- Ukrainian officials restrict Independence Day celebrations, fearing Russian attacks will escalate on Wednesday’s anniversary.
- A senior Russian official rules out the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine in the near future.
- Ukrainian officials restrict Independence Day celebrations, fearing Russian attacks will escalate on Wednesday’s anniversary.
- A senior Russian official rules out the possibility of a diplomatic solution to end the war in Ukraine in the near future.
- Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) blames Ukrainian secret services for killing the daughter of a Putin ally, an accusation dismissed by Kyiv as “fiction”.
- Ukrainian military chief says nearly 9,000 service personnel have been killed by Russian forces during the war.
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