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Poland’s election commission reports that all votes have been cast now, despite the country’s election commission’s assertions that conservative eurosceptic Karol Nawrocki won.

Nawrocki received 49.11 percent of the vote, the commission announced on Monday, beating liberal Warsaw mayor Rafa Trzaskowski, who received 50.89 percent of the vote.

Nawrocki, 42, a professional boxer and historian who founded a national memorial institute, campaigned with the goal of making economic and social policies favor Poles over other nationalities, including those who were refugees from neighboring Ukraine.

What is the situation as of Monday, June 2:

Fighting

• In an attack that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called Kyiv’s “longest-range operation,” Ukraine claimed to have destroyed $7 billion of Russian bombers at air bases as far away as Siberia.
• According to Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari, who is based in Moscow, the “simultaneous large-scale attack” was “launched from within Russia” and targeted “Russian planes that have been attacking Ukraine.”
• According to a SBU intelligence service official in Ukraine, the operation involved loading explosive-laden drones onto trucks that were driven around the air bases and hiding them inside the roofs of wooden sheds. According to them, at least 41 Russian warplanes were killed.
• According to Russia’s Tass news agency, there were no casualties in the military or the general population and that “some of the participants” had been detained.
• The air force of Ukraine reported that Russia had launched 472 drones at the country overnight, the most of the conflict’s nightly total. Additionally, Moscow launched seven missiles.
• According to Ukraine’s Land Forces, a missile attack on a Ukrainian military training ground on Sunday morning resulted in the deaths of 12 soldiers and the injuries of more than 60 others.
• Mykhailo Drapaty, the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces, said he felt “personal responsibility” for the soldiers’ deaths after the assault.
• At least seven people were killed and 69 were hurt in Russia when a bridge in the Bryansk, Ukraine’s border, collapsed onto a passing passenger train. The bridge collapsed as a result of an “illegal interference in the operation of transport,” according to Moscow Railway in a post posted on Telegram.
• A freight train reportedly derailped in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, in a second bridge collapse, according to the area’s acting governor.
• According to the acting governor, debris from destroyed drones fell on private homes in Kursk, which led to a drone attack by Ukraine on Kursk that also sparked fires.

diplomacy and politics

A second round of peace talks is scheduled to begin today in Istanbul, Turkiye, and Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukraine was sending a delegation led by Rustem Umerov, the country’s defense minister.
• Moscow has received Ukraine’s “version of the memorandum on a peaceful settlement,” according to Vladimir Medinsky, a former cultural minister who will lead Russia’s delegation in Istanbul.
• Zelenskyy did point out that Russia has not yet released its own memo. The Ukrainian president stated in a post on X that “we don’t have it, the Turkish side doesn’t have it, and the American side doesn’t have the Russian document either.”
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Marco Rubio also discussed “several initiatives aimed at a political solution to the Ukraine crisis,” according to TASS, along with their American counterpart. &nbsp,
• In a presidential election in which aid to Kyiv, Ukraine’s potential membership in NATO, and Ukrainian refugees were top priorities, exit polls indicate that the two candidates are very close and the race is still too close to call.

After an attack in Boulder, Colorado that the FBI director described as a “targeted terror attack,” a male suspect has been taken into custody, according to police.

Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said on Sunday that the man was apprehended following calls to the police dispatch of a person who was “setting people on fire,” while underlining that the information was “very preliminary.”

Redfearn claimed that he had been taken to the hospital and that he was not yet able to identify the suspect. According to him, the victims suffered a variety of injuries, ranging from “very serious to more minor” injuries.

The Boulder attack took place close to a memorial walk for the Israeli prisoners still living in Gaza.

Agents were present, according to FBI Director Kash Patel, who described the incident as a “targeted terror attack” in a statement.

However, Redfearn claimed that a motive was too early to speculate.

He claimed that at this time, “we are not calling it a terror attack.”

I ask that you join me in considering the victims, the victims’ families, and everyone who was involved in this tragedy because it happened on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Boulder’s Pearl Street.

In the third game of the series to be played on Sunday at Gaddafi Stadium in Pakistan’s eastern city, Pakistan asked the visitors to bat first after winning the first two matches and choosing to bowl first.

Sahibzada Farhan, Pakistan’s top scorer in the second T20I, was defeated by Mehidy Hasan Miraz in the first over, who had a difficult target of 197.

The old Pakistan may have crumbled under the pressure of losing a quick wicket, but Salman Agha’s new team, led by Mike Hesson, and maintained their scoring rate.

