Zelensky: New round of peace talks may be held in the US

At the EU Council meeting of interior ministers in Luxembourg, EU member states agreed on the need to extend temporary protection for Ukrainians beyond its current expiry date of March 2027.

Poland is introducing temporary restrictions on flights in the eastern regions of the country near the borders with Ukraine and Belarus. The new rules will apply from 10 June to 9 September 2026.

The Pentagon may scrap plans to supply Germany with Tomahawk missiles over fears that Russia would view this as an escalation.

Political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko stated that Kirill Budanov’s approval ratings began to rise following his appointment as head of the President’s Office and his active involvement in the negotiation process.

The Verkhovna Rada may consider the dismissal of Oksen Lisovyi, the Minister of Education and Science, as early as next week. MPs cite the situation regarding the National Multidisciplinary Test (NMT) and the academic workload placed on final-year students during the war as among the reasons for their criticism.

The sitting judge – the president of the Poltava District Court – worked for the FSB during the occupation of Berdiansk. She was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for treason.

On the morning of 5 June, an explosion occurred at the postal operator’s sorting centre in the Obolon district of Kyiv. Investigators are treating it as a terrorist attack.

The government is preparing to launch the ‘Houses in the Countryside’ scheme for internally displaced persons. Local authorities will be able to purchase vacant houses in rural areas and make them available to displaced persons on social housing terms.

Journalists analysed the asset declarations of MPs from the ninth parliament and identified 15 MPs who had declared firearms. In total, this amounts to over 340 firearms.

James Gandy, an 81-year-old American actor known for his roles in the films *Jumanji*, *Top Gun: Maverick* and *Logan*, has been killed in Los Angeles. The police have already arrested a suspect.

A further 185 servicemen and one civilian have returned to Ukraine from Russian captivity.

US President Donald Trump has stated that he does not rule out a face-to-face meeting with Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. According to him, this would be possible if an agreement were reached to end the war.

The Ukrainian Navy has stated that one of its unmanned surface vessels lost control whilst on a mission in the Black Sea due to Russian electronic warfare measures and ended up off the coast of Romania.

Russian combat aircraft continue to drop guided bombs over their own territory and the occupied regions of Ukraine. British intelligence believes this is due to errors made during aircraft preparation and the execution of flight missions.

In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector, operators from the ‘Strix’ unmanned systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine shot down a Russian ‘Skat 450M’ reconnaissance drone. This is the second aircraft of this type that the unit has destroyed.