Ukraine
IMF
Advisors Who Helped Ukraine During Debt Restructuring in 2015 Open Office in Kyiv
APCO, which helped former Ministry of Finance advisors during debt restructuring in 2015, established a presence in Kyiv – with an office to be led by Sonya Soutus, who helped USAID in Ukraine.
June 12, 2024
HUR
Friday Drone Strike Damaged 2 Russian Su-57 Stealth Fighters, Says HUR
In the latest update, HUR asserted one of Russia’s most advanced fighters suffered “significant damage,” while the other suffered lighter damage and is likely repairable.
June 12, 2024
US
US Spy Plane Gets Front Row Seat to Latest Wave of Ukrainian Missile Strikes in Crimea
Russian officials said that all Ukrainian missiles missed or were shot down, and nothing on the ground was damaged, and no one hurt. Fact checks didn’t exactly back that up.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
OPINION: In Their Own Words
The words of Russia’s own propagandists need to be taken as statements of intent rather than rhetorical hyperbole. They also show how they need the West’s ambivalence to win.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
NATO, Hungary Agree Orban ‘Will Not Block’ Greater Ukraine Support
However, Hungary will neither contribute money, send people to Ukraine’s aid, nor permit Hungarian territory to be used to help Ukraine against Russia’s invasion, Orban said.
June 12, 2024
Bakhmut
Russia Lost More Men in Bakhmut Than in Its Afghan War
Russian news site Mediazona, working with BBC Russia, reported that 20,000 Wagner troops died during last year’s assault on Bakhmut, almost 90 percent of which were convicts.
June 12, 2024
US
US to Send Second Patriot Missile System to Ukraine
The New York Times reports that a second Patriot system will be transferred from Poland, where it currently protects American rotational forces, to Ukraine.
June 12, 2024
HIMARS
Ukraine Reports Blasting Multimillion-Dollar Russian Pantsir-S1 Missile System with HIMARS
According to reports from Russian Telegram channels, two of the three crew members were killed, and the commander of the Pantsir-S1 was seriously wounded.
June 12, 2024
Zelensky
ANALYSIS: Slimmed-Down Agenda of Swiss Peace Summit Aims to Secure Consensus
With 90 countries and organizations expected to attend the event, the agenda is likely to include only three of 10 points in President Zelensky’s peace plan.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
EU Urged to Welcome Skilled Russians to 'Bleed' Putin Regime
Nearly 80 percent of respondents left Russia after 2014, the year Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine. Of them, 44 percent fled after the full-scale invasion.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
Russia Launches Combined Missile and Drone Attack on Kyiv and Other Regions
The Ukrainian Air Force successfully intercepted five out of six missiles and 24 drones during the Russian assault.
June 12, 2024
OPINION: Making The World Safe For Autocracy
Propaganda assets like Tucker Carlson are useful in ways the KGB barely could have dreamed of during the Cold War.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
White House Says Will Announce Steps on Frozen Russian Assets at G7
G7 leaders hope to agree a deal on using the profits from the interest on 300 billion euros ($325 billion) of frozen Russian central bank assets to help Kyiv.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
Kyiv Hopes Russia Will Attend Second Ukraine Peace Summit
Moscow said it had no interest in joining the meeting and so was not invited by hosts Switzerland, while Kyiv wants to get some concrete outcomes from the meeting to take forward to a second summit.
June 12, 2024
Russia
ANALYSIS: Is Twitter’s Russia Problem Getting ‘Alarmingly’ Worse?
There are growing concerns that Russia is attempting to influence the outcome of the upcoming US elections, as it did in 2016. The lack of action to prevent Moscow’s plan has startled experts.
June 12, 2024
War in Ukraine
Russia Tests ‘First Person View’ Remote-Controlled Tank
Milbloggers have posted footage of Russian military engineers apparently driving a captured Ukrainian T-72AMT tank converted to be driven remotely. Commentators try to work out why.
June 12, 2024
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