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Ukraine is starting the peace process from a position of strength that has grown significantly over the past three weeks and especially over the past three months, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said at the Global Peace Summit.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine has the right to self-defense, including the right to destroy legitimate military objectives on Russian territory, as Russia is the aggressor and has occupied part of Ukraine.

According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, NATO is not sending troops to Ukraine, as it is not a party to the conflict, but is providing support by training the Ukrainian military and supplying weapons.

After "fierce discussions," Budapest managed to get its demands for the rights of national minorities, including the use of their mother tongue and education in their mother tongue, included in the framework document governing Ukraine's membership negotiations with the European Union.

A Russian Su-24 fighter jet violated Swedish airspace over the island of Gotland, causing Sweden to take a JAS-39 Gripen fighter jet into the air to expel it, the first such incident since Sweden joined NATO.

According to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the UK is not currently considering sending its military or NATO troops to Ukraine.

Putin demands that Ukraine abandon its NATO membership ambitions, cede territory, and demilitarize to end the war, but the United States rejects Putin's right to dictate the terms of peace.

President Zelenskyy discussed the security situation, defense cooperation, preparations for the NATO summit and the return of internally displaced Ukrainian children with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have found common ground on Ukraine, so Budapest will not block macro-financial and long-term assistance, including training for Ukrainian soldiers.

U. S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin opened the 23rd meeting of the Ramstein Contact Group on Ukraine's Defense, which is taking place on June 13 in conjunction with the meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels.

The United States believes that Ukraine still has work to do to meet NATO membership criteria, but remains committed to helping Ukraine build a bridge to NATO membership and to helping cross that bridge when the time is right, the US Ambassador to NATO said.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that banning Ukraine from striking Russian territory in self-defense would be tantamount to demanding that Ukraine defend itself with its hands tied.

The heads of parliaments of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine adopted a joint declaration in which they commit to continue cooperation in the field of security, support Ukraine's path to NATO and EU membership, and called for the lifting of restrictions on the supply of Western weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the NATO Secretary General, the eastern flank summit in Latvia will discuss ensuring stronger and more reliable support for Ukraine.

The next meeting of the Contact Group on defense of Ukraine in the Ramstein format will be held on June 13 in Brussels during a meeting of NATO defense ministers.

Hungary will not participate in the Bucharest Nine summit in Riga. The Allies are considering the possibility of excluding the country from the defense club.

Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Germany to attend a conference on Ukraine's reconstruction, hold talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on defense support, air defense, joint arms production, and coordinate positions ahead of future summits.

The United States and Poland are creating a Ukrainian communication group to counter Russian disinformation and support Ukraine in the information space in the face of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk will visit Poland on June 10-11 to participate in the summit of the parliamentary leaders of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, dedicated to strengthening support for Ukraine.

The G7 is expected to issue a strict warning to small Chinese banks to stop helping Russia evade Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine.

Austria's defense minister said the West has crossed the red line by allowing Ukraine to strike targets in Russia with Western weapons.

NATO plans to ask its allies to commit to providing at least 40 billion euros of annual military assistance to Ukraine, replacing the previous proposal for a five-year fund due to resistance from member countries.

The head of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, answered whether he believes that there should be restrictions on the range of weapons provided to Ukraine, after allowing it to use, in particular, American weapons for strikes inside Russia.

NATO plans to establish a new post of senior civilian representative in Ukraine to strengthen its long-term commitments and coordinate support, including military assistance, to Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia.

French expert on Russia Laurent Vinatier was arrested in Moscow until August 5 on charges of collecting data on the Russian army without registering as a "foreign agent".

Biden met with Macron and Zelensky to discuss support for Ukraine, with Macron calling for more active participation, while Biden ruled out sending troops but promised to continue military assistance.

President Emmanuel Macron said that France does not consider the training of soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by foreign instructors on the sovereign territory of Ukraine to be an escalation of the conflict with the Russian Federation.

Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Klymenko took part in the Balkan-Ukrainian Defense Industry Forum DFNC1 and met with his Bulgarian counterpart Adeline Nikolova to discuss strengthening defense cooperation and Ukraine's defense capability by increasing international support.

The Ministry of defense of Ukraine calls on people's deputies to resume consideration of the draft law on the creation of a military police. They believe that it is crucial for ensuring law and order in the Armed Forces of Ukraine in accordance with NATO standards.

At the July NATO summit, Ukraine expects clear decisions on membership in the Alliance and strengthening its air defense system thanks to the new Patriot air defense systems.