Jun 17 Buonsera Mag
War in Ukraine, weapons deliveries, Ukraine's EU candidacy, Johnson in Kyiv, American marine, Putin's hissy fit, Coca Cola leaving, Solovyev losing it, China, J6 Hearings
Catching up…
EA Worldview’s Ukraine Up-date- hop over to Scott’s amazing hourly Ukraine up-date page. I’ll fill in with some bits and bobs.
Stories we’re following…
It is now “impossible and physically dangerous” for civilians to leave the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk due to “constant shelling and fighting”, according to Luhansk’s governor, Serhiy Haidai.
Ukrainian Navy says it hit a Russian ship that was transporting an air defense system, ammo, supplies and personnel to Snake Island.
In occupied Ukraine, people’s internet is being routed to Russia and subjected to its powerful censorship and surveillance machine.
Former Marine Corps officer Grady Kurpasi is the third American missing in Ukraine.
President Putin denounces the European Union and the US, adding that Russia's economy will withstand their sanctions.
Putin is concluding his address, telling the St Petersburg audience: "Russia is entering the era that is beginning as a powerful, sovereign nation. He adds: "It is obvious that the rules, the essence of the new world order, will be set by strong sovereign states."Others, he says, are "doomed to remain rightless colonies".
Rob Lee: Rosgvardia’s elite 604th Special Purpose Center’s Vityaz unit is reportedly allowing volunteers to sign up for 3-month contracts to fight in Ukraine. Volunteers will get 3 weeks of training before deployment.
Coca Cola withdrawing completely from Russia. What will happen to the company's 10 plants in Russia has not yet been reported.
Italian PM Draghi: Italy wants Ukraine to join EU. During his visit to Kyiv on June 16, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Italy wants Ukraine to receive an EU candidate status and will support this move at the next European Council meeting held on June 23-24.
Rival plans to export Ukraine’s vitally needed grain have been drawn up by France and Turkey, as concern grows over the potential impact on the world’s poorest people of failures so far to get the grain out of the country.
Boris Johnson has travelled to Kyiv to have talks with the Ukrainian president. The PM offered a UK-led military training programme which he said could "change the equation of the war".
Let’s make Germany nervous…
Things blowing up in Russia…again
Ukrainian Resistence
China
A new narrative pushed by Beijing — which rejects how the British saw their relationship to the city — will be explicitly taught to Hong Kong high school students through at least four new textbooks that will be rolled out in the fall.
Excerpts from the textbooks reinforce China’s Communist Party’s position on Hong Kong. “The British aggression violated the principles of international law so its occupation of Hong Kong region should not have been recognized as lawful,” read the teachers’ edition proof copy of one textbook.
January 6th Hearings
This is scary: a recent Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that majorities of both Democrats and Republicans believe it’s “likely” that the United States will “cease to be a democracy in the future.”
John Eastman, who advised Donald Trump on overturning the election, sought a pardon after the Capitol riot, the Jan. 6 panel said.
Another new photograph of Trump and his circle in Oval Office on January 6 (released by House Committee):
Thanks for reading…
Mo & Scott