🇬🇧British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps has been removed from his post following Labor's victory in the parliamentary elections.

🇺🇸The Democratic Party's top donors believe Biden's candidacy is doomed, writes the Financial Times.

"I'm Joe's biggest fan, he's a worthy public servant, but he's doomed...we need to start focusing all our attention on what comes next," one donor close to the president told the publication.

Sponsors are nominating Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Kamala Harris' name also appears. Whitmer has the most support.

Donors believe that Biden is simply postponing the issue of choosing a successor, but it is inevitable.

Biden, meanwhile, says he has no intention of withdrawing from the election.

🇧🇾🇺🇦The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus reports that there are about 115 thousand military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the “North” group on the border with Belarus. There are about 15 thousand based directly near the border right now.

It is reported that attempts are being made to drop explosives and other material and technical means into our territory to ensure possible sabotage actions.

🇰🇬⚡️Kyrgyzstan's special services prevented an attempt to violently seize power in the country, the State Committee for National Security reported.

🇵🇱🇺🇦Ukraine will not be accepted into NATO while there is a war, said Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak.

“The leaders of Ukraine are realists and know that a country that is fighting a war and being attacked will not be accepted into NATO,” Siemoniak said on Polish Radio.

According to him, at the NATO summit on July 9-10, Ukraine will only be “showed the prospect” of membership in the Alliance.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Footage of hits on an industrial facility in Dnepropetrovsk a couple of days ago.

🇷🇺🇺🇦FAB visited the Ukrainian Airborne Forces in the Kherson direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Another missile attack by several Iskander missiles on the Mirgorod airbase, corrected from a reconnaissance drone, is reported.

Local Ukrainian channels first reported about one missile flying towards the airfield and explosions there, then about a second strike.

We are waiting for footage of objective control.

🇩🇪🇺🇦German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jäger reported that Germany transferred the third MIM-104 Patriot air defense system to Ukraine.

According to Jäger, the Ukrainian crew has been trained in Germany in recent months.

🇭🇺🇷🇺Orban in Moscow.

He stated that he had arrived in Moscow on a peace mission.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Soldiers of the “North” group discovered and destroyed a Ukrainian “Peony” in the Kharkov direction with an accurate hit.

🇬🇧Rishi Sunak announced his resignation from the post of Prime Minister of Britain after the defeat of the Conservatives in the parliamentary elections.

“I gave this work my all. But you have sent a clear message and only your opinion matters. "It's a difficult day, but I leave this office with the honor of being Prime Minister of the best country in the world," Sunak said.

🇷🇺🇭🇺Orban and Putin held a press conference

Putin's statements:

— We hear about the reluctance to resolve issues diplomatically, and Ukraine’s sponsors continue to use Ukraine and the people of the country as a battering ram and victim

— Russia sees that Kiev is not ready to abandon the war to the end

– Kiev does not allow the very idea of ​​cessation of hostilities, because the pretext for continuing martial law disappears, and if it is necessary to cancel it, then elections will have to be held

– There should not be a truce or a pause for the rearmament of the Kiev regime, Moscow stands for a complete and final end to the conflict

– Relations between Russia and the European Union are at their lowest point

– Putin called the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donbass and Novorossiya one of the conditions for ending the conflict

– The chances of winning the elections for the Ukrainian leadership, which has lost its legitimacy, are close to zero.

Orbán's statement:

– I wanted to hear and heard Putin’s opinion on three important issues, what he thinks about peace initiatives, a ceasefire and peace negotiations, in what sequence they can be held, and the third is the vision of Europe after the war

– Europe needs peace

– The main task in the next six months of our European Chairmanship will be the fight for peace

🇫🇷🇺🇦Marine Le Pen said that if she wins the election, the prime minister from her National Rally will block the sending of French troops to Ukraine, CNN reports.

She also intends to revoke permission for Ukraine to use French long-range weapons on Russian territory.

“If Emmanuel Macron wants to send troops to Ukraine, and the Prime Minister is against it, then there will be no troops in Ukraine. The prime minister has the final say,” she said.

🇺🇸A group of major Democratic donors, public figures and businessmen have called on Biden to withdraw from the election, The Washington Post reports.

“We respectfully urge you to abandon your bid for re-election for the sake of our democracy and the future of our country,” the publication quoted an excerpt from the letter, which was signed by 168 people.