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5:43 AM

Russia claims to block Ukrainian offensive in South Donetsk direction.

Russian Defense Ministry claimed to have thwarted a major Ukrainian offensive in the Donetsk region on the morning of June 4, according to a Telegram update cited by the BBC.

4:24 AM

Media: Latvia transfers 66 vehicles confiscated from drunk drivers to Ukraine.

Latvian authorities transferred 66 cars to Ukraine, according to the State Insurance Agency data reported in media outlet Delfi on June 4.

3:04 AM

Anti-Kremlin militia plans to give Russian prisoners to Kyiv.

The Russian anti-Kremlin militia said it plans to give Russian soldiers captured during a cross-border raid to the Ukrainian authorities in a video published on Telegram on June 4.

12:07 AM

War update

Ukraine war latest: Zelensky says Ukraine ready for counteroffensive; Russian attack near Dnipro kills 2-year-old.

11:54 PM

Update: Ukraine downed 6 out of 8 Shahed drones overnight.

Ukrainian forces downed six out of eight Iranian-made Shahed drones, as well as four out of six Kh-101 cruise missiles launched by Russia at Ukraine overnight on June 4, the General Staff reported, citing updated information.

11:33 PM

Russia shells 9 communities in Sumy Oblast, injures 2 civilians.

The Russian army shelled nine communities in Sumy Oblast on June 4, firing 104 rounds from various types of weapons, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported on Telegram.

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11:08 PM

Zelensky: Russia manages to bypass sanctions, uses other countries to ‘continue terror’.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 4 during his video address that Russia manages to bypass international sanctions and benefit from Western technology by using a network of intermediaries.

10:10 PM

Russian attacks kill 2 civilians, injure 3 in Kharkiv Oblast.

Two women, aged 62 and 74, were killed on June 4 as a result of Russian shelling of the city of Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, the regional prosecutor's office reported.

9:10 PM

Minister: Only half of bomb shelters in Kyiv ready to receive people.

After more than 15 months of Russia's war against Ukraine, only half of the 1,078 bomb shelters in Kyiv checked by a government commission are ready for use, Strategic Industries Minister Oleksandr Kamyshin reported on June 4.

8:05 PM

Official: Up to 20 Ukrainian men arrested every day for illegally crossing border.

Andriy Demchenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's State Border Guard, reported on June 4 that border guards detain up to 20 men trying to go abroad illegally every day.

6:58 PM

Anti-Kremlin militia claims to have yet another incursion in Belgorod Oblast, seeks meeting with local governor.

Governor of Russia's Belgorod Oblast Vyacheslav Gladkov claimed on June 4 that he was ready to meet the Russian anti-Kremlin militia behind the latest incursion in Belgorod Oblast.

6:33 PM

Ukraine's first lady: ‘A threat to our children is a threat to all children’.

On June 4, Ukraine commemorates the children killed by Russia's war. The latest victim is a 2-year-old girl killed by a missile attack on June 3.

5:46 PM

Clinic guard arrested over locked bomb shelter that led to civilian deaths in Kyiv.

In an unexpected turn that left many commentators dissatisfied, the June 3 arrest hearing appeared to put the majority of responsibility for the tragedy on the clinic's elderly night guard.

3:43 PM

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1:49 PM

Danilov: Ukraine lost 7.5 times fewer troops than Russia in Bakhmut.

Ukraine's losses in the Battle of Bakhmut were lower than Russia's by a factor of 7.5, National Security and Defense Council chief Oleksiy Danilov told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

1:33 PM

Russian proxy in Crimea said occupiers destroyed 9 drones overnight.

Russian-installed head of occupied Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, claimed that the occupiers brought down nine hostile drones on the night of June 4.

1:20 PM

Estonian PM: NATO threatens Russia's imperialism, not its security.

Speaking to the media from a security conference in Singapore, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that Russia's narrative that NATO had a role to play in its invasion of Ukraine sees a great deal of play in Asia and must be refuted.

12:54 PM

UK Defense Ministry: 'Paranoid' Russian officials crack down on blue and yellow colors in public.

