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Drone Attack in Romania Sparks Diplomatic Clash Between Russia and NATO Allies
Romania Expels Russian Consul After Drone Strike Near Ukraine Border
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Putin Speaks on Ukraine Talks, Threats Against Russia, and War with Europe
Russia Has Means to Destroy Anyone Targeting Its Air Defense Bases - Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia has all the means to destroy anyone who attempts to destroy its air defense bases.
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How Will NATO Respond to Its Own Drone Provocation in Romania?
Ukraine Combat Drone Hits Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant Energy Bloc - Rosatom CEO
A Ukrainian combat drone struck the turbine hall building of Zaporozhye NPP energy bloc 6 on Saturday and exploded, CEO Alexey Likhachev has said.
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Experts Assessing Damage From Ukrainian Strike on Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant - ZNPP
Specialists began assessing damage dealt by a Ukrainian drone strike to the turbine hall of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 6, ZNPP spokeswoman Yevgenia Yashina told Sputnik.
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Russian diplomat lambasts Canada’s joint drone production plan with Ukraine
Russia-Ukraine Exchange Of Strikes: From Airfields And Energy To Ports And Oil Depots
On the night of May 30, Russia and Ukraine continued their daily exchange of strikes using unmanned aircraft. According to...
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Military Situation In Ukraine On May 30, 2026 (Maps Update)
Russian strikes destroyed targets in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kyiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kryvyi Rih and the DPR;According to the Ukrainian Air Force, on the night of May 24, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 290 UAVs;Russian...
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Robots are redefining the war in Ukraine – and forcing Russia onto the back foot
Underground, dozens of miles away, veterans of the most brutal urban battles in Ukraine, of Avdiivka and Bakhmut, are commanders in a new kind of killing - one they cannot feel, smell or see up close. An entire mission directing six blasts against three Russian frontline targets in eastern Ukraine will involve no Ukrainian troops on the ground, the battle instead directed from gamer chairs, observed from reconnaissance drones above, run over dedicated livestreams.
Nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine war, Britain says
New intelligence shows that nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Vladimir Putin launched his country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to Anne Keast-Butler, the new head of the United Kingdom's communications and cyber spy agency.
New intelligence shows that nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Vladimir Putin launched his country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to Anne Keast-Butler, the new head of the United Kingdom's communications and cyber spy agency.
How Ukraine's new middle strike drone campaign aims to strangle Russian logistics
A charred Russian KAMAZ armoured vehicle sits by the side of the road, the latest victim of a Ukrainian drone strike. Two Ural heavy recovery trucks can be seen parked either side, while several Russian mechanics attempt to replace the vehicle's melted tires.
Another incoming Ukrainian drone dives, nearly silently, towards the recovery operation, aiming directly for the Russian soldiers. The footage cuts out just before impact.
The video is just one of many that have flooded social media in recent weeks, each showing the devastating impact of Ukraine's relatively new middle strike campaign against Russian logistics which began in earnest in early April.
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A charred Russian KAMAZ armoured vehicle sits by the side of the road, the latest victim of a Ukrainian drone strike. Two Ural heavy recovery trucks can be seen parked either side, while several Russian mechanics attempt to replace the vehicle's melted tires.
Another incoming Ukrainian drone dives, nearly silently, towards the recovery operation, aiming directly for the Russian soldiers. The footage cuts out just before impact.
The video is just one of many that have flooded social media in recent weeks, each showing the devastating impact of Ukraine's relatively new middle strike campaign against Russian logistics which began in earnest in early April.
Analysis: How Ukraine's new middle strike drone campaign aims to strangle Russian logistics
A charred Russian KAMAZ armoured vehicle sits by the side of the road, the latest victim of a Ukrainian drone strike. Two Ural heavy recovery trucks can be seen parked either side, while several Russian mechanics attempt to replace the vehicle's melted tires. Another incoming Ukrainian drone...
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IAEA Sees Damage to Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant From Ukrainian Drone Attack
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have reported damage to the external part of the turbine hall building at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Plant following a Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday, according to a statement from the agency.
