There are 12 links in this entry. They are to reports from Tass, Reuters, the Associated Press, the Kyiv Post, the Moscow Times, and National Public Radio, and to commentary from the Kyiv Independent and Consortium News; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA entry for this date is HERE.) — MCM
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Lavrov urges countries of Global South not to attend Swiss meeting on Ukraine. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called on the countries of the global majority to reject participation in the Swiss conference on Ukraine on June 15-16 and not to succumb to Western pressure on this issue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. READ MORE . . .
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Life on Ukraine’s front line: ‘Worse than hell’ as Russia advances, by Mari Saito | Reuters “They’re constantly firing, constantly probing,” says Viktor, an infantryman.“We have to survive somehow and we have to hold the line.” It is the start of another draining day on. . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 28 Ukraine gets more military aid from Europe but Putin warns of consequences if Russian soil is hit, by Raf Casert and Barry Hatton | AP LISBON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received a second $1 billion promise of military aid in as many days Tuesday during a whirlwind tour of three European Union countries, while President Vladimir Putin warned that hitting Russian soil with Western-supplied weapons could set the war on a dangerous new path. READ MORE . . .
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France’s Macron urges a green light for Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia with Western weapons. From AP. Western countries should let Ukraine strike military bases inside Russia with the sophisticated long-range weapons they are providing to Kyiv, French President Emmanuel Macron said, pressuring his allies in the most recent sign of a potentially significant policy shift that could help change the complexion of the war. READ MORE . . .
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Ukraine urges allies to lift Western arms ban on hitting targets inside Russia. Will they? by Kateryna Denisova | The Kyiv Independent Following a new Russian offensive in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine is increasingly raising pressure on its allies, urging them to lift restrictions on the use of Western-provided weapons against military targets inside Russia. Months before . . . READ MORE . . .
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Off target: Are Kyiv’s GPS-aided weapons susceptible to Kremlin EW jamming? by Leo Chiu and Christopher Stewart | Kyiv Post Despite early battlefield successes, U.S.-made weapons augmented by Global Positioning System satellites for position updates in Ukraine are now susceptible to Russian electronic warfare (EW) jamming, reported the New York Times and the Washington Post, but it is unclear whether other factors are involved. READ MORE . . .
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Raiffeisen’s Russian division to end outgoing U.S. dollar payments. From the Moscow Times. The Russian division of Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank will stop processing outgoing payments in U.S. dollars starting on June 10, the bank announced today, citing “changed requirements of correspondent banks.” “This change affects . . . READ MORE . . .
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Russian troops destroy first French-made TRF1 howitzer in Ukraine operation. From Tass. MOSCOW — Russian troops destroyed the first French-made TRF1 towed howitzer of the Ukrainian army over the past day in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said today in a broader statement. READ MORE . . .
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Examining the success of sanctions on Russia after it invaded Ukraine. Steve Inskeep of NPR speaks with David Wessel about the effectiveness of U.S. sanctions against Russia. Wessel is director of the Hutchins Center at the Brookings Institution. Click HERE to listen and, later, read.
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Ukraine urges allies to lift Western arms ban on hitting targets inside Russia. Will they? by Kateryna Denisova | The Kyiv Independent Following a new Russian offensive in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine is increasingly raising pressure on its allies, urging them to lift restrictions on the use of Western-provided weapons against military targets inside Russia. Months before . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM MAY 28 U.S. endgame in Ukraine — war without bnd, amen, by Patrick Lawrence | Special to Consortium News The American propaganda machine has begun preparing the public for a wider war that is to extend, as a matter of policy and military strategy, into Russian territory. This effort began with . . . READ MORE . . . Click HERE for the referenced May 24 report from Reuters.