WSJ: Moscow Stock Exchange to remain closed for third week.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.