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Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to run as a Republican in the 2024 presidential elections and is in third place in support polls, intends to give Russia the areas it occupied in eastern Ukraine and include it in the "European security structure," reports the Hill daily.more

22-year-old British volunteer Sam Newey was killed by Russian mortar fire in eastern Ukraine, his older brother said on social media yesterday. There are concerns about the fate of yet another Briton.more

Drones have attacked Russian territory and temporarily occupied Crimea more than 190 times since the start of the year, with Tuesday night's air strikes in six regions of the Russian Federation the largest in 2023, the BBC wrote yesterday.more

The war does not allow Ukraine to celebrate Independence Day today. For the second year in a row, there will be no solemn celebrations in Kiev. The inhabitants of the city will spend the holiday in shelters, hiding from Russian missile attacks.more

Ukraine has so far received only 60 Leopard tanks, instead of the promised several hundred, the British weekly 'The Economist' reported yesterday, citing a source at the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.more

Ukraine will decide when the conditions are right for any peace talks with Russia, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a conference in the Norwegian city of Arendal.more

More than 900 Ukrainian Marines are returning home after completing six months of training in the UK by Royal Marines and British Army commandos, the UK Ministry of Defence has reported.more

In 2022, almost 40 per cent of respondents rated the attitude of Poles towards each other as very positive. This year, the percentage has dropped significantly and the relations perceived by Ukrainians have become more neutral, according to a report prepared by the national research agency Openfield.more

"Russia must be contained in Ukraine now so that American soldiers do not have to shed blood later to renew peace in Europe as they did in both world wars," President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published in the Washington Post. The president also said he would push the White House to ensure that Ukraine received an invitation to join Nato at next year's summit.more

The President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Muhammad bin Zayed al-Nahayan proposed that his country could host a meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported for the French-language daily L'Orient-Le Jour published in Lebanon. .more

The UK today imposed sanctions on 22 individuals and companies from third countries for supporting the Russian attack on Ukraine, and added three more Russian companies to the sanctioned list.more

More than half of the 1,871 European companies that operated in the Russian Federation prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine have not withdrawn from the market, according to data from the Kiev School of Economics cited by the UK's "Financial Times" today.more

Austria refuses to take a tougher stance toward the Kremlin, citing its neutrality. Today, almost as much Russian natural gas enters Austria as before the war. Since the invasion began, €7 billion has flowed from Austria to Moscow for gas alone. And Raiffeisen Bank already handles nearly half of international payment transactions from Russia, the German portal RND reveals.more

The owner of Russia's mercenary Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced today that recruitment of new fighters for the formation is currently on hold, but is likely to be reinstated in the future, Reuters reported behind the Wagner-related Grey Zone channel on Telegram.more

The British military is training in Devon County more than 2,000 commandos from an elite Ukrainian brigade that is expected to take part in the liberation of Crimea from Russian occupation before Christmas, reports the Sunday Express, based on its sources.more

The Russians are indoctrinating children deported from Ukraine in special camps, it can be said that they are creating a new Hitler Youth, reported the Ukrainian historian Vladislav Hawrylov.more

Vladimir Putin was "paralyzed" and indecisive during the first several hours of Yevgeny Prigozhin's revolt, the Washington Post reported, citing Western and Ukrainian intelligence sources. The daily reported that Putin knew about the planned revolt at least two days before it erupted, but did nothing to stop it.more

UK has information indicating that "the Russian military may extend its attacks on Ukrainian grain facilities to attacks targeting civilian shipping in the Black Sea" - British Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward stated yesterday.more

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that his country is working with Turkey to restore the grain agreement that Russia did not extend, which allowed for the export of Ukrainian grain.more

Lukashenko's and Putin's words about Poland are irresponsible, and if necessary, we will defend every inch of NATO territory, said the spokesman of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, referring to the suggestion of the Belarusian dictator about a "tour" of the Wagnerians to Warsaw and Rzeszów.more

The Wagner Group's mercenary forces based in Belarus do not pose a military threat to Poland or Ukraine unless they are equipped with heavy weapons, the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) assessed in a recent report.more

Ryanair plans to invest more than $3 billion in Ukraine to quickly rebuild the country's post-war aviation industry, the airline said in an official announcement.more

Russia is seeking Ukraine's exclusion from the world grain market and proposing a plan for its supplies to Africa involving Qatar and Turkey, but both countries refuse Moscow's request for such cooperation, the Financial Times reported.more

A prisoner recruitment program by Russia's mercenary Wagner Group has transformed it into an organization capable of undermining Vladimir Putin's authority, and its end is a benchmark in both its history and the war in Ukraine, the British Defense Ministry assessed today.more

Britain has added eight Russian nationals associated with the Wagner Group's activities in Africa and five companies associated with it to the list of sanctions, the foreign ministry said.more