U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny, and Minister of Defense Oleksii Reznikov discussed how to continue to strengthen Ukraine on the battlefield.
The Ukrainian troops captured a resident of Donetsk, who has been fighting against the Ukrainian army since 2015 as part of a tank unit of the so-called "people's militia" of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”.
Russian ships and long-range bombers continue to launch missile strikes on the Ukrainian territory from the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. Currently, there are six enemy cruise missile carriers in the Black Sea with up to 36 missiles.
Volunteer fighters from 55 countries from all continents have joined the Ukrainian military's international legion that was created in Ukraine in connection with the Russian invasion of the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has informed President Andrzej Duda of Poland and President Zuzana Caputova of Slovakia about the ongoing covert mobilization in Russia.
Evacuation has been announced for the villages of Zaizd, Petrivske, Tykhe and Sukhostavets in the Pryluky district, Chernihiv region, after a Russian missile strike.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk has said he expects German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to fulfill his promises of providing weapons to Ukraine and giving Kyiv the prospect of EU membership as part of his upcoming visit to Kyiv.
The key tactical goal of the Russian army in eastern Ukraine has not changed, and Russia will try to deploy reserves in the Donbas, but it may lose 40,000 of its troops already in June.