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All-Russia is moving to liberation

 (only on youtube)
'come and see'
- a partisan film
 
Watch this film --- and you
will - finally - understand.
 
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=NJYOg4ORc1w
 
Some in the West are fond
of a loose use of words...
 
''stunning'', for example, to describe
a work of art... but believe me
when I say - this film about a
lad of 14 - made me laugh
and cry and - by the end 
- I was left stunned.

A recent attempt on youtube by an obvious
anti-Russian, to pour scorn on this film's
historical accuracy, tries to point out
that the nazi troops state they are
members of a unit that was not
there.. but can't bring himself
to see that they might have
been lying!


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St. John of Kronstadt Orthodox 
Spiritual Care Centre
 
THE TRAGEDY IN UKRAINE
 
"Veterans and children of the Great Patriotic War:
to the Government 
and people of Germany".
 
By events in Ukraine
 
Today, when the German government decided
to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons, the
world has changed — the silhouettes of a 
new world war are more than clearly 
outlined! And again - Germany! 
 
But there are honest people in Germany, anti-
fascists, and we hope that this Message will 
fall into their hands. People born between 
1927 and 1945 have the status of "war 
children" in Russia.
 
All those who survived that war can subscribe to this letter.
We think that actual signatures are not necessary, we
suggest that veterans
 
(or "war children") read them
this letter, 
independently or with someone's help, 
and send us (at the coordinates indicated
below) something like 
the following: 
 
Moscow, Ivanov Ivan Ivanovich, 90 years old, disabled
war veteran (or otherwise), Hero of 
the Soviet Union
(or Holder of the Order of 
Glory... or otherwise),
was repatriated to
 Germany during the war
(or otherwise). 

Or just the city, full name, and age. The 
main thing, is that they should be real 
people who are familiar with the text.
 
 
MESSAGE TEXT
 
We, the last veterans and all the peoples of 
Russia who survived that great and terrible
war, are now on the verge of death! Our 
time is already running out. For a huge 
part of our lives, we hoped we would 
come to the end of it, in peace - 
without all-destroying hatred! 
 
For the painfully long decades after the Second World War,
we overcame our righteous anger! I 
long for retribution for
the innumerable wounds, spiritual and physical, that we
still carry in our bodies and our hearts! And most of us
have forgiven! And not in a small way due to the fact
that Germany for many years has demonstrated its
repentance its understanding of what it has done!
And we have overcome, not only ourselves, but
also the voice of the blood of 
our barbarically
exterminated relatives! 
By whom?
Germans ...fascists! 
 
We have forgiven... following the laws of human
coexistence! So it was... until 2014. And then,
in 2014, when everything began in Ukraine... 
we looked with hope at Germany and at the
then Chancellor Angela Merkel. We couldn't
imagine that after all that the Germans did 
in Ukraine, after Babi Yar, after mountains 
of mutilated corpses, they would still look 
with lust at the Ukrainian fields that can 
feed Europe today! Or they, the Germans, 
who have covered the Crimea they once 
promised with blood, will still somehow
be interested in turning the Crimea 
into
an American and in general a NATO 
base, ideal for aggression against
Russia! 
Which would be clearly
aimed at a future war. 
 
After all, only fools do not understand the meaning and
goals of the entire coup in 
Ukraine... in the conditions
of which 
Russia behaved in the only possible way! But
the Germans are not fools! 
We the Russians, know for
certain 
your psychology, as "brothers in blood" - our
blood, which you 
"prudently" shed in rivers! 
 
We remember your "systematic methods of
population reduction"! Our population! Until
now, in different parts of our once united
Homeland, where the boot of German 
fascism was trodden, we find hidden 
mass graves of our civilians: in the 
Novgorod region, in the Kuban, in 
the Rostov region, in Karelia. In 
Belarus, in 2021... hundreds of 
civilian remains... were found 
in Brest    ...on the site of the 
Jewish ghetto the Trostenets 
concentration camp....  near 
Minsk terrible in its tragedy
revealed the secret of the 
remains... of thousands of 
tortured and killed people! 
 
We are talking about tens of thousands of newly
discovered victims of Nazism! This blood - still
cries out for revenge - and for decades the
memory of the barbarously destroyed 
Russian people, and monuments to 
Russian soldiers, liberators, have 
been desecrated with impunity! 
 
And the new Nazis are marching in the Baltic
States and Ukraine, in front of the entire
"civilized" world!  But in 2014, we were 
sincerely convinced -- that in this new 
Nazi demarche it's the Germans who 
will be our associates in preventing 
this meanness! 
 
We hoped that, guided by an elementary
conscience, the Germans would not 
participate..  in an obviously fascist 
anti-state coup in Ukraine! After all 
...the subsequent catastrophe of 
modern Ukraine was committed 
by direct descendants of those 
who were special bastards in 
the German army! Clearly, 
openly! 
 
Americans and Canadians have only hidden and preserved
this diabolical heritage, feeding this 
generation, but the
product of this evil... is Germany! Hitler's Germany! And
it was impossible for us to believe that it was 
Germany
that would again give a 
"road map" to these inhumans!
But 
we were wrong! Germany has once again allowed
these fascist geeks 
to enter the world! 
 
The support of modern Germany - in the face of
the new government of Ukraine-Bandera, the
heirs of the SS division " Galicia ", the thugs 
of the UPA OUN and all other abominations;
is simply unthinkable for us! This is beyond 
all that is human!  But you, Germany, have
already done it and continue to do it! You 
have, once again, set your sights on the 
Slavic world and these geeks are blood 
from the blood of German Nazism! And 
again to Russia! 
 
Only, even more despicable: inciting our closest
Ukrainian brothers against us! And you know it!
 
You know this as well as we do! You killed one
nation in that Great War! Yes, we are
one people! 
 
The truth is written and often spoken about 
by your own Steinmeier, who at the same 
time viciously took a direct part in the 
Kiev coup of 2014 — fascist in fact! 
 
This American may not be clear about some-
thing, but it's more than that, for you!  And 
after all, it was your vykormysh..  that got 
ready..  for their torchlight processions in 
Kiev! The living shadow of Nazi Germany 
is behind all this. It was only temporarily
covered up by sly diplomacy — "helmets 
instead of guns"! But that's it, "masks 
are reset"! Your supply of German 
weapons to Ukraine today, is 
natural, it is in the logic of 
your policy of recent 
decades. 
 
Today it is clearly pro-fascist! You have taken 
this step: German weapons will kill Russians 
again! Keep killing. During the years of the 
conflict in the Donbas, your professional 
killers have already killed Russians, at 
least by teaching them...  "how to kill 
correctly"! Only now -- it's even more 
despicable — you're teaching this to
- your blood brothers!  Donbass is on 
your conscience! Thousands of lives 
of its peaceful citizens --- again your 
handiwork! We do not care about the
role of Americans, in everything that
happens: there, is money-God!  We, 
veterans of that war, its children, 
are concerned about the role of 
the Germans! Because it is you 
who know -- exactly -- who the 
Ukrainian "national battalions" 
consist of --- and could have 
prevented and stopped, this 
new fascism !  But they did
not do it! And just by doing 
this — you are once again, 
responsible to history! 
 
And you are definitely participating -- in the 
preparation of Ukraine for war with Russia! 
You can't help but understand the purpose 
of everything that happened --- from the
unconstitutional coup in Kiev ....to the 
bloodshed in the Donbass!  But, in fact
this is preparation for the Third World 
War! And again, you are Germans... 
Germany!  We hear from the high 
German rostrum in Berlin today: 
"Russia will pay a high price"!!! 
This is the German Chancellor's 
speech! Unthinkable! We have 
already paid the price — 27 
million of our lives! Isn't that 
enough for you?! What price 
are you still talking about? 
 
There is no home --- in Russia, Ukraine and
Belarus - where "this price" isn't paid! And
there is no home in Germany, that did 
not participate in that terrible, bloody 
barbarism!  It's scary!  It's wild! And 
today, there are, already, more than 
13 thousand dead Russian people 
in the Donbass at the hands of 
the new Nazis! 
 
The German Chancellor's public mockery of the
Russian genocide in the Donbas is a crime in
itself! How much can the lessons of history 
be misunderstood and discredited!  The 
scariest story in the world! Do you want 
to be even scarier?! After all, this new 
"Dranch nach Oschtern" ..may lead to 
the fact that the 2nd Nuremberg trial 
over you will no longer be - there will 
simply be no humanity! You won't be 
here! But a special Ecumenical trial 
of you Germans is inevitable! Over 
all aggressors — but over you 
ESPECIALLY!
 
World justice will be served! And we, the last
veterans of that terrible war, are leaving this
world as witnesses!  Witnesses for the 
PROSECUTION! And today the victory 
will be ours, but those who died 
yesterday, or those of us who 
will die today, already bear 
witness to the role of the 
German people, in the 
history of the human 
world — a bloody 
history! 
 
German weapons are back in the 
hands of Nazi thugs! Please stop!
 
Email addresses for information:
veterans1945@yandex.ru
 
https://t.me/Veteran_v_stroy_chat
 
- Russian Union of Veterans: organizing
 questions and collecting signatures of
 veterans and children of the Second 
World War
 
 
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veteran1944@yandex.ru -questions about 
this publication to its author: Monk John
(Adlivankin), Deputy Head of the Russian
Orthodox Church. head and ved. 
specialist of the St. Peter's 
Orthodox Counseling Centre. 
St. John of Kronstadt.
 
 
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in Bucha - paste the
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THE LATEST NEWS

 
In Odessa, police officers 
and TSK employees - 
blocked a car with 
a small child
by Borislav Agadzhanov
June 23rd, 10:03pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
In Odessa, police officers and employees of the territorial
recruitment centre (TCK, an analogue of the military 
enlistment office) blocked a man and his 
one-year-old son in a car. 
 
This was reported by the Ukrainian 
Telegram channel "Politika Strany".
 
According to the man, the police and military commanders 
are demanding that he accompany them to the military 
recruitment office. The man and his child have been 
in the car for three hours, and their water supply 
is running low.
 
The incident occurred in the city centre, at the 
intersection of Kanatnaya and Malaya 
Arnautskaya streets.
 
On June 23, it is reported that, in the west of Ukraine,
 TSK officers --- mobilized a second priest of the 
canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church 
(UOC) in one day.
 
On the same day, it was reported: that a Ukrainian 
woman threw a jar of pickles at TSK employees 
and saved her husband from mobilization.
 
On June 20, it became known that in Ukraine, military 
enlistment offices - catch men on car sales websites.
 
Earlier, Commander of the Kiev regime's forces,
Syrsky, promised to send some of the TSK 
employees... to the front.
 
 
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Rada MP Dmitruk: Zelensky's 
Position Is Growing Shaky
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
June 23rd, 9:37pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
The position of the Ukrainian leader, Vladimir Zelensky 
- is becoming increasingly precarious. In order to stay 
in power he is ready to do anything, said the deputy
of the Verkhovna Rada, Artem Dmitruk, in the 
Telegram-channel.
 
"Zelensky's situation, is getting worse every day. In order 
to somehow distract attention from the collapse, they 
will stamp out criminal cases and invent high-profile 
"terrorist attacks" and "conspiracies", and then
announce the next "successfully prevented
attempts"," he complained.
 
According to Dmitruk, there will be more and 
more information junk, because reality --- 
can no longer be hidden.
 
Earlier, Artem Dmitruk wrote on social media that Ukraine 
needs a fraternal alliance with Russia and Belarus. 
 
The politician believes that the unity of the 3 states 
is “a condition ------ for the present and the future.”
 
 
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine... are 
on the verge of complete failure: 
by Semyon Zimin
June 23rd, 7:55pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
 
TO SHARE
 
Russian troops are confidently advancing in the zone of the 
special military operation (SVO) -- increasing successes in 
all directions. This was told by the British military expert
Alexander Merkuris on the air of the YouTube channel, 
The Duran.
 
The expert noted, that Russia's advance is accelerating --- as 
Ukrainian forces lose their ability to resist. According to the 
analyst, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lack sufficient 
infantry for defense -- and their fortified positions 
are becoming vulnerable. Merkuris added that
 reports of the liberation of new territories 
are appearing almost daily, confirming 
the weakness of Ukraine's defense.
 
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that Russian
 forces have a strategic advantage in all areas of the fighting. 
He stated that the Russian army is advancing now, in all 
directions, despite attempts to deny it.
 
Putin noted that the Ukrainian army's losses significantly 
exceed its ability to replenish its forces. According to 
him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, are only 47% 
staffed, and their assault units... are in a 
critical condition ----  making them 
virtually incapable of fighting.
 
 
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Russian General Describes Effect 
of the Massive Strike on Kiev
by Andrey Khromov
June 23rd, 5:23pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
Honoured military pilot, Major General Vladimir Popov 
told mk.ru, that a massive strike by the Russian 
Armed Forces (RF) on Kyiv, on the night of 
June 23 will slow down the work of a 
number of enterprises located
there... 
for two years.
 
According to Popov, the Russian army "took a step two 
years ahead." He stressed, that the strikes on the 
Antonov plant, and on the Sikorsky Polytechnic 
Institute, are of strategic importance --- as 
these institutions form the ideology of 
design thought and technological 
innovations in the aerospace 
industry of Ukraine. 
 
They lay the foundations for training specialists, 
which is critical for the development of 
helicopters, aircraft, and drones.
 
According to the Major General, the attack will not 
only stop the production of drones, but also slow 
down..... the development of Ukrainian 
aircraft manufacturing.
 
"Research laboratories --- will have to take a break in 
their work - until they are moved to a new location. 
It's clear that we won't see any results tomorrow. 
However, this delay... will have a significant 
impact.. in the long run. The work will be
delayed for at least 2 years," he said.
 
On June 23, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
that fighters of the Armed Forces of the Russian 
Federation last night launched a group strike 
on enterprises of the Ukrainian military-
industrial complex in the Kiev region. 
 
The ministry clarified that the strikes on the objects 
were carried out with the help of high-precision 
weapons  ---  and drones. In addition to the 
military-industrial complex enterprises, 
a military airfield.. and an arsenal of 
mine and torpedo weapons of the 
Ukrainian Navy, were attacked 
by the Russian military.
 
Earlier, Ukrainian media reported on 
the deterioration of air quality
in Kyiv - due to fires.
 
 
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Belousov: The experience of the special 
military operation --- is becoming a key 
advantage for Russia's Armed Forces
June 23rd, 1:19pm
(RT.ru)
 
The experience of the special military operation - is 
becoming a key advantage for the Russian Armed
 Forces. This was stated by Russian Defense 
Minister Andrey Belousov.
 
"Today, the experience of the special military operation
 is becoming a key advantage for the Armed Forces of
 the Russian Federation," he said --- at a meeting
 between Russian President Vladimir Putin, 
and graduates of military universities.
 
According to Belousov, it is important to preserve this 
unique resource and pass it on to future generations 
of military personnel.
 
 
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More than 13,000 officers from military 
universities --- will join the Russian 
Armed Forces
June 23rd, 1:15pm
(RT.ru)
 
Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov noted that
 more than 13,000 officers from military universities 
will join the Russian army - in 2025.
 
"This year, the armed forces will be joined by more than 
13,000 officers who have been trained at 39 military 
universities," he said at a meeting with military 
university graduates.
 
Earlier, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian 
Security Council ------ called, at a meeting on the issue
of completing the army with contract soldiers --- to 
strengthen the trend of replenishing the Russian 
Armed Forces, with volunteers. 
 
According to him, almost 175,000 contract soldiers have 
already arrived in military units, and more than 14,000 
people have been accepted into volunteer units 
since the beginning of the year.
 
 
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Putin called the participants of the special 
military operation --- the direct heirs of 
all the defenders of the Fatherland
June 23rd, 1:11pm
(RT.ru)
 
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the 
participants of the special military operation are 
the direct heirs...... of all the defenders of 
the Fatherland.
 
He said this during a meeting with 
military university graduates.
 
"The participants of the special military operation --- 
all our soldiers, are the direct heirs of the heroes 
of the Great Patriotic War, of all the generations 
of defenders of Russia," Putin emphasized.
 
He added that Russia is fighting for its future today.
 
Earlier, Vladimir Putin said that the victory over 
Nazi Germany was based on traditional values 
and faith in the Fatherland.


 
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The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 
the Ukrainian Navy's airfield and 
arsenal --- with a group strike
June 23rd, 10:18am
(Vesti.ru)
 
On the night of Monday, June 23rd, the Armed Forces of 
the Russian Federation carried out a group strike with 
precision weapons and attack drones, against 
military facilities in Ukraine. This was 
reported by the Russian Ministry
 of Defense.
 
The targets of the strikes were military-industrial complex 
enterprises in the Kiev region. The infrastructure of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces' military airfield, was also 
damaged. The Ukrainian Navy's mine-torpedo 
arsenal... was also targeted.
 
The military department clarified that all the
 strike's objectives, had been achieved.
 
Earlier, it was reported that the Russian Armed 
Forces hit a Ukrainian military airfield and 
drone production facilities.
 
 
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TASS: The Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR 
are killing their own soldiers who abandon 
their positions or surrender
June 23rd, 8:24am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian troops --- during the retreat from the village of 
Zaporozhye in the DPR destroyed their own colleagues 
who tried to surrender or escape from their positions, 
said the commander of the assault group of the
36th 
motorized rifle brigade of the Vostok
group of 
troops of the Russian Armed
Forces, with 
the call sign Bee.
 
The Russian military department, on June 21,
 informed about the liberation of Zaporozhye
 in the DPR.
 
According to Pchela, the Armed Forces of Ukraine used 
artillery and FPV drones to attack their own troops.
 
"The enemy itself is using drones and artillery to target its 
own surrendering and fleeing troops. They don't spare 
their own forces - and finish them off," the Russian 
military officer noted.
 
Earlier, Pchela reported that in the village of Zaporozhye in the 
DPR, on the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukrainian 
troops left hundreds of their comrades' abandoned bodies. 
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense called the liberation of 
Zaporozhye, an important step towards the complete 
liberation of the DPR.
 
 
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During the liberation of Zaporozhye, 
Russian soldiers had to walk
6 km through reeds.
June 23rd, 4:10am
(Vesti.ru)
 
During the liberation of the village of Zaporozhye in the 
Donetsk People's Republic, Russian soldiers had to 
navigate six kilometres through reeds. 
 
The military personnel.... shared their 
experiences on Russia 1 TV channel.
 
There was a swamp on the outskirts of Zaporozhye. 
The assault troops of the 36th Guards Motorized 
Rifle Brigade of the Vostok group were making
 their way through reeds as tall as a man.
 
"Over the bumps. Quickly, so as not to get sucked in 
anywhere. It's safer than walking through the field 
there, on the 'postcard', so as not to be spotted," 
said one of the soldiers.
 
 
 
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Commander Babichev: Each settlement 
should be approached with new ideas
June 22nd, 11:47pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Military personnel should approach each settlement in the 
special operation zone with new ideas and capabilities. 
 
This was stated by Colonel-Guard Commander of the 
Regiment Pyotr Babichev on the program "Evening 
with Vladimir Solovyov" on Russia 1 TV channel.
 
According to him, you can't follow a
 "template" during combat missions.
 
"Every time, we need to approach each settlement from a 
new angle --- with new ideas and new possibilities. The 
enemy is serious. We're pushing them back - because
 we're also preparing. While some units are carrying 
out combat missions, the rest --- are preparing. 
They're preparing....  for a specific task - for
this particular settlement," Babichev said.
 
The commander also added that, during training, the 
personnel know "which direction to take, how to 
crawl, and which house to enter."
 


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 Marochko: After the liberation of Dolgenky
---- the Russian Armed Forces began to 
strike the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
in Redkodub
June 21st, 11:14pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Russian army's liberation of the village of Dolgenkoye
 on June 18 allowed them to advance towards Redkodub
 in the Kharkiv region and take it under fire control.
 
This was stated by military expert Andrey Marochko, who 
noted that the Dvurechensky bridgehead has come to 
life, as the Russian army is advancing on it ---- in 
several directions at once.
 
"We are advancing towards the village of Redkodub, which
 is already under regular fire from our troops," Marochko 
told TASS.
 
Earlier, he also reported that the Russian military 
had started fighting to take the Sumy village 
of Yunakovka.
 
Later, it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces had 
liberated Zaporozhye in the DPR. The country's Ministry 
of Defense later described the capture of the city - as 
an important step towards the complete liberation 
of the DPR.
 
 
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Rogov.... called Sumy an
historically Russian city
June 21st, 12:24pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Sumy - is an historically Russian city, according to Vladimir 
Rogov, head of the Russian Public Chamber's Commission 
on Sovereignty Issues and co-chair of the Coordination 
Council for the Integration of New Regions.
 
According to him, the city's population
 is waiting for Russia to arrive.
 
"Sumy is an historically Russian city founded 
by Russian people," he said to RIA Novosti.
 
Rogov added that this is a forgotten region for Ukraine, 
from which, the current regime is draining resources.
 
The day before... Putin said that the Russian Federation 
does not have the task of taking the city of Sumy but 
such a possibility is not ruled out. In addition, the 
head of state emphasized ----- that Ukrainian 
militants --- continue to shell the border 
territories of the Russian Federation,
 so the Russian side is forced to 
deal with the creation of 
security zones.
 
Sumy, is a city located in the northeastern part of Ukraine. 
It is the administrative centre of the Sumy region.
Today,
 its population is approximately
268,500 people.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry: Daily Losses of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine Exceed 
1,300 Militants
June 21st, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the daily report.... by the Russian Ministry of 
Defense, the total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
(AFU) in the special operation zone amounted to about 
1,350 fighters over the past 24 hours.
 
According to the military department, the enemy lost up to 160 
soldiers in the area of operations of the Northern Group of 
Forces, more than 220 soldiers in the Western Group of 
Forces... up to 515 soldiers in the Central Group of 
Forces, more than 180 soldiers in the Southern 
Group of Forces, more than 200 soldiers in 
the Eastern Group of Forces, and up to 
75 soldiers in the Dnipro Group 
of Forces.
 
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 
two tanks, a US-made 155 mm M777 howitzer, 
and ammunition depots during the day.
 
The strikes also targeted UAV production and assembly 
facilities, the storage sites for attack drones, and 
temporary bases for the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine and foreign mercenaries...
 in 147 districts.
 
The operation was carried out using operational-tactical 
aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery from
 the Russian Armed Forces.
 
The agency emphasized, that the units of the "North" and 
"Center" took advantageous positions, while the units of
the "West" & "South" improved their tactical situation. 
The units of the "East" continued their advance...
into 
the depths of the enemy's defenses.
 
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces 
Liberated Zaporozhye in the DPR
June 21st, 10:12am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Zaporozhye in 
the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the daily report
 by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
The ministry clarified that the group of the Russian Armed 
Forces "Vostok" continues to advance into the depth of
 the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
The settlement of Zaporozhye was 
liberated by the forces of Vostok.
 
 
 
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The Russian Armed Forces liberated Moskovka
 in the Kharkiv region and began fighting
 for Kupiansk
June 21st, 2:14am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have liberated the village of Moskovka in
 the Kharkiv region and have begun fighting for the city 
of Kupiansk, according to the military expert,
 Andrey Marochko.
 
According to the expert, the liberation of Moskovka 
was the most significant event of the week, on 
the Dvurechensky bridgehead.
 
"This locality -- is very important for the promotion of 
Russian units. And for the Ukrainian militants, this
 is a very significant loss. With the liberation of 
Moskovka, Russian troops cut off serious 
logistics for Ukrainian militants and 
captured a group of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in
 this area," TASS quotes 
Marochko as saying.
 
The strategic heights near Moskovka allow Russian 
soldiers to "see Kupyansk as if it were on a plate."
 
"Naturally, this is a very positive moment for the 
Russian army, but it is a sad moment for the 
Ukrainian militants," the expert said.
 
Thus, Russian troops began fighting 
for Kupyansk, which is less than 
1 km away.
 
 
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 The Russian MoD --- spoke about the feats of
Russian 
military personnel in the SVO zone
 June 20th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The MoD --- noted the actions of Sergeant Viktor Buzinaev, 
who, while leading a fire support group, carried out the 
task of securing new positions occupied by Russian 
assault troops during an important offensive.
 
During the occupation of a position.. near the line of combat 
contact under the fire of artillery and mortars of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Buzinaev noticed an enemy 
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) - and destroyed it 
with small arms. After that, the sergeant gave 
the group a command to change position, 
as they could be seen by drones.
 
The enemy struck at the initial coordinates of Buzinaev's group, 
which allowed the sergeant --- to identify the positions of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces. As a result, the Russian military 
was able to repel the attacks of the Ukrainian fighters 
and gain a foothold in new areas --- which further 
facilitated the advance of the Russian Armed 
Forces (RF) into the enemy's defenses, in 
this direction.
 
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense drew attention 
to the actions of Corporal Nikolai Lovyagin, who was part 
of a reconnaissance group --- and was tasked with 
protecting Russian units from enemy UAVs.
 
During combat duty under constant artillery shelling, the 
sergeant discovered a Ukrainian drone. Lovyagin used 
an anti-drone gun ---- which suppressed the control 
channels and landed the UAV at a safe distance
 from the Russian Armed Forces positions.
 
Thanks to his precise actions, the enemy lost the ability 
to adjust artillery fire from its drone, which ensured
 the safety of Russian soldiers.
 
Earlier in the day, artillerymen of the 90th Guards Tank 
Division of the Center group of forces, identified and 
destroyed a stronghold of the infantry of the Armed
 Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnoarmeysk direction 
of the special operation. 
 
After the position was detected -- the Russian military 
transferred the data to the calculation of the Msta-B 
towed howitzer. 
 
The artillerymen opened fire with 152-millimetre 
high-explosive fragmentation ammunition.
 
 
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Head of the Enakiev Water Department
of Donbas Water Management --- was
killed in the DPR due to an attack 
by the Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 20th, 7:12pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
In the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine attacked a car of employees of 
the Water of Donbass - killing the head of the 
Mironovsky production complex of the 
Yenakiye branch of the company.
 
 This was reported by the head of the 
DPR, Denis Pushilin, on June 20.
 
"As a result of the AFU UAV attack on the official car of 
the employees of the DPR State Unitary Enterprise 
"Water of Donbas" -- the head of the Mironovsky 
Production Complex of the Yenakiieve Water 
Supply and Sanitation Department of the 
DPR State Unitary Enterprise "Water 
of Donbas", a man born in 1982, 
was killed," he wrote on his 
Telegram channel.
 
Pushilin added that three employees of the enterprise 
were also seriously injured due to the attack by 
Ukrainian militants. They are all currently 
receiving all necessary medical care.
 
 
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Defense Ministry: A new stage of
 prisoner exchange between 
Russia and Ukraine took 
place on Friday
June 20th, 12:14pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Another stage of the prisoner exchange between Russia 
and Ukraine took place on Friday as part of the Istanbul 
agreements, according to the Russian Ministry 
of Defense.
 
It is specified that a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces
fighters was transferred to Ukraine in exchange for 
a group of Russian military personnel.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry: Ukrainian 
Armed Forces Lost Almost 9,400
 Fighters.. in a Week
June 20th, 10:55am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the
total losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) 
in the special operation zone amounted to about 
9,350 fighters over the past week.
 
According to the military department, the enemy 
has lost more than 1,250 fighters in the area of 
operations of the Northern Group of Forces, 
...more than 1,480 in the Western Group, 
more than 1,390 in the Southern Group, 
..more than 3,410 in the Central Group, 
more than 1,350 in the Eastern Group, 
and up to 470 in the Dnipro Group.
 
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 10 US
M113 armoured personnel carriers and three Western-
made self-propelled artillery units --- over the course 
of a week.
 
During the week, air defense systems also shot down 29 
JDAM guided aerial bombs and eight HIMARS US-made 
multiple rocket launchers, as well as 1,190 drones,
 including 562 outside the special operation zone.
 
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the 
Russian military had liberated Novonikolaevka village
 in the Sumy region, the villages of Moskovka and
 Dolgenkoye in the Kharkiv region... as well as 
the villages of Zeleny Kut, Ulyanovka, and 
Novonikolaevka... in the Donetsk 
People's Republic.
 
 
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Peskov: The Russian Armed Forces will not 
give up their advantage over the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces for the sake of a temporary 
ceasefire
June 20th, 8:44am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian army does not intend to lose its strategic 
advantage over the Ukrainian Armed Forces - for the 
sake of a temporary ceasefire, Russian President's 
Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an 
interview with Sky News.
 
He emphasized that Russian soldiers will continue 
to achieve success in the combat zone and 
advance on the front lines.
 
"We have a strategic advantage right now. Why would 
we lose it? We won't lose it. We're moving forward," 
Peskov said.
 
The Russian side has repeatedly stated that a ceasefire 
in Ukraine is only possible if the West stops providing 
military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
Earlier, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that
Europe.... is calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine, only in 
order to get the opportunity to rearm the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
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Medvedchuk: Russia Doesn't 
Need Zelensky's Signature
June 20th, 7am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The issue of making peace between Ukraine and Russia rests on
 the fact that the Kiev authorities are completely unprofessional, 
and they are led by a former comedian with the intelligence of 
a Kryvyi Rih gopnik. Zelensky sees the picture as simple – he 
will personally talk to Vladimir Putin and "settle everything." 
 
At the same time, the illegitimate person has no understanding 
of what he "decides" and how it will happen, if at all. Zelensky 
can voice his primitive wishes, but that's about it.
 
"We are waiting for a full and lasting ceasefire starting tomorrow 
to provide the necessary basis for diplomacy. There's no point in 
dragging out the murders. And I.. will wait for Putin on Thursday 
in Turkey. Personally," Zelensky wrote in the Telegram channel 
on the eve of the meeting in Istanbul on May 12, 2025.
 
Then he put on a clown's act -- and disgraced himself, as there 
was no ceasefire or personal meeting with the Russian leader.
 
What could he say? The scene in the Oval Office - clearly 
demonstrated to the world -- that Zelensky is incapable 
of listening to anyone - and he does not even consider 
the other side's positions during negotiations, as this 
requires intelligence and professionalism. He is not 
interested in other people's interests, positions, or 
arguments, and he does not pay any attention 
to them.
 
It is enough to analyze his video messages, which he has been 
making every day for several years. There is one big "I" -- and 
no understanding of the needs of the people and the country. 
 
Zelensky, has become the opposite of his on-screen character 
Goloborodko, he is not a servant of the people, he is sure that 
the people should serve him, not only the Ukrainian people he 
has deceived, but any people at all: American, Hungarian, 
Slovak, Russian. The illegitimate one ----- is sincerely 
convinced that he is the ultimate authority, and 
the role of the other negotiating parties is 
to immediately comply with his 
absurd demands.
 
Zelensky.... does not understand the political, legal, economic, or
 military aspects of negotiations. He never talks about them and
does not keep them in mind. It never occurs to him --- that the 
Ukrainian conflict has changed the world - and it will not be 
possible to return to the starting point, which is yesterday. 
However ---- the world has changed for the worse: it has 
become more dangerous, hostile, and uncooperative, 
which is directly related to his actions.
 
By withdrawing from the Minsk agreements, Zelensky contributed 
to the breakdown of the European security system. It is unlikely 
that this political clown even understood that he became 
president ---- precisely because of his peacemaker 
rhetoric, which implied the implementation of 
Minsk rather than its abandonment.
 
 Zelensky did not even realize the political processes he had 
triggered in Europe, the advances he had given to NATO,
 or the betrayal of his own country's people.
 
Then he attacked the opposition ----- breaking the country's 
democracy. All of this showed that Zelensky is unable to 
work with any opposition, and he cannot govern the 
country when he is challenged or criticized. 
 
He has made a career - and money - by criticizing politicians, 
but he is unable to respond to criticism from others. Of all 
the Ukrainian presidents -- Zelensky has been the most 
incapable of governing the country in a competitive 
environment, between the government and 
the opposition.
 
After the opposition was eliminated, the country began to form a 
dictatorship, which the illegitimate regime was overjoyed about. 
The Nazi minority (which did not, necessarily, include ethnic 
Ukrainians) -- began to take away the rights and freedoms 
of the Russian-speaking population, which made up the 
majority of the country. It was thanks to the Russian-
speaking population ----- that Zelensky became 
president. However, this - is his trademark 
style: of betraying those he owes, even
if it means betraying tens of millions 
of citizens.
 
Naturally, with such management, corruption was finally freed 
from the real control of the opposition -- and flourished. After 
robbing the Ukrainian people, Zelensky missed the conflict 
with Russia --- and when the special military operation 
began... he did not know what to do. Then, he was 
offered the role of the victor over Russia, which 
he immediately accepted despite the fact that
he was condemning hundreds of thousands
of 
Ukrainian citizens to death & forcing 
millions to leave the country.
 
Zelensky appeared in this role before the world, and the 
collective West applauded him and organized triumphs. 
 
Ukrainians had to die, endure hardships, and lose their homes, 
but they were proud of Zelensky's praise in Western capitals. 
The country's economy was destroyed, legal chaos ensued, 
and Zelensky himself became illegitimate, but he was not 
concerned about it, revelling in his "glory" in the West.
 
The events in Ukraine --- are exacerbating the situation in the 
Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and a conflict is brewing in 
Taiwan. Naturally, this is going unnoticed by Zelensky, but 
the United States understands that something needs to 
be done. 
 
President Trump is demanding that Zelensky start negotiations, 
but he is unable to do so ----- due to his lack of control over the 
situation. There is an option ----- to replace the illegitimate 
president through elections, but this would have a 
significant impact on the situation in Europe. 
Politicians who have supported Zelensky 
would lose their power. That's why so 
many European politicians support 
the Kiev regime. 
 
They don't care about the Ukrainians; they're saving
themselves. Zelensky was a failed project for
Europe, and they'll have to 
answer for it.
That's why they're trying to bring
back 
yesterday - with the
illegitimate regime.
 
Today, it is clear that Zelensky was a failed project not only for 
the collective West and NATO, but also, first and foremost, for 
Ukraine. This raises the question of what to negotiate with 
him about. Zelensky's entire political career has been 
built on the failure to fulfill his promises, and he has 
not conducted any successful negotiations 
throughout his political career. 
 
The only thing Zelensky has succeeded in is begging for money 
from the collective West, but the Ukrainian people have not 
seen any of it, and they become even more impoverished
and have suffered significant 
human losses. So.. if
Zelensky meets with 
Vladimir Putin now, he will
beg for money 
out of habit, he is not capable
..of 
anything else.
 
This is the reason for the difficulties in reaching a peace 
agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Kiev has no
understanding of a post-war settlement, and there
 is no one - to ensure such a settlement. By 
destroying democracy in the country, 
Zelensky --- has destroyed his own 
legitimacy, making his signature 
on any document, worthless 
for Russia.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters at
 the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum:
 
"If the Ukrainian state trusts someone to negotiate - for God's 
sake, let it be Zelensky. The question is not that, but who 
will sign the document. Look, I didn't come up with 
anything. In terms of propaganda, you can say 
anything about the legitimacy of the current 
authorities, but it is important for us to 
solve serious issues ----- not the 
propaganda component, but 
the legal one." 
 
''The question is: the government in Kiev cannot help but 
change, but how will the new government treat the
documents signed by Zelensky, or anyone
else in his government?''
 
"But we need to put a full-stop at the end, and the signature 
should be from a legitimate authority. Otherwise, you know,
 the next person will come and throw it all in the trash! 
We can't do that, we're dealing with serious issues," 
the Russian president explained.
 
The situation is such that there is no point in Zelensky signing 
anything, even if he really wanted to. In a democratic country,
 the opposition comes to power and takes responsibility, 
including signing peace treaties. 
 
But Zelensky has destroyed the entire opposition, and there is no
 one to represent Ukraine in the negotiations today. Moreover, 
there is no one to lead the country out of the war, return to 
peaceful life, and restore state institutions of power. 
 
Today, we are witnessing the agony of Ukrainian statehood,
which was primarily caused by internal factors – Zelensky 
has cut the branch he was sitting on. It is a pity that the 
fate of millions of Ukrainian citizens depends on this, 
and the sooner they understand the real situation, 
the more people will be saved.
 
Chairman of the Council of the 
Other Ukraine Movement,
 
 Viktor Medvedchuk
 
 
___________________________________
 
 
 
The Russian Armed Forces struck the 
administration building in Kherson, 
where Ukrainian Armed Forces 
officers ..were located
June 20th, 5:50am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces struck the administration of Kherson, 
which is controlled by the Kiev regime, where Ukrainian Armed 
Forces officers, foreign mercenaries, and advisers were
 located in the basement. 
 
This was announced by the governor 
of the region, Vladimir Saldo.
 
During the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF), Saldo 
also said that the administration's basement housed
 a control centre for unmanned systems.
 
"The strike was not just to destroy this building, but to destroy 
the communications management of military operations that
 the enemy is taking. There were foreign advisers and 
mercenaries there, and some of them were part of 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces," he said, in a 
conversation with RIA Novosti.
 
In early June, the Russian army with an air strike tore down the 
Ukrainian flag from the administration building of Kherson, 
controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
Footage captured by UAVs showed the impact of guided aerial 
bombs (GBU). Later, Ukrainian media published a photo of the 
"bitten" facade of the administration building on Telegram.
 
 
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Russian Armed Forces Mechanic: The MaxxPro 
armoured personnel carrier is only useful
 as a target for shelling
June 20th, 5:50am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The repair battalions have a special mission. Their task is to 
quickly repair and return to service military equipment. The 
repair battalion of the 36th Army of the "Vostok" group, is 
successfully restoring the group's vehicles. However, the 
situation with captured vehicles is different. The quality 
of many of them leaves much to be desired, as one of 
the mechanics told the "Russia 1" channel.
 
He cited a recent incident. A MaxxPro armoured vehicle 
was hit by an anti-tank mine near Velikaya Novoselka. 
It was then taken to a repair battalion.
 
"It's a very heavy [vehicle]. It's large. That means, it's a good
 target for shelling, even from tanks. It gets stuck in the mud. 
It's easy to shoot at it. That's why they burn well in the 
Donbas black soil. They get stuck in it," 
the soldier said.
 
In the repair battalion, the MaxxPro was dismantled down to 
the last screw. According to the soldiers, it had a lot of 
unnecessary electronics, and its protection was 
inadequate - for the overall purpose of the 
armoured vehicle.
 
The car is only suitable as an exhibit. It will soon take
 its place ------ in the exhibition of captured vehicles.
 
 
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The borders of the Russian Federation's 
territorial sea in the Baltic Sea 
have changed
by Andrey Prokopyev 
(night line editor)
June 20th, 12:25am
Lenta.ru)
 
The Russian government has declared invalid the list of 
coordinates of the points that determine the position 
of the reference lines from which the width of the 
territorial sea — the country's adjacent zone —
 is measured along the mainland coast and 
islands of Russia in the Baltic Sea. 
 
The updated list has been approved, and the corresponding 
document has been published on the portal of regulatory 
legal acts.
 
As stated in the text of the resolution --- the starting line from 
which the width of the territorial sea is measured is formed 
by the line of the highest low tide. It runs from the point of 
exit of the land section of the state border RF with the 
Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Poland.
 
In addition, the resolution invalidates the "Baltic Sea" section of 
the list of geographical coordinates of points that determine 
the position of the reference lines for measuring the width 
of territorial waters, the economic zone, and the 
continental shelf, which was approved by the 
USSR Ministers' Resolution of January 
15, 1985.
 
Earlier, it became known about the risks of simultaneous 
exercises by Russia and NATO in the Baltic. Analysts 
suggested that due to provocations, what is 
happening in the Baltic Sea.. poses a 
threat - to escalate into a more 
serious escalation.
 
 
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A Russian Army battalion commander - who
was 
declared dead in Ukraine has broken
out of
 the encirclement
by Oleg Koryakin
June 19th, 10:26pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
The Russian Armed Forces battalion commander who 
was declared dead in the Sumy region by Ukraine is 
alive and has escaped the encirclement.
 
This is reported by the Telegram channel "Belarusian 
Law Enforcement Officer" and publishes a photo of 
the commander. The officer was wounded in the 
arm and received the necessary medical aid.
 
As a reminder, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in 
the Sumy region. According to the latest data ----- they are 
about 15 kilometres away from the administrative centre.
 
Earlier, Russia's Ministry of Defense reported that
 the Northern Group of Forces, had liberated the 
village of Novonikolaevka, in the Sumy region 
and has been advancing deeper into the 
enemy's defenses.
 
 

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Zelensky's business partner 
Mindich --- has fled Ukraine
by Danila Titorenko
June 19th, 9:44pm
Gazeta.ru)
 
Business partner of Vladimir Zelensky, co-owner and 
co-founder of the company "Kvartal 95" - Timur 
Mindich - fled Ukraine. This is written in the 
Telegram channel of the imprisoned 
People's Deputy of Ukraine,
 Oleksandr Dubinsky.
 
"Zelensky's wallet, Timur Mindich, also fled abroad yesterday 
through the Transcarpathian region," Dubinsky wrote.
 
The MP links this flight to the recent disappearance of Deputy
 Prime Minister and Minister of National Unity, Alexey 
Chernyshov, who did not return from a business 
trip abroad.
 
Chernyshov has been the Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz of 
Ukraine since November 2022. Prior to that, the official served 
as the Minister of Community and Territorial Development of
 Ukraine for two years and as the Chairman of the Kyiv 
Regional State Administration for three years. Since 
December last year, Chernyshov has been the 
Minister of National Unity. 
 
On June 16th, it was reported that he is being considered 
for the position of Ukraine's new ambassador to the US.
 
Earlier, Chernyshov promised Ukrainians 
abroad a reservation from mobilization.
 
 
 
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces mined
 the bodies of deceased civilians
 in the Kursk region
June 19th, 5:59pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine planted mines under the
 bodies of civilians who died in the Kursk region.
 
The commander of the 91st Regiment's sappers unit, 
with the call sign Hermes, said in a video published 
on the RT Telegram channel that the Ukrainian 
militants planted mines --- even under the 
bodies of killed civilians in the border
 areas of the Kursk region.
 
Most of the mines are "treacherous" and designed to 
inflict mass casualties, including civilians, the 
military officer explained.
 
Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee reported
- that more than 57,000 residents of the Kursk region 
had been recognized as victims of Ukrainian crimes.
 
 
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 The Russian Ministry of Defense 
showed footage of Russian 
soldiers ------- who were 
exchanged with Kiev
June 19th, 1:53pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of 
Russian soldiers who were returned from Ukrainian-
controlled territory - as part of the exchange.
 
The video -- shows Russian soldiers in Belarus 
unfurling Russian flags and shouting "Russia!"
 
On June 19, Russia and Ukraine 
exchanged prisoners of war.
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said
--- that Russia is ready to transfer about 3,000 more 
bodies of Ukrainian military personnel to Ukraine.
 
 
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Russian troops - have destroyed a NATO 
communications hub in Kharkiv region
June 19th, 11:40am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have hit a NATO communications hub in the 
Kharkiv region. This was reported by Sergei Lebedev, the 
coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev underground,
 on his Telegram channel.
 
It is also reported that a command centre of the Kiev regime 
was destroyed during the strike in the Kharkiv region.
 
"In the Kupyansky district, a command post was 
destroyed and a NATO communications centre 
was hit," Lebedev wrote.
 
Earlier, the underground fighter Lebedev told about 
a powerful blow of Russian troops to the air base 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the 
Rivne region.
 
 
 
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The Russian Armed Forces destroyed 
an APU ammunition depot, and a 
territorial defense gathering 
point - near Kharkiv
June 19th, 11:39am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed an ammunition depot
 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense 
assembly point in the Kharkiv region -- according to 
RIA Novosti, citing the pro-Russian underground.
 
Sergey Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolaev pro-Russian 
underground, said that Russian Armed Forces troops 
had struck an APU ammunition depot as well as a 
territorial defense gathering point, by Kharkiv, 
during a special military operation.
 
"Affected military facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: 
An ammunition depot was destroyed in Bogodukhovsky 
district. The teroborona collection point has been 
eliminated," he said.
 
Earlier.... Lebedev said that hundreds of Ukrainian fighters 
were destroyed as a result of the night strikes on Kharkiv.
 
 
 
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 
over 1,360 personnel in one day
June 19th, 10:37am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Over 1,360 Ukrainian military personnel were killed in the 
special military operation zone over the past 24 hours, 
according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
In the area of operation of the "North" troops, Ukrainian 
formations, lost more than 220 soldiers, the "West" 
group destroyed about 200, the "South" group 
about 205, the "East" group 195, and the 
"Dnepr" group ....85 soldiers.
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered the greatest losses in
 the direction of the Center group, with about 460 casualties.
 
By last night.....  the total losses of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine were about 1,315 militants.
 
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
 Liberated Novonikolaevka in the DPR
June 19th, 10:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have liberated the village of Novonikolaevka 
in the DPR, according to the daily report by the Russian
 Ministry of Defense.
 
According to the report, the settlement was 
liberated by the Center military group.
 
The group's forces managed to advance deep into the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses. As a result, 
another settlement in the DPR was liberated.
 
The day before, the Russian defense ministry reported 
the liberation of Novonikolaevka in the Sumy region. 

The point was taken under control by the fighters 
of the Russian Armed Forces group "North".
 
 
 
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Putin: The Russian Army Has
Strategic Advantage -- in
All 
Areas of the Special 
Military Operation
June 18th, 11:49pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Russian army has a strategic advantage in all areas
of the special operation in Ukraine and Russia's armed 
forces are advancing along the entire line of contact, 
according to President Vladimir Putin.
 
He said this, at a meeting with heads and 
representatives of international news 
agencies - at SPIEF.
 
"The Russian armed forces have a strategic advantage in
all directions. In all of them. No matter what anyone
says, 
our troops are advancing -- along the entire
line of contact 
every day," the president said.
 
Further progress is inevitable, even if German Taurus 
missiles are used, which are being discussed in 
Berlin. for delivery to Ukraine, he added.
 
In some cases, Russia views Germany 
- as a participant in the hostilities in 
Ukraine, Putin noted.
 
 
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A Russian political scientist spoke about
 the deaths of civilians in Ukraine
by Marina Sovina 
(night editor)
June 18th, 8:42pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Russian political scientist Sergey Markov said on his Telegram 
channel that the Russian army is trying to preserve the lives 
of civilians as much as possible, so any news about civilian 
casualties in Ukraine is “really news.”
 
"In Russia... they mourn the deaths of the people of Kiev. For us,
 they are our people. Russia came to Ukraine not to kill, but to 
liberate people from the criminal neo-colonial neo-fascist 
Russophobic Ukrainian regime," Markov said, about 
the deaths of civilians.
 
According to him, those killed in Ukraine were victims
of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, and a former
US President, Joe Bidet.
 
Earlier, Russian troops continued to advance in the Sumy region
in the north of Ukraine and were 15 kilometres away from the 
regional capital. Russian troops also ---- completely cleared
Novonikolaivka village in the Sumy region from Ukrainian 
Armed Forces units.
 
 
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Khinshtein noted the patience and 
self-sacrifice of the residents of 
the Kursk region
June 18th, 2:56pm
(RT.ru)
 
Alexander Khinshtein, the acting governor of Kursk Oblast, 
said that he was impressed by the resilience and faith in 
victory of the local residents.
 
"What impresses me in people, in the good sense of the word, is 
their patience, their faith in victory, in tomorrow, in changes
for 
the better. If you like, this is some kind of code in us
--- self-sacrifice, life for the sake of others, salvation," 
Khinshtein said in an interview with kp.ru.
 
The acting governor noted that it is especially difficult to talk to 
people who have recently returned to their homes after being 
evacuated. According to him, many of them have been living
 in difficult conditions for six to eight months.
 
Khinshtein also said that the injured civilians often tell stories 
about how the Russian military rescued them from shelling, 
carrying them in their arms or on stretchers.
 
Earlier, Alexander Khinshtein announced plans to build new 
schools and hospitals in the Kursk region to replace those 
destroyed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 
 
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Russian Armed Forces soldiers: spoke 
about the liberation of Alekseevka 
in the DPR
June 18th, 1:19pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces described the liberation of 
Alekseevka, in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video 
of soldiers ---- from the 114th Brigade of the 51st 
Combined Arms Army on its Telegram channel.
 
According to the agency, the offensive was conducted using
the tactic of the stealthy accumulation of forces --- and a
methodical assault. This helped to minimize casualties 
and suppress the enemy's defenses. It was reported 
that the soldiers overcame the areas around 
Alekseevka using anti-drone ponchos 
and blankets.
 
According to the ministry, before the assault, Russian artillery, 
FPV drones, and tank crews struck Ukrainian fortifications 
and suppressed firing points.
 
 
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Russia's Defense Ministry ---
Ukrainian losses exceeded 
1,300 fighters in a day
June 18th, 10:35am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense - the total losses 
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) - in the special operation 
zone amounted to about 1,315 fighters over the past 24 hours.
 
According to the military department, the enemy lost more than 
165 militants... in the area of operations of the Northern Group 
of Forces, more than 220 militants in the Western Group of 
Forces, up to 175 militants in the Southern Group of 
Forces, up to 490 militants in the Central Group of 
Forces, more than 185 militants, in the Eastern 
Group of Forces, and up to 80 militants in the 
Dnieper Group of Forces.
 
In addition, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed a US' 
AN/TPQ-50 radar station - 4 US-made M113 armoured 
personnel carriers, 1 British 155-mm FH-70 howitzer, 
as well as ammunition depots and logistics depots.
 
Production and assembly facilities for attack drones, as well 
as temporary locations for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 
foreign mercenaries in 147 districts, were also targeted.
 
The operation was carried out using operational-tactical 
aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery from 
the Russian Armed Forces.
 
 
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Defense Ministry --- The Russian Armed Forces 
Liberated Novonikolaevka in the Sumy Region
June 18th, 10:06am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have liberated the village of Novonikolaevka
in the Sumy region, according to the daily report by the 
Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
It is clarified that the settlement was taken under control by 
the fighters of the Russian Armed Forces' "North" group.
 
In addition, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported
 the liberation of Dolhenky in the Kharkiv region.
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces 
Liberated Dolgenkoye in Kharkiv Region
June 18th, 10:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops have liberated the village of Dolgenkoye
 in the Kharkiv region, according to the daily report by 
the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
Fighters of units of the group of forces 
"West" took part in the fighting.
 
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the group
of troops "West" , the settlement of Dolgenke in the 
Kharkiv region was liberated," the report says.
 
Earlier, it was reported that Russian troops are completing the 
creation of a fire bag, for the Armed Forces of Ukraine group 
near Radkovka in the Kharkiv region. According to military
expert, Andriy Marochko.. Russian units have reached the 
Kondrashivka-Kupiansk road northwest of Radkovka and
have taken control of a small section of this road.

It was
also previously reported that the Russian Armed
Forces 
have established bridgeheads for advance in
the Sumy 
and Kharkiv regions. 
 
 
 
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MO: Residents of Fedorovka refused to 
evacuate to Ukraine - waiting for the
arrival of Russia's Armed Forces
June 18th, 8:12am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Residents of the liberated village of Fedorovka in the Donetsk 
People's Republic waited for the Russian army until the very 
end and refused to evacuate to Ukraine. They shared this 
information in a video published by the Russian Ministry 
of Defense.
 
According to them, the militants regularly offered the 
population....  to evacuate to Ukrainian settlements.
 
"We were offered to evacuate more than once. People leave, 
run out of money, and come back. We had no desire to go 
to the other side," said Yuri, a resident of the village.
 
At the same time, Ukrainian soldiers - were looting and 
issuing draft notices to the male population, he added.
 
Local resident Galina said that her family also decided to 
"hide until the very end." They remained hopeful, that 
the Russian army would soon liberate Fedorivka.
 
The liberation of the settlement was announced on June 6. 
It was achieved through the active efforts of the Eastern 
Group of Forces. According to a reconnaissance report 
by the Vostok Group, Russian forces gained control 
of the settlement, within four days.
 
 
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Russian Armed Forces used scuba gear 
during the liberation of Zeleny Kut
 in the DPR
June 18th, 7:25am
(Vesti.ru)
 
During the liberation of the village of Zeleny Kut - in 
the Donetsk People's Republic, the assault troops 
approached from two sides using scuba gear.
 
 Nikita Galik, the commander of the assault company of 
the 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Center Group, 
shared this information on the Russia 1 TV channel.
 
He noted that the enemy commanders believed that 
an attack in one of the directions was impossible, 
but the Russian soldiers, proved otherwise.
 
"So far, we've been approaching from the north and south 
using these innovations, with scuba diving. This is the 
first time I've encountered this in the SVO zone," 
Galik said.
 
On June 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense 
announced the liberation of the village of 
Zeleny Kut in the DPR.
 
 
 
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Russian Armed Forces instructors noted:
 the advantages of the new compact 
AK-12 modification
June 18th, 6:15am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The new modification of the AK-12K - allows Russian assault 
troops to fight more effectively in the cramped conditions of 
strongholds. The advantages of the updated version of the 
Kalashnikov assault rifle were described by combat 
training instructors from the Dnepr group on the 
Russia 24 TV channel.
 
According to a fighter with the call sign Kot, the compact 
version of the assault rifle makes it easier to shoot from 
awkward positions.
 
"Even with the low-noise shooting device, it's the same size
 as a full-size assault rifle, which is a big advantage. And if 
we remove it, I can run from awkward positions and look
 into awkward corners... without any problems," 
the instructor said.
 
A soldier with the call sign Partizan added that the new 
Kalashnikov assault rifle has a fire selector switch on
 both sides, which makes it much easier for the 
shooter to operate the weapon.
 
"A person doesn't have to worry about reloading with the other 
hand, especially if they're left-handed and start using their 
weapon differently. We don't have long-range combat 
anymore, which used to be 400-600 metres. Now --- 
it's limited to 150 metres at most. I don't need to 
hit the bullseye, and I don't take tests anymore. 
I just need to hit the edge of the shoulder or 
the leg, and that's it. Therefore, this 
machine gun is enough," 
the fighter said.
 
Earlier, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir
Saldo, 
reported that the Novorossiysk Airborne
Division had 
received a new, shortened
Kalashnikov 
assault rifle –
the AK-12K.


 
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Expert Mikhailov: Krasnoarmeysk --- will be 
surrounded by the Russian Armed Forces 
by the end of this summer
June 17th, 8:46pm
(Smotrim.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces will resolve the issue of 
Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian name: Pokrovsk) in the 
Donetsk People's Republic by the end of this 
summer. This opinion.. was expressed by 
Evgeny Mikhailov, a political scientist 
and expert on interethnic conflicts, 
in an interview with the Russia 
24 TV channel.
 
The political scientist noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' 
group in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, is currently in a dire 
situation, as the Russian military is "firing from all sides."
 
"In fact, everything that is happening now, is shocking the 
Ukrainians and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They are 
surrendering en masse. I think that, by the end of the 
summer -- we will have resolved the Pokrovsk issue. 
By the end of the summer we will see a significant 
result, at least the encirclement of Pokrovsk and
 the blocking of the group within the city," 
Mikhailov said.
 
After the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk, the Russian army 
will be able to expand the buffer zone towards the 
Dnipropetrovsk region, the political 
scientist added.
 
Earlier, military expert Yuri Knutov said that the settlement 
of Ulyanovka in the DPR, which was liberated on June 15,
 plays a key role in the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk.
 
 
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Verkhovna Rada - has announced 
the construction of hastily built 
fortifications --- on the border 
with Russia
by Alexander Kurbatov 
(Editor of the Former 
USSR Department)
June 17th, 4:19pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Fortifications in the Sumy region on the Ukrainian 
border with Russia - were built on the fly. This 
was stated by the Verkhovna Rada deputy 
Sergey Rakhmanin, and his words were 
published by the Telegram channel
 "Politics of the Country".
 
According to him, the fortifications in the region 
were being built - when Ukrainian troops were
already leaving the Kursk region of Russia.

The 
parliamentarian emphasized that they
were being constructed... under
the fire of 
Russian troops.
 
"The fortifications were hastily constructed
------ and not done in time," he said.
 
Earlier, MP of the Verkhovna Rada Mariana Bezuglaya 
called on Ukrainians not to wait for the order of the 
authorities - to start evacuation from the border 
areas of the Sumy region. She emphasized - 
that the Ukrainian troops.. had failed to
prepare 
the defense of the region.
 
 
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Military Correspondent Gavrish: 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine - 
critically short of reserves 
in the Sumy region
June 17th, 12:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are critically short of reserves,
 but they are sending the remaining ammunition to the 
Sumy region, to slow down the movement of the 
Russian Armed Forces. 
 
This was stated on the air of the program "60 minutes", 
on the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent 
Alexey Gavrish.
 
According to him, despite the fact that the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine are running out of reserves, they are trying
 to continue their counterattacks in the Sumy region.
 
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces' morale has been low for a long 
time, and they are critically short on reserves. However, 
they are still attempting to launch counterattacks.. in 
some areas. The enemy is currently deploying their 
significant reserves and combat-ready units in the 
Sumy region to slow down our advance, as they 
are unable to stop or stabilize the situation," 
Gavrish said.
 
Earlier, the war correspondent explained
--- that Kiev has only six Patriot air 
defense systems left.
 
 
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Shoigu: Kim Jong-un sends 1,000 sappers
 to Russia....... to clear the territory
June 17th, 11:49am
(Vesti.ru)
 
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has decided to send 
a thousand sappers to Russia to clear the territory 
of mines, Russian Security Council Secretary 
Sergei Shoigu said, after talks with the 
North Korean leader.
 
On Tuesday, Shoigu, on a special assignment 
from Russian President Vladimir Putin, flew 
to Pyongyang.... for a meeting with 
Kim Jong-un.
 
"The Chairman of the State Affairs of the DPRK --- Kim 
Jong-un, decided to send one thousand sappers to 
Russia to clear the Russian territory," said the 
secretary of the Russian Security Council, 
quoted by Interfax.
 
Shoigu added that 5,000 military construction workers 
will also arrive in Russia from North Korea, to rebuild 
facilities destroyed by the Ukrainian occupiers in 
the Kursk region.
 
 
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MO: Russian Armed Forces Destroyed
 Ukrainian Ammunition Depots
June 17th, 10:49am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military has struck Ukrainian ammunition
 and material depots. This was reported by the 
Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
The Defense Ministry clarified that these strikes were 
carried out by operational-tactical aviation, strike 
drones, missile forces, and artillery.
 
It is noted --- that the temporary deployment points of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine --- including Nazis and 
foreign mercenaries, were also hit in 142 districts.
 
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported on a group strike 
with precision weapons on the facilities of the Ukrainian 
military-industrial complex in Kiev and Zaporozhye.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry: 
The Kiev regime lost 
1,430 militants over
 the past 24 hours
June 17th, 10:48am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Kiev 
regime's forces suffered a total of 1,430 casualties 
over the past 24 hours.
 
The military has clarified that the enemy has lost 145 
soldiers and officers in the North group's area of 
responsibility, 210 in the West group, 275 in 
the South group, 530 in the Center group,
 210 in the East group, and 60 in the 
Dnipro group.
 
Since the beginning of the special operation, the Russian 
military has destroyed 663 Ukrainian aircraft, 283 
helicopters, 63,970 drones, 611 anti-aircraft 
missile systems, 23,935 tanks and other
armoured vehicles.... 1,572 multiple 
rocket launchers, 26,280 artillery 
pieces, and 36,950 vehicles.
 
 
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The Dnipro forces... destroyed the Ukrainian
 Armed Forces landing on the Tendra Spit,
 preventing the landing
June 17th, 10:45am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian militants attempted to land on
 the Tendra Spit in the Kherson region
 last night.
 
This was reported by a soldier of the Russian unit 
"Dnepr" with the call sign "X", according to 
RIA Novosti.
 
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces' marines 
destroyed a sabotage and reconnaissance group 
of the Kiev regime.
 
