Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected the security framework agreement signed the day before by Israel, Lebanon and the United States. He called the document a “surrender” to Israel and said the group would not give up armed resistance. The agreement provides for a phased withdrawal of Israeli troops from parts of occupied southern Lebanon, but links this process to the disarmament of Hezbollah.

The former commander of the Sudoplatov volunteer battalion, Alexander Lunin, who recorded a video message to Vladimir Putin threatening a military mutiny, was searched. His wife Tatyana Lunina spoke about this in a subsequently deleted video on TikTok, which was saved by the Telegram channel “Mobilization | News | What to do?". Later, Lunin’s Telegram channel reported that he was brought to administrative responsibility and detained for 11 days.

Anthropic (the company behind the chatbot Claude) announced that the US government has allowed it to open access to its Mythos 5 model to some “trusted” US organizations. The decision partially reverses an order issued by US authorities two weeks ago that required the company to block foreign access to the AI ​​models of Mythos 5 and Fable 5.

By the morning of June 27, the death toll from the earthquake in Venezuela reached 920 people. According to local authorities, more than three thousand more were injured, writes Reuters. The number of victims is estimated at 3,360 people. At least 172 people remain trapped under the rubble as rescuers work to free them. More than 54,000 people are still missing. Two powerful earthquakes occurred in Venezuela just a few seconds apart on the evening of June 24.

Bulgaria has recorded the highest number of congenital syphilis cases. The infection is concentrated primarily within the Roma community. Although Roma account for only 4% of the population, they represented 35% of all syphilis cases identified in the study. More than half of those infected (55%) were women, and 14% of them were pregnant. This is a population with limited access to healthcare, a high degree of social exclusion, and chronic distrust of state institutions.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged seven civilians on each side. Ukraine said it had received seven civilian hostages who had been held by Russian authorities since 2022 after occupying Mariupol, Kyiv, Kharkov, Zaporozhye and Luhansk regions. According to the Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets, those released were from 35 to 66 years old.

On the night of June 27, the Ukrainian military attacked the Titan-Barricades military-industrial complex plant in Volgograd. The regional governor reports at least ten casualties, and a fire broke out at the enterprise. Damage to “production facilities of one of the enterprises” is confirmed by the governor of the Volgograd region, Andrey Bocharov. He also reports ten casualties. Updated 12:40 p.m. The number of victims during the attack at the enterprise increased to 11 people.

Serbian military analyst Aleksandar Radic, who was one of the first to announce the possible use of a “sound gun” against participants in a mass rally in Belgrade on March 15, 2025, said that he had left the country. This happened after searches and the publication of surveillance footage of him by pro-government media. In a written statement to Beta, published on June 26, Radić said that his minor daughter was also in the footage shown.

The acting president of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia, Marat Kambolov, who took this post just a few days ago after his predecessor Alan Gagloev joined the Russian presidential administration as an adviser to Vladimir Putin, began his work with several public appearances.

Australian authorities are considering tightening the ban on the use of social networks by teenagers: fines for technology companies could double, writes the local ABC publication. A study published earlier this week found the government's measures were ineffective. The planned changes would see maximum fines for companies that fail to enforce the ban double, from A$49.5 million to A$99 million (or about $34 million to $68 million).

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Yana Lantratova, said that the issue of returning residents of the Kursk region who found themselves on the territory of Ukraine after the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into the region is “closed.” At the same time, the governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, said that the fate of another 320 border residents remains unknown. “Today I am grateful to the Ukrainian side for closing the issue on the Kursk region.

Road to the Borisoglebsk checkpoint in the Murmansk region / TASS Authorities in the Murmansk region warned residents about the threat of “foreign sabotage and reconnaissance groups.” A post with such an announcement was published on the Telegram channel of the region’s Operational Headquarters and then deleted. The post was addressed to residents of border districts.

TASS, in a report entitled “Swiss intelligence recognized the superiority of the Russian Federation and the loss of territories by Ukraine” writes: “Swiss intelligence believes that Russia, in the context of the Northern Military District, is superior to Ukraine both materially and personnel-wise. This assessment is contained in the annual report of the Federal Intelligence Service of the Confederation.

In annexed Crimea, on June 27, trolleybuses No. 21 “Simferopol - Perevalnoe” and trolleybuses No. 51 “Simferopol – Alushta” were temporarily stopped. On the Krymtrolleybus hotline, the Krymskaya Gazeta correspondent was told that the routes are not operating due to sectoral power outages and lack of voltage in high-voltage networks. The Insider's source in the Simferopol region reported that there has been no electricity in settlements along the trolleybus line for the third day.

The United States launched strikes on targets in Iran in response to an attack on a merchant ship in the Strait of Hormuz. This was reported by the US Central Command (CENTCOM). The targets are said to be missile and drone storage facilities, as well as coastal radar stations. The reason for the strikes was a drone attack on a cargo ship in the strait southeast of Dakhit (Oman), which occurred on June 25. The container ship Ever Lovely, sailing under the Singapore flag, was damaged.