The British Foreign Office has said that the United Kingdom condemns Russia's decision to use North Korean ballistic missiles in its recent attacks against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s counterintelligence operatives together with National Police and Moldova’s Information and Security Service neutralized an international criminal group that had been trafficking Ukrainian citizens of conscription age outside the country.
Russian troops conducted offensive actions to the northwest of the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut, while Ukrainian forces made marginal advances in the western Zaporizhzhia region.
The training course for Ukrainian combat pilots on F-16 fighter jets will be completed in several months - later this year - at an air base in Arizona.
Germany has sent a new military aid package to Ukraine, which includes air defense missiles, infantry fighting vehicles, radars, trucks and other equipment.
The operational situation in the east and south of Ukraine remains difficult, as Ukrainian defenders repelled 23 attacks in the Avdiivka sector and seven attacks in the Zaporizhzhia sector on Thursday.
During its recent missile attacks on Ukraine, Russia used at least several ballistic missiles that it received from North Korea to circumvent international restrictions.
If some of the U.S. weapons are past their expiration date and are set to be destroyed, they should instead be donated to Ukraine as they have a good chance of still being effective on the battlefield.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine expressed gratitude to international partners who facilitated the exchange of prisoners of war, ensuring their release from Russian captivity.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reminded foreign partners that the Western coalition, which previously amounted to just 19 to 20 nations, has outcompeted the Soviet Union, which used to be much powerful than today’s Russia.