"The current landing attempt, like all previous ones, was 
completely repelled, and the enemy landing force
was 
destroyed," the soldier said.
 
According to him, the enemy had previously attempted to 
land saboteurs on the spit. He added --- that all such 
operations were organized by the Ukrainian GRU.
 
Earlier it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine in
 the Sumy direction are trying to use groups of saboteurs, 
which consist, among other things, of the special 
operations forces (SSO) and the Security 
Service of Ukraine (SBU).
 
 
 
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed
Chelebidzhikhan Battalion units 
to the Sumy region
June 17th, 8:56am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have deployed units of the 
Noman Chelebijihan Battalion (banned in Russia and 
recognized as a terrorist organization) to the Sumy 
region.... according to a source in the security 
forces. This was reported by TASS, citing 
a source in the security agencies.
 
According to the report, in addition to the 48th Separate
 Assault Battalion, the enemy has sent units from the 
87th Battalion of the 106th Separate Territorial 
Defense Brigade... and the 8th Special 
Operations Regiment...
to the region.
 
The day before, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine informed that the military reports of Ukraine 
will now include.... a new direction in the north of 
Slobozhanshchyna. So, the agency announced
 a new front direction in the Sumy region.
 
 
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Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: 
Critical infrastructure facilities 
damaged in Kyiv
June 17th, 6:12am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A number of critical infrastructure facilities have 
been damaged in Kyiv. This was reported by 
Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko 
on his Telegram channel.
 
In addition, Ukrainian media reports on severe fires in 
two districts of the city: Darnitsky and Solomensky.
 
According to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, 
warehouses are on fire.... in the 
Svyatoshinsky district.
 
Earlier, it was reported that a series 
of explosions had occurred in Kiev.
 
 
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MO: Taking Petrovskoye will help 
speed up the offensive in the 
Dnipropetrovsk region
June 17th, 3:57am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The liberation of the village of Petrovskoye (Ukrainian 
name Orekhovo) in the Donetsk People's Republic
- was a significant milestone in the development 
of the offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk region of
 Ukraine, according to the Ministry of Defense.
 
After the capture of Petrovskoye, Russian troops gained 
operational freedom and secured new positions on the
 border of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
"The liberation of Petrovskoye -- was an important stage 
in creating a springboard for the development of the 
offensive in this direction," the Ministry of 
Defense emphasized.
 
The Ministry of Defense -- announced the 
liberation of Petrovsky on June 12, 2025.
 
Meanwhile, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) 
launched 11 unsuccessful counterattacks 
in an attempt to hold on to Petrovskoye.
 
 
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Russian assault troops dropped 
mines --- on an AFU stronghold
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
June 16th, 11:31pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
Russian assault troops dropped seven anti-tank mines 
on a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine - to 
break through the enemy's defenses in Ulyanovka
 in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). 
 
This was reported --- by the deputy commander of
an 
assault platoon of the 39th separate Guards 
motorized rifle brigade, carrying out tasks 
as part of the "Center" group of forces, 
with the call sign Kent, to 
RIA Novosti.
 
"The last point of collection is a farm, and the second farm is 
large. It was difficult to approach the farm because there 
were two strongholds. It was difficult to approach them 
because there were three machine gun emplacements, 
and they were not letting anyone close,"
 the source said.
 
According to the assault soldier, Russian soldiers used anti-tank 
mines in their confrontation with enemy strongholds. "We threw 
TM mines at them and dismantled them slowly. We approached 
this stronghold at least seven times to free it - and ensure the 
approach of assault groups," Kent said.
 
Earlier, Kent reported that during the assault on Ulyanovka, 
Russian FPV drone operators actively destroyed Ukrainian 
Armed Forces equipment, including tanks and armoured 
vehicles. He added that Ulyanovka is one long street, 
and the Ukrainian Armed Forces command had
allocated at least a battalion of personnel 
with armoured vehicles and mortars,
 to defend it.
 
 
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 China has warned Kiev about an
impending problem - 
Guancha:
Defectors Become 
National
Heroes in Ukraine
Marina Sovina (night editor)
June 16th, 9:08pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
In Ukraine, videos of draft evaders are gaining so
 much popularity that some officials have started 
calling for a ban on social media, which is 
creating a breeding ground for social 
conflict. This is reported by the
 Chinese portal, Guancha.
 
"Those who support Kyiv's crude mobilization policy 
often blame social media for spreading videos that 
have a devastating impact on the recruitment 
system," the publication notes.
 
The article states that videos of draft evaders are 
gaining more attention, which means that 
refusing to serve in the military could 
become -- a "dominant trend among 
Ukrainians in the coming months."
 
Ukrainians are quietly becoming sympathizers, and even 
supporters of the draft evaders, and this behaviour 
could eventually turn into an organized 
political force, the author warns.
 
Earlier, Ukrainian journalist, Diana Panchenko, said that 
the country's residents are hostages of the Kiev regime. 
According to her - some people try to cross the border, 
but "they are caught and shot in the back of the head"
 
 
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Russia has fully fulfilled what
it promised
 in Istanbul:
Medinsky made a
statement
by Sergey Kudrin
June 16th, 3:43pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
 
TO SHARE
 
Russia has completed the transfer of the bodies of 
6,060 Ukrainian officers and soldiers to Ukraine.
 
During the last round of direct negotiations between 
Russia and Ukraine in Türkiye an exchange of the 
bodies of fallen soldiers, from both sides, was 
agreed upon... as well as an exchange of 
prisoners.. who are still held by both
the 
Russian Federation and Kiev. 
 
On Monday, May 16, 2025, Moscow fully fulfilled its promise
 and officially completed the process of transferring the 
agreed number of killed Ukrainian Armed Forces 
fighters to the Kiev regime, which amounted
 to 6,060 bodies.
 
"The exchange of prisoners is also ongoing. Urgent 
medical transfers of seriously wounded people 
have been established," wrote Vladimir 
Medinsky, head of the Russian 
negotiating team, on his 
Telegram channel.
 
The epic of the transfer of bodies to Ukraine turned out to be, 
like everything with the Kiev regime, not easy. At first, Kiev 
didn't want to accept its own dead soldiers at all, 
probably fearing the need to pay compensation 
to their families and acknowledge the 
enormous losses. 
 
Russian trucks and representatives waited for a long time for 
someone to meet them. And it wasn't just hours, but days. 
However, the refrigerators carrying the dead could not 
stay at the border for long ---- as the entire world,
 including its Western patrons, was watching 
and wondering why Ukraine was refusing
to 
comply with the agreements.
 
So, the exchange was carried out after all. In response to every 
thousand-plus bodies handed over by Russia, Ukraine brought 
to the meeting either 27 bodies or not a single one at all. As 
a result, the Ukrainian side, in exchange for 6,060 bodies 
of its military personnel, in total handed over 78 bodies 
of deceased Russian Armed Forces soldiers --- which 
eloquently demonstrates the proportions of losses, 
contrary to the boastful statements of Zelensky, 
which have been pouring out.. over the past
 three years.
 
Russia has once again demonstrated its commitment to keeping 
its word. On June 16, President Vladimir Putin called President 
Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Türkiye, and during their discussion 
of the Iranian-Israeli conflict, he informed his colleague, 
who is acting as a mediator in the negotiations with 
Ukraine ---- about the full fulfillment of Russia's 
obligations under the agreements reached 
regarding the bodies of the deceased. 
 
However, the process is not yet complete,
as crucial efforts 
are still being made,
to exchange the captured soldiers
held 
by the Ukrainian Nazis.
 
 
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A Russian court: sentenced
a Ukrainian 
militant to
15 years in prison 
for terrorism
June 16th, 1:55pm
(RT.ru)
 
In Russia, the 2nd Western District Military Court has issued 
a verdict in a criminal case against Sergei Voitsekhovsky, 
a 36-year-old soldier from the 17th Separate Tank 
Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 
According to the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia, 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces member was found guilty ------
 under paragraphs "a" and "b" of Part 2 of Article 205 of
 the Russian Criminal Code (committing a terrorist act 
by a group of persons in collusion, resulting in
 serious consequences).
 
It was established that on October 25, 2024, Voitsekhovsky, as 
part of a military unit, invaded the Kursk region using military 
equipment. For about two weeks, near the village of Olgovka, 
the militant, acting as part of a combat unit, blocked the 
village, prevented the evacuation of civilians,
 intimidated local residents --- by openly 
carrying and using combat weapons, 
observed the area, and provided 
information about the actions 
of Russian troops.
 
“The court... sentenced Voitsekhovsky to 15 years in prison, 
with the first three years to be served in prison, and the 
rest in a maximum-security penal colony,” 
said the agency.
 
Earlier, RT reported that a Ukrainian Armed Forces
 fighter was sentenced to 16 years in prison 
....for invading the Kursk region.
 
 

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A Russian Army company commander spoke about
 a fierce battle with the Ukrainian Armed Forces
 in the Peschanoye factory
June 16th, 1:49pm
(RT.ru)
 
Vladimir Koralyov, a Hero of Russia and commander of a 
company in the 74th Brigade of the Center group, told 
RT --- about a fierce battle in an industrial workshop 
with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for Peschanoye.
 
According to his words, which are cited by Telegram-channel 
RT, the "adrenaline story" happened when the militants of
 the Armed Forces of Ukraine broke into the workshop 
with the Russian military - the Russian Armed Forces
 not only repelled the attacks without losses, but 
also advanced further.
 
"We entered the industrial zone with a company. We set up a 
command and observation post. The enemy.. was 20-30 
metres away, in the adjacent workshop. I was directly
 involved in the assault, personally covering our 
assault troops with grenade launcher fire,"
 he shared.
 
The Ukrainian occupiers - launched five counterattacks on
the facility over the course of several days, mostly using 
armoured vehicles. On one occasion ------ an enemy 
armoured vehicle entered the workshop.
 
"They broke through the fence, the wall. We fought them off, 
of course. Thanks to our UAVs, we had air control, and we 
were warned that the enemy was coming. We were 
prepared, so we were already waiting for them," 
the commander recalls.
 
Koralev admits that he did not expect to
 be awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
 
"At first, I didn't believe it. This - is the highest 
award. Of course, I am very grateful for this,"
 he added.
 
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense --------- showed 
that the Solntsepek TOS unit, of the Volunteer Corps 
of the Southern Group of Forces - destroyed an AFU
stronghold in the Kramatorsk-Druzhkovka direction.
 
 
 
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Russian intelligence ---- uncovers
false flag operation in the Baltic
June 16th, 1:37p.m
(Prensa Latina) 
 
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service today 
warned of a false flag operation by Ukraine 
and the UK in Baltic waters - to attack
US warship.
 
''The Ukrainians together with the British plan 
provocations in the Baltic Sea. One of the 
plans..... involves staging an alleged 
Russian torpedo attack against 
a US Navy ship,'' the RFIS
 warned in a statement 
sent to the press
 this Monday.
 
According to the Foreign Intelligence Service, the 
UK has already delivered several Soviet and 
Russian-made torpedoes ..to Ukraine.
 
As planned, part of the torpedoes will detonate at a safe 
distance from the US ship -- and one of them will not 
explode; and will be presented to the public as 
evidence of Russia's evil activity, russian 
intelligence revealed.
 
The Ukrainian military, he indicated, is willing 
to assume the execution of this plan.
 
The main objective of the ''British-Ukrainian terrorist tandem,''
the body warned, is to derail talks between Russia and the 
United States and persuade US President Donald Trump, 
to continue delivering military aid to Ukraine.
 
Another of the plans of the United Kingdom and Ukraine, he 
explained, consists of discovering alleged Russian sea 
mines in the Baltic ...and accusing the country of 
alleged acts of sabotage on international 
sea routes.
 
According to the information available, the Russian intelligence 
service indicated, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has
ordered national intelligence to prepare new bloodthirsty
provocations against Russia -- in the face of the kyiv 
Army's setbacks on the battlefield.
 
The Foreign Intelligence Service also revealed that the UK is 
dedicated to planning terrorist attacks in Russia, while the 
Ukrainians play the role of executors of these plans.
 
''This mechanism was used, in particular, in the recent attacks 
on railways in the provinces of Bryansk and Kursk, as well as
 the June 1 attacks on the airfields of the Russian 
Aerospace Force,'' the information noted.
 
 
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Military Correspondent Razin: The bridgehead 
in the Dnipropetrovsk region is growing 
...towards Novopavlovka
June 16th, 12:46pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces are expanding their
bridgehead 
in the Dnipropetrovsk region
towards Novopavlovka village. 
 
This was reported by military correspondent Vladimir 
Razin in the program "60 minutes" on the TV 
channel "Russia".
 
He noted that Russian units are expanding the territory of
 the bridgehead from the village of Petrovskoye in the 
Donetsk People's Republic.
 
"The bridgehead is expanding, not at a very rapid pace, but 
it has been established and is now expanding towards 
Novopavlivka, a settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk 
region. While it is still an important logistical 
hub for the enemy in this area, it will soon 
become a forward stronghold that the 
enemy is preparing," Razin said.
 
Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the 
liberation of the village of Komar creates a bridgehead 
for the Russian Armed Forces, which is necessary for
 a more advantageous coverage of Krasnoarmeysk.
 
 
 
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Military Correspondent Razin: Russian 
Armed Forces Assault Groups ------ 
Penetrate the Enemy's Rear 
in the Sumy Region
June 16th, 12:30pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces are bypassing the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces from the flanks --- and penetrating the 
enemy's rear in the Sumy region. This was reported by 
military correspondent Vladimir Razin on the 
60 Minutes program.
 
He clarified that the Russian military is taking large territories 
from the Kiev regime.... in small groups. In turn, the enemy is 
deploying "very large forces" to stop the Russian Armed 
Forces' advance, Razin emphasized.
 
"In some cases, it's the opposite, where our assault groups 
manage to infiltrate the enemy's positions, outflank them, 
and enter their rear --- preventing them from moving in 
certain areas. With a small number of our assault
 troops, we manage to capture significant 
territories," Razin explained.
 
The war correspondent added, that Russian troops are 
advancing in the Sumy region along the entire front 
line and are expanding the buffer zone on the 
border with Russia.
 
Earlier, TASS reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
try to use sabotage groups in the Sumy direction.
 
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Armed Forces
 Lose More Than 1,300 Fighters in a Day
June 16th, 12:30pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have lost about 1,320 
fighters in the special operation zone, over the past 24 
hours, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
According to the military department - the enemy lost more 
than 230 fighters in the area of operations of the Northern
 Group of Forces, more than 175, in the Southern Group of
 Forces, about 190 in the Western Group of Forces, up to 
490, in the Central Group of Forces, more than 175, in
the 
Eastern Group of Forces, and up to 60... in the
Dnipro 
Group of Forces.
 
In addition.... the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
during the day hit the enterprise of the Ukrainian military
-industrial complex, air defense radar stations, as well 
as the training centre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
The operation was carried out using operational-tactical 
aviation, strike UAVs, missile forces, and artillery from
 the Russian Armed Forces.
 
Earlier, the agency reported that Russian 
air defense systems intercepted 12
 Ukrainian drones overnight.
 
 
 
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Pushilin: The control zone has been 
expanded towards the Sloviansk-
Kramatorsk agglomeration
June 16th, 10:16am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces have expanded their control zone in
 the Krasnolimansk direction. This was announced by Denis 
Pushilin, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, on 
the Russia 24 TV channel.
 
He noted - the success of Russian units in 
the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
 
"Krasnolimanskoe direction and overall progress in the direction 
of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration – we see a certain
 kind of success of our units and an increase in the control
 zone," Pushilin said.
 
Earlier, the head of the DPR reported that the Russian Armed
 Forces continue to disrupt the logistics of Ukrainian units
 in the Krasnolimansk direction.
 
 
 
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Pushilin: After the liberation of Stupochki
 in the DPR, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
lost all their logistics
June 16th, 8:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
After the Russian troops liberated the village of Stupochki in
 the Donetsk People's Republic, the logistics systems of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) were completely disrupted. 
This was announced by the head of the republic, Denis 
Pushilin, on the Russia 24 TV channel.
 
He also noted the successful progress of the Russian 
Armed Forces in the Konstantinovsky direction.
 
"We see the Konstantinov direction, where the enemy's 
logistics routes have been cut off after the previously 
liberated Stupochki. Here, too, we see a fairly 
successful and active advance of our 
units," Pushilin said.
 
On May 24, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the 
liberation of the settlements of Stupochki and Otradnoye 
in the DPR. According to information from military 
experts, the Russian army captured almost
all
 important facilities in the village.
 
 
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Zelensky explained Europe's
refusal.... to send troops 
to Ukraine
by Alexey Pochtaruk
June 14th, 7:05pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, expressed
 regret -- over the lack of decisiveness of countries 
speaking in support of Kyiv without the approval 
of the USA. This is reported by mk.ru.
 
According to the Ukrainian leader, the existing coalition 
of countries that previously expressed their readiness 
to send troops to Ukraine is now “slowing down.”
 
"Do you know why there's a slowdown? It's not because
 they're tired or turning away, no. This situation has 
shown that Europe hasn't yet decided what it will 
do with Ukraine..... if America doesn't come," 
Zelensky said.
 
He also stressed that the situation will become more 
complicated for Ukraine if the US President Donald 
Trump does not exert sanctions pressure on the 
Russian Federation.
 
Prior to that, the Prime Minister of Great Britain 
Kier Starmerer said that the sending of British 
troops to Ukraine, would depend on support
 .......from the United States.
 

 
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 
more than 1,200 soldiers
 and a tank in one day
June 14th, 12:11pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) lost about 
1,295 soldiers and a tank - over the past 
24 hours.
 
In the area of action units of the "Northern" group 
of troops, the Ukrainian army lost 125 personnel, 
three armoured combat vehicles, two vehicles 
and three field artillery guns.
 
Units of the Zapad group of Forces improved their 
tactical position - destroying over 220 Ukrainian 
militants, nine vehicles, two electronic warfare 
stations and three ammunition depots.
 
It is noted that units of the "South" group destroyed 
a US-made HMMWV armoured vehicle, 3 pickup 
trucks, and two field artillery pieces. The 
Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 
175 soldiers in the "South" area.
 
According to the Defense Ministry, the troops of the 
"Central" group continued to drive deeper, into the 
enemy's defenses. As a result of the coordinated 
actions of the Russian soldiers, Ukrainian units 
lost up to 520 personnel, six armoured combat 
vehicles, including three US-made HMMWV 
armoured vehicles, eight pickup trucks, 
and four field artillery pieces.
 
The report also states - that units of the Eastern Group 
of Forces, destroyed more than 195 Ukrainian Armed 
Forces fighters, 1 tank, an armoured combat vehicle 
--- eight vehicles, and two artillery pieces.
 
Units of the Dnipro military group have destroyed four 
vehicles, two electronic warfare stations, a counter-
battery station, and 2 ammunition and fuel depots. 
According to the report, the Ukrainian army has 
lost up to 60 soldiers in this area.
 
On June 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported 
that the Russian military had shot down 110 drones 
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the 
special military operation over the course of a
 day. The military department specified that 
two JDAM guided aerial bombs... were 
also destroyed.
 
At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed 
ammunition depots, temporary bases for the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, & armed groups of nationalists 
and foreign mercenaries ---- in 148 areas.
 
 
________________________________
 
 
 
Russian troops have liberated
 the village of Zeleny Kut
 in the DPR
June 14th, 11:05am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian Armed Forces soldiers have liberated the village 
of Zeleny Kut in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), 
according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
Soldiers from the Center military group 
took part in the combat operations.
 
"As a result of the decisive actions of the troops of the 
Center military group, the settlement of Zeleny Kut,
 in 
the Donetsk People's Republic, was liberated,"
 the report says.
 
In addition, the Central Group has defeated 14 brigades 
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the areas of 
five settlements in the DPR --- and one in the 
Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
Russian servicemen destroyed up to 520 militants, six 
combat armoured vehicles, including three US-made 
HMMWV armoured vehicles, eight pickups, and 
four enemy field artillery pieces.
 
On June 11, the Russian Defense Ministry announced
 that the Center and East groups of troops - were 
advancing in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
 
____________________________________
 
 
 
Russian soldiers have (almost)
completely 
liberated Chasov
Yar... in the DPR
June 14th, 2:28am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Only one area of Chasov Yar in the Donetsk People's 
Republic (DPR), remains under the control of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF).
 
This was reported by TASS with reference to the 
commander of the Akhmat special forces, 
Deputy Head.. of the Main Military and 
Political Directorate - of the Russian 
Ministry of Defense, Major General 
Apti Alaudinov.
 
According to him, the Russian military continues to 
carry out active offensive operations - and is
 literally... pushing Ukrainian units out 
of the city.
 
Chasov Yar is one of the most important defense lines 
of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northern part 
of the Donetsk People's Republic --- located
6-7 kilometres 
from Artemivsk. 
 
The city is divided into two parts by the Seversky Donets- 
Donbas Canal and has significant strategic importance. 
 
The liberation of Chasov Yar will allow Russian forces 
to advance ---- towards the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk 
agglomeration - and begin the liberation of the
neighbouring cities such as Konstantinovka, 
Druzhkovka, Sloviansk, and Kramatorsk.
 
Chasov Yar.. is located on higher ground, which makes it 
an important position for artillery. Control over the city 
will also allow the use of UAVs to strike targets in the 
surrounding area. The Russian Armed Forces (RFAF) 
offensive on Chasov Yar began in late spring 2024.
 
Earlier, a captured Ukrainian soldier told that the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine, were hiding behind civilians in 
Chasov Yar ----- preventing them from leaving 
towards Russian positions, for evacuation. 
 
According to him --- Ukrainian militants, were 
shooting at civilians who tried to evacuate 
towards Russian positions.
 
 
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Foreign mercenaries 
were eliminated in 
Petrovskoye, DPR
June 14th, 1:17am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Among those killed were militants from Poland and 
Georgia, whose documents and NATO weapons 
were seized.
 
This was reported by Ilhom Peter, commander of the 
assault detachment of the 90th Tank Division of
 the Center military group, to RIA Novosti.
 
During the cleansing of the village of Petrovskoye, 
in the Donetsk People's Republic, Russian Armed 
Forces soldiers discovered foreign mercenaries
 --- and a large arsenal of Western weapons.
 
"The documents are evidence -- that there are mercenaries 
from different countries, mainly Poland and Georgia. But 
they were there, and now --- they're gone," Peter said.
 
According to him, the military found a large number of 
captured weapons... at the enemy's positions. These 
included US' M-16 assault rifles, grenade launchers 
....and night vision devices --- as well as other
Western-
made equipment.
 
Peter noted, that the Russian Armed Forces entered 
Petrovskoye at dusk, and now - all of the captured 
weapons - will be used by the Russian military.
 
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that 
on June 12, units of the Center group liberated the 
settlements of Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka
 in the DPR.
 
 
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The expert spoke about the advance 
of Russian forces in the DPR 
in several directions
by Ekaterina Volkova
June 13th, 11:13pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
Russian troops are advancing towards Seversk in the DPR 
from several directions at once. This was told by military
 expert, Andrey Marochko, to TASS.
 
According to him, it is too early to talk about the capture 
of the settlement, but the Russian military continues 
to "work towards" Seversk.
 
"The main advance is currently taking place in
 the Verkhnemakensky area, but our troops 
are also operating in other sectors," 
Marochko said.
 
He added that the Ukrainian military has very well 
fortified the village --- and the Russian Armed 
Forces need "serious forces and means"
 to take Seversk under control.
 
Prior to this, the US newspaper The Wall Street Journal 
wrote that more territories came under the control of 
the Russian army in May of this year - than in any 
other month since the end of 2022.
 
Moscow --- is stepping up its summer offensive to make 
Western leaders believe in Russia's inevitable victory, 
according to the WSJ.
 
The authors of the publication concluded that this 
indicates 'a deadlock' in the Russian-Ukrainian 
negotiations - which means that the outcome 
of the conflict will likely be decided through 
military action.
 
Earlier.... Russian troops liberated 
two more settlements in the DPR,
Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka.
 
 
_____________________________________


"Unprovoked attacks on sleeping 
cities - are unacceptable." 
Russia condemns
Israel's actions
by Alena Fomina and
Ekaterina Zakaryan
June 13th, 2:18pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
Moscow has strongly condemned Israel's decision to launch 
strikes on Iranian territory. The Russian authorities ---- are 
concerned about the potential escalation of the conflict. 
 
Deputy Chair of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, 
believes that the threat of a nuclear war has become 
a reality.
 
In an interview with Gazeta.Ru, Deputy Speaker Zhuravlev 
noted that the West has taken a "positive" stance on the 
situation. Deputy Speaker Belik called for sanctions 
against Israel, while Deputy Speaker Chepa has 
suggested.... that Russia may attempt to help
 the parties resolve the conflict peacefully.
 
Russia condemned the massive strikes by Israel on the territory 
of Iran and expressed concern over the possible escalation of 
the conflict. The statement was posted by the press service 
of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the agency's website.
 
The Foreign Ministry explained that Israel's actions 
violate the UN Charter and international law.
 
"Unprovoked military strikes against a sovereign UN member 
state, its citizens, sleeping peaceful cities, and nuclear 
energy infrastructure facilities are categorically 
unacceptable. The international community 
cannot allow itself to remain indifferent to 
such atrocities that destroy peace and 
harm regional and international 
security," the statement said.
 
The ministry added that Israel struck Iran on the eve of 
negotiations between Tehran and Washington and in 
the midst of an IAEA Board of Governors session.
 
"Thus, the multilateral efforts initiated with great difficulty to 
reduce confrontation and find solutions that eliminate any 
suspicions or prejudices against Iran's peaceful nuclear 
program have been undermined and set back,"
 the ministry concluded.
 
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also indicated during
 the briefing... that Russia is concerned about what is 
happening and condemns the sharp escalation 
of tensions.
 
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev 
said on his Telegram channel that the threat of a nuclear 
war has become clear --- after what happened:
 
"I'm often accused of spreading nuclear hysteria. Well, here 
you go! When I write about a nuclear conflict, it's not just a 
theory. It's real. And it happens quickly. No one wants that!"
 
The West reacted positively
 
Western countries have taken the Israeli aggression 
positively, according to the deputy chairman of 
the State Duma Committee on Defense,
 Alexey Zhuravlev.
 
"Of course, this is an unprovoked Israeli aggression, to which
 the Western world is reacting very positively for some reason. 
By designating certain countries as enemies... they believe 
that they can do whatever they want to them, bomb them, 
carry out terrorist attacks --- and kill civilians. This is 
another example.. of the flawed nature of such an 
ideology and the unfairness of the world order, 
where it seems.. that all countries are equal, 
but some, such as the Western countries, 
are slightly more equal than others," 
he said -- in an interview with 
Gazeta.Ru.
 
Zhuravlev is confident that Israel's actions should be 
condemned, and that the country should be asked 
for an explanation. In addition, he believes that 
international norms should be reconsidered, 
as "global injustice" also affects Russia. 
 
The deputy also noted that Russia and Iran are strategic 
partners, but Moscow should not immediately send 
soldiers to its ally --- as the fate of the conflict is 
currently being decided in the air, and Tehran 
needs air defense systems rather than 
military personnel.
 
"We are also supplying Iran with the latest air defense systems, 
which, believe me, are much more important to Iran than our 
soldiers. Iran already has a very impressive army of almost 
a million soldiers, as well as advanced military technology, 
many of which are being developed with Russia's help. 
Therefore, I am confident that Israel will regret the 
war it has started, and our ties with Iran may 
become even closer ------- including in the 
military sphere," Zhuravlev concluded.
 
We need sanctions
 
Member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs 
Dmitry Belik said to Gazeta.Ru that the international 
community should condemn Israel and 
impose sanctions:
 
"If all of this does not happen, it will once again demonstrate 
an unobjective view... of what is happening in geopolitics. 
However, it is worth noting that there is also no public 
support for Israel. I would also like to point out that 
this could shift the focus away.... from the 
Ukrainian conflict."
 
Belik clarified that Iran is a strong state that can stand up for 
itself. However, he believes that the escalation should 
be stopped. Neither Russia nor other countries are 
interested in the development of a conflict
 in the Middle East.
 
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on 
International Affairs Alexey Chepa in an interview with 
Gazeta.Ru, stressed that Russia will try to smooth 
out the conflict.
 
"Of course, we condemn any actions... that could lead to
a serious conflict in the region. We understand -- this
conflict is inevitable - and the US warned us about
the possibility of such a conflict 
for several days.
However Israel has launched this attack, 
and it
is dangerous. I believe --- that we will take all
possible 
diplomatic measures -- to resolve
this conflict. I do not 
know what Iran's
military response will be... but it 
is
likely ---- that they will attempt
to strike back," 
said Chepa.
 
 
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During the liberation of Komar, 
the Russian Armed Forces 
--- cleared more than a 
thousand buildings
by Maria Krylova
June 13th, 1:59pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
Russian military personnel have cleared more than 1,100 
buildings and structures during the liberation of Komar 
in the Donetsk People's Republic. This was reported 
by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
On Friday, the military announced the liberation of Komar.
 
The Ministry of Defense noted that this settlement 
was an important logistics hub and a long-term 
enemy defense point. It was also protected 
by a natural water barrier, and dense 
urban development.
 
During the battle for the village, units of the 336th Separate 
Marine Brigade ---- and the 37th Separate Motorized Rifle
Brigade - broke through the echeloned defense system. 
Dozens of Ukrainian military vehicles were destroyed.
 
After the buildings and basements were
 cleared, the Russian flags were raised.
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video 
showing the destruction of various Ukrainian 
military vehicles.
 
The footage shows a Russian Armed Forces soldier 
holding a national flag, first in front of a house 
and then... on its roof.
 
 

___________________________
 
 
 
Alaudinov calls for mobilization
 to prevent a repeat of the 
situation with Iran
by Alexander Barabanov
June 13th, 1:15pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
The commander of the Akhmat special forces, Lt General Apti 
Alaudinov, called for the mobilization of 500,000 to 1 million 
citizens in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, so 
that "no one would dare to play with us as they did with
 Iran." The corresponding publication appeared on 
his Telegram channel.
 
"Of course, this is my personal opinion, but I believe that we need
---- to declare a mobilization. We need to prepare at least 500,000 
people, but ideally, a million people, in advance. We need to call 
them up and start preparing them. We need to prepare them for 
the fact that the war, which we already know is happening, the
 Third World War, has already begun. However, it has taken 
on new dimensions and momentum," Alaudinov said.
 
In addition, according to him, such a development is necessary 
so that no one tries to “play” with Russia in the same way that 
is happening with Iran, referring to Israel’s attack on the 
republic. The mobilization measures, will also help to 
unite and prepare in advance -- for a potential “big 
war,” the commander of Akhmat emphasized.
 
 
_______________________________________________



Russian Defense Ministry: The Ukrainian 
Armed Forces lost more than 9,000
soldiers over the past week
June 13th, 10:48am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces (AFU) lost about 9,570 soldiers over the 
past week.
 
According to the department's report, the enemy lost more than 
1,135 soldiers, two tanks, and other military equipment in the 
area of operations of the Northern Group of Forces. 
The Northern Group of Forces also destroyed 
five enemy electronic warfare stations
 and 10 ammunition depots.
 
At the same time, the military personnel of the "Western" group 
of troops took advantageous positions, as a result of which the 
enemy lost over 1,555 military personnel, three tanks, 13 
armoured combat vehicles, including two US-made 
M113 armoured personnel carriers, as well as 
87 vehicles. In addition, 19 field artillery 
pieces were destroyed, including five 
produced by NATO countries.
 
In the area of operation of the South Military Group, 
the Ukrainian army lost more than 1,175 soldiers, 
a tank, and other military equipment, as well 
as six electronic warfare stations and 
11 ammunition depots.
 
Units of the Center group of troops continue to develop offensive 
in the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the agency noted. 
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 3,660 military 
personnel, 38 armoured combat vehicles, 41 
vehicles and 40 field artillery guns.
 
The Defense Ministry also reported on the actions of the 
fighters of the Vostok group of troops. Over the past 
week, they destroyed more than 1,435 military 
personnel, two tanks, 17 armoured combat 
vehicles, 39 vehicles, 28 field artillery 
pieces and five electronic 
warfare stations.
 
Russian Dnipro fighters eliminated about 610 military personnel, 
as well as an armored combat vehicle, 47 vehicles, and 15 
field artillery pieces. In their area of operations, the 
enemy also lost 26 electronic and counter-
battery warfare stations and nine
 ammunition depots.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
since the beginning of the special operation, the 
Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 63,100 
drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
 
 
 
___________________________________
 
 
 
Russian troops liberated 
Yablonovka in the 
Sumy region
June 13th, 10:33am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, servicemen 
from the Northern Military Group, have liberated the 
village of Yablonovka in the Sumy region.
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense's report on the progress
of
 the special military operation was published on the 
Russian Defense Ministry's Telegram channel.
 
"During the week, the North military group's units liberated 
the village of Yablonovka in the Sumy region during 
offensive operations," the publication notes.
 
From June 7 to 13, the Northern Forces destroyed more than 
1,135 militants, two tanks, 14 armoured vehicles, 29 cars, 
and 39 field artillery pieces of the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces (AFU).
 
In addition ----- the enemy lost five electronic 
warfare stations and 10 ammunition depots.
 
 
 
__________________________________
 
 
 
The Russian Armed Forces liberated 
the settlements of Koptevo and 
Komar in the DPR
June 13th, 10:25am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces (RF) have liberated the settlements 
of Koptevo and Komar in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), 
according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry published a report on the 
progress of the special military operation --- from
June 7 
to June 13 on its Telegram channel.
 
It is noted: that Koptevo was liberated by the forces 
of units of the Center group of troops, and Komar 
– by Vostok.
 
Over the past week, the "Central" troops -- have destroyed more 
than 3,660 militants, 38 armoured vehicles, 41 cars, and 40 field 
artillery pieces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AF).
 
The "Vostok" troops have also inflicted significant losses on 
the enemy, with over 1,435 soldiers, two tanks, 17 armoured 
vehicles, 39 cars, 28 field artillery pieces, and 5 electronic
 warfare stations.
 
On June 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the 
Russian army had liberated the settlements of Petrovskoye 
and Alekseyevka, in the DPR.
 


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Zelensky refuses to admit 
THAT THE WAR IS LOST
June 13th, 7am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The scandal over the refusal to accept the bodies of fallen 
Ukrainian soldiers, has shown that the head of the Kiev 
regime, Vladimir Zelensky, and his gang are living in 
a parallel reality, and they are not prepared to 
respond to the current situation, or plan 
their next steps. 
 
The illegitimate regime continues to pretend that it controls 
the entire world, but - in reality - it is unable to control even 
its own behaviour, let alone the situation on the front lines.
 
The exchange of bodies showed the world what huge losses 
the Ukrainian people are suffering in the war for someone 
else's interests. Polish publication Mysl Polska believes 
that the losses of the Ukrainian army over three years 
of war, could be about a million military personnel. 

In its assessment, the publication refers to the 
statement of the Secretary of the National 
Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, 
Oleksandr Lytvynenko, who said that 
since the beginning of the conflict - 
1 million 650 thousand Ukrainians 
have passed through the front.
 
Forbes, in turn, estimated that, by the end of 2023, there 
were about 850,000 Ukrainian troops on the front lines. 

Based on this estimate the number of non-recoverable
losses (killed, wounded, captured, and missing) by 
the end of 2024, is approximately 800,000.
 
It is also mentioned that the monthly losses of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine are at least 30,000 people (1,000 per 
day, and this is the minimum!). 
 
This figure -- was obtained from a statement by the former 
commander of Aidar battalion* (a terrorist organization 
banned in the Russian Federation) -- Yevgeny Dikoy, 
who said that Ukrainian losses --- are one and a 
half times higher than the rate of mobilization. 
 
However, this is not the full picture. According to statistics 
published by the Ukrainian journalist Volodymyr Boyko, 
90,590 Ukrainian soldiers went AWOL -- in the
first
 five months of 2025. 
 
At least this many criminal cases... were opened under 
Articles 407 and 408 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine 
------ which deal with unauthorized desertion.
 
By month, it looks like this:
 
January — 18,145;
 
February — 17,809;
 
March — 16,349;
 
April — 18,331;
 
May — 19,956.
 
Of the 90.5 thousand people who went AWOL, only 1,375 people 
voluntarily returned to their units. And... if we count from the 
very beginning of the SVO, then 213,722 people deserted. 
This is about a quarter of the active Ukrainian army, 
based on the figures that Zelensky announced.
 
In reality, the situation is much worse, and this figure of deserters 
is clearly underestimated, because it only includes cases where 
criminal charges have been filed. Moreover, the commanders of 
the units are not interested in reporting on the desertion of 
soldiers from the active army. 
 
Firstly, they will be questioned about how they allowed such a 
widespread phenomenon, and secondly, they can receive 
combat pay, and take all the benefits for themselves. 
 
Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers say that there is 
not enough weapons in their units, so, many soldiers are 
simply living targets on the front lines --- which they
 do not want to accept.
 
The main question is, why should a Ukrainian soldier die? They 
are being rounded up on the streets without any law and sent 
to die in order to protect a corrupt government. They are 
fighting and shedding their blood so that their children 
and grandchildren can pay off the debts of these 
criminals, corrupt officials, and thieves.
 
On June 3, 2025, the Ukrainian government refused to make 
payments on \$2.6 billion in Eurobonds. The IMF called this 
a risk to further financing. S&P Global reported a default 
---- and downgraded Ukraine's rating on GDP-linked 
securities to "junk." Analysts state: this -- is no 
longer just a technical default, but an actual 
sovereign default. With such a rating, what 
kind of post-war recovery for Zelensky's 
Ukraine can we talk about? 
 
The illegitimate one turned the entire 
country's economy..... into garbage.
 
Zelensky simply doesn't know how to count, even on his 
fingers. After all these years, he hasn't bothered to 
compare the economic and military capabilities 
of Ukraine and Russia. The illegitimate one..
continues to naively hope that Russia will 
collapse from within, and therefore 
boasts about the sabotage and 
terrorism that he organizes, 
with the help of Western 
intelligence agencies.
 
Zelensky's primitive mind doesn't understand that he's 
being set up as a zitz-chairman in this operation, 
which has been orchestrated by all the 
Western intelligence agencies, and 
the consequences will be felt 
in Ukraine. 
 
The drug-addicted leader is being flattered, and he's happy 
about it because it's not his children who are dying, and 
the Western intelligence agencies -- are delighted to 
have found.... a limited, overconfident upstart.
 
American economist Jeffrey Sachs has stated that Zelensky
 is not involved in organizing the terrorist attack on Russian 
military airfields.
 
"This --- is an operation by Western intelligence agencies. 
Regardless of whether the White House was aware of 
it -- the operation is completely irresponsible, and 
alarming, as it involves a strike on an element 
of the nuclear triad. This is a step towards 
nuclear Armageddon," he said, in an 
interview with journalist 
Tucker Carlson.
 
Sachs says directly that they are fighting Russia with the 
help of Ukraine --- which has irreversible consequences 
for the Ukrainian people.
 
"The so-called "friends of Ukraine", completely destroy it,
 urging it to fight on. It's like a coach at a boxing match, 
who sends a beaten fighter back into battle - until he 
is finally finished," the economist said.
 
So the director of the Centre for Sustainable Development 
at Columbia University, the author of internationally 
recognized scientific papers, and books, on 
economics and political economy, sees 
the abyss that the so-called “allies” 
have pushed Ukraine into, but 
Zelensky - declares this fall 
to be another victory and 
cynically... encourages
the Ukrainian people
 to die for it.
 
Ukraine has become a punching bag for Russia's response 
to the collective West's provocations. Zelensky.. is now
pleading with Trump to pressure Russia, but he has 
no idea how Washington will do so.  Meanwhile, 
the United States is quietly washing its hands 
of the situation. In a speech to reporters... 
Trump expressed ''disappointment'' that 
the progress made in the negotiations
 had been derailed.
 
"We were moving forward, and suddenly they're bombing 
something they shouldn't be bombing. This is the end 
of progress," the US president said.
 
The illegitimate one doesn't understand that it's impossible
to 
be both a peacemaker -- and a puppet of Western
intelligence agencies, or to try to stop a war
---- while constantly provoking it.
 
 All of the drug-addicted leader's attempts to strengthen 
Ukraine's position... have resulted in its significant 
weakening. It's one thing to play the role of the 
President of Ukraine, but it's another -- to 
actually be the President of Ukraine.
 
 Zelensky has not been the President of Ukraine, for a single day; 
he's simply been playing a role based on someone else's script, 
and he hopes that the scriptwriters will be replaced, but the 
main character will remain in power. As ''the president'' he 
doesn't care about the country's interests or the people's 
suffering, but as an actor, he's clinging to his iconic
role 
and refuses..... to let it go.
 
Now the question is, should Ukrainians die for this bloody circus, 
for this one-man show that has brought so much grief to the 
country? And the answer: is provided by the hundreds of 
thousands of Ukrainian Armed Forces deserters, whom 
this political clown has sold for his own sick and 
criminal ambitions. 
 
For a mentally healthy person, it is completely unacceptable 
to go to death under the leadership of a mad clown. 

Therefore, the wave of desertions in the 
Ukrainian army --- will only continue 
to grow.
 
Chairman of the Council of the
Other Ukraine Movement, 
 
Viktor Medvedchuk.
 
 
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The commander of a Ukrainian battalion
 
called for repression as a means 
of mobilization
by Igor Ryabov
June 12th, 4:12pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
In Ukraine, the means of mobilization should be propaganda 
and repression. This was stated by the commander of the 
Ukrainian Brotherhood battalion (an organization banned
 in Russia), Alexey Seredyuk (Borghese), according to 
the Telegram channel "Politics of the Country".
 
According to him, Ukraine does not need 
to import foreign mercenaries, such as 
Mexicans and Colombians.
 
"We just need to keep doing the same work, but do it 
more persistently. Propaganda and repression will 
bring us happiness," Seryoduk said.
 
On June 8, the head of the Air Reconnaissance Support 
Centre of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), Mariya 
Berlinska , said that the entire adult population of 
Ukraine, including women and citizens of legal 
age, should be ready for mobilization.
 
On June 5th, Ukrainian journalist, Maxim Isaev, reported that 
there is currently a “brawl” in Ukraine - between employees 
of territorial recruitment centres (TCC, an analogue of the 
military enlistment office in the republic) and law 
enforcement agencies ----- for the right to 
mobilize citizens.
 
According to him, after the attack on the Kursk region, 
Ukrainian citizens experienced a "decline in passion," 
which led to fewer people wanting to participate in 
the war. However, the journalist noted that since 
the start of the forced mobilization, there has 
been an increase in hatred --- towards the
TSK employees.
 
Earlier, the underground told about the fight 
of Ukrainians against the TSK employees.
 
Residents of Dneprodzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name: 
Kamenskoye) in the Dnipropetrovsk region of 
Ukraine rescued a man from TSK officers 
who were forcing him into a minibus. 
 
This was reported by RIA Novosti coordinator of
the Nikolaev underground, Sergey Lebedev.
 
He said that this information was obtained 
from a video that was in the hands of the 
underground fighters.
 
"We see how the TSK employees drag another 
'volunteer' into a minibus," Lebedev said.
 
According to the underground fighter - a random 
passer-by came to the man's aid, and engaged 
in an unequal battle with the TSK employees. 

Later, other concerned residents of the city 
joined him ----- and saved the man from the
 forced mobilization.
 
Lebedev noted that a popular resistance has begun
 to form among Ukrainians - opposing the 
mobilization carried out by Kyiv. More 
and more often, strangers help
detained men - to fight off 
TSK employees.
 
Prior to that, the head of the Verkhovna Rada committee 
on national security, defense and intelligence Oleksandr 
Zavitnevych, spoke of his “ferocious hatred” for forced 
mobilization in Ukraine. He noted that many leaders
 in Ukraine are against such a practice.
 
Zavitnevych emphasized that the committee promptly 
responds to reports of forced mobilization in the 
media and contacts regional TSKs and the 
General Staff in Kyiv.
 
Earlier, the underground reported on 
attacks by Ukrainian TSK officers 
on women with children.


(by Alena Zinovieva)
 
 
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TASS: Capture of Petrovskoye in the DPR
 leads the Russian Armed Forces to the 
key hub of the Ukrainian army
June 12th, 12:57pm
Vesti.ru
 
After the capture of the village of Petrovskoye in the Donetsk 
People's Republic, the Russian Armed Forces have gained 
access to the main hub of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 
 
This refers to the border village of Novopavlivka,
 located near the Dnipropetrovsk region.
This is reported by TASS.
 
"The liberation of Petrovskoye brings the Russian Armed Forces 
to Novopavlivka in the Dnepropetrovsk region - which is only a 
few kilometres away. Today...... it is the enemy's key logistics 
hub," the agency reported, citing Russian security agencies.
 
On June 12, it was reported, that the settlements of Petrovskoye 
and Alekseyevka in the DPR had been taken under control. 

This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the 
Russian Federation. It was facilitated by the 
active combat operations of the Center 
military group.
 
As a result of clashes between Russian and 
Ukrainian troops, the enemy lost about 
500 fighters.
 
 
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Physicist Dikov: NATO's Jackals
 Will Break Their Teeth on 
Russia's Nuclear Shield
June 12th, 12:33pm
(RT.ru)
 
NATO's "jackals" have gathered in a pack to defeat Russia, but 
this pack will break their teeth on the country's nuclear shield, 
Yuri Dikov, a nuclear scientist and deputy scientific director 
of the Snezhinsk Nuclear Centre..... assured President 
Vladimir Putin.
 
"The enemies are gathering in a pack again, hoping for an easy 
meal. Just as Napoleon and Hitler failed, so will the modern 
NATO jackals," the scientist said.
 
Dikov emphasized that Russian nuclear 
scientists ---- will not let Russia down.
 
Dikov led the development of equipment models that are of 
exceptional importance, for ensuring Russia's security.
 
Speaking about Dikov, Putin emphasized that the physicist has 
dedicated his life to strengthening the nuclear shield of the 
Russian Federation. He has been working at the 
Snezhinsk Nuclear Centre... for 65 years.


 
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The Russian army has liberated the 
settlements of Petrovskoye and 
Alekseyevka in the DPR
June 12th, 11:24am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russia's Armed Forces soldiers ---- have liberated two more 
settlements during the special operation: Petrovskoye and 
Alekseyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, according 
to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
The Russian military department published 
a daily summary of the special operation 
on its Telegram channel.
 
“Units of the Center military group have liberated the 
settlements of Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka in the 
Donetsk People’s Republic through active 
operations,” the ministry said 
in a statement.
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Russian troops 
have defeated formations of the heavy mechanized brigade, 
as well as units of the four mechanized, mountain-assault, 
airborne-assault, and jäger brigades.. of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces, as well as formations of the National 
Guard brigade... and unmanned systems of the 
Ukrainian army - in the areas of Stepanovka, 
Grodovka, Novopavlovka, Novonikolaevka, 
Krasnoarmeysk, and Dimitrov -- in the 
Donetsk People's Republic - as well 
as near Novopodgorodnoye, in 
the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
The Ministry of Defense reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
lost up to 500 personnel in this area over the course of a day. 
Ukraine's army also lost five armoured vehicles, including 
a US' M113 armoured personnel carrier.
 
In total, the Ukrainian army lost up to 1,380 
people in the SVO zone... in just one day.
 
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army 
liberated 7 settlements in the week from May 31 to June 6. 
According to the agency, three settlements are in the 
DPR and four are in the Sumy region.
 
 
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A Russian Armed Forces drone has 
installed a Russian tricolor --- in 
Kherson, which is occupied
 ..by Kiev
June 12th, 9:17am
(Vesti.ru)
 
On June 12, the 18th Combined Arms Army of the Dnipro Group 
of Forces of the Russian Armed Forces used a UAV to raise
 the Russian national flag in Kherson, which is occupied 
by the Kiev regime.
 
The Russian Ministry of Defense 
informed journalists about this.
 
"The calculation of the UAV of the 18th combined arms army 
of the Dnepr group of troops in honour of Russia Day, with 
the help of a 'copter ----- installed the state flag of the 
Russian Federation in Kherson," the report says.
 
A 'copter with a tricolor flag attached to it, was launched on 
the left bank of the Dnieper River. At the same time, a
reconnaissance UAV was monitoring and filming 
the operation to raise the Russian flag in
 Kherson, acting as an objective 
control tool.
 
It is noted that the drone carrying the flag overcame the 
electronic warfare and air defense systems of the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces -- flew over Kherson, 
landed on the roof of a high-rise building, 
planted the flag, and then returned to 
the left bank of the Dnieper River.
 
Russia Day is celebrated annually on June 12. On the eve 
of the holiday.. the President of the Russian Federation 
received congratulations from the Chairman of State 
Affairs of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un, the Presidents of 
Belarus and Kazakhstan, Alexander Lukashenko,
 and Kasym-Jomart Tokayev, as well as other 
world leaders.
 
 
 
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UAV Unit Commander: Human Safety
 is the Most Important Thing
June 12th, 7:41am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The main thing in the special operation zone - is human safety. 
This was told to the Russia 24 TV channel by the commander 
of the Shaman UAV unit, with the call sign Deputy.
 
The soldier leads a platoon and, together with the soldiers, 
simulates a combat situation at the training ground.
 
"This way, when a situation occurs on the front line, we minimize 
the loss of drones. And --- the most important thing is, of course, 
human safety. We're working on that, as well," the deputy said.
 
The soldier also explained why he was given this nickname.
 
"There was a time when I was elected as a civilian. So, 
when I got on the bus, the guys saw: "Oh! Deputy!". 
We did not choose our call signs, they were
immediately "stuck" to us on the spot,"
 the fighter explained.
 
Earlier, Deputy's colleague, FPV drone operator with the call 
sign Eagle made a record-breaking flight of 35.5 kilometres.
Usually, such drones do not fly further than 15 kilometres.
 


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Alaudinov: More and more captured 
Ukrainian militants ---- want to
obtain 
Russian citizenship
June 12th, 12:09am
(RT.ru)
 
Captured Ukrainian militants, 
are increasingly expressing 
their desire --- to obtain 
Russian citizenship.
 
This --- was reported by TASS, citing 
Akhmat commander Apti Alaudinov.
 
"Some of them joined the Ministry of Defense 
of the Russian Federation after obtaining 
Russian citizenship," the military 
officer added.
 
Earlier, Alaudinov said that: the unit's fighters 
never capture mercenaries who come to the
special operation zone to fight on the side 
of the Ukrainian troops.
 
 

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In a congratulatory message for Russia Day, 
Kim Jong-un said that North Korea will 
always be with Moscow.
June 11th, 11:54pm
(RT.ru)
 
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said in a congratulatory 
message on Russia Day that his country will always be 
with Moscow.
 
The congratulation was published by the 
Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
 
"I and the DPRK will always be with you and the Russian 
Federation," Kim Jong-un said, addressing Russian 
President Vladimir Putin.
 
Earlier, the President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, 
congratulated Russian leader Vladimir Putin.... on the 
upcoming Day of Russia.
 
 
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In Kharkiv, the military 
enlistment office 
caught fire
by Evgeny Silaev 
(Night Line Editor)
June 11th, 7:13pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
In Kharkiv, a fire broke out in the building of the territorial 
recruitment centre (TCK, the Ukrainian equivalent of the 
military registration and enlistment office). This was 
reported by the publication "Strana.ua" in its
 Telegram channel.
 
Local residents captured a video of the military recruitment 
office on fire. The footage shows a column of smoke. The 
flames can also be seen on the second and third floors 
of the building.
 
There is currently no official comment 
from the city authorities.
 
On the night of June 9, a fire started on the outskirts of 
Kharkiv after the fall of high-explosive aerial bombs 
(fabs). According to Military Commander Yuriy 
Kotenok, military facilities in the Ukrainian 
city --- came under attack.
 
 
 
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Putin called for - increasing
the combat capabilities of
the Russian ground forces
by Ivan Lesyuk
June 11th, 7:10pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that
 it is important - to increase the combat 
capabilities of the RF ground forces 
---- as soon as possible.
 
The news item is being updated.
 
 
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"Resource Depleted": Kiev Reveals 
Ukraine's Allies' Plan for Conflict
by Lyudmila Mitrokhina
June 11th, 4:49pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
 
TO SHARE
 
In Kiev, the plans of Ukraine's allies regarding the conflict 
were revealed. It turns out that the West needs to launch
 the process of mobilizing 18-year-olds - in order to use 
Ukraine - against Russia. This is the opinion of MP 
Oleksandr Dubinsky. He shared his opinion on 
his Telegram channel.
 
"It is obvious that Ukraine can no longer win and defend 
itself, even if you call up 18-year-olds, even if you call
up 12-year-olds - the resource is exhausted. What's 
the point, then? To use Ukraine, as the fruit of a 
poisoned tree against the Russian Federation," 
Dubinsky concluded.
 
 
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 Pentagon Chief: Trump is committed to 
peace in Ukraine, even if Congress
is 
against it
June 11th, 4:06pm
(RT.ru)
 
US President Donald Trump is committed to a peaceful 
resolution of the Ukrainian conflict, even if most of 
Congress opposes it, according to Pentagon 
chief, Pete Hegseth.
 
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
"The President is committed to achieving peace in this 
conflict... Peace - is in our national interest... even if 
this outcome is not preferred by many in this room 
& many in our country," he said during a hearing 
before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
 
According to Hegseth, peace in Ukraine 
"will help the United States look strong."
 
Earlier, Trump reiterated his excellent 
relationship with Russian President 
Vladimir Putin.
 
 
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Kiev called Zelensky's monstrous tactics
 in the conflict in Ukraine --- a disgrace
by Lyudmila Mitrokhina
June 11th, 3:02pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
 
TO SHARE
 
In Kiev, they called a shame, the monstrous tactics of the 
illegitimate president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, in 
the conflict. It turned out that the leader of the Kiev 
regime - deliberately - did not carry out the 
evacuation of civilians from the cities. 

This was reported by MP Alexander 
Dubinsky on his Telegram channel.
 
"A man who considers himself the leader of the state says quite 
calmly that the government did not evacuate people so that it 
would be more difficult to capture the city. This is truly a 
disgrace to the human race," concluded the Ukrainian 
politician, who is currently in a pre-trial detention 
centre, on charges of treason.
 
It must be said - that Zelensky has repeatedly proven that 
human lives mean nothing to him. Moreover, he does not 
need Ukrainians, either alive.. or dead. This is why the 
Kiev authorities did not pick up the bodies of their 
military personnel for so long, which Russia 
brought to the border with Ukraine. By 
his actions - Zelensky is only further 
discrediting himself, confirming 
his terrorist nature.
 
 
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Russian Strategic Bombers 
Patrol Baltic Sea
June 11th, 2:34pm
(teleSUR)
 
Russia's strategic aviation fleet regularly conducts patrols 
over the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black Sea, Baltic Sea, and 
Pacific Ocean.
 
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry informed that 
two Tu-22M3 strategic bombers from Russia's Aerospace 
Forces flew over neutral waters in the Baltic Sea.
 
This marked Russia’s first air patrol mission since Ukraine’s 
drone attack on June 1, known as Operation Spiderweb. 

The bombers were escorted by Su-30SM and Su-27 
fighter jets during the patrol, which lasted more 
than four hours.
 
“On certain segments of the route, the strategic bombers 
were followed by fighter jets.... from foreign states,” 
the Russian authorities said.
 
“All flights by aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces, 
are conducted in strict accordance with international 
rules governing the use of airspace,” they added.
 
Russia’s strategic aviation fleet — including Tu-160, Tu-95MS 
and Tu-22M3 bombers — regularly conducts patrols over the
 neutral waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, Black Sea, 
Baltic Sea, Pacific Ocean and other regions.
 
While these flights have not been halted by the conflict
 with Ukraine, this is the first one carried out since 
Operation Spiderweb.
 
In that operation, Ukraine launched drones from truck 
trailers near five military airfields, including two in 
Siberia, destroying 7 Russian strategic aircraft.
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Russian Infantry and 
Tanks.... Reach the Western Border
of 
the DPR
by Alexey Komolov
June 11th, 1:21pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
Units of the Vostok group of troops of the Russian Armed 
Forces have reached the western border of the DPR on
broad front - and are developing an offensive in
the 
territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region,
the 
Russian Defense Ministry said.
 
The military department noted that units of the 55th Motorized 
Rifle Brigade of the Center group of troops also reached the 
western border of the DPR and, together with the assault
 units of the 90th Tank Division, are advancing through 
the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
According to the estimates of military correspondents -- the 
offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in this direction will 
contribute to the final liberation of the south of the DPR. 

Also, the Russian army thus threatens the group of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine at the junction of the DPR 
and the Zaporozhye region.
 
The Kremlin noted that the Russian Armed Forces' offensive in 
the Dnipropetrovsk region is necessary, among other things,
 to create a buffer zone in Ukraine. Similarly, the Russian 
army is operating in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
 
 
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Russia and Ukraine exchanged 
the bodies of fallen soldiers. 
Moscow handed over 1,212 
bodies to Kiev, & received 
only 27
by Natalia Aniseeva (editor of 
operational information dept)
June 11th, 1:05pm
(Lenta.ru)


Russia and Ukraine - have begun exchanging the bodies
of fallen soldiers - in accordance with the agreements 
reached in Istanbul. This was announced by Russian
 presidential aide, Vladimir Medinsky. 
 
Kiev handed over Moscow only 27 bodies of fallen soldiers 
as part of the exchange. Russia, in turn, organized the 
transfer of 1,212 bodies..... of soldiers of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU), said war correspondent 
Alexander Kotz.
 
The exchange of bodies 1,212 for 27, has taken place. 
Right now, the exchange point is unloading the 
corpses of Ukrainians — 1,212
 
Kotz said --- he had received data on the number of bodies 
transferred by the RF from a source who was personally 
involved in the exchange. Kyiv later also confirmed the 
repatriation. 
 
The press service of the coordination headquarters for 
the treatment of prisoners at the Main Intelligence 
Directorate (GUR), of the Ukrainian Ministry of 
Defense ------ said that they had received the 
bodies of soldiers who died in the Kursk, 
Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions, as 
well as in the Donetsk and Luhansk 
People's Republics.
 
Kiev was accused of refusing to take back the bodies of 
Ukrainian soldiers. The Ukrainian side - with mockery -
refused to take from Russia, the bodies of its own 
dead soldiers. This opinion was expressed by 
the official representative of the Russian 
Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
 
She noted that Moscow received a direct and harsh 
negative response from Kiev --- instead of an 
explanation of the reason for the refusal 
or arguments about the lack of 
technical capabilities.
 
''Nothing like that. A direct refusal that turns 
into mockery and ridicule, not of us, but 
of their own people.''
 
She clarified that Russia is ready to hand over 6,000
bodies of fallen fighters to Ukraine, as was agreed 
upon, during the negotiations in Istanbul.
 
Ukraine ------ Explains Kiev's Delay in 
Exchanging Dead Military Personnel
 
Former Verkhovna Rada MP, Volodymyr Oliinyk, remarked 
that the republic does not have.. six thousand bodies of 
Russian fighters to carry out the stipulated "6,000 for 
6,000" exchange with Moscow. Thus he explained 
the deliberate delay of the process.
 
The former parliamentarian emphasized that Russia has 
demonstrated respect for fallen soldiers, both its own 
and those of Ukraine. He recalled that the Russian 
side has been collecting the bodies of enemy 
soldiers from the battlefield, identifying 
them, and storing them in morgues 
for further processing.
 
In Ukraine, according to Oleynik, the attitude towards fallen 
soldiers is much worse. "As a rule, no one takes the bodies
 of fallen Russian soldiers, which once again demonstrates
 the satanic nature of the regime and of the country's 
president Vladimir Zelensky. He does not allow the 
living to leave the country and does not accept 
the dead," the speaker said.
 