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Kiev Regime Honors Nazi Criminals
Written by Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert In...
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US Company Testing Humanoid Robots in War Zone in Ukraine - Reports
US company Foundation Future Industries, which is linked with the family of US President Donald Trump, is testing humanoid robots in the war zone in Ukraine, CNBC reported.
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Attack on Belarus Would Change Conflict in Ukraine - Lukashenko
An attack on Belarus from any territory would have a profound impact on the nature of the conflict in Ukraine, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned.
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Russia And Ukraine Continue The Drone War: Fires At Oil Depots, Drone Production Facilities, And Logistics Hubs
On the night of May 31, Russia and Ukraine continued their daily exchange of strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles. According...
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Ukrainian Attacks on Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant Could Trigger Radiation Disaster
Any attack on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant site carries the risk of a radioactive catastrophe on a scale that defies the logic of military objectives, warns Evgenia Yashina, Communications Director at the plant.
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Ukrainian Strike on ZNPP Dangerous Precedent of Targeted Attack - Rosatom CEO
The Ukrainian strike on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) may not be so dangerous in itself, but is a precedent of a targeted attack on a nuclear power facility important, Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said on Monday.
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Kremlin Blasts France’s Seizure of Tanker as Bordering on Piracy
The detention of the tanker Tagor by French authorities is illegal and constitutes an act bordering on piracy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated on Monday.
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Military Situation In Ukraine On May 31, 2026 (Maps Update)
Russian strikes destroyed targets in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Chernihiv, Rivne, Poltava, Zhytomyr and the DPR;According to the Ukrainian Air Force, on the night of May 24, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 229 UAVs;Russian forces struck an oil depot in Rivne;
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Huge Explosion Rocks Fireworks Factory in Malta, Damaging Nearby Homes
Zelensky Seeks End to Hostilities Before Winter – Budanov
Brussels Explores Refugee Processing Hubs in Central Asia Amid Migration Pressure
Kremlin says receives no reaction from Romania to Putin's comment about downed drone
Even Basic EU Integration Would Trigger Armenia’s Exit From EAEU – Expert
During a recent phone call with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Russian President Vladimir Putin likely reiterated the message he delivered in Kazakhstan: it's either the EU or the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), political scientist Evgeny Semibratov tells Sputnik.
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‘Celebrates With Bloody Child Sacrifice’: Russian MFA Spox Slams Ukraine Over Children’s Day Killing
Ukraine's anti-values reveal its brazen terrorist nature and its rejection of civilized standards, Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik, commenting on the latest drone attack — this time against Genichesk in the Kherson Region.
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Berlin's Lonely Chancellor: Merz Sinks To The Bottom As Brussels Hunts His Rivals
Friedrich Merz has become the most despised politician in Germany, and the unelected machinery of Brussels has chosen this exact...
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‘Celebrates With Bloody Child Sacrifice’: Russian MFA Spox Slams Ukraine Over Children’s Day Killing
Ukraine's anti-values reveal its brazen terrorist nature and its rejection of civilized standards, Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik, commenting on the latest drone attack — this time against Genichesk in the Kherson Region.
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Russia Plans to Present Updated Data on Ukraine's Crimes Against Children to OSCE - Envoy
The Russian mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) plans to present member states with updated information on the crimes by Ukraine against children as part of a special event, Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Dmitry Polyanskiy told Sputnik.
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Vladimir Putin has suffered a fresh wave of war humiliation amid warnings that his unaffordable conflict with Ukraine is pushing his economy to the brink of collapse.
Russia's Finance Ministry and its central bank has projected the government's budget deficit widening to a dangerous level if the Kremlin continues at the current rate of defence expenditure, according to Bloomberg.
The stark warning came as Putin suffered further setbacks on the frontline, where the tide of the war is increasingly turning in Ukraine's favour.
And authorities in Crimea are urging citizens not to panic amid ongoing petrol shortages with pictures showing queues of cars waiting at gas stations.
Russian troops have lost territory for the second straight month in a row with analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) showing that Ukraine retook control of more land than it lost to Putin's forces in May.
