The head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that at the end of June he had a phone conversation with CIA Director William Burns about the war in Ukraine.

"The pretext for a telephone conversation, as I assess it, on the part of the American colleague was the events of June 24," Naryshkin said, apparently referring to the rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin. "It's clear how I answered that question about what happened," he said.

At the same time, according to …

France has decided to deliver long-range missiles to Ukraine to support the counteroffensive, said French President Emmanuel Macron at the NATO summit in Vilnius.

These will most likely be the Franco-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles (the French name is SCALP EG), which were previously delivered to Ukraine by the United Kingdom.

Germany, in turn, will deliver Leopard 1 battle tanks, Marder infantry fighting vehicles, Patriot air defense missile launchers and missiles to Ukraine. A new aid …

The new aid package, which will be provided from the US Army's stockpiles, includes 155-mm caliber ammunition, including DPICM, 105-mm shells, as well as ammunition for the Patriot and HIMARS systems, said US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan at a press briefing.

At the same time, he noted that Kyiv "provided written assurances" that Ukraine would use these weapons "very carefully, in order to minimize any risk to the civilian population."

According to Sullivan, these guarantees made …