🇪🇪🇺🇦 This summer may open a window of opportunity to end the war in Ukraine, — President of Estonia He noted that Europe should be involved in peace talks between Ukraine and Russia and stressed the inadmissibility of any “separate negotiations” with Putin without Kyiv.

🇺🇦🇪🇺🇪🇪 Ukraine's place is in the EU and NATO, and negotiation clusters should open this summer, - Estonian President

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Putin is lying and playing games with Trump and the White House, — Zelensky 💬 I have always told President Trump that Putin is lying. He is playing games with you, with the White House and with American society. 💬

🇺🇦🇬🇧 Zelensky raised the issue of money from the sale of Chelsea with Starmer and suggested using it to purchase air defence systems for Ukraine. "They are very expensive, and of course this money can help. Russia started this war - why not use Russian money?" he said.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump on Iran: You're really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory. It'll be a total victory. It'll happen very soon. We'll have a signed document that's actually stronger than doing the bombing.

🇺🇸🚁 NYT: US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter went down near the Strait of Hormuz on June 8. Both pilots rescued, unhurt. Cause unclear. Could be Iranian fire, mechanical failure, or other.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump revealed that during a recent call with Netanyahu, he warned: “You’d better be very careful about what you do, because you could end up alone against Iran very soon.” According to Trump, he urged Netanyahu not to respond to Iran’s missile attack, but Israel later decided to strike Iran.

🇨🇭🇪🇺🇺🇸 FT: Switzerland is now eyeing the Franco-Italian SAMP/T system as a backup to its US Patriot order, now delayed to 2030 amid American production bottlenecks. Eurosam says it could deliver by 2029. Bern has already paid CHF 700M toward Patriots but is now formally evaluating European options.

🇨🇳🇰🇵 Xi Jinping landed in Pyongyang for his first North Korea visit in nearly seven years. Kim Jong-un rolled out the red carpet personally, greeting Xi and Peng Liyuan with a full honour guard.

🤡 Lavrov complained that the letter to Putin was shown to the whole world: "Polite people don't do that." He complained that Zelensky's letter to Putin was shown to the world. Lavrov made his "conclusion": "Ukraine does not need negotiations."

🇺🇦❗️ KIIS poll on scenarios in Ukraine: 📍#1 - "Without security guarantees". 31% support, 61% against. 📍#2 - "Symbolic presence of European troops". 41% support, 49% against. 📍#3 - "Own forces + allies' resources". 53% support, 37% against. 📍#4 — “European Shield”. 60% support, 33% against.

🇰🇵🇺🇳 DPRK has found cunning schemes to circumvent UN sanctions with the help of Russia and China, - Asia Today Pyongyang imported 7 times more fuel from China and Russia than is allowed by UN resolutions. Resolution 2397 limits the import of petroleum products for DPRK to 500,000 barrels per year.

❗️🇺🇦 $100,000 for a GUR official: National Police prevented an attempted assassination with FPV drone and detained an agent of Russian special services. He studied in detail the official's travel route, his daily schedule, place of residence, transport, infrastructure.

🇺🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇫🇷 The cessation of hostilities and 4 other conditions for peace were agreed upon by Zelensky and the leaders of France, UK and Germany in London, — DW Details: • End of hostilities • Negotiations begin precisely from the current contact line. 1/2

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Fox News: Trump says he is not happy about Israel's attacks on Lebanon and that they were not coordinated with the US. ❗️Israeli sources to CNN: Israel preparing a “powerful” response to Iranian ballistic missile fire. 🇮🇶 Iraq closes its airspace and suspends air traffic.

😅🇺🇦 When asked about the letter, which Putin called rude, Zelensky said with a smile that they had not yet read the first version.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump on Iran: I didn't promise anything. I don't like these endless wars. This is not an endless war. We've been doing this for three months. 🇻🇪 Trump: We took over a very powerful country: Venezuela. A lot of soldiers, a big strong military.

🇺🇸😳 Trump lashed out at NBC News' journalist and abruptly left during an interview. Trump added that he did NOT give Americans guarantees not to start new wars. "Why would I have to build the strongest army in the world then?"

🇺🇸🇮🇷 NBC News: Trump praised Iran's new leadership, saying it is "more rational" than before. "Younger. I think more rational," Trump said of Mojtaba Khamenei. Trump is open to speaking directly with Iran's new supreme leader, though no direct contact has occurred yet.

🇺🇸👀 The US Air Force shot down a Boy Scout balloon with a $500,000 missile, mistaking it for a UFO. According to Pentagon documents, the incident occurred in February 2023 over Lake Huron in Michigan. F-16 fighter jet was scrambled to intercept the object and fired an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile.

‼️ Russia attacked DTEK mine in Dnipropetrovsk region twice A mechanic was injured in a UAV strike near the mine. He is receiving necessary medical care. Another attack damaged the company's life support system. Restoration work is underway. This is the third attack on the company in recent days.

😡✈️ Putin's entourage continues to fly business jets despite sanctions - WSJ Bombardier Global 7500 business jet, which was built in the West, costs about $75 million and usually serves the world's business elite, is based at Moscow's Vnukovo airport.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Reuters: The U.S. is considering using Iranian assets to help Kuwait and Bahrain recover from damage caused by recent Iranian missile and drone attacks. Bessent has ordered an assessment of reconstruction costs, with the policy potentially extending to future damage.

🇺🇸 NYT: Recent U.S. intelligence reports indicate that Israeli spy agencies have intensified efforts to monitor American officials involved in negotiations with Iran. According to the reports, Israel targeted senior officials including Steve Witkoff, Elbridge Colby, and Michael DiMino.

