Smoke rises above the area following what local authorities called a drone attack on a military unit in the Sredny settlement, in the Usolsky district of the Irkutsk region, Russia, in this still image from a video published June 1, 2025. Smoke rises above the area following what local authorities called a drone attack on a military unit in the Sredny settlement, in the Usolsky district of the Irkutsk region, Russia, in this still image from a video published June 1, 2025. "Russian officials' public statements continue to demonstrate that Russia maintains wider territorial goals in Ukraine beyond the four oblasts that Russia has illegally declared as annexed," according to a recent assessment of Russia's offensive campaign published by the Institute for the Study of War, which also said that Moscow remains disinterested "in good-faith negotiations to achieve a diplomatic settlement to the war."
Author: Shannon K. Kingston
Published at: 2025-06-02 22:19:45
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