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 The Biden administration has announced that air defense missiles produced in the coming months, primarily Patriot and NASAMS, will be sent to Ukraine as a priority. Deliveries to countries other than Taiwan and Israel will be delayed until a later time, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said. He did not specify how long Ukraine will enjoy this priority, but American media sources say 16 months.

Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with Russian journalists, said that the participation of North Korean combatants (Russian agencies called these hypothetical soldiers “volunteers”) in the war in Ukraine was not discussed during his visit to Pyongyang, he himself did not ask for it and the DPRK leadership did not propose it.

Putin also said that the preconditions for the start of ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine, which he called June 14, could change depending on the situation on the ground.

Representatives of the South Korean president said on Thursday that in response to the Russian-North Korean “mutual defense” agreement signed the day before, Seoul could begin direct arms supplies to Ukraine. Putin responded to this in absentia that “this would be a very big mistake,” threatening “decisions that are unlikely to please the current leadership of South Korea” (this can also be interpreted as a hint at the political weakness and unpopularity of South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol).

A severed human head

 During aerial reconnaissance at one of the combat positions in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian military discovered a damaged armored vehicle of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin posted a photo that confirms a crime that was gruesome even for the conditions of war: a severed human head was lying on the hood of a military vehicle.

"We received information that the Russian commanders gave an order not to capture Ukrainian servicemen, but instead to kill them with inhuman cruelty - by beheading. The fact of the beheading of a Ukrainian defender was recorded in Donetsk region," prosecutor A.Kostin wrote.

Poltava

Twenty-two people, including three children, were injured in a Russian missile attack on the city of Poltava on 17 June.

Putin's ultimatum

 Putin, somewhere at the meeting, expressed the conditions for the end of the war in Ukraine., - to give him four oblasts, completely, within the administrative borders (Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kherson), as well as Ukraine's refusal to join NATO.

 Ukraine is really already tired of the war. Many young people have been killed at the wart or became disabled. Many women with children, as well as men who were could did it, left the country to escape the war. Those of them who were able to adapt to life abroad will not return to Ukraine.

 Putin's proposal is unacceptable, in fact it is an ultimatum. Moreover, Putin is a well known liar and should not be trusted.

Kryvyi Rih

 

At least nine people have been killed and 29 injured in a Russian missile strike on Ukraine's southern city of Kryvyi Rih, local officials say.

Ukraine's prosecutor general's office says five children are among the injured after a residential building was hit on Wednesday. Earlier, four people were reported missing.

Emergency services, police and volunteers are now combing through the wreckage. Search dogs have been brought to the scene.

After the nighttime Russian attack by drones, liquidation of a fire at an industrial enterprise continues in Kyiv.

 

 This morning, Russian ballistic missiles fired at residential areas of the Dnipro.
There are 7 victims after that.
- The boy, who is 1 month old, is in satisfactory condition. Will be treated on an outpatient basis.
– A 17-year-old boy is in the hospital in a moderate condition.
- Three women aged 32, 36 and 56. One of them is hospitalized, doctors assess her condition as moderate.
- A man, 68 years old
One and a half dozen cars were damaged. Broken windows in private houses, high-rise buildings and a hospital.

 Russia has subjected Ukraine's energy infrastructure to another massive attack. The strikes were aimed at targets in five regions of the country: Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kirovograd and Ivano-Frankivsk. In total, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 53 missiles of various types and 47 attack drones were used for this attack. At the same time, 35 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles were fired from Tu-95 MS strategic bombers in the Saratov region, an area of ​​Russian airspace over the Caspian Sea. Another 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and one Iskander-K cruise missile were fired from the territory of annexed Crimea; 10 Kalibr cruise missiles - from the north-eastern part of the Black Sea; 3 guided aircraft missiles X-59/X-69 - from the airspace of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine under Russian control. The launch area for 47 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type was the city of the Krasnodar Territory of Primorsko-Akhtarsk, the post of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces notes.

As a result of the anti-aircraft battle, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down 81 air targets, as indicated below. Specifically, we are talking about 30 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, 4 Kalibr cruise missiles, 1 Iskander-K cruise missile and 46 Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs.

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