War in Ukraine. Ukraine is ready for peace talks with Russia, but only with one condition

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10:55 | Ukraine is ready for peace talks with Russia, but only with one condition

Kyiv is ready to start a diplomatic process between summits to discuss Ukraine’s peace plan, the country’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says.

“We said that at the first summit, all the states that support these principles (laid out in Zelensky’s “peace formula” – ed.) will gather, they will choose the point on which they want to work. <...> Then, between the first and second summits, communication with Russia will be able to take place according to the rules approved by the participants,” Kuleba said in an interview with the Indian television channel NDTV, according to The Moscow Times.

V. Zelenskis presented his “peace formula” for the first time in 2022. at the G20 summit in November. His peace plan consists of 10 points. One of them includes the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine and a return to the 1991 agreement. borders, including the return of Crimea and Donbass.

At that time, Moscow set the condition for the end of the war that it would actually be recognized with about 20 percent. Territories of Ukraine.

10:27 | Polish Prime Minister D. Tusk: a new era of war has begun

According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started a new era of war in Europe.

“I know it sounds overwhelming, especially to the younger generation, but we have to get used to the fact that a new era has begun: pre-war. I am not exaggerating, it is becoming clearer every day, D. Tusk told the German newspaper “Die Welt” and the media of European partners. – I don’t want to scare anyone, but war is no longer a concept of the past. It’s real, it started more than two years ago.”

10:05 | Ukrainian forces announced that they destroyed 58 Russian drones and 26 missiles overnight

The Ukrainian Air Force announced on Friday that it had destroyed 58 attack drones and 26 missiles of various types launched by the Russians overnight.

In their statement on the Telegram social network, the Russians launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine overnight Friday, targeting the energy and heating sectors, using a total of 60 Shahed attack drones and 39 missiles of various types.

According to the report, the Air Force managed to destroy 84 of the 99 targets: 58 drones, 17 Ch-101/Ch-555 cruise missiles, five Ch-59 cruise missiles and four Iskander-K cruise missiles.

09:03 | A massive Russian attack in Ukraine on Friday forced Poland to raise its fighter jets

On Friday night, explosions occurred in the Dnipro, Khmelnytskyi and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine during a large-scale rocket attack, according to the Ukrainian publications “Suspilne” and “Ukrinform”.

On Friday night, the Russian military attacked Ukraine with drones and cruise missiles in several directions.

In turn, on Friday night, the operational command of the Polish Armed Forces summoned its and allied aircraft due to the Russian missile attack on the territory of Ukraine. This was reported by the Polish army on the X social network.

The Polish military has warned its citizens that Polish and allied aircraft are flying in Polish airspace, which could cause noise in the southeastern part of the country.

“Tonight there is an intensive activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation, related to missile strikes on targets located on the territory of Ukraine. All necessary procedures have been initiated to ensure the safety of Polish airspace,” the Polish military said.

08:13 | German experts: international law allows the deployment of ground troops in Ukraine

According to the research service of the lower house of the German parliament (Bundestag), the deployment of troops of a NATO country in Ukraine would not automatically make all other NATO members parties to the conflict. It is true that this state would itself become a party to the conflict, as can be seen from the yet-to-be-published report of parliamentary experts.

“If a NATO state acts unilaterally, instead of participating in a previously decided NATO operation and outside NATO’s military command structures, neither NATO as a whole nor other NATO partner states become parties to the conflict,” reads the document, which dpa has seen.

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07:33 | The Netherlands is sending Patriot air defense systems to Lithuania: “We must be ready”

The Netherlands has decided to deploy Patriot air defense systems in Lithuania for several weeks this summer. This decision was made after the Russian missile that attacked Ukraine violated Polish airspace.

07:00 | Russian missiles severely damaged two thermal power plants in Ukraine

Less than a week ago, Russian missile attacks severely damaged two thermal power plants in western Ukraine. “The power plant units are destroyed in different ways: from completely to more than 50 percent,” said Dmytro Sakharuk, head of the energy company DTEK, as quoted by Ukrainian media on Thursday. This is the Burštyn power plant in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and Ladyšinov in Vinycia. Their total electricity production capacity reached 4,200 megawatts.

The repair of the power plants will last several months and will hardly be possible without international assistance. “Perhaps one or two units will be able to start operating earlier, but in total it will take 6, 12, 24 or more months,” noted D. Sacharuk. The basic equipment alone will cost more than 185 million. euros.