Dr. John J. Kirton, Director of the G7 Research Group at the University of Toronto
Ukraine remains G7’s priority despite emerging global challenges
15 June 2025
Ukraine remains G7’s priority despite emerging global challenges
The Dear Angel action was held outside Lviv’s Garrison Church on June 15 as Ukraine marks Father’s Day. The event was dedicated to children who lost their fathers to the Russian war.
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that peace would soon be achieved by Israel and Iran, stressing he was making an extensive effort to make it happen.
An actor from the Kyiv Academic Drama Theater in Podil, Yuriy Felipenko, was killed by Russian invaders while defending the country on the frontline.
The Israel Defense Forces reported that Israeli military aircraft have attacked more than 170 targets and more than 720 military infrastructure facilities since Friday.
The repatriation phase involving rail transport has been completed. The next phase will be carried out by road transport in accordance with the agreements reached during the meeting in Istanbul.
No heatwave is expected in Ukraine in the coming days, with a brief cooling on Friday, June 20.
On the occasion of Father’s Day, President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that this day is now filled with even greater gratitude toward Ukrainian fathers.
On the Novopavlivka axis in Donetsk region, 34 combat engagements were recorded overnight, indicating Russia’s intention to advance toward the administrative border of Dnipropetrovsk region.
As a result of ongoing repatriation efforts, the bodies of 1,200 more deceased Ukrainian citizens, including military personnel, have been returned to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s defense forces intercepted 167 of 194 incoming Russian drones and missiles overnight Sunday.
Tonight, the enemy carried out a massive missile and drone attack targeting Poltava region.
A total of 203 combat engagements have been recorded along the Ukrainian frontlines over the past day. The Russians were most active in the Pokrovsk direction, as well as in Kursk, Novopavlivka, Toretsk, and Lyman axes.
Russia attacked the town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, using unguided air missiles.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to June 15, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1 million 3 thousand 860 people, of which 1,170 were lost in the past 24 hours.
The Security Service of Ukraine released an exclusive video showing the latest round of the exchange of prisoners of war with Russia and repatriation of bodies, including of the fallen soldiers, completed on June 14.
Fighters from the strike drone unit of the Active Operations Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense (DIU) destroyed the Buk-M3 air defense missile system, the Imbir radar station, and the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile and gun system of Russian invaders in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region.
Operators of the Prime attack unmanned aerial systems unit of the 5th Detachment, State Border Guard Service of Ukraine hit a Russian UAV launch position and 15 dugouts set up by Russian invaders in Kursk region.
Colonel Huub Klein Schaarsberg, Deputy Commander of the 43rd Mechanized Brigade of the Royal Netherlands Army, said that Ukraine is providing the West with extremely important lesson s— primarily about adapting to modern warfare, where technology plays a decisive role.
Russian invaders sent 50 children from the temporarily captured Antratsyt district in Luhansk region to what is claimed to be a rehabilitation camp in Kalmykia.
14 June 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump dwelled on Saturday's phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Next week, prisoner-of-war exchanges between Ukraine and Russia will continue in accordance with the agreements reached earlier.
Propaganda is only the first of the Kremlin's tools – the second is tanks
Vladimir Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said the Kremlin boss had a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday, June 14.
The load on Russian Railways (RZhD) has been falling for 20 consecutive months, effectively bringing the national operator to the verge of bankruptcy.
The Security Service of Ukraine released an exclusive video showing the latest round of the exchange of prisoners of war with Russia and repatriation of bodies, including of the fallen soldiers, completed on June 14.
The recent stun operations executed by Ukraine and Israel targeting military facilities on their adversaries’ soil indicate that both countries no longer trust the United States.
Due to Kremlin policies, Russia loses approximately 1% of its scientists every year.
Ukraine has mastered cutting-edge warfare technologies that many armies around the world cannot even imagine — and even the United States can learn from it.
Ukrainian poet, writer, and translator Yuri Andrukhovych has been shortlisted for the 2026 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious American literary awards.