Top stories for June 5

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Top stories for June 4 ✹ Zelensky wrote an open letter to Putin and proposed a personal meeting. ✹ OVD-Info was added to Rosfinmonitoring’s register of terrorists and extremists. ✹ 11 European countries demanded tighter visa issuance for Russians. ✹ The European Commission…

Top stories for June 5

✹ Putin responded to Zelensky’s letter proposing an end to the war.

✹ The corvette Boykiy sustained significant damage as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack on Kronstadt.

✹ Apple explained the disappearance of the Max messenger from the App Store by citing sanctions.

✹ Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war — 185 for 185 people.

✹ Putin proposed postponing the further lowering of the revenue threshold for paying VAT. It currently stands at 20 million rubles a year.

Text of the day. Because of Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks on the highway leading to Crimea, a fuel crisis broke out on the peninsula. Residents stand in line at gas stations for hours, and gasoline vouchers are impossible to get

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In one digest: war reply, damaged corvette, prisoner swap, VAT, and Crimea fuel lines.

Even disaster made room for tax policy.