The decision was announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The final decision to grant the status must be approved by all 27 member states. The commission also decided that Georgia would be able to get candidate status after meeting certain conditions.
An oil refinery in the Russian city of Samara was struck by Ukrainian drones, and a manufacturing facility in Cheboksary was targeted by missiles overnight on June 10, social media channels reported.
The Verkhovna Rada failed to gather enough votes for some bills demanded by the EU and the IMF, and one bill necessary for European integration was passed but was lambasted by experts as "imitation" rather than genuine progress.
The number includes 1,190 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
"Germany will contribute an additional 300 million euros to this initiative – that's approximately 50,000 rounds of long-range ammunition," German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said.
Ukraine signed new defense cooperation agreements with Latvia and Estonia on June 9, deepening security and defense ties with the Baltic nations.
Damir Davydov, a Russian military official responsible for missile and artillery ammunition supplies, was killed in a car bombing outside Moscow on June 9.
"No country in Europe is off Russia's target list since its invasion of Ukraine," Kallas said.
In its latest update, the General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck targets across several regions in Russia and occupied Ukraine, including an ammunition depot, command posts, drone control centers, logistics hubs, supply warehouses, and concentrations of Russian troops.
Russia's answer to Starlink has lost one of the first satellites launched for its planned internet network, according to Russian state-controlled newspaper Kommersant.
This is the second time in the past three days that the bridge has been closed, following an overnight strike on June 7 involving Ukrainian FP-2 and Behemot drones.
The newly approved strategy calls for gradually replacing aging Soviet-caliber artillery systems with domestically produced weapons while retaining some of the most advanced foreign-made systems currently in service, Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
The shift comes after Rumen Radev — a Russia-friendly former president and a longtime critic of military aid to Kyiv — won the Bulgarian parliamentary elections in April.
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