Russia

A Russian S-400 air defense system in Crimea was struck overnight, destroying a launcher and a key radar, Ukraine's GUR says.

Iran's ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali: Tehran reserves the right to respond to Ukraine after a sailor was killed in an attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea.

A cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain, hit by Russian cruise missiles off Odesa last week, has sunk.

Russian President Putin:

We did not start any war, there is no aggression on the part of Russia.

We are responding to the actions of Ukraine, which has unleashed hostilities with the support of the West.

President Putin:

No country has an icebreaker fleet like ours, and no other country in the world has nuclear icebreakers except for us.

The AGN Ragnar, a cargo ship managed by a Turkish company but sailing under the Palau flag, was hit by a Russian drone near Ukraine’s Odesa region.

A fire broke out on board, damaging the vessel before the crew was safely evacuated.

NEW: Romania says it destroyed another drone over its territorial waters this morning, the 3rd consecutive day its F 16 fighter jets have responded to airspace incursions. President Nicușor Dan said the drone shot down on Friday was identified as a Russian Shahed UAV.

UKRAINE: Zelensky says Russia launched an intense week of attacks on Ukraine, using about 1,700 drones, more than 1,630 guided aerial bombs, and 95 missiles of various types.

WATCH: Footage captures a follow up strike on the already burning Antipinsky oil refinery in Tyumen, Russia, yesterday, triggering another explosion as the fire continued to burn.

The refinery is located more than 2,000 km from Ukraine’s border.

Zelensky: Russia wants to receive another 30,000 soldiers from North Korea. Preparations are already underway in the Voronezh region to receive them starting in June. North Korea is also preparing to transfer new launch platforms for ballistic missiles to Russia.

NEW:Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky: "We detected Russian satellites helping Tehran attack in the Middle East."

Russian Shahed-136 drones being shot down by machine gun fire from the cockpit of a Ukrainian Yak-52 aircraft.

Zelensky: "Putin is preparing the conditions for expanding mobilization in Russia." Ukraine holds comprehensive intelligence on Moscow's plans for the autumn.

Laura Loomer asked Zelensky if he would be willing to sign the peace deal with Russia in the Oval Office.

Zelensky: "Yes, I am ready. I am ready to come to the Oval Office or Mar-a-Lago for the peace deal. It depends on Trump."

Zelensky: "I think the Soviet Union is the most dangerous enemy for the United States. If Russia becomes the Soviet Union again, you will get China and the Soviet Union. The biggest empire, the biggest army in the world, and they will be really bigger than the United States. And it will be dangerous for you."

Ukriane is systematically destroying Russias Wildberries warehouses (Amazon of Russia)

This appears to be the 5th Wildberries warehouse struck since July 18, according to Reuters. The latest attack hit a facility in Russia’s Leningrad region near St. Petersburg.

Reports of explosions in Kyiv as Russia launches a new air attack on Ukraine.

Ukraine fired Flamingo cruise missiles at Russia overnight.

WATCH: Footage shows a massive fire burning at the Wildberries logistics center in Saint Petersburg, Russia, following Ukrainian drone attacks.

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Zelensky:

Putin is preparing new strikes against Ukraine, preparing, in our view, additional mobilization in Russia, preparing the expansion of war.

Drones attacked two tankers near Russia's CPC oil terminal in the Black Sea overnight.

Ukraine's Security Service says it uncovered six more cases of Russia using depleted uranium in drones launched at the Chernihiv region. Lab tests identified uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes in the warheads, with radiation at the sites measured above natural background. A war crimes investigation has been opened.

U.S. intelligence is probing whether Russia aided Iran's recent drone strikes on CIA facilities across the Gulf, including the CIA station at the Riyadh embassy and a site in eastern Iraq. Analysts are examining whether Moscow supplied targeting intelligence or upgraded Iran's Shahed drones. No conclusions reached.

- Reuters

Question: Are China and Russia giving targeting information to Iran? These last few attacks have been devastating to US troops

Marco Rubio: All I would say is any time you're in a combat zone there's danger

Question: But are they giving targeting information?

Rubio: I'm not going to discuss that other than to say that nothing China has done has in any way changed the trajectory

WATCH: Footage shows a massive fire that broke out at a Wildberries warehouse in Krasnodar, Russia, following Ukrainian drone attacks.

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