(2025-06-05). 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.
(2025-06-05). Vladimir Putin's first direct attack on Ukraine after 'Op Spiderweb' | Speech. hindustantimes.com Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched his first direct missile strike on Ukraine following Kyiv's bold "Spiderweb" drone operation, which destroyed over 40 Russian military aircraft. In a televised address, Putin condemned recent railway explosions in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk regions as "terrorist acts," blaming Ukraine's political leadership for orchestrating attacks on civilians. Watch for more…
(2025-06-05). Russian drone attack kills 5 in Ukraine. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – A Ukrainian official said in a statement that drone strikes carried out by Russia led to the killing of five people in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky. Six others were injured in the Russian attack."Five people have been reported dead, including two women and a one-year-old child, who were found under the rubble," Vyacheslav Chaus, a Chernigiv regional official, posted via Telegram."The explosions damaged houses in a residential area," he mentioned. | Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that Moscow will respond to Ukraine's major drone attack on Russian airbases, US President Donald Trump…
(2025-06-05). Ray McGovern: Putin Would Not Rise to the Bait. scheerpost.com The TU-160, one of the types of Russian strategic bombers Ukraine claims were damaged, seen here | over Moscow, Victory Day 2014. (Alex Beltyukov/Wikimedia Commons) | By Ray McGovern / Ukraine's drone attacks on air bases deep inside Russia on Sunday were timed to provoke Russia into shunning the Russia-Ukraine talks set for the next day in Istanbul. Volodymyr Zelensky and his European puppeteers also may have thought they could provoke Vladimir Putin to escalate attacks on Ukraine to such a de…
(2025-06-05). Ukraine: 'We lost a part of our soul, not just a hospital'. icrc.org
(2025-06-05). Canada hosts pre-NATO rearmament affirmation confab. responsiblestatecraft.org 
At CANSEC, North America's largest arms trade show last week, former NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson invoked the spirit of Lyndon Johnson's 1964 speech: "Only by preparing for war will we be able to protect peace." | Robertson described an era that saw the