Author: Dal Stanton
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6/19/2025 — Russia’s deadliest attack on Kyiv this year shatters homes and lives 

From: Kyiv Independent
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6/19/2025 — The Revolution in Military Affairs: Series Intro || Peter Zeihan

From: Zeihan on GeoPolitics — Today, we’re launching into our new series on the future of military affairs. Before we get into what is coming, let’s first discuss what past revolutions in warfare have looked like.
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6/19/2025 — Why Ukraine is one of the world’s most digital countries

From: BBC by Ben Morris – Technology of Business Editor Rounding a corner in Kyiv on 24 Feb 2022, Oleksandr Bornyakov remembers driving into a gun battle. It was day one of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and Russian saboteurs were fighting with Ukrainian security forces in the centre of the Ukrainian capital. “There is…
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6/19/2025 — Ukraine War News June 18: Trump-Putin Clash, NATO Summit, Russian Collaborator Killed

From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / June 19, 2025 Trump Rejects Putin’s Middle East Mediation While Ukraine Executes Collaborators and Global Alignments Shift Across Multiple Fronts Summary of the Day – June 18, 2025 The diplomatic chess game surrounding Ukraine took on new dimensions as President Donald Trump publicly rebuffed Vladimir Putin’s offer to mediate the Israel-Iran…
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6/19/2025 — U.S. defunds search for Ukraine’s children of war

Lawmakers pressure the Trump administration not to abandon the work From: World by Carolina Lumetta In the Conflict Observatory at the Yale Humanitarian Research Laboratory, some staffers don’t know their coworkers’ real name—one of several security precautions to prevent Russia from tracking them. They spend their days combing through data, finding ways into Russian databases, and…
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6/19/2025 — But, my God, their wings…No matter what, These people won’t give up their wings, At any price.

From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1211) As I sat down to gather my thoughts for my daily update, I came across the poem of Liudmyla Gorova. She has the gift of weaving the words together in a way that touches the deepest strings in your heart. As I read her poem, I knew I…
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6/18/2025 — North Koreans fighting for Russia against Ukraine have grown skilled in drone warfare

From: NPR By Joanna Kakissis and Volodymyr Solohub Ukraine’s special forces found documents, military tickets, notes, phones and equipment early this year on the bodies of North Korean soldiers killed in Kursk, a Russian region that borders Ukraine. Anton Shtuka for NPR SUMY, Ukraine — During more than three years of Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine,…
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6/18/2025 — Russia and Ukraine are locked in an economic war of attrition

From: Atlantic Council By Anders Åslund As the Russian army continues to wage a brutal war of attrition in Ukraine, the two nations are also locked in an economic contest that could play a key role in determining the outcome of Europe’s largest invasion since World War II. A little noticed fact is that the Ukrainian…
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6/18/2025 — Putin’s Kyiv blitz sends message to G7 leaders: Russia does not want peace
From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson As G7 leaders attended a summit in Canada on Monday, Russia unleashed one of the largest bombardments of the Ukrainian capital since the start of Moscow’s invasion more than three years ago. The overnight Russian attack on Kyiv involved hundreds of drones and missiles targeting residential districts across the city. Dozens of…
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6/18/2025 — Parents stood by the rubble for hours, hoping their son would be pulled out alive. Instead, rescuers found his lifeless body. (VIDEO)

From: Mariia Mykhaliyk in Kyiv — After last night’s brutal ruzzian missile strike, parents stood by the rubble for hours, hoping their son would be pulled out alive. Instead, rescuers found his lifeless body. This is what “peace” looks like when it’s defined by Trump’s admiration. Since Trump began publicly praising putin and pushing for…