Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister and former UN representative Serhii Kyslytsia publicly criticized the United Nations General Assembly’s recent decision to establish an International Day of the Horse, questioning the organization’s priorities amid global challenges.
Category: 6. Opinion
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1196: Multiple Ukrainian operations hit Crimean Bridge twice
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Ukraine’s jets adopt Western tactics, learn to hunt in packs. More Ukrainian air force pilots are flying and fighting in complex teams. Bedtime stories and ballistics: How Ukraine’s children are growing up fast. Ukrainian psychologist Oksana Pisareva says kids in therapy… Continue Reading
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US Defense Secretary skips Ukraine meeting for first time since creating it
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will not attend a meeting of 50 defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on 4 June.
This marks the first time in three years a Pentagon chief has skipped the Ukraine Defense Contact Group gathering since 2022, when the group was established on US…
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UK drone deliveries to Ukraine jump from 10,000 to 100,000 in 2025
Britain will deliver 100,000 drones to Ukraine this year in a tenfold increase from 2024 targets, the UK Ministry of Defence announced on 4 June.
The country delivered more than 10,000 drones to Ukraine last year.
The record £350 million ($474 mn) investment in drones forms part of Britain’s…
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Drone hits house in Russian Kursk oblast, woman injured
Ukrainian drones reportedly attacked Russia’s Kursk Oblast overnight on 4 June.
Three unmanned aircraft were spotted over the city of Rylsk, according to the Russian Telegram channel Mash.
One drone fell on a private house in Rylsk, causing a fire. A 66-year-old woman was injured in the attack,…
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95 Russian drones target Ukraine overnight: Kharkiv hit for 90 minutes straight
Russian forces launched a massive drone assault on Ukraine overnight on 4 June, deploying 95 strike drones and decoy aircraft across multiple oblasts.
Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 61 Russian drones, according to the Air Force Command.
The attack targeted Kharkiv, Odesa, Sumy Oblast,…
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Russia builds power lines to exploit Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant it stole — but still can’t run it
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the biggest in Europe, occupied by Russian forces since March 2022, remains completely shut down, with all six reactors in a cold shutdown state.
The Zaporizhzhia NPP has enough capacity to meet the annual electricity demand of countries like Ireland,…Continue Reading
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Bedtime stories and ballistics: How Ukraine’s children are growing up fast
“Imagine you’re wearing a backpack. Not for a day, not for a week — for three years. You sleep with it, play with it, go to school with it. That backpack is fear.”
This is how Oksana Pisareva, a psychologist at the Voices of Children foundation, describes the emotional burden…
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“They trample corpses”: Ukraine’s Muslim leader-turned-medic exposes what Russians really fight for
“They will kill us and our children without hesitation,” says Ukraine’s former chief mufti, watching Russian soldiers crawling over their dead.
The man who once led interfaith prayers for peace in Donetsk’s central square — now under Russian grip for over a decade — serves as a combat…
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Russia captures Sumy’s Kostiantynivka village as Russians try to widen frontline in region
Russian forces have captured the village of Kostiantynivka in northern Sumy Oblast — not to be confused with the strategic town of the same name in Donetsk Oblast — and are intensifying multi-axis assaults toward Sumy City, according to Ukrainian and Western sources.
Russian forces have…Continue Reading