👀 The businessman through whom Zelensky requested a personal meeting with Putin was Abramovich, - Russian media Abramovich traveled to Kyiv to meet with Zelensky, after which he was to convey the information he had received to the Russian president.

🇵🇱🇺🇦 Polish Defense Minister, after a meeting with Budanov, said that Warsaw expects Ukraine to reconsider the decision to name one of the military units in honor of the UPA. Poland supports Ukraine in the security sphere, but issue of "Volyn tragedy" remains fundamental and cannot be compromised.

❗️Zelensky wrote to Putin, but appealed to war-weary Russian elites, — Le Monde He worked on wording of the letter for several days. Proposal for a direct meeting was an attempt by Kyiv not only to publicly appeal to the Kremlin, but also to show Moscow's military, economic and moral weaknesses.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly accelerated the countdown to the collapse of the Nazis in World War II. It happened then. We are trying to make it happen now.

🇺🇦 Syrskyi: In the Oleksandrivka direction alone, the Russian group has over 71 thousand servicemen. The enemy has concentrated about the same number in the Hulyaipole and Orikhiv directions. The situation remains dynamic - active combat operations are being conducted by both Russians and AFU.

🇮🇱🇺🇸 NBC News: Pentagon has raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, citing concerns that Israeli intelligence services are stepping up efforts to gather information on senior U.S. officials and internal deliberations over the Middle East, particularly war in Iran.

🇺🇦🇵🇱 Head of the Presidential Office Budanov arrived in Poland on a working visit, - Ukraine Context He is scheduled to meet with the Polish leadership, in particular, to ease tensions in relations between the countries.

🇸🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 Temporary protection should be rolled back for Ukrainian men of military age wanting to shelter in Europe, while EU visas should also be refused to Russians coming for “shopping weekends and fancy trips”, Sweden’s migration minister, Johan Forssell, said on Thursday.

☠️ As of June 5, 225,019 Russian service members have been confirmed (!) dead in the war against Ukraine. This figure is based on a tally compiled by the BBC Russian Service and Mediazona, along with a team of volunteers.

🇺🇦 Fedorov: We are strengthening coordination with NATO before the next Ramstein - in focus air defense, ammunition and Ukrainian drones. Held a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. We synchronized priorities before the next meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine.

🤬 17-year-old girl killed a soldier on the orders of the Russian special services, — National Police. The girl received methadone from a curator, went on a date with the soldier and mixed the drug into his alcohol.

🇬🇧Keir Starmer: It is our intelligence assessment and the assessment of other countries in NATO that there could be an attack by Russia on NATO as soon as 2030.

🇦🇿🇺🇦 This night, as a result of the attack of UAVs on two foreign cargo ships, Azerbaijani citizens were injured. There were 25 of our compatriots on board. Unfortunately, five people died, three more were injured, - Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry.

✉️🇺🇦🕯️Nova Poshta: On June 5, 2025, an explosion occurred on the territory of the Nova Poshta sorting depot in Kyiv, which resulted in a fire. Unfortunately, our employee Ivan Zhariy, 58, died as a result of the incident. Two more employees were injured and are under medical supervision.

🇺🇸❗️The Kennedy Center has begun removing references to Donald Trump from all of its official branding, - AP All changes must be completed by June 12. The judge stated that law passed by Congress when the center was created "absolutely clear" that the institution should bear President Kennedy's name.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to help Ukraine and impose new sanctions on Russia. It provides more than $1 billion in security assistance and reconstruction funds, as well as $8 billion in defense loans. The bill now faces consideration by the US Senate.

🇨🇺🇺🇸 Trump says his administration considered sending troops to seize Iran's uranium, but ultimately rejected the idea because it was too risky and could have led to U.S. casualties, drawing comparisons to Carter's failed hostage rescue mission.

🗣️NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte speech at the background of attacked Lukyanivka neighborhood in Kyiv!

🇺🇦👀 Zelensky to Putin in open letter: Ukraine proposes to end the war in a format between us and you. There are countries that traditionally host leaders for resolving questions of war and peace. Switzerland, Türkiye, countries of the Arab world — many can and want to host this meeting.

🤡Putin on 🇩🇪Germany: AfD is ahead of both the CDU and SPD in Germany. This is all due to the fact that the leadership of AfD is capable of clearly stating its positions in the interests of the German people and the German economy.

🇩🇪 Engines from the German company MAN continue to arrive in Russia, an investigation by the Dossier Center and the Süddeutsche Zeitung has shown. They are supplied to Russia via a Turkish company, where they are installed on the Sobol border boats. 1/2

🇧🇪🇺🇸 A Belgian poll found that over 50% of Belgians now view the US as an adversary — compared to just 10% who still consider it an ally, - Euronews China fared slightly better, with 40-44% seeing it as adversarial.

🇸🇪 Swedish court arrests vessel CAFFA suspected of smuggling Ukrainian products from occupied territories, - Prosecutor General Kravchenko

❗️⚠️ Zaporizhzhia TPP came under heavy shelling this morning, - IAEA Experts from IAEA at the Zaporizhzhia NPP saw smoke from TPP and "heard sounds of military activity". It is through the equipment of the Zaporizhzhia TPP that the power supply to the ZNPP is carried out.

🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇦 Germany, France and Britain are working with Kyiv on plans to engage Russia in talks to end the war as they see a changing dynamic that strengthens Zelensky's position, — Bloomberg

🇺🇸🇮🇷 WSJ: Trump told aides he intends to maintain the current ceasefire with Iran and would only consider restarting a full-scale military campaign if Iranian attacks kill U.S. troops. 🛢️ FT: War and shipments through Strait of Hormuz have pushed US oil inventories to their lowest level since 2004.