Russian President,\u00a0Vladimir Putin, and his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, will meet in Tehran later today to discuss the export of Ukrainian grain, according to a Kremlin aide.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Ukraine\u2019s top military commander has credited the \u201ctimely arrival of M142 Himars\u201d – the US-supplied advanced medium-range rocket systems – with helping soldiers retain their defensive positions on the frontline.<\/p>\n
It is 7.30am in Kyiv and here is where things stand:<\/p>\n
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Russian forces shelled a town in eastern\u00a0Ukraine, killing six people, according to Ukrainian officials.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cEarly in the morning, the town of Toretsk was shelled. A two-storey building with people inside was destroyed,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s state emergency services said. \u201cRescuers found and recovered the bodies of five dead people in total. Three people were rescued from the rubble and one of them died in hospital.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Zelenskiy has\u00a0appointed a new security official\u00a0as acting head of the domestic security agency<\/strong>\u00a0after\u00a0two top officials were fired\u00a0over claims of failure to counter Russian infiltration. Zelenskiy\u2019s childhood friend, Ivan Bakanov, will be replaced by Vasyl Maliuk, a former first deputy head of the SBU who led the anti-corruption and organised crime unit of the agency\u2019s central directorate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The United States will continue to provide intelligence to Ukraine\u00a0<\/strong>despite recent changes in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy\u2019s inner circle, the US state department said on Monday. Zelenskiy removed his security service chief and top prosecutor from office on Sunday. US state department spokesperson Ned Price said: \u201cWe invest not in personalities, we invest in institutions. We do have an intelligence-sharing relationship with our Ukrainian counterparts … We continue to proceed ahead with that.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Ukraine\u2019s first lady, Olena Zelenska, met the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, on Monday<\/strong>\u00a0as she began a series of high-profile appearances in Washington that will include a session with US counterpart Jill Biden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Russia\u2019s Gazprom has told customers in Europe it\u00a0cannot guarantee gas supplies\u00a0because of \u201cextraordinary\u201d circumstances<\/strong>, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The Russian state gas monopoly said it was declaring force majeure on supplies, starting from 14 June.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Turkey has said a meeting with Ukraine,\u00a0Russia\u00a0and the UN this week to discuss resuming Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea grain exports is \u201cprobable\u201d<\/strong>, while a Turkish official said lingering \u201csmall problems\u201d should be overcome. A Kremlin aide also told reporters that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan will discuss the export of Ukrainian grain at their meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Erdo\u011fan has threatened once again to \u201cfreeze\u201d Sweden and Finland\u2019s Nato bids unless the military alliance complies with his conditions.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI want to reiterate once again that we will freeze the process if these countries do not take the necessary steps to fulfil our conditions,\u201d he said. Last month, Erdo\u011fan urged the two countries to \u201cdo their part\u201d in the fight against terrorism, accusing them of providing a haven for outlawed Kurdish militants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Ukraine will break diplomatic ties with Belarus if its forces cross the border in support of the Russian invasion<\/strong>, foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with\u00a0Forbes. \u201cBelarus is an accomplice to the crime of aggression, there is no doubt about that. We broke off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation immediately after the start of the full-scale attack. Relations with Belarus will likewise be severed if the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus cross the border of Ukraine,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Foreign ministers from European Union countries have agreed another \u20ac500m (\u00a3425m) of EU funding<\/strong>\u00a0to supply arms to Ukraine, taking the bloc\u2019s security support to \u20ac2.5bn since February. \u201cToday at the EU foreign ministers\u2019 meeting, a political agreement was reached on the fifth tranche of military assistance to Ukraine,\u201d Sweden\u2019s minister for foreign affairs, Ann Linde, said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Putin said it would be impossible to cut\u00a0Russia\u00a0off from the rest of the world,\u00a0<\/strong>adding that sanctions imposed by western countries would not turn the clock back on Russia\u2019s development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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EU foreign ministers are\u00a0discussing a ban on Russian gold imports\u00a0<\/strong>to further curb funding for the Kremlin\u2019s war machine. The EU\u2019s high representative for foreign policy, Josep Borrell, said the ban on Russian gold was the most important measure of the latest plan, which is focused largely on \u201cimproving the implementation of the already existing sanctions\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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The independent Russian TV station, Dozhd, has begun broadcasting from abroad.<\/strong>\u00a0The outlet was blocked in March as the government cracked down on independent media outlets following the invasion of Ukraine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
Russian President,\u00a0Vladimir Putin, and his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, will meet in Tehran later today to discuss the export of Ukrainian grain, according to a Kremlin aide. Meanwhile, Ukraine\u2019s top military commander has credited the \u201ctimely arrival of M142 Himars\u201d – the US-supplied advanced medium-range rocket systems – with helping soldiers retain their defensive positions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6728,8311,11830,5522,5304,8348,5463,5178,6573,6044,9204,1279,1384,5262,6083,5241,12246,11240,7516,159,6621,9505,1195,9127,5335,2944,5718,5345,12027,5491,5492,5918,2264,9225,6825,9246,11493,5252,6277,10454,1152,8145,5342,6895,9833,5572,6864,4802,6967,11973,12114,3805,12103,71,10722,7639,3457,5217,5713,5655,5618,1378,7444,9151,2570,5180,5521,5555,5465,7231,9262,6348,1151,694,6886,5251,2354,3954,36,594,6874],"class_list":["post-24388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alliance","tag-antony-blinken","tag-armed-forces","tag-arms","tag-attack","tag-ban","tag-belarus","tag-biden","tag-black","tag-blinken","tag-border","tag-circle","tag-corruption","tag-cut","tag-dead","tag-died","tag-diplomatic","tag-diplomatic-ties","tag-dmytro-kuleba","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-february","tag-finland","tag-first-lady","tag-forbes","tag-foreign-minister","tag-freeze","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-gold","tag-government","tag-himars","tag-hospital","tag-improving","tag-interview","tag-invasion","tag-jill-biden","tag-killing","tag-kremlin","tag-kurdish","tag-kyiv","tag-medium-range-rocket","tag-meeting","tag-military","tag-ministers","tag-nato","tag-olena-zelenska","tag-one","tag-organised-crime","tag-president","tag-price","tag-putin","tag-removed","tag-rocket","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-soldiers","tag-sweden","tag-tehran","tag-terrorism","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-ukrainian","tag-un","tag-union","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-us-secretary-of-state","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-will","tag-world","tag-who","tag-zelenskiy"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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