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The Finnish Foreign Ministry responded to Russia's overnight attack on Ukraine by calling on the Kremlin to agree to a full and unconditional ceasefire.

A total of 113 media workers have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

The idea is to better integrate the group’s work with NATO's Ukraine aid mission and the smattering of so-called capability coalitions.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has responded to Russia’s massive overnight attack on Ukraine on Friday, June 6, calling it an act of barbarism.

The Kremlin said on Friday that the Ukraine war was “existential” for Russia, after it launched a wave of retaliatory drone and missile strikes that killed at least three in Kyiv. AFP journalists heard air raid sirens and explosions ring out over the capital throughout the night as Ukrainian air defence batteries intercepted waves of Russian drones and missiles. Kyiv announced that Russia had fired 45 missiles and 407 drones in the barrage, after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed retaliation for an audacious Ukrainian attack on several Russian airbases. President Volodymyr Zelensky in response urged allies to “decisively” ramp up pressure on Russia to halt the war, which has left tens of thousands dead over more than three years of fighting. “We heard a drone — we heard it coming very close, and then there was an explosion,” Ksenia, a Kyiv resident, told AFP outside a multiple-storey housing block that was left with a charred and gaping hole. “Our windows and window panes were blown out, but we got away ...

Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced the signing of an agreement with his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov, aimed at strengthening cooperation with Ukraine’s defense industry.

Ukraine has up to 12 months to adopt all required legislation, including at least eight key draft laws in the field of justice and judicial reform, to receive full funding under the Ukraine Facility, which provides for EUR 50 billion in assistance until 2027.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) have signed the first agreement under the European Union’s export credit guarantee program for Ukraine, allocating EUR 20 million in support.

U.S. President Donald Trump said that during a phone call on Wednesday, he urged Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin not to launch a retaliatory strike on Ukraine following successful Ukrainian attacks on Russian military targets.

The Swedish government has instructed the country's armed forces to allocate SEK 550 million (approximately $30 million) in support of Ukraine through NATO.

Norway will allocate USD 7 billion in aid to Ukraine in 2025.

The United States is reportedly refusing to provide air defense assets to protect a peacekeeping force that the UK and France intend to deploy in Ukraine after the war ends.

Ukraine and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed an agreement required to receive $3 billion under the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loans initiative.

In Ukraine, as a result of the Russian Federation's armed aggression, 631 children have been killed, 1,975 have been wounded, and another 2,244 children are missing

The co-chairs of Wednesday’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG), British Secretary of State for Defense John Healey and German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius reaffirmed readiness of the Ramstein format participants to provide Ukraine with long-term military aid.

Ukraine has been elected as a member of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for the period from 2026 to 2028.

US President Donald Trump said he spoke to Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about Ukraine and Iran, warning that the Kremlin leader had “very strongly” pledged to respond to Kyiv’s stunning drone attack on Russian bombers. Trump said that there was no “immediate peace” on the horizon in Ukraine — which Russia invaded in 2022 — following what he described as a one-hour and 15-minute call with the Russian president. On Iran, Trump said that Putin had offered to “participate” in talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme, as Trump accused the Islamic republic of “slow walking” its response to Washington’s offer of a deal. The call came three days after Ukraine conducted a massive, daring drone attack against Russian military airbases, saying it had destroyed several Russian nuclear-capable bombers worth billions of dollars. Trump said that he and Putin had “discussed the attack on Russia’s docked airplanes, by Ukraine and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides”. “It was a go...

Warsaw and Berlin have a special role to play in ensuring the security of NATO's eastern flank and supporting Ukraine.

Germany has already transferred a quarter of its available Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine and cannot provide more from its own stock. However, Berlin is actively seeking to acquire such systems from partners for subsequent delivery to Ukraine.

Lithuanian statesman and politician, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, believes that if Ukraine had the opportunity to increase its weapons production tenfold, it could significantly change the course of the war, enabling the country to deter or push back Russian forces.