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Zelensky met with Ukraine's negotiating team ahead of talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. He said Ukraine wants to bring the war closer to an end and needs peace, security guarantees and a dignified postwar settlement. "Our proposals are prepared," he said.
Russia is reportedly developing cheap jet-powered missiles for more frequent strikes on Ukraine, according to Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine's defense minister. The concept would combine speeds closer to conventional cruise missiles with lower costs, smaller warheads and larger production volumes. Ukraine is also developing jet-powered interceptor drones expected to engage targets trave...
❗️Monitoring channels report that Russia is preparing another large-scale missile strike. One Tu-95MS was redeployed from the Far East to Engels to be armed with cruise missiles and is expected to move to Olenya later today. It is the second aircraft to make such a flight this week. Five more Tu-95MS bombers are reportedly armed in the Far East.
Drones attacked the Lady Maria in the Mediterranean, reportedly striking the vessel 12 times. Alexander Nevzorov claimed the ship was carrying Iranian weapons for Russia and that the drones used in the attack may have been launched from Libya. He suggested the objective was to disrupt the ammunition shipment rather than sink the vessel.\
❗️The Kremlin signaled little prospect of a breakthrough and no intention of abandoning its military goals in Ukraine, Bloomberg added. Kremlin-linked sources said Putin is ready to end the war only on his terms, with Moscow hardening its demands because it believes it has the military advantage. After talks with Trump's envoys, Putin aide Yuri Ushakov said Russia pointed to what it called battlef...
❗️Witkoff and Kushner discussed US ideas for ending the war with Putin during their three-hour Kremlin meeting, Axios reports. A White House official said the sides discussed "substantive plans for next steps" that will be announced in the coming weeks. Acting…
❗️Witkoff and Kushner discussed US ideas for ending the war with Putin during their three-hour Kremlin meeting, Axios reports. A White House official said the sides discussed "substantive plans for next steps" that will be announced in the coming weeks. Acting US sanctions chief Gene Lange also joined the trip and a preparatory meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, but not the Putin meeting. Axios said hi...
Ukraine says air defenses downed or suppressed 88 Russian aerial targets overnight: 82 Shahed, Gerbera and other drones, plus six S8000 Banderol systems. Russia launched 108 drones in total. Strikes were recorded at 11 locations and debris fell at seven.
❗️Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Ryazan oil refinery, setting the facility ablaze. The Rosneft-controlled plant has a design processing capacity of about 17 million tons of crude per year, or roughly 340,000 barrels per day. It produces gasoline, diesel and aviation kerosene, supplies fuel to civilian consumers and the Russian military, and is a key motor-fuel supplier for regions around Moscow.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Rzeszow, Poland, on their way to Kyiv after leaving Moscow's Vnukovo Airport aboard a US Air Force aircraft. Flightradar24 data earlier showed their flight crossing Polish airspace. The US representatives are traveling further to the Ukrainian capital by train after their talks with Putin at the Kremlin.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left Moscow and are expected to arrive in Kyiv tomorrow for talks with Zelensky. Kirill Dmitriev, Putin's envoy involved in Russia-US negotiations, called the two US representatives "peacemakers."
Former CIA Director David Petraeus called Ukraine "the defining military laboratory of the 21st century." He said future historians will study the war as previous generations studied the US Civil War and the World Wars because it has revealed that warfare has entered a fundamentally new era.
Russian losses per 06/09/26 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff+1390 men+3 tanks+5 ACVs+33 artillery+3 MLRS+1 AD system+1435 UAVs+5 GRCs
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