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Ukraine must import at least 4.6 bcm of gas in 2025 – Energy Minister
Interfax Ukraine
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June 20, 2025
Ukraine will be forced to import no less than 4.6 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas this year due to Russian attacks on domestic production facilities, Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko told parliament. "This year, because of Russian...
Ukraine released a video of a cheap drone capturing a soldier and escorting him on its own
Business Insider
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June 20, 2025
Ukraine's military released footage on Thursday of a rare instance where a first-person-view drone captured a man, identified by Kyiv's forces as a Russian soldier, and brought him alone to Ukrainian lines. The incident was recorded on Tuesday,...
Ukraine Frontline Update: Heavy Russian Losses and Ukrainian Defense Successes
Mezha
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June 20, 2025
Over the past day, there have been 176 combat engagements on the front, resulting in losses of approximately 1,090 Russian Federation military personnel, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to updated data,...
Ukrainian Brigade “Chervona Kalyna” Captures Russian Infantry in Donetsk
Mezha
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June 20, 2025
In the Pokrovsk direction of Donetsk region, fighters of the “Red Kalyna” brigade successfully captured a group of five Russian infantrymen. The occupiers were found in the basement of a house where they were trying to hide. This information was...
SBU Arrest Serviceman Targeting Ukrainian Neptune Missile System for Russia
Kyiv Post
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June 20, 2025
Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) reported via its Telegram channel on Thursday that it had detained a traitor from within Ukraine’s Armed Forces (AFU) who was preparing to assist a Russian attack on a Neptune anti-ship system covering part of the...
Russian drones slam into 2 Ukrainian cities, killing at least 1 person in nighttime attack
WTOP - District Columbia
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June 20, 2025
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones slammed into two Ukrainian cities, killing at least one person in nighttime attacks, authorities… KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drones slammed into two Ukrainian cities, killing at least one person in nighttime...
Issue of buying equipment for Ukrainian Khmelnytsky NPP in Bulgaria is open, project not cancelled – minister
Interfax Ukraine
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June 20, 2025
Ukraine has not received an official refusal from Bulgaria to sell it equipment for two Khmelnytsky NPP units No. 3,4, continues to work on the project and hopes for the active participation of the International Atomic Energy Agency in this, said...
What's next for Ukrainians returning from Russia prisons?
Deutsche Welle
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June 20, 2025
When Yuriy Hulchuk returned to Ukraine after two and a half years of Russian captivity, he seemed strangely emotionless. A video on social media shows his mother hugging him upon his return, but he doesn't react. Days later, he spoke about the...
Sustainable business hub opens in Kyiv with UNDP, Japanese govt support
Interfax Ukraine
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June 20, 2025
Photo: Andriy Krepkykh / UNDP A Sustainable Business Hub has opened in a protected area of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) in Kyiv, supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Government of Japan. The...
Estonian Intelligence predicts drop in Russian drone attacks on Ukraine
Ukrainska Pravda
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Stock photo: Getty Images Estonian intelligence has suggested that Russian drone attacks on Ukraine may decrease due to the escalating situation in the Middle East. Source: Colonel Ants Kiviselg, Head of the Intelligence Centre of the Estonian...
Zelensky Says Ukraine Needs $40 Billion Annually in ‘Budgetary Support’ to Keep Up Fight Against Russia
Breitbart
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June 20, 2025
Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine will need at least $40 billion per year from Western allies to ensure that it can keep up the fight against Russia and has called for additional pressure from the Trump administration on Moscow. Ukrainian...
WFP to continue supporting Ukraine – Zelenskyy
Interfax Ukraine
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June 20, 2025
Photo: https://www.president.gov.ua Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) Cindy McCain in Kyiv. “I thanked her for the continued attention to our country and our people. Mrs....
Violent clashes break out at cathedral in Ukraine
Church Times
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June 20, 2025
THE rivalry between Orthodox Churches in Ukraine has deepened after violence broke out in a cathedral in the south-western city of Chernivtsi, in the Bukovina region, on Tuesday. A group of young men, whom the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) says...
FSB arsonist plotting assassination detained in Kyiv
Ukrinform
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Counterintelligence operatives with the Security Service of Ukraine apprehended a Ukrainian army deserter who flipped onto the Russian side to commit acts of arson and intended to assassinate an FSB target. That’s according to the SBU press...
URCS opens innovative space for entrepreneurs in Kyiv
Interfax Ukraine
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June 20, 2025
Photo: https://www.facebook.com/RedCrossUkraine The Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) has opened an innovative space for entrepreneurs in Kyiv - RED HUB. "We are opening not just a hub, but a growth point for a new wave of entrepreneurs who are...
Russian drones slam into two Ukrainian cities
PerthNow
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June 20, 2025
Russian drones have slammed into two Ukrainian cities, killing at least one person in night-time attacks, authorities say, as a Kremlin official says he expects an announcement on dates for a fresh round of direct peace talks. Russia's drone...
For the children: Russian gains spark exodus from east Ukraine
The Economic Times
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June 20, 2025
Natalia Golovanyk would probably have stayed in her village in east Ukraine, even with Russian forces closing in, but authorities issued an order for children to be taken to safety. That meant the 30-year-old had little choice but to urgently pack...
American killed in Russian attack on Kyiv came to help clear rubble – NYT
Ukrinform
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American artist Fred Grandy, who was killed during a Russian airstrike on Kyiv on June 17, had come to Ukraine as a volunteer to help clear debris from buildings destroyed by Russian attacks. The New York Times said this in an article dedicated to...
Russia and Ukraine swap more POWs in second exchange in two days
The Gazette - Colorado
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MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) -Russia and Ukraine completed another round of prisoner exchanges on Friday, officials in both countries said, part of a recent agreement to swap POWs and the bodies of dead soldiers. Neither Russian nor Ukrainian officials...
Russian strikes kill one, injure 13 in Ukraine
Punch
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June 20, 2025
One person was killed and more than a dozen others were wounded in Russia’s latest aerial attack on Ukraine, which targeted the southern port city of Odesa, officials said on Friday. Emergency services published images of firefighters helping a...