Drones hit pipeline pumping station in Russia’s Volgograd region
Russian air defence units repelled an overnight drone attack on energy infrastructure in the Volgograd region, with falling debris sparking a fire at a pipeline pumping station in the Zhirnovsky district, governor Andrei Bocharov said. An oil pipeline runs through the district.
The blaze at the dispatching facility was quickly extinguished and no casualties were reported, the governor added.
Ukrainian drone kills one in Russia-annexed Crimea
A Ukrainian drone struck a train in Crimea, killing its assistant driver and injuring the driver, the peninsula’s Russian-installed governor Sergei Aksyonov said in a Telegram post early on Monday.
Passengers on the train, commuting between Moscow and Simferopol, the main city of the Russia-annexed Black Sea Crimea peninsula, were not harmed, Aksyonov said.
Drone raid sirens were sounded in the early hours of Monday in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major export hub for oil and grains in Russia’s Krasnodar region about a two-hour drive from the bridge Moscow built to connect to Crimea, local authorities said on Telegram.
The most recent Ukrainian drone strikes, attacking fuel infrastructure, have forced the Russian-controlled Crimea to tighten its rationing of fuel supplies.
Drone attack causes fire at loading complex in Russia’s Novorossiysk
A Russian Black Sea port has come under attack from Ukrainian drones overnight, local officials said.
A loading complex has caught fire at the port in Novorossiysk after a drone attack, local authorities said on Monday. They said no one was injured, while 130 firefighters have been battling the blaze.
Zelensky says he will freeze the Ukraine war frontline, but that will not end the war
Volodymyr Zelensky said he can freeze the battlefield frontlines as they exist amid the warfare between the Ukrainian and Russian forces as he explained what a ceasefire can look like.
On being asked if would want the lines to be frozen where they are at the moment if a ceasefire was agreed tomorrow, Zelensky said: “Yes. It’s the quickest way”, he told Sky News in an interview yesterday.
“[But] We want to stop the war in a way where the war will not come back.
“It’s not the idea just to freeze, but the quickest way to is to freeze and to move it to a diplomatic setting,” Zelensky said, explaining that freezing alone will not help.
The war-time president denied that it would not entail handing Russia what they want in this moment.
“No, it’s not just to give. To stay where we are means to give the people of Ukraine more possibilities to save their children, and for soldiers to come back. I think this is important for us,” he said.
Russian attack kills five and injures 14 in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region
A Russian attack killed has killed five and injured fourteen in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, the regional governor said this morning.
Ivan Fedorov said Russia attacked the region with air strikes, drones and shelling, damaging infrastructure, residential buildings and cars.
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Starmer, Merz and Macron have five conditions for Putin to end Ukraine war
British PM Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Friedrich Merz on Sunday set out five conditions for Russia to meet in any peace deal.
These are: including that Russia must agree to an immediate and complete ceasefire, that the “current line of contact” should be the starting point for negotiations and that there are robust guarantees on Ukraine’s safety. Russian assets will remain frozen until it compensates Ukraine for the war and Europe should get a say in any agreement, the leaders said.
The renewed pressure on Russia comes after it suffered a series of military setbacks in recent months.
Europe to ramp up defence against Putin’s hypersonic missiles after Ukraine strike
Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Germany have warned of the “urgent need” to ramp up production of defensive weapons against Russia’s hypersonic Oreshnik missiles, after a late-night summit in Downing Street on Sunday.
Alongside Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, the leaders also called on Vladimir Putin to agree “an immediate and complete ceasefire” and said the “current line of contact” between the two sides should be the starting point for any negotiations.
Ahead of the talks, President Zelensky had warned his country could maintain its recent attacks deep into Russia if the war continues, as he pledged Ukraine will not “silently die”.
The renewed pressure on Russia comes after it suffered a series of military setbacks in recent months.
But in a sign of the continued havoc the conflict is wreaking on Ukraine, the talks took place hours after a drone strike struck a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel near the Chernobyl power plant.
Europe to ramp up defence against Putin’s hypersonic missiles after Ukraine strike
The PM and Volodymyr Zelensky hold talks at No 10 together with Macron and Merz on how to deal with Putin’s warArpan Rai8 June 2026 05:20
Zelensky asked Roman Abramovich to send peace talks plea to Putin, report says
Volodymyr Zelensky invited former Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich to Kyiv in a bid to persuade him to pass pleas for direct peace talks to Vladimir Putin, according to reports.
The Ukrainian president hosted the Russian billionaire last month and asked him to tell Mr Putin he was prepared to meet, multiple sources told the Financial Times. Any direct meeting between the two would be the first since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022.
It comes as Kyiv hopes to capitalise on a pivotal moment in the war, with Ukraine beginning to regain some leverage on the battlefield in part due to improved long-range strike capabilities.
Zelensky asked Roman Abramovich to send peace talks plea to Putin, report says
The former Chelsea FC owner was hosted by Zelensky in the Ukrainian capital, reports suggestArpan Rai8 June 2026 05:00
Starmer says support for Ukraine ‘ironclad’ after No 10 meeting
Prime minister Keir Starmer has said Britain would stand with Ukraine as long as needed and support for the war-hit nation is “ironclad”.
“Our support for Ukraine is ironclad,” Sir Keir wrote. “Ukraine’s security is Europe’s security.”
His remarks came after the PM hosted Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz at Downing Street yesterday and said any European security interests must be safeguarded.
Zelensky said on X that the leaders discussed possible ways to reinvigorate diplomacy and Europe’s role in this process.
“For Ukraine, it has always been a priority that Europe’s position and voice in the negotiations be strong,” he said.
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