2025-06-03: Ukraine Roundup

So far today: 2025-06-04 03:59am GMT

Uwe Parpart, Diego Fassnacht (2025-06-03). Interview: AfD's Frohnmaier rejects Merz's Ukraine strategy. asiatimes.com In an era of intensifying geopolitical rifts, the foreign policy positions of Europe's political parties are gaining renewed global attention. In Germany, the nationalist right-wing Alternative fàºr Deutschland (AfD) has emerged as a significant player challenging the consensus positions of the country's traditional parties. In this exclusive interview, Markus Frohnmaier—foreign policy spokesperson for the AfD—shares …

presstv.ir (2025-06-03). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.

Andriy Movchan, Victor Osprey (2025-06-03). 'No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin'. internationalviewpoint.org "Movchan delves into the current state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the role of the far right in both countries, and the challenges Ukraine's left forces face in building solidarity with their struggles internationally." | – | / |

Dmitri Kovalevich, Orinoco Tribune. (2025-06-03). Six Years Of Dashed Hopes For Peace And Reconciliation In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Six years ago, on May 20, 2019, Ukraine inaugurated a new president who had defeated by a large margin the incumbent Petro Poroshenko, elected in May 2014. That election occurred barely three months following the coup that ousted Ukraine's elected and constitutional president, Viktor Yanukovych, and its national legislature. | Poroshenko is one of the richest men in Ukraine. His five-year presidential term firmly placed Ukraine on the global map as a hostile, 'anti-Russia' at the service of the Western powers. | Following the 2019 election campaign, the candidate who became president, Volodomyr Zelensky, continue…

Oleksandr Skiba (2025-06-03). Evolution of the Trade Union Movement in Ukraine. internationalviewpoint.org "The Ukrainian trade union movement is at a historic crossroads. To continue to operate with outdated models and methods is to embark on the road to insignificance and decline. Faced with the profound transformation of society and post-war reconstruction, the trade unions must choose: extinction or modernisation." | – | / |

Duncan Chapel (2025-06-03). "Putin's Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses 'Antifascism' to Justify the War in Ukraine" internationalviewpoint.org

Editor (2025-06-03). Russia, Ukraine Agree on Prisoner Swap But No Progress on Ceasefire. scheerpost.com

Andriy Movchan, Victor Osprey (2025-06-03). Russia's war and the national question in Ukraine. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Victor Osprey speaks to left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan about Ukraine's long and complex relationship with Russia, and how this history can help us better understand the nature of the current war. This is part one of a two-part interview.

Human Rights Watch (2025-06-03). Ukraine: Russia Using Drones to Attack Civilians. hrw.org Click to expand Image | © 2025 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch | In 2024, Russian drone strikes killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds more in the city of Kherson, in apparently deliberate or reckless attacks that constitute war crimes.The attacks have the apparent purpose of instilling terror in the civilian population in Kherson, part of a widespread attack against that population.These attacks underscore the urgency of identifying effective ways to enforce respect for international humanitarian law, including through prosecutions of serious crimes in Ukraine.(Kyiv, June 3, 2025) — Rus…

ICRC (2025-06-03). Ukraine: 'We lost a part of our soul, not just a hospital'. icrc.org

The Independent (2025-06-03). Ukraine, Russia peace talks in Istanbul complex but positive. independent.co.ug ISTANBUL | Xinhua | The latest round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, held in Istanbul on Monday under Turkish mediation, concluded with what officials described as some positive developments, particularly on humanitarian matters. Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Oncu Keceli confirmed that the talks, held behind closed doors, "did not end negatively." Following the …

newarab (2025-06-03). Trump 'open' to meeting Ukraine, Russia leaders for truce push. newarab.com Delegations from both sides did, however, agree another large-scale prisoner exchange

