A Trump Presidency would bring an end to US support for Ukraine…..
Trump would embrace the Putin peace ‘plan’ that would have Russia keep what ever gains it has as of now….
Ukraine HAS enough ammo to answer Russian advances now, a change from the situation a few months ago…..
Iran gets buddy-buddy with Iran in addition to North Korea….
China does NOT like getting caught up the conflict……
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The European Union has begun membership talks with Ukraine, in a landmark moment for the country bogged down fighting off the brutal Russian invasion now in its third year. EU ministers are launching official membership talks with Ukraine and later on with neighbouring Moldova, who lodged applications soon after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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Ukraine has downed 1,953 Shahed drones out of 2,277 launched by Russia this year alone, Ukraine’s air force commander said on Tuesday. “Air defences destroyed about 86% (of the drones),” he said on Telegram.
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The international criminal court issued arrest warrants on Tuesday for Russia’s former defence minister and its military chief of staff for attacking civilian targets in Ukraine. The court is accusing former defence minister Sergei Shoigu and chief of staff Valery Gerasimov of war crimes and the crime against humanity of inhumane acts.
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Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff applauded the International Criminal Court’s move to issue arrest warrants for Russia’s former defence minister and chief of general staff on Tuesday, saying it was “an important decision”. “(Sergei) Shoigu and (Valery) Gerasimov bear individual responsibility… (They) will held be responsible for evil,” Andriy Yermak said on Telegram.
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Russia’s Security Council said on Tuesday that the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for former defence minister Sergei Shoigu was part of a hybrid war against Moscow, the state-run news agency Tass reported. The ICC issued arrest warrants for Shoigu, who is secretary of the Security Council, and leading Russian general Valery Gerasimov on Tuesday for alleged crimes committed during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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The European Union will open membership talks with Ukraine on Tuesday, giving the country a political boost in the midst of its war against Russia’s invasion, although a long and tough road still lies ahead before it could join the bloc. The ceremony in Luxembourg will be more about symbolism than the nitty-gritty of negotiations, which will start in earnest only after the EU has screened reams of Ukrainian legislation to assess all the reforms needed to meet the bloc’s standards, Reuters reported.
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President Maia Sandu welcomed the start of the EU accession talks with Moldova, stressing that her country is within the European family. “We are stronger together,” she said on X. The European Union is set for a symbolic opening of membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova on Tuesday.
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Ukrainian troops trying to hold their ground on the eastern front in Donetsk region may still be outnumbered by Russian forces, but the “shell hunger” that plagued them for months as ammunitions started to run out is now behind them. One unit in Donetsk region, the focus of Russian troops’ slow advance along the 1,000 km (600 mile) front, fired its M-109 self-propelled howitzer as needed – there were no further fears of running short of Western-supplied 155 mm shells, Reuters reported.
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Two key advisers to Donald Trump have presented him with a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine – if he wins the presidential election – that involves telling Ukraine it will only get more US weapons if it enters into peace talks. The United States would at the same time warn Moscow that any refusal to negotiate would result in increased US support for Ukraine, retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg, one of Trump’s national security advisers, said in an interview.
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Vladimir Putin’s aide, Yuri Ushakov, said the Russian president’s peace proposals can stop conflict in Ukraine almost immediately, state-run TASS news agency reported on Tuesday. Putin said on 14 June he would be ready for peace talks “tomorrow” if Ukrainian troops withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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Ukraine wants to see a “strong” decision taken at the Nato summit in Washington next month as Kyiv tries to advance its strategic goal of joining the military alliance, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s foreign policy adviser told Reuters. Ihor Zhovkva, who spoke in an interview before travelling to Luxembourg for a European Union meeting that will formally launch accession talks for Ukraine, said that Kyiv wanted the Nato summit to end with concrete results.
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China on Tuesday urged the European Union to revoke sanctions on Chinese companies for what it believes is supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine. China always opposes unilateral sanctions, and has made solemn representations to the EU side, spokesperson Mao Ning told a press conference.
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Moscow expects to sign a new agreement on comprehensive cooperation with Iran “in the very near future,” Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Russia’s RIA state news agency in an interview published on Tuesday. “We expect that this agreement will be signed in the very near future, since work on the text is already close to completion. All the necessary wording has been found,” RIA cited Rudenko as saying.
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An elderly woman was killed, four people injured and scores of buildings damaged in multiple air attacks by Ukraine on the Belgorod region, the governor of the southern Russian region that borders Ukraine said on Tuesday. The Russian defence ministry said that its air defence systems destroyed a total of 29 Ukraine-launched drones over the region’s territory, Reuters reported……
Jun 25, 2024 – ISW Press
Two major international bodies—the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) — announced decisions on June 25 confirming Russia’s long-term perpetration of war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine. The ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber II (the chamber in charge of the ICC’s Ukraine-related investigations and prosecutions) announced on June 25 that it had issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister and current Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov for “the war crime of directing attacks at civilian objects” in Ukraine.