‘as quickly as possible’ after Wagner boss refuses to sign contracts

The Guardian - UK

Guardian wins international journalism prize for work on Russian oligarchs

Russian Asset Tracker published findings weeks after country’s brutal assault on Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Campaigner for Vladimir Putin's foe Alexei Navalny sentenced to 7 years in penal colony

Lilia Chanysheva, who was in charge of one of Alexei Navalny's regional offices, has been found guilty of a number of offences including founding a rights-violating organisation in Russia

Daily Mirror

In blow to Russian LGBTQ+ community, lawmakers weigh a bill banning gender transitioning procedures

Russian lawmakers have given initial approval to a bill that would severely restrict gender-affirming medical care and prevent making any changes in reference to gender on official documents

The Independent UK

Leader hints he’s already received Russian nuclear bombs

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko suggested Russian tactical nuclear weapons have already arrived in his country, even as Vladimir Putin said delivery would only begin next month.

Tribune News Service

Ukraine-Russia war – live: Putin unleashes aerial strikes, killing at least 6

Ukrainian fighters have reclaimed seven villages in counteroffensive so far, says deputy defence minister

The Independent UK

Ukraine forces advance up to 5 miles but make ‘slow progress’ against Putin’s army, says West

Ukrainian forces have advanced up to five miles and liberated at least four villages since launching their counter-offensive against Vladimir Putin's army, western defence chiefs confirmed on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

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Roll Call

House passes resolution calling on Putin to release reporter Gershkovich and others - Roll Call

The House unanimously passed a resolution calling on Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, detained since March.

The Independent UK

Navalny associate jailed for more than 7 years by Russian court: ‘Another hostage in prison’

Sentence for Lilia Chanysheva comes as Kremlin intensifies a crackdown on dissent while it wages war in Ukraine – and sparks outrage from opposition figures

Evening Standard

Putin lets slip Russia has lost 54 tanks in Ukrainian counter-offensive

Russian President makes rare admission of war losses in apparent slip-up at meeting with military bloggers

Evening Standard

Six killed as Russians step up missile attacks on Ukraine in wake of counter-offensive

Vladimir Putin’s forces killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen others in missile attacks in the early hours of of Wednesday.

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The Guardian - UK

‘Extremely fierce’ fighting as Russian forces resist Ukrainian counteroffensive

Kyiv and western sources issue downbeat assessment as Moscow targets supply lines in Odesa with deadly cruise missile strike

The New Daily

Alexander Lukashenko says Russian tactical nuclear weapons ‘arriving in Belarus’

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons.

The Independent UK

Belarus receives nuclear bombs ‘three times size of Hiroshima bomb’ from Russia

‘The bombs are three times more powerful than those (dropped on) Hiroshima and Nagasaki’

Salon

Peace for Ukraine courtesy of China?

Another step in Beijing’s rise to global power

The Guardian - US

At 91, Don King still longs for the spotlight. But it is shining elsewhere

The contrasting fortunes of the flamboyant promoter and his fellow boxing dealmaker, Bob Arum, were on full display over the weekend

Daily Mirror

Belarus receives nuclear weapons more powerful than Hiroshima atomic bomb from Russia

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told Russian state TV that his country has begun receiving some of the weapons which are three times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine taking significant casualties and making slow progress towards Russian defence, say western officials – as it happened

Counteroffensive is still ‘going in the right direction’ says officials, in one of west’s first assessments of Ukrainian action launched on 4 June

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