Cover photo: This photo published on June 1, 2023 on the official Telegram account of Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, shows what is presented as part of a drone on a street in Belgorod. HANDOUT / AFP
- The Kiev military administration announced on Friday morning that it had thwarted more than 30 Russian attacks on the city overnight., “an attack using drones and cruise missiles simultaneously”. The Ukrainian capital has been targeted almost daily for more than a week; At least three people, including a child, were killed in an airstrike on Thursday morning.
- Several Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian air defenses near Kursk, a Russian city near the border with Ukraine, the governor announced early Friday morning. The Kursk border region has been regularly bombed by Ukrainian forces since the beginning of the war.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday urged European leaders to step up their support for Ukraine, during an unprecedented summit in Moldova, a small country also living in fear of Russian aggression. He used the platform offered by the second meeting of the European Political Community to push vigorously for his country’s accession to NATO and the European Union.
- Moscow on Thursday claimed Ukrainian forces tried to invade Russia’s Belgorod region and carried out heavy attacks in which 11 people were injured, particularly in the border town of Chebekino.
- Emmanuel Macron said Thursday he sees no “useful discussion” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at this time.. In the near future, Ukraine must receive “stronger, tangible and very clear” security guarantees at the NATO summit in July, the French President stressed.
- Poland and the Netherlands announced plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets. Warsaw, which has “some” Patriot air defense systems, has invited other countries that have such systems to share them with Ukraine.
- The United Nations has expressed “concern” about the “slowdown” in the implementation of the agreement allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported across the Black Sea. The Secretary-General’s spokesman on Thursday spoke of the “spectre of food price inflation”.
- On Thursday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) paid tribute to journalist Arman Soldin, who was killed by a rocket in Ukraine on May 9. He was 32 years old. Dignitaries in attendance included Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, Ambassador of Ukraine Vadym Omelchenko and media executives.
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