PUTIN IS SERIOUSLY ILL AND HAS LESS THAN TWO YEARS TO LIVE - PLUS MORE FROM THE UKRANIAN WAR

 'He doesn't have a long life ahead of him': Putin is suffering from several 'grave' illnesses and will be dead within two years, Ukraine's spy chief claims

• Kyiv Defence Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov: Putin's health 'grave'
• Russian dictator will die of array of illnesses within two years, Budanov added 
• Top spook cites 'human intelligence' handed by Ukrainian spies inside Kremlin
• He also said of American fighters facing death in Donbas: 'We are working on it'
• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10956483/He-doesnt-long-life-ahead-Putin-suffers-grave-illnesses-says-Ukraines-spy-chief.html
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Russia defaults on foreign debt for the first time in more than a century after sanctions forced it to miss Sunday deadline

• Moscow missed deadline to pay $100m (£81.4m) in interest on two Eurobonds
• Kremlin has been unable to send money to bondholders because of sanctions
• Russia's efforts to avoid major default hit insurmountable roadblock in May when the US effectively blocked Moscow from making payments
  
  
  

• Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the Bolshevik coup more than a century ago after crippling sanctions forced the country to miss a key payment deadline on Sunday. 

  Moscow missed the deadline to pay $100 million (£81.4m) in interest on two Eurobonds, one denominated in U.S. dollars and another euros, which had originally been due on May 27. The payments had a grace period of 30 days, which expired on Sunday.

  Some Taiwanese holders of the Russian Eurobonds had not not received the interest payments on Monday, sources told Reuters.

• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10956307/Russia-defaults-foreign-debt-time-century-missed-deadline.html

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'40 Russian soldiers' are blown up in first Ukrainian strike using US HIMARS rockets – as second strike with the American weapons kills Putin's 56th officer of the war

• American HIMARS launcher used to attack Russian positions in Donbas region 
• Ukraine says missiles blew up base hidden inside a school, killing 40 soldiers 
• Video shows blown-out buildings and burning cars marked with 'Z' war symbol 
• Russia admits attack used HIMARS, but said it actually struck civilian hospital 

• Dozens of Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine's first-ever strike on one of Putin's command posts using US long-range missile artillery, Kyiv says. 

  At least 40 of Moscow's men died after Ukrainian troops used an American HIMARS system to blow up a base near the city of Izyum in Donbas, commanders said. 

  Footage which emerged on Sunday showed the aftermath of the attack, including blown-out buildings and smouldering supply trucks painted with the 'Z' war symbol. 

• FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10956271/Ukraine-strikes-Russian-command-post-Donbas-using-HIMARS-video.html