Anatol Lieven (2025-06-03). Fresh Ukraine, Russia demands show no interest for actual peace. responsiblestatecraft.org The memos presented by Ukraine and Russia at their direct talks in Istanbul on Monday make it absolutely clear that, absent a strong U.S. intervention based on a detailed U.S. peace plan, there will be no peace settlement in Ukraine.It is not just that several of the positions on both sides are completely mutually incompatible; they suggest that at present neither side is in fact interested in an early peace. The Ukrainian

albawaba (2025-06-03). Video: Ukraine blows up Kerch bridge in Crimea. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Ukraine has blown up the Kerch bridge in the Crimea region, a video released by Ukraine's Security Service was shared on social media on Tuesday. Kyiv used underwater explosives to carry out the attack.According to the Euro News website, the Kerch bridge was "illegally" constructed by Russia following the unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula.Media reports revealed that the Kerch bridge in Crimea is considered a main bridge made by Russia after its unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula back in 2014.pic.twitter.com/TvNjHWZZs3— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) yalensis (2025-06-03). Ukraine War Day Russia's Pearl Harbor? Part II. awfulavalanche.wordpress.com Dear Readers: | Concluding my review of As we saw, the attacks all happened at the same time and followed the same pattern: A freight-carrying truck would drive up to an aerodrome carrying a load of FPV drones in containers. At a certain moment, the containers would burst open, and the kamikaze drones would fly out and do their thing, targetin…

geo.tv (2025-06-03). Ukraine says it hit Russia's bridge to Crimea with underwater explosives. geo.tv This handout image released by the Ukrainian Security Service on June 3, 2025, allegedly shows people inspecting damage to the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with Russia following a special operation carried out by the Ukrainian Security Service, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict….

Howard Altman (2025-06-03). Ukraine Strikes At The Heart Of Russia's Highly Defended Kerch Bridge. twz.com This is the third time Russia's prized span connecting its mainland with Crimea has been successfully struck, although the extent of the damage is unclear.

A a (2025-06-03). Regime de Kiev ataca a Rússia para boicotar processo de paz. strategic-culture.su

A A (2025-06-03). Kiev regime attacks Russia to boycott peace process. strategic-culture.su

A A (2025-06-03). A peace deal in Istanbul won't happen until NATO is off the table. strategic-culture.su

Editor (2025-06-03). GOP Senator's Defense of Medicaid Cuts: 'Well, We All Are Going to Die'. scheerpost.com Joni Ernst. Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 By Sharon Zhang / ARepublican senator has dismissed her constituents' concerns that the GOP's sweeping cuts to Medicaid could kill people by saying that "we all are going to die" in a comment on Friday. | As Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst answered a question about the GOP's cuts in a town hall, constituents concerned o…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. (2025-06-03). The Golden Dome Is Nothing More Than A Massive Corporate Welfare Program. popularresistance.org The Trump administration is reviving previous administrations' plans to build a missile defense system in space. They are calling it the "Golden Dome," similar to Israel's Iron Dome. The Congressional Budget Office estimates it will cost trillions of dollars at a time when the United States has a record-high national debt and is failing to meet domestic needs. Clearing the FOG speaks with Bruce Gagnon, the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, about the history of the US project to control space and mine its resources in defiance of United Nations treaties and who will bene…

Natalia Marques (2025-06-03). "We are all going to die" : right-wing US Senator callously responds to concern over public healthcare cuts. peoplesdispatch.org Conservative lawmakers are facing waves of popular backlash to the Republican-backed "Big Beautiful Bill" due to proposed Medicaid cuts…

greenleft.org.au (2025-06-03). Senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Labor to end the Stolen Generations. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2025-06-03). NATO risks nuclear catastrophe with attack on Russian airports. wsws.org The destruction of strategic bombers deep inside Russia by the Ukrainian secret service SBU shows that NATO will stop at nothing to escalate the war with Russia, even if it means provoking a nuclear catastrophe.

WSWS (2025-06-03). "Well, we all are going to die" : Republicans gloat over death-dealing social cuts. wsws.org Senator Joni Ernst counseled those who objected to the prospect of death due to Medcaid cuts to seek "eternal and everlasting life" and "embrace Jesus Christ."

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