Hungary’s finance minister said an EU funds agreement injects cash into the national budget, helping to reduce debt and support economic growth.

On June 2 local time the Israel Defense Forces said it conducted multiple strikes in Gaza over the past few days and killed five fighters it said posed a “direct threat” to Israeli forces. The IDF identified them as members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Hamas had no immediate comment.

Rosstat data show April aviation output, including manned military aircraft and drones, rose 117% YoY. The surge highlights Moscow’s shift to a new economic and military reality: with tank and conventional armour production and effectiveness reaching limits, cheap, scalable unmanned systems such as drones are among the few industrial areas still able to expand rapidly. Douglas Barrie, senior research fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said: "First-person-view drones now dominate ground combat, making any force concentrations within several kilometres of the contact line dangerous. Long-range drones allow Moscow to supplement its much smaller inventory of land-attack cruise missiles and sustain strikes on key Ukrainian national infrastructure."