Ukraine's army gained a net 282 square kilometres (109 square miles) over the month, the data showed, as Kyiv hails its improving fortunes on the sprawling battlefields across the south and east of the country.
However, it has not stopped the Kremlin's relentless bombardment of its neighbour with a huge overnight barrage of missiles and drones killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens and trapping others.
Domestically, cuts have been proposed to defence spending, with officials advising it will be difficult to fix Russia's stretched finances without finding a solution.
However, disagreement among policymakers has emerged, with senior Defence Ministry figures and some Kremlin officials committed to fulfilling Putin's wartime objectives arguing that military spending should be shielded from cuts.
They argue that reducing defence expenditure would inflict significant harm on the economy, given the large number of businesses that depend on military contracts.
According to several people familiar with the discussions, Putin has instructed Finance Ministry officials to identify savings in other areas of the budget before considering reductions to defence spending.
The sources said the scale of these concerns has not previously been disclosed publicly.
And two people close to Putin's government have revealed that the Defence Ministry is demanding extra funding.
Officials said defence spending may need to rise further this year to cover a budget gap that could reach three trillion rubles (£31billion).
Putin has reportedly been briefed on mounting fiscal pressures since last year, meaning the current difficulties have not come as a surprise to him.
They said any decision on the scale of spending reductions ultimately rests with the president, who has the final say on all major budget matters.
When work began on the 2026 budget, officials were already aware that a funding shortfall of between 1.2trillion and 1.5trillion rubles could emerge during the second half of the year.
Those funds were expected to be required if military spending needs increased.
Sources close to the Russian government said planners had initially assumed the war in Ukraine might be drawing to a close following the meeting between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska last August.
Under that scenario, cutting defence expenditure later in 2026 appeared a reasonable expectation.
The debate over spending priorities began before the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict and has continued since, remaining under active consideration by Putin and senior officials.
The discussions reflect growing concern within the government as Russia's economy comes under increasing pressure during the fifth year of the full-scale war, forcing the Kremlin to weigh difficult financial and political choices.
Those familiar with the matter said higher oil prices driven by the conflict in Iran are unlikely to provide a lasting solution.
In their view, crude would need to remain above $100 a barrel for at least a year to deliver a meaningful boost to the economy.
Even then, they argued, deeper structural problems affecting economic growth, inflation and the banking sector would remain unresolved.
Under the Economy Ministry's three-year budget framework extending to 2028, defence spending was expected to stay largely unchanged.
After rising by around 30 per cent in recent years to support a major increase in weapons production, industries dependent on state defence contracts were forecast to grow by only 4 to 5 per cent in 2026.
And after cutting its growth forecast in December, Russia is swaying towards recession.
The Economy Ministry expects gross domestic product to expand by 0.4 per cent this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.3 per cent.
The deteriorating forecast came after Putin in April demanded answers from his officials as to why the economy was performing poorly.
The admission that the economy was facing issues appeared to signal his anger that officials had not managed to avoid a slowdown.
Russia's budget deficit has reached an unprecedented level despite a rise in oil revenues linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
Official data shows the shortfall for the first four months of the year climbed to 5.9trillion rubles, equivalent to 2.5 per cent of GDP, around half again as large as the government's target for the entire year.
The budget has recorded deficits in each of the past four years, including a 5.6trillion ruble gap in 2025.
Although the current deficit remains below the 3.8 per cent of GDP recorded during the pandemic in 2020, Russia's economy is now operating under far greater pressure from sanctions, while liquid reserves in the National Wellbeing Fund have fallen by roughly 60 per cent compared with levels before the invasion of Ukraine.
Officials based the current budget on relatively cautious assumptions, including a slight narrowing of the deficit and a gradual reduction in military spending.
In an effort to maintain fiscal discipline and comply with the country's budget rule, the government introduced tax increases this year as part of a broader attempt to cool an economy strained by wartime spending.
Expectations that a negotiated settlement to the war might ease financial pressures have failed to materialise.
As a result, policymakers are now faced with the challenge of closing the budget gap, either by reducing spending or identifying additional sources of income.
