North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and sappers to Russia's Kursk region to help rebuild it after a Ukrainian incursion that North Korean troops helped Moscow repel this year,

Vladimir Putin and the Russian government are now demanding that Ukraine destroy all Western-supplied weapons used on the battlefield as a condition for reaching a peace agreement. This latest demand adds to a growing list of preconditions set by the Kremlin for ending the war.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday, June 11th, that Russian military casualties have surpassed the one million mark since the full-scale invasion began in 2022. -This “grisly milestone,

"A deadly attack in Ukraine by the Putin regime, whose cruelty and cynicism know no bounds," he said. “To the Kremlin, which would like to establish peace in the Middle East: start with Ukraine.” The diplomat also expressed his condolences to the families of those killed in Kyiv by the Russian strike.

Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR) has reported that an uninsured Aframax-class oil tanker has been conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers in international waters between Greece and Cyprus since July 2024.

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that the Russia-Ukraine war could have been avoided if Moscow was still a part of the G7 forum. Trump called Russia’s 2014 expulsion from the group a grave mistake and suggested that Putin would not have invaded Ukraine had Trump been in the White House four years ago.

The United States had asked Ukraine not to strike Russia’s energy infrastructure, after which Russia launched a combined attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities in Kremenchuk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated this in his evening address.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is afraid that conducting military exercises near the Ukrainian border could provoke tensions. Zelenskyy made the remark in response to questions about whether the joint military drills between Belarus and Russia might be used as a cover for a potential ground offensive.