— 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 NEW: European Union leaders have reportedly approved the 17th sanctions package against Russia.

@Middle_East_Spectator

LFG!!!!

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇨🇳 NEW: The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced new sanctions targeting individuals and entities in Iran and China, allegedly linked to 'Iranian oil trade.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

Frontline adjustment near Novo Poltavka.

Russia has captured over 150 sqkm this week.

Putin is send the C team to Istanbul.

Slap in the face to Zelensky who required Putin to be present. The Ukrainian delegation is very high profile as well. Putin has created the conditions for a Zelensky rejection although I think Ukraine will go and then tank the talks on site.

Also it’s still illegal to negotiate with Russia on Ukraine so I fully expect these men will be executed without trial.

i dont think calling them the C team is fair to the delegation but i fully get your point!! hehhehhe

Composition of the delegation of the Russian Federation for negotiations with Ukraine:

Medinsky V.R. - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation (head of the delegation);

Galuzin M. Yu. - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (member of the delegation);

Kostyukov I. O. - Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (member of the delegation);

Fomin A.V. - Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation

Zorin A.S. - First Deputy Chief of Information of the Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation;

Podobreevskaya EC - Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation for State Policy in the Humanitarian Sphere;

Polischuk A.A. - Director of the Second Department of the CIS countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia;

Shevtsov V. I. - Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Show me the ringer here who should be on Varsity or even JV.

They’re almost all deputies.

Meanwhile Ukraines delegation is everyone but Zelensky.

Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak

Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Sybiga.

Adviser to the President Igor Zhovkva.

By the way, I think Russia’s C team is going to absolutely handle Ukraine’s A-Team.

I’m not saying anything bad about the Russian negotiating team, Only that it’s clearly below the Ukrainian expectations.

Russian reconnaissance groups are arriving at the border of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in more areas than you can imagine. At the moment there is no order to advance further, so it may be that the dragon's teeth mark the limit of the offensive in this direction while the rest of the surrounding localities are taken. At the moment it seems that the priority of the Russian command has changed, and now Myrnohrad and Kostiantynivka are in the focus of this late spring and summer offensive.🇷🇺🇺🇦

Slightly disagree with the reasoning here.

I think the Russians exploit a weak area and when the Ukrainians rotate in they push where they were pulled from. The northern flank of Pokrovsk is that spot right now and those two cities are much more important than fields in Dnepropetrovsk.

When those areas are reinforced they’ll start somewhere else in the same general area.

Russian Geran-2 drones have entered Lviv Oblast for the first time this year.