Cargo volumes carried by Russian Railways (RZD) continue to plummet: in 2024, shipments fell 4.1%, a record drop in 15 years, but in 2025 the decline doubled, according to RZD statistics cited by The ...

The legal mandate for a special tribunal to prosecute Russian crimes of aggression against Ukraine has been determined and will soon be published, Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform reported on ...

Queen Maxima of The Netherlands has presented a Prague church with a bell cast from remnants of munitions and weapons Russia used against Ukraine, the AP reported on June 5.

US President Donald Trump was impressed by Operation Cobweb, in which Ukraine successfully attacked Russian strategic aircraft, Axios reports on June 5.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has called for increasing the size of the country’s armed forces by 60,000 soldiers to strengthen NATO’s defense capabilities, Bild reported.

Ukraine’s Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said in Washington that the investment fund created under the US–Ukraine critical minerals agreement could begin operations by the end of 2025, Reuters ...

Russian forces hit the Kherson Regional Administration building with guided aerial bombs for the second time on June 5, public broadcaster Suspilne reported.

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb called on the United States and the European Union to intensify sanctions against Russia in a statement posted on the social media platform X on June 5.

A building of Kherson Oblast’s state administration was partially destroyed in a direct hit with a Russian guided bomb, regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Telegram on June 5.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the redirection of special anti-drone missile fuzes, originally intended for Ukraine to combat Russian drones to U.S. Air Force units in the Middle East, ...

Russia launched a large-scale overnight assault on Ukraine early on June 5, deploying 103 Shahed-type attack drones, decoy UAVs, and one Iskander-M (KN-23) ballistic missile, Ukraine’s Air Force ...

Five people, including a toddler, were killed and six others were injured in a massive Russian drone attack on residential areas of the city of Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine’s State Emergency ...