🇫🇷❌🇺🇸 — 📰 The Associated Press: French President Macron urges Europe to develop its own Pan-European air defense systems and not rely on the United States anymore

🇫🇷👮‍♂️📃 — 📰 Columbus Informazione: French police raided the Paris 2024 Olympic headquarters "in connection with a financial investigation".

https://t.iss.one/columbusinformazione/21485

🇪🇪❤️🌈 — Estonia Liberal-led parliament approves law to legalize gay "marriage" in Estonian territory
— On today, June 20, 2023, Estonia Liberal-led parliament approved gay "marriage", overrunning the opposition led by the Right-Wing Nationalist EKRE

The blockade which was led by the EKRE party, which attacked the legislation as anathema to the traditional family model, was overran after the Estonian Liberal Prime Minister Kaja Kallas’s ruling coalition called a series of confidence votes to break a standoff with the Conservative opposition

President Alar Karis is expected to approve the legislation

Such step makes the Baltic nation the first former Soviet republic to legalize such kind of thing.

🇪🇪❤️🌈— 🇪🇪 Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas on Twitter:
— "It's official: Estonia has legalised marriage equality. We join other Nordic nations with this historic decision.

I'm proud of my country. We're building a society where everyone’s rights are respected and people can love freely.

The decision will enter into force from 2024."

https://archive.is/wip/tYGag
🔗 Kaja Kallas (@kajakallas)

🇺🇦❌🇧🇾 — 📰 Kyiv Post (June 19, 2023): Ukraine to End Diplomatic Ties with Belarus if Troops Cross Border

— "Ukraine will end diplomatic ties with Belarus if its troops cross the border in favor of Russia’s illegal invasion, foreign minister Dmyktro Kuleba has said in an interview with Forbes magazine.

Dmyktro Kubela said to Forbes magazine that his country ended diplomatic relations with Russia after the beginning of their full-scale invasion in Ukraine – and that similar will happen to Belarus if they make the decision to cross the border.

In the interview, he said “Belarus is an accomplice to the crime of aggression, there is no doubt about that. We broke off diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation immediately after the start of the full-scale attack. Relations with Belarus will likewise be severed if the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus cross the border of Ukraine.”

Link
https://archive.is/rGg1F

🇺🇦❌🇧🇾 — 📰 Ukrainska Pravda: Ukrainian Parliament proposes designating Belarus as aggressor state and breaking off diplomatic relations

— A group of people's deputies have registered a draft resolution with the Verkhovna Rada [the Ukrainian parliament – ed.] proposing that Belarus be designated as an aggressor country, and are calling for diplomatic relations with the country to be broken off.

Yurchyshyn says Belarus should bear some responsibility for the full-scale war, since it has made its territory available for aggression against Ukraine.

"This step is necessary to bring the Belarusian regime to justice and to raise future reparations for Ukraine," the MP believes."

Link
https://archive.is/SumXF

🇺🇦❌🇧🇾 — 🇧🇾 Nexta: The Verkhovna Rada intends to appeal to the UN, PACE and other international organizations with a call to recognize Belarus as an aggressor country.

The corresponding draft resolution appeared on the website of the Ukrainian Parliament.

🔗 NEXTA (@nexta_tv)

🇺🇦🇧🇾❌🇧🇾 — On June 19, 2023, 5 days after the funny incident on the Belarusian-Ukrainian Border, a similar one, but this time coming from Ukrainian side

Via its official channel, the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, a Belarusian unit operating under the Ukrainian International Legion, published a video showing its units “taunting” the Belarusian border guards:
— "Today, at all border crossings between Ukraine and Belarus, the appeal of the Kalinovsky Regiment to the Belarusian security forces was heard", said the Ukraine-based Belarusian nationalist paramilitary group in statement

🇧🇾❌🇧🇾 — Belarusian Exile Group ByPol training for an insurgency against Lukashenko's Government in Poznan, Western Poland - 📰 The Times

— According to the British media The Times, Belarusian exiles in Poland are training for a future armed insurrection, insurgency in their home nation, Belarus

In Poznan, Western Poland, ByPol — a group of former officers from Belarus’s security services who defected from the regime during the protests of 2020 — is "actively preparing for the final day", dubbed “Time X”, when they will return to their country to "take on the Lukashenko's Regime"

— “We tried the peaceful route,” said “Grandad”, an electrician in his sixties who recently recovered from a heart attack after the stress of starting a life from scratch in Poland last year. “[But] never has a state won its freedom without blood.”, in interview to The Times

Per the british newspaper, this session is the first of its kind in Poznan, but other groups have been training in Poland for months with recruits numbering in the hundreds, according to Aliaksandr Azarau, the leader of Bypol

According to him, guerrilla fighters and partisans linked to Bypol have already conducted small successful operations in Belarus. They sabotaged railways carrying Russian troops to Ukraine last spring and in February this year Bypol claimed responsibility for blowing up a Russian reconnaissance plane at an airport near Minsk with two small drones (which as previously reported here, did not happen)

Link
https://archive.is/4Ue3v

🌐🇺🇦📃 — 🌐 NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg: NATO countries in preparation for the July summit in Vilnius are not discussing a formal invitation of Ukraine to the alliance

🇺🇸❤️🌈🇪🇪 — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Twitter:
— "Congratulations to the people and government of Estonia on the passage of marriage equality legislation and the recognition of same-sex families.

In this historic moment, the United States is proud to stand with you in support of LGBTQI+ communities everywhere."

🔗 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken)

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺🪖 Russian Ministry of Defense: The Russian military serviceman Andrei Kravtsov, who destroyed a Leopard tank, was awarded a cash prize of 1 million rubles (~ 12000 USD)

🇷🇺❌🌐 — 🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: If NATO announced its refusal to freeze the conflict in Ukraine, then this means that it wants to fight and Moscow is ready