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South Korea will withdraw some staff from its embassy in Ukraine as a diplomatic dispute escalates over Kyiv’s disclosure of the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to Seoul, despite Ukraine’s insistence that the matter has been resolved.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Pentagon of delaying Patriot missile deliveries already paid for by European allies, saying the weapons were awaiting US approval. The dispute comes as Kyiv faces renewed Russian strikes and growing tensions with Washington over military aid and intelligence sharing.
Russian state TV largely ignored Ukraine’s biggest drone attack of the war on St. Petersburg, devoting more airtime to protests in France than to strikes that damaged oil infrastructure, a logistics center and a data center, the BBC’s Russian Service reported.
Following the US cut-off of ballistic missile early-warning intelligence to Ukraine, Russian ballistic missile strikes have killed at least six civilians and left more than 20 injured. US officials deny there has been a cut-off, but Ukrainian officials, military sources, media outlets, and civilian air-defense…
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Zelensky says Ukraine has nearly exhausted its US-supplied Patriot interceptors and offered to halt Russian refinery strikes for 30 days in exchange for US air defense assistance.
Russian drones struck an energy facility twice in Lviv region and damaged a church and industrial site in Khmelnytsky, where an earlier attack killed two women.
Former NATO commander Wesley Clark accused Trump of potentially sacrificing Ukraine to secure Putin’s cooperation on Iran, comparing the possible deal to the 1938 Munich Agreement, when Hitler was appeased after invading Czechoslovakia.