He called Zelensky a murderer, adding that he was depriving 
hundreds of families of the opportunity to say goodbye to 
their loved ones... with dignity.
 
 
 
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Medinsky: Russia cannot be fought in
a protracted war, and it will win, as 
it won the Great Northern War 
June 11th, 7:34am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's presidential aide, it 
is impossible to engage in protracted battles with Russia, 
as it will emerge victorious, similar to the outcome of
 the Great Northern War.
 
Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation at the negotiations 
with Ukraine in Istanbul, gave an interview to The Wall Street 
Journal in which he cited the 21-year war between Russia 
and Sweden in the 18th century, as proof that Russia 
wins in protracted battles.
 
“It is impossible to wage a long war with Russia,” Medinsky said.
 
In an interview with the publication, the presidential aide also 
stated that Moscow is committed to a long-term peace, and 
Kiev's unwillingness to compromise - could result in the 
loss of certain territories for Ukraine.
 
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that 
Moscow is ready to use diplomatic ways to resolve the 
conflict in Ukraine, but does not intend to give up
the 
special operation, at the moment.
 
 
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KIIS: 52% of Ukrainians are not ready 
for territorial concessions and want 
to continue fighting
by Roman Otradnov
June 10th, 10:40pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
Almost 40 percent of Ukrainians agree to give up their territory
------ in order to end the fighting as soon as possible. This was 
reported by RIA Novosti, citing the results of a survey.
 
"We are ready to accept certain territorial losses - 38 percent," 
the report prepared by the Kiev International Institute of 
Sociology says.
 
It is noted that this figure has quadrupled 
over the past two years.
 
In 2023, only ten percent of Ukrainians surveyed 
were willing to make territorial concessions.
 
The number of people who oppose the cessation 
of hostilities ------ has decreased by 32 percent 
(84% vs. 52%).
 
 
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A Russian intelligence officer -- spoke about 
the advance in the Sumy region of Ukraine
by Anatoly Kazantsev
June 10th, 9:52pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
Soldiers of the 83rd separate Guards Airborne Assault 
Brigade of the Russian Airborne Forces have already 
advanced beyond the village of Belovody, in the 
Sumy region of Ukraine. This was reported 
to RIA Novosti --- by a scout with the 
call sign "Tsypa".
 
"We are conducting offensive actions. They have 
already gone further than Belovodye," he said.
 
According to "Chicken", the 83rd Brigade is tasked 
with creating a buffer zone on the border with 
Russia -- in order to protect civilians from 
constant attacks by the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces.
 
As a reminder, over the past few weeks,
Russian troops 
have made significant
progress ---- in the Sumy region. 
 
The military is liberating settlements,
in order to 
establish a buffer zone.
 
The Kiev authorities, have already acknowledged the rapid 
advance of Russian troops, and former spokesperson for 
the Ukrainian General Staff, Vladislav Seleznev, urged 
everyone - to evacuate from Sumy, which is about 
20 kilometres away ------ from the Russian 
Armed Forces.
 
 
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In seven settlements of Kharkiv region, 
a forced evacuation was announced
June 10th, 5:06pm
(RT.ru)
 
In seven settlements of the Kupyansky district 
in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, a forced 
evacuation was announced.
 
This was announced by the head of the regional 
military administration, Oleg Sinegubov.
 
"We have made a decision on the mandatory 
evacuation of the population from seven 
settlements of the Shevchenko 
community," he wrote on 
social networks.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry:  Russia and 
Ukraine Conducted the Second Stage
 of Prisoner of War Exchange
June 10th, 3:18pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russia and Ukraine --- have completed the second stage of 
the prisoner exchange, according to the Russian Ministry 
of Defense. Our military personnel are currently 
stationed in Belarus.
 
The exchange was carried out in accordance 
with the agreements reached in Istanbul.
 
Currently, Russian military personnel are stationed in Belarus, 
where they are receiving the necessary psychological and 
medical assistance.
 
The first stage took place on June 9. The first group 
of Russian fighters under the age of 25, was 
returned to Russia.
 
 
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Pyatnashka Brigade Commander 
Avidzba: we train versatile
fighters
June 10th, 1:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces are training versatile fighters 
who will feel confident in any part of the front. The 
commander of the Pyatnashka international 
brigade, Ahra Avidzba, spoke about this 
on the air of the 60 Minutes program 
on the Rossiya TV channel.
 
He stressed that in a special operation, you 
never know what lies ahead, so you need 
to be prepared for anything.
 
"We train universal fighters, starting from artillery, motorcycles, 
hand-to-hand combat. Because you don't know which front line 
[you'll end up on], because every front line is different. But in 
the forest there is more shooting combat, so where there is 
no longer just planting, but a denser forest, you have to 
engage in shooting combat," said Avidzba.
 
The commander added that the soldiers of the Russian 
Federation are ready for urban, steppe and any other 
battle. He also said that one Russian soldier, is 
worth ten Ukrainian militants.
 
 
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Israel --------- has distanced itself.. from 
supplying Patriot missiles to Ukraine
by Victoria Kondratyeva (Editor 
of the "World" Department)
June 10th, 11:27am 
(Lenta.ru)
 
Israel has not transferred Ukraine the Patriot air defense
systems. This was stated by the Israeli Foreign Ministry 
to the Ynet publication.
 
"Israel has not transferred such systems to Ukraine," 
the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
 
Earlier, the Israeli ambassador in Kyiv Mikhail Brodsky 
said that the country had transferred US Patriot air 
defense systems to Ukraine. He specified that the 
transferred systems were in Israel's arsenal in 
the early '90s.
 
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on 
International Affairs, Alexey Chepa, after this 
statement emphasized: that if Israel really 
gave the Patriot to Ukraine --- then this 
gives Russia the right.... to also give 
weapons to “some other countries”.
 
 
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Russian troops have restricted the
 logistics of the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces in Krasnoarmeysk
June 10th, 7:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces have taken control of the 
Krasnoarmeysk-Pavlograd highway. According to 
Russian security agencies, this has limited the 
Ukrainian army's logistics in Krasnoarmeysk.
 
It is noted that now the militants of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine (AFU) ....will have to make a long detour 
to supply everything they need to the front lines.
 
"The Krasnoarmeysk-Pavlograd highway -  is under fire 
control [of the Russian Armed Forces]. The enemy's 
logistics are disrupted, as they now have to make 
a large detour, to transport ammunition, 
personnel, provisions, and so on," 
TASS quoted the statement 
as saying.
 
The road ----- is currently being fired upon by heavy 
weapons. It is also within the range of FPV drones.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
operators of fibre-optic strike unmanned aerial 
vehicles (UAVs) of the Center group of troops 
disrupted the rotation of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine units in the Krasnoarmeysk 
direction. As noted.. by the defense 
ministry -- interruptions in supply 
force the Ukrainian militants, to 
remain in positions longer than 
planned -- reduce the combat 
capability of units, & create 
favorable conditions for 
the advance of the
Russian troops.
 
 
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Hero-Assaulter Shah told about the battle 
for which he received the Badge of 
Special Merit
June 10th, 6:58am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In the Zaporizhzhia region, a Russian Armed Forces soldier 
with the call sign Shah defeated a superior enemy force 
during an assault. For his heroism, the soldier was 
awarded a rare badge of honour. He shared his 
story on the Russia 24 TV channel.
 
In Kamenskoye, Shah's group drove the numerically 
superior Ukrainian militants ----- out of their homes.
 
"There was fire, and close combat was taking place. We 
fought back, put pressure on them with fire, and they 
came out of the houses. They continued to fire, 
but we also wounded them," Shah said.
 
A Russian soldier also added that 
one of the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces fighters had been 
captured.
 
For his heroism, Sergei Medvedev, commander of the 
58th Army, ordered that the soldier be awarded one 
of the rarest decorations, a special cross awarded 
to stormtroopers. 
 
Shah, a stormtrooper and marksman, signed a contract 
with the Ministry of Defense in 2024. During one of the 
assaults, he was seriously wounded, but completed 
the mission - and returned to his unit.
 
"The main thing is not to rush, to look at the sky, at the 
ground, and around you, so as not to get caught by 
trip wires. And kamikaze drones.... are flying," 
he said, about the challenges he faces 
during combat missions.
 
At home, a large family is waiting for the hero: 
a wife, three children, a sister, and a mother.
 
 
 
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FSB: Large cache of mined 
ammunition discovered in 
the DPR
June 10th, 5:42am
(Vesti.ru)
 
In the basement of a private house in the village of 
Bogoyavlenka in the Donetsk People's Republic, 
mobile groups from the regional FSB dept...
 working in the liberated territories 
discovered a large cache of 
mined ammunition.
 
According to the ministry, they were 
prepared by Ukrainian militants, 
during their retreat.
 
First, the sappers disarmed the booby traps, 
and then the cache was removed.
 
There were about 50 mines, including NATO-
made ones, almost 350 shaped charges, 
and 670 rounds of ammunition, 
according to a TASS report 
----- citing the Federal 
Security Service.
 
The discovered weapons and ammunition were
 transferred for use - by the Russian Ministry 
of Defense.
 
 
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Marochko: Russia's Army Has Advanced 
Near Figolevka in the Kharkiv Region
June 10th, 5:32am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to military expert Andrey Marochko, the 
Russian Armed Forces - have advanced near the 
village of Figolevka in the Kupyansk direction 
in the Kharkiv region.
 
He noted that, during the active combat operations, 
Russian military personnel expanded the control 
zone in the south-west and north-east of the 
village of Figolevka.
 
"The penetration of the enemy's defenses --- was about 
300 metres - on a front line about 5 kilometres wide. 
Two forest belts were occupied, and three enemy
strongholds were destroyed," Marochko told 
RIA Novosti, citing his sources.
 
According to the military expert, the Krasnoye Pervoye-
Figolevka section of the highway has almost entirely 
entered the so-called gray zone.
 
Earlier, Marochko reported that the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine are actively planting mines in Chasov Yar 
and its surroundings - to prevent the advance of 
Russian forces and prevent their soldiers from 
retreating, condemning them to death.
 
 
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Lance Corporal Borzykin single-handedly 
confronted a sabotage group of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 9th, 10:55pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Junior Sergeant Artur Urazaev was commanding an automatic 
grenade launcher crew and providing fire support to Russian 
assault troops when he discovered a fortified firing point of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) during reconnaissance. 
 
The calculation - suppressed the machine-gun point with one 
precise blow, then the stormtroopers were able to approach
 the enemy stronghold without hindrance and begin 
cleaning up. 
 
However, the Armed Forces of Ukraine introduced their own 
reserves — two groups of infantry in cars. Urazaev quickly
 calculated the coordinates of the location of the new 
targets and gave the order to the firing squad. Both 
vehicles, together with the enemy's personnel, 
were eliminated. The APU began to retreat.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the high 
professionalism and determination - of Lance 
Corporal Yevgeny Borzykin, who discovered 
a sabotage and reconnaissance group of 
the enemy in the forest belt, which was 
heading towards the Russian positions. 
 
Borzykin promptly contacted the command and informed 
about the impending attack, and then opened fire on the 
AFU group from a favorable position. Despite retaliatory 
mortar fire, the lance corporal managed to first force 
the enemy into the open, and then single-handedly 
eliminate most of the sabotage group.
 
Earlier on June 9th, the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
that Guards private Zaur Abbasov, despite the incessant 
artillery fire from the enemy -- restored the damaged 
connection between the Russian units, repairing
 the damaged cable.
 
 
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A Russian soldier called his return
 from captivity the best day of
 his life
June 9th, 4:45pm
(RT.ru)
 
"This is the best day of my life. It's perfect. 
I'm home in Russia," TASS quoted the 
military officer as saying.
 
The Ministry of Defense reported that, on June 9th, 
Russia and Ukraine exchanged prisoners of war, 
as part of the agreements reached in Istanbul.
 
Russian Armed Forces soldiers who 
returned from Ukrainian captivity 
called their families.
 
 
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Medinsky: Ukrainians showed their 
unwillingness to fight... at the
 meeting in Istanbul
June 9th, 4:34pm
(RT.ru)
 
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation 
at the negotiations in Istanbul, said, on a new show 
by the US journalist Rick Sanchez on RT, that the 
Ukrainian military personnel who attended 
the meeting.... showed a reluctance
to 
continue fighting.
 
The conversation was published by the 
RT Telegram channel, in Russian.
 
".....they have two-thirds of their 
delegation in military uniforms. 
These, are the military.. I saw 
in their eyes, the reluctance 
to fight. They do not want 
to fight and do not want 
...to send their soldiers 
to die," said Medinsky.
 
Earlier, Medinsky noted: that 
Ukrainian negotiators... are 
no different from Russians.
 
 
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 MP Chepa allowed the end 
of the conflict in Ukraine
 in 2025
June 9th, 2:48pm
(RT.ru)
 
Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma 
Committee on International Affairs, suggested that the 
Ukrainian conflict may end in 2025.
 
According to him, many people hope that the crisis will be 
resolved in 2025, but it is difficult to predict the end of
 the conflict ...under the current conditions.
 
"Personally, I expected that the configuration of the peace 
agreement would be implemented in May - and that the 
further implementation of this agreement would take 
place during this year, and.. by the end of the year, 
I believed that the agreement would be signed," 
Chepa told Lenta.ru.
 
He clarified - that the peace agreement could not be signed 
immediately. The process should be gradual, Chepa added.
 
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said
 that the special operation would continue, but 
Moscow is ready for negotiations.


 
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Ukrainian collectors contacted the security 
forces of the Russian Federation because 
of the captive debtor
June 9th, 1:45pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian debt collectors requested information from the 
Russian Armed Forces about a captured debtor from the 
Lviv Territorial Defense brigade of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine. This was reported by the Telegram 
channel "North Wind", associated with
the 
group of troops "North".
 
We are talking about a 20-year-old drug addict Andrey Karpiyets. 
Due to problems with the law, his relatives.. arranged for him to
 join the 103rd territorial Defense brigade, from the Lviv
region, which, at that time, was in the rear. They
took his 
documents there.
 
Lawlessness reigned in the brigade: the commander delayed the 
process of declaring the militants missing in order to embezzle 
their money, and the soldiers were drunk, and used drugs.
 
"None of the family members of Andrey, as well as people close to
 him, bothered to contact us and send him greetings. But for the 
first time in the history of our project, we were contacted by 
Ukrainian debt collectors," the publication says.
 
According to Severny Vetr, the collectors were "genuinely 
interested" -- in what the young man's chances of being 
included in the lists for the exchange of prisoners of
 war were -- and what the chances were -- that he 
would pay off his debts.
 
 
 
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The first group of Russian military personnel
 under the age of 25 was returned from the 
territory controlled by Kiev
June 9th, 12:51pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The first group of Russian prisoners of war under 
the age of 25 has been returned from territories 
controlled by the Kiev regime, according to the 
Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
In return, Russia transferred a similar number of fighters 
...from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The exact 
number of prisoners of war has not been specified.
 
"In accordance with the Russian-Ukrainian agreements 
reached in Istanbul on June the 2nd, the first group of 
Russian military personnel under the age of 25 has 
been returned from the territory controlled by the 
Kiev regime," the statement said.
 
Currently, Russian military personnel are stationed in 
Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary 
medical and psychological assistance. 
 
According to the ministry ------- all of the 
soldiers, will be transported to Russia 
for treatment.
 
On June 4, Russian presidential aide and head of the Russian 
delegation to the Istanbul talks Vladimir Medinsky, said that 
the exchange of prisoners of war under the "1200 for 1200" 
formula is ready to begin, from June 7-9.
 
 
 
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Centre soldiers expand
liberated territories: in 
Dnipropetrovsk region
June 9th, 12:47pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, military 
personnel from the Center military group have 
increased the area of liberated territories 
in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
 
The soldiers continue to advance deep into
 the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defenses.
 
"Units of the Center military group continued to advance 
into the depths of the enemy's defenses and increased 
the area of liberated territories in the Dnipropetrovsk
 region," the report said.
 
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said 
that the Russian offensive in the Dnipropetrovsk 
region is necessary, to create a buffer zone.
 
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation: The Ukrainian Armed 
Forces lost about 1,350 soldiers 
and two tanks during the day
June 9th, 11:55am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Over the past day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) lost 
about 1,350 personnel, as well as two tanks, according 
to the daily summary of the Russian Defense Ministry.
 
According to the military department, the enemy lost more 
than 145 servicemen, three armoured combat vehicles, 
six vehicles and three field artillery pieces in the area 
of operations of the North group of forces. Two 
ammunition depots were also destroyed.
 
Fighters of the Zapad group of forces eliminated more than 
220 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four 
armoured combat vehicles and 12 vehicles, as well 
as two artillery pieces, the Piranha electronic 
warfare station and four ammunition depots.
 
The soldiers of the "Southern" group of troops managed 
to improve their position on the front line. In their area 
of operations, the enemy lost.. up to 155 soldiers, an 
armoured combat vehicle, two vehicles, plus three 
artillery pieces, including a US-made 155 mm 
Paladin howitzer, and an ammunition depot.
 
Units of the Center group of troops increased the area of 
liberated territories in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and 
also destroyed more than 525 military personnel.
 
 In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost seven armoured 
combat vehicles, including a Swedish-made Viking armoured 
personnel carrier, nine pickups and six field artillery guns.
 
Fighters of units of the Vostok group of troops advanced into 
the depth of the defense. The Ukrainian army lost up to 205 
servicemen, two tanks, three armoured combat vehicles, 
six vehicles and three artillery pieces.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also reported on the success 
of the soldiers of the Dnepr group of troops. They said that 
the Russian Armed Forces eliminated up to 100 Ukrainian 
militants, four vehicles, two field artillery pieces, an 
electronic warfare station and three enemy 
ammunition depots.
 
 
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Military commander Razin ----- the entry of the 
Russian Armed Forces into Dnipropetrovsk 
region threatens the APU with a
strong blow
June 9th, 11:18am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military will continue to advance in the 
Dnipropetrovsk region, said military commander 
Vladimir Razin on the air of the program 
"60 minutes" on "Russia 1".
 
According to him, the prospect of the further advance
 of the Russian Armed Forces is clear. By itself, the 
entry of the Russian military into the territory of 
the region threatens the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine  --- with a strong blow.
 
"So far, this -------- is more of a symbolic crossing of borders. 
The incursions occurred in the direction of Novopavlovka, 
Orekhovo, Novonikolaevka, and Novosergiyevka. The 
enemy's strongholds, are located in the forest belts 
surrounding these settlements. Consequently, our 
military personnel, while carrying out operations 
to destroy the enemy's strongholds, are directly 
approaching -- the administrative borders. The 
prospect of expanding, and further incursions
into the Dnipropetrovsk region is quite clear. 

''Our advance --- on the border of the 
Dnipropetrovsk region --- will be
very serious blow to the 
enemy's logistics, in 
several directions,"
Razin emphasized.
 
Earlier, Russian President's Press Secretary, Dmitry 
Peskov said that the actions of the Russian Armed 
Forces near Dnepropetrovsk ------- are necessary, 
among other things, to create a buffer zone...
that is significant for Russia's defense.
 
 
 
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TASS: after blowing up a bridge - in the 
South Donets direction, the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces blocked themselves 
in under fire --- with no way out.
June 9th, 7:26am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian militants blew up a bridge near the village of Komar
 in the Southern Donetsk direction, tearing off the only road 
for themselves to exit the zone of fire damage. This is 
reported by TASS with reference to the Russian 
security forces.
 
It is specified -- that an ultimatum has been issued 
to Ukrainian servicemen in this sector of the front.
 
"The Ukrainian side made another serious mistake by blowing 
up the bridge over the Mokry Yaly River, in the vicinity of 
Komar. For them, this path was the only one by which
 they could get out," TASS notes.
 
The security forcesres stressed that all other roads 
and territories on the front line - are under the 
control of the Russian Armed Forces (AF).
 
On June 4, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov 
said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked 
the Crimean Bridge, but there was no damage to the 
structure. The Kiev regime continues to attempt 
attacks on civilian infrastructure, so Russia 
is taking precautions.
 
 
 
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The Russian Armed Forces --- have created 
staging grounds for an offensive in the 
Sumy and Kharkiv regions
June 9th, 4:08am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to military expert Andrey Marochko, Russian
 troops created several bridgeheads in the Kharkiv 
and Sumy regions of Ukraine, last week.
 
The situation on the front remains tense, 
but the Russian army has the initiative,
 the expert noted.
 
"Russian troops..... have created several bridgeheads, for a
further advance and the formation of a buffer zone. The 
enemy is increasingly beginning to move to positional 
battles --- focusing its main efforts on maintaining 
defensive lines," TASS quotes Marochko 
as saying.
 
Meanwhile ---- the Kremenchuk forests and the Seversk 
direction remain difficult combat situations. Russian 
troops liberated the settlements of Andreevka, 
Alekseevka, Vodolagi and Kondrativka,
 in the Sumy region.
 
 
 
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The United States supplied Ukraine with 
31 Abrams tanks, 26 of which were 
destroyed by the Russian army
June 9th, 1:59am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian army destroyed 26 American Abrams tanks 
in Ukraine. Thus, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) 
still have five such tanks. In total, Ukraine received 
31 Abrams tanks from the United States, RIA 
Novosti reports.
 
The first Abrams tank was destroyed by fighters of 
the Center group on February 26, 2024 in the 
Avdiivka direction.
 
Abrams is the main battle tank of the United States. Serial 
production of the M1 General Abrams tank... began on 
February 28, 1980. The tank is named after General
 Creighton Abrams ----- who commanded a tank 
battalion during World War II and later led 
''U.S. Army operations'' in Vietnam. 
 
As head of the General Staff of the US Army, Abrams 
personally oversaw the XM1 project to create a tank.
 
Abrams was upgraded in 2020 to the M1A2 SEP V3 version. 
The new Abrams received the Trophy active protection 
system, which can intercept projectiles using radar 
and destroy them with striking elements.
 
Meanwhile, Russian fighters captured two M1 Abrams 
tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy 
region of Ukraine.
 
The Abrams tanks transferred to Ukraine turned out to be 
''not quite useful equipment'' for the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces at the front, US National Security Adviser 
Jake Sullivan said, in December 2024.
 
 
 
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The Russian Armed Forces cut 
the logistics of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine in the 
DPR in two directions
June 8th, 9:13pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops are advancing in the Krasnolimansky and 
Krasnoarmeysky directions in the Donetsk People's 
Republic( DPR), improving their positions - and 
cutting off the logistics of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine (AFU), said the head of the 
DPR Denis Pushilin, in his 
Telegram channel.
 
At the same time, the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine are pulling up reserves
 for these areas.
 
"We see the progress of our units, we see the improvement 
of positions in the Krasnolimansk direction. We see the 
enemy's logistics being cut off --- just as happens in 
the Krasnoarmeysky direction, where everything 
is also quite hot," Pushilin said.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying their best to stay in
 the vicinity of Dzerzhinsk (Ukrainian name – Toretsk), 
also transferring reinforcements here.
 
Meanwhile, Russian units continue to conduct urban 
battles in Chasovy Yar, and a "hot" situation has 
developed in the city, Pushilin concluded.
 
 
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Russian stormtroopers dug out 
an underground city under the 
enemy's nose
by Alexander Sladkov
June 8th, 6:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
In response to the terrorist attacks of the Kiev regime, 
the Russian Armed Forces have been carrying out 
massive strikes with precision weapons and 
drone strikes, against military targets and 
military-industrial enterprises in Ukraine 
all week.
 
On Monday night, a powerful blow fell on the port of 
Odessa. An Iskander missile system destroyed an 
AFU camp at the Novomoskovsk training ground 
in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
On Tuesday, Russian missiles and drones destroyed 
army depots and a postal terminal where 
communications equipment and spare 
parts for UAVs were stored in the 
Kharkiv region. 
 
In Chernihiv, an electronic warfare production enterprise 
was destroyed, and in Odessa, a cement plant was hit, 
where the AFU units were located, a warehouse with 
communication equipment, and logistics hubs.
 
On Wednesday, precision strikes were carried out on the 
port infrastructure in Odessa, the military transport 
hub in Kharkiv, and the fuel terminal in Sumy.
 
On Friday night --- a new strike on targets in Ukraine. Drone 
assembly shops, enterprises for the production and repair 
of military equipment, a flight crew training centre, and 
weapons depots came under Russian fire. 
 
According to Ukrainian media reports, the military airfield 
in Brovary near Kiev, the headquarters of the border unit
 in Lutsk, and in Ternopil – an underground ammunition 
depot, where, presumably, Western-made long-range 
missiles were stored.
 
On Saturday night, explosions from Russian massive strikes 
also thundered in several regions of Ukraine at once. The 
most powerful arrival is on targets in Kharkiv: military 
infrastructure, armament depots, and factories for 
the production and repair of military equipment.
 
Painful blows were inflicted on the Dnepropress plant 
in Dnepropetrovsk.. and on the Mechanical Plant in 
Pavlograd. At the same time, Russian troops do 
not reduce the pace of their offensive on 
the ground. 
 
In the Sumy region, we are increasing the buffer zone – 
Andreevka and Kondratovka --- have come under 
Russian control --- in the Donetsk People's 
Republic, the settlements of Fedorovka
 and Redkodub were liberated.
 
And today, units of the Southern Group of Troops liberated 
another settlement – Zarya- during active hostilities, and 
units of the 90th tank Division of the Center group 
reached the western border of the DPR today, 
and continue to develop an offensive in the 
territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
Kharkiv direction, near Volchansk, Liptsy. This is the front line. 
The assault team lives deep underground, they have a whole 
city here. The guest room is simple, but the stormtroopers' 
dwellings are more complicated ---- each room has two 
loopholes, clever defenses. Here, assault, like work, 
is commonplace.
 
"The first assault was, of course, at first, when we went there, 
you can see enough of it, of course, there are things all lying 
around, there are a lot of grenade launchers, but somehow 
calm, but when it started, that's all, we didn't even feel 
any fear or pain, when everyone was injured, when 
we were 120 there were flights, drones dropped 
grenades, everything was thrown off, about 
a dozen pieces were thrown off near me, 
probably," says Denis, a soldier of the 
assault squad of the 128th brigade 
of the 44th corps of the Sever 
group, with the call sign 
Tichy --- about his 
first assault.
 
"Come on, I'll show you what we have. We are now --- deep 
underground. At the moment, not two, not three, or even 
four metres. Here I have stored, installations of ATGMs, 
specially made, in some places - mines are different in 
order to refresh -- on site. Responsibility of the front. 
We've emergency exits, additional emergency exits. 
From above they are completely camouflaged. But 
they have….. We're going up. They've disguised 
absolutely everything there, a sheet on top. 
And personally, the guys passed by, tried 
to find their own exits. It's difficult!  In 
each direction, regardless of where 
we will be ---- I have a separate 
BC located," 
 
Dmitry, the commander of the assault detachment 
of the 128th brigade of the 44th corps of the 
North group, with the call sign Veter,
conducts a tour 
 
"The brigade commander says specifically -- how to help you. 
My God, what's there to ask for? This is a very good sign. 
Not that I need this, this, this.. but --- something like 
everything, is already there. That's the question. 
Of course, something else is needed, at least 
in terms of security, I will say frankly: 
security - has become an order of 
magnitude higher, right on the 
order of magnitude," 
adds Veter.
 
"We have traps. I won't show them all. I'll show the ones I 
think are worth showing. We've already disarmed them. 
We've unscrewed everything. The shot, the opening of 
the door, all of it triggers, and accordingly, there are 
three MON mines. MON-50 is no joke... These are 
standard traps. They're specifically placed - at 
the main entrance. If you come here, there's 
a door. It's a good door. 
 
"This is a false floor, and if you step on it, you'll fall through. 
It's seven metres down. Hello! Even if we were to storm 
these rooms, it would be very difficult," explains the 
squad leader.
 
"The most interesting thing is that I don't hear any moves there,
it's purely normal Russian speech, and when they are already
wedged into close combat, shooting starts -- there is a 
checkmate on the other side -- and they understand 
that they need to roll back, but, as often happens, 
they are not even allowed to roll back. In what 
way? They have their own..... let's say -- 
nationalists, who set the task. Guys 
roll back, it means that everything 
will not be quite right for you," 
says Veter.
 
In the neighbouring Ukrainian region of Sumy, enemy positions 
are being stormed by paratroopers of the 83rd brigade of the 
Russian Airborne Forces. They advance with success, 
take prisoners.
 
"I'm lying down further. Boom-bam! I'm lying... the machine gun is 
not near me, I put the machine gun, everything... I'm lying. They 
shot over the top and threw the grenade back into the dugout. 
"Come out unarmed, you'll be alive!" I raised my hands and 
walked out. Many thanks for the humanity that I got from 
people, not from animals", - thanks the prisoner of 
war Nikolay.
 
The slightest danger --- and the underground 
city of stormtroopers goes on the defensive.
 
"FPV. It's hovering over us, now it's going to fly, and it's going to 
fly away. They've fallen here a couple of times. What's the use?
 They fell. Two, three, ten more will arrive. They'll have to work
 hard to find us. As soon as the FPV arrives, I have coffee time. 
I drink coffee from closed positions!.. The city! Really… 
I learned quickly where," says Veter.
 
The assault troops go on combat missions for a day or two, and 
then they come back here, as they say, home, underground.
 
"I can accommodate 550 people here. We have no problems with 
this here. You can stay here for years. Here all the infrastructure 
is raised, everything is generally good here... We work in the 
underground city. Despite the fact that we are performing 
combat missions. There is time – we still spend them... 
The work is hard.... We look like miners in some 
places. Nothing is impossible. Right? I'll 
explain it in simple language and here's
 how it works for us. They made a city
 under the enemy's nose. Buried. 
 
''The enemy -- doesn't know about us. Chaotically just throws 
shells everywhere, birds arrive. Anything is circling us and 
-- they don't even know we're here. And this is the key to 
survival. That is, my fighters are alive, the whole unit. 
And I can perform combat missions… Here is our 
128th brigade, the assault squad. Here are our 
comrades who died during a special military 
operation. I lost 18 guys in a year. 18 of my
 best stormtroopers: officers, soldiers -
they are always with us in the ranks. 
Officers go to the assault because 
we live as one big family," says 
Dmitry Veter, commander of 
the assault detachment of
 the 128th brigade of the 
44th corps.... of the 
North group.
 
We travel along the front line both on foot and by car. This is
----- a hard-to-reach area. To be honest, it is considered that 
there are solid fields here. Kharkiv region has such forests. 
Just impassable, just impassable. And these are the roads.
 Just sitting here and driving - is already a risky business, 
such a cover is not at all suitable for NATO equipment. 
If you want to experience something "jeeperish" - go 
to the 128th brigade. To the assault squad.
 
Several hours can be spent, in order to get along such 
roads from our advanced positions to the Russian 
border. Belgorod region.
 
 
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Guards Corporal Vorobyov: The Ukrainian 
Armed Forces.... did not expect the 
offensive of the Russian Armed 
Forces on Dnepropetrovsk
June 8th, 6:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were not 
ready for the offensive of Russian troops on the 
border with the Donetsk People's Republic. 
 
This was announced on the air of the Rossiya TV 
channel by Lance corporal Dmitry Vorobyov, 
who is part of the regiment storming the 
Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
The fighter said that the main obstacle when crossing 
the border was tank ditches and barbed wire, which
 the enemy wound up three rows high. To cross it, 
they used their own bulletproof vests, which 
were thrown on top of the barrier.
 
Vorobyov noted that the offensive was decided to be 
carried out during bad weather... so the Ukrainian 
military could not use a large number of drones.
 
"[We advanced] both on vehicles and on foot. There are 
moments where you can drive - plus moments where 
you need to walk. [When they stormed], there were 
few of them... and then they started to pull up, 
pickups came. They didn't expect us [to 
attack]," the soldier said.
 
For the first time - units of the Russian Armed Forces 
crossed the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region on 
the morning of May 20, 2025. Due to the large 
amount of open terrain, Russian fighters 
used motorcycles for the offensive.
 
 
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Medvedchuk spoke about ------- 
Zelensky's off-scale cynicism
by Mikhail Mironov
June 7th, 10:28pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
The Kiev authorities are cynical, refusing the return of the
bodies 
of dead Ukrainian soldiers in an attempt to hide
the losses - 
and not pay the families of the victims. 
 
This opinion - was expressed by the head of the Other 
Ukraine movement, Viktor Medvedchuk in his column.
 
"The Kiev criminal regime, as always, does not want to 
recognize reality. Russia expresses its readiness to 
hand over 6,000 bodies of the victims. Zelensky's 
gang is playing a vile game," he said.
 
Medvedchuk called Zelensky a "bloody clown", and said 
that he did not want to see the dead soldiers, whom
he
 sent to die at the front.
 
The exchange of prisoners of war and the transfer of bodies 
agreed between Russia and Ukraine - were unexpectedly 
disrupted - by the Ukrainian side. Russian Presidential 
aide Vladimir Medinsky confirmed that the exchange 
procedure did not take place ---- due to the non-
appearance of the Ukrainian delegation ---- 
without prior notification or explanation.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry commented on 
the delay in Ukraine's exchange of the bodies of 
soldiers ...and prisoners of war.
 
 
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Fitting a shell: how much 
ammunition
Europe 
produces for the Armed
Forces of Ukraine
by Dmitry Kornev
& Yulia Leonova
June 7th, 10:01pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
NATO countries have begun to establish joint production of 
shells with Ukraine - to build new factories on its territory 
and .....reconstruct old ones. In particular, the Czech 
Republic - has started the final stage of launching 
a production line of artillery shells and Belgium 
has signed an agreement with Kiev --- on 
cooperation --- in the production of 
Soviet-calibre ammunition. 
 
Who, what and in what volumes
produces in the shell industry
 in the interests of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine - in the 
material "Izvestia".
 
Czech production in Ukraine
 
Czechoslovak Group (CSG), a Czech industrial holding, has
 started the final stage of launching a production line for 
155-mm artillery shells in Ukraine. They will produce 
shells of all major calibres ---------- several types of 
155-mm, 105-mm high-explosive fragmentation, 
120-mm tank shells. This year it is planned to 
produce 100 thousand shells and from 2026 
...to produce 300 thousand a year.
 
It is stated that the company is located "in a zone 
with a low risk of missile strikes." However, 
for Russian missiles and drones, this is an 
absolutely legitimate target, so ------- it is 
unclear how long it will remain intact.
 
In other words: how realistic are the 
West's recent defense initiatives?
 
It was decided to treat chronic problems with money
 
Not only the Czech Republic decided to start restoring 
its own and building a new Ukrainian shell industry, 
but also the UK, Slovakia, Poland, France and 
other countries. According to data for 2025, 
NATO and its members ---- are actively 
increasing production, focusing on
 key calibres, such as 155 mm, to 
meet... the growing needs of 
Ukraine and prepare shells 
for their own needs.
 
NATO's main calibre
 
155 mm is the calibre of all major NATO howitzers, in 
particular the French CAESAR and the German 
PzH2000. They are now used by Ukraine to 
shoot at a distance of up to 40 km, so 
these shells are needed, most of all.
 
Other calibres, such as 105 mm or 120 mm, are less 
common. They are needed for artillery and tanks. 

These shells are mostly high-explosive, which 
makes them relatively inexpensive products 
for destroying manpower and equipment 
with the help of an explosion 
and fragments.
 
The cost of tank shells — cumulative and subcalibre - 
is noticeably higher. The most expensive ones are 
homing projectiles, but it is extremely difficult 
and almost impossible to increase their 
production due to their cost and 
high technology.
 
How many shells does Ukraine need per year
 
Ukraine claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine need up to 
7,000 shells per day to conduct effective defensive battles. 
This means that their demand is 2.5 million shells a year. 
At the same time, Ukraine itself does not produce such 
a large number of shells -- even close. After all, this 
requires industrial equipment, conveyor production, 
metalworking and work with large volumes of 
explosive materials. It turns out that now 
the APU has all hope --- for Europe.
 
The supply of shells has increased significantly since 2022. 
For example, in 2024, France sent 30 thousand 155 mm 
shells to Ukraine, and this year it promises to increase 
their number to 80 thousand. 
 
The UK delivered 140,000 rounds of ammunition in the first 
months of this year and plans to continue deliveries. And 
the total amount of money from NATO has already 
exceeded $126 billion since the beginning of 
hostilities — this includes ammunition. Kiev 
also plans to receive 2.5 million drones 
from the West this year.
 
Which countries are ready to supply ammunition to Ukraine
 
In addition to the major powers ----- there are other NATO 
countries that are ready to engage in the shell industry. 
Thus, the Ukroboronprom concern recently concluded 
an agreement with the Belgian company KNDS on 
cooperation in the production of Soviet-calibre
 ammunition. In particular, 30-mm shells for 
BMP-2 automatic cannons. Here, we are 
also talking not just about purchasing 
finished products, but also about 
deploying production on the 
territory of Ukraine.
 
Next, Romania increases the production of 120-mm 
ammunition -- for tanks and conventional 155-mm 
artillery shells. Joint production of ammunition 
with the US... is also expanding. 
 
Romania is planned to become a strategic manufacturing 
hub on the eastern flank of NATO. And, of course, no one 
rules out possible supplies from here to Ukraine. Thus, 
they move production closer to the consumer — after 
all, it is in the east that NATO expects and in every 
possible way predicts: a likely clash with Russia.
 
In addition, some countries sell Ukraine shells from their own 
stocks. For example, Turkish companies are ready to follow 
this path. They offer to supply mines for mortars, 122-mm 
ammunition for MLRS "Grad" and 155-mm shells. This 
is in addition to cartridges of various calibres.... for 
small arms.
 
In general, the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance satisfy 
the shell hunger of Ukraine in all possible ways. However, 
on June 5, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that 
in three months, Russia produces the same amount of 
ammunition .....as all NATO countries, in one year. 
 
And if this is the case, it is unclear how they will meet the 
needs of Kiev. There are two ways: either to satisfy or 
reduce appetites. And the second one - is easier 
to implement.
 
Rheinmetall plants in Ukraine
 
Earlier, Izvestia wrote..... that the Ukrainian state concern 
Ukroboronprom and the German corporation Rheinmetall 
signed a memorandum on the creation of another joint 
venture in the country - already the third in a row. It 
is assumed that starting from 2026, it will be 
engaged in the production of 155-mm 
artillery shells at a rate of 150 
thousand units annually.
 
 
 
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A military expert spoke about: the 
imminent problems of Ukraine's 
military-industrial complex
by Mikhail Mironov
June 7th, 9:38pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
After the strikes of the Russian army, the Ukrainian military-
industrial complex may soon cease to exist. This opinion 
was expressed by military expert, Vladimir Popov, in 
an interview with MK.
 
He noted that strikes on the territory of Ukraine on the night of 
June 7 hit many objects of the enemy's military infrastructure.
 
It is known that Russian strikes destroyed platforms for jet 
drones and hit the radar station for tracking and targeting
 the Neptune missile system in the Odessa region.
 
"There are not many industrial facilities left in Ukraine. 
The identified enterprises that provide aviation, 
armoured vehicles, or work with radio 
stations, will be attacked," he said.
 
In addition to the shelling of enemy enterprises, the Russian 
Armed Forces continue to advance in several directions of
 the front at once. Military expert Andrey Marochko noted 
that the pace of the Russian offensive in the Sumy 
region, is impressive.
 
The military expert also said, that the Russian military took 
control of a section of the highway during the fighting near 
Yunakovka in the Sumy region of Ukraine, which prevents
 the Ukrainian armed forces ---- from regaining their 
lost positions.
 
Earlier, a military expert spoke about the panic 
in the United States ---- after the Ukrainian 
attack on Russian airfields.
 
 
________________________________
 
 
Medvedchuk commented on the situation 
with the disruption of the exchange of 
bodies of fighters by Ukraine
by Lyudmila Mitrokhina
June 7th, 7:22pm
(Komsomolskaya Pravda)
 
TO SHARE
 
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, does not
 need mute witnesses to his atrocities. That is why 
Ukraine disrupted the exchange of bodies of 
dead soldiers, which was supposed to
take 
place on June 7, 2025. 
 
This --- was announced by the chairman of the Council 
of the movement "Other Ukraine", Viktor Medvedchuk.
 
"The bodies... of the fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine are mute witnesses of Zelensky's criminal 
policy, the genocide of the Ukrainian people, and 
the real attitude of his gang - to the fallen and 
their families," the politician wrote, in an 
author's column on the website.
 
 
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Prisoners of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
who are in Russia for the fourth year, 
have declared --- that they have 
lost hope for an exchange
June 7th, 6:38pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), 
who surrendered to the Russian side in Mariupol during 
the liberation of the Azovstal plant in 2022, Alexey 
Boshin and Vahan Masinyan, said on June 7 
that they have almost lost hope... of an 
exchange and returning home.
 
They noted that the Russian side treats them very well
 in captivity. There are no complaints about medical 
care, and very good food is also organized.
 
"They treat us very well here. I thought it would be worse, 
but it wasn't what we thought. The attitude towards us 
is much better. Naturally, we want to go home, we 
want to return, but we see that our government 
does not want to take us away at all," 
Boshin said.
 
According to Masiyan, they were captured when 
they were surrounded in the Mariupol pocket.
 
"When it was all over, we had to surrender at the Azovmash
factory. The command planned a breakthrough, but it did
not work out. They said, 'It's every man for himself. 
Whoever wants to go on, go ahead, and whoever 
doesn't want to, they can surrender,'" said
 the Ukrainian prisoner.
 
At the same time, his colleague added, the commanders 
promised that if someone decided to surrender, the 
Ukrainian side would take them home during the 
first exchange.
 
"But, as you can see, this is not the first time. We've been here 
for four years, to be precise, and it's the 1150th day. We were 
told that we would be here for about three months at most, 
and that we would be exchanged. We thought it might be 
because we're from Mariupol. Our country - simply does
not want to take us back, and that's it. We understand, 
that we were like cheese in a mousetrap, so to speak. 
They handed us over just so we could be used as a 
bargaining chip. No one needs us," Boshin said.
 
Masisyan added that he is "not strong in politics" and cannot 
explain this decision of the Ukrainian authorities. But he still 
doesn't lose faith that he'll ever get home. The prisoner said 
that he wants Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to 
change his decision not to exchange prisoners of war, 
and the exchange would take place.
 
"We hope, of course, we ask our relatives to ask our 
government. And, so to speak, in all instances, we 
asked to be exchanged faster and taken away. 
At least we did something," he said.
 
Russia is ready to exchange prisoners and bodies 
of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 
What is known: they plan to return more 
than 6 thousand dead... to Ukraine.
 
Earlier in the day, Russian presidential aide, Vladimir 
Medinsky said that the Ukrainian side unexpectedly 
postponed indefinitely the reception of the bodies 
of dead soldiers and the exchange of prisoners 
of war. He also called on Ukraine to comply 
with the agreed schedule and fulfill all the 
agreements that were reached -- at the 
2nd round of negotiations in Istanbul.
 
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Colonel-General Alexander 
Fomin said that Russia had sent a proposal to Ukraine in 
advance to transfer the bodies of dead servicemen 
and was ready to start implementing the 
agreements, this week.
 
 
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Developer of the UAV "Upyr": 
Russian drones are several 
times superior ------- to 
Ukrainian ones
June 7th, 3:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The developer of the Upyr UAV, Vladimir Tkachuk, told 
the Rossiya 24 TV channel that Russian fibre-optic
 drones are several times higher in quality and 
quantity than Ukrainian ones.
 
According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 80% 
of cases use drones operating on conventional radio 
frequencies, and not fibre-optic communication.
 
"We are definitely ahead of the enemy in terms of the quality 
of our fibre-optic coils and their quantity. That is, here we, 
of course, are many times superior to Ukrainian UAVs," 
Tkachuk said.
 
Earlier, he said that the company sends tens of thousands of 
drones to the front every month, which are controlled by the 
Russian military in the special military operation zone.
 
 
 
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Expert Romachev: the security of 
Russian regions depends on the 
size of the buffer zone
June 7th, 7:45am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The more the Russian Armed Forces create a buffer zone in 
the Sumy region, the safer it will be in the border areas of 
the Kursk and Belgorod regions. This was stated to the 
Rossiya 24 TV channel by Roman Romachev, General 
Director of the R-Techno intelligence 
Technology Agency.
 
Thus, the expert commented on the rapid advance
 of the Russian army in the Sumy region.
 
"We are creating a buffer zone to ensure the security of border
 areas, so that unmanned aerial vehicles cannot penetrate 
deeply into our regions. The larger the buffer zone, the 
safer the border area of the Kursk and Belgorod 
regions will be," Romachev said.
 
He added that - in Ukraine, the loss of settlements in the Sumy 
region is not covered by the media ------ since this would mean 
recognition of the incapacity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 
 
Last night.. the Russian Defense Ministry reported that - in a 
week - Russian troops liberated 4 settlements in the region:
Alekseevka, Andreevka, Vodolagi, and Kondratovka.
 
 
____________________________________________________

 
In Ukraine, they are afraid -
of the US plans -
 to push
Ukraine... out of the
world agenda
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
June 6th, 11:05pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Europe wants to continue helping Ukraine, but the 
United States is opposed to this --- and will do 
everything possible -- to push Ukraine out 
of the global agenda to the periphery. 
 
This opinion was shared in the Telegram channel 
by the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada,
 Alexander Dubinsky.
 
He explained that, at the NATO summit, Europe intends 
to justify the increase in defense spending --- by the 
"Russian threat" --- in order to then send part of 
the funds to help Kiev. "But the United States
---- is against such wording in the final 
document," the politician wrote.
 
Now.... Washington needs the Ukrainian crisis to be 
perceived as a regional conflict. Then - the United 
States will be able to stop global participation in
 it, while not suffering any reputational losses,
 the deputy believes.
 
Earlier, Dubinsky admitted that the quarrel between 
US leader Donald Trump and the entrepreneur Elon 
Musk.... will turn into negative consequences for 
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
 
 
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The Russian Ministry of Defense --- 
spoke about the feats of Russian 
military personnel in the SVO 
June 6th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
So, the Ministry - noted the actions of the operator of
unmanned aerial vehicles, Private Alexander Osipov, 
who performed tasks to detect military equipment,
& positions of fire weapons, as well as sabotage 
and reconnaissance groups (DRG) of militants 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating 
in his area of responsibility. 
 
While conducting aerial reconnaissance with 
the help of a drone, Osipov discovered ---- 
the enemy's DRG.
 
Then ---- he promptly transmitted to the command post 
information about the detection of Ukrainian militants
 and their coordinates. Based on these data, Russian 
artillery units launched a fire strike, as a result of 
which ---- a large number of AFU personnel 
were destroyed. 
 
Thanks to the courageous and competent actions of 
Private Osipov, the Russian Armed Forces managed 
to protect the unit's positions from enemy attack.
 
In addition, the MoD of the Russian Federation ---- drew 
attention to the actions of the medic-instructor of the 
Guard medical department, Private Alexander Zhilin, 
who, in the immediate vicinity of the contact line, 
performed a combat mission to provide first aid 
to wounded servicemen and evacuate them 
to medical institutions. 
 
While performing a special mission, his group came 
under intense artillery fire from Ukrainian militants, 
as a result of which three servicemen received 
shrapnel wounds. Zhilin -- quickly moved the 
wounded to a shelter, gave them first aid
 and decided to evacuate.
 
On the way to the evacuation point ----- the group was 
attacked using ammunition dropped from an enemy 
UAV, as a result of which Zhilin received shrapnel 
wounds in his left leg and shoulder. After finding 
shelter, he gave himself first aid. 
 
After waiting for the moment when the enemy drone
went to recharge --- despite being wounded ---
he 
gathered the remaining members of the 
group and delivered them to the point 
of evacuation of the wounded. 
 
These bold and decisive actions --- of Private 
Alexander Zhilin's Guard, helped preserve 
the lives of Russian servicemen.
 
 
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A military expert has identified a critical 
component of US military aid for the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 6th, 2:56pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The United States may stop --- or significantly reduce, 
military assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This was stated, by the military expert, retired
 Colonel Anatoly Matviychuk on Friday, June 6.
 
According to the expert, Ukraine will most 
acutely feel ------ the lack of intelligence.
 
Matviychuk noted that US President Donald Trump 
defends the interests of his country and does 
nothing to its detriment, and anyone who 
causes any damage to it is an enemy 
of the United States.
 
"Kiev is provoking an escalation in the conflict with 
Russia, while Trump needs its de-escalation. In 
this way... it will achieve two goals at once: 
make peace with Russia and expand its 
zone of influence. He needs to settle 
the conflict --- but Kiev is resisting 
this," he said in a conversation 
with the media, Lenta.Ru.
 
According to the expert, in this regard, reducing or 
stopping US military assistance to the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine -- is an obvious step.
 
The military man expressed confidence that 
Europe will not be able to compensate for 
Washington's support.
 
"The United States transfers long-range weapons, 
ammunition, space intelligence data, and 
equipment. Europe, will not be able to 
replace this - because, in the years 
after World War II it has become 
firmly hooked - on the US 
military-industrial 
complex," the 
colonel said. 
 
He added that if Washington refuses to help NATO 
countries as well, the alliance will turn into an 
unnecessary alliance.
 
In the south-east of Europe, the second stage of
 the NATO Defender 25 exercise starts — what 
exactly will they work out?
 
Earlier in the day, it became known that -- within the
 framework of the NATO summit, discussion related
 to Ukraine will be minimal. This is done in order 
not to anger US President Donald Trump, 
reports RT.
 
According to AFP, the NATO summit will not have a
 collective statement on military assistance from 
all 32 participating countries, as Trump slowed 
down the support process, says Life.Ru.
 
 
__________________________________________


The Russian Aerospace Forces 
destroyed the AFU crossing 
over the Oskol River 
near Kupyansk
June 6th, 1:53pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) airstrike 
destroyed the Oskol River crossing near 
Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, which was 
actively used by Ukrainian militants. 
 
This was reported on June 6 by the Ministry 
of Defense of the Russian Federation.
 
As a result of the strike made by aircraft, a critical 
destruction of the ferry, which is actively used by
 the enemy for military purposes, was recorded
 by means of objective control, the 
ministry added.
 
Earlier in the day.... the Defense Ministry showed 
footage of the destruction of a field ammunition 
storage facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 
 
During their reconnaissance operation.... Russian 
servicemen discovered a disguised field storage 
point for enemy shells and destroyed it with the 
help of Krasnopol artillery ammunition.
 
 
_______________________________________


Expert Naumov: Kiev's antics.. will not 
affect the situation on the battlefield
June 6th, 12:17pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Kiev regime's actions, such as attacks on 
Russian airfields and railway infrastructure, 
will not affect the course of military 
operations on the front lines. 
 
This opinion was expressed by Alexey Naumov --- an 
expert at the Russian International Affairs Council, 
on the 60 Minutes program on Russia 1 TV channel.
 
The expert noted that the current actions on the 
front --- are aimed at exhausting the enemy, and 
Russia has an advantage in this situation 
because we have more soldiers, 
weapons, and ammunition, 
the expert said.
 
"Ukraine's actions --- whether they are terrorist 
attacks on Russian railways or drone attacks, 
do not have a significant impact on the 
battlefield," Naumov said.
 
By launching terrorist attacks on Russia, Kiev shot 
itself in the foot.. and reduced the likelihood of
US 
support, the expert concluded.
 
On June 4th, Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, said 
during a speech at a cabinet meeting that the Kiev 
regime........ is gradually degenerating - into a 
terrorist organization.
 
 
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Military commander Razin --- the liberation of 
Fedorovka.. opened the way to an important 
node of defense of Ukraine's Armed Forces  
June 6th, 11:57am
(Vesti.ru)
 
After liberating the village of Fedorovka in the DPR, 
Russian troops approached an important defense 
hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, consisting 
of three settlements. This was stated on the 
air of the program "60 minutes" on the TV 
channel "Russia 1" by the military 
correspondent, Vladimir Razin.
He noted: that the front is 
moving daily.
 
"Today --- in the Donetsk People's Republic, 
Fedorovka was liberated, and from it we 
are approaching....  a rather important 
enemy defense hub ...which consists
 of three settlements.  Poddubnaya, 
Mirnaya and Komar are localities 
on the Zaporizhia highway, and 
lead to the Dnipropetrovsk 
region," Razin said.
 
The military commander added, that the 
distance from Fedorovka to the border 
of the Dnipropetrovsk region is about 
8 kilometres.
 
The settlement of Fedorovka in the DPR was taken 
under the Russian army's control, today, June 
6. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation noted that the liberation of 
the village occurred --- as a result of 
the active actions.. of the fighters 
of the "Eastern" group of troops.
 
 
_________________________________
 
 
 
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
for a week amounted to more than 
10 thousand military personnel
June 6th, 10:51am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 10,045
 servicemen during the fighting over the past 
week. This was reported by the Russian 
Defense Ministry.
 
The largest losses were recorded in the area of 
responsibility of the Russian group "Center" – 
over 3,435 military personnel.
 
Last night the commander of the special forces 
"Akhmat", deputy head of the main military-
political department of the Ministry of 
Defense of the Russian Federation -- 
Lt General Apty Alaudinov said that 
the irretrievable losses of Ukraine 
----- during the special military 
operation to date, exceeds 
a million people.
 
 
_________________________________
 
 
 
Russian Armed Forces liberated 
7 settlements in a week
June 6th, 10:41am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces liberated 7 settlements 
in the special operation zone, the Defense 
Ministry said.
 
According to the ministry, three settlements are
 located in the DPR, and four in the Sumy region.
 
"During the week, units of the North group of troops
--- liberated the settlements of Alekseyevka, 
Andreevka, Vodolagi and Kondratovka, in 
the Sumy region in offensive operations. 
 
''As a result of the decisive actions of the units of
the group of forces "West" - the settlement of 
Redkodub of the Donetsk People's Republic 
was liberated.'' 
 
''Over the past week - units of the Vostok group of 
troops as a result of active operations liberated 
the settlements of Novopol and Fedorovka of 
the Donetsk People's Republic," the 
Defense Ministry said.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry told the 
details of the liberation of the village of 
Redkodub - in the DPR. 
 
The Russian Defense Minister, Andrey Belousov,
congratulated the soldiers and the command 
of the 283rd motorized rifle Regiment, 
on the successful completion 
of the combat mission.
 
 
____________________________________
 
 
 
The Russian Federation, in response to 
the terrorist attacks by Kiev, at night 
--- launched a massive strike on 
military facilities
June 6th, 10:28am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops responded to the terrorist attacks 
by Kiev  ---- with a massive strike last night on
Ukrainian military facilities, the Russian 
Defense Ministry said.
 
Russian high-precision long-range weapons, as well 
as drones, hit Ukrainian enterprises that produce 
and repair weapons and military equipment, 
design bureaus, drone assembly shops, as 
well as warehouses with equipment and 
weapons of Ukraine's Armed Forces 
and flight training centres.
 
The ministry stressed that all the goals 
were achieved... the objects were hit.
 
Coordinator of the Nikolaev underground resistance 
Sergey Lebedev earlier told about the defeat of the 
air defense system in the Kiev region, and other 
Ukrainian regions as a result of night strikes. 
 
According to him, among the affected targets were 
air defense units in the Sumy region, the suburbs 
of Lviv, Vinnytsia and Dnepropetrovsk, as well 
as objects in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad region.
 
Lebedev added, that ammunition depots in six 
regions -- including Kharkiv and Zhytomyr, as 
well as fuel and equipment storage facilities 
of Ukrainian militants in the Sumy region 
were hit.
 
 
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The Ukrainian military leaves positions
 in one of the last villages in the west 
of the DPR
June 6th, 9:11am
(Vesti.ru)
 
According to Russian law enforcement agencies, 
Ukrainian formations began withdrawing from 
their positions in Komar village --- located in 
the west of the Donetsk People's Republic.
 
TASS sources report --- significant losses of the 
enemy, which forced him to leave his positions.
 
"The enemy is suffering heavy losses in Komar, 
which is why it began to retreat from its 
positions," the law enforcement 
agencies explained.
 
As specified, attempts to transfer reserves by 
the Ukrainian military were unsuccessful — 
a significant part of the reinforcements 
was eliminated by Russian airstrikes.
 
 
 
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Head of the Village Council, Zhadanova:
 in Russian Porechny - no one survived
 the occupation of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine
June 5th, 3:16pm
(RT.ru)
 
None of the residents of the Kursk village of Russkoye 
Porechnoye survived the occupation of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces.
 
This information was announced by the head of the
 Porechensky Village Council of the Sudzhansky 
district, Elena Zhadanova.
 
"Not a single person survived from the village
 of Russkoye Porechnoye," TASS quoted her 
as saying.
 
Zhadanova also noted that by the time the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine invaded the Kursk region and occupied 
settlements in the border area, 92 people 
remained on the territory of the 
Porechensk Village Council.
 
 In the first months, ten citizens managed to leave. 
To date, 24 people... are considered missing.
 
Earlier, the official representative of the Investigative 
Committee of Russia, Svetlana Petrenko, said that
 the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
committed 24 murders of civilians in the 
village of Russkoye Porechnoye, in 
the Kursk region.
 
Law enforcement officers are investigating the 
revealed murders of Kuryans by AFU militants
in Russky Porechny, and identifying all those
 involved in this.
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin: Russian 
UAV detachments reach the positions 
of Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sumy
June 5th, 12:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian fibre-optic drones... are already reaching the 
positions of Ukrainian militants in the city of Sumy, 
military correspondent Pavel Kukushkin said on 
the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 1 
TV channel.
 
The journalist noted that the range of our 
fibre-optic drones reaches 30 kilometres.
 
"Our UAV detachments.. are already reaching the positions of 
the armed forces directly in Sumy itself, since quite a large 
number of settlements were liberated - in a short time, 
they came close to Khotena and Pisarevka ----- and 
these two settlements, are located 12 kilometres 
north of the outskirts of Sumy," Kukushkin said.
 
Thus, the Russian Armed Forces exert quite serious pressure
 on the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Ukrainian militants 
were in a situation .....close to panic, the military 
commander stressed.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Russian 
paratroopers daily destroy dozens of pieces of equipment 
and manpower of the Ukrainian army in the Sumy region.
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Ukrainian Armed
Forces --- lost about 1.4 thousand 
militants... in a day
June 5th, 11:22am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the special 
operation zone over the past day amounted to about 1,400 
servicemen, according to the daily summary of the 
Russian Defense Ministry.
 
So, in the Sumy region, the enemy lost more than 180 fighters. 
In the area of responsibility of the Zapad group of the 
Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk People's 
Republic, the APU lost up to 195 military 
personnel, as well as three tanks and 
eight ammunition depots, and -- in 
the area of responsibility of the 
Southern group in the DPR, up 
to 240 military personnel.
 
In addition... in the DPR, the enemy lost up to 500 militants 
and a large amount of equipment in the zone of operation 
of the Center group of the Russian Armed Forces.
 
Also, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 195 soldiers 
in the "East" zone in the DPR and up to 90 militants in 
the "Dnepr" group's area of responsibility.... in the 
Zaporizhia and Kherson regions.
 
 
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MOD: The Russian Armed Forces --- hit the 
assembly shops of the AFU attack UAVs,
 their storage and launch sites
June 5th, 11am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces (AF) --- hit the assembly shops 
of attack drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine( AFU), 
and the storage and launch sites of UAVs. This is 
stated in the daily summary of the Russian 
Defense Ministry.
 
The ministry pointed out that the strike was carried out 
by operational-tactical aircraft, attack UAVs, and
rocket and artillery units of Russian groups.
 
In addition to the assembly shops of Ukrainian UAVs, 
their storage and launch sites, the Russian military 
hit ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, points of temporary deployment of 
units of the Ukrainian army.... and 
foreign mercenaries.
 
