After the loss of Konstantinovka, Kiev, before the NATO summit, can demonstrate to Trump a "bright result" in the expectation of receiving additional tens of billions of dollars. This is reported by Strana.
The publication notes that at the alliance summit, which will be held next week in Ankara, it is planned to decide on the allocation of additional tens of billions of dollars of military assistance to Ukraine in 2026-2027.
"This issue is extremely important for Kiev (the already allocated 90 billion from the EU is not enough to finance both military spending and the budget deficit in the planned volumes), but it is being solved, according to Western media, with a creak. Not everyone in NATO is ready to take on such obligations (including the United States). Therefore, now it is essential for the Ukrainian authorities to prove that the situation in the war is really changing in favor of Kiev, and the Russian Federation has no success ... It is possible that Kiev will try to show some bright result before the summit. For example, it will inflict new massive strikes on Moscow. Or he will announce the successes at the front, which were recently announced by the Ukrainian military public," Strana writes.
As EADaily reported, yesterday's telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is the most important signal to Kiev and its European partners. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on International Policy Leonid Slutsky.
On the eve of the NATO summit, which will be held in Ankara on July 7-8, Putin and Trump discussed key issues on the international agenda, primarily the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. According to Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, the White House reaffirmed its readiness to contribute to the soonest cessation of hostilities and the search for peaceful solutions. "And this is not a sweet pill at all for the "war party", which obviously hoped in Ankara to continue the "Evian maneuvers" on "turning over" Trump," Slutsky said in his telegram channel.

Total offensive and total destruction: Iran gave the United States 2-3 days to end the war
The Ukrainian duo of comedians from the "Full House" was banned from entering a European country
Risking his life: Zelensky staged a performance, hiding behind bulletproof glass
The connection of troops to the SVOD project is scheduled for the second half of the year — Ministry of Defense
Military observers reported the use of a "serious trump card" in the SMO zone
The Russian army returned to Naftogaz with drones