Government officials are also sceptical that higher oil prices will persist. At the same time, the strength of the ruble has added to fiscal difficulties by reducing the value of export earnings.
Speaking last week, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Kommersant that restraint was needed in public expenditure.
He said: 'Reserves are not endless. Weakness in finances cannot be tolerated in the context of such large-scale transformations in the world,' adding: 'We need to improve the efficiency of budget expenditures.'
It comes as Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the government of Crimea, said on Tuesday that people should be patient and calm amid gasoline shortages on the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Crimea has been suffering from fuel shortages after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted supplies from adjoining Russian-controlled territory.
More than four years since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing almost daily Ukrainian attacks on its oil infrastructure while Western sanctions have made crude exports more costly.
Aksyonov said limits had been imposed on sales of the most commonly used gasoline, Ai-95, and that people would have to use fuel coupons for purchases.
In Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea and the traditional base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, long queues were witnessed at filling stations.
'I haven't been able to fill up for two days now,' resident Oksana Senchenko said.
'Yesterday there was no gasoline, and today I'm driving around town and there's no gasoline, neither 92 nor 95,' she said.
Sevastopol is working to replenish stocks to resume gasoline sales as usual from Wednesday, with sales conducted via fuel coupons only on Tuesday, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-backed governor said.
'This is a temporary measure,' he said on the Telegram messaging app early on Tuesday. 'I want to underline: there is no need to line up early in the morning or spend the day waiting in queues.'
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has ruled out ceding territory occupied by Russian forces and has said Ukrainian sovereignty of Crimea must be restored.
And Ukraine has slowly been gaining the upper hand as the pace of Russia's advance has been slowing since late 2025, hobbled by the increasing effectiveness of Ukraine's frontline and mid-range drone strikes, according to the ISW.
Moscow had lost control of around 120 square kilometres (46 square miles) in April, the first month in which its forces gave up more ground than they captured for two and a half years.
However, Russian soldiers are still infiltrated in most of the areas where Ukraine has retaken territory, the ISW said.
The Russian army regularly sends small groups of soldiers to take up positions along parts of the frontline and hide there - a tactic designed to pave the way for larger groups of troops to advance later.
Ukraine's gains in April and May - around 403 square kilometres (156 square miles) in total - remain marginal, representing around 0.4 per cent of the total territory held by Russia.
But they nevertheless point to a positive trend for Kyiv, which has touted itself as having recently gained the upper hand in the four-year conflict.
'Ukraine's successful mid-range and frontline drone strike campaigns are limiting Russia's ability to transport personnel to the frontline and to supply and sustain frontline positions,' the ISW reported last week.
Most of Ukraine's gains were in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own and is fighting to capture in full, and in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
The estimates exclude advances claimed by Russia but that the ISW has neither confirmed nor denied.
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Vladimir Putin has suffered a fresh wave of war humiliation amid warnings that his unaffordable conflict with Ukraine is pushing his economy to the brink of collapse.
Russia's Finance Ministry and its central bank has projected the government's budget deficit widening to a dangerous level if the Kremlin continues at the current rate of defence expenditure, according to Bloomberg.
The stark warning came as Putin suffered further setbacks on the frontline, where the tide of the war is increasingly turning in Ukraine's favour.
And authorities in Crimea are urging citizens not to panic amid ongoing petrol shortages with pictures showing queues of cars waiting at gas stations.
Russian troops have lost territory for the second straight month in a row with analysis of data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) showing that Ukraine retook control of more land than it lost to Putin's forces in May.
Ukraine's army gained a net 282 square kilometres (109 square miles) over the month, the data showed, as Kyiv hails its improving fortunes on the sprawling battlefields across the south and east of the country.
However, it has not stopped the Kremlin's relentless bombardment of its neighbour with a huge overnight barrage of missiles and drones killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens and trapping others.
Domestically, cuts have been proposed to defence spending, with officials advising it will be difficult to fix Russia's stretched finances without finding a solution.
However, disagreement among policymakers has emerged, with senior Defence Ministry figures and some Kremlin officials committed to fulfilling Putin's wartime objectives arguing that military spending should be shielded from cuts.