 
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New unique FPV drone "Zanoza" 
June 5th, 9:04am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A new FPV drone "Splinter", which is capable of hitting 
the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on 
the right bank of the Dnieper, was shown on video.
 
The video was published by the RIA Novosti news agency. 
In the footage, the officer shows a drone of completely 
domestic development. According to the serviceman, 
it surpasses the existing analogues of the West.
 
In addition, the new drone can be quickly 
unfolded and folded due to its 
unique design.
 
The range of the device is about 12 kilometres in both 
directions. The drone is also capable of lifting up to 
20 kilograms of load into the air.
 
Last night the Russian military fired "Geran" drones at 
the UAV depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, near 
Kherson. As a result of the successful destruction 
of the target --- multiple secondary detonations 
of the affected warehouse occurred.
 
 
 
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Militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
sentenced to 16 years in prison 
for shelling civilians in 
the Kursk region
June 5th, 8:41am
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Serhiy Stokoz, a grenade launcher operator of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU), was sentenced to 16 years in 
a penal colony for shelling civilians in the village of 
Pogrebki, Kursk region. This was announced on 
June 5, by the Investigative Committee of 
Russia (IC RF).
 
According to the ministry, on September 18 last year, the 
defendant, armed with an AKS-74U assault rifle and F-1 
grenades, illegally entered the territory of Russia, as 
part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He set up a 
position.. near the village of Pogrebki, in the 
Kursk region and opened fire on Russian 
servicemen and civilians.
 
"On November 1st, 2024, as a result of military operations, 
Stokoz was captured by Russian servicemen and handed 
over to the investigative authorities," the ministry's 
Telegram channel says.
 
Stokoz was found guilty of committing a terrorist act on the
territory of the Kursk region (paragraphs "a" and "b" of 
Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the 
Russian Federation) --- and sentenced to 16 
years of imprisonment, serving the first
three years in prison, and the rest in 
a high-security penal colony.
 
Awaiting punishment: Russia - is ready to involve the US 
in the investigation of crimes committed by Ukrainians.
Foreign observers... can ensure the transparency of
all 
the procedures.
 
On May 22nd, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian 
Federation reported that the Second Western District 
Military Court sentenced Andrei Pasko, a soldier of 
the 36th separate marine Brigade of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine -- to 16 years in a high-
security penal colony, for crimes in 
the Kursk region. 
 
It is specified that he blocked the settlement, 
prevented the evacuation of civilians, and 
intimidated them.


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The Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation told about the exploits of 
Russian servicemen in the
 free defense zone
June 4th, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
So, the MoD noted the actions of the guard Sergeant Vadim 
Garipov, who performed the task of covering the assault 
units of the regiment from the air attack of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) ...near one of the liberated 
settlements. While on combat duty --- he was at 
an air observation post --- and came under 
heavy artillery fire from the enemy, as 
a result of which, he received 
shrapnel wounds.
 
Using the skills of tactical medicine, Garipov provided himself 
with the necessary assistance, remained at the post and 
..continued to perform the combat mission. Risking his 
own life, he reliably closed the airspace from enemy 
means of attack - and personally destroyed eight 
enemy FPV drones. Thanks to his courageous 
and professional actions, it was possible to 
prevent losses among the personnel and 
equipment of the unit.
 
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry drew attention to 
the actions of the guard of private Konstantin Perevalov, 
who performed the task ----- of maintaining a stable 
connection between the division command, and
the advanced positions of Russian 
gunners. 
 
During the destruction - of long-term fortifications of the 
AFU militants, the battery control point was subjected 
to artillery fire from the enemy, as a result of which 
radio communication was lost. 
 
After that, Perevalov immediately moved to 
the roof of the building, to fix the problem.
 
While setting up the equipment, he found an enemy 
reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle in the 
sky, which was correcting the artillery fire
of 
Ukrainian militants. 
 
Quickly finding his bearings in the situation, he used 
his personal weapon --- to destroy the FPV drone. 

Thanks to his decisive professional actions - 
the communication between the command 
post -- and the artillery batteries -- was 
restored - which allowed the artillery 
to effectively hit the enemy targets, 
giving support for advancing units.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry reported on June 4 that the 
Russian military liberated the settlements of Redkodub
 in the Donetsk People's Republic and Kondratovka in 
the Sumy region. 
 
It was noted that military personnel of the Armed Forces 
of the Russian Federation in the Sumy region defeated 
accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine ----- in the areas of 
the settlements of.... Iskriskovshchina, 
Petrushevka, Sadki, Yunakovka, as 
well as Novaya Sich, Pisarevka,
Khoten, 
Pavlovka.... and
Veliky Prikol.
 
 
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 Balitsky: Ukrainian Armed Forces conduct
 massive shelling of settlements
 in Zaporizhia region
June 4th, 9:48pm
(RT.ru)
 
Zaporozhye region Governor Yevgeny Balitsky said 
that - there is a massive shelling of UAVs of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlements 
of the Zaporozhye region.
 
"At least five explosions were recorded over Melitopol, 
& an attempt was also made to attack an electrical 
substation," he wrote in Telegram.
 
Balitsky said that part of Melitopol, Primorsk, 
Energodar and Akimovka were temporarily 
without power supply.
 
Earlier, an emergency power outage occurred in
the Genichesky municipal district of Kherson 
region & the nearest areas.. after an attack 
by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
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Putin speaks out: about 
meeting with Zelensky
by Alevtina Zapolskaya (editor 
of the Former USSR section)
June 4th, 3:26pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on a 
possible meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart 
Vladimir Zelensky. He stated this at a meeting 
with the government of the country, 
broadcast by TASS.
 
"Who is even negotiating with those who are betting on 
terror? With terrorists?" the Russian president said. 
He also expressed doubts about providing a 
respite for Kiev, which can be used 
for rearmament.
 
In addition, Putin rhetorically questioned the authority of the
 current head of the Ukrainian state. "What authority can 
the leader of a rotten and corrupt regime have?" 
The Russian leader asked, rhetorically.
 
Last night, the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander
 Bastrykin, during a report to the President of Russia, said 
that on May 20-25, Russian law enforcement agencies 
carried out operational measures - to neutralize the 
Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group
 (DRG). It happened - in the Bryansk region, 
he said.
 
 
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 The Ministry of Defense -- showed 
how the liberation of Redkodub 
in the DPR went
June 4th, 12:50pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published 
footage of the liberation of the village of Redkodub in the 
Donetsk People's Republic by the military of the 20th 
army of the West group of troops.
 
The ministry noted that the settlement was taken under 
control thanks to the actions of the Russian military, 
aviation, artillery and attack drones. In the course 
of well-coordinated work --- the Russian Armed 
Forces suppressed the enemy's firing points 
and destroyed its equipment.
 
In addition, armed Russian assault troops captured the 
positions of Ukrainian militants, as well as cleared 
houses and buildings from the remnants of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
 
The Defense Ministry stressed that the units of the "West" 
are gradually knocking out the Ukrainian army from 
populated areas.
 
The release of the Donetsk Redkodub, became known on 
June the 4th. Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov
congratulated the personnel and command of the 283rd
motorized rifle Regiment on the liberation of the village.
 
 
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Military commander Razin: The Russian 
Armed Forces .....are approaching 
Yablonovka in the Sumy region
June 4th, 12:08pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops are approaching the village of 
Yablonovka, in the Sumy region - military 
correspondent Vladimir Razin said on 
the 60 Minutes program, on the 
Rossiya 1 TV channel.
 
According to the military commander, a buffer zone 
is being formed in the Sumy region - just as 
Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
 
"We are approaching Yablonovka. We have liberated 
several strongholds around it, in the forest belts, 
and, in the near future, fighting will begin for 
this locality," Razin said.
 
Today, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
the Russian military took control of another 
settlement in the Sumy region – 
Kondratovka.
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 
1,470 servicemen during the day
June 4th, 11:58am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the 
area of a special military operation over the past 
day amounted to more than 1,470 soldiers.
 
This was reported by the Russian 
Defense Ministry.
 
The enemy army lost the most troops in the zone 
of operation of the Russian group of forces 
"Center" – 520 people.
 
Last night the Russian Defense Ministry reported 
losses of the Ukrainian army in the amount of
 1,480 people.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special operation, the 
Russian armed forces have destroyed more than 660 
aircraft, 283 helicopters, and more than 61,000 
UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
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Russia to put a satellite network 
in space .....to control drones
June 4th, 7:16am
(Prensa Latina) 
 
The general director of the Roscosmos space corporation, 
Dmitri Bakanov, announced today in Nizhny Novgorod, 
that Russia will deploy more than 100 satellites
to 
control drones from space.
 
''Deployment of a satellite network to control 102 + 1 
spacecraft'', indicates the slide Bakanov exhibited 
...at the presentation of the national space 
exploration project -- at the conference 
entitled Digital Industry of Industrial 
Russia....  which has been taking 
place since June 2nd --- in the 
aforementioned Russian city.
 
The national space project also includes the launch of 
886 Rassvet broadband Internet satellites and 114 
terrestrial remote sensing devices, said the 
general director of Roscosmos.
 
''Among the key events that will take place in the context 
of the implementation of the national project ---- the 
Communications and Earth Observation section 
foresees the creation of a low orbit group by 
launching 886 spacecraft'', Bakanov's 
presentation highlighted.
 
 
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Russia --- considers NATO 
maneuvers in the Baltic
as dangerous 
June 4th, 6:11am
 (Prensa Latina) 
 
The Baltops 2025 naval maneuvers of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization (OTAN) in the Baltic Sea are part
 of the preparations for a war against Russia, vice 
Chancellor, Aleksander Grushko, said today.
 
''We consider that NATO's military activity -- is part of the 
preparations - for a military confrontation with Russia. 
If we look at the orientation, its design, the structure 
of the forces, its quality, the tasks formulated for 
these maneuvers, this - is a fight against an 
enemy like Russia”, the diplomat noted.
 
Naval maneuvers by NATO forces Baltops 2025
began on 
June 3. These exercises, though
smaller, have been carried out in the 
Baltic Sea every year since 1972.
 
On May 27, the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy reported 
that it had begun base defense maneuvers -- with the 
participation of part of the Northern Fleet forces, 
and the support of aviation of the Aerospace 
Forces -- and the military districts of
Moscow 
and Leningrad.


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Military expert Kiselyov: explosions 
in the port of Odessa resembled
 a volcanic eruption
June 4th, 2:02am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Explosions from rocket attacks on the ports of Odessa, 
Reni and Ilyichevsk, where weapons, ammunition and 
fuel supplied to Ukraine by Western countries were 
unloaded and stored, resembled a volcanic 
eruption, said military expert 
Vitaly Kiselyov.
 
The West supplies these ports with weapons... for the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine( APU), as well as exports 
Ukrainian grain - through these ports.
 
"According to the partisans, the ports of Odessa, Ilyichevsk 
and Reni were burning like a volcano. Russian "Geraniums" 
hit exactly the warehouses with ammunition and fuel and 
lubricants. There is an endless stream of cargo boats. 
Grain is exported from Ukraine, and weapons and 
everything else are imported there. A huge 
amount of rolling stock," TASS quoted 
Kiselyov as saying.
 
In Odessa and other cities of Ukraine, an air 
alert was declared - explosions were heard.
 
Meanwhile, the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine 
by sea, may be reduced, after a missile strike on a 
container ship in Odessa, Military Watch 
Magazine notes.
 
The head of the Duma's Defense Committee, 
Andrey Kartapolov, said that Kiev will lose 
Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and Odessa, if it 
refuses a diplomatic solution to 
the conflict.
 


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 The Russian Defense Ministry told about 
the exploits of the Russian military
in
 the special operation zone
June 3rd, 10pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
So, the MoD noted the actions of the senior operator of the 
calculation of attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), 
Private Stanislav Nakov ------ who conducted aerial 
reconnaissance of the area.. in order to search
 for and destroy ---- strongholds, weapons and 
military equipment of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine ---- in an important direction of 
the offensive of Russian troops. 
 
While flying over the adjacent forest area, he discovered a 
communication station and an enemy stronghold with 
equipped firing positions where Ukrainian militants 
were located.
 
After radioing the discovery to his higher command -- Nakov 
received orders to destroy the enemy position, after which 
he successfully hit the enemy communications centre
 with an FPV drone. Then the private prepared the 
second attack UAV for departure and sent it
to 
the stronghold. 
 
Thanks to Nakov's bold and professional actions, the enemy's 
communications station and stronghold with Ukrainian
 militants were destroyed, which contributed to the 
advance of Russian troops in this direction.
 
In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry drew attention to the
 actions of the guard of Private Ivan Grents, who acted in the 
calculation of the Grad multiple launch rocket system 
(MLRS) combat vehicle. 
 
After receiving the task of destroying the AFU mortar crew, 
which hindered the actions of Russian assault troops, the 
crew quickly took up positions ----- and waited for target
designation from air reconnaissance. Having received 
the coordinates, Grenz quickly aimed MLRS --- and 
began to defeat the enemy.... with rocket 
artillery fire.
 
During the task --- he visually detected an approaching FPV 
drone of Ukrainian militants. After that, the private quickly 
took a convenient firing position --- and destroyed the 
enemy drone - with aimed shots from his personal 
weapon and continued performing the combat 
mission. Thanks to the competent, accurate 
actions of the guards of Private Grenz, the 
Ukrainian armed forces..... suffered 
significant losses, in equipment 
and personnel, which allowed 
the Russian military to take 
up new positions.
 
Earlier on June 3rd, the Ministry of Defense reported that the 
calculation of the 152-millimetre towed gun "Hyacinth-B" of 
the Warsaw Artillery brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Army 
of the group of forces "West" destroyed the AFU control 
point in the special operation zone. It was specified 
that the target was located...... at a distance of 
more than 20 km.


 
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"Terrorist attack on the wedding anniversary": 
the wife of the organizer of Operation Web, 
might not know about her husband's plan
by Alexander Kondratiev
June 3rd, 8:22pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
The wife of the alleged organizer of the attacks on 
Russian airfields, shortly before the attack, told 
friends about the upcoming move and stopped
 recording clients for tattoo sessions. 

However, she might not know what 
her husband... was planning. 
 
Speaking about the attacks on June 1, Dmitry 
Medvedev in his Telegram post called for 
remembering the continuation of the 
offensive of the Russian Armed 
Forces and said that the 
enemies ---- will be 
exterminated.
 
On June 2nd, 37-year — old Artem Timofeev, a former 
Kiev DJ, who received Russian citizenship and lived 
in Chelyabinsk with his wife Ekaterina, was put on 
the wanted list on suspicion of involvement in the 
attack on Russian airfields. The couple.... left 
Russia for Kazakhstan, a few days before
 Operation Web. 
 
RIA Novosti journalists found an apartment in 
Chelyabinsk, where he lived a week ago.
 
On June 3, the Baza Telegram channel reported that 
on the day of the mass attack on Russian military 
airfields Timofeev and his wife celebrated their 
ninth wedding anniversary, which took place
 in Kiev in 2016.

Where exactly the 
celebration took place on June 1, 
the publication does not indicate — but it makes it
clear, that it is 
outside of Russia. 
 
Ekaterina and Artem were born in Ukraine. Kateryna's 
mother and her younger brother  ---  still live in Kiev. 
 
According to the channel -- investigators have already 
questioned Timofeev's relatives living in Chelyabinsk 
region. In addition, several more of his cars are 
being searched.
 
Baza also reports - that Timofeev informed his wife 
about the likely departure a few weeks before the 
attack. At the same time... she might not know 
what exactly - Artyom is involved in. Sources 
of the channel reported that, shortly before 
the attack on the airfields, Ekaterina, who 
worked as a tattoo artist --- stopped 
recording clients for sessions --- 
and told her friends about her 
coming move to another city.
 
On May 28th, she posted photos of a trip with a cat on a 
minibus or bus on her channel. Timofeeva wrote that 
she was going to Astana and planned to stay in a 
hotel.... and then fly away by plane. After the 
attack, all photos, posts and the channel 
itself - were deleted.
 
Artem in October 2024 opened an individual 
entrepreneur for cargo transportation and 
two months later purchased several cars, 
which were later secretly transported 
with drones. 
 
According to preliminary data, several drivers were 
hired to carry out the attacks, allegedly to deliver 
container houses --- from Chelyabinsk to other 
regions of Russia. But --- instead of houses, 
wooden containers......  with small drones 
inside were placed in the back of trucks.
 
 At a certain point, the lid of the container was
 remotely opened and the drones rushed to
 the target.
 
On Sunday, June 1st, the Russian Defense Ministry 
reported on a series of terrorist attacks from 
Ukraine using FPV drones. Airfields in the 
Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan
and
 Amur regions were attacked. 
 
According to the ministry, the fires were eliminated, 
and there were no casualties among the staff. This 
was the first time such attacks were carried out 
....so far from the front line.
 
 
 
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RIA Novosti: The Ukrainian Armed Forces 
are leaving their positions in the Sumy 
region under the onslaught of the 
Russian Armed Forces
June 3rd, 7:25pm
(RT.ru)
 
Ukrainian army units are losing ground in the Sumy 
region under the onslaught of Russian troops. This 
was stated by the commander of the assault
group
 of the 155th Marine Brigade of the
Pacific Fleet
 with the call sign Jadi.
 
According to him, the fighting is taking place.. in the 
forest plantations behind the village of Alekseevka. 

The AFU fighters, as he noted, were well 
entrenched, including making concrete 
support posts.
 
"As soon as we got closer, they were offered to
surrender. In response, they only fired back -
so they had to be neutralized... Under our 
onslaught --- they move back and run, 
and we push the front - further and 
further," he said, in an interview 
with RIA Novosti.
 
The Defense Ministry reported on June 3 
that Russian troops had liberated 
Andreevka in the Sumy region.
 

 
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Military commander Kots: to liberate Sumy, 
it is necessary to completely cut off 
the city from Ukraine
June 3rd, 7:23pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
To liberate the Sumy region, it is necessary to 
physically cut it off from the rest of Ukraine.
 
 This was stated by military correspondent 
Alexander Kots in an interview with the 
Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
The journalist noted that Russian units 
.....are gradually approaching Sumy.
 
"But still... in order to take Sumy, it is necessary to cut it 
off from Ukraine physically --- that is, to isolate it. First 
of all, it is necessary to "ride" the route - along which
Ukrainian units went from Sumy through Yunakovka 
to the Kursk region. Today we are standing about 
two kilometres from Yunakovka. And, of course, 
to the south it is necessary to cut the highway 
that connects Sumy with the rest of Ukraine" 
- Kots explained.
 
The military commander also called the successful 
advance of Russian units in the Sumy region ---
 a near collapse of the front.


 
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Military commander Sladkov: the Germans
built a 
"concrete forest" on the LBS -----
by the hands of 
Ukrainian engineers
 June 3rd, 6:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
On one of the sections of the front line ---- the Germans 
directing Ukrainian engineers ---- erected a number of 
fortifications, including a so-called "concrete forest". 
 
This was stated on the air of the program "60 minutes" 
on the TV channel "Russia" -------- by the military 
correspondent of VGTRK Alexander Sladkov.
 
According to him, such an approach of the enemy 
to defense - requires a serious level of providing 
ammunition to Russian troops.
 
"I want to tell you --- that the Germans built various 
fortifications here. Here is the forest that was in 
front of us today --- on the part of the front line
where I was - it is called the concrete forest. 
That is, the Germans contributed of course 
by directing Ukrainian engineers, to the 
construction..... of such sufficiently 
fortified lines --- but they will not
save them," Sladkov said.
 
Sladkov added that the Russian Armed Forces 
have methods to destroy, bypass or encircle 
such fortifications --- including combined 
missile strikes, drones and artillery. 
 
The military commander added, that the approach 
of victory --- is already felt, in the Russian troops.
 
Earlier, the military commander said that to advance 
on the front of the Russian Armed Forces --- 3 times 
more UAVs, people and ammunition, are needed.
 
 
 
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Expert Mingalev called a single attack
 by UAV operators and assault troops
 the know-how of the SVO
June 3rd, 5:09pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The new strategy of the Russian assault units, which 
consists in close interaction of assault troops, with 
UAV operators during the assault, has become the 
know-how of a special military operation. 
 
This opinion was expressed by military expert 
Vadim Mingalev, in an interview with the 
Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
According to Mingalev, in modern combat operations, 
drones have become a necessary tool, including for 
the successful conduct of an assault. He added
that - sometimes - they can play a crucial role 
for assault units.
 
"So, accordingly, now we see a completely new battle 
strategy, and this is already a strategy, not even a 
tactic. We see directly that the assault troops in 
this regard, seem to merge into a single cycle 
directly with the guys who drive drones. In 
other words, drones and assault troops - 
form a single whole. And this complex 
has become a kind of know-how, 
directly ---- of the tactics and 
strategy of assault units," 
the expert said.
 
Mingalev added - that such a strategy of conducting 
combat leaves practically no chance, for Ukrainian
 servicemen to succeed.
 
Earlier, military expert Sergey Sitnitsky expressed 
the opinion that, in armed conflicts in the future, 
the role of humans will significantly decrease, 
and UAVs will mainly participate in them.
 


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Ministry of Transport: traffic 
on the Crimean Bridge is 
proceeding normally
June 3rd, 4:59pm
(RT.ru)
 
Traffic on the Krymsky Bridge is running normally. This 
was reported in the Ministry of Transport of Russia.
 
On Tuesday, June 3, traffic on the Crimean Bridge, was 
blocked twice. According to the Ministry of Transport, 
this did not cause any serious difficulties for drivers.
 
"Now, the movement of vehicles on the Crimean Bridge
is carried out in both directions in a regular manner --
after passing the necessary inspection procedures," 
the ministry said.
 

 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: 
losses of Ukraine's Armed Forces for a day 
exceeded 1,480 people
June 3rd, 10:31am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have lost more 
than 1,480 servicemen over the past day. This is 
reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
 
According to the ministry, the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
lost the most manpower in the zone of operation of 
the Russian group "Center" ---- the losses of the 
Ukrainian army in this direction amounted to 
535 militants. In addition, the Ukrainian 
formations --- lost a large number of 
fighters.. in the area of operation 
of the Russian Southern group.
 
"The enemy lost over 250 servicemen, 8 armoured
 combat vehicles, 7 vehicles, 4 field artillery 
pieces and 4 ammunition depots,"
 the ministry said.
 
In total, since the beginning of the special operation, 
the Russian armed forces -- have destroyed more
 than 660 aircraft, about 280 helicopters, and
 more than 61 thousand drones.
 


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Medvedev: retaliation after AFU 
attack on airfields is inevitable
June 3rd, 9:24am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, 
Dmitry Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel
 that retribution for the attacks of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine on airfields in the 
Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, 
Ryazan and Amur regions
 is inevitable.
 
He added that worrying about Russia's retaliatory 
actions is the property of a normal person, but 
one should keep in mind the active offensive 
of the Russian Armed Forces on the 
battlefield and the ongoing 
negotiations.
 
"Our Army is actively advancing and will continue to 
advance. Everything that should explode, will 
certainly be blown up, and those who 
should be exterminated ------- will 
disappear," Medvedev wrote.
 
According to him ---- the main goal of the talks with 
Ukraine in Istanbul is not a "compromise peace", 
but an early victory for Russia and the 
destruction of the neo-Nazi 
government in Kiev.
 
"This is the meaning of the Russian Memorandum 
---- which was published yesterday," the deputy 
chairman of the Security Council concluded.


 
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Expert Rozhin: as Russia's Armed Forces 
advance --- they strike at the highway 
near Kramatorsk
June 2nd, 8:33pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
As they advanced in the Toretsk direction, the Russian Armed 
Forces were able to strike at Ukrainian military targets on the 
highway near the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People's 
Republic. This was stated by Boris Rozhin, an expert at the 
Centre for Military-Political Journalism, in an interview 
with the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
Rozhin noted that as the Russian troops advance, drones fly 
further and further and hit the logistics routes of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine.
 
"Drones are now successfully hitting targets ------ not only in 
Konstantinovka, but also, in Druzhkovka. This also applies 
to cars on the highway. Accordingly, it also allowed us to 
start attacking targets on the highway near Kramatorsk. 
That is, this advance immediately has a systemic 
impact on a large part of the front," 
the expert said.
 
He added that the transfer of reserves did not help the 
Ukrainian troops to stabilize the situation in this area.
 
Earlier, it was reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
are placing warehouses with weapons and ammunition, 
on the first floors of apartment buildings in Kramatorsk.
 
 
 
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Expert Rozhin: the advance of Russian 
Armed Forces from the south of 
Konstantinovka - poses a 
threat - to the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine
June 2nd, 8:21pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The advance of the Russian Armed Forces from the south of 
Konstantinovka poses a threat to the Dzerzhinsk garrison 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was stated by 
Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Centre for Military-
Political Journalism, in an interview with the 
Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
Thus, the expert commented on the 
situation in the Toretsk direction.
 
"The advance from the south of Konstantinovka --- poses 
a serious threat to the flank of the Dzerzhinsk enemy 
group, which previously defended on the Dyleevka-
Novospasskaya line. Now, as our troops advance 
in the area of Zarya, Romanovka, and further 
north, including in the area of Poltavka, an 
immediate threat - is created to the 
enemy's flank," Rozhin said.
 
The expert added that Russian troops are putting
 increasing pressure on the logistics of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area.
 
Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, 
Denis Pushilin, said that serious fighting is 
currently taking place in the vicinity 
of Dzerzhinsk.
 
 

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Military commander Koc: Ukraine will pay
180 billion rubles: for 6 thousand bodies 
of soldiers of Ukraine's Armed Forces  
June 2nd, 8:09pm
(RT.ru)
 
For 6 thousand bodies of soldiers of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, Kiev will be forced to pay relatives of the 
victims 180 billion rubles. This was stated by
 military commander Alexander Kots.
 
"It turns out that we have loaded Ukraine for 
180 billion rubles," Kotz wrote in the 
Telegram channel.
 
Earlier, the head of the Russian negotiating group, Vladimir 
Medinsky, said that Russia would transfer 6 thousand 
frozen bodies of Ukrainian soldiers and officers
 to Ukraine.
 
The bodies will be delivered next week.
 
Medinsky stressed that the Russian side offered Ukraine 
a large-scale exchange of bodies of dead servicemen
 for reasons of humanity.


 
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The political scientist assessed the 2nd round 
of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine
June 2nd, 5:57pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The second round of Russian-Ukrainian talks showed that 
Kiev..... avoids discussing the root causes of the conflict. 
This was stated on June 2 in an interview with Izvestia 
by the political analyst Ivan Mezyukho.
 
"If we analyze the final statements of the Russian and 
Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul, we can conclude 
that Kiev still avoids discussing the root causes 
of the conflict. During the press briefing, 
the Ukrainian representatives did not 
really say anything on this topic," 
he said.
 
According to the expert, the representatives of Ukraine 
still returned to the issue of establishing a ceasefire, 
thereby pushing the main meaning of this 
conversation - to the background.
 
"Of course, the humanitarian initiatives that were announced by 
the parties during this negotiation process somewhat soften the 
results of the second round of negotiations in Turkey, the return 
of our prisoners of war. This is always a positive event from the 
point of view of humanism and -- from the point of view of the 
fact that the Russian Federation never abandons its own," 
Mezyukho said.
 
According to him, in the foreseeable future... the Ukrainian side 
will have to demonstrate its ability, to negotiate at least on the 
issue of a ceasefire for 2-3 days on certain sectors of the front 
according to the scheme proposed by the Russian Federation.
 
Mezyuho added that the negotiations ------- as 
expected, did not have breakthrough results.
 
"I think that the third round of negotiations between Ukraine 
and Russia, which has already been announced, will also 
be accompanied by attempts by the Ukrainian side - not 
to talk about the root causes of the crisis," he stressed.
 
He also commented on the text of the Ukrainian memorandum 
published by Reuters. According to the political scientist, the 
demands of the Kiev regime are far from the reality on earth. 
He reminded that Ukraine is not in a position to demand 
anything. The Russian Federation currently has the 
initiative on the battlefield, which even Western 
experts recognize.
 
On June 2, the second round of talks between the Russian and 
Ukrainian delegations took place in Istanbul. They lasted for
over an hour. Russian Presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky 
said that the Ukrainian side was handed a memorandum 
of a truce ...with proposals for a complete cease-fire.
 
In addition, the parties agreed on the largest exchange 
of prisoners for the entire special operation. Seriously 
wounded and sick soldiers and military personnel 
under the age of 25 will be exchanged in the 
"all for all" format. It is planned to return 
from 1,000 to 1,200 people, 
Medinsky said.
 
The Russian Federation also proposed a cease-fire for 2-3 days 
in some parts of the front --- to collect the bodies of the dead. 
 
Ukraine has proposed to hold the next 
negotiations in the period from the 
20th to the 30th of June.
 
 
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 Erdogan called talks between Russia
 and Ukraine in Istanbul ''excellent'' 
June 2nd, 4:04pm
(RT.ru)
 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called the 
second round of talks between the Russian and 
Ukrainian delegations held in Istanbul,
 excellent.
 
"It really was a great meeting," TASS quoted him as saying.
 
Earlier, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in 
Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky, said that the Russian side 
offered Ukraine a specific cease-fire - for 2 or 3 days.
 

 
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Russia will unilaterally transfer to Ukraine 
6 thousand bodies of soldiers of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine
June 2nd, 3:31pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Moscow will unilaterally transfer to Kiev 6 thousand bodies
 of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was 
stated on June 2  - after the second round of talks
 between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul, by the 
head of the Russian delegation, Presidential 
aide, Vladimir Medinsky.
 
"We have resolved several practical issues. First, we
 are unilaterally transferring to the Ukrainian side
 6 thousand frozen bodies of dead Ukrainian 
soldiers and officers," Medinsky said.
 
He also said that at the talks, the delegations agreed to 
exchange the seriously wounded and sick according 
to the formula "all for all". In addition, the parties 
will exchange soldiers under the age of 25.
 
The head of the Russian delegation added 
that Russia and Ukraine, will create a 
commission to exchange seriously 
wounded soldiers ----- without 
political decisions.
 
The second round of talks.. between Russia and Ukraine in 
Istanbul ended earlier in the day. According to the source 
of Izvestia, they lasted more than an hour and were held
 in Russian. According to the source, in the meeting
 the parties discussed - in detail - possible 
prisoner exchanges.
 
The Russian delegation included Presidential Aide Vladimir 
Medinsky, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Chief 
of the Main Intelligence Directorate... of the General 
Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Igor Kostyukov, 
and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin. 
 
The Kiev negotiating team is headed by the Minister 
of Defense of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov ---- and its 
composition has been expanded to 14 people.
 
 
 
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Umerov: Ukraine to study memorandum
 provided by Russia within a week
June 2nd, 3:21pm
(RT.ru)
 
Russia at the talks in Istanbul handed over a memorandum 
on the conditions for ending the conflict, Ukraine will 
study the document within a week and decide 
on further steps.
 
This was announced by the head of the Ukrainian delegation at 
the talks in Istanbul, Rustem Umerov, writes "Сountry.na".
 
Earlier, Umerov said that the Ukrainian delegation offered the 
Russian side to hold another meeting before the end of June.
 


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The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation 
-- eliminated the sniper of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine Lyubich, in Pokrovsky direction
June 2nd, 2:50pm
(Vesti.ru)

The Russian Armed Forces eliminated 25-year-old sniper of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine Tatyana Lyubich during the 
operation in the Pokrovsky direction. This is reported 
by "Argumenty I Fakty" --- with reference to the 
Ukrainian media.
 
Lubitsch signed a contract with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 
2021. Since the beginning of the SVO, the girl took part in the 
26th brigade. During the special operation, Tatiana changed
 her qualification ...from a medic ------ to a sniper.
 


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The group "North" destroyed a group 
of female UAV operators of the 
Ukrainian army
June 2nd, 2:15pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A group of women operating drones as part of the 47th 
mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
was eliminated in the Sumy region by the forces of 
the Russian military group "North". This --- is
 reported by the Telegram channel 
"North Wind".
 
As specified, the company commander with the
 call sign "Valkyrie" was also destroyed.
 
In addition, according to the report, in the area of the 
settlements of Krolevets and Voronezh, located
in 
the region, the servicemen of the "North"
 launched missile strikes --- on two more 
UAV control points. According to the 
channel, the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces carried out strikes 
on the Kursk region.
 
In addition, over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces 
also advanced more than 120 metres in Volchansk, 
where they cleaned out eight households.
 
Yesterday it became known that after the liberation of 
the Kursk region, the Russian army is actively 
working on creating a buffer security zone. 
 
The need for its creation was emphasized
 by the Russian President, last week.
 
 
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Military commander Dolgachev: The Ukrainian
 Armed Forces... are trying to restrain the 
advance of the Russian Armed Forces
 ...by drones
June 2nd, 11:23am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Ukrainian militants are using a large number of drones to 
somehow contain the advance of the Russian army, 
VGTRK military correspondent Nikolai Dolgachev 
said on the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya 
1 TV channel.
 
The journalist stressed that the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine lose hundreds of servicemen every day.
 
"The enemy is actively using unmanned systems. This - is 
now, actually, an opportunity for Ukrainian militants to 
somehow contain the advance of Russian troops, to 
use a significantly large number of unmanned 
systems -- in relatively important areas," 
Dolgachev stressed.
 
According to the military commander --- the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine still have a lot of drones, but their resources
 are not infinite.
 
Nikolai Dolgachev also noted that the Russian army is now 
advancing in several sectors of the front, including in the 
Kharkiv region ...in the Kupyansk direction.
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: 
losses of Ukraine's Armed Forces - for a day 
exceeded 1,4 thousand military personnel
June 2nd, 10:51am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) have lost up to 1,430 
servicemen in the special operation zone over the past 
day, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
 
In the area of operation of the "Northern" group of Russian 
troops, more than 245 military personnel were killed,
"Western" – more than 205 military personnel of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, "Southern" – 
more than 275 military personnel, 
"Central" – up to 475 Ukrainian 
military personnel, "Eastern" 
– more than 150 military 
personnel, and over 80 
Ukrainian militants, in 
the zone of operation 
of the Dnipro group 
of troops.
 
The daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -- also include 
four tanks, eight ammunition depots and a number of
military equipment and weapons -- including a UK-
made Braveheart 
self-propelled artillery system
and 3 US' M113 armoured 
personnel carriers.
 
Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 
more than 200,000 servicemen in January-May 2025.
 
 
 
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Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces hit 
workshops for the production of Ukrainian 
attack UAVs
June 2nd, 10:47am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces (AF) have carried out strikes on 
the production sites of attack drones of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine (AFU) over the past day, the Russian Defense 
Ministry said, in a summary of the special operation.
 
In addition - the forces of operational-tactical aviation, attack 
UAVs, missile troops and artillery of the Armed Forces of the 
Russian Federation hit the storage and launch sites of 
Ukrainian drones, ammunition depots and temporary 
locations of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
and foreign mercenaries --- in 152 districts.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
over the past day, the Russian air defense system 
destroyed 2 UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles 
and 316 Ukrainian UAVs. 
 
 
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In the Bryansk region, a bridge was blown up,
 a passenger train crashed. There are
victims 
and injured
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 31st, 11:25pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
In Bryansk Region the bridge under which the train 
passed -- collapsed. According to unconfirmed 
information, an explosion occurred, 
dozens of people were injured,
 there are victims.
 
The train derailed after a section of the bridge collapsed 
on it. A number of channels published footage from the 
scene, passengers helped other people get out of the 
cars, screams - were heard at the scene. Rescuers 
had to cut the car open for those trapped inside.
 
Official information about the accident is being clarified, 
and rescue operations are continuing at the site. The 
main task -- remains the search for and release of 
passengers, the Ministry of Emergency 
Situations said.
 
A number of channels reported that the cause of the collapse 
could be an explosion, Shot noted that 4 explosive devices 
were laid on supports and sleepers. Officially, the story 
of the explosion has not yet been confirmed.
 
An improvised explosive device (IED) could have been planted
 in the bridge structure, Mash channel specified. According to
 him, an IED could have been laid under the bridge span in 
the Bryansk region.
 
The collapse of the bridge occurred due to 
"illegal interference in the activities of 
transport," the press service of the 
Moscow Railway reported.
 
Recovery trains were sent to the site to eliminate the 
consequences of the derailment. Information 
about the victims is being clarified.
 
The MZhD clarified that the situation does not affect 
the movement of other trains. An operational head
quarters has been set up to coordinate the work.
 
The Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office 
organized an inspection, after an emergency with a 
passenger train.
 
The Governor of the Bryansk Region, Alexander 
Bogomaz confirmed reports of an incident.
 
According to him, as a result of the incident, there 
are victims. No casualties.. were reported. Now 
representatives of emergency services and 
authorities --- are working on the site. 
Bogomaz added -- that specialists 
are doing everything necessary
 to help the victims.
 
 Additional forces were sent to the area, as well as emergency 
rescue equipment and lighting devices for carrying out work
 in the dark. 
 
The victims of the incident were four people, 
more than 40 were injured.
 
The number of victims of the bridge collapse in 
the Bryansk region could exceed 40 people, 
reports RT with reference to a source.
 
According to RIA Novosti, the Centre for Medical Disasters 
of the Bryansk region, a five-to six-month-old infant was 
seriously injured. 11 ambulance crews went to the 
scene of the accident.
 
It is also known that the driver was a victim of the emergency, 
according to Mash, and the driver's assistant also did not 
survive. Similar information was confirmed by an RT 
source in law enforcement agencies. 
 
The number of victims may increase, as some victims are in 
an extremely serious condition. 14 people were admitted to 
the Vygonich Central City Hospital, while other wounded 
people are being sent to Bryansk.
 
 
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Bad smell: Klitschko said that Ukraine
-------- "reeks of authoritarianism"
because of Zelensky's policies
May 31st, 10:46pm
by Roman Shimaev, and
Anastasia Belousova
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has criticized Volodymyr Zelensky 
and his office, accusing them of uprooting democratic 
institutions under the guise of a conflict 
with Russia. 
 
According to him, the mayor's office of the capital is actually 
paralyzed by searches and threats, and in Ukraine it no 
longer "smells, but stinks of authoritarianism." 
 
Klitschko also said that his fame in the international arena 
helps him keep the post of mayor of Kiev. According to 
experts, the aggravation of the conflict between 
Zelensky and Klitschko may indicate the 
secret start of the presidential 
campaign in Ukraine. 
 
At the same time, public showdowns among the elites, may 
indicate a political crisis and the weakening of Zelensky's 
power, analysts believe.
 
Klitschko accused the office of Vladimir Zelensky that the 
work of the City Council of the Ukrainian capital is 
paralyzed by searches, interrogations ----- and 
threats to open "fabricated criminal cases".
 
"This is the eradication of democratic principles, and 
institutions. I once said that our country smacks of 
authoritarianism. Now they stink," Klitschko said.
 
The Times notes, that the head of the Kiev regime and 
the mayor of the capital "are actually at war after the 
smoldering dispute between them became public." 
 
Zelensky used martial law to appoint a military administration 
in Kiev (headed by Timur Tkachenko) - the structure 
duplicates the duties of the mayor's office of
 the Ukrainian capital.
 
In addition, seven of Klitschko's subordinates were detained, 
and three more are under investigation for corruption, 
including for issuing building permits, 
The Times writes.
 
"Many mayors are intimidated, but my celebrity status is a 
protection. You can dismiss the mayor of Chernihiv, but 
it is very difficult, to dismiss the mayor of the capital, 
who is known all over the world," Klitschko added.
 
As the Ukrainian edition of Сountry.na notes "The latest 
statements of the Kiev mayor indicate a growing 
conflict --- with Zelensky.

''According to the
 information provided.... Bankova
plans 
to introduce Tkachenko - to the Kiev City
Council, where he should 
become a secretary.
After 
that his goal will be "under any pretext"
to cut Klitschko - from the post of mayor
of Kiev.''
 
If the plan with the appointment of Tkachenko to the 
post of secretary of the City Council fails to be 
implemented, a different development of 
events is possible.
 
"If there are no local elections this fall, the central government 
will most likely try to dissolve the City Council of Kiev, saying 
that its powers have expired. Then it will be possible 
to completely replace the KSCA with a military 
administration headed by the appointed one
---- an official," the source said. 
 
Note that the confrontation between Vladimir Zelensky and 
Vitali Klitschko has been going on for a long time. Back in 
the summer of 2021, the former world boxing champion 
said that they want to appoint a "stray protege" in 
his place.
 
Already after the start of the special military operation — in 
the summer of 2023 - Zelensky's office held meetings on
 the possible dismissal of Klitschko from the post of 
mayor of Kiev. This happened.. against the back-
ground of the fact that about half of the tested 
bomb shelters in the city were closed or 
unusable. As a result - the mayor was 
reprimanded, and -- he reproached 
Zelensky for never meeting with 
him since the beginning of
 the SVO.
 
In December 2023, Klitschko, in an interview with the 
German Der Spiegel, said.. that Ukraine is moving
 towards authoritarianism and will soon become
 a country "where everything depends on the 
mood of 1 person." At the same time, in a 
conversation with a Swiss publication 20 
Minuten, he said that Zelensky made a 
number of mistakes in the Ukrainian 
conflict, for which he is paying 
the price.
 
In January 2024, Klitschko, in an interview with the Canadian 
edition of The Globe and Mail, said that Ukraine is moving 
in the wrong direction: "There is a smell..... of vertical
authoritarianism here." In July, the mayor of Kiev 
reproached Zelensky for concentrating too 
much power in his office.
 
Earlier this year, he accused Timur Tkachenko, appointed by 
Zelensky as head of the Kiev city military administration, of 
trying to take over the powers of the mayor, city Council 
and Kiev city state administration ----- in violation of 
the law.
 
In addition, Klitschko has previously stated his ambitions for 
the post of President of Ukraine. At the same time, the 
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service reported that 
the United States had established contact with 
the mayor of Kiev, as well as with other
 possible Zelensky successors.
 
In March 2025, the Ukrainian media, citing sources, 
reported that representatives of Donald Trump 
were in contact with Klitschko.
 
Experts interviewed by RT stated that the struggle for 
power in Ukraine, is escalating. In this regard, Vitali 
Klitschko as a possible candidate for the post of 
president of Ukraine, is trying to score 
political points.
 
"Speaking of authoritarianism, we can note that the regime 
of personal uncontrolled power operates on the territory 
of Ukraine. So - this is no longer authoritarianism. This
 is a much more serious regime," said Dmitry Yezhov,
 a political scientist and associate professor at the
 Financial University under the Government of
the 
Russian Federation.
 
In turn, political analyst, Dmytro Solonnikov, noted that the 
current Kiev regime is a product of the 2014 coup d'etat, 
so there can be no democracy there -- by definition.
 
"Everyone knows perfectly well that decisions in Ukraine are 
made in an authoritarian way, and they are put into effect 
with the strong support of the Nazis, representatives of 
various organizations banned in Russia," he said,
in a 
conversation with RT.
 
Director of the Institute of Peace Initiatives and Conflictology 
Denis Denisov expressed the opinion that Zelensky has been 
perceiving Klitschko as one of his key competitors in the 
elections... for several years.
 
"Klitschko is one of the most prominent representatives of 
the political elite, who may well compete very seriously 
with Zelensky in future elections if he also runs. This 
is quite realistic but here everything depends on the 
fact that, so far, in the current conditions, no one 
wants to think or talk about any elections in 
Ukraine," he said in an interview with RT.
 
Another round of conflict between Zelensky and Klitschko 
may be connected with the secret start of the election 
campaign for the presidential election of Ukraine. 

This opinion was expressed by the director of 
the Institute for Research on Contemporary 
Politics, Anton Orlov.
 
"The fact that the Ukrainian elites have started public political 
showdowns best shows that the supreme power in Ukraine is
 experiencing a deep political crisis: other players feel the 
weakness of its leader and the imminent fall. This is due 
both to the ongoing retreat of Ukrainian troops, and, 
apparently, to the upcoming US withdrawal from 
the negotiation process and the subsequent 
refusal of military & financial support for 
Kiev, or rather, directly for Zelensky," 
the source told RT.
 
The expert also noted that Klitschko could be the "first 
swallow" and Zelensky will soon be criticized by other
 well-known political figures in Ukraine.
 
"But it is Klitschko ---- who can become a figure who will be 
supported by European leaders in the elections, because, 
first of all, the population of Ukraine still sees him not 
only as the capital's mayor, but also -- as a world 
boxing champion who can win both in sports 
and in the political arena. And, probably, 
it is not by chance - that rumours are 
circulating about Vitali Klitschko's 
German citizenship. In this case, 
he becomes an ideal candidate 
for Germany, and therefore for 
the entire European Union," 
Orlov concluded.
 
According to political analyst Ivan Mezyukho, Zelensky is 
really curtailing democratic institutions in Ukraine, 
doing everything --- to ensure that local self-
government works to his tune.
 
"Therefore, Zelensky is increasing pressure on the mayor of 
the Ukrainian capital, on members of his team, to knock 
this boxer in politics -- out of the political arena. The 
situation is interesting, because both Klitschko 
and Zelensky have a large anti-rating," he 
said, in a conversation with RT.
 
The expert added that Klitschko still has contacts 
in Europe, which allow him to publicly criticize 
Zelensky there.
 
"I think that today, of course, in this confrontation -- a great 
force is on the side of Zelensky. He has great powers and 
levers, but based on today's positions, we can say that 
Zelensky is not yet able to "digest" Klitschko. 
Therefore, he is unlikely to be arrested in 
the foreseeable future, but, the process 
of curtailing the powers of the mayor 
of the Ukrainian capital --- will
continue," 
Mezyukho
concluded.
 
 
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Guards Junior Sergeant Poroshin shot 
down a Ukrainian Baba Yaga UAV
May 31st, 10:55pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Private Serhiy Kleshnin was driving a truck and performing 
the task... of delivering Russian servicemen to the front- 
lines when he noticed a kamikaze drone of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (AFU) approaching the car.
 
Kleshnin quickly changed the trajectory of movement, moving
 away from the impact of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). 
The drone hit the ground and exploded. Following it, 
another Ukrainian drone tried to attack the car, 
but Kleshnin made another skillful maneuver, 
avoiding a collision. As a result, the private 
successfully delivered the servicemen to 
the specified point.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry ---- also noted the professional 
actions and courage of the Guard of junior Sergeant Nikolai 
Poroshin, who patrolled the area with the help of a drone 
& opened masked clusters of personnel & equipment of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the inspection of 
the area, Poroshin noticed an enemy UAV of the Baba
Yaga type, which was moving in the direction of the 
Russian evacuation group with a wounded 
serviceman. 
 
Poroshin decided to prevent an attack on the group and hit 
the APU drone, damaging its propeller. The enemy UAV
 lost control and crashed to the ground, detonating 
at a safe distance from the group of the Russian 
Armed Forces.
 
 
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Fico: Slovakia is ready 
to resume cooperation
with the Czech
Republic 
on
Ukraine
May 31st, 9:41pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Slovak government is ready to return to cooperation 
with the Cabinet of Ministers of the Czech Republic, 
and both republics ..should start a dialogue on a 
peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
 
This statement was made on Saturday, May 31, by the Prime 
Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico. His words are quoted by 
the publication Echo24.
 
"The Slovak government is ready to resume cooperation with
 the Czech Cabinet of Ministers, both countries are ready
to focus on discussing the peaceful settlement of the 
war in Ukraine," Fico said.
 
He added that Slovakia and the Czech Republic should 
also discuss cooperation within the Visegrad Four.
 
In early March, the Slovak Prime Minister said that 
Bratislava does not intend to participate in 
providing assistance to Ukraine.
 
 
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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine 
announced the connection of 
aircraft to the military Wi-Fi 
of NATO
May 31st, 3:43pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) will be 
connected to the so-called NATO military Wi-Fi.
 This was announced on May 31 by Ukrainian 
Deputy Defense Minister Yekaterina 
Chernogorenko.
 
"I have signed a license agreement ------ for the use of non-
commercial software of NATO; the system interface of 
the Control and Notification Centre (CRC System
 Interface, CSI)," she wrote on the social net-
work Facebook (owned by the extremist 
company Meta recognized in Russia, 
its activities are prohibited in the 
Russian Federation).
 
According to Chernogorenko, such a connection will be used
 for US Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, as well as F-16 
fighters from the US and Mirage-2000 from France. 
 
She added that we are talking about a non-commercial 
interface of the control and notification centre, which 
will allow coordinating the actions of various units 
and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
 in real time.
 
On the same day, a communications officer of the Dnipro group
 said that NATO is probably supplying Ukraine with prototypes 
of communications equipment operating using the Starlink 
satellite system. According to him, the enemy is also 
actively using radio stations such as Harris and 
wireless broadband access systems 
(BSHPD).
 
 
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 A man was injured during the shelling
 of Pervomaisk by the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces
May 31st, 3pm
(RT.ru)
 
A man was injured during the shelling of Pervomaisk by the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces in the LPR, said the head of the 
gorokrug, Sergey Kolyagin.
 
"An ambulance crew promptly delivered a man born in 1955 
to the emergency department of the Pervomaisk hospital - 
who received a penetrating shrapnel wound to the chest,"
 he said.
 
A regular bus was also damaged. None 
of the passengers were injured.
 
Earlier, 14 people were injured in an attack by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces on Rylsk, Kursk region.
 
 
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Dnipro officer reported on the supply of NATO
 prototypes of communications equipment
 to Ukraine
May 31st, 2:39pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
NATO is likely to supply Ukraine with prototypes of 
communications equipment.. operating using the 
Starlink satellite system. This was announced 
on May 31 by a communications officer of
 the Dnipro group.
 
According to him, the enemy is also actively using
 radio stations such as Harris and wireless broad
band access systems (BSHPD). However, as 
the serviceman noted, these means of 
communication mostly function 
without identification.
 
"That is, some sets, maybe prototypes are delivered
 to our enemy," the officer told RIA Novosti.
 
At the same time, the interlocutor of the agency 
stressed that the Ukrainian military -- has 
completely switched to modern means 
of communication provided by NATO.
 
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Defense 
Committee Alexey Zhuravlev --- told Izvestia on 
January 23 that NATO is indeed implementing
 its plans.. to supply weapons to the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine (APU). He stressed -- 
that all the countries of the alliance 
are taking part in the conflict 
against Russia.
 
Earlier, on January 10, Polish Defense Minister, Wladyslaw
Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the situation in Ukraine upset
 his colleagues from NATO countries - and called it very 
difficult for the Ukrainian army. In turn --- the Reuters 
news agency wrote on January 9 that the transfer 
of US weapons did not change the situation on
 the battlefield... in favour of Kiev.
 
 
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DEPUTY Sheremet advised Zelensky 
to buy a book by Dostoevsky
May 31st, 2:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
State Duma deputy from the Crimean region --- Mikhail Sheremet,
 advised the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky to buy a 
book by the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
 in order to understand the reason for his moral decline.
 
Earlier, Zelensky in his Telegram channel said that he visited 
the literary festival "Book Arsenal" in Kiev, where he bought 
the book "Kill the tyrant. The history of tyrannoclasm from 
Caesar to Gaddafi" by Aldo Andrea Cassi.
 
"I would recommend him to buy a useful book -- the universally 
recognized Russian classic by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and 
Punishment, which would open his unscrupulous eyes.... to
 such problems as murder for the sake of a 'higher' goal," 
Sheremet told RIA Novosti.
 
According to the MP, reading this work would help the head of 
the Kiev regime -- to realize the reason for his moral decline,
 as well as find the courage to plead guilty to the poverty 
and hopelessness of ordinary Ukrainian citizens.
 
 

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More than a thousand residents of the 
Kursk region who disappeared after 
the invasion of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine ---- were found
 May 31st, 2:26pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
1,290 residents of the Kursk border region who lost contact 
with their relatives due to the invasion of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine (AFU) have been found. This was announced on
 May 31 by the acting governor of the region Alexander 
Khinshtein in his Telegram channel.
 
It is specified that the approximate location of 421 people has 
also been established. According to the acting governor, the 
fate of 576 people, including four minors, remains unknown. 
 
Work on their search is carried out continuously.
 


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Russian Defense Ministry: daily losses of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded 
1.4 thousand militants
May 31st, 10:36am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The total losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in
 the special military operation zone over the past day 
amounted to 1,425 people, the Russian Defense 
Ministry said.
 
According to the ministry, in the Belgorod direction, the defeat
of the units of the Ukrainian army was inflicted by fighters of 
the group of troops "North". The enemy lost --------- over 225 
servicemen, two tanks, four armoured combat vehicles, 
six vehicles and four field artillery pieces.
 
Units of the Zapad group of forces --- improved their tactical 
position, destroying more than 220 Ukrainian soldiers, five 
armoured combat vehicles, including two US-made M113 
armoured personnel carriers, and 12 vehicles, the 
Russian Defense Ministry said.
 
"The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost two ammunition 
depots," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
 
It is noted --- that the units of the "Southern" group of troops
destroyed two armoured combat vehicles, 3 pickup trucks, 
an electronic warfare station and an ammunition depot. 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 275 soldiers.
 
As specified in the Defense Ministry, the troops of the "Central" 
group --- continued to delve into the enemy's defenses. As a 
result of the coordinated actions of Russian fighters, 
Ukrainian units lost up to 440 personnel, five 
armoured combat vehicles, 11 vehicles 
and three field artillery pieces.
 
The report also says that units of the "Eastern" group of troops 
----- destroyed up to 185 militants of the Kiev regime army, two 
armoured combat vehicles, eight vehicles and an electronic 
warfare station.
 
Units of the Dnipro group of forces --- hit nine vehicles, five field 
artillery pieces and five electronic warfare stations. Also in 
this area, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 
80 servicemen, according to the report.
 
Earlier it was reported ---- that the Russian military liberated the 
village of Novopol in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). The 
Armed Forces of the Russian Federation also inflicted a defeat 
on the APU's personnel and equipment in the areas of several 
settlements in the Zaporozhye region.
 
On Friday, the defense Ministry reported that over the past 
week, from May 24 to May 30, the Russian army liberated
13 settlements in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions,
as well as in the DPR.
 
 
 
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Guards Lieutenant Petrushevsky evacuated
 two seriously wounded soldiers of 
the Russian Armed Forces
May 30th, 10:58pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Radio telephone operator of the communications platoon 
of the assault squad, Private Alexander Sumarokov, was 
given the task of restoring a communications repeater 
which was damaged as a result of artillery fire from 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). 
 
Sumarokov quickly moved to the place of damage to the 
repeater, despite the ongoing shelling from the enemy. 
 
During the repair of equipment, he noticed that an enemy FPV
 drone.. was approaching him. The radiotelephonist destroyed 
the unmanned aerial vehicle -- with targeted fire from small 
arms and managed to complete the repair work, restoring
uninterrupted communication between Russian units.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry also noted the decisive and 
selfless actions of the Guard Lt Alexey Petrushevsky, 
who led the group, whose tasks include the timely 
delivery of food and ammunition to the military, 
as well as the evacuation of the wounded 
from the line of contact for medical care. 
 
During one of the trips, the group overcame a difficult 
route, despite regular attacks by enemy artillery.
 
Arriving at the destination point and unloading ammunition
 and food, Petrushevsky received information about two 
wounded Russian servicemen who were injured as 
a result of artillery shelling by the Ukrainian
 Armed Forces. 
 
Petrushevsky immediately moved to the wounded, who 
could not move independently. Having provided first 
aid to the servicemen, the guard lieutenant 
ensured their evacuation and delivered 
them to a medical facility.
 
 
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Davis: continuation of the conflict 
will cost Ukraine more than
 the world
May 30th, 9:53pm
(RT.ru)
 
Attempts by Western allies to provide the Kiev regime 
with more weapons will lead to losses for Ukraine. 
 
This was stated by retired US Army Colonel 
Daniel Davis.
 
According to him, attempts to beg for more ammunition, 
armoured vehicles or long-range missiles... will delay
 the inevitable military defeat of Ukraine.
 
''...It will increase the price of the senseless sacrifice
 of more Ukrainian men for the sake of a defeat that 
cannot be avoided," he wrote on his X social 
network account.
 
Davis added - that the advantage in the 
Ukrainian conflict remains on
the side 
of Russia.
 
Russia's permanent representative to the world 
Organization, Vasily Nebenzia, said that the 
supply of Taurus missiles to Ukraine will 
draw Germany .....deeper into the
war 
with Russia.
 
 
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The Russian Armed Forces attacked 
Ukrainian Armed Forces' positions
in Volnovakha district with
 four FAB-500s
May 30th, 5:07pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops launched an air strike on the temporary
deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 
Volnovakha district, Donetsk People's Republic. 
 
For this attack - the Russian Armed Forces used 
FAB-500 bombs, Russia's Defense Ministry said.
 
According to the military department, the 141st 
brigade of the Ukrainian army was located 
near the village of Komar.
 
 
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Nebenzia: Russia is ready for dialogue 
with those who are not motivated
by 
Russophobia
May 30th, 4:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russia is ready to conduct a dialogue and discuss 
options for cooperation with those who are not 
subject to Russophobia. This statement was 
made by the Permanent Representative of 
the Russian Federation to the United 
Nations (UN), Vasily Nebenzya.
 
During his speech... at the headquarters of the world 
organization, he noted that against the background 
of many loud statements about the protection of 
human rights - not a single step was taken to 
protect millions of people --- whose rights 
are systematically violated in Ukraine.
 
"Political expediency... makes our Western colleagues deaf and 
dumb when it comes to the rights of the Russian – speaking 
population, the Russian language, canonical Orthodoxy, 
the glorification of Hitler's henchmen and the spread 
of neo-Nazism in Ukraine," Nebenzia said.
 
"Now.... it's up to those who were behind the anti-Russian project 
in Ukraine. Have you realized your mistakes and the futility of 
defeating and isolating Russia? If you are driven solely by 
Russophobia -- then we probably have nothing to talk 
about with you. If... you are still ready to discuss 
some options for coexistence and, even more 
so, cooperation, then we have something
to 
discuss," Nebenzia added.
 
He recalled - that Russia has never abandoned
 dialogue ...and is still open to discussions.


 
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Nebenzia: The Russian Armed Forces are 
able to increase combat operations 
as much as necessary
May 30th, 4:12pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The goals of the special military operation of the Russian 
Federation in Ukraine - can be achieved both peacefully 
and militarily, and, in the second case, Russia is ready 
to fight ---- for as long as necessary. 
 
This was stated at a meeting of the UN Security Council by 
the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation 
to this international organization - Vasily Nebenzya. 
 
His speech was broadcast by the TV channel "Russia 24".
 
The diplomat recalled -- that Russia has always emphasized its 
commitment to the political and diplomatic regulation of the 
Ukrainian crisis. At the same time, even the most biased 
military reports show --------- that Russian troops are 
successfully advancing along almost the entire 
front line, Nebenzia noted.
 
"We have repeatedly said - and want to repeat - that the goals 
of our special operation can be achieved both peacefully 
and militarily. Our Armed Forces --- are capable of 
continuing and escalating combat operations 
for as long as necessary," Nebenzia said.
 
The diplomat recalled that..... in 2014, as a result of an 
unconstitutional coup supported and sponsored by 
the United States and the EU, a regime came to 
power in Ukraine - determined to exterminate 
everything Russian, which in all subsequent 
years trampled on the rights of residents
of
 the east and south of Ukraine ---- as
well as
 other regions of the country.
 
"We cannot - and will not - stand idly by while millions of 
Russian-speaking people remain under the rule of a 
regime -- whose policies blatantly violate their 
fundamental rights and freedoms. Leaving 
everything as it is, means deliberately 
ignoring the norm of international 
law and the provisions of the 
UN Charter. 
 
''Let me remind you --- that the first article of the Charter 
clearly states the need ----- to respect human rights, 
regardless of language, race, gender or religion.
Today, in Ukraine, we see the opposite," the 
Russian permanent representative said.
 
