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What does Russia do when sanctions strand ten ice-class tankers? It offers to buy them
Novatek’s Singapore arm is negotiating for ten ice-class carriers it has struggled to build at home.
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20 June 2026
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1577: Zelenskyy gives Lukashenka one week to remove Russian signal repeaters from Belarus border towers
- “What happens in Ukraine matters in Indo-Pacific”: Australia pledged Ukraine another $70 million
- Military techRussia sent quad bikes to clear a minefield. Ukraine’s drones did the rest.
- Watch Ukrainian drones hit gas storage site deep in Crimea. Same operation took out radars, tankers, and Russian command post
- “If he doesn’t, Ukraine will”: Zelenskyy just gave Lukashenka one week to strip Russian repeaters off Belarus’s border towers
- Safe Moscow is gone: Ukrainian drones hit Russian capital’s region for the third time in four days
- This Spanish kit turns Ukraine’s Soviet 1960s Grad rockets into precision weapons
- Ukraine rewrites rules for its frontline inventors
- InternationalWorld draughts readmits Belarus. Its president sees Russia next as soon as the war ends
- Russian drones kill one sailor and wound five in attack on two civilian ships in the Black Sea
- From battlefield trophy to allied blueprint: Ukraine opens its Russian arsenal
- AnalysisRussian forces depend on Crimea. Ukraine is turning it into an island.
- Ukraine’s special forces disabled the rail bridge feeding Russian-occupied Crimea
- EU leaders agree to renew Russia sanctions for a full year for the first time as Bulgaria’s pro-Russian leader vows to veto the next batch
- A French factory that makes drones for Ukraine was firebombed with Molotov cocktails
- Daily reviewRusso-Ukrainian war, day 1576: Drones hit a refinery 15 kilometers from the Kremlin. “Safe Moscow” is no more.
- “Safe Moscow” is no more – drone strikes are eroding the sense of security felt in Russia’s capital, SBU unit says
- UK to fund 150,000 Ukrainian-made drones and 350 air defense missiles in £752 million package funded by Russian assets
- Ukraine, Germany to jointly develop anti-ballistic air defense system amid increased attacks
- Oil storage site burns in Russia’s Rostov Oblast after Ukrainian strike on key fuel logistics hub behind occupied territory
- Finland ends nuclear weapons ban as parliament approves major NATO-aligned defense shift
- Russian services collecting Moldovans’ data for fraud operations, security agency warns
- Money MattersWhat does Russia do when sanctions strand ten ice-class tankers? It offers to buy them
Daily Review
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1577: Zelenskyy gives Lukashenka one week to remove Russian signal repeaters from Belarus border towers
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1576: Drones hit a refinery 15 kilometers from the Kremlin. “Safe Moscow” is no more.
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Russo-Ukrainian war, day 1575: Ukraine destroys 250 Russian artillery systems in two nights
Industry focus
Europe can legally quit Russian LNG today. It keeps choosing not to.
Since October, every long-term buyer has had legal cover to walk away from Russian LNG. Only Germany has even asked.
ISW: Russia gains ground in Kostiantynivka but Fortress Belt stays out of reach
Russia's strategy of stacking armies on one Donetsk Oblast city is producing slow infiltration, not the operational breakthrough Moscow needs to crack the fortified chain, ISW says.
Ukraine’s drones now have Russian convoys riding out with four gun trucks and a prayer
Until last month the trucks rolled out unarmed—now 71% of them have vanished from the M-14 entirely.
As UGV adoption soars, Ukraine must write the playbook for saving soldiers’ lives
Number of units using UGVs doubled from 117 to 230 in six months
Ukraine is droning Russian ships. The goal: to create supply bottlenecks on land.
Ukraine's drones aren't just attacking Russia's supply trucks. They're now hitting Russia's supply ships, too.
Russia’s last “Ukraine peace deal” led to Europe’s biggest war since WWII. Here’s why this one could be worse.
Moscow isn’t just negotiating—it’s setting the stage. Behind closed doors, familiar tactics are at play, and the consequences could reshape Europe’s future once again.
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget hole
The combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue.
Russians pulled 30-year record of cash from banks in May. Central Bank now tracks monthly cash limits, can freeze “suspicious” withdrawals
Analyst cites geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainty, internet outages disrupting online banking, and central bank rate cuts as driving the cash flight.
Ukraine honors Euromaidan Press war correspondent Zarina Zabrisky with the Order of Merit
Recognition for years of Kherson dispatches and the documentary
Ukraine’s drones got bigger warheads. A Russian corvette in the Baltic just found out.
The Fire Point FP-1 that struck Boikiy at Kronstadt on 3 June crossed 1,100 km to get there — and arrived with a heavier warhead than the model that started Ukraine's deep-strike campaign.
“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy
It was also not formulated, "We're doing this so that Russia can lose this war." So the formulation became, "We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes," Admiral Bauer tells EP
Why is Ukraine losing ground? Mobilization crisis and command failures exposed
Ukraine's military problems can no longer be ignored as mobilization failures and systemic issues lead to mounting territorial losses
Evergreens
Yes, Ukraine can win the war – ex-minister decodes victory plan
Zelenskyy's plan and Ukraine's victory are completely realistic, says Andriy Zagorodnyuk. But there is a crucial caveat -- the current paradigm must be changed.
Sport is letting Russia back in. This Ukrainian tennis player says no.
Tennis cracked the door open. Other federations are quietly walking through.
A realistic victory strategy for Ukraine
In a war where offensive operations are equally difficult on both sides, not losing is already winning in the next year and a half
Analysis
A Putin-list oligarch runs Poland’s vape market. The EU won’t sanction him.
Ukraine, Poland, and Australia sanctioned Oleg Boyko. Brussels left him off—as his lawyers move.