They argue that reducing defence expenditure would inflict significant harm on the economy, given the large number of businesses that depend on military contracts.
According to several people familiar with the discussions, Putin has instructed Finance Ministry officials to identify savings in other areas of the budget before considering reductions to defence spending.
The sources said the scale of these concerns has not previously been disclosed publicly.
And two people close to Putin's government have revealed that the Defence Ministry is demanding extra funding.
Officials said defence spending may need to rise further this year to cover a budget gap that could reach three trillion rubles (£31billion).
Putin has reportedly been briefed on mounting fiscal pressures since last year, meaning the current difficulties have not come as a surprise to him.
They said any decision on the scale of spending reductions ultimately rests with the president, who has the final say on all major budget matters.
When work began on the 2026 budget, officials were already aware that a funding shortfall of between 1.2trillion and 1.5trillion rubles could emerge during the second half of the year.
Those funds were expected to be required if military spending needs increased.
Sources close to the Russian government said planners had initially assumed the war in Ukraine might be drawing to a close following the meeting between Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska last August.
Under that scenario, cutting defence expenditure later in 2026 appeared a reasonable expectation.
The debate over spending priorities began before the outbreak of the US-Iran conflict and has continued since, remaining under active consideration by Putin and senior officials.
The discussions reflect growing concern within the government as Russia's economy comes under increasing pressure during the fifth year of the full-scale war, forcing the Kremlin to weigh difficult financial and political choices.
Those familiar with the matter said higher oil prices driven by the conflict in Iran are unlikely to provide a lasting solution.
In their view, crude would need to remain above $100 a barrel for at least a year to deliver a meaningful boost to the economy.
Even then, they argued, deeper structural problems affecting economic growth, inflation and the banking sector would remain unresolved.
Under the Economy Ministry's three-year budget framework extending to 2028, defence spending was expected to stay largely unchanged.
After rising by around 30 per cent in recent years to support a major increase in weapons production, industries dependent on state defence contracts were forecast to grow by only 4 to 5 per cent in 2026.
And after cutting its growth forecast in December, Russia is swaying towards recession.
The Economy Ministry expects gross domestic product to expand by 0.4 per cent this year, down from a previous estimate of 1.3 per cent.
The deteriorating forecast came after Putin in April demanded answers from his officials as to why the economy was performing poorly.
The admission that the economy was facing issues appeared to signal his anger that officials had not managed to avoid a slowdown.
Russia's budget deficit has reached an unprecedented level despite a rise in oil revenues linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
Official data shows the shortfall for the first four months of the year climbed to 5.9trillion rubles, equivalent to 2.5 per cent of GDP, around half again as large as the government's target for the entire year.
The budget has recorded deficits in each of the past four years, including a 5.6trillion ruble gap in 2025.
Although the current deficit remains below the 3.8 per cent of GDP recorded during the pandemic in 2020, Russia's economy is now operating under far greater pressure from sanctions, while liquid reserves in the National Wellbeing Fund have fallen by roughly 60 per cent compared with levels before the invasion of Ukraine.
Officials based the current budget on relatively cautious assumptions, including a slight narrowing of the deficit and a gradual reduction in military spending.
In an effort to maintain fiscal discipline and comply with the country's budget rule, the government introduced tax increases this year as part of a broader attempt to cool an economy strained by wartime spending.
Expectations that a negotiated settlement to the war might ease financial pressures have failed to materialise.
As a result, policymakers are now faced with the challenge of closing the budget gap, either by reducing spending or identifying additional sources of income.
Government officials are also sceptical that higher oil prices will persist. At the same time, the strength of the ruble has added to fiscal difficulties by reducing the value of export earnings.
Speaking last week, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with Kommersant that restraint was needed in public expenditure.
He said: 'Reserves are not endless. Weakness in finances cannot be tolerated in the context of such large-scale transformations in the world,' adding: 'We need to improve the efficiency of budget expenditures.'
