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Polish president strips Zelensky of honor after special forces unit’s renaming

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Polish President Karol Nawrocki said he was withdrawing the Order of the White Eagle that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received three years ago. The Washington Post , June 20, 2026 at 4:57 p.m. EDT 8 min read Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, and Polish President Karol Nawrocki in Warsaw on Dec. 19. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images) By David L. Stern David L. Stern has worked for news outlets in Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East and Central Asia. He has lived in Ukraine since 2009, covering the 2014 Maidan revolution, war in the country’s east and now Russia’s 2022 invasion. follow on X @loydstern Poland stripped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of Warsaw’s top honor, a decision that stoked tensions between Ukraine and one of the country’s staunchest supporters in its battle against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Late Friday, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, who previously led the country’s Institute of National Remembrance, announced h...
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Russia Faces Spreading Fuel Shortages After Ukrainian Drones Pummel Refineries

  Lines at gas stations are a growing headache for the Kremlin’s efforts to shield its citizens from the consequences of the four-year-old war/   Footage shared online this week shows smoke and flames spewing from a crucial Moscow refinery after a series of drone strikes. SOCIAL MEDIA/REUTERS/  By  / Alexander Osipovich/  June 20, 2026 8:44 am ET/   Ukraine is pounding Russian oil refineries with long-range drone strikes, leading to restrictions on fuel sales, surging gasoline prices and huge lines of cars outside gas stations hundreds of miles from the front lines./   This week, drones repeatedly hit a refinery in Moscow that produces more than one-third of the fuel supply for the Russian capital and the surrounding region. Videos of the latest attack posted to social media on Thursday showed a massive fireball erupting from a storage-tank explosion and several other fires raging across the complex./   It was the latest in m...
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ZELENSKYY BELIEVES PUTIN WILL ESCALATE ATTACKS AS RUSSIA WEAKENS

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 from Quora Another Point of View ·   Following Posted by  Brent Cooper   11h ; see also ZELENSKYY BELIEVES PUTIN WILL ESCALATE ATTACKS AS RUSSIA WEAKENS Zelenskyy is right. It is already happening. “Zelensky warned Ukrainians that Russia may increase missile and drone strikes as Putin’s position weakens politically, militarily and economically. He urged residents to use shelters and said Ukraine had secured additional Patriot missile commitments from allies.” We have seen the sheer number of attacks on civilians escalate. About 135 missiles launched at Ukraine in January. In February 2026, some 288 missiles were launched. This is more than double January’s total In addition, February included multiple very large strike packages, often combining missiles with 400+ drones in a single night, showing a shift toward massed attacks rather than small daily strikes . By spring 2026: Russia is launching coordinated barrages (missiles + hundreds of drones together) Example:...
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Moscow Refinery Blast May Have Been Caused by Friendly Fire, Video Suggests

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A Missing Ingredient in Ukraine’s Barrages on Russia: Ballistic Missiles

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  Ukrainian drone attacks have achieved breakthroughs, but only ballistic missiles can push Russia to reconsider its war objectives, military experts and officials say. An oil refinery in Moscow after a Ukrainian drone attack on Thursday, in an image from social media. Credit... via Reuters By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine The New York Times , June 19, 2026, 9:15 a.m. ET Original article contains links Ukrainians have spent the past day flooding social media with footage of their army’s large-scale drone attack on Moscow. To many, the images of black smoke billowing over the Russian capital are proof that Ukraine is now able to respond in kind to Russia’s air assaults — or, as President Volodymyr Zelensky put it, “If Ukraine burns, then your Moscow will burn as well.” But the celebrations over Thursday’s attack obscure a more complicated reality. However  effective its drone arsenal may be, Ukraine still lacks the weapon that has long underpinned Russia’s most...
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