In 2022, Russia has made its choice and will not leave 
its compatriots in the lurch, Nebenzia stressed.
 
"If --- necessary, we will fight for this as long as necessary. 
And we will no longer allow any threats on our borders, 
any anti-Russian, neo-Nazi formations.. in the area 
of our neighbourhood," he said.
 
Vasily Nebenzya also stressed: that Russia --- will 
not be satisfied with a situation that will allow 
Ukraine ..to catch its breath.
 
 
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Nebenzia: Russia will consider all options 
to respond to possible deliveries of 
Taurus to Kiev
May 30th, 3:42pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russia will consider "all options" for an adequate response 
in case of delivery of German Taurus missiles to Kiev. 
 
This was stated by the Permanent Representative of 
the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya.
 
During his speech at the UN headquarters, he noted 
that recently European countries have taken a 
number of steps to escalate the Ukrainian 
conflict in order to derail all efforts to 
establish peace.
 
"Friedrich Merz recently announced the lifting of restrictions 
on the range of weapons supplied to Ukraine by Britain, 
France, Germany and the US. He even specified: that 
it happened... a few months ago. Experts directly 
linked these words ---- to the supply of Taurus 
missiles to the Kiev regime, which it begs 
...for a special military operation," the 
permanent representative said.
 
Nebenzia noted that Merz's attempts to "win back" everything 
and convince everyone that Germany will only help Ukraine 
establish independent missile production will not be able 
to mislead anyone. He stressed - that the assembly of 
Taurus --- as well as unmanned British boats --- 
"does not make them Ukrainian."
 
So... the Russian permanent representative is convinced, 
Germany will only be even more involved in the conflict 
with the Russian Federation.
 
"This will give us the right to consider all options for an
 adequate response to this unfriendly step," he added.
 
In conclusion, Nebenzia said that Russia is forced to recognize 
Germany's actions --- as part of Europe's campaign to disrupt 
the process of peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. 
 
According to him, Berlin is trying to provoke Moscow into
 retaliatory actions, which could then be presented as 
evidence of Russia's unwillingness to negotiate.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry: during the week, 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more
 than 9,420 militants
May 30th, 11:24am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost
 more than 9,420 militants. This follows from the weekly 
summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian 
Federation. The enemy suffered the greatest 
losses in the area of responsibility of 
the Center group.
 
"Enemy losses totaled over 3,060 soldiers, a tank, and 39 
armoured combat vehicles. 57 vehicles and nine field 
artillery pieces were destroyed."
 
At the same time, the enemy lost at least 1,265 servicemen in 
the Vostok area of responsibility. Thanks to the efforts of the 
units of the "Southern" group of the Armed Forces of Russia
 more than 1,615 militants were lost, and the forces of the 
"West" eliminated more than 1,495 enemy soldiers.
 
 
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Russian Armed Forces liberated 
13 settlements - in a week
May 30th, 11:07am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed forces liberated 13 settlements in 
the Sumy and Kharkiv regions, as well as the DPR, 
in a special operation over the past week, 
he Russian Defense Ministry said in
 its summary. The summary... is 
devoted to --- the course of 
military operations from 
May 24 to May 30.
 
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, control over 
the villages of Loknya, Vladimirovka, Belovody and 
Konstantinovka was established in the Sumy 
region during the week. This was done, by 
the efforts of the group of troops "North".
 
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the 
Zapad group of troops, the settlements of Stroevka 
and Kondrashovka in the Kharkiv region were 
liberated," the military department said.
 
In the DPR, the "Southern" group of troops -- liberated the
 villages of Stupochki, Staraya Nikolaevka, Romanovka 
and Gnatovka, and the "Center" group of troops 
liberated the village of Shevchenko Pervoe.
 
Vostok troops liberated the villages of Zelenoe Pole 
and Otradnoye, which are located in the DPR, 
the Defense Ministry adds.
 
According to Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, the Russian 
Armed Forces are currently solving the problem of creating 
a buffer zone along the border with Ukraine. 
 
Military expert Andrey Marochko noted that with the capture 
of Konstantinovka in the Sumy region, Russian servicemen 
cleared a section of the administrative border of the 
Russian Federation .....and drove out the AFU 
militants from it.
 
 
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Rogov announced the withdrawal of 
Russian troops to the border with 
the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 30th, 9:30am
 (Vesti.ru)

Russian troops have reached the junction of the borders of 
the Donetsk People's Republic( DPR), Zaporizhia region 
and Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. 
 
This was announced to RIA Novosti by Vladimir Rogov, 
Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber 
of the Russian Federation on sovereignty and co-
chairman of the Coordination Council for the
 integration of new regions.
 
Vladimir Rogov noted that after the liberation of Green Field 1, 
Russian troops "intensified offensive actions --- and actually
 reached the junction of the borders of the DPR and 
Zaporozhye region, with the Dnepropetrovsk
 region of Ukraine."
 
According to him, control of Green Field 1, opens up the 
possibility: for the Russian army to attack the northern 
part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Ukrainian
 forces, both from the south --- and from the east.
 
On May 28, the Russian Defense Ministry announced, that units 
of the Vostok group had taken control of the village of Zelenoe 
Pole in the DPR. This locality is near the administrative border 
of the Zaporizhia region, in the direction of the village of 
Temirovka, held by the Ukrainian military.
 
 
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Kellogg: Russia's concern about NATO 
expansion to the east, is natural
May 29th, 10:43pm
(RT.ru)
 
From the point of view of Russia, its concern about the 
expansion of NATO to the east is natural, said the
 US Special Representative for Ukraine,
 Keith Kellogg.
 
"This is a natural concern," he said on ABC News.
 
Kellogg also added, that the United States is not 
currently considering Ukraine's entry into NATO.
 
"And - we are not the only country that thinks so.
I can name four more such countries from the 
alliance. And joining NATO requires the 
consent of all 32 countries," 
Kellogg said.
 
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that 
the West's desire to draw Ukraine into NATO and 
the alliance's expansion to the east ---- 
had caused the conflict.
 
 
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APU drones hit a church and 
a hospital in a Russian city
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 29th, 10:39pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Kursk crashed 
into the city hospital No. 1 and the church of the Icon of the
 Mother of God "Joy to All Who Grieve". This is reported
 by the Telegram channel "Typical Kursk".
 
As a result of the hit of the drone debris in the building 
of a medical institution, windows were broken -- there 
are victims. The driver of a car near the church was 
also injured.
 
Local residents claim that at least four enemy drones 
were destroyed in total. At the site of the fall of one 
of them, a fire started.
 
The first explosions in Kursk were heard on May 29 at 
about 23: 20 Moscow time. They were followed, by 
several more at different intervals. In the region, 
the danger of a UAV attack ---- has not yet 
been removed.
 
 
 
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In Khmelnitsky region, hundreds of people 
blocked a shopping centre car and 
cut its tires
May 29th, 10:10pm
(RT.ru)
 
In Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine, 
hundreds of people blocked the car of the territorial 
acquisition centre (TCCC) and cut its tires.

About it, writes "Country.na".
 
"About a hundred people have already gathered around the
shopping centre car, into which the military commissars 
forcibly dragged a man," the report says.
 
It is not specified whether he managed to escape 
from the employees of the shopping centre.
 
It is noted that the car is surrounded 
by a police cordon.
 
Earlier, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
was attacked by a man armed with a knife in 
the premises of a shopping centre in the 
city of Pryluki, in Chernihiv region.
 
 
 
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Nebenzia: Ukraine faces a choice — 
peace or defeat on the battlefield
May 29th, 9:50pm
(RT.ru)
 
At the moment, the choice is up to Ukraine — peace 
as a result of negotiations, or imminent defeat on
 the battlefield --- with different conditions for
 the end of the conflict.
 
The corresponding statement was made by the 
Permanent Representative of Russia to the 
United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya.
 
Earlier, Nebenzia said that the United States 
administration has opened its eyes to the
regime of Vladimir Zelensky.... in 
recent months.
 
 

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Military commander Kukushkin 
on the offensive of the Russian
army: Sumy --- is 20 kms away
May 29th, 12:53pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military ---- is advancing on a broad front in the Sumy 
region. To the outskirts of the regional centre remains about 20 
kilometres, military commander Pavel Kukushkin said, on the 
air of "Russia 1" .
 
According to him, the intensification of fighting is observed 
in the vicinity of the main logistics point in the region –
Yunakovka.
 
"The Sumy region was an absolutely calm region even before 
last August. But, after the enemy's adventure in the Kursk
 region -- we are now advancing in the Sumy region. To 
be more specific ------ after the liberation of Lokni, 
Belovodiv and Vladimirovka, we also liberated
 the settlements of Konstantinovka -- and 
Vodolagi - getting closer and closer to 
the regional centre.

''This is north of 
Yunakovka, the main logistics 
centre --- where fighting is already underway
on the 
northern outskirts. Also our assault
units are 
pressing to the south, 
in the
Miropillia area", 
he said.... in the
60 
Minutes program .
 
The military commander stressed that the regional 
centre in the Sumy region, is still several tens of 
kilometres away, for the Russian military.
 
"With a fairly wide coverage...  we are approaching the
regional centre, Sumy, which is about 20 kilometres 
away," he added.


 
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The Russian Armed Forces almost completely
 destroyed, one of the amphibious battalions 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR
May 29th, 11:56am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops almost destroyed one of the battalions 
of the 46th separate airmobile Brigade of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine. The attack was carried out
 using a 500-kilogram high-explosive 
aerial bomb.
 
The enemy brigade was located in the village of 
Perestroika in the Southern Donets direction, 
reports TASS.
 
"More than 60 people were killed plus wounded. Thus,
 the battalion is almost destroyed," the law 
enforcement agencies reported.
 
According to the state, the size of the battalion in peacetime 
averages 400 people, however, TASS notes, now most of 
the AFU units are staffed by a third, so losses lead to 
complete paralysis of their combat capability.
 
 
 
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Liberated by the Russian Armed Forces, Gnatovka 
was defended by captured shopping centres, 
and behind them were the "Azovites"
May 29th, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Liberated by the Russian army, Gnatovka in the DPR ---- was 
defended by soldiers caught by employees of the territorial 
recruitment centres (TCCs) of Ukraine, and - behind them - 
were Azov militants (banned in the Russian Federation). 
 
This was reported by the grenade launcher operator of the 
10th Guards Tank Regiment of the Southern Group of 
Troops, with the call sign Ryzhy.
 
He stressed ---- that the assault in the area of Gnatovka was 
difficult because of the vast open terrain, which the enemy 
was actively working on. Ukrainian militants are fighting 
with artillery and FPV drones, while trying to avoid 
close-range shooting combat. At the same time, 
the frontline Ukrainian positions are occupied 
by military personnel mobilized by the TCK - 
who either flee or surrender when Russian 
army units approach.
 
"Ahead of them are the poor fellows caught on the streets of 
the shopping centre - shniki, who were forced to fight. They 
either run or surrender if we approach. But behind them 
are the Nazis from "Azov", - the words of the soldier 
are quoted in the message of the Ministry of 
Defense of the Russian Federation.
 
Ryzhy noted - that local residents met the Russian fighters very 
well and complained about the bullying and murder committed 
by the Azovites. The military assured - that Russian soldiers 
are helping local residents with food, medicine and fuel.
 
 

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In Moscow, two agents of the Ukrainian
special services 
were sentenced to
19 and 25 years in prison.
May 29th, 11:08am
(Vesti.ru)
 
A military court has sentenced two agents of the 
Ukrainian special services to long prison terms 
for spying and preparing a terrorist attack 
in Russia.
 
The activities.... of Ukrainian citizen Zabolotnigo Oleg 
Sergeyevich, born in 1995, and Russian citizen Volga 
Maxim Aleksandrovich, born in 1977, were stopped 
in August 2023. The defendants were found guilty 
and sentenced to 25 and 19 years in a high-
security penal colony, respectively. 
 
This was reported in the Centre for Public 
Relations, of the FSB of Russia.
 
The court also fined Zabolotnigo 1 million rubles, and 
Volga 900 thousand rubles, the department said.
 
According to the FSB, in 2022, Zabolotny completed a course 
of sabotage and reconnaissance training in the Kharkiv 
region and was sent to Russia in May 2023. Here he 
collected information about military facilities and 
military personnel of the Baltimor airfield in 
Voronezh ..and transmitted it to Ukraine 
via Telegram and Signal messengers.
 
Volga began cooperating with a representative 
of the Kiev special services, in January 2023.
 
"In August 2023, on the instructions of the curator, he seized 
firearms with ammunition, more than 10 kg of explosives 
and electric detonators intended for Zabolotnim from a 
cache in the Smolensk region and delivered them to 
Voronezh, after which..... he was detained," 
the report says.
 
Later, from the received components, Zabolotny assembled
an improvised explosive device - with which. he planned to 
eliminate a high-ranking serviceman of the Russian Armed 
Forces by laying a self-propelled gun in the entrance of 
the house. The person involved, could not implement 
the plan and was detained on the way to the place 
of the terrorist attack.
 
The verdict has not yet entered into legal force.
 
 
 
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Defense Ministry: during the day, the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces lost up to 1,245 militants
 in the free defense zone
May 29th, 10:49am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 
up to 1,245 militants in the free zone. This follows 
from the summary of the Ministry of Defense of 
the Russian Federation.
 
The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the area of 
responsibility of the Center group, whose units 
liberated the village of 'Shevchenko First' -
in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
 
"The enemy's losses amounted to more than 390 servicemen, 
two Kazak armoured combat vehicles, seven vehicles and a
 field artillery gun," the Defense Ministry said in a summary
 of the success of the Center group.
 
Thanks to the actions of the "Southern" group of troops --- the 
village of Gnatovka in the DPR, passed under Russian control, 
the enemy lost 240 soldiers - as well as 2 electronic warfare 
stations, 3 ammunition depots and a warehouse of materiel.
 
 In the area of responsibility of the Zapad group, the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces lost more than 200 servicemen, two armoured 
vehicles and four ammunition depots. Soldiers of the group 
liberated the village of Stroevka, Kharkiv region.
 
Earlier it became known - that Russian troops attacked the 
location of the US' MLRS HIMARS. The Iskander-M missile 
strike and the Geran-2 UAV destroyed the command post
of the special operations centre "South", of the MTR of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine - in the Mykolaiv region.
 
 
 
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Ministry of Defense:  The Russian Armed Forces
liberated Stroevka village, in the Kharkiv region
May 29th, 10:35am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Under the control of the Russian army, passed the village 
Stroyevka, in the Kharkiv region. This is stated in the 
summary of the Ministry of Defense of the 
Russian Federation.
 
The settlement was liberated by the forces 
of the group of troops "West".
 
"As a result of active actions - units of the Zapad 
group of troops liberated the village of Stroevka
 in the Kharkiv region," the Defense Ministry 
said, in a summary.
 
Two days ago, war correspondent Alexey Gavrish said that 
the Russian Armed Forces had stepped up their offensive 
in the Kharkiv direction. According to military expert 
Andriy Marochko, AFU units... abandoned their 
positions.. near Volchansk, in the Kharkiv 
region - after a fire raid and an attack 
by Russian troops.
 
 
 
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The Russian army liberated Hnatovka 
and Shevchenko 1 ---- in the DPR
May 29th, 10:34am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops - liberated the localities of Gnatovka 
and Shevchenko I in the DPR, the Russian Defense 
Ministry said in a summary.
 
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the village 
of Gnatovka was liberated by the "Southern" group 
of troops, and the village of Shevchenko 1 --- by 
units of the "Center" group of troops.
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 soldiers, three 
armored fighting vehicles, an artillery piece and 6 pickup 
trucks near Hnativka, the Defense Ministry said. Three 
ammunition depots, a material storage facility and 2 
electronic warfare stations, were also destroyed.
 
Near Shevchenko, the first loss of Ukrainian troops amounted 
to more than 390 soldiers, the report says. Also, the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two "Cossack"
armoured vehicles, field artillery guns, 
and seven cars.
 
A day earlier, the Ministry of Defense informed 
about the liberation of the village of 
Zelenoe Pole, in the DPR.
 
 
 
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Prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
Belyakov: tattoo with a swastika 
became a brand - for life
May 29th, 7:31am
(RIA News)
 
Ukrainian prisoner Serhiy Belyakov said in a video published 
by the Russian Defense Ministry that he went to fight from 
prison, where he made a tattoo with a swastika. 
According to him, the tattoo has become
 a brand for life.
 
Belyakov .....was captured by fighters of the 
Russian group "Center", RIA Novosti writes.
 
According to the prisoner, he served three terms
 in prison and "stopped by" on the fourth.
 
"I was a janitor, cooked food, an errand boy.
 I didn't like doing it, so I decided to sign a
 contract," Belyakov said.
 
He said that during his first term in prison, he got a
 swastika tattoo, even though his grandfather 
fought for the USSR.
 
"If he had been alive, he would have strangled me 
on the spot, or shot me. This tattoo, this eagle,
 this swastika became a brand for me. 
A brand for life," said the captured 
soldier of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine.
 
Belyakov said that he ended up in the 72nd brigade of 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, signing a contract in 
the expectation... of a later amnesty. 
 
According to him, the presence of a tattoo in the form
 of a swastika was a plus, in the 72nd brigade they 
began to "support and encourage" him.
 
The prisoner clarified that the brigade consisted mainly 
of drug addicts, alcoholics and criminals, who were 
sent "one way", to the assault, fraudulently. 
 
Belyakov complained about Major Andrey Kasovsky, who,
according to him, collected money from soldiers, played
certain games and took out his anger on subordinates, 
when physical punishments were practiced.
 
As the prisoner noted, Kasovsky "swells constantly"
----- and forces soldiers to go out for runs - at night.
 
On Wednesday, TASS posted a video with another 
captured serviceman of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, Yevgeny Bespartochny, who, after
a conversation with his relatives, asked
 to be granted Russian citizenship.
 
 
 
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The expert --- declared readiness of the 
Russian Federation to respond to the 
Taurus strike with a "good product"
by Sergey Grekhov (Night Line Editor)
May 28th, 10:03pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Russia - has a wide range of weapons as a response to a 
potential strike by a German long-range Taurus missile,
 military expert Alexey Leonkov told RIA Novosti.
 
He stressed: that it is possible to use options ranging
"from conventional weapons... and up to the most
extreme measures." 
 
"We have a good product called 
"Hazel", " the expert said.
 


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The State Duma commented on 
threats to the Medinsky family
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 28th, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, 
Leonid Slutsky, commented on RIA Novosti -- information about 
threats against the family of Russian presidential aide Vladimir 
Medinsky, saying that attempts to put pressure on the Russian
 side, by Ukrainian radicals --- cannot be ruled out.
 
"But I am sure - that our negotiators will stand firmly on the 
position, of protecting Russia's national interests," the MP 
stressed. He also noted that it is impossible to intimidate 
the representatives of the Russian side.
 
In addition, Slutsky added -- all necessary measures will 
be taken to ensure the safety of the Russian delegation.
 
Earlier it became known that the Medinsky family is being 
threatened from Ukraine. In the State Duma - this was 
considered an attempt to disrupt the negotiations, 
but the head of the Ministry of Defense of 
Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, said that 
"Nazis" were involved in this,
 which "do not influence".
 
 
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Zakharova: There were no agreements 
on the participation of the US - in the 
exchange of memoranda with Kiev
by Ivan Sysoev
May 28th, 5:10pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
The official representative of Russia's Foreign Ministry, 
Maria Zakharova, pointed out ---- that there were no 
agreements on the mediation of the US, or other 
countries in the exchange of draft memoranda 
with Kiev.
 
Earlier, the US President's special representative for 
Ukraine... Keith Kellogg, said that Washington had 
received a list of terms of the peace agreement 
from Kiev and was waiting.......... for a similar 
document from Moscow.
 
Commenting on this statement, Zakharova pointed out 
that Russia "does not know what the Ukrainian side 
handed over and to whom." She recalled that the 
agreements reached in Istanbul, on May 16, 
presuppose the preparation by Moscow 
and Kiev of "their own vision of the 
modalities of the settlement 
and ceasefire."
 
"After that, the parties will exchange the relevant 
documents, directly.... and discuss them at the
 next round," Zakharova said.
 
 
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Medvedev announced the replenishment 
of the Russian Armed Forces since the 
beginning of the year by 175 thousand 
contract soldiers
by Vladimir Kuzmin
May 8th, 4:10pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian
Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, held a meeting on the 
issues of the re-supply of the Armed Forces.
 
He said that since the beginning of the year, almost 
175 thousand servicemen, have arrived in military 
units under the contract. More than 14 thousand 
people were accepted to volunteer units.
 
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council noted that 
the situation of Russia's opponent - in Ukraine - looks 
fundamentally different, which shows the real state 
of affairs. 
 
Medvedev called on all these trends to consolidate, and 
work further - on recruiting the Russian Armed Forces 
under the contract.
 


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 UAV saved Russian soldiers by 
cutting the fibre-optic cable 
of the AFU FPV drone
by Alexey Rybin
May 28th, 3:05pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
A Russian UAV operator saved his colleagues by cutting the 
fibre-optic cable of an APU FPV drone with his drone. This
 is reported by the Telegram channel of military 
correspondents of the "Russian Spring", 
publishing the corresponding video.
 
The footage shows a Ukrainian FPV drone flying along the 
trench. The Russian drone went "behind his back", got 
closer and attacked with its propellers the fibre-optic 
cable that the drone was connected to the operator.
 
After that, the enemy drone, which lost control, was led to
 the side, and it collapsed on the parapet, unable to 
attack the shelter of the Russian fighters.
 
The enemy "bird" did not explode 
and actually remained intact.
 
Earlier, another Russian UAV due to the operation of the 
Ukrainian electronic warfare system did not hit the 
enemy's pickup truck, as originally planned, but 
flew directly into the APU ammunition depot.
 
 
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TASS: a US citizen asked her captive nephew
 to stay in Russia ------- at any cost
May 28th, 12:46pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
A US citizen of Ukrainian origin asked her captured nephew 
to stay in Russia at any cost. This is reported by TASS 
with reference to the video message of the woman.
 
It is alleged that Ukrainian border guard Yevhen Bespartochny 
contacted Russian soldiers for surrender, and the Russian 
military agreed to give him video messages from 
his relatives. His mother and sister... live in 
Russia, his wife and child live in Ukraine, 
and his aunt lives in the United States.
 
"We all want to ask you - not to return to Ukraine. 
Please stay in Russia, ask for political asylum," 
Nika White said in the video, addressing 
her relative.
 
At the same time, the soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces 
gave Yevgeny several months to reflect on the sent wishes. 
Subsequently, Bespartochny's mother and his sister, also 
recorded appeals.
 
Earlier, it became known that the serviceman of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine Georgy Karakulin, who was captured in 
the Sumy direction, refused to exchange and expressed 
a desire to obtain Russian citizenship.
 
 
 
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Peskov: Russia -- unlike Ukraine --
does not hit residential buildings
May 28th, 12:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military -- unlike the Ukrainian one -- does not 
attack residential buildings, but defeats military targets. 
This was stated by the press secretary of the President 
of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov in a comment
 to the TV channel "Russia 1".
 
He pointed out that so far there is no talk about the stage 
of a truce on the Ukrainian conflict. First, the parties 
must agree on memoranda and terms of the truce.
 
"Our negotiating teams are currently engaged in this, and 
the special military operation continues," Peskov said.
 
As for the activation of drone attacks and the response to
 the Ukrainian side, Peskov stressed that the Russian 
Armed Forces respond only with strikes on 
military targets.
 
"It is important to remember one indisputable fact: Ukrainians 
still hit our residential buildings, social facilities," he said. 
''We're hitting the ammunition, the places where the 
murder weapons are collected. Big difference."
 
Earlier, the Kremlin did not disclose the contents of
 the upcoming memorandum on the settlement 
of the Ukrainian conflict.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday -- its 
intention to continue massive strikes on military facilities 
and enterprises of the military-industrial complex of 
Ukraine --- in response to the attacks of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
 
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The Ministry of Defense shows footage of 
the hoisting of the Russian flag
in 
liberated 'Green Field'
May 28th, 12:02pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Defense Ministry has released footage 
of the liberation of the village of Zelenoe Pole in
 the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
 
The video also shows the hoisting 
of the Russian flag in the village.
 
As noted in the department, the Green Field was liberated 
thanks to the actions of Russian servicemen of the 5th 
Guards combined Arms Army of the Vostok group 
of troops. They stressed that the assault troops
 broke through the enemy's defenses and 
entered the village with the support of 
aviation, artillery and unmanned 
systems calculations.
 
"In the course of active offensive operations, the settlement 
of Zelenoe Pole of the Donetsk People's Republic was 
liberated, unfurling Russian flags," the report says.
 
After the suppression of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 
Russian servicemen.... cleared 460 buildings and 
established full control over the settlement.
 
The Green Field was liberated --- on May 28. The military 
department clarified that Russian troops defeated six 
Ukrainian brigades in the areas of the settlements of 
Komar, Novopol in the DPR, as well as Gavrilovka in
 the Dnepropetrovsk region and Gulyai-pole in the 
Zaporozhye region.
 
As a result, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 
165 servicemen, two armoured combat vehicles, 
10 vehicles, two field artillery pieces - and 
an electronic warfare station.
 
 
 
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Zelensky claimed: that the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine 
are back in Kursk region 
by Anastasia Volova (editor of the 
Operational Information Dept)
May 28th, 12:01pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are again allegedly 
located on the territory of the Kursk region. 
This was stated by the President of 
Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky. 
 
According to him, this time the Ukrainian military 
managed to enter the Russian border region 
from a different direction - from the village 
of Tetkino. He assured... that the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine have "good 
practice" here.
 
Zelensky's statement, was 
called ''drug nonsense''.
 
Russian military correspondent, Alexander Kots, declared 
Zelensky's insanity, commenting on his words about the 
alleged Ukrainian military in the Kursk region. 
 
He recalled, that the Russian military forced the enemy out 
of the border area and is now engaged in creating a buffer 
zone on the territory of the Ukrainian Sumy region.
 
''While Zelya is "storming" Kursk in a narcotic delirium, 
the group of troops "North", in a number of areas, has 
already entered the Sumy region, to a depth of about
10 kms. Formation of the buffer zone.... continues.''
 
The military commander added -- that the Ukrainian 
leader can say whatever he wants: "His words... 
will bring the war to Kiev."
 
 
 
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Ushakov: Trump does not fully understand 
that the Russian Federation only affects 
Ukraine's military-industrial complex
May 28th, 11:48am
(Vesti.ru)
 
US President Donald Trump does not understand --- that the
 Russian armed forces, in response to the massive attacks
 of the Kiev regime --- are hitting exclusively the military 
infrastructure of Ukraine. 
 
This was announced by Presidential aide, Yuri Ushakov, in 
an interview with the author and co-host of the program 
"Moscow. Kremlin. Putin", to Pavel Zarubin.
 
The presidential aide noted that the US leader is not fully 
informed about the real state of affairs in the course of
 the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation, namely ---- that 
Russia's strikes on the Ukrainian military-industrial 
complex facilities, are a response to the attacks 
of the Kiev regime.
 
"Trump only knows what retaliatory measures we are taking. 
Moreover, he does not fully understand that we are hitting 
only military infrastructure or military-industrial complex 
facilities," Ushakov said.
 
Kiev -- carries out massive attacks on civilian objects and 
civilians in Russian regions. For example, on May 1st, the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces used drones to attack a market 
in Alyoshki, in Kherson region. The Russian Foreign 
Ministry noted that the attack was deliberately 
carried out on a holiday, when residents of 
the city went shopping ----- in order to 
maximize civilian casualties.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry announced its 
intention to continue massive strikes on military 
facilities and enterprises of the military-
industrial complex of Ukraine --- in 
response to the attacks of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
 
 
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Military commander Gavrish:  the bridgehead of 
the Russian Armed Forces on the border of the 
Dnipropetrovsk region....... is expanding
May 28th, 11:28am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian military is tightening its flanks and expanding its 
bridgehead on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region. This 
was stated on the air of the program "60 minutes" on the 
TV channel "Russia 1" by military commander 
Alexey Gavrish.
 
According to him, the Russian Armed Forces are already 
staying near the village of Orekhovo. And the military 
contingent in this area ....will increase.
 
"Our troops ---------- have already reached the border of
Dnipropetrovsk region, by the Orekhovo settlement. 
And now we are gradually tightening up the flanks.

''Our
 troops are expanding their foothold. It is still too early
 to talk about a large approach to the Dnipropetrovsk 
region, but in several places we are approaching
it --- 
and quite rapidly," he said.
 
The military commander added that the enemy 
does not have enough reserves to contain
 the onslaught.
 
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine now, simply do not have enough 
reserves, and every day this problem becomes more and more 
difficult for them, because there are no personnel," he stated.
 
Earlier, Russian security officials reported that Ukrainian 
radical units -- were withdrawing their forces from the 
front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region, to the rear.
 
 
 
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The pensioner.... sold jewelry and fur coats: 
to buy clothes for the fighters of the SVO
May 27th, 3:27pm
(RT.ru)
 
A pensioner from Chelyabinsk, Bairambike Khamitova, 
sold jewelry and sable fur coats - to buy clothes for 
the SVO fighters, who called her God's Dandelion.
 
According to RIA Novosti, the woman is 86 years old, 
and lost her son - so is on her own. After that, she 
engaged in volunteer activities in the war zone.
 
"I returned to Chelyabinsk... and sold sable fur coats
and jewelry 
and bought clothes. I went to the guys
with this stuff," 
she said.
 
 

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APU drone attacks hospital in Aleshki,
and injures an 85-year-old woman
May 27th, 3:16pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Armed forces of Ukraine - attacked a district hospital in 
Aleshki, Kherson region, with an unmanned aerial vehicle. 
As a result, an 85-year-old woman was injured.
 
As the governor of the region Vladimir Saldo reported 
in his Telegram channel, the blow was delivered
on 
the night of May 27.
 
He added that as a result of the attack, the building of 
a medical facility, and an ambulance, were damaged.
 
"The blow was aimed at the place where people
 are being treated and saved," he wrote.
 
In early May, Baldo reported on an attack by the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces - on an ambulance in 
Alyoshki, as a result of which a paramedic 
was injured.
 
 
 
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 Putin pointed out the importance of 
internal mobilization of Russians
 in the current situation
May 27th, 12:47pm
(RT.ru)
 
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, during a meeting of
the 
Supervisory Board of the Autonomous Non Profit 
Organization "Russia - the land of Opportunities" 
noted the importance of internal mobilization
of 
citizens - in the current situation.
 
"The most important thing in the situation in which we are, 
the country is ------- is the internal mobilization of each 
individual, and society as a whole," he stressed.
 
Vladimir Putin is taking part in a meeting of the Council of
 the Autonomous Non Profit Organization "Russia - the 
Land of Opportunities" on May 27.
 
The Russian leader previously stated, that about 
50,000 to 60,000 citizens voluntarily come to 
serve in the free military zone... 
every month.
 
 
 
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RV: troops from the Crimea staged a 
massacre of the APU near Tetkino 
in the Kursk region
May 27th, 12:39pm
(RT.ru)
 
Paratroopers of the Crimean 56th regiment of the Russian 
Airborne Forces staged a massacre of the APU near 
Tetkino in the Kursk region, destroying a lot of 
enemy infantry and equipment, writes the 
Telegram channel "Voenkory 
Russkoy Vesna".
 
"Paratroopers of the Crimean 56th Airborne Regiment continue 
to massively destroy the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy
 region, and driving the enemy away from the border deep into 
their territory," the publication says.
 
Earlier, military expert Andrey Marochko noted that units of the 
Russian Armed Forces are "inevitably expanding" the buffer
 zone near the Kursk region, despite enemy resistance.
 
On May 19, the Russian military repelled one of the most 
massive attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the 
direction of Tetkino.
 
 
 
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La Libre: Belgium postponed delivery
 of F-16s to Ukraine -------- until 2028
May 27th, 12:20pm
(RT.ru)
 
Belgium postponed the delivery of F-16 fighter jets to 
Ukraine promised in 2024 to a later date — now the
 aircraft will arrive by 2028.
 
This is reported by La Libre.
 
"By 2028, Belgium will supply Ukraine with
 30 F-16 fighter jets," the article says.
 
It is noted that the kingdom has already begun preparations 
for the delivery of the last batch of aircraft received from 
the Netherlands.
 
The planes will first be delivered to Belgium, where they 
will undergo technical training, before being shipped. 
The Netherlands --- in turn --- will transfer 24 F-16 
fighter jets to Ukraine, the newspaper writes.
 
On May 20, Belgian Defense Minister Theo Franken announced 
the country's intention to annually provide military assistance
 to Ukraine... in the amount of €1 billion.
 
Earlier, the Dutch Defense Ministry announced 
that the last of the promised batch of F-16 
fighters - was sent to Kiev.
 
 
 
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Russian Navy exercises 
begin in the Baltic Sea
May 27th, 12:13pm
(RT.ru)
 
Exercises of the Russian Navy began in the Baltic Sea 
with the support of aviation, and the participation
of 
3 thousand military personnel and 20 ships.
 
"A planned exercise of the Baltic Fleet forces ------ is being 
conducted with the involvement of part of the Northern 
Fleet forces ------ with the support of aviation of the 
aerospace forces, the Moscow and Leningrad 
military districts," the press service of the 
Baltic Fleet RIA Novosti reports.
 
The ships participating in the exercise left their bases 
and deployed to the designated areas of the Baltic 
Sea - to perform their assigned tasks.
 
About 25 planes and helicopters are involved, as well 
as up to 70 units of military and special equipment.
 
During the exercise ---- ship crews will perform anti-submarine 
tasks in combat training ranges, work out protection against 
unmanned boats and conduct artillery firing at both sea and 
air targets.
 
In April, the sea minesweepers "MT-264" and "MT-265" of the 
Pacific Fleet during a test tactical exercise --- worked out 
actions to search for and destroy sea mines in 
the waters of the Avacha Bay.
 
 
 
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APU killed a pregnant woman in the 
Kursk region in front of her child
May 27th, 11:54am
(RT.ru)
 
The APU killed a pregnant woman in front of relatives 
and her child in August 2024, said Prosecutor of the 
Kursk region, Alexey Tsukanov.
 
This is reported by RIA Novosti.
 
"A pregnant woman was killed -- in front of her relatives 
and her child," the agency quoted Tsukanov as saying.
 
According to him, the incident occurred on August 6, 2024, 
when the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed the border of 
the Kursk region and attempted to seize the territory.
 
The prosecutor said that the military "purposefully killed 
civilians" using various weapons, including ballistic 
cluster munitions and drones.
 
Earlier, Tsukanov said that currently the fate of 789 
residents of the border region of the Kursk region, 
including four children, remains unknown.
 
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation 
showed ------ how the APU defended Staraya 
Nikolaevka with the help of detachments
May 27th, 11:15am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published 
footage showing the actions of soldiers of the 10th Guards 
Tank Regiment -- part of the "Southern" group of troops. 
 
They liberated the village of Staraya Nikolaevka in the Donetsk 
People's Republic, which the Ukrainian military defended,
 with the help of detachments.
 
During a decisive offensive, units of the 10th tank Regiment of 
the "Southern" group of troops successfully liberated the 
village of Staraya Nikolaevka in the DPR.
 
Objective monitoring footage shows soldiers of the 10th Guards
 Tank Regiment ---- setting up the national flag of the
Russian Federation in a locality liberated from
the armed forces 
of Ukraine.
 
Despite the attempts of counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed 
Forces, the assault units reacted quickly to any sudden 
changes in the situation and forced the Ukrainian 
soldiers defending the village - to retreat.
 
The deputy commander of the motorized rifle battalion with the 
call sign Orekh said that the area around the village is very 
difficult to storm, since it is open, and the operators of 
Ukrainian FPV drones had a strong impact on the 
assault groups.
 
"We were supported during the assault by tank crews ---- 
who worked from closed firing positions, which is due 
to the need to preserve equipment and personnel 
from UAV strikes," he said.
 
The Russian military noted that, with the help of recon drones, 
it was possible to see that the so-called barrage detachments 
were attached to the AFU units defending the settlement. 
 
According to the Russian officer, this is a standard tactic of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine: military personnel who cannot - or 
do not want to - perform tasks, due to their moral and 
business qualities, are assigned in a supervisory 
role, from among the units prohibited on the 
territory of the Russian Federation.
 
On May 27th, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the 
village of Staraya Nikolaevka came under the control of the 
Russian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 
over 280 servicemen, two Senator armoured vehicles,
 an artillery piece and two ammunition depots.
 
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry: daily losses 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
amounted to 1,475 militants
May 27th, 10:58am
(Vesti.ru)
 
During the day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost at least 1,475 
servicemen. This follows from the summary of the Ministry 
of Defense of the Russian Federation.
 
The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the 
area of responsibility of the Center group.
 
"Units of the Center group of forces improved their position on 
the front line. Enemy losses amounted to 470 soldiers, a tank, 
three armoured combat vehicles and five vehicles,"
 the military department said in a summary.
 
Thanks to the actions of the units of the "Southern" group of
 Russian troops, the enemy lost more than 280 militants and 
two Senator armoured vehicles, and the village of Staraya 
Nikolaevka in the Donetsk People's Republic came under 
the control of the group's fighters. 
 
Also, at least 215 militants were eliminated by the forces of 
the Vostok group, up to 205 in the area of responsibility of 
the West and up to 245 in the area of responsibility of the 
North group.
 
Earlier, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin on the air of "Russia 
24", said that the Russian army is advancing in all directions.
 
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: 
The Russian Armed Forces will continue its
massive strikes on the military-industrial
complex of Ukraine - in response to the 
the Armed Forces of Ukraine's attacks  
May 27th, 10:17am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Defense Ministry announced - on Tuesday - its 
intention to continue massive strikes on military facilities 
and enterprises of Ukraine's military-industrial complex.
 
The ministry's statement emphasizes that such actions will 
be a response to "any terrorist attacks and provocations 
of the Kiev regime." The ministry clarified that the 
strikes will be carried out - exclusively - on 
military targets.
 
The Russian Foreign Ministry has previously indicated that 
Moscow will give an adequate response to the massive 
attacks of UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 
the ongoing terror against the civilian population 
and civilian objects of the Russian regions. 
 
The Ministry stressed that the barbaric attacks of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine ---- are aimed at disrupting the resumed 
negotiations and the implementation of the agreements 
reached in Istanbul.
 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that, despite
 the attacks... Russia remains committed to a peaceful 
settlement of the Ukrainian crisis and is actively 
working on a document setting out the 
conditions: for achieving a stable,
and long-term, comprehensive 
agreement with Ukraine.


 
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Ukraine has found a way to......
resolve the conflict in 24 hours
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 26th, 11:24pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The main reason why a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian 
conflict is not possible is President Vladimir Zelensky, said 
the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Artem Dmytruk. In his 
Telegram channel, he talked about.... a way to resolve 
the conflict.
 
"We remove the root causes -------- and then peace..... in 24 hours!
One can agree or disagree with the statement that in order to 
achieve peace between Russia and Ukraine, it is necessary
to eliminate the root causes of the war. But, there is an 
even more primary reason...... and this main reason, 
and obstacle to achieving peace is the very figure 
of Zelensky," the parliamentarian said.
 
Dmytruk added that until Zelensky is removed from the post
 of president, no negotiations will help end the conflict.
 
Earlier, Verkhovna Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky, said that 
Zelensky wants to destroy Ukraine. His purpose is to relieve 
himself of responsibility to the state, he believes.


 
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Private Usmanov ---- destroyed an AFU 
FPV drone and delivered ammunition
 to Russian military personnel
May 26th, 10:56pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
Private Aidar Usmanov was carrying out the task of transporting 
ammunition and logistics to a point near the contact line, when 
his car was attacked by an FPV drone of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine (AFU). 
 
Usmanov noticed the enemy drone in time, and made a rapid 
maneuver, moving away from the impact. After successfully 
avoiding a collision with the drone, the private stopped the 
car and left the cabin, grabbing a standard weapon. Once 
outside, Usmanov aimed at the drone and destroyed it 
with several precise shots. The drone exploded in 
midair, and the private managed to deliver the 
cargo to its destination - on time.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry, also noted the bold and decisive 
actions of the Guards of private Denis Kokovin, who, as part of 
the artillery gun crew, performed a combat mission to destroy 
equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
and conduct counter-battery warfare. During the clash, 
the enemy was defeated.... but then requested 
reinforcements, not wanting to retreat 
from fortified positions.
 
Russian intelligence ----- established the coordinates of 
the accumulation of manpower - and equipment of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine, after which it transmitted 
information about their location - to Kokovin. 
 
The Guard private immediately aimed an artillery piece at 
the coordinates obtained and fired a shot. The enemy 
lost part of its equipment and manpower, which 
forced it to immediately retreat.
 
Earlier on May 27, the Russian Defense Ministry noted the 
actions of Senior Lieutenant Artem Malygin. The group 
under his command came under artillery fire from the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces. 
 
Malygin quickly got his bearings in the current situation, 
identified the places of hiding and gave instructions to
 his subordinates to disperse. He also provided first 
aid to the wounded serviceman - and organized
 the defense competently.
 
 
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Khinshtein spoke about the death of a pensioner 
after being bullied by soldiers of the Armed
 Forces of Ukraine
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
 May 26th, 10:52pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Acting Governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein,
 responded to reports of the death of pensioner Alexander
 Grigoriev in Sudzha after bullying by soldiers of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). He wrote about 
this in his Telegram channel.
 
"Ukrainian inhumans, wearing German helmets, mocked the 
defenseless old man who just asked for help," he said. The 
politician noted that the Russian military - found gunshot 
wounds - on the discovered remains of the man. "There
 is no limit to Nazi inhumanity," Hinstein concluded.
 
On May the 26th, it became known that 74-year-old Alexander 
Grigoriev (Gusarov) from the Kursk region - who disappeared 
in August 2024, was killed by Ukrainian soldiers. The man's 
daughter - said that she learned about the death of her 
father.. from the Russian military, who were clearing 
Gogolevka from the AFU fighters, in the suburb of 
Sudzha ----- the man was found without signs of 
life, in April. According to the Russian woman 
she identified Grigoriev -- by his clothes,
hands
 and feet. On May the 1st,
he was cremated.
 
State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky promised a reward 
of five million rubles for the capture of the men who 
had bullied the pensioner.
 
 
 
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Retired Colonel Otten: the idea of 
supplying long-range weapons
 is futile
May 26th, 9:46pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Europeans' plans to lift restrictions on the supply of
long-range weapons to Kiev will not bring any results 
in practice. This was stated in an interview with RT
 by retired German Air Force Colonel Gerold Otten.
 
He explained that, for example, the Taurus missiles 
are subject to export restrictions from the US, 
since they contain US elements.
 
"I do not see that the US administration has allowed the supply 
of Taurus to Ukraine ---- at this time. So, from my point of view, 
there is no change in the quality. This is a political statement. 
They are trying to show strength here, show determination," 
Otten added.
 
Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that
 the decision to lift restrictions on the supply of long-range 
weapons to Kiev, if it was made, goes against Russia's
 aspirations for a peaceful settlement.
 
At the same time, German Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said 
that Germany has not changed its position on arms supplies 
to Ukraine. "As for the range - I also want to say, that there 
is no new agreement that goes beyond what the previous
 government did," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
 
 
 
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Poddubny: by their actions, the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine --- risk losing regions that are not 
a priority for the Russian Federation
May 26th, 6:54pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Because of the provocation on the Kursk border... the Kiev 
regime risks losing those regions that the Russian troops
- initially - did not consider to be priority areas of the 
special operation. This was announced, by the 
military correspondent of VGTRK Evgeny 
Poddubny on the air of the program 
"60 Minutes" on the TV 
channel "Russia".
 
He noted that the Russian army is expanding control over 
the territory of the Sumy region: the village of Belovody 
was taken under full control by Russian paratroopers. 
 
These territories were not considered priority areas of 
a special military operation, before the Kiev regime 
invaded the territory of the Kursk border area,
 the military commander says.
 
"In fact, Kiev provoked such a reaction, and now risks
losing several more regions --- that were not on the
priority list --- to 
our own actions" Poddubny said.
 
He stressed that the Russian army enjoys an advantage 
and has the initiative along the entire line of contact.
 
"There is an active offensive in the Pokrovsky direction. And 
we can already say that the Konstantinovsky direction, has 
appeared. The city of Konstantinovka -- is now the centre 
of attention, because the fighting is going on around it,"
 the military commander added.
 
Poddubny also expressed the opinion that the formation 
of a security zone on the border area --- is a necessity
--- to protect local residents.


 
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It became known about the liquidation 
of the leader of the "Right Sector"
by Anastasia Dubova (Editor 
of the BSSR department)
May 26th, 3:56pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The Ukrainian nationalist, one of the leaders of the "Right Sector"
organization  (recognized in Russia as an extremist and 
terrorist organization and banned), Vladimir Sklyar, 
was liquidated by the Armed Forces of Russia 
near Kursk. 
 
This is reported by Argumenty I Fakty with reference to 
the military correspondent, Ruslan Tatarinov.
 
"On May 21, Sklyar was killed in the border area, 
in the Kursk direction," the publication says.
 
Earlier, TASS, citing a source, announced the liquidation 
of the Right Sector nationalists by the Russian army. 
The losses amounted to about 30 servicemen.


 
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Senator Karasin on the West's 
decision to arm Kiev: it's 
very dark
May 26th, 2:48pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The decision of Germany, France, the US and UK to abandon 
range restrictions in the supply of weapons to Ukraine
 is extremely sad for the peace negotiations. 
 
This was stated by the Chairman of the Federation Council 
Committee on International Affairs, Grigory Karasin.
According to him, such a decision has 
long been planned by the West.
 
"This is very sad news for future negotiations on peace, 
on establishing contacts on the Ukrainian crisis. This
 is definitely very dark and sad," Karasin stated.
 
The senator said that Western countries have long 
been moving towards this, but they were stopped 
by their unwillingness to aggravate bad relations 
with Russia.
 
Earlier, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced the 
refusal of Germany, Great Britain, France and the US to 
limit the range of military supplies to Ukraine. 
 
According to him, Kiev can strike at the territory of the 
Russian Federation with long-range weapons. 
He promised to provide the Kiev regime 
with the appropriate weapons.
 
 
 
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Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation: 
daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
in the free zone amounted to 
1,415 servicemen
May 26th, 12:32pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces --- have lost more than 1,400 
soldiers in the special operation zone over the past day, 
the Russian Defense Ministry said.
 
The units of the "Northern" group of troops destroyed up 
to 275 enemy soldiers, the "Western" group – up to 235 
military personnel, the "Southern" group – up to 205 
military personnel, the "Central" group – up to 475 
military personnel, the "Eastern" group – more 
than 160 military personnel, and the "Dnipro" 
group – up to 65 military personnel of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine.
 
Daily enemy losses also include three 
tanks and an ammunition depot.
 
The Russian Defense Ministry previously reported on a 
massive strike by drones and high-precision air-based 
weapons on the Starokonstantinov airfield, which is 
used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According
to 
the Ministry of Defense, all the designated
targets - 
were hit.
 
 
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The Russian army liberated Vladimirovka
 and Belovody in the Sumy region
May 26th, 10:23am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The armed forces of the Russian Federation liberated the 
settlements of Vladimirovka and Belovody in the Sumy 
region of Ukraine. This was reported in the Ministry 
of Defense of the Russian Federation.
 
Settlements came under the control of Russian troops 
thanks to the actions of the group "North".
 
"As a result of active and decisive actions, units of the North
 group of troops liberated the settlements of Vladimirovka 
and Belovody in the Sumy region," the military 
department said in a Telegram channel.
 
Earlier, the military department reported that due to the lack of 
infantry in the Sumy region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are
sending female prisoners to storm Russian positions. At 
the same time, Ukrainian militants, daily, try to storm 
Russian positions near the village of Ryzhevka, 
Sumy region, but these attempts remain 
unsuccessful.
 
On Sunday, it became known about the liberation of the
 settlement of Romanovka in the Donetsk People's 
Republic. Fighters of the 68th tank regiment of
 the 150th Guards motorized rifle Division of 
the Yug group of Troops told Rossiya 24 
TV channel... that Romanovka was 
entered from two sides during 
cloudy weather.
 
 
 
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In the Kursk region, two civilians were
 injured in an attack by UAVs of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine
May 24th, 5:11pm
(RT.ru)
 
The Armed forces of Ukraine - attacked the border areas 
of the Kursk region with the help of drones. As a
result,
 two civilians were injured.
 
This was announced in his Telegram channel, by the 
acting Governor of the region, Alexander Khinshtein.
 
He noted that the localities of Shchegolek in the Belovsky 
district and Budishche in the Bolshesoldatsky district 
were hit. The victims were men aged 43 and 59.
 
"Both of the victims, are being taken to the 
Kursk Regional Hospital," Khinshtein said.
 
Earlier, the acting head of the Kursk region, reported 
about three civilians injured as a result of an attack 
by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - on the region.
 
 
 
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces abandoned 
the bodies of Polish mercenaries while 
fleeing..... from Otradnoye to the DPR
by Alexey Komolov
May 24th, 4:39pm
(Rossiyskaya Gazeta) 
 
The Russian military found the bodies of Polish mercenaries 
abandoned by the Ukrainian Armed Forces while fleeing 
from the village of Otradnoye to the DPR on the border 
with the Dnipropetrovsk region. This is reported by 
TASS with reference to the shooter of the 36th 
motorized rifle brigade of the Vostok group.
 
According to him, the soldiers were clearing out basements 
and "saw Poles who had already died." The chevrons and 
badges of the liquidated militants helped the Russian 
military to understand who is in front of them.
 
In addition, a large number of equipment and weapons
 of NATO countries were destroyed in the battles for 
Otradnoye, the source said.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that 
the Russian Armed Forces liberated the localities 
of Loknya, in the Sumy region, as well as 
Otradnoye and Stupochki, in the DPR. 
 
Loknya was liberated by the group of troops "North", 
Otradnoye --- by the group of troops "East", and 
Stupochki --- by units of the "Southern" group.


 
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tass: liberation of Otradnoye
cuts
 all the logistics of the
Ukrainian Armed 
Forces
in Zaporizhia region

May 24th, 2:28pm
(RT.ru)
 
The liberation of Otradnoye in the DPR cuts the logistics of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of Zaporozhye and 
Dnepropetrovsk regions. This was reported to TASS by
 Russian law enforcement agencies.
 
According to the source, the liberation of this settlement, opens
 the road to Komar for Russian troops. According to the source, 
this village is the last major settlement on the way to the 
Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
"This cuts, respectively, the routes passing in Zaporozhye and 
in the Dnipropetrovsk region, cuts all the enemy's logistics," 
the law enforcement agencies stressed.
 
On the afternoon of May 24th, it became known that the Russian 
army liberated Stupochki and Otradnoye in the DPR. One of the 
soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces said that Ukrainian 
militants were trying to regain control of Otradnoye.



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In Britain, they announced the gathering 
of Russian troops to the Ukrainian 
"fortress city"
by Varvara Koshechkina (editor of 
the Operational Information Dept)
May 24th, 1:20pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Journalist Michael Drummond reported that Russia is pulling 
troops together to the Ukrainian "fortress city" of Kharkiv. 
In the material published on the website of the British 
edition of Sky News, it is said that Moscow may be 
preparing for a new large-scale offensive in 
this direction.
 
According to the correspondent, after the liberation of the Kursk 
region, more than 50 thousand Russian troops concentrated on 
the border with the Kharkiv region. Citing analysts, he claims 
that the Russian Armed Forces have a "four-month window"
to break through the front before weather conditions start 
to worsen.
 
"There is -- a clear preparation of the enemy for active offensive 
actions," the publication quotes the chief of staff of the 13th 
Operational Brigade of Ukraine, Andriy Pomagaibus.
 
In turn, Sky News military analyst ,Michael Clarke, said that 
among those deployed to the border of the Kharkiv region 
are elite units, including airborne units. According to him, 
Russian troops may be preparing for a major offensive 
--- on Kharkiv and Sumy. "It can either be a direct 
attack on one of the cities (not an easy task, 
given how well they are protected), or -- an 
attempt to take most of the surrounding 
territory," he concluded.
 
Earlier, Czech political analyst Oskar Krejci predicted
 the loss of Kharkiv and Odessa regions by Ukraine.
 In his opinion, nothing can stop the advance of 
Russian troops.


 
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 APU flees from positions near 
Malye Shcherbakov --- in 
Zaporizhia region
May 24th, 12:50pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine..... are leaving their 
positions near the village of Malye Shcherbaki in Zaporizhia 
region. This was reported by a scout of the 392nd regiment 
of the 19th division of the Dnepr group of the Russian 
Armed Forces with the call sign Maks.
 
According to the serviceman, often when the Russian army 
reaches the positions of Ukrainian soldiers, they are no 
longer there. Moreover, the militants do not have time 
to collect their belongings and food.
 
"They throw backpacks, things, food. Everyone drops out 
and leaves. There was no such thing as ''We held on," 
he said, in an interview with RIA Novosti.
 
According to the Russian fighter, despite the significant number 
of attack unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine in the air, the soldiers of the Armed Forces of 
the Russian Federation manage to successfully 
cope with the tasks set by the command.
 
The village of Malye Shcherbaki is located on the left flank 
of a large logistics hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
 in the city of Orekhov, Zaporizhia region.
 
Ukrainian militants are also fleeing from their positions in the 
Donetsk People's Republic, a soldier of the Russian Armed 
Forces with the call sign Stary reported. He noted that
 the enemy understands the complexity of the 
situation, so it avoids shooting battles.
 

 
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Fighter Galinsky spoke about the 
propaganda of Russophobia in 
children's colouring books 
in Ukraine
May 24th, 12:28pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Soldier of the Russian Armed Forces Konstantin Galinsky was 
the director of a rural school. But three years ago, he left for 
the SVO zone, changing his administrative and teaching 
activities in a quiet village near Novosibirsk to the 
Goryachoe Pokrovskoe direction. 
 
He spoke about the reasons for this decision
 on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
 
At the very beginning of the SVO, Galinsky joined the 
volunteers - he formed parcels for the soldiers,
and 
also visited the Kharkiv direction on 
humanitarian missions. What he saw,
 made him eventually go to the
front 
as a volunteer.
 
"When you are in a kindergarten --- when humanitarian aid 
was brought to employees, you just open the children's 
"decoration" and see: a Ukrainian soldier stands with 
his foot on a Russian soldier ---- and the flag of our 
country lies there, in children's drawings. When 
children are taught from childhood -- fascism, 
and to hate the Russian language, this was 
probably -- the most important starting 
point, when consciousness began 
to change in their heads," 
Konstantin Galinsky.... 
shared his memories.
 
He waited until September 1, the solemn 
ruler, after which ------ he left to serve.
 
"I made this decision for myself, during the lineup, when 
all of the parents [were] there. I spoke congratulatory 
words, parting words: to first-graders, 11th-graders, 
9th-graders who are going to graduate and pass 
the exams. And, going into the office, I dialed 
the military commissar and found out what
I needed," the serviceman said.
 
Several of Galinsky's students, one of whom serves with him 
in the same regiment, also perform tasks in the SVO zone. 
Moreover, the teacher's own brother also serves nearby.
 
"My brother - is serving in the SVO. He serves in the Southern 
Military District, as well as in assault units," Galinsky shared.
 
Now thousands of former teachers are protecting the future 
of the younger generation ---- in the free education zone.


 
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Russian air defense forces shot down 
a Mig-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces
May 24th, 12:24pm
(Izvestia.ru)
 
The Russian Air Defense Forces (PVO) shot down a 
MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force (VVS). 
This was reported on May 24 in the Ministry 
of Defense of the Russian Federation.
 
"An air defense system shot down a MiG-29 aircraft 
of the Ukrainian Air Force and three JDAM guided 
bombs," the report says.
 
The ministry added that 174 enemy drones and 
seven rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch 
rocket system were also hit.
 
In addition, the Russian army destroyed the aviation
centre of the Security Service of Ukraine( SBU), 
ammunition depots, as well as temporary 
locations of Ukrainian units.
 
Earlier in the day, it became known that air defense 
systems intercepted 10 UAVs of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine, over the Belgorod region. It was 
specified, that the Ukrainian drones were 
downed from 8: 00 to 8: 30 Moscow time.


 
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Brothers - stormtroopers - told about 
their successful attack ---- on 
the APU opornik
by Marina Sovina (night editor)
May 23rd, 9:14pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
Brothers - stormtroopers of the 5th combined Arms army 
of the Vostok group of troops with the call signs Shum 
and Klinika - conducted a successful operation to 
capture a fortified stronghold of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine in the south-Donetsk 
direction, near the settlement of 
Volnoye Pole. 
 
This - was reported by the 
Russian Defense Ministry.
 
The ministry said that this object was well camouflaged 
and reinforced --- representing a complex system of 
dugouts and firing points of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine. The command of the Russian Armed 
Forces unit decided to use stormtroopers 
.....on motorcycles. 
 
The maneuverability of the fighters allowed them 
to enter the enemy's flanks and attack in an 
unexpected place.
 
Earlier, it was reported that a serviceman of the Vostok 
group of troops with the call sign Shum held positions 
for two weeks, after being wounded, so as not to 
abandon his brother - with whom he serves 
together. "I couldn't leave my brother, 
I went to the end," he shared.


 
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Data on the number of Ukrainian Armed 
Forces held captive in Russia revealed
by Ivan Lesyuk
May 23rd, 4:03pm
(Gazeta.ru)
 
Almost 10 thousand soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
(AFU) are in Russian captivity. This is reported by the 
Telegram channel Mash.
 
Today, the first stage of the exchange in the "1000 for 1000" 
format took place on the border of Ukraine and Belarus.
 
About 1,300 servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces were 
held captive in Kiev before it began. As a result of the full 
implementation of the agreements, most of them will 
return home. At the same time, almost 10 thousand
 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are in 
Russian captivity.
 
According to Mash, all the Russians approved for the 
exchange were kept in a border colony in Sumy. 
Mostly they were military personnel from the 
Kursk and Kharkiv directions.
 
On May 23, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 
Ukraine had returned 270 Russian servicemen and 120 
civilians, including civilians captured by the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces in the Kursk region, as part of the 
exchange. In return, the Russian side handed 
over 270 prisoners of war of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces and 120 civilians to 
Ukraine. The ministry stressed 
that the exchange will 
continue..... in the 
coming days.
 
On May 16, the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine 
since 2022 were held in Istanbul . One of the main results 
of the meeting was the agreement of the parties on the 
exchange of prisoners in the "1000 for 1000" format.
 
Earlier, a Ukrainian prisoner of war called on the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces - to lay down their weapons and surrender.
 
"The guys are fellow soldiers, I advise everyone to drop 
their weapons and not fight. It is better to surrender, 
to be alive and well," the Ukrainian fighter urged.
 
The prisoner of war also admitted his guilt for participating
 in hostilities and said that he could not desert, because 
"they still catch and return".
 
Ukrainian serviceman Soroka mistakenly entered the dugout 
of the Russian military and was captured in the border area 
of the Kursk region.
 
The prisoner of war said that the command sent him to 
positions in the area of Suji. The soldier of the Armed 
Forces of Ukraine also noted the indifferent attitude 
of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
to the fate of personnel ---- and said Ukrainian 
servicemen are not spared, sending them 
to the hottest spots.
 
At the same time, the prisoner declared the humane 
attitude of Russian servicemen to prisoners of war.
 
Earlier, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
surrendered and gave out the routes of his 
colleagues in the DPR.
 
"One of them (the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who 
surrendered -" Gazeta.En") told us all the information 
about how they came to this locality, at what time,
by what route, how many groups -- and when 
exactly they acted -- which allowed us to 
directly control this section and where 
people came to them," the company 
commander said.
 
