Five more countries join EW Coalition – Ukraine's defense minister
Five more countries — Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Turkey, and Estonia — have officially joined the Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Coalition.
05 June 2025
Five more countries — Belgium, Sweden, Italy, Turkey, and Estonia — have officially joined the Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) Coalition.
Kremlin dictator Vladimir Putin will not stop killing Ukrainian children unless he faces constant international pressure. The world must respond with tougher sanctions and increased military support for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, following a Russian drone attack on Pryluky, stated that when Russia does not feel strong enough condemnation and pressure from the world, it kills again.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 74 of the 103 Russian drones launched overnight Thursday along with an Iskander missile.
The first EUR 428 million tranche under the "Danish model" will arrive in the near future and be used for the production of artillery, attack drones, missiles, and anti-tank weapons.
The spokesman for the Ukrainian Naval Forces, Captain 3rd Rank Dmytro Pletenchuk, says there are currently no grounds to confirm that Russia is plotting a large-scale air raid from maritime missile carriers.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with the Security Service and other elements of the Defense Forces, launched a missile strike on a Russian Missile Forces unit in Bryansk region on June 5.
In Pryluky, Chernihiv region, on the night of June 5, a Russian drone hit a family home of a local fire station chief, killing his wife, a one-year-old son, and a daughter, who served as a patrol police officer.
On the night of June 5, Russian killer drones attacked the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky district in Odesa region, destroying a family healthcare outpatient clinic, a children's and youth creativity center, and partially destroying a lyceum building.
Ukraine has made targeted investments in drone production, therefore it is capable of producing up to 10 million drones per year, and is no longer dependent on external suppliers, including China, which recently redirected supplies of its drones from Ukraine to Russia.
The recent attacks by Ukraine on Russian strategic bombers deep in the rear have been both a military and a political blow to Russia.
On the morning of Thursday, June 5, Russians struck a minibus in the village of Yaselka, Kutsurubska community, Mykolaiv region, with an FPV drone. An elderly man was wounded.
The Russian army launched an air strike on Kherson, injuring one man.
The Ministry of Defense has codified and approved the Ukrainian-made Chief-1 unmanned aerial vehicle for use by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the Donetsk region, soldiers of the 91st separate anti-tank battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used FPV drones to rescue their comrades who were surrounded by Russian invaders.
Nine civilians, including a pregnant woman, were injured as a result of a Russian drone strike on Kharkiv.
The Verkhovna Rada approved bills 13305 and 13306, which exempt from import duty and VAT the import of fiber optics for drone production.
04 June 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded to Donald Trump's post about his call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Following the meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format (UDCG), which took place today in Brussels, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine announced the creation of a new initiative in defense production together with partners, which should mark a "strategic shift".
Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that at the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul this week, Russia again failed to demonstrate a real readiness for peace or negotiations.
The US Embassy in Ukraine said on Wednesday there is currently a continued risk of "significant air strikes", advising that U.S. citizens exercise appropriate caution.
Military aid from partners in 2025 will exceed the levels of all previous years of a full-scale invasion.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had spoken with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over the phone, including on Ukrainian attacks on Russian airfields, referring to the conversation as "good", although adding that it was not the one leading to immediate peace.
Warsaw and Berlin have a special role to play in ensuring the security of NATO's eastern flank and supporting Ukraine.
Six people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov discussed strengthening the work of the Drone Coalition with Latvian Defense Minister Andris Spruds during a meeting of the Contact Group on Defense Issues of Ukraine in the Ramstein format.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that only the US can ensure monitoring of the ceasefire, admitting that some European countries may also participate in this process.
In the Kherson region, Russian troops killed a 70-year-old man and wounded an 83-year-old woman with a drone in the village of Veletenske.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has released unique footage of Operation Spiderweb that destroyed or damaged 41 Russian strategic military aircraft.