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The Akhmat military unit of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed authoritarian ruler of the North Caucasus region of Chechnya, signed a contract with Russia's Defense Ministry on June 12.

Several independent media outlets in Russia are holding a marathon event on June 12, which is commemorated as Russia Day in the country, to raise funds to support political prisoners and Russian citizens who openly condemn Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Kazakhstan is mourning the deaths of 14 forest rangers who were killed by wildfires in the northeastern region of Abai last week. Flags were at half-mast and all entertainment programs and TV shows were suspended on June 12.

Police in the southeastern Belarusian city of Svetlahorsk detained eight journalists of the Ranak television channel on June 12 for extremism as a crackdown on independent journalists and democratic institutions continues.

Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca on June 12 submitted his resignation as part of a scheduled plan to swap premiers following the 2020 parliamentary elections that left the two leading parties with near-equal strength. 

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on June 12 he is concerned that Russia will on July 17 quit a deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizers from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports.

The head of Ukraine's Enerhoatom nuclear generating company says he is concerned that Russian forces still occupying Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant may "worsen the situation even further" after last week's destruction of a dam that put Europe's largest nuclear station in peril. 

The Ukrainian military has reported heavy fighting in Ukraine's east as Russian forces attempt to gain full control of the partially occupied Luhansk and Donetsk regions.

Montenegrins head to the polls on June 11 for a snap elections many hope will bring in a new government to implement economic reforms, improve infrastructure, and take the NATO member state closer to European Union membership.

The International Court of Justice has admitted requests by 32 of Ukraine's allies to join a trial in which Kyiv alleges that Russia is guilty of genocide in the current war and that Moscow misused the international genocide convention to falsely justify its invasion of Ukraine.