US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance signed a memorandum of understanding with Iranian officials, Reuters and CNN report. The text of the agreement will be published within this week. Trump, meanwhile, has already stated that the United States will continue to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The agreement was signed online. On the part of the Islamic Republic, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, put his signature.

The Tu-22M3 bomber plane crashed during a training flight in the Irkutsk region. Information about this was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the department, the plane crashed during landing. The crew ejected, there is no threat to the life and health of the pilots. The Ministry of Armor claims that the crew performed a training flight without ammunition. Footage of the Tu-22M3 crash is published on Telegram channels.

Dmitry Kiselev in “News of the Week” says : “One more touch to Zelensky’s portrait. The other day he held a meeting with gay cultural figures and military personnel and admitted that he felt an identity with representatives of non-traditional sexual orientation: "We are all here with you, we defend the state, we are the same, and we have absolutely the same rights, despite any prejudices of people from the 15th century.

Photo: BBC Available in English The person who ordered the series of arson attacks on houses and the car of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which occurred last spring, turned out to be from Russia. This is stated in investigations by the BBC and the Financial Times . The BBC named him Yevgeny Lyukshin, a “young Russian diplomat”, the son of a senior Russian official.

Metropolitan Tikhon, also known as Georgy Shevkunov, has been widely reported to be Vladimir Putin's spiritual advisor. Photo: RIA Novosti Доступно на русском The Council of the European Union has added ten new names to its Russia sanctions list. The update includes Metropolitan Tikhon of Simferopol and Crimea, whose secular name is Georgy Shevkunov and who has been widely reported to be Vladimir Putin’s spiritual advisor.

In the city of Biała Podlaska in Poland, 44-year-old Russian opposition artist and cartoonist Semyon Skrepetsky (real name Robert Kuzovkov) was killed in a shooting, Podlaski.info reports . The shooting occurred around 10 a.m. on June 15 in a parking lot near shopping pavilions. DzikMedia writes that the alleged attackers were brought to the crime scene by a taxi driver from Belarus, who was threatened with a weapon.

Russian authorities, against the backdrop of Ukrainian attacks on refineries and fuel shortages, allowed individual oil refineries to produce Euro-5 gasoline and diesel on the domestic market, but with quality indicators corresponding to Euro-3. Kommersant writes about this with reference to a source. According to the publication, the relaxation was introduced in the fall of 2025, and was extended in May 2026. We are talking primarily about the sulfur content.

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson was briefly detained at Heathrow Airport this past weekend after returning from Russia via Turkey, according to a report by the Financial Times citing the Metropolitan Police. Robinson himself posted a photo on X showing a document indicating that he had been stopped under provisions of Britain’s counterterrorism legislation. Police said Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was stopped on the evening of June 13 after arriving in the UK.

Police in Armenia have released Russian mathematician Mikhail Verbitsky after being detained at Yerevan airport at Moscow's request last weekend. According to Radio Azatutyun, he still cannot leave the country. Verbitsky was detained at Yerevan airport on June 12. As his lawyer Vache Simonyan clarifies, the detention was related to the charges brought against him by Russia and the fact that he was put on the wanted list. On Monday, June 15, he was, however, released.

Four people were killed in the strikes on Kyiv, and at least 23 others were injured, including a child. Buildings were damaged in nine districts of the city, and 26 fires broke out in total. While rescue crews were trying to extinguish the fire at the Dormition Cathedral, Russian forces launched another strike affecting the nearby Mystetskyi Arsenal museum complex. The fire there covered 1,000 square meters. One workshop at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio was also destroyed.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced the former head of the city criminal investigation department Oleg Kolesnikov to 5 years in a general regime colony for abuse of power. His former subordinate Alexey Malyshev received 4 years in prison. According to Fontanka and Channel 78 , the case is related to the accusation of substituting testimony in the murder case of the rector of the St.

Israel will not withdraw troops from southern Lebanon, despite a ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran.

The authorities of the Sverdlovsk region intend to create a list of those killed during the fighting, including during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The corresponding decree was signed by the head of the region Denis Pasler at the end of last week; it was made public on Monday, June 15.

Another target of the attack was the Azot chemical plant in Novomoskovsk, Tula region. Governor Dmitry Milyaev reported the fall of “drone debris” on the territory of one of the city’s industrial enterprises, without specifying its name. Later, Astra and Exilenova+ linked the video recordings published by eyewitnesses to the area ( 1 , 2 ) and came to the conclusion that the strike hit Azot. A fire started on the premises of the enterprise.

Armenia’s Central Election Commission has approved the final results of the country’s June 7 elections to the National Assembly. The news agency Armenpress broadcast the commission’s meeting. According to the published results, three political forces entered the 105-seat parliament: Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party won 49.745% of the vote, giving it 64 seats . The Strong Armenia bloc, led by Russian billionaire Samvel Karapetyan, won 23.271%, giving it 29 seats .