June 19 marks two years since Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a mutual defense treaty in Pyongyang, bringing Russia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) into their closest alignment since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the two years since, DPRK troops have fought alongside Russian forces in the war against Ukraine. North Korean missiles have struck Ukrainian cities, and millions of exported artillery shells have helped fuel Russia's war machine. In re

"Bulgaria will ask Patriarch Kirill to be removed from the sanction package," Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said.

Outgoing U.S. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard's declassification of intelligence that she claims reveals U.S. funding for biological laboratories, including in Ukraine, was quickly amplified by Russian propaganda bot networks, the Kyiv Independent has learned. The claims themselves are hardly new. Russian propaganda outlets have pushed variations of the same narrative for years, and Gabbard herself promoted similar allegations before joining the Trump administration. Information

"Russian ballistic missiles remain a problem, and we need an answer to that problem," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Russia's new law authorizing the use of military force abroad to "protect Russian citizens" allows the Kremlin to deploy troops beyond Russia's borders if Russian citizens are deemed to face arrest, detention, trial, or other forms of perceived persecution by foreign states or international courts. Many will read this primarily as a possible legal basis for future intervention. Yet there's one more application we should all be aware of. Russia has previously justified military action beyond it

The U.K. will provide Ukraine with 150,000 drones and more than 350 air defense missiles and radar systems under a new military aid package worth 752 million pounds ($1 billion), the British government announced on June 18. The package, unveiled during the NATO defense ministers' meeting and Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) gathering in Brussels, will be financed through the U.K.'s 2.26 billion-pound ($3 billion) Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loan to Ukraine, backed by proceeds g

Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched seven Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles and 239 drones overnight on June 18.

The Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War (POWs) has not specified how many civilians and military personnel were among the 522 repatriated bodies.

Kateryna Zarembo has spent years researching and telling important stories from Ukraine. As a researcher and writer, she famously captured the cultural and linguistic richness of eastern Ukraine through field work while Russian propaganda tried to erase it. Her book "Ukrainian Sunrise" stands as evidence that Donbas was never, as the Kremlin claimed, a "Russian" region but one with deep Ukrainian roots.   Then the full-scale invasion came, and the need to tell stories stopped. Today, Zarembo i

The bank said that inflation slowed in May to 8.2%, after a bump from 7.4% in January to 8.6% in April, partly driven by the war in the Middle East.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that around 10 countries had expressed support for the new Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) packages.

Ukraine's General Staff denied Russian claims that a Ukrainian drone struck a bus carrying a Belarusian children's football team in Bryansk Oblast, saying no Ukrainian drones were deployed in the region at the time.

At least 17 people, including two children, were injured in Moscow Oblast in the attack, Russian authorities claimed.

The number includes 1,370 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Russian strike drones circled the capital in a second wave of attacks after a round of ballistic missiles threatened Kyiv earlier in the night.

The bridge crosses the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne and is located on the Kerch-Dzhankoi railway line, a key route used by Russian forces to transport military equipment and fuel to troops on the southern front.

The office of European Council President Antonio Costa has established limited diplomatic contacts with the Kremlin in recent weeks as the bloc explores reopening communication channels with Moscow, the Financial Times reported on June 17.

"I am grateful to President Trump for his attention to Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

U.S. President Donald Trump, fixated on Iran in a one-hour press conference at the end of the G7 summit, thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for supposedly not helping Iran as much as he could have.

The paintings, valued at around Hr 26.3 million (approximately $586,000), have since been unlawfully listed in the Russian Culture Ministry's register of museum valuables.

Key developments on June 17: * G7 leaders 'ready to consider' granting Ukraine military production licenses, agree to increase arms deliveries * Ukraine strikes Russian shadow fleet tanker in Black Sea, military infrastructure, General Staff says * Ukrainian, French defense firms to receive $23 million in grants under Brave France initiative * 'Hell is beginning' — Ukraine could isolate occupied Crimea as drone strikes disrupt logistics, Fedorov says * Ukraine denies Russian claim that Ukr

Ukraine could effectively isolate occupied Crimea as drone strikes increasingly disrupt Russian logistics routes, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.

To free market fans, of which I consider myself, "capital controls" is something of a four-letter word. They can be convoluted, complicated, and scary to international and domestic investors alike. Even when central banks and governments impose them for legitimate reasons, it is not just the bureaucratic hoops you need to jump through that stoke fear, but the reminder that investors' positions are at the whim of governmental entities. In Ukraine's case, however, capital controls were both a so

Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesperson for the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, explains how Ukraine secured its maritime corridor, pushed Russian warships away from its coast, and adapted to a new era of naval warfare shaped by drones.

Russia's battlefield offensive has slowed. But far from the front lines, the war is becoming deadlier. Russian forces launched 70 missiles and over 600 drones at Ukraine in a mass overnight assault on June 15. Of the 34 ballistic missiles fired, 19 were aimed at the capital. Kyiv's beleaguered Patriot batteries did a valiant job, intercepting 15 of them, along with five of the six 3M22 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles launched in the attack. Still, even layered defenses were stretched beyond

A widening split inside the online pro-Trump political ecosystem is exposing a growing ideological fracture over U.S. foreign policy, particularly America's war against Iran and Russia's all-out assault on Ukraine. What some analysts and participants describe as a "MAGA civil war" has emerged as a visible rupture within the American conservative movement, dividing former allies of U.S. President Donald Trump who have turned sharply critical of his foreign policy positions from those who remain

EVIAN, France — The G7 summit ended on June 17 with leaders celebrating a changed tone and greater alignment on support for Ukraine, but have left President Volodymyr Zelensky short of much concrete to take back to Kyiv. Ukraine has made strategic gains against Russia on the battlefield in recent months, but remains powerless in the face of ever harsher ballistic missile attacks against civilian targets, and facing a $52 billion hole in its budget that needs to be filled, in practice by donatio

Editor's note: In accordance with the security rules of their unit, the soldiers featured in this story are identified by their callsigns only. In a light pine forest on Sweden's fortress island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, a state-of-the-art Leopard 2 tank was in trouble. The tank had barely begun moving out on an offensive mission before it had been spotted and tracked down by a drone belonging to the opposing forces. Its pilot: 37-year-old Ukrainian reconnaissance drone pilot Kvita, who h

The tanker is subject to sanctions imposed by the EU, Switzerland, the U.K., Canada, and Ukraine, according to the General Staff.

The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the Eurosatory 2026 defense exhibition in Paris by French Defence Innovation Agency (AID) Director Patrick Aufort and Brave1 Chief Operating Officer Iryna Zabolotna.

This marks a notable rise from 23% in 2023, as Zelensky's presidency enters its seventh year, reflecting a broader public demand for change across other branches of government as well.

"The Prosecutor General must address the matter without delay," Magyar wrote on X on June 17.