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Ukraine Invasion
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Ukraine Invasion

• Russia Unleashes Record Number Of Air Strikes Overnight On Ukraine RFE/RL 09 Jun 2025 -- Ukraine said Russia launched almost 500 air strikes overnight, the largest total in more than three years of war, as Moscow continues to increase pressure on Kyiv ahead of an expected summer offensive and ongoing peace talks that have made little progress.
• Russia Returns First POWs Under 25 in Istanbul Deal Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- On June 9, in line with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements reached on June 2 in Istanbul, the first group of Russian servicemen under the age of 25 was returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
• Zelenskyy Says Still Pressing For Prisoner Swap, But Accuses Putin Of 'Dirty' Games RFE/RL 09 Jun 2025 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would press on with plans for a prisoner swap with Moscow, although he expressed doubts about a successful outcome, while his military leaders denied Russian claims that its forces had for the first time advanced into the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region.
• Russia accuses Ukraine of postponing prisoner swap People's Daily 09 Jun 2025 -- Russia on Saturday accused Ukraine of indefinitely delaying a planned exchange of prisoners and the handover of fallen soldiers' bodies.
• Russian Delegation Head Reflects on Ukraine's Shifting Negotiating Position Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- The Ukrainian delegation in 2022 appeared more autonomous and willing to engage, but by 2025 seemed more constrained, resembling corporate executives with limited decision-making authority, Vladimir Medinsky said in an interview on The Rick Sanchez Effect RT show.
• Massive Strike Launched on Ukrainian Forces Airfield Near Dubno Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Russian troops launched a massive strike with long-range precision weapons on one of the airfields basing tactical aircraft of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Dubno region of the Rovne region in response to Kiev's attacks on Russian military airfields, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
• Russia Pushes Into Dnepropetrovsk Region to Build Buffer Zone - Kremlin Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the latest military moves in comments to the press.
• Unfriendly States Caught Red-Handed Trying to Arm Ukraine With Russian Tech Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- The number of attempts by unfriendly countries to obtain weapons and military equipment for Kiev in Russia is unprecedented, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday.
• Russian Army Destroys 26 of 31 Abrams Tanks Supplied to Ukraine Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- The Russian armed forces have destroyed 26 American Abrams tanks, leaving Ukraine with just five of the 31 tanks received from the United States, Sputnik calculations revealed on Monday.

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Foreign Policy

• Russian President Putin lauds BRICS for 'dictate-free' cooperation Press TV 09 Jun 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow plans to continue working with fellow members of the BRICS group to create a system of equal and mutually beneficial partnership.
• Putin, Trump Have Working Relationship, Get Straight to Point in Talks - Lavrov Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump maintain a working relationship and immediately address substantive matters during phone conversations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
• Press release on Foreign Minister of the Republic of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov's official visit to Russia Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 09 Jun 2025
• Central Asian Leaders Groom Their Offspring As Successors With Moscow Meetings RFE/RL 09 Jun 2025 -- When Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoev travel to Moscow to meet senior Russian officials, it's just another series of meetings between leaders with deep ties. But a series of recent meetings that involved their children told a different story: the succession process is on.

News Reports

• FSB Busts Int'l Group Involved in Smuggling Aviation Equipment Abroad Sputnik 09 Jun 2025 -- Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it had stopped the activities of an international group involved in THE preparation of smuggling of aviation equipment abroad, including to Ukraine.