A gendarmerie column on VBRG armored cars advanced towards Lyon.

Destruction of the cornered Russian forces in the Kherson direction.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army, Mark Milley:

A war on paper and a real war are different things.

Ukraine is fighting for its life. It's an existential fight for Ukraine.

Yes, sure, it goes a little slow, but that is part of the nature of war.

The official Russian TV channel broadcasting live the burning of French cities.

Ukrainian Leopard 2A6 tank operates in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

Eiffel Tower, Sherpa Light armored car of the BRI Rapid Response Police Detachment in sand camouflage.

WSJ:

A few hours after the Wagner mutiny, CIA chief Bill Burns spoke with SVR director Sergei Naryshkin to convey a message that the United States was not involved in.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy:

Ukraine wants to show results on the battlefield before the NATO summit in Lithuania on July 11.

Mexican Navy seized a submersible boat of one of the cartels in the Pacific Ocean, on board of which there were 3.5 tons of cocaine.

Mass looting in France continues.

Josep Borrell, the European Union's outspoken foreign policy chief, months ago:

“Europe is a garden. We have built a garden…The rest of the world – is not exactly a garden.

Most of the rest of the world is a jungle.”

June 2023, France.

Turkish Embassy in Paris issued a travel warning for France amid riots.

Rioters rammed a shop window in Marseille.

Map of current protests in France.

WP:

CIA Director Burns secretly traveled to Ukraine to discuss plan to start peace talks before year-end.

Privately, military officials in Kyiv express confidence that Ukraine will be able to regain a significant territory by autumn.

Move artillery and missile systems to the border of Russian-controlled Crimea; move further to the east of Ukraine; and then start negotiations with Moscow.

In an ideal scenario for Kyiv, Ukraine will gain leverage over Russia by deploying troops and powerful weapons on the border with the Crimea.

Kyiv will ostensibly be ready to give up fighting in Crimea, but in return will demand that Russia accept any security guarantees Ukraine can get from the West.

"This war seems to have no end," says the Pope's envoy who returned from Moscow.