Rajabo added that the information received - also allowed 
Russian troops to thwart an attempt to counterattack by
the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, according to 
him, the Ukrainian army lost almost 2 dozen soldiers.
 
Alexey Kovalenko, of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,  who was 
captured in the DPR, said that the military personnel of the 
airfield, where the F-16 fighters landed, were sent to the 
front. He noted that at first the servicemen were sent 
to one village, then transferred to another.
 
Earlier, a prisoner of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
said that the West "threw" Ukraine.
 
European countries are dragging out the conflict in 
Ukraine to make money from the fighting. This 
was stated to RIA Novosti by a Ukrainian 
soldier captured by the 83rd brigade 
of the Russian Airborne Forces.
 
According to him, Europe will push to the last, because 
war is always money. The captured fighter noted that 
the United States also makes a profit, due to the 
conflict in Ukraine.
 
"Our top leadership ---- I'm more than sure that he earns 
money from this. And who is suffering? Ordinary hard 
workers who will never see such money," he said.
 
On May 11, a captured military officer of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine said that relatives of mobilized Ukrainians and 
citizens subject to conscription set fire to branches and 
vehicles of territorial recruitment centres (TCCs, an 
analog of military enlistment offices in Ukraine). 
According to him, they did it in protest.
 
Prior to this, the Ukrainian prisoners expressed their desire 
to take revenge on the employees of the shopping centre, 
who sent them to the front.
 
 
 
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Military commander Rudenko reported on
 the movement to liberate Kupyansk
May 23rd, 2:25pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Actions began to liberate the city of Kupyansk, Kharkiv region. 
This was stated by the military correspondent of VGTRK 
Andrey Rudenko.
 
The military commander posted a short post 
about the events, on his Telegram channel.
 
"Kupyansk! The movement to liberate
the city has begun," Rudenko wrote.
 
Earlier, the head of the military-civil administration of 
the Kharkiv region, Vitaly Ganchev, said that Russian 
troops had 2.5 km left, to reach Kupyansk's suburbs.


 
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The head of the Vishnevsky hospital 
spoke about providing assistance 
to wounded soldiers of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine
May 23rd, 1:07pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The head of the National Medical Research Centre for High 
Medical Technologies –  Alexander Esipov on the air of 
"Russia 24" said that -- in 2022, wounded Ukrainian 
soldiers were brought to the hospital, which our 
doctors treated as their own. According to the 
Major General, such cases occurred at the 
beginning of the special operation.
 
"But a wounded enemy, when he is wounded, he is no longer an
enemy – he is sick. There are also not all Nazis there, they are
different. There, and on the streets, they are caught and
some students are pushed there. But what does it have
to do with 
them? Therefore, we provide assistance
both to our own ....
and not our own,"
Esipov explained.
 
He also spoke about how the level of complexity of operations 
in the hospital and the rehabilitation of military personnel in 
connection with the use of new types of weapons in the 
free zone... has changed.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry:  46 Ukrainian soldiers 
surrendered to Russian Armed Forces in a week
May 23rd, 12:01pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
46 Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily surrendered 
to the Russian military in the period from May 
17 to May 23, 2025, the Ministry of Defense 
of the Russian Federation reported.
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian 
Armed Forces narrow a semicircle around 
Konstantinovsky garrison of the Armed
 Forces of Ukraine
May 23rd, 11:47am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces are narrowing the semicircle formed 
around the Konstantinovsky garrison of Ukrainian troops. This 
was announced on the air of the program "60 minutes" on 
the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent 
Pavel Kukushkin.
 
Commenting on the situation in the Konstantinovsky direction, 
the military commander noted that Russian troops are 
pressing the APU from three sides. In the west, the 
Russian Armed Forces... are very close to the 
village of Yablonovka, and - in the east, the
Russian army is advancing.. in the area 
of Chasova Yara -- as well as near the 
village of Stupochki, Kukushkin said.
 
"From the south, our assault units are also pressing in the area 
of the village of Kleban-Byk, from which about 8.5 kilometres 
to Konstantinovka are located from the south. Thus, we 
narrow this semi-ring around the Konstantinovsky 
garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," 
he concluded.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian 
Armed Forces violated the control system of the AFU units in
 the area of Konstantinovka. The Ukrainian Armed Forces 
deployed Polish mercenaries and an elite battalion of 
Magyar Birds drone guides to Konstantinovka - to 
patch up the holes in the defense caused by 
Russian strikes.
 
 
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Russian Defense Ministry: during the week, 
the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about
 9 thousand militants
May 23rd, 11:38am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Ukrainian army lost about nine thousand soldiers in the 
special military operation zone during a week of fighting. 
This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the 
Russian Federation.
 
According to the Defense Ministry, the weekly losses of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of responsibility of the 
group of troops "West" of the Armed Forces of the Russian 
Federation amounted to more than 1,585 militants. In 
addition, 13 armoured combat vehicles, three tanks, 
11 field artillery pieces and 65 vehicles 
were eliminated.
 
The group of forces "North" hit 13 Ukrainian formations and 
eliminated 1,180 Ukrainian soldiers. 14 armored vehicles, 
five tanks, 34 field artillery pieces and other equipment 
were also destroyed.
 
In the area of responsibility of the "South", the enemy lost 
more than 1,665 militants, 24 armoured combat vehicles, 
two tanks and three M113 armoured personnel carriers 
manufactured in the United States.
 
Units of the Center group of forces eliminated 2,875 soldiers
 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vostok – 1,185 soldiers 
and two tanks, Dnipro - 415 militants and a tank.
 
 
 
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Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian 
Armed Forces control most of the village 
of Orekhovo in the DPR
May 23rd, 11:16am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed forces control most of the village of 
Orekhovo in the Donetsk People's Republic, military 
correspondent Pavel Kukushkin said on the 60 
Minutes program on the Rossiya TV channel.
 
According to Kukushkin, Ukrainian troops have gained 
a foothold on the western outskirts of the village.
 
"Fighting is taking place in the village of Orekhovo. 
A small village, there are literally three streets, 
here two are already behind us. And from 
Orekhov literally 700 metres to the 
border with the Dnipropetrovsk
 region," said the military 
commander.
 
 
________________________________
 
 
 
Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces
 liberated Radkovka in Kharkiv region
May 23rd, 11:10am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops liberated the village of Radkovka 
in the Kharkiv region, according to the daily 
summary of the Russian Defense Ministry.
 
It is specified that Radkovka was 
liberated by the "Western" 
group of troops.
 
"As a result of the decisive actions of the units of the 
Zapad group of troops, the settlement of Radkovka 
in the Kharkiv region was liberated," the Russian 
Defense Ministry said in a statement.
 
In just a week, six settlements were liberated: Maryino in the 
Sumy region, Radkovka in the Kharkiv region, Alexandropol, 
Novoolenovka, Novaya Poltavka, and Bogatyr, in the DPR.
 
 
_________________________________
 
 
 
Military commander Kukushkin: The Russian 
Armed Forces are advancing in the area of 
Green Field and Novopol in the DPR
May 23rd, 11:07am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the area of
 the settlements of Zelyonoe Pole and Novopol, which 
are located on the border of the Donetsk People's 
Republic and the Dnipropetrovsk region. 
 
This was announced on the air of the program "60 minutes" 
on the TV channel "Russia" by military correspondent
Pavel Kukushkin.
 
He stressed that the Russian troops are conducting 
successful systematic work in all areas of the front.
 
"To the west of Velikaya Novoselka - in the area of the 
settlements of Zelenoe Pole and Novopol - there is 
progress, these settlements are close, already 
adjacent to the Dnipropetrovsk region. There 
are battles in the villages, liberation 
operations are underway," 
Kukushkin said.
 
Earlier, military correspondent Vladimir Razin reported 
that now fighting is going on for three settlements in 
the DPR, near the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
 

___________________________________________



Aidar militants deployed crematoria near
 the DPR and Dnipropetrovsk region
May 23rd, 7:36am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Militants of the Aidar group (recognized as a terrorist 
organization and banned in the Russian Federation) 
organized field crematoria in the border areas 
between the Donetsk People's Republic 
 and the Dnipropetrovsk region. 
 
This is reported by Russian law enforcement agencies.
 
It is noted that these objects are used to hide 
the significant losses of the Ukrainian side.
 
"The losses --- are very large. From the front line... bodies and 
fragments are taken away in what they can, up to ordinary 
supermarket bags. The militants themselves, call them 
field stokers," the law enforcement agencies told 
the TASS news agency.
 
According to security officials, conflicts have arisen, between 
old-timers and new recruits of the unit: young people arriving
 to hold their positions are opposed to secret cremation. In 
addition, it is reported that the units recorded a decline 
in morale, and the demoralization of personnel.
 
According to the same sources, the command of "Aidar" 
..began to withdraw its main forces from the combat 
zone in the Southern Donetsk direction deep into 
the Dnipropetrovsk region. Only recently 
mobilized recruits remain in the 
frontline positions. 
 
The decision is associated with huge losses, 
the law enforcement agencies noted.
 
 
_____________________________________________
 
 
Alaudinov: "Akhmat" does not 
capture foreign mercenaries
May 23rd, 6:14am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Lieutenant-General Apti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat 
special forces and deputy head of the Main Military-Political 
Directorate of the Russian Defense Ministry, told RIA 
Novosti that the fighters of his unit do not capture 
foreign mercenaries who are fighting on the side 
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Ukraine.
Alaudinov noted that the unit has 
never had such a task.
 
"I don't think that the foreign mercenaries who came to fight 
against our country are our brothers. These are not our 
brothers, in any case," Alaudinov said.
 
At the same time, the Lieutenant General added that a different 
approach is applied to Ukrainian soldiers - in cases when they 
are ready to surrender, an order is issued to save their lives. 
In his opinion, a significant part of Ukrainian soldiers are 
forced to go to the front line, and many of them would 
not go to war against Russia if they had a choice. 
Therefore, as Alaudinov stressed, Ukrainian 
servicemen are always given the 
opportunity to surrender 
and stay alive.
 
The commander noted that the attitude towards foreigners 
who fight on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine 
...remains special. He said that such people come 
from other countries without knowing the local 
situation. According to Alaudinov, the foreign 
mercenaries are not offered to surrender, 
and representatives of other countries 
---- fighting on the side of the Armed
Forces of Ukraine --- he believes - 
should be destroyed, especially
 if they find themselves on the 
territory of the Russian 
Federation. 
 
As an alternative, he said, foreigners are allowed to leave 
the territory of Russia and then share their experience 
of participating in military operations with Russia.
 
Earlier, Alaudinov said that the barrage detachments of the 
Armed Forces of Ukraine shoot Ukrainian servicemen 
returning from captivity. He claimed.... that the 
captured Ukrainians say that they do not 
want to return to Ukraine, because of 
the threat of cruel reprisals.
 
 
___________________________________________


In Zaporizhia region - a woman was killed 
in attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
 May 22nd, 9:30pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces... struck a car in the 
Zaporozhye region. At that time, there were five 
people in it — one woman and four children. 

A woman was killed in the attack, 
Regional Governor Yevgeny 
Balitsky said ----- in a 
Telegram channel.
 
The victim was a girl born in 1990. The injured children are ten, 
nine, eight years old. A one-year-old child -- was also injured. 

"The children have moderate injuries, they receive medical 
care, there is no threat to their lives," Balitsky added.
 
The official noted that the family of the deceased, as well as 
the victims, will be provided with comprehensive assistance.
 
Earlier it became known that in the Belgorod region, as a result 
of the AFU strike, three people were injured, including a seven-
year-old child.
 
 
____________________________________
 
 
 
Zaluzhny called the situation 
in Ukraine catastrophic
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
 May 22nd, 9:21pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Former commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 
now Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK --- Valery Zaluzhny, said 
that now the country's economic situation is in a catastrophic 
state ---- and it can hardly conduct combat operations. 
His words are quoted by the Obozrevatel portal.
 
According to the ex-commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces 
of Ukraine, Ukraine is also experiencing a huge shortage of 
human resources and cannot fully fight. "We are talking 
only about a high-tech war for survival.... where a 
minimum of human resources and a minimum 
of economic resources are used," 
Zaluzhny said.
 
Given the current state of the country's demography 
and economy, this is natural, the official stressed.
 
Earlier, Zaluzhny said that not even a miracle 
will return the borders of 1991 ...to Ukraine.
 
 
_____________________________________________
 
 
 
The State Duma pointed out an important 
detail ---- when creating the buffer zone
by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 9:04pm
(Lenta,ru)
 
The range of missiles that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have 
should be taken into account when creating a buffer zone. 
With this opinion in a conversation with NEWS.ru Alexey 
Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma 
Committee on Defense, shared his opinion.
 
"If we talk about security for our borders, we should first of all 
take into account the range of foreign weapons that are 
supplied to Ukraine," the official explained, recalling 
that Storm Shadow missiles can cover a distance 
of up to 500 kilometres. "It's already very close
 to Kiev," he added.
 
Zhuravlev stressed that there is a scenario in which Ukraine will
 have to be divided — this is possible if the West continues to 
supply such missiles to Kiev. He noted that the whole of 
Ukraine ------ should be made a buffer zone between 
Russia and the West.
 
Earlier, a member of the State Duma's defense Committee, 
Andrey Kolesnik, said that the length of the buffer zone 
will be at least 50 kilometres.
 
 
 
____________________________________________
 
 
 

Ukrainian teenagers found
the 
country's future ---
 hopeless

by Nikita Khromin (night line editor)
May 22nd, 8:50pm
(Lenta.ru)
 
Every fourth teenager surveyed wants to leave Ukraine. 
Such data appear in the study of the foundation of the 
wife of Ukrainian leader, Vladimir Zelensky, Elena, 
and they are given on the official website of 
the foundation.
 
The survey involved 5,089 teenagers aged 13 to 16.
45% 
said they would like to stay in Ukraine, 25%
expressed a desire to leave the country in the 
future. 14% ...are undecided and another 
11% --- preferred not to answer.
 
The most popular reasons for migration were the desire to 
see the world, security factors and the "hopelessness of 
the country's future". 60 percent of the respondents... 
believe in a good future for Ukraine.
 
Earlier, Ukrainian officials expressed doubts that  
refugees will return to the country, after the 
conflict ends.
 
 
__________________________________
 
 
 
Columnist Kornev: the sky of Ukraine will 
become a checkpoint yard --- without 
foreign air defense systems
May 22nd, 8:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
If the West stops supplying Kiev with anti-aircraft missile 
systems( SAMs), the sky of Ukraine will become a 
"checkpoint yard". This opinion was expressed 
to the TV channel "Russia 24" by military 
observer Dmitry Kornev.
 
He noted that a number of countries can stop the supply 
of air defense systems to Ukraine if the United States 
strictly stops military assistance to Kiev.
 
"If the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems from outside 
to Ukraine stops, then, of course, the sky of Ukraine will
 become a passing yard, and sometimes we see signs 
of such a state," Kornev believes.
 
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Russian
 Armed Forces --- with an Iskander strike destroyed two enemy 
Patriot air defense systems near the village of Ordzhonikidze 
in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
Earlier, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said at a hearing 
of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee that none of 
Washington's NATO allies..... wants to transfer Patriot 
complexes to Kiev.
 
 
 
____________________________
 
 
 
Marochko: soldiers of the Russian Armed 
Forces almost cut the AFU grouping 
in Krasnoarmeysk
May 22nd, 6:27pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian army practically cut off the AFU troops 
stationed at Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and 
Konstantinovka. This was announced by 
military expert Andrey Marochko, in 
a conversation with TASS.
 
It is specified that the advance of Russian troops occurred 
due to the liberation of the settlement of Novaya Poltavka 
in the DPR, by units of the Center group of troops.
 
"With the capture of Novaya Poltavka, the Armed Forces of
 the Russian Federation practically cut off the grouping of 
Ukrainian militants who are located in Krasnoarmeysk 
and in Konstantinovka," Marochko said.
 
In late April, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, 
said that the most difficult situation for Ukrainian militants 
--- was in the Krasnoarmeysky direction. As previously 
reported, the command transfers there detachments
 of foreign mercenaries who are armed with NATO 
weapons and are much better prepared than 
Ukrainian servicemen. 
 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also sending untrained 
fighters to Krasnoarmeysk, in an attempt to contain 
the advance of Russian troops.
 
 
 
______________________________________
 
 
 
 
Professor Artamonov predicts a sharp change
in the situation at the front, in favour of 
the Russian Federation
May 22nd, 6:02pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
In the next month and a half, there will be a sharp change in 
the situation at the front in favor of Russia. This forecast 
was made by Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of 
the Russian Foreign Ministry, a specialist in NATO 
armies, Alexander Artamonov.
 
He believes that the Ukrainian command, by its unprofessional 
actions, provokes the AFU militants and the civilian population 
to react negatively.
 
"There will definitely be a reaction from the population, from the 
military, that is, those who put on a uniform --- and realized that 
they were being killed, that they were sent to the front in order 
to be killed there. And I think it will be right now, when they 
see that America's aid is weakening, and that no one is 
trying to support them abroad. Therefore, yes, indeed,
I foresee a sharp change in the situation at the front, 
in the next month & a half. In our favour, of course," 
Artamonov said.
 
The professor noted that the accompanying factors may 
also be an increase in the density of Russian fire and
 the realization that the United States is no longer 
on the side of Ukraine.
 
"All this, of course, should lead to panic moods against the 
background of the constant, even, unhurried advance of 
the Russian army. Accordingly... further, as they say, 
when a person is cornered, he has only two ways 
out. More precisely, maybe even three. Either 
surrender, or run away, become a deserter, 
or, as I said, turn your weapons against 
your own commanders --- and those 
who give thoughtless and insane
 orders," Artamonov said.
 
Earlier, he suggested that the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
would begin a panicked retreat, and Russian troops 
would advance to the city of Dnepropetrovsk 
within two months.
 
 
 
______________________________________
 
 
 
Professor Artamonov suggested that 
the Russian Armed Forces --- will 
advance to Dnepropetrovsk
May 22nd, 6:03pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Alexander Artamonov, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy 
of the Russian Foreign Ministry and a specialist in NATO 
armies, suggested that Russian troops will advance to 
the city of Dnepropetrovsk (Ukrainian name-Dnipro) 
within two months.
 
In his opinion, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will start a panic 
retreat and try to detain the Russian military, only at the 
turn of Dnepropetrovsk.
 
"I fully foresee that the front will roll back, and, most likely, it is 
primarily in the south, to the Dnieper. I think that within about 
two months we will see a panicked retreat of the Ukrainian 
Armed Forces, who will really try to detain us further at 
the turn of the Dnieper," Artamonov said.
 
 
 
______________________________________
 
 
 
Putin: Russian Armed Forces -- solve 
the problem .......of creating a buffer 
zone along the border with Ukraine
May 22nd, 4pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed forces are working to create a 
buffer zone along the border with Ukraine. This 
was announced by the Russian President,
 Vladimir Putin.
 
At a meeting with members of the government, the head 
of state recalled the decision taken earlier... to create
the 
necessary security buffer zone along the border.
 
"Our armed forces -- are now solving this problem, the
enemy's firing points are being actively suppressed, 
and work is underway," Putin said.
 
Earlier, military correspondent Alexey Gavrish on the air of 
the program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia", 
reported that the Russian armed forces continue to 
create a buffer zone in the Sumy region. In his 
opinion, its depth should be about 60 km.
 
 
 
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"The situation is disappointing." What the 
Ukrainian Armed Forces say about the 
breakthrough of Russian troops to
 the Dnipropetrovsk region
by Yuri Leonov (senior editor of 
the Former USSR department)
May 22nd, 1:59pm 
(Lenta.ru)
 
The situation in the area of the breakthrough of the 
Russian Armed Forces (AF) to the border of the 
Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) --- and the 
Dnipropetrovsk region, is disappointing, 
said a lieutenant of the Armed Forces
of Ukraine (AFU) with the call sign 
Alex, in his Telegram channel.
 
Ukrainian military commander, Bohdan Miroshnikov, spoke
about the collapse of the defense of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine, in 
the area of the village of Novopol - located at
the junction of 
the DPR, Zaporozhye & Dnepropetrovsk
regions' borders.

According to him -- high-intensity fighting is taking
place
 in all areas of the Novopavlovsky direction.
 
Miroshnikov was also skeptical about the prospects of Ukrainian 
defenses in Bogatyr village. According to him ----- the Russian
Armed Forces, after taking the village, can pass along the 
Volchya River to the rear of the APU..... to a depth of 
15 kilometres to the village of Yalta -- and create 
a threat of encirclement of the APU group in 
the area of the settlements of Otradnoye 
and Komar. 
 
The military commander stressed that the Russian military's 
access to the Filia-Hrushevske-Yalta triangle, will be key 
for the entire Ukrainian defense in this direction.
 
''I don't think that [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] 
will be able to stay in Bogatyr for a long time.''
 
The Ukrainian authorities - refused to recognize 
the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces
 
The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military Administration, 
Serhiy Lysak, said ---- that reports of the Russian Armed Forces 
entering the territory of his region do not correspond to reality. 
 
At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of 
Ukraine, has not officially commented on the situation.
 
The only official representative of the AFU command who 
commented on the information... was Artem Mokhnach, 
the Head of the Communications Department of the 
Donetsk Operational and Tactical Department. 
 
He also refused to admit the fact -- of the breakthrough of 
the Russian Armed Forces in the area of Novonikolaevka.
 


__________________________________________________________



Defense Ministry: Russian Armed Forces 
liberated Novaya Poltavka in the DPR
May 22nd, 12:22pm
(Vesti.ru)
 
Russian troops liberated the village of Novaya Poltavka in the 
DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a daily summary.
 
The Defense Ministry noted - that - thanks to the active and 
decisive actions of the units of the Center group of troops, 
control over this settlement was established.
 
"As a result of the active - and decisive - actions of the units of the 
Center group of troops, the settlement of Novaya Poltavka in the 
Donetsk People's Republic was liberated," the ministry said, in 
a statement.
 
Military correspondent Vladimir Razin in the program "60 
minutes" on the TV channel "Russia", explained that the
 situation is developing in the Red Army direction. 
 
According to him, east of Pokrovsk, near Mirnograd --- Russian 
units are expanding the control zone, and moving deeper into
the territory beyond the highway connecting Konstantinovka 
& Pokrovsk, and advancing towards the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd 
agglomeration.
 
 
_______________________________________
 
 
 
Military commander Razin said that the 
Russian Armed Forces are moving 
towards Novoeconomicheskoe
 in the DPR
May 22nd, 11:23am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed forces are moving in the direction of the 
village of Novoeconomicheskoe in the Donetsk People's 
Republic in the Krasnoarmeysky direction, military 
correspondent Vladimir Razin said -- on the 60 
Minutes program, on Rossiya TV channel.
 
Commenting on the situation in the Red Army area, Razin 
noted that Russian troops are expanding the zone of 
control in the area of the city of Mirnograd.
 
"We are also moving towards Novoeconomicheskoe, which is 
actually.... an outpost of the eastern flank of the Pokrovsk-
Mirnograd agglomeration," the military commander said.
 
He stressed - that Russian troops are seriously disrupting 
the logistics of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area.
 
Earlier it was reported that the Russian Armed Forces 
eliminated the female UAV crew of the Ukrainian
troops in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
 
 
 
__________________________________________
 
 
 
Military commander Razin --- The Russian 
Armed Forces expand the control zone 
in the area of Mirnograd in the DPR
May 22nd, 11:15am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed Forces are expanding the zone of control 
in the area of the city of Mirnograd in the Donetsk People's 
Republic, military correspondent Vladimir Razin said on 
the 60 Minutes program on the Rossiya TV channel.
 
Thus, the military commissar commented on the 
situation in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
 
"East of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk. - Editor), at Mirnograd,
we are expanding the control zone and moving deeper 
already..... beyond the highway that connects 
Konstantinovka and Pokrovsk directly.'' 
 
''And here [there is a movement].. towards 
the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd agglomeration," 
Razin added.
 
Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that 
Russian troops were being released metre by metre 
in the Krasnoarmeysky direction.
 
Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the Russian Public Chamber's 
Commission on Sovereignty -------- and co-chairman of the 
Coordination Council for the Integration of New regions,
announced the start of fighting for the last section of
 the border between the Zaporizhia region and the 
DPR .../on May 22. 
 
Here --- the fighting is going on for the 
villages of Novopol and Zelenoe Pole.
 
 
 
_____________________________________
 
 
 
Military commander Razin: fighting is going on for 
three settlements near the Dnipropetrovsk region
May 22nd, 11:05am
(Vesti.ru)
 
The Russian armed Forces are fighting for three settlements in 
the Donetsk People's Republic, located on the border with the 
Dnipropetrovsk region. This was reported on the air of the 
program "60 minutes" on the TV channel "Russia" by
 military correspondent Vladimir Razin.
 
Razin stressed that small groups of Russian troops are 
moving to the borders with the Dnipropetrovsk region.
 
"This is happening in the area of Novonikolayevka and 
Novosergiyevka (villages in the DPR-ed.) - there are 
now - battles for these settlements. At the same 
time, to the south, in the area of the village of 
Orekhovo, the liberation of this locality - is 
underway. Fighting is going on for these 
three points, this will actually mean a 
full-fledged exit to the borders with 
the Dnipropetrovsk region," the 
military commander said.
 
On May 21, journalist Vladimir Solovyov reported
 that Russian troops had reached the border of 
the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
 
 
 
____________________________________________
 
 
 
Rogov: there are battles for the last section 
of the border of the Zaporozhye region
 and the DPR
May 22nd, 8:32am
(Vesti.ru)
 
Chairman of the Russian Public Chamber's Commission on 
Sovereignty, co-chairman of the Coordination Council
for 
the integration of new regions Vladimir Rogov 
announced the start of fighting for the last 
section of the border between the 
Zaporozhye region ----- and the 
Donetsk People's Republic.
 
Rogov said that so far the site is under 
the control of Ukrainian militants.
 
"In fact, fighting has begun for the liberation of the last 
section of the border between the Zaporozhye region 
and the DPR," he told RIA Novosti.
 
According to Rogov, the fighting unfolded for the villages 
of Novopol and Zelenoe Pole. These settlements are 
located on the border of the Zaporozhye region 
and the DPR in the direction of the village 
of Temirovka.
 
On the Zaporozhye front line, the Russian Armed Forces are
 advancing in the Stepnogorsk and Orekhovsky directions, 
Rogov added.
 
 

___________________________________________


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US Systematically Removed Trust 
and Transparency Safeguards 
Preventing Nuclear War,
Ignores Remainder
by Morgan Artyukhina
January 28th, 11:13pm (Sputnik)



During and after the Cold War, when NATO and the
 Warsaw Pact armies faced each other down, 
backed by nuclear arsenals, the two sides 
reached agreements to make war much 
less likely.


 However, the US has systematically pulled them apart 
in its quest to maintain global dominance --- making
the
 present situation significantly more dangerous.


As the US threatens to send thousands of troops
to
 Eastern Europe... joining an already-boosted 
an Enhanced Forward Presence by the NATO 
alliance, claiming... it needs to deter an
 imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, 
it is proving inflexible... toward any 
defense considerations of Russia, 
on whose border, several NATO 
members sit.


The situation has Russian leaders, who have patiently
 and publicly articulated their concerns in Eastern
 Europe - as a way to resolve the present crisis -
flummoxed. The US has demanded that Russia 
pull its troops back from parts of Russia's 
territory near the Ukrainian border, 
claiming they pose an inherent 
threat to Ukraine. 


However, Moscow has denied any intent to invade, 
saying that its troops are engaged in drills, and
asserting its sovereign right to send soldiers
anywhere on its territory. Ironically...  the
Ukrainian
 leaders have also downplayed
US claims
 that an invasion threat exists.


The situation is so volatile because of years of
 building tension in the region, while at the 
same time, many of the safeguards 
intended to keep tensions and 
suspicions low have been 
removed or ignored by 
the United States.


1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty


The first blow was struck in 2001, when then-US
 President George W. Bush, unilaterally pulled 
the US out of the ABM treaty, which limited 
the US and Russia - the Soviet Union when
 the treaty was signed - to two complexes 
of ballistic missile interceptors.


It had been feared in the early 1970s that recent 
technological developments, such as multiple
 independent reentry vehicles (MIRV), could
 provoke a dangerous arms race, in which, 
a nuclear first strike might seem like the
 advantageous option for a nation with 
such a defensive network. 


By limiting defensive measures to a set of interceptors
 around the capital city and another around a complex
 of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silos, the
 US and USSR believed the threat of war 
was diminished.


Bush claimed... the treaty had left the US vulnerable to
 attack and created the Missile Defense Agency at the
 Pentagon to oversee a new generation of air defense
 systems, such as the Terminal High Altitude Area
 Defense (THAAD), Patriot PAC-3, and Ground-
Based Midcourse Defense. 


However, just 18 months prior, then-US President Bill
 Clinton had joined Russian President Vladimir Putin 
in calling the ABM Treaty the “cornerstone of 
strategic stability.”


As predicted, the treaty’s removal sparked an arms
race, with Moscow dusting off old plans for hyper-
sonic weapons which it unveiled in 2017, in order 
to compensate for Washington’s dramatically
 increased protection from ballistic
missile
 attack.


2002 Treaty of Moscow/ New START (Almost)


The Treaty Between the USA - and the Russian
Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions 
(SORT), also called, simply, the Treaty of 
Moscow, was a simple arms limitation 
treaty. Russia and the US agreed to
limit their nuclear arsenals 
to
between 1,700 and 2,200 
operationally deployed 
warheads each.


The deal had many faults, including that no warheads
 were destroyed, meaning they could be put into
 storage and then unpacked in 2012, when the
 treaty expired - and expire it did, albeit also 
being superseded by the New Strategic 
Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) 
in 2011. 


New START called for halving the number of strategic
 nuclear missile launchers, and established a new
 inspection and verification regime, although, it 
also did not get rid of the storage loophole.


The administration of former US President Donald
 Trump fully intended for New START to die, when
 it expired in February 2021, but after he lost the 
November 2020 election to US President Joe 
Biden, a new leader came into office just 
weeks before the expiration --- and
r
enewed it for another five years.


1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty


Similarly to the ABM Treaty, the US unilaterally pulled
 out of the INF Treaty in 2019. However, instead of
 simply stating it wished to develop weapons 
beyond the treaty’s limitations, the Trump 
administration accused Moscow of 
violating the treaty by lying about 
the range of its 9M728/9M729 
missiles used by Iskander
 missile systems. 


Nonetheless, within 2 weeks of the US’ formal 
departure from the treaty, in August 2019, it 
began testing the first of multiple missiles
 that violated the treaty’s limitations.


The origins of the INF Treaty lay in a dramatic
 showdown, across Europe, in late 1983, 
triggered by Washington’s deployment 
of ITS Pershing-II intermediate-range 
ballistic missiles (IRBM) to Europe.


 With a 900-mile range, a flight apogee of just 60 miles,
 and a maneuverable, radar-guided reentry vehicle, 
the missile could put an 80-kiloton nuclear war-
head on Moscow in between 6 and 11 minutes
 ...according to Pentagon leaders. Such a fast 
strike time gave the Soviets just minutes to 
identify, analyze and respond to the threat, 
greatly increasing the risk of them mis-
reading a situation and launching a 
mistaken nuclear return volley, 
believing it to be their 
only chance.


In addition, tensions in Europe had already been
 ramped up by years of psychological operations
 designed to increase Soviet anxieties, such as 
US bombers charging Soviet borders and 
turning away at the last second


That’s why, when NATO began the vast, ultra-realistic
 “Able Archer-83” war games, simulating an all-out
 attack on the Soviet Union, in November 1983,
it 
put Soviet fears through the roof. 


However, it wasn’t until after the war games had
concluded, several days later, that NATO 
commanders discovered key signs: the 
Soviets had loaded hundreds of strike 
aircraft in East Germany and Poland 
with nuclear bombs, and orders to 
strike “front-line targets” at a 
moment’s notice.


The INF Treaty eliminated missiles like the Pershing-II, 
banning land-based missiles with ranges of between
 500 klms and 5,500 klms. This significantly cooled
 tensions in Europe... although the treaty was only
 between the US and Soviet Union -- now Russia --
 which left other countries, such as China, free to
 develop their own intermediate-range missiles.


The INF’s absence now is especially poignant,
considering the long-standing Russian fears 
over a NATO Aegis Ashore missile system, 
built on a land base in Deveselu, Romania. 


While the US claimed the system was purely
 defensive, Moscow noted... that Aegis can 
also be used to launch offensive missiles.


 Among the missiles tested after the INF Treaty lapsed
 was a land-based Tomahawk missile with a range of 
1,600 kilometres - a cruise missile US Aegis 
cruisers have fired at sea for years.


1992 Treaty on Open Skies


The Open Skies treaty... was an attempt to increase
 transparency and put to rest fears of an impending
 attack by the other side. The deal allowed 35 
partner nations to perform reconnaissance 
overflights over other nations... using 
specialized aircraft with specialized 
equipment. However, flights could 
not interfere with other military 
activities and could be refused 
by the overflown nation, for a 
variety of reasons.


The US sent signs it was interested in leaving the
 treaty as early as 2019, claiming it was caused 
by Russia refusing US Open Skies aircraft 
access to several areas almost a decade 
earlier - denials Moscow insisted were 
within its rights under the treaty. 


The US finally made the move on May 21ST 2020,
 meaning the six-month cooldown time had the 
US leaving the treaty, after the November
2020
 elections, that Trump lost.


The decision sparked an outcry across Europe,
with
 Ukraine being one of the loudest critics;
that nation having long used Open Skies to 
perform overflights in western Russia, to
calm its nerves about troops and 
installations there.


Indeed, the Open Skies Treaty was drafted precisely to
 avoid the type of anxious confrontation... unfolding on
 the Russia-Ukraine border, over the last two months.


The Democrats publicly attacked Trump’s withdrawal
 as illegal then... although much of their criticism 
focused on his refusal to notify Congress before 
pulling out. However, in March 2021, a leaked 
message --- sent to concerned “international 
partners” by the Biden administration said
 it was afraid that doing so “would send 
the wrong message to Russia and 
undermine our position... on the
 broader arms control agenda.”


Istanbul, Astana Declarations


The Organization for Security and Cooperation in
 Europe (OSCE) has its origins in the November 
1972 multilateral talks in Espoo, Finland 
...intended to further the peaceful 
cooperation of the Detente era.


 Today, the OSCE has 57 members and 11 observers
 and continues to serve as a regional forum for 
resolving international issues.


Two of its most important declarations of principles
 came at summits in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999 and in 
Astana (now Nur-Sultan), Kazakhstan, in 2010, 
which, among other topics, affirmed each
 nation’s right to its own security in the
 context of an international community.


"The security of each participating State... is
 inseparably linked to that of all others. Each
 participating State, has an equal right to 
security. We reaffirm the inherent right 
of each and every participating State 
...to be free to choose or change its
 security arrangements, including 
treaties of alliance, as
they evolve.''


 ''Each State also has the right to neutrality. Each
 participating State will respect the rights of
all 
others in these regards. They will not 
strengthen their security ...at the 
expense of... the security of 
other States.'' the Astana
 declaration states.


While the OSCE met in Vienna, Austria, 2 weeks ago,
 the talks yielded no major breakthrough. Earlier this
 week -- when the US and NATO delivered separate
 written responses to Russia’s December security
 proposal -- the US response was considerably 
more intransigent, while NATO’s, sent from 
Brussels and speaking for 30 member 
states, acknowledged the Russian 
security concerns and proposed 
mutual briefings in the NATO-
Russia Council and the re-
establishment of their 
respective envoys in 
Moscow & Brussels.


However, neither reply gave deference to Russia’s
 central concern --- the eastward expansion of 
NATO and the impact that has on Russian 
security, especially since now, the US 
explicitly regards Russia as a 
challenger to its position
...as 
leader of the post-
Cold War
 global order.


Speaking on Thursday, about the US response,
in particular, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey 
Lavrov said "The principle that one should not
strengthen one's security -- at the expense of 
the security of others is deliberately avoided.
Neither the Istanbul or Astana declarations
are mentioned by 
our Western partners
in the 
discussions on European 
security that are currently 
taking place. We cannot 
accept this.”


Morgan Artyukhina is a writer and news editor at
Sputnik’s Washington, DC, bureau...   focusing on
international & breaking news. Born in southern
Maryland, she studied Russian, Central, and 
East European Studies, at the University of 
Glasgow and is a former history professor. 

At Sputnik, she covers military technology, 
the expanding neoliberal police state, and 
the ongoing struggles against it in the US
and around the globe.



palestine

 
Paul Larudee:
Zionist Dream 
Turning into Nightmare
November 25th, 5:26pm (FNA)
 
 Paul Larudee, political activist and commentator, 
says Zionists have come to this understating 
- that Zionism is now nearing its predestined 
self-annihilation.
 
Speaking in an interview with FNA, Larudee 
said, “Zionism planted the seeds of its own 
destruction the moment they created a 
plan for a Jewish state in someone 
else's homeland. It is increasingly 
becoming an international pariah 
...contributing to the wars and 
conflicts in West Asia, South 
America, Africa, and other 
parts of the world. It only 
creates more enemies 
for them.”
 
Paul Larudee is an - Iranian-born - American political
activist who is a major figure in the pro-Palestinian
 movement. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, 
he is involved with the International Solidarity 
Movement, & was a founder of the Free Gaza
Movement & the Free Palestine Movement.

Larudee was a member of the US delegation 
aboard the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla,
 which was attacked by Israeli forces.
 
Below is the full text of the interview:
 
Q: Yaakov Sharett says “Israel and the Zionist
 enterprise were born in sin.” What do we 
learn about the nature of Israel?
 
A: Such words from a Zionist leader's son may help to
 gradually sink doubts into the minds of other Zionists,
 but we must not forget that many Jews were opposed
 to Zionism for decades before 1948. It is unfortunate
 that as Zionism became more successful in its
 genocidal project, it also became more 
acceptable to more Jews. But that is 
now being reversed. As Zionism 
becomes more racist, violent, 
and aggressive, it is starting 
to lose Jews who cannot 
stomach such behaviour.
 
Q: Such a significant assertion was made by the son
 of a signatory to the Israeli declaration in 1948. Do 
you believe settlers will learn a lesson to end their 
occupation of the Palestinians’ land?
 
A: There are two kinds of settlers that are being used
 to colonize the West Bank and Jerusalem. The most
 aggressive and violent are the ideological settlers,
 who think of themselves as conquering soldiers,
 much like the Europeans who took the land from
 the native peoples in the western hemisphere. 
 
They want to expel all Palestinians by any means
 necessary, and take their land. They do not need
 Israel to paint a rosy picture. They are ready to
 endure hardship, although Israel actually 
helps and enables them. The other type 
are the opportunists. Israel builds 
subsidized housing and industrial 
parks on Palestinian land... and 
makes it attractive for settlers 
to move there. Israel creates 
many advantages for them... 
so as to increase the Jewish 
population in the occupied 
territories and push the 
Palestinians out.
 
Q: Yaakov Sharett predicts a dark future for Israel 
and asks settlers to immigrate from Israel; like-
wise, Lawrence Wilkerson, former Israeli State
 Department aide, said Israel will be gone in 
some 20 years. How do you assess
 these statements?
 
A: Clearly, Sharett is being a realist in this case.
 Despite Israel's influence, propaganda, bribes 
and manipulations of other governments, it is
 increasingly becoming an international pariah, 
contributing to the wars and conflicts in West 
Asia, South America, Africa and other parts of 
the world. They believe that this makes them 
strong, but it only creates more enemies for 
them. Sharett seems to understand that the 
Zionist dream is proving to be unsustainable.
 It can only be realized by committing greater 
and greater crimes, but even many Zionists 
consider this too high a price for their dream, 
and their dream is turning into a nightmare. 
 
Zionism planted the seeds of its own destruction 
the moment they created a plan for a Jewish 
state on someone else's homeland.
 

palestine

UN Must Prevent Normalization of
 Israeli Violation of Human Rights:
 Iran Envoy
November 20th, 11am (al Manar)


Iran’s ambassador to the UN office in Geneva 
put the onus on the United Nations: to take 
action: against the normalization of the
systematic violation of human rights 
and humanitarian laws, by the 
Zionist regime.


In an address to a meeting between ambassadors 
of the member states of the Organization of 
Islamic Cooperation, residing in Geneva, 
and to members of the Commission of 
Inquiry of the UN Council on Human 
Rights, held on Friday, Esmaeil 
Baqaei Hamaneh called for the
clarification of true and false 
narratives, referring to the 
stories...  that equate the
victims of Israeli crimes 
with the perpetrators 
of the heinous acts.


“It is the duty of all of us to clarify the true and false
 narratives, the narrative that equates the victims 
of Israeli crimes, with their killers, which is 
humanly shocking, legally unfounded, 
and morally shameful,” the Iranian 
envoy stressed.


He added that the inquiry commission has an historic
 responsibility --- to prevent the normalization of 
systematic human rights violations by the 
Israeli regime. 


The Iranian diplomat invited all the participants in the 
meeting to call for justice; and not allow war crimes, 
crimes against humanity, and blatant violations of
human rights, to become normal, Press 
TV reported.


In May, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to initiate 
an international probe into “systematic” human rights
 abuses committed during the asymmetrical war 
between ‘Israel’ and Palestinian resistance 
groups in the besieged Gaza Strip. 


The 47-member forum adopted a resolution presented 
by Pakistan on behalf of the OIC and the Palestinian
 delegation to the UN, by a vote of 24 states in
favour, 
9 against, and 14 abstentions.


The UN rights body agreed to establish “an ongoing 
independent, international commission of inquiry” 
into the war to probe the “underlying root causes 
of recurrent tensions and instability, including 
the systematic discrimination and repression 
based on group identity.”


Israeli troops have, on numerous occasions, been 
caught on camera, brutally killing Palestinians... 
with the videos going viral online and sparking 
international condemnation. 


The Tel Aviv regime has been criticized for its extensive 
use of lethal force against, and extrajudicial killing of,
 Palestinians... who do not pose an immediate threat 
to the occupation forces, or to the Israeli settlers.


In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, called 
on the International Criminal Court to launch an 
immediate investigation into the Tel Aviv 
regime’s crimes, in the occupied 
Palestinian territories  ---  after 
the Israeli forces shot dead a
young man, in the northern 
part of the West Bank.


Source: Iranian Agencies

Bill Dores

 China is no threat
to people in the US;
Wall Street, CIA & 
the Pentagon are
-- Analyst
October 16th, 3:14pm (PressTV)
 
US political analyst and activist Bill Dores says
China is no threat to the people in the US., but
Wall Street, the CIA, and the Pentagon, are.
 
Dores, a writer for Struggle/La Lucha and a longtime 
antiwar activist, made the remarks in an interview
 with Press TV on Saturday, after the CIA launched 
a new mission centre to address what it calls
“the 
most important geopolitical threat”
posed...
 by China.
 
CIA Director William Burns said in a statement last week 
that the new unit, called the China Mission Centre, will
 “further strengthen our collective work on the most
 important geopolitical threat we face in the 21st 
century, an increasingly adversarial Chinese 
government.”
 
Burns said that his agency will still focus on other threats
 as well, including those emanating from Russia, North 
Korea and Iran.
 
The CIA’s renewed attention to China is the latest evidence
 of the Biden administration’s focus on Beijing as its main
 foreign policy target.
 
Since taking charge of the White House earlier this year, 
the Biden administration has been directing resources 
toward countering China.
 
Why is the CIA targeting China?
 
“The CIA is grabbing more tax money  ---  to start a ‘mission
 centre’ aimed at China, which it calls the ‘most important
 geopolitical threat we face.’ This is ominous news 
- considering the agency’s history of 'fabricating' 
evidence to start wars, e.g. Iraq’s nonexistent
 ‘weapons of mass destruction,’” Dores 
commented to Press TV.
 
“US troops have left Afghanistan. But not a dime has been
 slashed from the bloated US military budget. Indeed, it’s
 being increased to $778 billion from $753 billion to face 
the alleged ‘Chinese threat.’ That’s more than the 
combined military budgets of China, India, 
Russia, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Germany, 
France, Japan, South Korea, Italy 
and Australia,” he added.
 
“It’s also been revealed that US Special Forces have been 
operating secretly on Taiwan for two years. Meanwhile...
the US Congress will not pass the Build Back Better Act
 to modestly extend our social safety net,” he added.
 
“The People’s Republic of China...  has five times the
p
opulation of the United States. But it spends only 
$258 billion on its military. China’s forces are 
deployed in - or around - the borders and 
coasts of China. By no stretch of the 
imagination is China threatening 
he US militarily. Why would it? 
For what gain?” he asked.
 
So, what the Sam Hill is a ‘geopolitical threat.’ It’s a
 twisted concept based on the twisted premise that 
the United States, with 4 percent of the world’s 
population, should dominate the world 
politically & economically. And that 
really means the billionaires and 
millionaires, that Occupy Wall 
Street protesters called the 
‘One Percent,’” he stated.
 
China’s economic  ‘threat’ to US
 
“China’s real ‘threat,’ in the minds of the US corporate 
ruling class, is economic. China produces more than 
the United States, and its economy is growing
much 
faster,” the analyst said.  
 
“It has achieved this, not by destroying the economies of 
other countries with war and sanctions, but by growth, 
and trade. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has greatly
 weakened the stranglehold Wall Street banks once 
held on the world economy. An article in the US 
magazine Foreign Policy whined: that China is 
‘whittling away’ at the murderous ‘sanctions 
regime’ the US and West Europe use -- to 
‘punish’ countries that defy their 
dictates,” he explained.
 
“US corporations do, of course, invest in China. They make
 a lot of money there. But they cannot dictate to China's
 government the way US oil companies dictated to the 
Shah of Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Or 
the way they dictate to their paid servants in the 
White House and the Capitol today,”
 he observed.
 
“Politicians and news media tell working-class people in 
the US that China’s growth is, somehow, a threat to our 
well-being. They conceal the fact: that China’s dynamic
 growth is the biggest single factor staving off a global
 economic collapse,” he said.
 
“Yet it is their own Wall Street masters who have shut 
down plants all over this country and foreclosed on 
millions of homes. It is they who used the techno-
logical revolution as a weapon, to drive down 
wages and destroy millions of jobs,” 
Dores said.
 
Washington’s ‘hate China’ campaign
 
“Washington raises several phony issues in its ‘hate 
China’ campaign. One is the alleged persecution of
 the Uighur people in Xinjiang Province. There’s 
nothing but hypocrisy here,” the analyst said.
 
“If this claim were true - and I’ve seen no reliable evidence
 that it is - Washington would be the last to care. The US 
leads the world in mass incarceration and murder 
by police,” he noted.
 
“According to the Equal Justice Initiative... ‘Millions of 
Americans are incarcerated in overcrowded, violent, 
and inhumane jails and prisons.. that do not provide 
treatment, education, or rehabilitation.' A majority 
are from the oppressed Black, Latin and Native 
nations... targeted by the police,” he said.
 
“Among the incarcerated are dozens of political 
prisoners, such as Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard 
Peltier and Jamil Abdullah Al Amin, who have 
spent decades behind bars on framed-up 
charges,” he stated.
 
“Last year’s Black Lives Matter uprising..... highlighted 
the extent of racist police murder in the US. Between 
1980 and 2018, the US police killed more than 30,000 
people. Half of those killings were misclassified,
according to a study published in the Lancet 
medical journal,” he said.
 
US supports ‘ethnic cleansing and 
murder of Palestinian people’
 
“We also can't forget that Washington not only supports
but subsidizes --- the ethnic cleansing and murder of 
Palestinian people --- by the racist state of Israel,
including the mass imprisonment of 2 million
people in the giant concentration camp 
called the Gaza Strip. The US also has 
no problem with the oppression of 
the majority Muslim people of 
Kashmir, by the Indian
state,” 
Dores noted.
 
“The US accuses China of stealing ‘intellectual property,’ 
a twisted concept indeed. Perhaps the West should pay 
China for inventing paper, iron smelting, the seed drill,
 the compass, rockets, gunpowder and other 
innovations... that made its economic 
development possible,” he said.
 
“There is the accusation of currency manipulation. But 
Washington... has flooded the world with devalued 
dollars ever since the Nixon administration took 
the dollar off the gold standard in the 1970s. 
The US has long used the dollar as an 
instrument of financial warfare,” 
he said.
 
Why is the US Navy in the South China Sea?
 
“And there is the issue of ‘free navigation’ in the South 
China Sea. Which raises the question, what is the US 
Seventh Fleet doing in the South China Sea anyway? 
For that matter, why is the US Fifth Fleet off the 
coast of Iran and the US Fourth Fleet off the 
coast of Venezuela,” Dores said.
 
“Every year, ships carry $3.4 trillion worth of goods 
through the South China Sea. Most of that is 
bound to and from China,” he said.
 
“The PRC has no interest in stopping that commerce. 
It does have an interest in keeping US warships 
away from its coast and ports,” he said.
 
“For the past seven years, the US Navy has helped Saudi 
Arabia impose a naval blockade that is starving the 
children of Yemen. US sanctions, backed by the 
US Navy, are the main obstacle to commerce 
between nations in the world today,”
 he said.
 
“Instead of new CIA mission centres, military bases and 
fleets of warships and warplanes all over the world, the
 US should do what China does: Invest in schools, 
health care, housing, railroads and renewable 
energy. Bring all the ships, planes, troops 
and spies home. The world would be a
 much better and safer place,” 
he concluded.
 
 

Sa’dollah Zarei

 
Iran won’t let US, Turkey, Israel 
create crisis in Caucasus
Sunday, October 3rd,
11:51am (PressTV)
by Sa’dollah Zarei
 
The fact of the matter is, that if there is no more time for
 preventing a conspiracy from taking shape... there is 
still time to thwart the conspiracy that has formed.
 Here are some points with regards to this issue:
 
1) What the US, the Zionist regime, the governments of 
Turkey and Azerbaijan, and the West in general, are
 pursuing in the regions north of Iran is, firstly,
reaction to the great achievements of the
Islamic Republic and the resistance front.
 
When the criminal Zionist regime refers to the Republic of
 Azerbaijan as “Lebanon of Israel,” it means that there is 
a “Lebanon of resistance” that has foiled any Israeli
 conspiracy over the past forty years and turned
 into a major crisis for the occupying regime.
 
Why is a front led by the US, Zionist regime, Turkey and
 Azerbaijan, talking about launching a pan-Turan move
-ment here? Because a powerful religious movement 
has, for more than 40 years, disrupted the plots of 
colonialists and criminals. So, it is quite clear
that
 the enemy, although very hardworking,
is in a 
state of “passivity.”
 
Here is another important question: will this evil conspiracy
 ever yield any result? The answer is that there is a serious
 antidote to prevent the realization of this tension-making 
scheme, and if it enters the scene, it will definitely
 thwart the plan, as it has happened so far.
 
2) Some people make a mistake here and say that the Syunik 
agreement with North Karabakh... is a matter that concerns 
the governments of Azerbaijan and Armenia and that Iran’s
 objection to it is not a matter of concern. They argue that
 the implementation of the agreement is to the detriment 
of Iran’s regional situation, but it is a natural 
consequence and thus does not create a
 right for Iran to legitimize its opposition.
 
The answer is clear; This is not an agreement between the 
two countries on a disputed region, but one on creating a
 region meant to undermine the security, political and 
economic position of a third country.
 
While acknowledging their military and political failure, in
 Afghanistan, the Americans explicitly speak of pursuing 
a proxy war model to make up for their defeat. Shortly 
afterwards, it becomes known that they had sent a 
signal to Azerbaijan to launch and attack and a 
signal to Armenia to, in turn, show tolerance 
and accept the post-war reality, and at the 
same time, following the end of a recent 
44-day Karabakh war, the US stated
 that they 'support' the agreements 
reached between Azerbaijan and
 Armenia. All this suggests that 
the US has been standing
behind this war 
and the
situation
 that ensued.
 
Simultaneously, the Azerbaijani government announced
 the widespread use of Israeli attack drones in the war, 
and the Armenian army called the UAVs the main 
reason for its heavy casualties in the war. This 
means that it was an American-Israeli war.
 
Everyone knows, that the administration of Armenian 
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is a Christian govern-
ment dependent on the West, but it's interesting that 
in this war, the United States and Israel destroyed
the
 forces and facilities belonging to a pro-West 
Christian administration, and supported a 
Muslim government instead! Isn’t that
 a telltale sign?
 
The question is, what kind of “proxy war” US officials 
were talking about in the course of their withdrawal 
from Afghanistan? Was it possible for the US to 
start such a war in Afghanistan?  Which forces
could be used by the US to launch a proxy war
in Afghanistan? Could the US bring the Taliban
- which was taking power - into a proxy war?
Proxy war with whom? The answer is no.
 
Was the Afghan army able to enter a proxy war? The 
answer's clear. Was the army that was not even able 
to defend Kabul for an hour, against the Taliban — 
which took control of the capital without firing a 
single shot — ready to enter a proxy war? 
Could the old mujahedeen forces.. serve 
as the proxies of the American war? The 
answer is clear. The old forces, besides 
having an anti-American spirit...  have
currently no military capability. Could
the USA... create a ''proxy force'' in 
Afghanistan, in the medium term,
with the Taliban et al present on
the scene? The answer to this 
question is also, no. This is 
because...  for at least the 
next 50 years... US crimes
will be in front of the eyes 
of the Afghan people, and
the prospect for any kind 
of Afghan-American,
cooperation...
 is bleak.
 
So, what did the Americans mean by a proxy war? In fact,
 the Americans wanted a proxy war where there was a
 fertile ground... and the required strength. From the 
American point of view, the “ethnicity” factor must 
be emphasized and turned into a winning weapon 
against anti-American revolutionary uprisings. 

The Americans have long focused on the 
model of racism and pan-Turanism...  in
 the case of this region, and considered 
them as “a possible solution,” or more 
accurately, the last “remaining arrow,”
 and pinned their hopes on it.
 
Therefore, the prominent role of this tendency, in the
 developments in the north, and its overlapping in the
 Caucasus, besides the intention to highlight the anti
Iranian and anti-Islamic edges in the rhetoric of the 
officials of these countries, tell us that we are 
facing a “semi-hard” proxy war.
 
When Azeri President Ilham Aliyev speaks openly in an
 interview about the widespread presence of Israeli 
forces and equipment in the Caucasus, and the 
resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis, he
 is, in fact, blowing the lid off a proxy war.
 
3) Saudi Arabia’s measures are yet another issue that
is
 indicative of the proxy war in the developments 
unfolding in Iran’s northwestern frontiers, on 
the one side, and its scale, on the other. The
 Saudis have explicitly said that they are 
working to launch a 24-hour television 
network for the Turkish region of the 
Caucasus called “Turk national.” 
 
Why is the Saudi regime in the Caucasus trying to launch
 such a TV network? The people in this region are neither
 Arabs nor Sunnis in order for them to be the audience of 
a Sunni Arab country. At the same time, it is obvious
that 
this decision cannot be implemented without
the 
consent and cooperation of the governments
in
 the region.
 
4) Naturally, on this front, Iran can't remain silent and turn 
a blind eye to the dimensions and consequences of the 
action that being along its borders; therefore, it has to
 react, but what is the due reaction? There is no doubt 
that military conflict & dragging Iran into the military
 arena is a well-known policy of the American front.

On
 the other hand... we know that what is intended for
the
 Caucasus region is not even a full-fledged military 
war, let alone a regional and multilateral war. We 
are thus not talking about a war in the sense
 that it is perceived. We are talking about 
actions that disturb the peace of this 
region and the interests of the 
powers around it.
 
Isn’t it true... that the Azerbaijani government says Israeli 
drones and forces have been involved in the recent war 
between the Republic of Azerbaijan, and the Republic of
 Armenia? Isn’t it true that the Israelis explicitly referred
 to the Republic of Azerbaijan... as “Lebanon of Israel”? 
Since there are talks about the formation of a definite 
security threat against the Islamic Republic, Iran has
 the right to dismantle and confront the centre of 
conspiracy against itself, without coordination 
with any place or individual. 
 
This type of Iranian confrontation is not so incomprehensible
 to Zionists. Interestingly, an Israeli institution wrote a few
 days ago: “Iran may want to retaliate against Israeli attacks
 in Syria in Azerbaijan.” The regime is attacking areas in 
Syria under the false pretext that Syria has become a 
base for the presence of Iranian military personnel. 
The Israeli institute asks what problem would arise
 if Iran attacked a base in Azerbaijan, where Israeli 
force are possibly present?
 
Of course, Iran knows very well how to use developments
to the detriment of its enemies. The Islamic Republic will 
naturally begin with negotiations, to fraternally resolve 
the issue between neighbours on Iran’s northwestern
border. Over the past 2 decades, the United States, 
Turkey, and the Zionist regime have faced ultimate 
defeat in any sedition that they incited and gotten 
out of the situation while fraught with humiliation. 

They are inciting sedition while they do not have
 the power to tolerate and manage the war. If 
these acts of sedition are not put aside, they
 will face defeat, thanks to Iran’s measures.
 
(The views expressed in this article.... do 
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)


Boris Malagurski

It’s time for NATO to leave Kosovo
 before it does any more damage
October 2nd, 10:36am (RT)
 
By Boris Malagurski, a Serbian Canadian documentary
film director, known for “The Weight of Chains”, 
enlisted in the catalogue of the Library of 
Congress, whose work has been show-
cased on international festivals... 
including Raindance in London. 
Follow Boris on Twitter @malagurski
 
Just as it all ended badly for the West’s military interventions 
in Vietnam and Afghanistan, so it will in Kosovo. NATO has 
overstepped its mandate, overplayed its hand, and 
overstayed its welcome.
 
As the last US military helicopters were leaving Kabul, 
Afghanistan, many, including myself, emphasized the 
similarities with America’s embarrassment in Saigon, 
South Vietnam – but one parallel that few dared to 
draw, was with Kosovo.
 
When I merely asked “Is Kosovo next?” on Twitter, it 
sent Albanian media outlets into a frenzy. Kosovo’s
 Albanian majority celebrates the NATO troops as 
saviours – NATO bombed Serbia, to take away 
control of its Southern province of Kosovo in 
1999. Since then, NATO has been sponsoring 
a nation-building project... that seemed to
have 
culminated in 2008, when Kosovo’s 
provisional authorities declared 
independence from Serbia.
 
It wasn’t an ‘end of history’ moment. Serbia and much of 
the world didn’t recognize Kosovo as an independent 
country, and Kosovo itself remained heavily 
dependent on Western aid... and military 
support. Most Albanian politicians are 
aware of this and they are highly 
obedient with regards to NATO, 
whose KFOR troops are
 ‘keeping the peace’ 
in Kosovo.
 
However, NATO has overstepped its mandate. UN Security 
Council Resolution 1244, which put an end to NATO’s war 
with Yugoslavia, guarantees Serbia’s sovereignty over 
Kosovo, while NATO has pushed for an independent 
Kosovo from day one of their occupation. The 
resolution also called for... the return of an 
agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian 
personnel to maintain a presence at 
significant sites and key border 
crossings....  NATO has never 
allowed this to happen. The 
last Serbian prime minister 
who called for this agree-
ment to be honored, was 
assassinated in 2003,
little over a month
after his request.
 
On the other hand, what are the results of NATO’s nation
 building in Kosovo? Close to a 30% unemployment rate. 
One of the poorest areas of Europe...  with as much as 
45% of the population living below the official poverty
 line, and 17% being extremely poor. Former Kosovo 
Liberation Army terrorists, some accused of 
trafficking weapons and human organs, 
replaced their military uniforms with 
politicians’ suits and are governing 
the entity. The previous president 
of Kosovo, nicknamed ‘The Snake’
...is currently being tried for war 
crimes, and crimes against 
humanity, at The Hague. 
 
