{"id":195851,"date":"2025-06-19T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195851\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:21:08","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-russia-can-defend-itself-says-putin-as-north-korea-sends-more-soldiers-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195851\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Russia can defend itself, says Putin, as North Korea sends more soldiers | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><strong>Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to attend the Nato summit<\/strong> <strong>in The Hague on 24-25 June<\/strong>, a source in the Ukrainian presidency told the AFP news agency on Wednesday. \u201cThe decision will be made on the eve of the summit. This is just the schedule,\u201d the source said, describing the meeting as \u201can opportunity to maintain support and promote a ceasefire\u201d. Nato leaders want to keep the summit brief so as not to aggravate <strong>Donald Trump and his short attention span<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/world\/russia-ukraine-war\/article\/nato-summit-short-trump-attention-span-vtrpgz7sx\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Times has reported<\/a> (\u00a3).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><strong>Senior Ukrainian officials at the G7 summit in Canada<\/strong> discussed with US counterparts the possibility of supporting defence projects in Ukraine under a joint investment fund set up in May, Kyiv\u2019s first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said on Wednesday. The talks included the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, Svyrydenko said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">The <strong>death toll from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/17\/russia-drone-missile-strikes-kyiv-ukraine\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday\u2019s Russian attack on Kyiv<\/a> stood at 28<\/strong>, with more than 130 injured, as the recovery of bodies continued at destroyed apartment blocks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><strong>Russia\u2019s defence ministry claimed its forces hit a Ukrainian troop position<\/strong> <strong>in the Sumy region with an Iskander missile.<\/strong> The Reuters news agency said it could not independently confirm the battlefield report, or determine exactly when it took place. Ukrainian authorities on Monday reported an Iskander missile strike on Konotop damaged flats in multi-storey buildings with no casualties. Ukraine is trying to drive Russian forces from the Sumy region where border areas are gripped by heavy fighting.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><strong>Slovak police have detained eight people, including defence ministry officials, in an investigation by the European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office into<\/strong> <strong>possible misuse of \u20ac7.4m for military aid to Ukraine <\/strong>at the start of the war in February 2022. Jaroslav Nad, who was Slovakia\u2019s defence minister at the time, has called the police action \u201ctheatre\u201d. Slovakia\u2019s pro-Russia current prime minister, Robert Fico, has taken sharp policy turns since taking power in 2023 \u2013 stopping military aid to Ukraine and making a trip to Moscow that fuelled <strong>large and widespread protests in opposition to his stance on Ukraine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to attend the Nato summit in The Hague on 24-25 June, a source in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-195851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707410952407389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}