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🇺🇦Ukraine has secured additional air defense assets, including interceptor missiles nearing the end of their service life, Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said.
He added that Ukraine has also identified interceptor missiles with expiring service lives, including PAC-2 and PAC-3 missiles for Patriot air defense systems. According to Tykhyi, Ukraine is conducting active negotiations to obtain these missiles.
Lockheed Martin cannot provide U.S. allies with assurances on delivery timelines for Patriot interceptor missiles, despite plans to triple production capacity, the Financial Times reports.
Speaking to reporters at the ILA Berlin Air Show, Dunn delivered a sobering message to Patriot operators, including Germany, Japan, Poland, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
“Additional production capacity will clearly help meet the needs of many users in a shorter timeframe. But we have no control over how those missiles are distributed. We can’t tell anyone where they will end up on that priority list,” Dunn said.
“There is a lot of discussion coming from the Department of Defense about reallocating supplies and determining who receives missiles first. We do not control any of that.”Earlier this year, Lockheed Martin agreed to increase PAC-3 production from the current 650 missiles per year to 2,000 annually by 2033 under a $4.7 billion agreement with the Pentagon.
Demand for the missiles was already high before the conflict with Iran placed additional strain on Western stockpiles.
The interceptors are also critical for Ukraine, where analysts say Russia is exploiting shortages to intensify ballistic and hypersonic missile attacks. The PAC-3 has proven effective against ballistic missiles, which travel at extremely high speeds and are difficult to intercept, as well as against cruise missiles.
🇮🇳🤬Race for resources: India seeks to acquire Russian coking coal assets — Reuters
Indian state-owned steel producers SAIL and NMDC Ltd are exploring the possibility of acquiring Russian coking coal assets to secure stable supplies of the key raw material.
According to Reuters, an Indian delegation held preliminary talks with the Russian government and industry representatives in May.
India currently imports more than half of its coking coal from Australia, with the remainder supplied by Russia and the United States.
Reuters also reports that India is seeking to increase imports of Russian nickel, a strategically important resource for the production of electric vehicles.
Russia is building a new military base near the Finnish border, Yle reports.
A large military camp designed to accommodate between 4,000 and 6,000 troops is under construction near Petrozavodsk.
Satellite imagery already shows a headquarters building, a parade ground, and about a dozen barracks. More than 50 facilities are planned for the site in total.
Finnish experts believe the base could be intended for a new motorized rifle brigade or even a division. However, they note that Russia’s war against Ukraine currently limits its ability to rapidly build up forces in the area.
❗️Ukraine has returned more military personnel from Russian captivity than remain in captivity, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.
“We do not publicly disclose the exact number. This is a deliberate tactic of the Ukrainian negotiating team. The Russians do not know exactly how many of their citizens are being held by Ukraine. Likewise, we do not publicly disclose how many Ukrainians are being held in Russian captivity,” Lubinets explained.
The ombudsman noted that the official register of missing persons currently includes more than 16,000 civilians from temporarily occupied territories.
According to Lubinets, 1,877 of them have been verified as being in captivity.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine has secured the return of 9,446 people from Russian captivity, including 457 civilians.
From September 1, Russia will be able to seize the property of Russians living abroad as a precautionary measure in cases involving “administrative offenses against the interests of the Russian Federation,” according to a decree signed by Putin, Deutsche Welle reports.
The measure would allow authorities to seize assets even before a final court ruling is issued.
The value of the seized property may also be disproportionate to the size of the fine imposed.
According to the report, the decree expands the range of administrative offenses that can be used for political persecution.
The provisions apply to offenses including:
▫️ Violating regulations governing the activities of a foreign agent;
▫️ Producing and distributing extremist materials;
▫️ Disseminating “fake” information and abusing media freedom;
▫️ Participating in the activities of organizations designated as undesirable;
▫️ Discrediting the Russian army;
▫️ Publicly equating the actions and decisions of the Soviet leadership with those of Nazi Germany;
▫️ Certain forms of petty hooliganism.
Forty-seven countries and the European Union condemned Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant during a meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
With its composite superstructure collapsed onto the hull and its electronic systems destroyed, the Russian corvette Boykiy is likely beyond repair and may be written off, according to OSINT analyst MT Anderson.
High-resolution satellite imagery from Vantor, taken in a dry dock in Kronstadt, shows extensive damage to the vessel following a Ukrainian drone operation on June 3.
🇩🇪 Mercedes-Benz plans to cooperate with startup Tytan Technologies to develop vehicles equipped with interceptor drones and the infrastructure needed to operate them, Spiegel reports.
Tytan Technologies is a Munich-based company that supplies interceptor drones to Ukraine.
According to the publication, the companies plan to sign a memorandum of cooperation during the ILA Berlin Air Show.
The concept involves equipping G-Class vehicles with radars and sensors capable of detecting aerial threats and launching Tytan interceptor drones.
The partners also plan to create mobile air defense teams and integrate command-and-control posts into Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans.
🇺🇦🎭 American actress Sarah Jessica Parker attended a performance by Ukrainian opera stars in New York.