He’s the one who unveiled the Bill Clinton statue in 
Kosovo’s capital. Bill then came to celebrate with 
‘The Snake’.
 
Kosovo’s recent license plate row with Serbia was just 
the latest example of a leadership in Kosovo incapable 
of dealing with real issues, but rather... going into 
conflict... to cover its incompetence. Instead of 
negotiating with Belgrade, Kosovo unilaterally
 used force --- to implement the removal of 
Serbian license plates. And all that NATO 
was willing to contribute to deescalate 
the tensions... was to offer its KFOR 
troops, to replace Kosovo’s special 
unit, without even trying to resolve
 the essence of the dispute. What
 is NATO still doing in Kosovo?
 
Probably the same thing it was doing in Afghanistan. 
Hoping a bad decision to go in, will eventually pay 
off somehow. But it won’t. It didn’t in Vietnam, it 
didn’t in Afghanistan, and it won’t in Kosovo. 
So it’s time for NATO to start packing 
its bags.
 
The statements, views and opinions expressed 
in this column, are solely those of the author, 
& don't, necessarily, represent those of RT.
 
 

 Iqbal Jassat

“Normalization": Betrayal of
Palestine
 by Arab despots
no easy road
by Iqbal Jassat
October 1st, 11am (PressTV)
 
Pinning Palestinians down while applying harsh 
measures of violent repression -- accompanied 
by a fanatical settler movement of arch-racists
 given free reign to attack and plunder -- is a 
notorious game Israel has elevated to a 
daily ritual.
 
In fact the routine of inflicting war crimes has all 
the hallmarks of a rogue regime entirely caught 
up in a misplaced belief --- that to engage in
ethnic 
cleansing, is a religious obligation.
 
Conflating Judaism with a racist political ideology 
of Zionism has been part of a strategy designed 
to deceive, distort and divert. It has its roots in 
the first Zionist congress held on the eve of 
the 19th century.
 
That this is well documented and widely known is
 not in dispute. Indeed... awareness of Zionism's 
goal to dismember and dislodge Palestinians 
from their centuries old homeland and 
forcibly impose thereon a foreign
 entity known as Israel, has 
always been a bedrock
 for resistance.
 
Israel has thus always been considered an enemy 
thrust upon a native population through the most 
horrific forms of terrorism. The memories of Deir 
Yassin remind the world of bloody massacres 
committed by Zionist terrorists which didn't 
spare hundreds of villages... to 
colonize Palestine.
 
That more than seven decades later the expansionist 
goals of Zionism are still being pursued at great 
human cost to successive generations of the 
indigenous Palestinian population, is 
reflected in daily atrocities.
 
None of these facts, as attested to by historians, as 
well as organs of the United Nations, are contested. 
Though of course Israel and supporters of it seek 
to distort and malign commentators who speak 
truth to power, as anti-Semitic.
 
Yet against this background of terrorism and current 
conditions siege, occupation, killings and mass 
imprisonment - recorded and broadcast via 
mainstream media for all the world to 
witness - it is bizarre that a handful 
of Arab regimes, have broken rank 
with Palestine's freedom struggle.
 
And at a time when even Haaretz describes 
the atrocities by Israel, as a pogrom:
 
"Residents of the Palestinian communities in the south-
eastern West Bank have experience of settler attacks
 - when they graze their flocks, work their fields, or 
even have a picnic on their own land....  But they 
cannot recall an attack like the one experienced 
Tuesday -- by the small communities of Khirbat 
al-Mufkara, al-Rakiz and al-Tuwani. On Simhat 
Torah, dozens of young Jews, most of them 
masked, conducted what can only be 
described as a pogrom."
 
The treachery associated with what has become known 
as "normalization" is an outrageous manifestation of 
betrayal and collaboration. Limited to the UAE, 
Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco,.. these regimes 
have in effect confessed that the protection 
of their shaky thrones... counts for more... 
than legitimate rights of the Palestinians.
 
As unelected self-imposed despots fearful of democratic 
values, they have bargained that "normalization" with 
the usurper of Palestine will "guarantee" safety and 
protection for them. In other words, just as Egypt 
has done, these oligarchs have outsourced their 
intelligence networks and security apparatus
to
 Israel, knowing full well that in doing so,
they 
have abandoned Palestine.
 
Though the abnormality of the implicit recognition of an 
illegal colonial enterprise, has been in sharp contrast
 to countless Arab League resolutions... the deal of 
"normalization" pushed by Trump and vigorously 
backed by the Biden administration... has
exposed 
these leaders - as surrogates
of 
western imperialism.
 
The case of Bahrain's role in the "Abraham Accords" 
reveals the soft underbelly of Arab dictatorships. 

Besides being financially dependent on its 
neighbours especially the UAE and Saudi 
Arabia, Bahrain’s alliance with Israel is 
designed to entrench its power and 
crush any resistance to author-
itarianism or efforts towards 
freedom and democracy.
 
In 2011, during the onset of the Arab Spring uprisings, 
Saudi Arabia sent troops to Bahrain to suppress anti
-government protests. This trend continues today 
by Israel --- equally committed to maintaining the 
status quo, and preventing the success of any 
popular uprisings.
 
In this context, one may justifiably condemn
Bahrain’s
 gross insensitivity and abject
abdication of 
Palestine's freedom
struggle...
 as treacherous.
 
Showcasing Israeli war criminal Lapid’s visit to Manama 
where he is set to open the embassy flying Israel's flag
 is utterly outrageous. This follows the opening of a 
Zionist embassy in Abu Dhabi, and will likely be 
establishing one in Rabat. Sudan thus far has 
reportedly said that it has no plans yet to
 open an embassy in Khartoum.
 
Not surprising therefore that the Arab street across these 
capitals have vowed to end "normalization". The iron-
fisted grip held by Arab despots notwithstanding, 
human rights movements (many banned and 
leaders exiled) have declared their outright 
rejection of America's much-vaunted 
Abraham Accords.
 
Stirrings in Sudan are becoming more vocal despite 
Khartoum's attempts to silence critics. In Bahrain 
the main opposition group, al-Wefaq National
 Islamic Society declared Lapid’s trip as a 
"threat", saying, "This is provocative 
news and this trip is completely
 rejected, and he (Lapid) should
 not set foot on Bahraini soil."
 
Their message is clear: "Any (Israeli)
presence
 on Bahraini soil ---
means incitement."
 
Iqbal Jassat is an executive at the Johannesburg-
based Media Review Network (MRN), a socio-
political advocacy group, that concerns 
itself with media and political analysis.
 
(The views expressed in this article do 
not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)
 
 

Paul Antonopoulos

Greece And France Take First Step 
Towards European Independence
 Following AUKUS Debacle
September 28th (South Front)
by Paul Antonopoulos, 
independent geopolitical analyst


Signing of Franco-Greek Agreement is the 
beginning of supplanting NATO in Europe.


Of the 30 NATO member states, Greece is one of the few 
to spend well over 2% of its GDP on defense, as agreed 
upon by NATO Defence Ministers, in 2006. However, 
Greece’s high spending (relative to GDP), is not 
because it is positioning itself as a buffed-up 
military state opposed to Russia, as per the 
aims of NATO, but rather, to defend itself 
against the threats of another NATO 
member, Turkey. 


With NATO consistently downplaying Turkish aggression 
against Greece and the new AUKUS pact creating 
distrust between the Anglosphere and the 
Europeans... Greece has ensured new 
extra security assurances against 
its long-time enemy.


Greece’s strengthened partnership with France highlights 
that the immediate consequences of the AUKUS alliance 
are already being felt, as the two countries are making 
the first serious steps towards a Europe independent 
of Washington.


Alexis Papahelas, one of Greece’s top journalists, explained 
that the Franco-Greek security pact is Macron’s “revenge” 
against the Americans as it will strengthen European 
autonomy. He also confirmed persistent rumours 
that a defensive pact between France and 
Greece was almost reached last year, 
but ultimately broke down at the 
last minute for “unknown
 reasons.”


To put the situation in context, Greece for a year and a half-
received bids from six countries, including France, the U.S.
and UK for brand new navy frigates. The finalization of a 
deal was continuously delayed... due to Greece’s 
insistence, that a frigate purchase must
include 
a defense agreement. 


Greece signed its 12-month Mutual Defense Cooperation 
Agreement (MDCA) with the US last year, but ultimately 
did not decide on which frigate bid to accept. With 
negotiations for a Franco-Greek defence pact 
last year stalling, Athens ultimately decided 
to sign the MDCA... with Washington. This 
was rumored to be partially motivated 
as part of 'negotiations' to pressure 
the French to accept Greek terms. 


However, with the sudden emergence of AUKUS, European 
trust in the Anglosphere quickly diminished, and thus 
galvanized Franco-Greek discussions on European
independence. And finally, a deal to purchase 
three brand-new French Belharra-class 
frigates, was stricken.


For his part, Mitsotakis said on Tuesday morning at the 
signing of the agreement that:-  “It is an historic day
for 
Greece and France. Today’s development is an 
initiative that responds to the demands of the 
times on our continent. It paves the way for 
an autonomous and strong Europe of the 
future. Whether there is a timetable for 
creating a European army: the debate 
on European military autonomy, 
evolves. Options such as this 
corporate defense partner-
ship, move to this central 
strategic choice.”


Effectively, Greece and France are advocating for a pan-
European military that would likely drive out NATO, as 
the premier defensive pact in Europe.


Another demonstration that this pact is aimed at 
supplanting NATO... is its careful wording. 
Although Turkey was not mentioned 
explicitly, there is little doubt that 
part of the motivation for the 
Franco-Greek defense pact 
was Turkey’s unilateral 
aggression in the 
Mediterranean.


Even just minutes after the signing of the Franco-Greek 
agreement, former Dutch diplomat Fons Stoelinga 
tweeted: “EU autonomy in security and defense. 
NATO still does not address the problem of 
NATO-member Turkey destabilizing the 
whole Eastern Mediterranean region. 
France and Greece now react and 
signed a security bilateral pact.”


The mutual defense assistance clause of the agreement 
ensures that if Greece or France is attacked on its 
territory, the other will come to assist, even if the 
attacking country is part of other alliances..... 
including NATO. This is an obvious message 
directed towards Turkey, a NATO member 
that on a daily basis violates Greek air-
space and threatens to invade its 
Aegean islands. 


These violations and threats receive no repercussions from 
NATO as individual members are unwilling to risk their 
economic relations with the country, whilst many 
NATO leaders still believe that Turkey is a
 bulwark against Russia.


France for most of its modern history, but especially 
galvanized under President Emmanuel Macron.. had 
an ambition of creating a more independent Europe.

 The European experience under former U.S. 
President, Donald Trump, and the recent 
snub from President Joe Biden, with the 
AUKUS debacle... has only increased
the 
urgency of achieving European 
independence from Washington.


 Despite this ambition, as well as warning Europe that it will
 become secondary in world affairs, if it does not become 
independent, it appears that France can finally kickstart
 its project alongside Greece.


Achieving EU unity is a difficult prospect, because minnow 
states like Lithuania prioritize the interests of Washington 
rather than the continent, but as Paris and Athens have 
shown --- they will move ahead, in changing the geo-
political balance in the Mediterranean and will not
 wait, while member states continuously bicker 
amongst themselves on foreign policy issues. 


If France and Greece can create strong foundations for an 
independent Europe, it will only be inevitable before more
 EU member states become interested in also being 
integrated into a continental structure that is
 independent of transatlantic alliances.
 
 

Eric Zuesse

 
Why did the Taliban win against
 the Americans in Afghanistan?
by Eric Zuesse
August 21st, 2021 
 
Why did the communists win 
against the Americans in Vietnam?
 
Why did the communists win 
against the capitalists in the 
Russian Revolution?
 
Why did the American Revolutionists 
win against the British Empire?
 
I shall here propose an answer to all of them, because
that 
answer applies to all such cases, as I'll explain:
 
When an imperialistic society is as corrupt as Britain has
been 
since the creation of the British East India Company
in 1600, 
and as America has been since the end of World
War II in 
1945, with its takeover and control by the MIC
(military-
industrial complex), which has inevitably
produced the 
cancerous growth of America’s
permanent-warfare 
state, what, then, is the
reason to continue living by 
staying merely
as a colonist or a vassal-regime 
(or even
as the imperialist regime itself), 
which 
means, when the imposed regime is
so 
profoundly corrupt --- as any
imperialist power necessarily
is --- to accept 
such
corruption, as this? 


There’s something that is worse than dying... and it is to continue 
living under a regime that one utterly despises. That’s a dragged
-out death, instead of a quick death. A regime which is as 
corrupt as any imperialistic regime inevitably is, will be
 intolerable for a significant number of the residents in 
any one of its vassal-nations or “colonies.” Death, for 
them, isn’t such a bad choice, if it means that they'll 
go down fighting to overthrow it. They are driven by
 the motivation, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” 
 
This is a motivation that few, if any, of the imperialistic regime’s hired
 soldiers (regardless of whether conscripted or not) can match. And
 when they are foreigners who are fighting on a foreign soil (instead 
of locals who are defending their land’s own locally determined 
rulers), they especially and certainly cannot match such 
motivation, because only the locals can be fighting with 
a patriotic spirit. This is an intrinsic weakness in any  
empire. And imperialist leaders tend to ignore it, 
because they don’t want to understand how 
repulsive they are, to virtually anyone but
 their own boot-lickers.
 
Ultimately, the demoralization of a hired soldier’s continuing to place
 his very existence in jeopardy so as to continue the war to enslave 
and control the resisting local subject-population will mount high
 enough to produce self-contempt, desertion, and sometimes 
even suicide, in the oppressing power’s forces, especially if
t
hat’s a foreign power.

No longer will the rationalizations(that
 “We are protecting
the residents here”) be able to continue 
fooling the
invading-force’s soldier, and the imposed stooge
-
regime’s soldier. They both (the foreign regime,
and its 
imposed local stooge-government or
colony) are there 
really, to control the local
subject-population; 
and, ultimately, enough
of the oppressor’s forces will 
know this to
cause the imposed stooge-
government,
to be conquered by those 
indigenous
residents there - 
people who will be
recalled 
as heroes, by the other
residents in that land.

This is an 
advantage that any revolutionists 
have, against the imposed regime.
 
This is the real  meaning of “martyrs,” in the deeper sense than 
merely of a religious type — it is instead of the patriotic type; it
 concerns the land -- and not necessarily any religion -- such as 
Christianity, Islam, or Marxism. Their loyalty is to Afghanistan; 
or it is to Vietnam; or it is to Russia; or it is to China; or (before
America became imperialistic) it was to America. And so forth.
It is to the local land, not to any dictators. It is to the country 
that the foreign invader’s forces are occupying. The 
invader’s forces and their imposed stooge-regimes 
can’t match this motivation.
 
Similarly, when the American invaders were conquered by the 
residents of Vietnam, the winners were the Vietnamese, not 
really the communists; and, in fact, the Marxist philosophy 
(or ‘religion’) subsequently has waned there. America, in 
Vietnam, as in Afghanistan, was the invader, in a land 
which had not invaded their own. 
 
That similar situation exists in Afghanistan. The Sauds had invaded
 America on 9/11, with the assistance of G.W. Bush, Condoleezza 
Rice, and perhaps others in the Administration. And so, the U.S.
-imposed soldiers in Afghanistan couldn’t even possibly have 
been fighting against Afghanistan for any authentically 
patriotic real (factually true) reason, at all. Therefore, 
lies were constantly needed by the U.S. regime, not 
only against Iraq, but even against Afghanistan. 
 
(Furthermore, if Bush’s objective had really been to identify whom 
and how was actually behind the 9/11 attacks, then he would have
 pursued that at the U.N. Security Council and would have gotten
 unanimous backing for it, which would quickly have isolated 
and led to the destruction of Al Qaeda. It could all have been 
done without any war between nations, and also fully in 
accord with international law. To the extent that 9/11
was 
state-sponsored terrorism, it was actually being 
sponsored by the Governments of the U.S. and 
Saudi Arabia. 
 
George W. Bush, who was buddy-close with the Sauds, used 9/11 as 
an excuse to trash both the U.S. Constitution and international law 
so as to hoist yet higher his own tyranny, his own power - not only
internationally but also.. in his own nation. An imperialist would, 
of course, like to trash both, and to hoist his personal power as 
high as possible. And GWB had the boldness to do it, and -
 because America has been imperialistic ever since 1945
 (i.e., international aggressions... have been America’s 
culture since 1945) — he has been able to enjoy the 
success of getting away with doing it. However, 
everyone else, and especially outside
America’s 
MIC, suffers from it.
 
What have the mere soldiers of invading and occupying 
imperialist powers actually earned by having placed
 their own lives at risk? Maybe a tombstone back 
home, in the country that had invaded and 
occupied that colony.
 
By contrast, even if a defending soldier has died as a 
hero among the locals in a failed revolution against 
the imperialist power, any tombstone will be 
unnecessary to be that person’s memorial, 
because the true memorial is in the heart, 
and in the mind, of the locals there, not 
in anything that is in the land of the 
invading foreign power.
 
And, so, I propose that the answer, to the question here, is that, 
whereas America’s Founders were waging war as heroes 
(because their war was just), today’s Americans are 
waging war as villains (because our wars are unjust 
- imperialistic aggressions, instead of heroic 
defenses against an aggressor). Between 
America’s founding and the present time, 
America has switched from doing war 
against military occupiers, to doing 
war as military occupiers.
 
And this, I maintain, is the reason why: “The Taliban’s 80,000 
troops have retaken Afghanistan with cities falling like 
dominos while the 300,000-strong government forces,
 better equipped and trained, mostly melted and 
surrendered with no will to fight.”
 
What today’s Taliban are to today’s Afghanistan is therefore what
 the 1776 American Revolutionists were to the America of that era. 
It’s not the ideology; it is the love of that land there, which has 
motivated the residents’ forces to victory, against the forces 
of the invading-and-occupying foreign power. This can 
happen in any land, at any time.
 
America went into Vietnam focused on the “body counts.” That’s 
how stupid America’s imperialistic leaders were, back then. The 
only motivation they really understood was fear: “body counts.” 
They’ve evidently learned nothing since. That is how corrupt 
America is.
 
Right now in America, the ‘debate’ about Afghanistan is about Joe 
Biden, who is basically irrelevant. He wanted to end America’s 
military occupation there, just as Trump did, and just as 
Obama did. He acted on it, whereas they did not — they 
didn’t want to be accused by their political opponents 
of having ‘lost Afghanistan on their watch’, but Biden 
was evidently willing to risk it. 
 
His only failure in the matter is that he kept lying to the American 
people (and probably also to himself) about how chaotic the 
evacuation would inevitably be, and about how collapsed 
Afghanistan is, and has been, ever since the Soviets 
invaded there in 1979. 
 
Throughout America’s imperialistic era, the U.S. Government has
 routinely been lying to the American people. Imperialism isn’t as 
bad for the imperialistic nation’s public as it is for the conquered
land’s people, but it is very bad, even for them. The only people 
who benefit from it are the billionaires, who control companies 
such as Lockheed Martin, and ExxonMobil, and Amazon. 
Those are the people (the owners), who hire the leading 
politicians, including the members of Congress, and the 
Presidents, to spread their empire, and their control. 
 
They also hire the ‘journalists’ who shape their nation’s public 
to support these invasions and military occupations. The 
Government officials of an imperialistic regime represent 
not the nation’s public - but its aristocracy - who hire and 
appoint millions of the rest, the many agents (employees,
 etc.) of the few billionaires. The billionaires really control 
their country. After all: America is a thoroughly corrupt 
country, just as any imperialistic country is. (All 
imperialistic countries, are controlled by their 
aristocracy. And every aristocracy is corrupt.) 
 
The public in Afghanistan have long known this fact about America -
 that it is corrupt. And this is the main reason why the Taliban now 
rule that country. They represent that land. Not this land. It’s a 
different culture, and a different place. To most Afghans, 
America represents only corruption. There is nothing 
unique about what is now happening in Afghanistan. 
It has been happening for thousands of years, and 
it’s just replaying an ancient script, but in that 
particular location.
 
However, instead, the U.S.-and-allied media are focusing on Biden’s 
bit part (which was always in a supporting role) in America’s 
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. So, probably 
nothing will be learned from America’s invasion and 
occupation of Afghanistan, just as nothing was 
learned from America’s invasion & occupation 
of Iraq, and from America’s invasion and 
occupation of Vietnam, and from the 
many other such post-WW-II 
American foreign disasters. 
 
For America’s billionaires, these have all been great successes 
(very profitable); and, so, probably nothing that’s useful to the 
American people will be learned from history; and, instead, 
the myths will continue that have caused “The Military” to
 be either the highest-respected or the second-highest-
respected of all of the 19 named institutions in
America
 - the world’s permanent-
warfare state. 
 
The American military wastes the most money and the most blood 
of any institution in America, but Americans nonetheless respect it 
enormously. That, too, is a mark of an imperialistic country. The 
way to control a public is to sustain the myths. U.S.-and-allied 
billionaires make sure that it is done - however much it costs.
 
As regards the future of Afghanistan itself: On August the 19th, 
the most reliable geostrategic reporter and analyst, Alexander 
Mercouris, headlined at The Duran, “US Freezes Afghanistan 
Reserves, Threatens Economic Crisis. Russia Works to 
Establish New Government”, and he explained why the 
Taliban will either cooperate with Russia, China, and 
Iran, or else will degenerate yet further into a failed 
state, especially because the U.S. and its allies will 
do everything possible to strangle the fully looted 
Government of Afghanistan — the new Islamic 
Emirate of Afghanistan. So: even after the US 
and its allies have all left that land, the war 
against the people there will continue, in 
full force, from the same people, though 
with different methods.
 
PS: The philosopher Zizek headlined at RT on August 20th, “The
 true enemy for Islamists is not the West’s neocolonialism or 
military aggression, but our ‘immoral’ culture”, and he said 
“it was not neocons who boosted Islamic fundamentalism, 
this fundamentalism grew up in a reaction to the influence 
of Western liberal secularism and individualism.” 
 
He did not understand that though religious fundamentalists 
(including the Taliban) focus especially on sexual and gender 
issues, a person didn’t have to be at all religious in order to 
consider the financial and economic corruption of the
 imperialists and of their stooges to be disgusting. 
 
Americans didn’t invade & occupy Afghanistan, in order to 
spread “liberal secularism and individualism,” but in order 
for US-and-allied billionaires to expand their wealth, their 
empire, and their global control. Even if the Taliban and 
other religious persons might object only (or even just 
mainly) to the sexual and gender issues... a broader 
segment of the Afghan population were repelled by
 the rampant financial and economic corruption of 
the imperialists, and of their stooge-rulers. 
 
This was not a defeat for “secularism and individualism.” 
It was a rejection of imperialism: a rejection of it even
by 
people who don’t understand what “imperialism”
means.
 
(Source: Strategic Culture Foundation)


 Iqbal Jassat

 
Israel is committed to
 aggressively pursuing 
'Zionist colonialism', 
says analyst
August 14th, 9:38am (PressTV)
 
A political commentator says Israel is relentlessly 
following its "Zionist colonialism" in the occupied 
Palestinian territories, and the evacuation orders 
handed out to indigenous Palestinian families
in the West Bank and 
Jerusalem al-Quds,
are in line 
with the regime’s land 
expropriation policies: to build
more illegal 
settler homes.
 
“Israel aggressively pursues Zionist colonialism, which
 has been the bedrock of the regime’s illegal ethnic-
cleansing agenda for the last seventy or more 
years,” Iqbal Jassat, an executive member 
of Johannesburg-based Media Review 
Network, told Press TV, in an 
exclusive interview 
on Saturday.
 
He lambasted the Tel Aviv regime’s systematic theft of 
Palestinian property as “a reprehensible disregard 
for the inalienable rights of indigenous 
Palestinians to their own lands 
and homes.”
 
“The racist practice of evacuation, is a misleading 
interpretation of forced expulsion, illegal under 
the international law. It is also indicative of 
the Group Areas Act [of 1950], under the 
former apartheid regime of South
 Africa,” Jassat noted.
 
The South African analyst also criticized the United Nations
 and the International Criminal Court (ICC), for their 
“impotence” ...to prevent Israel's unjust and 
blatant violations of international 
conventions and principles.
 
“It also raises serious questions about the inherent biases
 existing within these institutions. These biases prevent 
the exercise of law --- to halt land grabs, home 
demolitions, expulsions and incremental
genocide,” 
he pointed out.
 
Jassat went on to say that Western countries’ decades-long 
guilty conscience has prevented these states from 
criticizing Israel, for its barbaric and brutal 
practices, as such denunciations would 
be treated as anti-Semitic.
 
“The US and its allies in NATO view Israel as a bulwark of 
their interests in the heart of the Muslim world. They,
 therefore, place their so-called security goals 
above injustices against Palestinians,”
 the analyst said.
 
“Moreover, the Arab world is mainly made up of unelected 
despots, from Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab 
Emirates and Bahrain. Their collective view, pivots 
on the false notion... that their security is tied 
to Israel. That explains the close proximity 
between their notorious intelligence 
services and Israel's Mossad 
and Shin Bet.”
 
Jassat further noted that the controversial normalization
 agreements that several Arab states have struck
with 
Israel, have stifled opposition to the
Tel Aviv 
regime’s colonialist and
expansionist policies.
 
He said the unacceptable betrayal of the Palestinians' 
struggle for liberation from the Israeli occupation,
has even resulted in the regime being granted 
observer status, at the African Union.



Daniel Patrick Welch

Peak hypocrisy: 
US is ''concerned'' 
about China's nukes
by Daniel Patrick Welch
August 7th, 11:45am


US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of 
China's nukes, on the anniversary of his own 
country dropping the only one ever.
 
The US empire never disappoints in its endless quest 
to project the behavior of a true sociopath. As with 
Goebbels’ Big Lie (which he stole from the US's
Bernays anyway), the tried-and-true strategy, 
is to attack others, for actions it has itself 
performed on a regular basis. 
 
Hence the whole Russiagate charade about foreign 
interference in sacred elections by a country other
than the US —reigning and uncontested champion 
of regime change campaigns. Now comes Blinken,
the US talking head du jour on the world stage, to
warn Asia about China’s nuclear weapons. Huh?
 
If irony wasn’t dead, Blinken and crew (Winken, Nod 
et al) would track it down and strangle it with their 
bare hands. On August 6th, the State Department 
announced Blinken’s warning... to China’s 
neighbours: THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 
OWN COUNTRY’S DROPPING OF A 
NUCLEAR BOMB on Hiroshima. 
 
I would say “not to put to fine a point on it,” but it just 
can’t possibly be sharpened any further. Run that 
back, with the reverse tape noise and all.
 
The ONLY country EVER to drop a nuclear bomb on another,
 the United States, chooses the very anniversary of the
first
 of those two genocidal crimes against humanity,
to 
express grave concern about China’s nuclear 
arsenal. I guess you could just drop the mic 
here — there really is so little left to say. 
What comes after tragedy and farce?
 Even Old Man Marx didn’t mention 
a third, though I might venture 
Cynicism Made Flesh?
 
Of course, Blinken--I just can’t stop saying the name… it’s like 
DICK Cheney and COLIN Powell, or that library cop Bookman 
from Seinfeld—Blinken isn’t to blame for the blasphemy of 
rewriting history. He and his cohorts have a generational 
head start on stupid. Seventy-five years of relentless 
assault on Americans’ knowledge of history and 
political consciousness, has left a populace 
with a Hollywood understanding of WWII 
that has almost no relation to reality. 
 
Even Eisenhower knew (and said) that the bombings were of no 
military use. Lost to Americans’ history—but importantly, not 
the world’s—is the cold truth that Truman knew as well and 
didn’t care. Perhaps the meanest, and most small-minded 
of US presidents, he offed a hundred thousand Japanese
in one fell swoop, just to scare the Russkies. And by his 
own admission, never lost a night’s sleep. Brrrrrrrr.
 
But Back to the Future: Blinken’s degenerate idiocy also further 
exposes the infantile disorder of the Lesser Evilists and the rest
of the Harm Reduction menagerie. He is himself, of course, no 
more than a cardboard clown, or more likely made entirely of 
wood, spouting vituperations like a useful ventriloquist’s 
dummy while sitting on the knee of whoever plays Edgar 
Bergen in this cynical farce. The masters who pay 
Blinken, Biden, (O)Bama, Bush and Bacchus
 keep them on a short leash. The sociopaths 
in charge make the real decisions.
 
The notion that “getting back to normal” would yield anything other
 than a smooth return to the endless killing machine was not just 
wishful thinking, but deliberate self-delusion, a lazy and selfish 
need to play pretend and self-soothe while the world burns.
 
Unforgiveable, really. From Iran to Venezuela, Russia, China and
beyond, and with clockwork precision, the Enemies of Humanity
are ramping up war fever, concocting lies & manipulating truth 
and fear like never before. The New York Times’ perversion of 
the Tokyo medal counts, to pretend the US won, is more than
instructive: it is the stock in trade and lifeblood of the 
predator class, honing its exceptionalist rhetoric to 
wield when needed. Dark days ahead.
 
Daniel Patrick Welch is a writer of political commentary and 
analysis. Also a singer and songwriter, he lives and writes 
in Salem, Salem, Massachusetts with his wife. Together
 they run The Greenhouse School. He has traveled 
widely, speaks five languages and studied Russian
 History and Literature at Harvard University.
 
Welch has also appeared as a guest on several TV and radio 
channels to speak on topics of foreign affairs and political 
analysis--around his day job. He can be available for 
interview requests as time and scheduling permit.
 
Despite the price of being outspoken against US foreign policy
 and military adventurism -- which can be steep, in today's
 circumstances -- he believes firmly, as did Rosa
 Luxemburg, that "It will always be the most 
revolutionary act, to tell the truth out loud."
 
Welch wrote this commentary
for the Press TV website.
 
 

Finian Cunningham

Russia-China the Endgame
by Finian Cunningham
July 3rd, 1:41pm (Sputnik)
 
The consolidation of the Russia-China alliance this week 
spells the endgame for Western imperialism and the 
never-ending wars that it spawns.
 
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s leader Xi 
Jinping celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Sino-
Russian Treaty of Friendship, first signed in July 
2001. The hallmark of that historic accord is a 
mutual commitment to peace, prosperity 
and global stability. 
 
As Putin commented, the alliance between Russia and China
 is a vital source of “stability at a time of increasing geo-
political turbulence”. The latter remark is an oblique 
reference to the US-led Western states which are 
driven by ratcheting up antagonism and 
tensions with Moscow and Beijing, 
using all sorts of spurious 
complaints. 
 
The attempt by Washington (whether Republican or Democrat) 
and its Western minions to make trouble with Russia and 
China has become almost frenetic. Step back from the 
daily headlines in Western media and it is glaring just
 how much the agenda has become irrationally 
hostile towards Moscow and Beijing. 
 
Week after week there are unfounded allegations about 
aggression, security threats, cybercrime, interference, 
Covid-19, & so on. It’s like a mad cacophony to wind 
up tensions. Nevertheless, the deranged attitude of 
Western ruling cliques is but the death throes of a 
world order that has reached its expiration. 
 
Russia and China’s partnership has hugely transformative 
geopolitical significance. Both these giant nations straddle
 the continents of Asia and Europe, connecting the Pacific 
with the Atlantic, ranging from the Arctic to the 
Mediterranean. Both are committed to a vision 
of a multipolar world where nations cooperate
 for mutual development. 
 
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) linking Eurasia with 
Africa and the Americas is the vision of the future, and 
Russia is a key partner in implementing that 
ambitious win-win project for global peace
 and prosperity. 
 
This vision stands in stark contrast to the prevailing Western 
capitalist paradigm which operates through dominance, 
control and exploitation for American and European 
profiteering. That kind of centuries-old system 
necessarily involves imperialist conduct ...
whereby the natural resources of foreign 
nations are commandeered by brute 
military force, conflict, subjugation, 
subterfuge, skulduggery and 
other machinations. 
 
The multipolar vision of global relations advocated by Russia 
and China is the nemesis of the Western imperialist system. 
And that explains why the Americans and their European 
vassals make every effort to demonize and distort 
Russia and China. 
 
But the geopolitical potential of Russia and China is 
unstoppable. There is a force of natural justice that 
all nations will inevitably subscribe to as the only 
reasonable, feasible & sustainable way forward.
It’s about people-centered development ...
versus profit-driven disorder.
 
Moreover, the partnership between Russia and China is a 
geographer’s wonder study. Russia is the world’s largest
 national territory by landmass. With over 17 million sq.
 kilometres, it covers 11 time zones out of the world’s 
total of 24. The abundance of natural resources that 
Russia possesses is astounding, from reserves of
 natural gas, oil, metals and minerals, to forestry, 
agriculture and fisheries. It also can boast of 
highly advanced technology in multiple 
sectors. And... it shares a long land 
border with China, for easing trade. 
 
Meanwhile, China has a population of 1.4 billion people, ten 
times that of Russia. With highly advanced technology and 
manufacturing, China is not only a vast market for Russian
 resources, it is also a gateway to the world economy. 
China has already become the world’s biggest 
economy over the United States, according 
to some measures. 
 
The US and Europe are post-industrial economies that are 
also post-peak of their prime. Their “prime” was always 
based on an extractive predatory relationship with the
 rest of the world that was predicated on inflicting 
conflict and poverty on others. 
 
As China and Russia build on their strategic partnership for
 mutual prosperity and peace the upshot will inevitably 
entail the endgame for Western imperial powers,
 which are atrophying from massive inequality,
 indebtedness, moral decadence and 
social decay. 
 
Fortunately, too, and this is crucial, Russia and China have
 military defenses from new generations of hypersonic 
weaponry that make them impregnable against any 
warmongering notions by the United States. A 
failing empire like the US and its Western 
satellites is always a dangerous time, as 
it tries to prevent the inevitable collapse, 
but starting a war with Russia & China
 ...is not an option. 
 
The views & opinions expressed in the article 
do not - necessarily - reflect those of Sputnik.
 

Barry Grossman

Barry Grossman: US, Israel 
Adopting Bullying Tactics 
for ICC War Crimes 
Investigation in 
Palestine
June 30th (FNA)


Barry Grossman is an international lawyer and political 
commentator focused on human rights related issues. 
He has been extensively published, on various legal 
subjects and is a frequent commentator on political 
affairs. He has taught law at the University of 
Melbourne’s Faculty of Law and Monash 
University’s Faculty of Law.
 
Below is the full text of the interview:
 
Q: How do you see the ICC ruling and the
 issue of anti-Semitism raised by Israel? 
 
A: To be sure, Benjamin Netanyahu has himself said that 
“when the ICC investigates Israel for fake war crimes,
 this is pure antisemitism”.
 
There can of course be no doubt that antisemitism is real;
 indeed, every bit as real as Islam-phobia. But the long 
standing ruse of conflating antisemitism with any and 
all criticism of Zionism or Israel, is no longer taken 
seriously, by a growing and very substantial 
minority of people in the wider population.
 
Meanwhile the tactic of tarring everyone who resists Zionism 
or criticises Israel with the antisemitism brush is having the 
unfortunate, though not necessarily unintended 
consequence of discrediting even the most 
genuine efforts to draw attention to those 
people whose speech is, indeed, 
motivated by little more than
 hatred for Jews.
 
Q: There are huge media attacks towards ICC’s probe to
 Israeli war crimes in Palestine. Do you believe the ICC
 can make a correct ruling under this media hegemony?
 
A: Propaganda about the ICC case published by the 
Atlantic World’s Corporate Media Cartel is of course 
preceded by pressure and instructions from think-
tanks, as well as the security/policy making 
apparatus, which are, of course, fully 
infiltrated by individuals promoting 
Zionist agendas.
 
In that regard, both the US and Israel have openly declared 
their hostile intentions towards the ICC and there is already 
clear evidence that they're deploying all their usual tactics, 
including intimidation, extortion, bribery and garden variety 
corruption, to get politicians around the world, lawyers 
involved in making Palestine’s case, and members of 
the ICC to fall into line.
 
That said, if the myriad jurisdiction related technicalities 
raised by Israel can be overcome, I am quite sure the
ICC is capable of reaching what many of us consider 
the correct position regarding ubiquitous war crimes 
and other violations of international law, perpetrated 
by the occupation.
 
The real problem is that the ICC is quite limited in its ability 
to enforce any ruling against responsible individuals and 
Israeli organizations, so long as the key Atlantic World 
nations continue to provide unqualified support for 
the occupation, or, at the very least, to remain 
neutral, in the face of clear evidence of the 
occupation’s crimes.
 
A second very significant strategic issue arises from a 
prevailing political reality which dictates that, in order 
to make a reasonable finding about the occupation’s 
crimes, the ICC will also have to use its authority to 
investigate violations of international law alleged 
against Hamas and other Palestinian groups ---
bearing in mind that the law of armed conflict 
does not concern itself with the order in 
which things played out and any finding
against Palestinian groups will certainly 
receive far more traction, both in the 
international community as well as 
in occupied Palestine, than any 
finding of culpability on the 
part of the occupation.
 
Indeed, from where I sit, I do not see Palestine as 
having much to gain from this process, but it 
does stand to lose no small part of the 
standing in public opinion, which it 
has taken decades to develop, at 
the cost of thousands of 
Palestinian lives.
 
Q: Is it hypocrisy that Israel says Palestine is not 
a sovereign state to have a delegation at ICC?
 
A: Hypocrisy hardly even begins to cover it. No nation 
is in a position to dictate that Palestine is not a 
sovereign nation-state, even if the UN has not 
yet extended Palestine’s observer nation 
status to full membership --- the way it 
quickly recognized Israel’s existence 
as a full member, in 1949.
 
It is also worth remembering that 
31 UN member nations still do 
not recognize Israel.
 
Of course, none of this is relevant to the Palestinian 
delegation’s participation in ICC proceedings 
investigating allegations of war crimes and 
other violations of international law 
committed against Palestinians by 
Israeli nationals & organizations, 
even though Israel is not, itself, 
a party to the ICC treaty.
 
On the other hand, the Palestinian Authority (PA), 
whose statehood and sovereignty has been 
subject to intense dispute across the 
international community...  is a 
signatory to the Rome Statute 
(that is, the ICC Treaty), so it 
would be bizarre, if it was 
not permitted to have a 
delegation present, at
the ICC proceedings.




US Encirclement of China

 
US Encirclement of China:
 A 'Progress' Report
by Brian Berletic 
May 22nd  (The Saker)
 
We post this long-read article in full - 
as the New Eastern Outlook site has
 been down for a number of days.
 
Tensions between Washington and Beijing are not merely
 the recent results of former US President Donald Trump’s
 time in office – but rather, just the latest chapter in US
 efforts to contain China, that stretch back decades.
 
Indeed, US foreign policy has, for decades, admittedly
aimed 
at encircling and containing China’s rise, and
maintaining 
primacy over the Indo-Pacific region.
 
The “Pentagon Papers” leaked in 1969 would admit in
 regards to the ongoing US war against Vietnam that:
 
…the February decision to bomb North Vietnam and the 
July approval of Phase I deployments make sense only 
if they are in support of a long-run United States policy 
to contain China.
 
The papers also admitted that China, “looms as a major 
power threatening to undercut [American] importance
and effectiveness in the world and, more remotely but
more menacingly, to organize all of Asia against
[America].
 
The papers also made it clear that there were (and still are), 
“three fronts to a long-run effort to contain China: (a) the 
Japan-Korea front; (b) the India-Pakistan front; and (c) 
the Southeast Asia front.”
 
Since then, it is clear that from the continued US military
 presence in both Japan and South Korea, the now two 
decades-long US occupation of Afghanistan on both 
Pakistan’s and China’s borders, and the emergence 
of the so-called “Milk Tea Alliance” aimed at over-
throwing Southeast Asian governments friendly
 with China and replacing them with US-backed 
client regimes – this policy to contain China
 endures up to today.
 
Assessing US activity along these three fronts reveals
 the progress and setbacks Washington faces -- and 
the various dangers to global peace and stability
 Washington’s continued belligerence poses.
 
The Japan-Korea Front 
 
Military.com in their article, “Here’s What It Costs to 
Keep US Troops in Japan and South Korea,” reports:
 
In all, more than 80,000 US troops are deployed to Japan 
and South Korea. In Japan alone, the US maintains more 
than 55,000 deployed troops — the largest forward-
deployed US force anywhere in the world.
 
The article notes that according to the US Government 
Accountability Office (GAO), the US spent “$34 billion 
to maintain military presences in Japan and South
 Korea between 2016 and 2019.”
 
The article cites the GAO providing an explanation as to 
why this massive US military presence is maintained in
 East Asia:
 
“…US forces help strengthen alliances, promote a free 
and open Indo-Pacific region, provide quick response 
to emergencies and are essential for US national
 security.”
 
“Alliances” that are “strengthened” by the physical 
presence of what are -- essentially, -- occupying US 
forces, suggests the “alliance” is hardly voluntary
and claims of promoting a 
“free and open Indo-
Pacific region”
 is highly subjective – begging
the 
question of, to whom, is the Indo-Pacific
“free and open”.
 
And as US power wanes both regionally in the Indo-
Pacific as well as globally, Washington has placed
 increasing pressures on both Japan and South
 Korea to not only help shoulder this financial 
burden, but to also become more proactive 
within Washington’s containment strategy
 toward China.
 
Japan is one of three other nations (the US itself, 
Australia, and India) drafted into the US-led 
Quadrilateral Security Dialogue – also 
known as the “Quad.”
 
Rather than the US solely depending on its own military 
forces based within Japanese territory or supported by
 its Japan-based forces, Japan’s military along with 
India’s and Australia’s are also being recruited to
 take part in military exercises and operations
 in and around the South China Sea.
 
India’s inclusion in the Quad also fits well into the US 
3-front strategy that made up Washington’s contain-
ment policy toward China as early as the 1960s.
 
The India-Pakistan Front 
 
In addition to recruiting India into the Quad alliance, the 
US helps encourage escalation through political 
support and media campaigning of India’s 
various territorial disputes with China.
 
The US also targets Pakistan’s close and ongoing 
relationship with China – including the support of 
armed insurgents in Pakistan’s Baluchistan 
province.
 
Recently, a bombing at a hotel in Quetta, Baluchistan 
appears to have targeted China’s ambassador to 
Pakistan, Ambassador Nong Rong.
 
The BBC in its article, “Pakistan hotel bomb: 
Deadly blast hits luxury venue in Quetta,”
 would claim:
 
Initial reports had suggested the target 
was China’s ambassador.
 
Ambassador Nong Rong is understood to be in Quetta
 but was not present at the hotel at the time of the 
attack on Wednesday.
 
The article also noted:
 
Balochistan province, near the Afghan border,
is home to several armed groups, including
 separatists.
 
Separatists in the region want independence from the 
rest of Pakistan and accuse the government and 
China of exploiting Balochistan, one of 
Pakistan’s poorest provinces, for its 
gas and mineral wealth.
 
Absent from the BBC’s reporting is the extensive and 
open support the US government has provided these 
separatists over the years and how – clearly – this is 
more than just a local uprising against perceived 
injustice, but yet another example of armed 
conflict-by-proxy waged by Washington 
against China.
 
As far back as 2011 publications like The National 
Interest in articles like, “Free Baluchistan” would 
openly advocate expanding US support for 
separatism in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
 province.
 
The article was written by the late Selig  Harrison
--- who was a senior fellow at the US-based 
(corporate-financier funded) Centre for 
International Policy --- & would claim:
 
Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the 
heart of Baluch territory. So an independent 
Baluchistan... would serve US strategic 
interests, in addition to the immediate 
goal, of countering Islamist forces.
 
Of course, “Islamist forces”... is a euphemism for US-
Persian Gulf state sponsored militants used to both
fight Western proxy wars, as well as serve as a 
pretext for Western intervention. Citing 
“Islamist forces” in Baluchistan, 
Pakistan - clearly - serves as
an 
example of the latter.
 
In addition to op-eds published by influential policy 
think tanks, US legislators like US Representative 
Dana Rohrabacher, had proposed resolutions 
such as (emphasis added),
 
“US House of Representatives Concurrent Resolution 
104 (112th): Expressing the sense of Congress that
 the people of Baluchistan, currently divided 
between Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan, 
have the right to self-determination and
 to their own sovereign country.”
 
There is also funding provided to adjacent, political 
groups supporting separatism in Baluchistan, 
Pakistan, as listed by the US government’s 
own National Endowment for Democracy 
(NED) website under “Pakistan.”
 
 Organizations like the “Association for Integrated 
Development Balochistan” are funded by the
US 
government and used to mobilize people 
politically, constituting clear interference
 by the US, in Pakistan’s internal 
political affairs.
 
The Gwadar Port project is a key juncture within China’s 
growing global network of infrastructure projects, as 
part of its One Belt, One Road initiative. The US 
clearly opposes China’s rise & has articulated
robust strategies to 
counter it; everything up
to 
and including, open war, as seen in the
Pentagon 
Papers, regarding the
Vietnam War.
 
The recent bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan demonstrates
 that this strategy continues, in regards to utilizing local 
militants to target Chinese-Pakistani co-operation, and 
is one part of the much wider, region-wide strategy: 
of encircling and containing China.
 
The Southeast Asia Front
 
Of course the US war against Vietnam was part of a wider
 effort to reassert Western primacy over Southeast Asia 
...and deny the region from fueling China’s
inevitable rise.
 
The US having lost the war and almost completely retreating 
from the Southeast Asia region saw Southeast Asia itself
 repair relations amongst themselves and with China.
 
Today, the nations of Southeast Asia count China as their
 largest trade partner, investor, a ''key partner'' in infra-
structure development, a key supplier for the region’s
 armed forces, as well as providing the majority of 
tourism arrivals throughout the region. For 
countries like Thailand, more tourists 
arrive from China, than from all 
Western nations combined.
 
Because existing governments in Southeast Asia have 
nothing to benefit from by participating in American
 belligerence toward China, the US has found it 
necessary to cultivate and attempt to install 
into power various client regimes. This has 
been an ongoing process, since the 
Vietnam War.
 
The US has targeted each nation individually for years.
In 2009 & 2010, US-backed opposition leader-in-exile, 
Thaksin Shinawatra, deployed his “red shirt” rioters
in back-to-back riots - the latter of which included 
some 300 armed militants and culminated in city-
wide arson across Bangkok, and the death of 
over 90 police, soldiers, protesters, and 
bystanders.
 
In 2018, US-backed opposition groups took power in 
Malaysia after the US poured millions of dollars, for 
over a decade, in building up the opposition.
 
Daniel Twining of the US National Endowment
for 
Democracy subsidiary – the International 
Republican Institute – admitted, during a talk
by the 
Center for Strategic & International
Studies, 
that same year, that:
 
…for 15 years working with NED resources, we worked 
to strengthen Malaysian opposition parties -- and guess 
what happened 2 months ago after 61 years? They won.
 
He would elaborate on how the NED’s network played a 
direct role in placing US-backed opposition figures into 
power, within the Malaysian government, stating:
 
I visited and I was sitting there with many of the leaders 
the new leaders of this government, many of whom
 were just our partners we had been working with
 for 15 years and one of the most senior of them
 who’s now one of the people running the 
government said to me, ‘gosh IRI you 
never gave up on us even when we 
were ready to give up 
on ourselves.’
 
Far from “promoting freedom” in Malaysia  ---- Twining 
would make clear the ultimate objective of interfering
 in Malaysia’s internal political affairs, was to serve 
US interests, not only in regards to Malaysia, but 
in regards to the entire region and specifically 
toward encircling and containing China.
 
Twining would boast:
 
  …guess what one of the first steps the 
new government took? It froze Chinese 
infrastructure investments.
 
And that:
 
[Malaysia] is not a hugely pro-American country. It is 
probably never going to be an actual US ally, but this
 is going to redound to our benefit, and and that’s 
an example of the long game.
 
It is a pattern that has repeated itself in Myanmar over 
the decades --- with NED money building a parallel 
political system within the nation and eventually 
leading to Aung San Suu Kyi and her US-backed
 National League for Democracy (NLD) party 
taking power in 2016.
 
For Myanmar, so deep and extensive is US backing for 
opposition groups there, that the elections virtually 
guarantee US-backed candidates win.. every single
 time. The US National Endowment for Democracy’s 
own website alone... lists over 80 programs and 
organizations receiving US government money
- for everything from election polling, and
 building up political parties - to funding 
media networks and “environmental”
 groups used to block any Chinese-
initiated infrastructure projects.
 
The move by Myanmar’s military in February this year, 
ousting Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the NLD, was meant
to
 correct this.
 
However, in addition to backing political groups 
protesting in the streets, the US has – for many 
decades – backed and armed ethnic rebels 
across the country. These rebels have now 
linked up with the US-backed NLD and are 
repeating the US-backed regime change 
tactics used against the Arab World in
2011 --- in nations like Libya, Yemen, 
and Syria – including explicit calls
 for “international intervention.”
 
A US-Engineered “Asia Spring”  
 
Just as the US did during the 2011 “Arab Spring” – the US 
State Department, in a bid to create synergies across 
its various regime change campaigns in Asia, has 
introduced the “Milk Tea Alliance” to transform 
individual US-backed regime change efforts
in 
Asia, into a region-wide crisis.
 
The BBC itself admits in articles like, “Milk Tea 
Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-
democracy activists,” and that:
 
The alliance has brought together anti-Beijing
protesters,
 in Hong Kong and Taiwan, with
pro-democracy 
campaigners in Thailand
and Myanmar.
 
Omitted from the BBC’s coverage of the “Milk Tea Alliance”
 (intentionally) is the actual common denominators that 
unite it – US funding through fronts like the National 
Endowment for Democracy and a unifying hatred 
of China - based exclusively on talking points 
pushed by the US State Department itself.
 
Circling back to the Pentagon Papers and recalling the 
coordinated, regional campaign the US sought to 
encircle China with – we can then look at more
 recent US government policy papers like the 
“Indo-Pacific Framework” published in the 
White House archives from the Trump 
administration.
 
The policy paper’s first bullet point asks:
 
How to maintain US strategic primacy in the Indo-Pacific 
region, and promote a liberal economic order, while 
preventing China from establishing new, illiberal 
spheres of influence, and cultivating areas of 
cooperation to promote regional peace 
and prosperity?
 
The paper also discusses information campaigns designed 
to “educate” the world about “China’s coercive behaviour 
and to influence operations around the globe.” These 
campaigns have materialized in a propaganda war 
fabricating accusations of “Chinese genocide” in 
Xinjiang, China, claims that Chinese telecom 
company Huawei is a global security threat,
 and that China – not the US – is the single 
largest threat to global peace and 
stability today.
 
In reality US policy aimed at encircling China -- is 
predicated upon Washington’s desire to continue 
its own decades-long impunity upon the global 
stage, and the continuation of all the wars, 
humanitarian crises, and abuses, that 
have stemmed from it.
 
Understanding the full scope of Washington’s 
“competition” with China...  helps unlock the 
confusion surrounding unfolding individual 
crises like the trade war; the ongoing 
violence and turmoil in Myanmar;
 bombings in southwest Pakistan;
 students mobs in Thailand; riots
 in Hong Kong; and attempts by
 the US to transform the South 
China Sea, into an inter-
national
 conflict.
 
Understanding that these events are all connected - then
 assessing the success or failure of US efforts - gives us
clearer picture of the overall success of Washington
in 
encircling China.  It also gives governments and 
regional blocs a clearer picture of how to manage
policy, in protecting against US 
subversion: that
threatens national, 
regional, and global peace 
and stability.
 
Brian Berletic, is a Bangkok-based
geopolitical 
researcher and writer,
especially for the 
online magazine
“New Eastern Outlook”.






Australians should be ashamed that they have a
regime propped up to serve US racist agendas!

sanctions infograph

How Exceptional America Is
by Eric Zuesse
September 30th, 2020


America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes 
at the UN General Assembly - the Assembly of nations - only 
Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and 
all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to 
prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other 
nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions, 
the U.S. arm-twists other delegations -- in order to get 
them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark, 
and less embarrassing, America’s international 
isolation. But America is also extraordinarily 
exceptional in other ways, which have 
nothing to do with the UN.


America is truly an exceptional nation. As the 
Republican Party magazine National Review 
stated, on September 15th, “Last week, 
the US and Israel were the only states
to vote against a General 
Assembly
resolution on the
coronavirus
response. Some have 
seized
upon that vote to paint the 
USt as a bad faith actor
 
that stands alone
in the world.” 


However, this vote wasn’t about only “the global 
coronavirus response.” It was — perhaps even 
more importantly - about U.S. sanctions against 
Iran, Venezuela, Syria, Russia, China, and other 
countries that the U.S. regime considers to be 
its enemies. (None of these countries ever 
invaded or even threatened to invade 
the USA; all of those sanctions are 
100% U.S. aggression. 


They are target-countries that America’s aristocracy 
wants to take over. (The world’s U.S.-sanctioned 
countries are marked in red -- on the map of the 
world below.) Israel strongly supports sanctions 
against both Syria and Venezuela, and routinely 
invades and bombs Syria just for good measure. 
So, it joined America’s position on that.


That UN General Assembly vote was held on September 
11th. America’s Associated Press bannered the next day, 
“UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel 
object”, and reported that, “The 193-member world body 
adopted the resolution by a vote of 169-2, with Ukraine 
and Hungary abstaining. It was a strong show of unity 
by the UN’s most representative body, though many 
countries had hoped for adoption by consensus.” 


The AP further stated:


It calls on governments and international financial institutions 
“to provide more liquidity in the financial system, especially 
in all developing countries.” It supports recovery plans that 
“drive transformative change towards more inclusive and 
just societies, including by empowering and engaging all 
women and girls.”


And it urges UN member nations “to adopt a climate- and 
environment-responsive approach to COVID-19 recovery 
efforts”, including by aligning investments and domestic 
policies with the UN goals & the 2015 Paris agreement
to combat climate change. …


By a vote of 132-3, the assembly amended the resolution to 
urge all countries “to refrain from promulgating and applying 
any unilateral economic, financial or trade measures not in 
accordance with international law and the Charter of the 
United Nations that impedes the full achievement of 
economic and social development, particularly in 
developing countries.”


The United States was then overwhelmingly defeated in 
attempts to remove 2 paragraphs from the resolution, 
one referring to women’s rights to “sexual and 
reproductive health” --- and the other --- to 
“promoting global sustainable transport.”


In addition to arguing against the language on sanctions, 
the United States opposed all references to the World 
Health Organization, which the US administration had 
stopped funding, accusing the UN agency of failing 
to do enough to stop the virus from spreading 
when it first surfaced in China.


Nowhere in the AP’s article was any mention made that 
in the “vote of 169-2,” the two nations which had voted 
against the Resolution were the US and Israel, but only 
that there had been “objections from the United States 
and Israel,” regarding attachment, to the Resolution, of 
the Amendment that added the anti-sanctions provision 
to it. This omission was not an error. It is a type of 
omission that is common in propaganda. America 
was more isolated than that ‘news’-report 
made clear.


This vote was about only a “Resolution,” a statement of 
the various nations’ values, to work toward, not about 
any nation’s policy, but the U.S. and Israel don’t share 
those goals — not even rhetorically. This opposition 
to that Resolution’s goals, was truly exceptional.


In particular, nothing is more abhorrent to the US regime 
--- than to stop or impede its sanctions. These sanctions 
include, for example, punishments against any company 
or government that will, in any way, assist in Russia’s 96% 
completed NordStream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany, 
for the EU to buy Russia’s pipelined natural gas instead of 
America’s fracked, canned, shipped, natural gas. The U.S. 
regime insists that EU nations buy the far costlier trans-
Atlantic-shipped fracked US liquefied natural gas (LNG). 


That insistence upon the EU’s wasting money, in order to 
prop-up America’s fracking industry, is, indeed, exceptional, 
because European nations haven’t customarily been treated
as being mere colonies of other powers. America is treating 
purchasers from, or cooperators with, that competitor (Russia), 
as being its enemies. The way the U.S. Representative stated 
this (after a lengthy diatribe which blamed China for Covid-19 
and said that the U.S. had quit the World Health Organization 
because WHO lacked “independence from the Chinese 
Communist Party”) was: “Economic sanctions are a 
legitimate means to achieve foreign policy, security, 
and other national and international objectives, and 
the United States is not alone in that view or in that 
practice.” (That exact same sentence had, earlier, 
been stated by the US regarding a different matter, 
on 18 November 2019.) Actually, the U.S. regime is 
very “alone” on it. Furthermore, the other part was 
also a lie: the U.S. regime asserts that coercing 
corporations and countries to not buy from the 
lowest-cost supplier, is within its sovereign 
right to do. 


However, as Professor Alfred de Zayas, who until recently was 
the UN’s top expert on this topic, explained in depth on 27th 
June 2019, that assertion is blatantly false, on many clear 
grounds concerning international law. It is a blatant lie, no 
matter how many times the U.S. regime asserts it (and 
asserts that the US regime isn’t “alone” in asserting it).


Even back when Barack Obama (the man who repeatedly 
claimed that “The United States is and remains, the one 
indispensable nation”) was America’s President, the US
was exceptional at the United Nations. For example, on 
24th November 2014, I headlined “U.S. Among Only 3 
Countries Officially Backing Nazism & Holocaust-
Denial”, and reported that - “In a UN vote, on 
November 21st, only 3 countries - the US,
Ukraine, and Canada — voted 
against a
resolution to condemn racist fascism, 
or nazism, and to condemn denial of
Germany’s 
World War II Holocaust
against, primarily, Jews.'' 


This measure passed the General Assembly, on a vote of 115 
in favour, 3 against, & 55 abstentions (the abstentions were 
in order not to offend U.S. President Obama, who was 
opposed to the resolution).” Then, on 21 June 2015, 
I headlined “America’s UN Ambassador Continues 
Standing Up for Nazis” and noted that, again, 
Obama’s UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, 
had stood up for nazism; she had just 
delivered an address -- in Ukraine -- 
rallying that country’s supporters 
of nazism to war against Russia. 


Then, on 21 November 2017, I headlined “Trump 
Continues Obama’s Support of Nazism”, and 
reported that:


On November 16th, US President Donald Trump, acting 
through an agent of his agent, UN Ambassador Nikki 
Haley, voted at the UN against a resolution that 
condemns bigotry, and especially condemns 
nazism & all forms of racism. He thus, yet 
again, continues in the tradition from his 
predecessors, Presidents Obama, and 
Bush, each year, placing this nation in 
the company of only one or two U.S. 
allies throughout the world who join 
with the US in refusing to commit to 
opposing and doing everything to 
reduce, not just political Nazism 
(which, of course, is past), but 
ideological nazism, racist 
fascism - institutionalized 
bigotry (which, sadly, is 
not past).


But, be that as it may, the U.S. is also exceptional in 
many other ways. I listed some of those on July 13th.


There are two main reasons why the U.S. regime is able 
to coerce other nations to not violate its will. One is that 
although publicly available reports allege it spends 
approximately 37% of the entire world’s military 
expenditures, the U.S. regime  actually - spends 
around 50% of the entire world’s military costs, 
and therefore, it possesses an extraordinary 
physical capacity to impose its will, if and 
when merely economically blockading an 
‘enemy’ country (via sanctions) fails to
do 
the job of getting it to comply. 


And the other main reason is that, since the US government 
is at least as corrupt as the average “third-world” country is, 
but is instead one of the world’s richest countries, arranging 
pay-offs to other world leaders, in order to obtain their 
cooperation, is easily affordable... (These payoffs are 
being paid by all US.taxpayers, not by only America’s 
billionaires, who reap all of the profits from the 
empire that is imposed.)


American exceptionalism is real. It’s not the type of 
exceptionalism that the regime’s propaganda claims 
to be the case, but, nonetheless, it is real.


(Strategic Culture Foundation)



sanctions map

Please watch the video above...
We have never existed in such peril,
and yet almost no-one is able to act.


