Summary and Key Points: On June 23, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group — a private army the Kremlin itself had built — seized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and drove toward Moscow, halting just over 120 miles away.

A massive overnight drone barrage against Moscow underscores Kyiv's growing ability to strike deep inside Russia.

Russia deploys new Pantsir systems on Moscow rooftops as Ukrainian drone threat grows * 3 Russian shadow fleet tankers attacked by drones near Turkey's Black Sea coast *

Russia and Afghanistan's Taliban government reportedly signed a military cooperation pact, solidifying Moscow's growing alliance in Central Asia.

It brings home the fact Ukraine has the capacity to strike at very significant scale at or around the Russian capital,” taking the war home to Russians in a way that would be “most unwelcome” to the Kremlin,

The president’s ‘bravado’ is doing little to ease the disquiet inside Russia

Over four years ago, Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko allowed longtime ally Russia to use his territory to invade Ukraine. Now officials in Kyiv are warning that Lukashenko could again allow his land to serve as a launchpad for more attacks by the Kremlin’s forces.

Trump hailed a cease-fire between the two sides ahead of the parade, as Zelensky issued an apparently tongue-in-cheek decree permitting the event.

A Moscow arbitration court has granted a Russian central bank request for immediate enforcement of a court ruling requiring Euroclear to pay damages for ​the European Union's freezing of 18.17 trillion roubles ($252.

Members of a Russia-led economic alliance on Friday warned member Armenia that it could face suspension over its aspirations to join the European Union as tensions continued to simmer between the