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A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

Our front page today. Powerful and moving journalism from the very brave Malak A Tantesh and @_EmmaGH

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This is a powerful, courageous and nuanced report by @francisjfarrell, who spent time in the largely encircled city of Pokrovsk - a city that may soon fall to Russian forces kyivindependent.com/24-hours-insid…

Btw the problem with Snyder and co's embarrassing "escape from fascism" is not just that it's cringe. The problem is that Snyder sends the wrong signal. Do not fight, run away. I left Russia after very concrete threats to my safety and after years of doing everything I could.

One of the most moving trips I've made in this war: spending 24 hours inside southern Pokrovsk, with both soldiers and civilians fighting for survival, in their own ways. I captured what it's like inside in the near-surrounded city for @KyivIndependent: kyivindependent.com/24-hours-insid…

Extraordinary. AFP says its journalists are in imminent risk of being starved to death by Israel. This has never happened since the agency was founded. Never has any of its journalists been starved to death

The former head of Germany‘s Social Democrats has travelled to Moscow multiple times since the start of Russia‘s full scale invasion. Investigation by ⁦@christogrozev⁩ ⁦@traufetter⁩ and myself ⁦@derspiegel⁩ (1) spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…

So a Russian guy in attempt to avoid military service and possibly going to war in Ukraine swam a river from Kaliningrad region to Lithuania and asked for a political asylum. Lithuania is deporting him back to Russia. Guess what his fate in Russia would be.

СРОЧНО ‼️ 24-летняя чеченка Лаура Авторханова, бежавшая от семьи в Грузию, только что была похищена в Тбилиси пятью чеченскими мужчинами. Прямо сейчас ее везут в Россию. Как помочь: звонить пограничной полиции, чтобы машину не пропустили (+995 32 241 42 42; +995 32 231 30 76)

How Russia grooms Ukrainian teens as spies and saboteurs Since last spring, Ukraine has arrested more than 700 people implicated in espionage, arson & bomb plots orchestrated remotely by Russian intel. Of those, around 175 (~25%) were under 18 years old. ft.com/content/5cb5eb…

Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in its shadow war. The most detailed account yet of Moscow’s grim new tactic of recruiting unwitting suicide bombers. By @shaunwalker7 theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

Last night on Russian state TV’s flagship weekly news show, a soldier nonchalantly admitted to mutilating captured Ukrainian snipers by cutting off their index fingers on both hands

New: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says member countries agreed to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP because of a rising threat from Russia -- and that Trump has committed to supporting NATO @guardian exclusive @PjotrSauer @dansabbagh theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

This is like that Elon tweet when he apologised for going too far

Putin’s inner circle frequently takes a harder public line than he does, both to allow him to seem more moderate if needed and because it’s politically safer to appear hawkish than soft. But the tactic sometimes backfires

My story about a newish phenomenon of deportations from the occupied areas of Ukraine. Russia tells people they are banned from “Russia” for 40/50 years, drives them 20 hours under guard to the border with Georgia and pushes them across theguardian.com/world/2025/jun…

"In total, between January and April 2025, [Russian] funeral service providers in the country earned nearly 40bn rubles – (£380m), a 12.7% year-on-year increase, according to Rosstat, Russia's federal state statistics service." @PjotrSauer on Russia's casualties and the human…

The results of 25 years of Putin’s rule. As @planca notes that are two fast ways up the social ladder towards high-end consumption in Russia now: going to war for boys and becoming sex workers for girls