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Warsaw strips the Ukrainian president of its highest distinction amid a memory war over the Volhynia massacres. The rift between two allies, which also touches grain and Polish domestic politics, benefits Moscow and weakens the front supporting Kyiv.
Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack on Moscow, hitting an oil refinery and other sites — the deepest strike on the Russian capital since the war began, reviving questions about escalation and the conflict's reach.
A Russian warship fired warning shots near a yacht in the English Channel, prompting a UK military investigation and reviving tensions over Russian naval activity and shadow-fleet escorts in European waters.
The United Kingdom intercepted a Russian oil tanker linked to Moscow's shadow fleet in the English Channel, intensifying Western efforts to enforce sanctions and counter evasion at sea.
Viktor Orbán was re-elected leader of his Fidesz party, keeping control despite losing the national election, reviving questions about Hungary's political future and its place in the European Union.
The G7 summit opened in Évian, dominated by the war in Ukraine, the new Washington-Tehran agreement, and Donald Trump's threat of 100% tariffs on French wine and big tech.
Russian strikes killed several people in Kyiv and set ablaze the UNESCO-listed Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, while Ukraine struck bridges in occupied Crimea — an escalation now reaching cultural and religious heritage.
Pakistan talks of an 'electronic signature' within 24 hours, Trump promises the Strait of Hormuz 'open to all' the moment it's signed — and Tehran replies it won't be Sunday. Crude falls to its lowest since April, yet Iran already proclaims: 'we are the winner.'
Under 16,000 police and the threat of 50,000 protesters in Geneva, the Seven gather on Lake Geneva. Trump will see Zelensky with no bilateral, dine at Versailles — and every leader knows you 'cannot manage Trump.'
Zelensky says he achieved 'the expected result' from his open letter to Putin after meetings with Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner. Von der Leyen presents the 21st EU sanctions package against Russia, including for the first time the fishing sector. Moscow says it has not yet received details of the Witkoff-Kushner-Zelensky call.
An open letter, a mocking invitation to Moscow, a Ukrainian drone on a Russian oil terminal: Ukrainian diplomacy walks straight into Putin's "Russian Davos".
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