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Wednesday, June 17
Zelensky holds post-G7 call with Trump and Macron, says it 'could make a big difference'
"I am grateful to President Trump for his attention to Ukraine," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Trump thanks Putin for Iran 'neutrality,' immediately challenging G7 claims of tone shift
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.
Former director of Mariupol museum accused of aiding in Russian theft of Ukraine's cultural heritage
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.
Ukraine war latest: G7 leaders 'ready to consider' granting military production licenses to Ukraine, agree to increase arms deliveries
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
'Hell is beginning' — Ukraine could isolate occupied Crimea as drone strikes disrupt logistics, Fedorov says
Ukraine could effectively isolate occupied Crimea as drone strikes increasingly disrupt Russian logistics routes, Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said.
The free-market case for easing Ukraine's capital controls carefully
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
About Odesa Oblast
The region in Ukraine’s southwest covers 33,310 square kilometers (12,861 square miles) along Ukraine's Black Sea coast, with a population of approximately 2.4 million and Odesa city as its administrative center. Odesa Oblast borders Moldova to the west, and Romania across the delta of the Danube. Odesa Oblast serves as Ukraine's main maritime trade gateway and has faced repeated Russian missile and drone strikes targeting port infrastructure since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022.
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"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, said amid Russia's attack.
