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A Drone Barrage on Moscow Escalates Ukraine’s Push to Take the War to Russia

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The attack, which shut down the capital’s airports for several hours, appeared to be the biggest wave of strikes on the city since the start of the war.   The scene over the area of an oil refinery on the outskirts of Moscow on Thursday. Credit... via Reuters By Paul Sonne and Nataliya Vasilyeva Paul Sonne reported from Berlin. June 18, 2026 Updated 8:34 a.m. ET original article contains links as well as an image,  "Damage in Moscow after Ukrainian drone strikes" Black smoke from a burning oil refinery filled the Moscow sky. The city’s four airports were urgently closed. And part of the busy highway that rings the Russian capital, a metropolis of 13 million people, was shut down. As Ukraine escalated its effort to bring the war home for Russians, the strikes on Thursday appeared to be the largest drone attack on the Russian capital since President Vladimir V. Putin launched the war more than four years ago. No deaths were immediately reported. But the large-scale assault see...
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What reason had Nikita Khrushchev, in 1954, to give Crimea to Ukraine?

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  Quora Digest Dima Vorobiev  ·  Follow Former Propaganda Executive at Russia What reason had Nikita Khrushchev, in 1954, to give Crimea to Ukraine? In 1954, we celebrated a 300 anniversary of the “re-unification of Ukraine and Russia”. Soviet rulers decided to make it the largest nationwide celebration after the death of Stalin. Which they did. Celebration They unveiled one of the Stalin’s sky scrapers that became a major upscale hotel and gave it the name Hotel Ukraina . In the vicinity of the edifice, they also gave “Ukrainian” names to a couple of major streets and raised a monument to a Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko (whom our Nobel-prize taker in literature Joseph Brodsky considered second-rate, at best). A richly ornamented palace-like subway station was called “ Kiyevskaya ” in a reference to the Ukrainian capital. And Crimea was transferred from Russia to Ukraine. Between brothers Amazingly, no one in 1954 held the view that the entire Russia nowaday...
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G7 promises to support Ukraine and sanction Russia in joint declaration

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U.S. President Donald Trump signed the joint declaration after leaders in Evian unexpectedly converged on backing Kyiv. U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron  arrive for a family photo during the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains  on June 16, 2026. Evelyn Hockstein-Pool/Getty Images June 17, 2026 1:36 am CET By Giorgio Leali article contains its own underlinings EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — G7 leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump have backed a joint declaration promising to boost military support to Ukraine and to strengthen sanctions against Russia.  "We, the Leaders of the G7, stand united in our unwavering support for Ukraine in defending its freedom, sovereignty, and territorial integrity," they said in a declaration published on Wednesday shortly after midnight. G7 leaders "commit to increase the pressure on the Russian war economy" and to "strengthen our sanctions, including those on the oil and gas sectors," they said. T...
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[Trump and Ukraine]

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World leaders including President Trump during a Group of 7 session on Tuesday at Évian-les-Bains, France. Credit... Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times From: "After a Bitter Split, European Leaders Play Nice With Trump," The New York Times , 6/16/26 4:59PM  By Mark Landler Reporting from Évian-les-Bains, France The New York Times , June 16, 2026 Updated 3:32 p.m. ET "However polite the exchanges between Mr. Trump and Europeans, there was little evidence they had changed the president’s views about getting involved in a settlement to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters, he reiterated his position that it is not America’s fight. “We have nothing to do with it, we sell weapons to them,” Mr. Trump said. “It has no impact on us, other than we sell weapons. We’re thousands of miles away.”
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