Ex-Ukrainian FM, Kuleba: Trump's G7 softening on Ukraine is not a real shift. Right words at the right table, nothing more. Before the summit he spoke to Putin and called him wonderful.
Every change in tone is situational. This is performance for the camera. 1/
Kuleba: Trump desperately needs a big foreign policy victory. There are only two places left on Earth where he can get one, Cuba and Ukraine.
That is why American efforts on Ukraine will intensify. Not from conviction — from necessity. Trump needs a win he can sell. 2/
Kuleba: One test tells you everything. Kushner is heading to Moscow again. If before Moscow he stops in Kyiv, something is genuinely changing inside the American system.
If he flies straight past, same pattern, same priorities, same war. Watch the itinerary, not the rhetoric. 3X
800,000 — that is how many verified Russian military targets Ukrainian drones hit in the first half of 2026, with an estimated 167,000 Russian casualties.
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine's defense minister: Today, drones account for more than 90% of enemy targets hit — United24. 1/
The verified hits since January span Russian personnel, air defense, artillery, rocket systems, command posts, ammunition depots, and electronic warfare units.
Ukraine's Defense Forces aim the strikes at logistics routes and key assets behind the front lines. 2/
May was the most productive month for Ukraine's drone units this year. In that month alone they struck more than 181,000 verified targets.
The same strikes killed or seriously wounded 31,530 Russian service members in 31 days. 3/
Ukrainian drones struck both sides of the Kerch Strait.
They hit logistics, fuel infrastructure, and air defenses in occupied Crimea and Russia's Port Kavkaz — about 300 km from the front, United24.
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Zelenskyy: Ukraine hit military logistics, oil industry facilities, four radar stations linked to S-400 systems, and two Pantsir air defense complexes.
It is a fair response to Russia's brutal strikes against our people.
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The AEGAZ-Terminal liquefied gas complex in Kerch was among the targets.
Port Kavkaz, one of Russia's largest Black Sea–Azov cargo hubs, also caught fire, disrupting a key logistics node supplying Crimea and southern Ukraine.
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Kasparov: Putin cannot stop the war. His system is built on it, budget, economy, propaganda, education. Kindergartens train with drones. Universities open special courses. Plan: a million drone operators by 2030.
War became Russia's routine. You can't reverse this in one second. 1/
Kasparov: An inclined plane from physics, one direction, speed always increasing. Napoleon couldn't stop. Hitler couldn't stop. Macron admitted diplomacy won't work here
For Putin, ending the war means total collapse, ideology, system, power. All of it built on permanent war 2/
Kasparov: Stalin demobilized 10 million over a decade, because he won. Red Flag over the Reichstag, new technologies, the West behind him. Something to build on.
Putin has no victory image. No triumph. His soldiers return from a war with no Reichstag moment, only retreat. 3/
Kasparov: Drones hit the Urals, Petersburg, barely noticed, but Moscow? The imperial reflex snapped. Citizens asking why someone drags their city into a war between Ukraine and Russia
That question is the virus at its purest. Moscow sees itself as above the war it launched 1/
Kasparov: Anti-Putin opposition carries the same virus. They say stop the war because you can't win, not because invading a neighbor is wrong. The moral case drops to third, fourth place.
Russians who opposed the war on principle from day one were a vanishing minority. 2/
Kasparov: Putin shielded Moscow perfectly. Mobilization barely touched the capital. The war was a distant noise behind the imperial feast
Classic Rome before the fall. A feast during the plague. Moscow became the purest symbol of imperial denial 3/