Zelensky's Diplomatic Efforts to Secure Military Aid from Europe and UK.

Ukraine receives air defence missiles and unmanned aerial systems from the UK, and France offers to train Ukrainian fighter pilots. Ukraine makes its first significant offensive operations in six months, pushing Russian forces back in and around Bakhmut. Russia and Iran are expanding their defence partnership, with Iran reportedly providing Russia with one-way attack drones. Russia claims to have downed a long-range missile supplied to Ukraine by Britain. Ukraine serves businessman Dmytro Firtash and top managers of companies he controls with “notices of suspicion” of embezzlement. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy appeals to NATO to make a “positive political decision” on Kyiv’s membership at its July summit.