The Russian tugboat Vasily Bekh was hit by at least one American Harpoon anti-ship missile, Washington Post journalist Dan Lamothe reported on Twitter, citing a source in the Pentagon. Lamothe's interlocutor noted that Washington did not supply these missiles to Kyiv, but they were of American manufacture. The Ukrainian Navy reported the destruction of the tugboat Vasily Bekh on June 17.

Losses of the Ukrainian army in military equipment reach 50%. This was stated on June 15 in an interview with the American edition of National Defense Magazine by General Volodymyr Karpenko, commander of the logistics of the Ground Forces of Ukraine. “Today, we have about 30-40%, sometimes up to 50% of equipment losses as a result of active hostilities. Thus, we lost about 50%. Approximately 1,300 infantry fighting vehicles, 400 tanks, 700 artillery systems have been lost,” Karpenko said.

Correspondents from VGTRK and RT , as well as the Izvestia publication, published a video with "American mercenaries" Alexander Druke and Andy Huynh , who were allegedly captured in Ukraine. RIA Novosti drew attention to the videos. In one video, Druke and Huynh say they are "against the war." In another, Huynh talks about the "incompetence" of the Ukrainian army and that "Russians are quite humane guys" (it is not known whether he says this of his own free will).

Lithuanian Railways notified Kaliningrad Railways that from midnight on June 18 they will stop passing transit trains carrying goods subject to EU sanctions. Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov spoke about this in his Telegram channel. “According to our preliminary estimates, this is from 40 to 50% of the range of goods that were transported between the Kaliningrad region and other regions of the Russian Federation,” Alikhanov said.

The publication “Important Stories” identified eight servicemen from the airborne assault regiments stationed in Pskov who were in Bucha during the occupation. All these soldiers contacted their relatives from the phone of Ivan Skiba, a member of the territorial defense who was captured in Bucha on March 4 along with eight other men. Russian soldiers shot them. Skiba was grazed by a bullet. He fell, pretending to be dead, and thus was able to save himself.

How Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to divide Putin’s elites Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr / Bloomberg / Getty Images Nearly four months into Moscow’s all-out war against Ukraine, Russian troops are making relative gains in the Donbas. By all appearances, however, the Kremlin has failed to realize the invasion’s original goals. And peace talks with Kyiv have ground to a halt.

Putin and Tokayev spoke at the economic forum in St. Petersburg. Here's what they said Vladimir Putin: Those who do not connect their lives and destinies with our country are ashamed of Russia's invasion of Ukraine; a thinking person is interested in the growth of Russia's power. Military actions are a tragedy, but we were simply dragged into them. After the Maidan , Ukraine was used to create an anti-Russian bridgehead. Russia will defend Donbass.

French actor Jean-Louis Trentinian died at the 92nd year of life. This was reported by France-Press by his wife Marian Hepfner Trentignan. Livia Crisafi / Camera Press / Vida Press Trentignan is closely connected with the films of the French new wave of the 1960s-1970s. In 1956, he played in the film with Brigitte Bardo "And God created a woman." He played the main role in the picture of Claude Lelsh “Man and Woman” (1966), who brought him world fame.

The city of Irpen is how it looked before the war and how it looks now. Video journalist Julia Palko Subscribe to our YouTube city of Irpen in the Kiev region at the beginning of the war in Ukraine was occupied by Russian troops. A resident of the city, journalist Julia Palko, published a video on Instagram, which shows how the city looked before and after the Russian occupation. “Wounded, but not submissive,” she signed the video. We publish a video with the kind permission of Palko.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, expressed his opinion about those residents of Russia who feel ashamed of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Shame on those who do not link their fate and their lives, the lives and fate of their children with our country. They simply do not want to have problems in the regions where they want to live and raise their children.

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, called the DPR and LPR quasi-state territories. According to Tokayev, Kazakhstan does not recognize their independence. Tokayev stated this while answering questions at the plenary session of the forum in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin delivered a (very long) speech at a forum in St. Petersburg. He blamed the US and Europe for global inflation and the food crisis. Brief retelling The era of the unipolar world order is over. There is no need to think that everything will be as before - it will not be. Western colleagues think in terms of the last century. They treat the rest like second-class people, like colonies. If someone does not obey, they try, as they say now, to “cancel”. The sanctions blitzkrieg failed.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Ukraine. This was reported by the British publications Sky News and HuffPost UK . President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky published a photo and video of a meeting with the British Prime Minister in Kiev. Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said that Zelensky and Johnson discussed the supply of weapons and economic assistance to Ukraine, as well as strengthening sanctions against Russia.

Soldatov wrote that after the failure of the attack on Kyiv, Putin began repression against the special services Erik Prozes / Postimees / Scanpix / Leta Andrey Soldatov For more than three months, military censorship has been operating in Russia.

Alexey Sidnev spent 15 years working to improve elder care in Russia. Then an anti-war statement cost him his job. Ivan Kleimenov for Meduza Shortly after Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine, Alexey Sidnev, the founder of a network of geriatric centers called Senior Group, took a stand against it: he and a number of other NGO representatives wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin demanding he put a stop to the war. Two months later, Sidnev was fired from his own company.