US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Italian TV channel LA7 that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni allegedly “begged” him for a joint photo during the G7 leaders’ summit, which took place in France on June 15-17. “Melonie was glad we talked, [even though] I didn’t have to. She begged me to take a photo with her. She wanted it so bad... I might not have done it. I felt sorry for her,” Trump said. Meloni called Trump's words a lie.

From January 1 to June 19, 2026, at the airports of the Moscow air hub - Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky - restrictions were introduced at least 214 times due to air hazards, the publication "That's So" calculated based on official reports from the Federal Air Transport Agency. In January, the Federal Air Transport Agency reported restrictions at Moscow airports 23 times, in February - 15, in March - 43, in April - 13, in May - 67.

The Russian authorities are discussing the possibility of introducing differentiated lending rates and limits on family mortgages. They will depend on the number of children in the family, sources told Kommersant. It is expected that for families with one child in Moscow and St. Petersburg the limit of 12 million rubles will be maintained, but the rate will increase to 12% per annum.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki decided to revoke the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest state award, awarded to him in 2023 from Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. This was reported on the official website of the Polish president.

“They loaded them like prisoners!” TV channel "Express" On June 19, it became known that mass raids of military registration and enlistment offices were taking place in Penza: men were grabbed on the streets and in transport, forced to sign a contract and taken to the combat zone. The media write that the raids caused panic in the city. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the military commissar of Penza deny that they are being carried out at all.

More than 60% of Russians said in closed sociological studies conducted before the United Russia primaries that they felt tired of the war with Ukraine. Faridaily writes about this with reference to a source in the party and a sociologist who knows about the poll results. “The number of people who are ready to accept a non-victorious outcome [of the war] is growing,” said the sociologist. “In focus groups, voters openly say: we need a solution [to the conflict].

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky was skeptical about the words of Alexander Lukashenko that he does not want to be drawn into the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The main thing from the publication of “Ukrainian Pravda” Polina Kulish / Gwara Media / Scanpix / LETA In mid-June, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense revealed details of the army reform. New contracts will be introduced, some military personnel will have their salaries increased, but not all. Some military personnel thanked the department for finally deciding to reform the system. But most of the changes were criticized, writes Ukrayinska Pravda.

In the Volgograd region, in the city of Volzhsky, exercises were held for officials, during which they were explained how to conduct mass mobilization, Radio Liberty reports. 17 mobilization workers from the Volgograd, Astrakhan and Rostov regions, Kalmykia, as well as Crimea, parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, which are under Russian control, took part in the exercises.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the Ukrainian military launched “another massive attack” on the city on June 19. According to him, as of 18:18, “at the close range alone” air defense forces shot down 76 drones. There were no destructions or casualties. You need news. And we need your support. Help Medusa. At night and in the morning of June 18, Moscow and the Moscow region were attacked by almost 200 Ukrainian drones.

One concrete box was placed near the temple, the other right in the middle of the sidewalk. The authorities asked to use the facilities for their intended purpose and not to litter inside Administration of the Kronstadt region The administration of Kronstadt has begun installing concrete shelters where city residents can wait out attacks from Ukrainian drones. Ukraine is increasingly attacking Russian rear areas, including St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Who exactly is being detained? And how to protect yourself? In Penza, military registration and enlistment offices, with the participation of security forces, are conducting mass raids. This became known after local resident Natalya Solomina published a video on VKontakte on June 17, where women are trying to fight off men - they are sitting on a bus, guarded by a military convoy.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”, including in the list the journalist and serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pyotr Ruzavin and the former head of Navalny’s Tomsk headquarters Ksenia Fadeeva .

Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah have reached a ceasefire agreement. This was reported by Reuters with reference to an unnamed senior US official. “We have an understanding that after the exchange of blows that took place today, Israel and Hezbollah are now in a state of truce,” he said. According to him, the truce began at 16:00 local time (the same as Moscow). A Middle Eastern diplomat also anonymously confirmed the fact of the agreement to AFP.

A court in Azerbaijan sentenced eight Russian citizens who were detained during the conflict between Moscow and Baku to real prison terms. Minval reports. All eight were declared guilty of “drug trafficking on a particularly large scale.” Sergei Sofronov, Anton Drachev, Dmitry Bezugly and Valery Dulov received four years in prison, Dmitry Fedorov, Boris Timoshov, Alexey Vasilchenko and Ilya Bezugly - three years each. Updated .