None of Kyiv’s Western allies has launched an organized recruitment drive for the Ukrainian military. One partial exception is the so-called “Ukrainian Legion” in Poland — but it targets Ukrainian citizens, not Poles. Legal hurdles persist in Ukraine itself.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the Donald Trump administration transferred the weapons to American troops in the Middle East, the deliveries of which were previously agreed for Ukraine. According to Zelensky, the agreement on the transfer of “20 thousand missiles” to intercept the Iranian drones “Shakud” were reached under President Joe Bayden. He reported this in an interview with ABC News. “We counted on these 20 thousand missiles.

The Donald Trump administration said that the National Guard forces against the backdrop of protests against immigration raids will be sent to Los Angeles. Trump signed the presidential memorandum of the entry of the National Guard to “restore order in the conditions of lawlessness, which was allowed to grow,” the White House statement said. The document says that the country's authorities will send 2000 military personnel of the National Guard.

Finland plans a large -scale increase in defense costs - annually they will grow by billions of euros. According to the Prime Minister of Peteri Orpo during a visit to Susmy, such a decision is dictated by a constant threat from Russia. According to him, the main financing will go to strengthen the ground forces, strengthen the eastern border and the development of the air defense system. “We don’t have time to think,” the Orpo emphasized in an interview with Yle.

On the night of June 8, drones for the second time attacked the Azot chemical plant in Novomoskovsk, Tula region. This was announced by Governor Dmitry Milyaev. On May 24, the company was already attacked by UAVs.

The Russian military reached the western border of the “DPR” and continue the offensive “in the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region”, says the Russian Ministry of Defense. The report of June 8 states that units of the 90th Panzer Division of the Center group participate in the offensive. However, the General Staff of the APU denied these statements, calling them “misinformation”.

The father of the American billionaire Ilon Mask-the 79-year-old South African businessman Errol Musk- arrived in Moscow to participate in the "Future Forum 2050". The event was organized by the Tsargrad Institute, the director of which is the ideologist of the “Russian World” philosopher Alexander Dugin.

On June 6, the Minister of Defense of France Sebastien Lekorni said that the “large company producing French cars” will begin the production of drones in Ukraine without specifying what kind of company it is. According to Radio France Info with reference to sources, we are talking about Renault.

Representatives of Russia for the second day in a row announce the delivery of 1212 bodies of the Ukrainian military to the "exchange area". At the same time, the Ukrainian side claims that this action was not agreed, and the exchange of bodies is scheduled for the next week.

The news The Insider June 8, 2025 The Forum of the Future 2050, organized by Constantinople, the project of the Orthodox oligarch and a sponsor of war in Ukraine Konstantin Malofeev, published a program of event and a list of speakers. Among them, not only Russian politicians are declared, but also people with foreign names - and mistakes in regalia.

Between Ilon Musk and the Minister of Finance of the United States Scott Besent in April, a fight took place in the corridor of the White House. About this writes The Washington Post with reference to sources familiar with events. According to the publication, all the material was prepared on the basis of an interview with 17 interlocutors close to the White House and the administration of Donald Trump.

One of the Tu-160 strategic long-range bombers previously stationed at Russia’s Belaya air base has been relocated to the Anadyr airbase in Chukotka following a behind-the-lines Ukrainian drone strike carried out as part of Operation Spiderweb. The report was originally shared by the Ukrainian open source intelligence (OSINT) project AviVector on X (formerly Twitter). According to AviVector , Russia dispersed its fleet of Tu-160 bombers across multiple locations after the attack.