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The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine is launching a comprehensive transformation of military service, introducing clearly defined service durations, fair pay, and guaranteed temporary discharge from military service upon contract completion.
Iran peace deal looms, new military action flares near Strait of Hormuz
Syrskyi discusses current needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the commander of the NATO special mission.
Russian forces launched an airstrike on the city of Sloviansk, injuring three women.
The situation in the Kostiantynivka sector remains difficult, but there is no encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the Kostiantynivka area.
Lebanon has reported Israeli strikes on the country's south shortly after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for 20 locations including the city of Nabatieh ahead of raids there.
The Ukrainian General Staff stated that the Ukrainian army targeted a Russian oil infrastructure facility in the Volgograd region.
Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed 8 and injured 62, with drones and guided aerial bombs hitting several communities in Synelnykove district.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Ukrainian army targeted a Russian oil infrastructure facility in the Volgograd region.
Ukrainian military struck Russia's oil infrastructure facility in Volgograd region, Ukrainian Staff says.
Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have struck almost all key land routes between occupied Crimea and the Kherson region, including the Chonhar bridge, the bridge on the Arabat Spit, and the Perekop–Armyansk bridge.
Two more people have been reported killed after an Israeli air raid on Deir al-Zahrani in the Nabatieh district, Lebanon. The attack also destroyed a residential building.
The Lebanese army has withdrawn from the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon toward the north of the country.
Video shows strikes by FP-2, Begemot, and other UAS on pontoon bridges near the Chongar bridge, a rail bridge, and trucks by the Phalanx Multi-Domain Task Forces.
Peter Dickinson, UkraineAlert Editor at the Atlantic Council, said that Putin's nuclear threats are aimed more at intimidating Ukraine's Western allies than Kyiv itself, as Ukrainians largely view Moscow's nuclear warnings as a bluff.
Donald Trump said the US has killed the leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
The Russian Defense Ministry reports on the operation in Ukraine: Russian forces are advancing in Konstantinovka, completing clearance of the Pervomaisky district, and have taken control of 172 buildings in the city over the past day. Air defense systems shot down 15 guided bombs and 540 drones. Russian forces struck energy and transport facilities used by the Ukrainian military, as well as storage sites for long-range Ukrainian drones. The Russian army improved its positions and occupied more a
Israeli settlers stole water pipes from a Palestinian house in the Khalayel Al-Louz area, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, today.
Ali Badie, the mayor of Ar-Rihan municipality, has been killed in an Israeli attack on the area in the Jezzine district of southern Lebanon, according to the country's National News Agency (NNA).
Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces struck a training ground in the Zaporizhzhia region where three Russian units were preparing, according to Madyar. The strike hit the Vostochny training ground overnight, which was being used by Russia's 40th Marine Brigade.
In Sumy region, two people died as a result of strikes, the regional military administration reported. On the night of Saturday, June 13, in Sumy region, two civilians died as a result of Russian strikes, according to the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, Oleh Hryhorov. In the Seredyna-Buda community, Russians attacked a private residential building with two strike drones. Unfortunately, a 57-year-old woman who was in the house died at the scene.
Ali Badie, the mayor of Ar-Rihan municipality, has been killed in an Israeli attack on the area in the Jezzine district of southern Lebanon, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).
The Israeli military targeted the municipalities of Ar-Rihan and Kfar Hounah in southern Lebanon's Jezzine district with drone attacks, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike targeting the vicinity of Kafr Tebnite in the Nabatieh district of southern Lebanon.
Ali Badea, the mukhtar (mayor) of the town of Rihan in southern Lebanon, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town, the Lebanese National News Agency reports.
Russia is expanding its drone war against Ukraine. New launch sites for Shahed-type drones have been built near the Belarusian border, allowing Russian forces to strike deeper into Ukraine while increasingly using Belarusian airspace as part of their attack routes.
Lithuania's Crisis Management Center has issued an alert to Vilnius residents after a suspected military drone was detected in Lithuanian airspace, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets.
North Korea has denounced the US for approving the sale of advanced air-to-air missiles and related military equipment to South Korea, warning that the move will further increase tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Several Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation during an Israeli military raid on the Dheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem. Israeli forces stormed the camp and fired tear gas and stun grenades.
Europe has nothing to replace the US military assets that Washington plans to reduce. According to Bloomberg, Washington intends to soon cut the number of strategic bombers by 30% (Europe has none at all), attack drones by 75-100%, fighter jets by three times, and ships by half.