It comes as Sergei Aksyonov, the Russian-installed head of the government of Crimea, said on Tuesday that people should be patient and calm amid gasoline shortages on the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
Crimea has been suffering from fuel shortages after Ukrainian drone attacks constricted supplies from adjoining Russian-controlled territory.
More than four years since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia is facing almost daily Ukrainian attacks on its oil infrastructure while Western sanctions have made crude exports more costly.
Aksyonov said limits had been imposed on sales of the most commonly used gasoline, Ai-95, and that people would have to use fuel coupons for purchases.
In Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea and the traditional base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, long queues were witnessed at filling stations.
'I haven't been able to fill up for two days now,' resident Oksana Senchenko said.
'Yesterday there was no gasoline, and today I'm driving around town and there's no gasoline, neither 92 nor 95,' she said.
Sevastopol is working to replenish stocks to resume gasoline sales as usual from Wednesday, with sales conducted via fuel coupons only on Tuesday, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Russian-backed governor said.
'This is a temporary measure,' he said on the Telegram messaging app early on Tuesday. 'I want to underline: there is no need to line up early in the morning or spend the day waiting in queues.'
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has ruled out ceding territory occupied by Russian forces and has said Ukrainian sovereignty of Crimea must be restored.
And Ukraine has slowly been gaining the upper hand as the pace of Russia's advance has been slowing since late 2025, hobbled by the increasing effectiveness of Ukraine's frontline and mid-range drone strikes, according to the ISW.
Moscow had lost control of around 120 square kilometres (46 square miles) in April, the first month in which its forces gave up more ground than they captured for two and a half years.
However, Russian soldiers are still infiltrated in most of the areas where Ukraine has retaken territory, the ISW said.
The Russian army regularly sends small groups of soldiers to take up positions along parts of the frontline and hide there - a tactic designed to pave the way for larger groups of troops to advance later.
Ukraine's gains in April and May - around 403 square kilometres (156 square miles) in total - remain marginal, representing around 0.4 per cent of the total territory held by Russia.
But they nevertheless point to a positive trend for Kyiv, which has touted itself as having recently gained the upper hand in the four-year conflict.
'Ukraine's successful mid-range and frontline drone strike campaigns are limiting Russia's ability to transport personnel to the frontline and to supply and sustain frontline positions,' the ISW reported last week.
Most of Ukraine's gains were in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own and is fighting to capture in full, and in the southern Zaporizhzhia region.
The estimates exclude advances claimed by Russia but that the ISW has neither confirmed nor denied.
Putin warned his Ukraine war is unaffordable with economy on the brink
The warning by the president's senior government officials is the most serious sign of internal division in the Kremlin since their forces invaded Ukraine.
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The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is published annually by Transparency International, a non-governmental organisation. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (not corrupt).
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Military Situation In Ukraine On June 1, 2026 (Maps Update)
Russian strikes destroyed targets in Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Poltava, Rivne, Chernihiv, Odesa, and the DPR;According to the Ukrainian Air Force, on the night of June 1, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 265 UAVs;Russian forces struck port and transport...
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'Utterly Intentional': Kremlin Takes Aim at Ukraine's Assault on Starobelsk College
Ukraine deliberately destroyed a college dormitory in Starobelsk, this fact has already been determined, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
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US Eyes Spreading its Nuclear Footprint Deeper into Europe - Report
The US is weighing whether to expand NATO’s nuclear-sharing framework by inviting more alliance members to host American dual-capable aircraft—warplanes configured to deliver nukes, reports the Financial Times.
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Russia Unloads Hypersonic Fury on Ukraine's Defense Industry in Massive Retaliation
In response to terrorist acts by the Kiev regime, the Russian military carried out a massive strike, the Ministry of Defense reported.
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Pentagon to Award BAE Systems Contract to Service Bradley Fighting Vehicles in Ukraine
British defense firm BAE Systems will provide training and maintenance support for Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M88A2 recovery vehicles in Ukraine.
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Russian Forces Hit Ukrainian Drone Hubs and Troop Bases
Russian forces struck the preparation sites and launch pads of Ukrainian long-range drones, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian units in 133 areas over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.
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