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🇺🇦🇷🇺CTV: Russian forces have blown up a bridge linking the embattled Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk to another city across the river, cutting off a possible escape route

🇨🇳🇺🇸Bloomberg: Chinese military officials in recent months have repeatedly asserted that the Taiwan Strait isn’t international waters during meetings with US counterparts, according to a person familiar with the situation, generating concern within the Biden administration

🇺🇦🇷🇺The latest UK Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 12 June 2022

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: Russian forces said on Sunday they had struck a site in western Ukraine storing large amounts of weapons supplied by the US and European countries, as the battle intensified for the key eastern city of Severodonetsk

🇺🇦🇷🇺Washington Post: Russia is firing as many as 50,000 artillery rounds a day into Ukrainian positions, and the Ukrainians can only hit back with around 5,000 to 6,000 rounds a day

🇱🇾Al Jazeera: Clashes between armed groups have erupted in Libya’s capital, according to local media, as the country reels amid a violent power struggle. Heavy exchanges of gunfire and explosions ricocheted across several districts of Tripoli on Friday night, while images broadcast by local press and circulated on social media showed civilians fleeing heavily trafficked areas.

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: Authorities in the Moscow-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine handed out Russian passports to local residents for the first time on Saturday, news agencies reported

🇮🇳Bangkok Post: Indian police shot dead two protesters and arrested more than 130 others during street rallies sparked by a ruling party official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed, authorities said on Saturday

🇧🇫Al Jazeera: 11 military policemen killed in northern Burkina Faso - The West African country is battling armed groups, some linked to #alQaeda and ISIS that are waging a violent rebellion that has killed thousands across Burkina Faso and neighbouring Mali and Niger Reuters: Gold mine attacked in Burkina Faso, at least two dead

🇺🇦🇷🇺Reuters: Ukraine remains in control of the Azot chemical plant in Sievierodonetsk where hundreds of civilians are sheltering, the region’s governor said on Saturday, after a Russia-backed separatist claimed 300-400 Ukrainian fighters were also trapped there

🇺🇦🇷🇺Latest French Defence Ministry and Institute for the Study of War maps of Ukraine

🇺🇦🇷🇺The Guardian: Ukraine’s deputy head of military intelligence has said Ukraine is losing against Russia on the frontlines and is now reliant almost solely on weapons from the west to keep Russia at bay