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US announces new $2.1 billion package of military aid to Ukraine   (The Associated Press) The Pentagon announced Friday that it will provide an additional $2.1 billion in long-term weapons aid for Ukraine. Read More

 

 

 

 

 

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 474   (Al Jazeera) Ukraine said its troops recaptured three villages from Russian forces in its southeast, the first liberated settlements Ukraine has reported since the start of its latest counteroffensive. Read More

 

 

Russia claims it blew up Ukrainian tank but video shows it’s a tractor   (The Associated Press) A grainy black-and-white gunsight video Russia released this week to bolster a claim its military blew up some of Ukraine’s most fearsome tanks actually documented the destruction of a tractor, according to a visual analysis by The Associated Press. Read More

 

 

How the US Patriot missile became a hero of Ukraine war   (Wall Street Journal) The air-defense system is doing what it was designed for—40 years after it was brought into service. Read More

 

 

A dam collapses and thousands face the deluge — often with no help   (The Associated Press) For days, the Ukrainian teenager has waited in the attic, just down the street from the cemetery of her flooded town, marking time with her 83-year-old grandfather and two other elderly people and hoping for help to escape the deluge of a catastrophic dam collapse. Read More

 

 

White House says Iran is helping Russia build a drone factory   (The Associated Press) Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, according to a U.S. intelligence finding released by the White House on Friday. Read More

 

 

Putin says tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed to Belarus by July   (The Associated Press) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the Belarusian opposition described as an attempt to blackmail the West. Read More