The Council of the European Union adopted a decision on 17 June to extend the sanctions imposed by the EU in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol by the Russian Federation until 23 June next year.

Marcus Faber, the newly elected chairman of the Bundestag defence committee, has visited Donetsk and Kharkiv oblasts to learn about the current needs and problems of the Ukrainian military.

Ukraine and Denmark have signed a memorandum on the procurement of armament and equipment from Ukrainian manufacturers by Denmark.

Shin Won-sik, Minister of Defence of the Republic of Korea, has stated that North Korea sent the containers, which can fit almost 5 million artillery shells, to Russia.

Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, believes that the desire of NATO states to see Russia’s defeat in Ukraine is wrong.

A US Navy submarine has entered Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force after four Russian warships entered the port of Havana.

The European Commission will hand over to Kyiv a third group of 12 mine detection dogs to help clear mines on the territory of Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is convinced that the G7 plans to provide Ukraine with approximately US$50 billion in financial support, using frozen Russian assets, have been a clear signal to Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

Belarus has been supplying modern weapons to Armenia's adversary Azerbaijan, although Minsk and Yerevan are allies and are members of the CSTO security alliance under the auspices of Russia. 

China, which will not attend this weekend's Peace Summit in Switzerland, is lobbying world governments ahead of the Swiss meeting to promote its peace plan. 

Poland does not agree to transfer the American Patriot system located on its territory to Ukraine.

Germany is transferring a quarter of its air defence systems stock to Ukraine, including the third Patriot air defence system, which will be delivered soon.

The Canadian government has stated that it will start delivering decommissioned CRV7 rocket motors to Ukraine.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has welcomed a new broad set of US sanctions against Russia and anyone who is willing to help Russia in its military actions. 

The Washington Post, citing US officials, has reported that since the 10-year security agreement between Ukraine and the US, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Joe Biden plan to sign, will not be ratified by Congress, any future US president will be able to cancel it.