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🇺🇦Pistorius said the war in Ukraine has entered a decisive phase, and the allies must seize this opportunity.
Responding to a question about the creation of a €40 billion fund to support Ukraine at the NATO summit, the German defense minister stressed that allies should take advantage of the current moment.
Russia has begun a major expansion of Alabuga, its main Shahed drone production facility.
OSINT analysts have released recent satellite imagery showing that construction has begun on new production facilities in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Tatarstan, covering an additional 340 hectares. Installation of the main structures is already underway.
Alabuga is where the majority of Russia’s Geran-series attack drones, a localized version of the Iranian Shahed, are manufactured. According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russia plans to produce up to 60,000 long-range attack drones and another 50,000 decoy drones this year.
Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Alabuga with long-range drones, but the facility continues to expand its production capacity.
🤬Damage estimated at approximately $1.9 million. The Ukrainian Red Cross humanitarian warehouse in Kyiv was completely destroyed during the overnight Russian attack.
As a result of the destruction, about 320,000 units of humanitarian aid and equipment worth more than $1.9 million were lost.
According to the organization, the warehouse was storing emergency response supplies at the time of the strike, including medical equipment, generators, stretchers, defibrillators, and patient monitors.
It also contained supplies for emergency response operations, including blankets, hygiene kits, sleeping kits, and materials for temporarily sealing damaged buildings.
⚡️ A record 52,500 Kyiv residents, including 4,500 children, took shelter in the metro during the overnight Russian attack [1-2 July 20206], the Kyiv Metro press service said.
According to the metro, this is the highest number of people to seek shelter underground in the past several years
❗️More than 70 heads of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations visited the site of the Russian strike on a residential building in Kyiv.
Foreign diplomats were urged to increase pressure on Russia to force it to end the war, as well as to expand support for Ukraine.
Russia monitored European nuclear facilities with drones for 18 months, according to The Guardian.
Analysts from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) identified 144 suspicious incidents across more than 10 European countries. The targets included the RAF Lakenheath airbase in the UK, the Île Longue nuclear submarine base in France, and facilities in Belgium and the Netherlands that store US nuclear weapons.
The drones are believed to have been launched from vessels belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet,” with the operation reportedly coordinated by Russia’s GRU.
🇪🇪The Estonian government has approved a ban on the purchase of real estate by certain categories of Russian and Belarusian citizens, as well as companies under their control.
The ban will apply to individuals without permanent residence in Estonia and to legal entities whose beneficiaries are citizens of those countries.
The law will enter into force on January 1, 2027.
The assassinations of Russian generals have exposed deep divisions within Putin's security apparatus, Fox News reports.
A series of killings of senior Russian military officers has highlighted growing tensions between the Russian military and the Federal Security Service (FSB), according to a source in European intelligence and Russian opposition politician Maxim Katz.
On June 9, a BMW exploded in Balashikha, near Moscow, killing Lieutenant General Damir Davydov of the Russian Ministry of Defense, who was responsible for supplying Russian forces with missiles and artillery ammunition. Notably, the explosion occurred about 350 meters from the site where Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the Russian General Staff, was killed in a car bombing in April 2025.
Earlier, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces, was killed in Moscow when a bomb concealed in an electric scooter exploded. At the time, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine told Reuters that the operation had been carried out by the SBU.
According to Fox News' sources, these attacks are part of a broader campaign targeting senior Russian military leaders and increasingly reveal internal problems within Russia's security system.
A source in European intelligence said that since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, senior officers have been killed not only on the battlefield but also in missile strikes, drone attacks, car bombings, and plane crashes.
“There are internal contradictions between Russia's security structures. The Russian military wants the FSB to guarantee the physical security of its generals, but the FSB is unwilling to take responsibility for protecting the military,” the source said.
The UK Royal Air Force will decommission its Storm Shadow cruise missiles, according to Defense Express. @notimagain
The decision is outlined in the UK’s Defense Investment Plan, approved by the British government, which allocates £298 billion (about $395 billion) in defense funding over the next four years.
“Having studied the experience of Ukraine, we are now moving to the next generation of low-cost cruise missiles, which means we will acquire significantly more missiles at a lower overall cost,” the document states.
The plan does not specify when the transition will take place, although most of its programs are scheduled to be implemented by 2030. It also does not identify the new low-cost missiles that will replace the Storm Shadow.
In addition, the UK will invest £300 million (about $398 million) “to apply lessons learned from Ukraine and its technological innovations to develop new, lower-cost cruise missiles, initially air-launched, with further exploration of land- and sea-based variants.”
The Russians struck a swimming pool in Zaporizhzhia with a drone.
❗️Russian massive attack on Kyiv: 10 people remain unaccounted for, President Zelenskyy says.