Russia is sporadically cracking down on people wearing blue and yellow, interpreting it as symbolism in support of Ukraine, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry's June 4 intelligence update.

12:11 PM

Parliament speaker meets with Azovstal defenders in Turkey.

Chairman of the Ukrainian parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk went to Turkey and met with Azovstal defenders who have been freed from Russian capture and are now under the protection of the Turkish government, the press service of Verkhovna Rada reported on June 4.

11:19 AM

Air Force: Russian cruise missiles hit operational airfield near Kropyvnytskyi.

Two Russian missiles struck an active Ukrainian airfield near Kropyvnytskyi in Kirovohrad Oblast on June 4, according to Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat.

10:10 AM

Governor: Russian forces strike with tanks, helicopters in Kharkiv Oblast.

Russian forces attacked multiple settlements in Kharkiv Oblast on June 4, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.

9:51 AM

General Staff: Russia has lost 209,940 troops in Ukraine.

According to the report, Russia has also lost 3,837 tanks, 7,512 armored fighting vehicles, 6,305 vehicles and fuel tanks, 3,555 artillery systems, 1,132 cruise missiles, 583 multiple launch rocket systems, 344 air defense systems, 313 airplanes, 298 helicopters, 3,175 drones, and 18 boats.

9:32 AM

Air Force: Ukraine downs 4 cruise missiles, 3 drones launched by Russia.

Ukrainian air defenses shot down four of six cruise missiles and three of five drones that Russia used to attack military facilities and critical infrastructure on the night of June 4, the Air Force of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported.

8:26 AM

Update: Two-year-old killed, 22 injured in Russian missile attack near Dnipro

A two-year-old girl was found dead in the rubble of a residential building that was hit by a Russian missile strike on the town Pidhorodne in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on June 3, regional Governor Serhii Lysak said in a post on Telegram on June 4.

5:46 AM

Kyiv official: City's air defenses intercept all incoming missiles, drones Russia launched overnight.

Ukrainian air defenses destroyed all of the missiles and drones that Russia launched at Kyiv overnight on June 4, Serhii Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration reported on Telegram.

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Ukraine ratifies deal with UK to boost navy

by Illia Ponomarenko January 27, 2022 8:29 PM 1 min read

The United Kingdom is to provide Ukraine with a 1.7 billion pounds loan to help Ukraine build up its maritime power. (Ukraine's navy)

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Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has ratified a deal to get a loan worth $2.3 billion (1.7 billion pounds) from the United Kingdom and procure warships and key naval infrastructure.

The bill was supported by 236 lawmakers in the final voting on Jan. 27.

The deal particularly envisages financing a British investment project to provide Ukraine with two minesweeping vessels, as well as to ensure their maintenance and transferring. Earlier, the Royal Navy declared providing Ukraine with two decommissioned Sandown-class ships, HMS Blyth and HMS Ramsey, with the first vessels expected to be handed over in 2022.

The 10-year loan also finances the production of eight new gunboats, two of them being manufactured in Britain and the rest in Ukraine.

Besides, the agreement envisages a joint production of a frigate for Ukraine, as well as the support in installing new naval infrastructure.

It remains unclear whether the U.K. wants to manufacture a brand new Ukrainian frigate on its soil. According to numerous sources, it may invest in the production of half-constructed corvette Volodymyr Velykiy, a project that hasn't been completed in more than a decade due to poor financing.

The funding comes primarily from the U.K. Export Finance program, as well as various bank loans, according to Ukraine's military.

Illia Ponomarenko

Defense reporter

Illia Ponomarenko is the defense and security reporter at the Kyiv Independent. He has reported about the war in eastern Ukraine since the conflict’s earliest days. He covers national security issues, as well as military technologies, production, and defense reforms in Ukraine. Besides, he gets deployed to the war zone of Donbas with Ukrainian combat formations. He has also had deployments to Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an embedded reporter with UN peacekeeping forces. Illia won the Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellowship and was selected to work as USA Today's guest reporter at the U.S. Department of Defense.

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