In order to keep the target in sight and maintain a high scoring rate, Saim Ayub and Haris combined for 92 runs as they battled the Bangladeshi bowling attack.

After scoring 45 runs off 29 balls, Tanzim Hasan Sakib sent Ayub home in the 10th over, but Haris had already assumed the role of the lead batter and kept the big shots coming.

In his 46-ball 107 innings, the wicketkeeper-batter kept Bangladesh out of contention for the majority of Pakistan’s innings with seven sixes and eight fours.

He accepted the Player of the Match award with a smile and said he had worked hard despite performing poorly for Pakistan recently.

He said, “I tried to learn from my mistakes and didn’t want to waste the chance I had to play in this series.”

Haris continued, “I didn’t want to play any unnecessary shots, but rather, I batted with the simple plan of “see ball, play ball.”

Before that, Bangladesh’s innings had already jumped off to a fast start thanks to Ayub and Faheem Ashraf, both of whom were opening bowlers for Pakistan.

The Bangladeshi batting lineup’s collapse soon after Tanzid’s departure in the 11th over led to a stand of 110 being set up.

The Tigers were unable to maintain the scoring pace set by the openers despite starts from Litton Das (22 runs) and Towhid Hridoy (25 runs).

The home team was under some pressure when they batted, but a total of 196-6 in 20 overs prevented that, and Pakistan’s lineup of attacking batters disregarded the pressure from the scoreboard and drove their team home with 16 balls to spare.

Salman, the captain of Pakistan and Haris when the winning runs were scored, expressed his satisfaction with the team’s consistency.

After the match, Salman said, “We want to test ourselves when things get difficult, and we wanted to chase to put the boys under pressure.”

After a previous attempt failed because of a drone attack on a different ship in the Mediterranean, the international nonprofit Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) reported that one of its ships has left Sicily to send humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Greta Thunberg, a climate activist in Sweden, Liam Cunningham, an Irish actor, and Rima Hassan, a member of the 12-person crew, set sail on the Madleen on Sunday from the port of Catania, carrying “limited amounts, though symbolic,” of relief supplies.

The Conscience, another vessel owned by the group, was hit by two drones early in May just outside Maltese territorial waters, making the voyage possible. FFC acknowledged that Israel was to blame for the incident, but it has not responded to inquiries for comment.

At a press conference prior to the departure, Thunberg stated that “we are doing this because no matter what the odds are, we have to keep trying,” adding that the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity. The Conscience was scheduled to take the Swedish climate activist.

She continued, “No matter how dangerous this mission is, the silence of the entire world in the face of the lives being genocized” (p.

We are urging people to mobilize to help massively the humanitarian navire of @GazaFFlotilla, #GretaThunberg, and #GretaThunberg! The only way to ensure our safety is through this. 🙏 pic. Twitter.com/Twitter.com/DUJbkRdPZ

If they are not stopped, the activists anticipate it will take them seven days to arrive at their destination.

A non-violent international movement supporting Palestinians called the FCC, which combines political protest with humanitarian aid, to protest the blockade on Gaza.

The trip, according to the statement, “is not charity.” To protest Israel’s ongoing war crimes and its illegal siege, this is a direct, non-violent action.

UN agencies and significant aid organizations claim that Gaza’s roughly two million residents are incredibly reliant on Israeli restrictions, the collapse of law and order, and widespread looting.

Despite a resumed drop in aid deliveries in the Palestinian enclave, the UN reported on Friday that the situation in Gaza is at its worst since the start of the Israeli-Hamas conflict 19 months ago.

Israel’s 11-week blockade of Gaza was lifted on May 19 amid growing international pressure, allowing only sporadically limited UN-led operations to resume.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is supported by the United States and Israel, opened a new channel of aid on Monday, with UN and international aid organizations objecting because it is unbalanced and has a distribution model that forces Palestinians to flee.

Israel has just recently come under fire from the FCC, one of whom vehemently refutes Israel’s claims of genocidal behavior during its war in Gaza.

The activist Thiago Avila said, “We are breaking the siege of Gaza by sea, but that’s part of a broader strategy of mobilisations that will attempt to break the siege by land.”

The United States is proposing a nuclear deal, which Tehran claims is in the country’s best interests.

Tehran, however, accuses the West of political pressure and warns it will take “appropriate countermeasures” if European powers resume sanctions.

Is there still room for a deal, then?

Or will Iran be declared to be in violation of its nonproliferation obligations by the US, UK, France, and Germany?

Presenter: James Bays, &nbsp.

Guests:

Hassan Ahmadian, an assistant professor at Tehran University

The International Crisis Group’s project director for Iran Ali Vaez