Nuclear words:
Putin's FINAL warning:

(People DO need reminding -- unless
US, UK and French policy changes,
and stops being so 'exceptional'
-- that is, outside the UN legal
Charter and thus, criminal
--- there will be a reaping.)



 
BREAKING: Russia's State TV
Advising Russian Citizens on

how to survive a World War !

WAKE UP NOW - AND STOP
THE WAR ON CHINA/RUSSIA !

The Doomsday clock of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

website now has the final singular
moment that will bring
civilization
to final nuclear annihilation, at
90 seconds to midnight.

This is the closest it has ever been.
Scott Ritter says it should be 2 seconds


World Will Not Survive the US'
 Neocons' Doctrine of US World
 Hegemony - Paul Graig Roberts
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

"The government of the United States is clearly in
demonic hands. We are overflowing with proof",
writes American well known analytist and ex-
official Paul Graig Roberts in his website.

Take today (2-2-18) for example. A report from the
House Intelligence Committee was released that
is proof that the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
 the Department of Justice --- and the Democrat
National Committee, are now in a conspiracy
against American democracy and the
President of the United States,
 with the full support of the
presstitute media.

As if that is not enough, also released today, is the
Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review. A nuclear
posture review specifies a country’s attitude to
nuclear weapons and their use. In past posture
reviews, nuclear weapons were regarded as
unusable except in retaliation for a nuclear
 attack. The assumption was that no one
would use them. There was always the
chance that false warnings of incoming
ICBMs would result in a nuclear button
being pushed - setting off Armageddon.

There were many false warnings during the Cold War
President Ronald Reagan, was very concerned about
a false warning, ending in mass death & destruction.

This is why his principal goal was to end the Cold War,
which he succeeded in doing. It did not take
successor governments long, to
resurrect the Cold War.

The new US nuclear posture is a reckless, irresponsible,
and destabilizing departure from the previous attitude
 toward nuclear weapons. The use of even a small part
of the existing arsenal of the United States would be
sufficient to destroy life on earth. Yet, the posture
review calls for more weapons, speaks of nuclear
weapons as “usable,” and justifies their use in
First Strikes, even against countries that do
not have nuclear weapons.

This is an insane escalation. It tells every country that
 the US government, believes in the first use of nuclear
weapons against any & every country. Nuclear powers
 such as Russia & China must see this to be a massive
 increase in the threat level from the US.

Those responsible for this document should be committed
to insane aslyums, not left in policy positions where they
can put it into action.
 
The neoconservatives are a small group of conspirators.
Most neoconservatives are Jews allied with Israel. Some
 are dual-citizens. They created an ideology of US world
 hegemony, specifying that the chief goal of US foreign
policy, is to prevent the rise of any other power that
could serve as a constraint on US unilateralism.

As neoconservatives control US foreign policy, this
explains US hostility toward Russia and China and
also the neo-conservatives’ use of the US military
to remove governments in the Middle East, seen
by Israel as obstacles to Israeli expansion. For
two decades --- the US has been fighting wars
for Israel in the Middle East. This fact proves
 the power and influence of the insane neo-
conservatives. It is certain, that people
as insane as the neoconservatives,
would launch a nuclear attack
on Russiaand China.

The Russian and Chinese governments seem to be
 completely unaware of the threat that the neo-
conservatives pose to them. I have never
experienced in interviews with Russians
 and Chinese, any awareness of the neo-
conservative ideology. Possibly, it is
too insane for them to grasp.

Ideologues such as the neoconservatives
are not fact-based


They are chasing their dream of world hegemony. Russia
& China are in the way of this hegemony. Having learned
 the limits of conventional military power—after 20 years
 the US “superpower” has been unable to defeat a few
thousand lightly armed Taliban in Afghanistan—the
neo-conservatives know: conventional invasions
of Russia or China, would lead to the total
defeat of US forces.

Therefore, the neoconservatives have elevated nuclear
weapons to a First Strike, usable, arsenal that in the
neoconservative dream of world hegemony can be
 used to destroy Russia and China.

Ideologues who divorce themselves from the facts
 create a virtual world for themselves. Their belief
 in their ideology blinds them to the risks for them-
selves and others that they impose on the world.

Thanks to the American liberal/progressive/left, the
entirety of the world is faced with a far more likely
nuclear demise than ever threatened us during the
 Cold War with the Soviet Union.

By its collaboration with the military/security complex
& the corrupt Hillary DNC, the liberal/progressive/left
has forever discredited itself. It is now seen by every
thinking person worldwide as an insane propaganda
ministry --- for the neoconservatives’ plan to use
nuclear weapons to eliminate constraints on
US unilateralism.

The liberal/progressive/left has endorsed
“hegemony or death.”

They will get death. For all of us.

(Source - DONi News Agency)

According to: PaulGraigRoberts.org
 

_______________________________________

Syrian Girl - The Truth
About The Kurds In Syria



Full Text: Official Declaration
 of the Malorossiyan Federation

Zakharchenko announces a new federal state, Malorossiya,
(means ''Little Russia'') as the legal successor of Ukraine.
DONi News Agency

On 18.7.2017 the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic,
Alexander Zakharchenko, declared the creation of a new
federal state, Malorossiya, which will become the legal
successor of 'Ukraine'. The new state formation, will
consist of 19 regions of the former Ukraine with the
capital in Donetsk city. Kiev remains a historical
and cultural centre, without the status of
capital city.

Here is the full English translation of the declaration:

Political Declaration

The project of the state of "Ukraine", formulated 150 years ago
 and implemented in different versions during the 20th century,
has reached its logical conclusion --- and led to the country's
disintegration, civil war and the death of tens of thousands
of people, including children, women, and elderly people.

And this process is irreversible. An attempt to turn the story back
will result in "balkanization" of the conflict, expansion of chaos,
escalation of civil war and even bigger numbers of casualties.

To stop the civil war and avoid new victims, we representatives
of the majority of the regions of former "Ukraine" assembled
in Donetsk on July 18, 2017, discussed the current situation
and came to the following conclusions:

- the state of "Ukraine" has revealed itself as a failed state and
demonstrated its being incapable of granting its inhabitants
a peaceful and prosperous present and future;

- the current authorities  – elected in Kiev, after the coup d'etat,
against the backdrop of political terror and the absence
 of elections in the Crimea and Donbass, are illegitimate;

- the state of "Ukraine" is on the brink of
economic catastrophe and depopulation;

- an ultranationalist coup is brewing in Kiev, as a result
of which outright neo-Nazis will come to power
instead
of "Banderites with a European face";

- the Ukrainian nationalistic project (the Galician one)
has 
discredited itself, by the shedding of civilians'
blood in
 the country;

- the ideology of "Ukrainism" has proved to be misanthropic,
 mixed with xenophobia (Russophobia, anti-Semitism,
Polonophobia) and neo-Nazism (the ideology of
national exclusivity and superiority);

- resulting from historical development and due to the Maidan,
the word "Ukraine" is forever associated with the names of
the Nazi accomplices, Bandera and Shukhevich, with the
tragedies of the Baby Yar, the Volyn massacre & Khatyn,
and, nowadays, with the mass murder of people on the
Maidan, in the Trade Unions' House in Odessa, and
Genocide of the Donbass people.

On the basis of the above, we believe that the state of
 "Ukraine", in the form it was established, after the
collapse of the USSR, is UNSERVICEABLE.

We, representatives of the regions of the former "Ukraine",
propose to re-establish the state and to proclaim the state
of MALOROSSIYA, under an historical background, out of
the former "Ukraine". In this case, it is of fundamental
importance to rename the country, since "Ukraine"
as a state, is guilty of war crimes, mass terror
and the genocide of its own people.

In turn, the new name of the country, based on historical
traditions, will enable us to reunify those pieces of the
former "Ukraine" that seemed to have parted ways
forever, including because of participation in the
civil war, on different sides of the front line.

We must turn the page of our people's history, which
is flooded with the blood of our brothers and sisters.

Malorossiya is an INDEPENDENT, SOVEREIGN state, with
a new name, a new flag, a new constitution, a new state
structure, new principles of social and economic
development, and new historical prospectives.

But this is NOT A REVOLUTION ! This is a return to
history. This is a novelty that restores, not destroys.

In view of the economic plight of the country, the chaos
& disintegration potential, and regarding the possibility
of launching a "war of all against all", we consider it
necessary to declare a state of emergency for the
transition period – up to 3 years. During this time,
the process of adoption of the new Constitution
and the establishment of the rule of law,
should be completed.

Under a state of emergency, a ban on the activities of
political parties and foreign funds is to be introduced,
& penalties for criminal offenses, especially against
the person, are to be increased. The fight against
corruption will be toughened, as well as the
penalties for it.The shadow arms market is
 to be eliminated, including by registering
weapons in accordance with the new law.

In the same period an investigation is to be carried
out, with the involvement of foreign specialists –-
from Russia, Belarus & the European Union –- into
the crimes committed by the Maidan Kiev regime:
the murders on the Maidan, the murder of Odessa
citizens in the Trade Unions' House on May 2nd,
 2014, and the war crimes in Donbass, in the
so-called ATO.

In the same period, the People's Tribunal is to be
prepared to charge the state criminals who have
led the country into disintegration and civil war:
V.F. Yanukovich (with a request to Russia for his
 extradition), P.A. Poroshenko and his clique:
 Turchinov, Yatsenyuk, Kolomoisky, Paruby,
Nalivaichenko and others.

We are sure that, having recovered from the criminal
neo-Nazi ideology of "Ukrainism", we will be able to
build a new society on the basis of friendship and
mutual assistance -- but not hatred and envy. The
creative genius of our people will manage to bring
 Malorossiya to the forefront of global civilization
and play a role in history. The role of Good,
 and Truth.

Official translation by the DONi
Donbass News Agency, 07/18/2017

(Source - Russia Insider)


_____________________________________________


Nato – A Dangerous Alliance
May 24th

As Nato ends its summit in Brussels, Rae Street explains
why the military alliance remains a threat to world peace


When the Warsaw Pact ended, after the collapse of communism,
some optimists might have expected Nato to be broken up too.
After all, the Labour Party in Britain had been opposed to Nato
 in the mid-1980s. But that was not to be. The US, which had
always dominated Nato, quickly began to reinvent Nato
and furthermore, to expand it.

Following the end of the Warsaw Pact many central and east
European governments wanted to join Nato. This, of course,
was music to the ears of the US military manufacturers.
 Indeed, the chair of the expand Nato committee, Bruce
 Jackson, was technical director of Lockheed Martin,
 the largest military manufacturer in the world. So, for
the new Nato members because of the policy on
“interoperability,” that is Nato personnel being
able to use the same military equipment, it
was out with the old Soviet military hard-
ware and in with sales of, for example,
Lockheed’s military aircraft ,costing
 millions of dollars.

This continues to this day in countries which can ill afford
 it, with struggling economies. The latter includes Greece.
Think of the situation in Greece today.

Expanding Nato up to the borders with Russia, was a
provocative policy. The dangers were pointed out but
 the military industrial complex and the “hawks” in
the West, took no notice.

To this day, this helps President Vladimir Putin:
more and more of the Russian people believe
that “the West” is against them.

Decades later, we read: “British troops have arrived in
 Estonia, as part of a major Nato mission in the Baltic
states, to deter Russian aggression.”

From the start, Nato has always held a nuclear
armed policy.  It continues to claim that nuclear
weapons “preserve peace.” Manifestly, nuclear
weapons do not deter conflict.

Governments, including Britain’s, now analyse the main
threats to security as cyber warfare and terrorism.
Remember September 11th 2001, when New York
 was attacked by terrorists in planes,
 brandishing knives?

The US then had and still has, 13 nuclear armed Trident
submarines, of which several will be roaming the seas
 fully operational. Britain has four, with one constantly
 on alert at sea.

Were these any use in the madman’s attack
on Westminster, or in any terrorist attacks?

Trident is “integrated” into Nato. Even worse, Nato
 still has a policy of “first use of nuclear weapons.”

When the then minister of defence, Geoff Hoon, was
asked in Parliament why Britain has a policy of “first
use,” he replied: “Because of our obligations
to Nato.”

Under the direction of the US administration, with its
policy of global domination, Nato has established a
string of nuclear-armed bases across Europe, in
Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and
Turkey, at Incirlik.

The latter is now causing deep problems as relations
between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the
US, become more and more fractious.

There is now a real problem for Nato, as Erdogan is a
 repressive dictator — how can Turkey remain in Nato?

Nato states are supposed to uphold principles of human
 rights and democracy, notably lacking in Turkey today.

The nuclear-armed bases come under Nato’s “nuclear
sharing policy” — in effect a violation of the nuclear
 Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Nato continues to expand. The policy of not acting “out
 of area” was dropped long ago. “North Atlantic” simply
means, a domination of policies by the US.

Nato claims in its “strategic concept” that “the promotion
 of Euro-Atlantic security is best assured through a wide
network of partner relationships with countries and
organisations around the globe.”

In 1994 Nato established the Partnerships for Peace
 across Europe, extending as far as Uzbekistan.

 Nato surrounds Russia from the west and east. These
 Partnerships for Peace (note the language again) now
 include 22 states, including “neutral” Ireland.

Then there is the ''Mediterranean Dialogue,'' with
''arrangements'' with countries in the Middle East.
Few people realise that Nato carries out
military exercises with Israel.

 Nato has also established bilateral relations — named
individual partnerships — with Afghanistan, Australia,
Iraq, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New
 Zealand and Pakistan.

In this part of the globe, where Nato carried out a military
 exercise in 2014 with Japan, named Ocean Shield, they
 are surrounding and menacing China, as the enemy.

Then there was the statement by Nato that “co-operation
 between Nato and the United Nations continues to make
 a substantial contribution to security in operations
round the world.

“The alliance aims to deepen political dialogue and
practical co-operation with the UN, as set out in
the Nato/UN declaration, signed in 2008.”

This seems like Nato bidding
to be the UN's military arm.

This hardly accords with the UN Charter. It was the
Organisation for Security & Co-operation in Europe,
set up under Chapter 8, of the UN Charter, to
prevent and resolve conflict by non-military
means and to promote co-operation in
humanitarian and other fields.

The 54 member states stretch from Iceland to Kyrgyzstan
and include Russia. Alas, how many times do you read
of their work in the press, compared with the times
you hear about Nato?

Nato is sold to us as a peace-making body. After all,
the US is home to the finest PR companies in
the world.

To summarise, Nato is pursuing yet more militarism and war:

- All Nato states are required to increase their military budgets
 to 2 per cent of GDP. That means stealing more money from
 social needs. Readers of the Morning Star know those all
too well: the NHS, education, adult social services; the
 list is endless.

- Nato member states will have to spend 20 per cent of defence
 budgets on military equipment: warships, war planes, drones,
 bombs. By fuelling the arms race, Nato makes a mockery of
moves for conflict resolution.

- Nato and its member states multiply interventions outside
their territory and increase their presence through world-
wide partnerships and “coalitions of the willing.”

- Nato extends its nuclear policies as a supreme “guarantee
 for the allies’ security,” notwithstanding that the majority of
countries in the world are negotiating a treaty to ban nuclear
 weapons. In the meantime, nuclear weapons in Europe —
under the guise of Nato — and elsewhere, are being
modernised at a cost of many tens of billions of
dollars and pounds. Think of Trident at a cost
of £205 billion.

The Nato summit will be held and activists will
beholding a “counter-summit”
with protesters
organising workshops and a 
demonstration.

CND activists will be there from the 
UK, but
-- we also need people to raise the issues

with their MPs, write letters to the press
and 
raise awareness on social media.

Let’s put pressure on the government to
invest in social welfare, not Nato, not war.

(Source - Morning Star)





Legendary memorial at Saur-Tomb
''restored by May 2017''

DPR authorities have finished restoring the
Saur-Tomb by May 2017. It was announced
by the Building Minister, Sergey Naymets.


‘Saur Tomb has been being restored
since November, and we planned to
finish  this by May 2017’, the
Minister said.


He said "many people contributed to this
project of restoration of the
memorial
damaged by shelling," Naumets noted.

____________________________


Cool Russia!




[Eng Subs] Children of Donbass,
"Toys for Poroshenko"
Music Video by Artem Grishanov

POWERFUL - PUT THIS ON HEADPHONES.
I guarantee you will cry - and if you don't
- please seek psychiatric help.



In 2017 in the Donbass -
give the children Peace!


Ethnic Ruthenes of sub-Carpathian
Ukraine demand autonomy


Activists of a Slavic ethnic group known as Ruthenes
-- or Rusyns -- who reside in the Trans-Carpathian
(sub-
Carpathian) region of Ukraine, have turned
to
President Pyotr Poroshenko with a demand:

  recognize the results of 1991's regional
  referendum --- when 78% of the region's
residents, voted in favor of granting it
the status of a
self-governing region.


"We have two main demands - to recognize the
 Rhuthenes as an ethnos and to acknowledge
 the regional referendum of 1991, where 78%
sub-Carpathians voted for the region being
 a self-governed territory within Ukraine,"
Vesti quoted Ivan Palinkash, the
leader
of the Ruthene movement &
a member
of
the People’s Council's presidium  
of Sub-
Carpathian Ruthenes.


Natalya Magalina, a deputy of Uzhgorod district
 council, told the meeting of leaders of Ruthene
ethnic organizations it is important to maintain
 the Ruthene language by establishing minimal
 norms for broadcasting in the native tongue,
over the state regional TV Channel Tisa-1.

This isn't the first time that the Ruthenes of the sub-
Carpathian area have asked the Kiev government to
 recognize the outcome of the referendum held 25
 years ago. The Coordination Council of Ruthene
 Organizations of the Trans-Carpathian Region
turned to the central authorities with the
same requirement, the previous time,
in
the summer of 2015.


It was also in the summer of 2015 that the activists
 of Ruthene organizations adopted an appeal to the
 Council of Europe, the European Commission, the
Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe
& the UN, as well as to the parliaments of Hungary,
 the Czech Republic, & Slovakia, to wield pressure
 on President Poroshenko and force the Ukrainian
 government towards accepting the result of
 their referendum.

The Ruthenes are an indigenous sub-Carpathian
 people. Ukrainian authorities do not consider
 them to be a separate ethnos, and continue
calling them Ukrainians, although the UN
 has issued recommendations more than
once, to recognize their status as a
separate ethnos.

More than that, Kiev accuses the leaders of
Ruthene organizations of making appeals
 for encroachments on the territorial
 integrity of the country.

(source - TASS)



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Zionist lobby preventing West
from criticizing Israel: Analyst
Fri Dec 16, 2016

The European Union has censured the Israeli regime
 for destroying Palestinian shelters and structures in
the occupied territories. According to a statement
by the European bloc, the Tel Aviv regime has
 demolished 866 structures so far in 2016 in
Area C of the West Bank, which is under
 full Israeli military control.

Anthony Hall, editor-in-chief of the American Herald
 Tribune from Alberta, says that the European states
 have been under the influence of the Zionist lobby
to go along with Israeli interests - and thus refuse
 to slam crimes against the Palestinian people.

“Every government within the EU has a very strong
 Israeli lobby, and this is one of the dilemmas that
 the Western people are facing,” Hall explained.

“Not only the governing parties but the opposition
parties as well, are constraining discussion and
 discourse within a very narrow range, that puts
 Israeli priorities at the top of the list in all our
 Western countries,” he added.

The professor also called on Western citizens
 to “intervene directly and make contact with
the Palestinian people, directly.”

“We, as the citizens in the EU, citizens in Canada,
& citizens in the US, have to find ways to bypass
the constraints of our governments & the biases
and power of this lobby over our governments,”
he noted.

Hall criticized the EU for its forensic accounting
of homes demolished in Palestine.

“This type of numerical accounting fails to really
 describe the nature of this destruction of homes
 in its broader context ------ where thousands of
Palestinian people are in dungeons and being
 tortured in Israeli incarceration facilities,”
he said.

“The reality: that the world is letting this
 happen is very discouraging,” he added. 

Hall warned that the prospect of a Palestinian
state is no longer viable, given the emphasis
on building up settlements, and destroying
the structures of the indigenous people
 of Palestine.

"This goes beyond apartheid,” he said.

The Israeli policy of demolishing houses in
the
West Bank to build illegal settler units
has
affected 5,704 Palestinians, of whom,
1,221
have been rendered homeless,
 including 586 children.

   (source - PressTv)

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UN Adopts "Paper Tiger"
Resolution, on Israel's

Withdrawal from the
Syrian Golan
 
Fahwad Al-Khadoumi - The UN General Assembly
 adopted yet another resolution demanding that
Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian Golan
 Heights, in line with a resolution of June 4, 1967.

However, UN General Assembly resolutions are
non-binding and no more than a paper tiger, with-
out a unanimous decision by the permanent UN
Security Council members, to enforce them; A
highly unlikely prospect.

In its latest resolution, the UN General Assembly
 again condemned Israel's non-compliance with
UN Security Council Resolution 497 (1981).

 The General Assembly reiterated that Israel's
 decision from December 14th, 1981, to impose
Israeli laws, administration & custody on the
 occupied Syrian Golan Heights, is null and
void -- and has no legality at all.

The latest UNGA resolution was adopted by an
 overwhelming majority of UN member States.

 The resolution --- reaffirmed the illegality of
acquiring territories ----- through the use of
military force. The General Assembly also
 repeated that Israel's continued occupation
 & enforcement of Israeli law & administration
 violates international law, the UN Charter, &
 the Geneva Convention's principles on the
 protection of civilians during war.
 
During the UNGA session, a number of states
 condemned the Israeli practices in occupied
 Syrian Golan, calling on Israel to withdraw
from Golan, in line with June 4th, 1967.

 37 states proposed the now adopted draft
resolution. However, UNGA resolutions are
 non-binding and no more than a paper tiger,
 unless permanent Security Council members
 are willing to put their money where their
 mouth was, when they adopted UNSC
 Resolution 497 (1981) - decades ago.

Moreover, none of the permanent UNSC members
 - China, France, Russia, the UK and the US - took
any tangible steps when the now former Israeli
Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman,
defiantly
declared that "Israel and the Golan are part
and parcel" and that "the international
community should get used to facing
the fact that Israel will permanently
annex the Syrian territory".

Most favourite scapegoat

The favorite scapegoat among permanent UNSC
 members, with regard to supporting Israel and
 neglecting Israel's illegal occupation of Golan
is the US. However, Russia is in no way more
actively pursuing Israel's adherence with
UNSC Resolution 497 (1981)  -- than any
other -- of the self-anointed permanent
UNSC members. In April 2016, Russia
and Russian President Vladimir Putin,

were ominously silent about the Golan
when
Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu,
visited Moscow.

Russia failed to respond to what Netanyahu had
 declared "a red line" - occupation of the Golan.

A brief review of recent history pertaining to the
 Israeli occupation, international affairs & Israel's
 use of the Golan to wage war on Syria, suffices
 to show that the UN System has failed, utterly,
 and that it is perverted to the point that many
 analysts call for abolishing the UN altogether.

In June 2013 an Austrian UN Disengagement &
 Observer Force (UNDOF) officer told the press
 that Israel is -- running a joint operations room
with the insurgents in Syria in the Golan. The
UNSC failed to respond and more importantly,
 failed to take action. In July 2013, the Syrian
 permanent representative to the UN in Geneva,
Dr. Fayssal al-Hamwi, noted how Israel, since
 it occupied the Syrian Golan Heights in 1967,
has displaced about half a million of the
Golan´s original inhabitants.

Also in Feb. 2014, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
 preempted a public relations quagmire by visiting
a field hospital for "Syrian Freedom Fighters" in
the Golan to show how much Israel cares and
does, on the humanitarian front. It turned out
that the "Freedom Fighters" belonged to the
Syrian Al-Qaeda franchise, Jabhat al-Nusra.

In March 2014, Israel launched one of many
 military attacks against Syrian military and
 security forces, from the Golan, while the
 UNSC and most media were "silent".

In April 2014 The Director of Israel's Military
 Intelligence, Brigadier General Aviv Kochavi,
a protegé of the now deceased Ariel Sharon,
 was appointed to head the Israeli Defense
Forces Northern Command.

NSNBC international editor-in-chief, Christof
Lehmann, reported that the appointment of
Kochavi, indicated that Israel was planning
large-scale military operations in the Golan
in the near future and the widening of the
Syria war. Lehmann was right on the money.

In May 2014 Israel denied Syrians in Golan the
 right to participate in Syrian elections. The UN
 was "silent". In mid-April 2016, ahead of talks
with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli
 PM Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed that Israel
would hold on to the Golan.

A UNDOF withdrawal has left a 12-16 km wide
 corridor uncontrolled by the UNDOF...  In 2013,
it transpired that Israel was giving support to
Jabhat al-Nusrah, such as a joint intelligence
and military operations room in the Israeli
occupied Golan, plus logistical support,
weapons, field hospitals, and direct
combat support.

In September 2014, Israeli machinations, resulted
in the displacement of UNDOF troops from a 12-16
 kilometer-wide corridor in the disengagement zone
 in the Golan by Jabhat Al-Nusra.. The corridor has
 since been used to supply Al-Nusra and the other
 terrorists and to launch attacks against Syria.

All permanent UNSC members with the exception of
 Russia were "silent". Russian diplomats tentatively
 spoke out against terminating the peace keeping
 mission in the Golan. The UNSC failed to act.


In 2015 it came out that Israel planned a major
hydrocarbon extraction project in the Golan.
 Partners in crime include Genier Energy.

On the board of directors? Dick Cheney,
James Woolsey, Bill Richardson, Jacob
Lord Rothschild, Rupert Murdoch, Larry
Summers and Michael Steinhardt,
among others.

Other players involved include the Israeli subsidiary,
Afek Oil and Gas, American Shale, French Total and
 BP. Thus, there exists a broad and powerful nexus
of US, British, French and Israeli interests: at the
 forefront of pushing for the break-up of Syria and
control of what's believed to be potentially vast
untapped oil and gas resources in the country.

On April 20th, 2016, NSNBC international editor-
in-chief Christof Lehmann -- said Netanyahu's
"Red Line" would be a litmus test for Russia,
as a permanent UNSC member. On April
21st, after talks between
Netanyahu
and Putin in Moscow, it could be
 concluded that Russia failed
-- spectacularly.

In September 2016, Israel started a wave of home
 demolitions in the Golan. The UNSC was "silent".
 
 In October 2016, Israel announced plans to
build 1,600 settlement units in the Golan,
& none of the permanent UNSC members
 took any action.

So much for the latest UN
General Assembly
 paper tiger.

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The UK Labour MPs who
 didn’t back the Yemen vote
 have blood on their hands
by David Wearing

Presenting the motion in the Commons, Thornberry
 was subjected to a series of ill-judged interruptions
 by Labour MPs, such as Kevan Jones, Toby Perkins
 and John Woodcock. Indeed, Thornberry received
 more vocal support in the chamber from the SNP
 group than from her own supposed comrades.

According to subsequent reports, some Labour
members even tried to work with their Tory
 counterparts, in order to defeat their own
 party’s motion.

Woodcock, a former 'Progress' Chair, claimed that
 British support is “precisely focused on training
the Saudis” to improve their targeting - so as to
 “create fewer civilian casualties” -  parroting
 the official government line. The idea that the
 Saudis’ “widespread & systematic” attacks
on civilian targets are just a series of well-
meaning errors, is one that, to put it as
gently as possible, lacks credibility.

And if decades of training provided by the
British to the Saudi pilots hasn’t prevented
these supposed errors by now --- it seems
rather unlikely that it will in the near future.

In any case, this misrepresents the true nature
of the UK's role. When the intervention began,
the foreign secretary Philip Hammond, vowed
 to “support the Saudis in every practical way
short of engaging in combat”, including “spare
parts, maintenance, technical advice, resupply”
 and “logistical support”. The reality is that the
 Saudi Air Force, roughly half UK-supplied and
 half US-supplied jets, could barely function,
without this ongoing assistance from
Washington and London.

If there is Yemeni blood on the hands of the Saudi-led
 coalition - then that blood is also on the hands of the
 coalition’s western backers, enablers and apologists.

The Saudis and their allies can only wage this war
 because the Anglo-American suppliers of their air
 forces are providing active, material support. And
 British and American politicians can only collude
in these outrages, because the political cost on
them, so far, has been low. However, it is in the
gift of their constituents – you, the reader –
to change that equation.

(source - The Guardian)


This could be defeated --- with
a UNITED LABOUR PARTY !!!

But unfortunately, there are "entryist"  MPs who, for
decades, have been groomed by CIA cold war relic
organisations -- like the Atlantic Council -- and are
now trying to misdirect the Labour Party towards
cuts, a militarised police, and a US war agenda...
 and their anti-peace MPs are hobbling Labour.


129 Labour MPs voted to stop support for
Saudi Arabia’s campaign in Yemen. The
vote was defeated by a majority of 90.

The motion called for ---- support to be withdrawn
from the Saudi government until a United Nations
 investigation could determine whether the Saudi
 bombing had breached international law.

 The motion didn't explicitly include
a suspension
 of UK arms sales.

100+ Labour MPs didn't vote on the motion.
If all of them had voted to support it, the
government would have been defeated.

The following, are the Labour MPs who
abstained, or weren't present to vote.

Adrian Bailey
Andy Burnham
Angela Eagle
Angela Smith
Ann Clwyd
Ann Coffey
Anna Turley
Barry Sheerman
Ben Bradshaw
Bridgit Phillipson
Caroline Flint
Catherine McKinnell
Chris Bryant
Chris Elmore (Teller)
Chris Evans
Chris Leslie
Clive Lewis (ill)
Connor McGinn
Dan Jarvis
David Crausby
David Lammy
Diana Johnson
Fiona MacTaggart
Frank Field
Gareth Thomas
Gavin Shuker
Geoffrey Robinson
George Howarth
Gerald Kaufman
Gill Furniss
Gisela Stuart
Gloria De Piero
Graeme Jones
Graham Allen
Graham Stringer
Heidi Alexander
Helen Jones
Ian Austin
Ian Murray
Ivan Lewis
Jamie Reed
Jim Fitzpatrick
Joan Ryan
John Mann
John Spellar
John Woodcock
Judith Cummins (Teller)
Julie Elliott
Kate Hoey
Keith Vaz
Kevan Jones
Kevin Barron
Liz Kendall
Luciana Berger
Lucy Powell
Madeleine Moon
Margaret Beckett
Margaret Hodge
Maria Eagle
Mark Hendrick
Mary Creagh
Meg Hillier (Paired)
Melanie Onn
Michael Dugher
Mike Gapes
Natascha Engel
Neil Coyle
Nia Griffith
Pat McFadden
Paul Flynn
Peter Kyle
Phil Wilson
Rachel Reeves
Rob Flello
Rob Marris
Roberta Blackman-Woods
Rosie Cooper
Rushanara Ali
Ruth Smeeth
Shabana Mahmood
Siobhain McDonagh
Stephen Kinnock
Susan Jones
Toby Perkins
Tom Blenkinsopp
Tom Watson
Tracy Brabin
Tristram Hunt
Vernon Coaker
Wayne David
Wes Streeting
Yasmin Qureshi
Yvonne Fovargue


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‘How Can I Deselect
My Labour MP?’ A Short
Guide
to Reselection and
Democratic Accountability

by Eric Sim, excellent free advice here:

http://novaramedia.com/2016/07/13/how-can-i-
deselect-my-labour-mp-a-short-guide-to-
reselection-and-democratic-accountability/


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US Impunity Erodes World Justice

Nicolas J S Davies is the author of Blood On Our
Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction
of Iraq.  He also wrote the chapters on “Obama
at War” in Grading the 44th President: a Report
Card on Barack Obama’s First Term as a
Progressive (Lol) Leader.

In the past weeks, Burundi and S. Africa have joined
 Namibia in declaring their intention to withdraw from
the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
(ICC). They are likely to be followed by a parade of
other African countries, jeopardizing the future of
an international court, which has prosecuted 39
officials from 8 African countries, but has failed
 to indict a single person who is not African.

Ironically, African countries were among the first
 to embrace the ICC, so it is a striking turnaround
 that they are now the first to give up on it.

But it is the United States that has played the leading
 role in preventing the ICC from fulfilling the universal
mandate for which it was formed, to hold officials of
all countries accountable for the worst crimes in the
world: genocide; crimes against humanity; and war
crimes - not least, international aggression, which
 the judges at Nuremberg defined as “the supreme
 international crime”, from which, all other war
crimes follow.

As the ICC’s founding father, former Nuremberg
prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, lamented in 2011:
 
“You don’t have to be a criminologist to realize
that if you want to deter a crime, you must
persuade potential criminals that, if they
commit crimes, they will be hauled into
court and be held accountable. It is the
policy of the US to do just the opposite
as far as the crime of aggression is
concerned.

"Our government has gone to great pains --- to
be sure that no US citizen will be tried by any
 international criminal court, for the supreme
 crime of illegal war-making.”

The US has not only refused to accept the
jurisdiction of the ICC over its own citizens.
It's gone further, pressuring other countries
 to sign Bilateral Immunity Agreements (BIA),
in which they renounce the right to refer US
citizens to the ICC for war crimes committed
on their territory.

The US has also threatened to cut off US aid to
 countries that refuse to sign them. The BIAs
 violate those countries’ own commitments
under the ICC statute, and US pressure to
sign them, has been rightly condemned:
as an outrageous effort to ensure
impunity for US war crimes.

Resistance to US Impunity

To the credit of our international neighbours, this
US strategy has met with substantial resistance.
The European Parliament overwhelmingly passed
 a resolution, stating that BIAs are incompatible
with EU membership, and urging EU- member
states and countries seeking EU membership
not to sign them.

Fifty-four countries have publicly refused to sign
 BIAs, and 24 have accepted cut-offs of US aid as
 a consequence of their refusal. Of 102 countries
that have signed a BIA, only 48 are members of
the ICC in any case ----- and only 15 of those
countries are on record as having ratified
the BIAs in their own parliaments.

Thirty-two other ICC members have apparently
 allowed BIAs to take effect without parliament-
ary ratification, but this has been challenged by
 their own country’s legal experts in many cases.

The US campaign to undermine the ICC is part
of a much broader effort by the US government
to evade all forms of accountability under the
laws that are supposed to govern international
behaviour in the modern world --- even as it
continues to masquerade as a global
 champion of the rule of law.

The treaties US policy systematically violates
 today, were crafted by US statespersons and
 diplomats, working with foreign colleagues,
to build a world where all people will enjoy
 some basic protections... from the worst
 atrocities, instead of being subject only
 to the law of the jungle or “might
makes right.”

So current US policy is a cynical betrayal of
the work and wisdom of past generations of
US citizens, as well as of countless victims
over the world to whom we are effectively
denying the protections of the UN Charter
& Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child, and many other
 multilateral treaties our country ignores,
violates or refuses to ratify.

Avoiding jurisdiction in international courts
 is only one of the ways that the US evades
international accountability for its criminal
behaviour. Another involves an elaborate,
 well-disguised, public relations campaign
 that exploits the powerful position of US
corporations in the world of commercial
media.

Major Propaganda Funding

The US government spends a billion dollars
per year on public relations or, more bluntly,
propaganda, including $600 million from the
 Pentagon budget. The work of its PR teams
and contractors is laundered by US news-
papers --- and repeated and analyzed ad
nauseam, by monolithic, flag-waving
 TV networks.

These profitable corporate operations monopolize
 the public airwaves in the US, and also use their
 financial clout, slick marketing, and the support
of the US State Department to maintain a power-
ful presence in foreign and international media
 markets.

Foreign media in allied countries provide further
 legitimacy and credibility to US talking-points
 and narratives as they echo around the world.
Meanwhile, Hollywood fills cinema and TV
screens across the world with an idealized,
glamorized, inspirational version of the US
that still mesmerizes many people.

This whole elaborate “information warfare”
machine presents the US as a global leader
for democracy, human rights and the rule of
law, even as it systematically and catastroph-
ically undermines those same principles. It
enables our leaders to loudly, persuasively,
 demonize other countries and their leaders
 as dangerous violators of international law,
even as the US and its allies commit far
 worse crimes.

Double Standards 


The phrase “aggressive war” is also a no-no in
 the Western media - when the US government
launches wars, across international borders.
In the past 20 years, the US has violated the
 UN Charter to attack at least eight countries
 (Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan,
Yemen, Somalia, Libya & Syria), and the
 resulting wars, have killed about
 two million people.

A complex whirlwind of conflict and chaos rages
on in all the countries where the US and its allies
 have lit the flames of war since 2001, but our US
 leaders still debate new interventions ---- and/or
 escalations as if we are the fire brigade not the
 arsonists. (By contrast, the US government and
 the Western media are quick to accuse Russia
 or other countries of “aggression” --- even in
 legally murky situations, such as after the
US-backed coup in 2014, that ousted the
elected president of Ukraine.)

Systematic violations of the Geneva Conventions
 are an integral part of US war-making. Most are
 shrouded in secrecy: the propaganda machine
spins the atrocities that slip through into the
public record, as a disconnected series of
aberrations, accidents and “bad apples,”
instead of as the result of illegal rules
of engagement and unlawful orders
 from higher-ups.

The senior officers and civilian officials who
 are criminally responsible for these crimes
in US & international law -- systematically
 abuse their powerful positions to subvert
investigations, cover up their crimes, &
avoid any accountability whatsoever.

Pinter’s Complaint

When UK playwright Harold Pinter was awarded
 the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, he bravely
 and brilliantly used his Nobel lecture to speak
about the real role the US plays in the world,
 and how it whitewashes its crimes. Pinter
recounted a meeting at the US Embassy
in London in the 1980s in which a senior
embassy official, Raymond Seitz, flatly
denied US war crimes in Nicaragua ----
for which the US was in fact, convicted
of aggression by the International Court
 of Justice (ICJ). Seitz went on to serve
as Assistant Secretary of State, US
 Ambassador to the UK, and then
Vice-Chair of Lehman Brothers.

As Pinter explained: “this ‘policy’ was by no
means restricted to Central America. It was
conducted throughout the world. It was
never-ending. And it is --- as if it never
 happened.

“The United States supported - and in many cases
 engendered every rightwing military dictatorship
 in the world, after the end of the Second World
War. I refer to:-  Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay,
Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines,
Guatemala, El Salvador, and, of course, Chile.
The horror the US inflicted upon Chile in 1973
can never be purged, & can never be forgiven.

“Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place
 throughout these countries. Did... they take
place? & are they in all cases, attributable
 to US foreign policy? The answer is 'yes',
 they did take place, and are attributable
 to American foreign policy. But you
wouldn’t know it.

“It never happened. Nothing ever happened.
Even while it was happening it wasn’t happ-
ening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest.
The crimes of the United States have been
 systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless,
 but very few people have actually talked
 about them. You have to hand it to the
US. It has exercised a quite clinical
manipulation of power, worldwide,
 while masquerading... as a force
 for universal good. It’s a brilliant
 - even witty - highly successful,
act of hypnosis.”

If, in 2016, the world seems to be more violent
and chaotic than ever, it's not because the US
 lacks the will to use force or project power, as
 both major party candidates for President, &
their military advisers appear to believe, but
because our leaders have placed too much
stock in the illegal threat and use of force,
and have lost faith in the rule of law, any
international cooperation and diplomacy.

After a century of commercial dominance,
 & 75 years of investing disproportionately
 in weapons, military forces & geopolitical
 schemes, perhaps it is understandable
 that US leaders have forgotten how to
 deal fairly and respectfully with our
 international neighbours. But it's no
longer an option, to muddle along,
leaving a trail of death, ruin and
chaos in our wake, counting on
 an elaborate propaganda mach-
ine, to minimize the blowback
 on our country and our lives.

Sooner, rather than later, US citizens & our
 leaders must knuckle down and master the
 very different attitudes & skills that we will
need to become law-abiding global citizens
 in a peaceful, sustainable, multipolar world.


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Russia ends treaty limiting

plutonium production in response
to recent US escalation
of hostility

Fort Russ News - Topwar.ru - Lenta - News.Ru - 
  translated by J. Arnoldski


TopWar: On October 3rd, Russian President
 Vladimir Putin signed a decree on suspending
compliance with the agreement with the US on
 disposing weapons-grade plutonium. The main
 reason for this decision was pointed out as the
 “unfriendly attitude of the US towards Russia.”

Sources from the State Duma have reported that
 Russia is ready to resume the agreement, if the
 US cancels all the anti-Russian sanctions. Plus,
Russia demands that the US reduce its military
 contingent in Europe, before Russia resumes
 compliance with the protocols. The State
Duma’s statement reads:

“Acting according to the agreement and the
protocols of the agreement can be resumed
after the US eliminates the reasons which led
 to this radical change in circumstances: after
the US reduces its military infrastructure and
the number of its troop contingents deployed
on the territory of the NATO countries having
 joined NATO after September 1st, 2000, down
 to the level at which they were on the day that
 the agreement and its protocols entered force.

 "Since then NATO has grown to encompass 9 states
 of Eastern Europe. Just around the corner is NATO’s
 10th state to be included since 2000 - Montenegro.”

In addition, Russia has demanded, as one of its
 conditions, that Washington cancel the so-call-
ed Magnitsky Act.

We await a reaction from the US.

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Popov: Russia can and
should withdraw 
from
1997 treaty with Ukraine

By Eduard Popov for Fort Russ
 - translated by J. Arnoldski -

The other day, the disturbing news came from Lvov,
the unofficial capital of Ukrainian Galicia, that the
 Lvov regional council has filed a lawsuit to forcibly
 evict the Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre. As the
head of the regional council, V. Girnyak, said in his
statement, organizations tied to the Anti-Terrorist
Operation are preparing to transfer the building on
Korolenko Street. The Lvov deputies hardly expect
to earn more money from these “ATOers.” Rather,
 the eviction of Pushkin Russian Cultural Centre
 is explained by a different motive: once again,
punishing anyone ideologically representative
 of an “enemy” Russian culture.

This centre’s building was leased to the Russian
 community of Lvov, in 1990. In 1999, the then
mayor Vasiliy Kuybida, set the symbolic rent
fee of 5 hryvnia (around $1 back then).

Let us quote one founding document signed by
Ukraine, the Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation,
and Partnership between the Russian Federation
 and Ukraine from May 31st, 1997. Point 12 of the
 agreement reads: “The High Agreeing Parties shall
 protect the ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious
identities of national minorities on their territory
and create conditions for the fostering of their
identity….they will contribute to creating equal
opportunities and conditions for studying the
 Russian language in Ukraine and the Ukrainian
language in the Russian Federation, training
pedagogical staff for teaching these languages
 in educational establishments, and for these
purposes, provide equal state support.”

Points 1-2 of the agreement are based on the
 recognition of the friendly relations between the
 countries and their territorial integrity. Hence why
the agreement is often called a border treaty. For
Ukraine, whose territorial sovereignty over some
territories (including Galicia, which was part of the
 Second Polish Republic until September 1939) is
 quite disputed, this agreement was a real gift. It
is no coincidence that a number of patriotic
politicians in Russia, demanded that this
document not be signed.

Russia’s recognition of Kiev’s sovereignty over
territories included in the Ukrainian state is founded
on Ukraine’s observance of the rights of its Russian-
cultured citizens. After the coup d’etat in 2014,
Ukraine began pursuing a policy of cultural genocide
(ethnocide) against the Russian-cultured population.

Now Ukraine is discussing the initiative of the
scandalously infamous politician Irina Farion, to
deprive Russian residents in Ukraine of civil rights.

In fact, this measure is already being implemented.
The number of Russian schools has rapidly declined
 while Russian organizations are being prosecuted
and their activities are under close surveillance
by
 Kiev’s intelligence services.

In accordance with the 1997 treaty, an entire
 network of federal & regional organizations of
Ukrainians is funded in Russia. For example,

 in the Rostov region there is a city-level and
regional national-cultural autonomy of Ukrainians.

 The organization receives funding from the city
 and regional budgets. Its head, the businessman
Makarchuk, is a member of the Public Chamber of
 the Rostov region and is proud of his friendship
 with Rostov governor Vasili Golubev. Meanwhile,
Makarchuk is published on the website of the
Ukrainian neo-Nazi Svoboda party and
 frequently makes Russophobic statements.


Unfortunately, Russia is largely to blame for the fact
 that the civil rights of Russian-cultured people in
Ukraine are being massively violated. An example
of this is the patronizing policy of Rostov region's
authorities. But on the federal level as well, the
state does not make sufficient (or any) efforts
 to defend the Russian population of Ukraine
 (nearly half of the country’s total population).

Meanwhile, a more responsible attitude towards
 obligations would lead to discussion of the 1997
treaty. In a situation in which the second country
(Ukraine), massively violates the treaty’s basic
premises, then Russia has the right to withdraw
 from the treaty with all the legal and political
implications. I see no reason for the Russian
budget to support the activities of Ukrainian
 organizations in Russia, or recognize the
 territorial sovereignty of Ukraine.


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WHITE HELMETS -- SHAM

The Ron Paul Institute has pointed out: “We
have demonstrated that the White Helmets
are an integral part of the propaganda van-
guard, that ensures obscurantism of fact
and propagation of Human Rights fiction
 that elicits the well-intentioned and self
 righteous response from a very cleverly
 duped public. A priority for these NGOs
 is to keep pushing the No Fly Zone
scenario which has already been
 seen to have disastrous implications
 for innocent civilians in Libya, for
 example.”

What better chance to push “the No Fly Zone
 scenario” than arriving within “moments” of
the convoy tragedy, filming it and creating a
propaganda scenario before any meaningful
forensic investigation could even be started,
 since the trucks were still burning. And of
course, the “White Helmets”, aka “Syrian
Defence Force”, were filming, rather than
 attempting to put out the fire and rescue
those in the burning trucks.

[Ed. Yet the UK's Guardian, that snivelling wreckage
of a "Liberal" newspaper, lies, & describes them as
"the White Helmets, a volunteer rescue group,"
quotes their accusations of Syrian & Russian
"constant bombing of civilians" and calls for
a "no-fly-zone" now --- as in Libya.]


The Russian Defence Ministry subsequently
caused outrage by claiming that their Drone
 footage: “shows the bombed Syrian aid
convoy
included a truck full of militant
fighters
carrying mortar guns.”


However: “The footage emerged as the United
 Nations rowed back from describing the attack
 on the aid convoy as air strikes, saying it did
 not have conclusive evidence about what
 had happened.”

It must be asked, why on earth, after long and
 protracted negotiations over the convoy would
 Syria and or their Russian ally risk the wrath of
the US & “coalition”, and of further decimation
of the country, by laying themselves open to
 accusations of bombing aid convoys?

The tragedy has emphatically achieved 1 thing,
 however. Wiped from the headlines, is another
 atrocity - the US bombing which killed over 60
 Syrian soldiers and wounded over 100 others,
 just two days earlier, on Saturday 17th Sept.
 - causing Russian Foreign Ministry spokes-
woman Maria Zakharova, to comment: “We
 are reaching a really terrifying conclusion
for the whole world: That the White House
 is defending Islamic State. Now there can
be no doubts about that”, according to
 the RIA Novosti news agency.

Again - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Who will guard the guards?


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US prepares an
Islamic army in Kosovo


Pravda.Ru - The US is preparing a reserve echelon
 in the territory of its Kosova enclave. But to keep
a secure strategic space, the Southern Serbian
provinces may be separated from Kosovo. Given
the total apathy of the authorities of Republika
Srpska... this plan is inching closer to its
 implementation.

The goal of the Americans is clear: if Berlin's
discontent ousts US bases from Germany,
after all, the US will have a spot in Kosovo.
It's no secret that the crime and terrorist
 mayhem plaguing Kosovo, is under the
patronage of the US.

Yelena Guskova, a Senator, and member of the
 Academy of Sciences of the Republika Srpska
 (Bosnia and Herzegovina), honoured with many
 Russian and Serbian state awards, commented
to Pravda.Ru on this matter, in an interview.

Former Commander of the French foreign legion
 in Kosovo -- General Jacques Ogar, has recently
confirmed to Pravda.Ru, evidence obtained from
confidential US sources -- that there are at least
 five ISIS training camps in Kosovo, which are
preparing suicide bombers and an army of
Islamists to conquer Europe.

Having found no evidence that proved
Milosevic was guilty, the Hague tribunal
 exonerated him. What do you think of it?

Slobodan Milosevic is a very significant historical
 person in Serbia's modern history, and the whole
of Yugoslavia. In the early 1990s he was seen as
 the last communist in Europe -- who should be
 annihilated. His own country turned him over
 to the Hague; the so-called new government
 -- after the colour revolution of 2000.

However he was a leader who defended his country
 and the truth. He combated a large amount of lies
at the Tribunal, which tried to prove that only the
 Serbs were guilty of all the events of the 1990s,
 as they were charged with collective crimes.

No leader of the Muslim territories of Yugoslavia was
 convicted, only Serbian ones. The figure of Milosevic
 was very important, but they didn't manage to find
 any evidence.

His brother Borislav Milosevic says they secretly
 took some samples of food and water Slobodan
 had been given and tested it in Moscow. And it
 turned out that poison had been added. And it
was difficult to breathe for him, which means
that something was infiltrated into the air.

Then he stopped eating, but the process had been
 launched. His death is mysterious but the Tribunal
admitted that he was not responsible for crimes
in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Colonel Jacques Ogar, who was Commander of
a foreign legion in the territory of Yugoslavia in
 the UN group admits that they were ordered to
stand for the Kosovars against the Serbians...
Western troops openly supported separatists
 and participated in punitive actions against
the Serbians. Do you have such data?

Surely. I'm a Head of the Centre for the Study of the
 Contemporary Balkan Crisis at the Russian Academy
of Sciences. Our main task is to collect documents
 and publish them. There occur more and more
 documents on the events since 1990, which
confirm it.

It's absolutely clear that international organizations
 were biased. The Albanians approach their dream -
to create a big country with an Albanian population
 only. The US has worked a lot to support this
 movement, as Kosovo is a project of the US.

And they would have got independence long ago,
 unless it was for Russia. Russia said No to their
 plans in 2007. it disturbed them, and now they
 do not influence Russia, but try to govern the
Serbian authorities. But I think the process
hasn't been completed, & there's a chance
 to return Kosovo to Serbia.

As they say, there are 8 ISIS training camps in
 the territory of Kosovo. It is reported that they
 train suicide bombers to carry out acts in the
 Western Europe and create a whole army to
 conquer it. How can you comment on this?

When huge flows of refugees were going across
 the Balkans in Europe, there were mainly young
men and almost no couples. They were well-
dressed, were going by three, and had enough
means to live in decent hotels. It is clear that
 there are those among them who should stay
 in the Balkans & orchestrate implementation
 of their leaders' aims.

As the Serbian officials struggle to join the EU,
they implemented all the terms. And they were
 told, to not only to let in these refugees, but
also to build camps for them. Many stayed
 in the South, where the population is
majority Muslim . A great quantity
went to Kosovo and Metohija.

And there's an uncontrolled NATO base Bondsteel
 there, where enormous resources are deployed.
This territory is not controlled by anyone. And
when questions of the US military camps in
 Europe occur, no one speaks of Kosovo.

In Kosovo's camps, where terrorists are trained,
they are set absolutely free. It's very dangerous
for the whole of Europe, and the Balkans first of
all. The US, though, wants to whip Serbia into
 submission and recognize the independence
 of Kosovo and Metohija.

 In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika
 Srpska, and Serbians who reside there, are
 hampering these plans.

There is evidence that, as early as in the mid-
1990s the US aimed to go down to the Balkans
when the agreement with Germany terminated
 if they had to leave. They need a territory in
Bosnia & Herzegovina, in Kosovo, Metohija,
Montenegro, Serbia & Macedonia. Republika
Srpska hampers implementation of this plan
 today.

They need to annihilate the Republic and make
the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina a unitary
 state. They didn't manage to conduct a colour
revolution in the Republika Srpska, while the
 terror acts, which may be backed by Muslims
in other territories, may be fruitful.

These plans may come forward in the nearest
future, and it's a threat for the whole of Serbia.
As there is a plan to separate the Southern
regions of Serbia, where a lot of Albanians
and Muslims reside. Today Serbian officials
 regard these refugees calmly, as well as
capable of possible terrorist acts. But it
should be paid 'special attention'.

Interview by Alexandre Artamonov

_____________________________________



Shocking: South Korean
Death Camps Uncovered

If you want to read the original AP report:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c22de3a565fe4e
85a0508bbbd72c3c1b/ap-s-korea-covered
-mass-abuse-killings-vagrants


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US/UK elite
bankrolled A. Hitler


Germans were paid in company shares for loans
 that managed Germany's war reparations -- thus
 US capital began to actively integrate into the
 German economy.

The total amount of foreign investment in German
 industry during 1924-1929 amounted to almost 63
 billion gold Marks (30 billion was accounted for by
 loans), and the payment of reparations — 10 billion
 Marks. 70% of revenues were provided by bankers
 from the US, and most banks were from JP Morgan.

As a result, in 1929, German industry was in second
 place in the world, but it was largely in the hands of
 the USA's leading financial-industrial groups.

"Interessen-Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie", main
 supplier of the German war machine, financed 45%
 of the election campaign of Hitler in 1930, and was
 under the control of Rockefeller's "Standard oil".

 Morgan, through "General Electric", controlled the
 German radio and electrical industry, via AEG and
 Siemens (up to 1933, 30% of the shares of AEG
were owned by "General Electric") and through
 the Telecom company ITT — 40% of the 'phone
 network in Germany.

In addition, they owned a 30% stake in the air-
craft manufacturing company "Focke-Wulf".

"General Motors", belonging to the DuPont
 family, established control over "Opel".

Henry Ford controlled 100% of the shares of
  Volkswagen. In 1926, with the participation
 of the Rockefeller Bank, Dillon, Reed & Co,
 the second largest  industrial monopoly in
 Germany, after I.G Farben, merged with
 metals group, "Vereinigte Stahlwerke"
 (Steel trust) plus Thyssen, Flick,
 Wolff, Feglera etc.

US co-operation with Germany's military-
industrial complex, was so intense and
 pervasive, that by 1933, the key sectors
 of German industry, & large banks such
 as the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank,
Donat Bank, etc, were all under the
control of US financial capital.

The political force that was intended to
 play a crucial role in the Anglo-American
 plans was being simultaneously prepared.

We are talking about the funding of
 the Nazi party and A. Hitler personally.

As former German Chancellor Brüning wrote in
 his memoirs, from 1923, Hitler received large
 sums from abroad. Where they went, is not
known, but they were received through
 Swiss and Swedish banks.

 It is also known that, in 1922 in Munich, a
meeting took place between A. Hitler and
the military attache of the US to Germany
 -- Captain Truman Smith -- who compiled
 a detailed report for his Washington
superiors (in the office of military
intelligence), in which he spoke
 highly of Hitler.

Through Smith's circle of acquaintances, A.
Hitler was introduced to Ernst Franz Sedgwick
 Hanfstaengl, (Putzie), --- a graduate of Harvard
 University who played an important role in the
 formation of A. Hitler as a politician, rendered
 him significant financial support, and secured
 for him, acquaintance & communication with,
 senior British figures.

Hitler was prepared politically, but, as Germany
reigned in prosperity, his party remained on the
 periphery of public life... The situation changed
 dramatically with the beginning of 'the crisis'.

In the autumn of 1929, the collapse of the US
 stock exchange was triggered by the Federal
 Reserve, and the next stage of the Anglo-US
financial circles' strategy, had started.

The Federal Reserve and JP Morgan, decided to
 stop lending to Germany --- inspired by the bank
 crisis & economic depression in Central Europe.

 In September 1931, England abandoned the gold
 standard, deliberately destroying international
 payments systems and completely cutting off
 "financial oxygen" to the Weimar Republic.

But a financial miracle occurred for the Nazi
party: in September 1930 as a result of large
 donations by Thyssen and I.G. Farben --- the
 party got 6.4 million votes & took 2nd place
 in the Reichstag;- after this, more generous
 investments from abroad were activated.

The main link between the major German
 industrialists and foreign financiers,
 became H. Schacht.

On January 4th, 1932, a meeting was held
 with the largest English financier, a Mr M.
Norman, A. Hitler, and von Papen, which
concluded a secret agreement on the
financing of the NSDAP.

 This meeting was also attended by US
 policy-makers, the Dulles brothers ---
 something their biographers do not
 like to mention.

On January 14th, 1933, a meeting between
 Hitler, Schroder, Papen & Kepler took place,
 where Hitler's program was fully approved. It
 was here that they finally resolved the issue
 of the transfer of power to the Nazis, and on
 30th January, A. Hitler became Chancellor.

The implementation of the next
 stage of the strategy thus began.

The attitude of Anglo-American ruling circles
 to the new government was very sympathetic.
 When Hitler refused to pay reparations, which
 naturally called into question the payment of
war debts, neither the UK or France pressed
 their payment claims.

Moreover, after a visit to the US in May 1933,
 H. Schacht was placed, again, at the head of
the Reichsbank, and, after his meeting with
the President and the biggest bankers on
Wall Street, the US allocated Germany
new loans --- totalling $1 billion.

In June, during a trip to London & a meeting
with M. Norman, Schacht sought an English
 loan of $2 billion and a reduction and then
the cessation of payments, on old loans.

Thus, the Nazis got what they could not
 achieve with the previous government.

In the summer of 1934, Britain signed the Anglo-
German transfer agreement, which became one
 of the foundations of British policy towards the
Third Reich, &, at the end of the 30's, Germany
 became the main trading partner of England.

Schroeder Bank became Germany's main agent
in the UK & in 1936 his New York office teamed
 up with the Rockefellers, to create Schroeder,
 Rockefeller & Co. investment Bank, which the
Times magazine called the Berlin-Rome
"economic propagandist axis".

As Hitler himself admitted, he conceived his 4-
year plan on the basis of foreign financial loans,
so it never inspired him with the slightest alarm.

In August 1934, US Standard oil acquired
 730,000 acres of land in Germany... then
 built large oil refineries which supplied
 the Nazis with oil.

At the same time, Germany secretly took
delivery of the most modern equipment
 for aircraft factories, from the US, which
would begin producing German planes.

Germany gained large numbers of military
patents from US firms Pratt and Whitney,
Douglas, and Curtis Wright --- and it was
US technology, building the Junkers-87.

In 1941 --- as world war ll was raging ---
 US investments in Germany's economy 
amounted to $475 million. Standard oil
 invested - 120 million, General motors -
$35 million, ITT - $30 million, and Ford
 - $17.5 million.

The close financial & economic co-operation
 of Anglo-American and Nazi business circles,
was the backdrop against which, in the 30's,
 a policy of appeasement led to world war II.

Today, as the world's financial elite begins
 to implement the 'Great depression 2' plan
with its subsequent transition to the "new
world order", identifying its key role in the
 organization of crimes against humanity,
becomes a priority.

Yuri Rubtsov is a doctor of historical
 sciences, academician of the Academy
 of military sciences, & a member of the
 International Association of historians
 of world war II.

Results of UN vote condemning glorification of fascism

Leonard Peltier


FREE POLITICAL PRISONER LEONARD PELTIER NOW!!!

Indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier, 
  in prison in the US for 38 years, received
the first international human rights prize
of Uruguay's Mario Benedetti Foundation.

At a ceremony in Montevideo, where the
winner was announced, the human rights
group calls Peltier the longest-serving
political prisoner in the Americas, AFP
reports.

Peltier, a Native American activist who
was a member of the American Indian
Movement (AIM), was convicted in 1977
for the alleged murder of  two US FBI
agents during a 1975 shootout on the
Pine Ridge Reservation in S. Dakota.

He was sentenced to 2 consecutive
terms of life imprisonment.

"Leonard Peltier, who on September 12th, 2014,
turned 70, has spent over half his life in prison.
He's a symbol of resistance to repressive state
policies by the US, where there are people in
jail for ethnic, racial,
religious & ideological 
reasons," the foundation's statement says.

Ricardo Elena, a member of the foundation's
honorary board, says Peltier's case "is one
that is repeated over and over: violation (of
rights), persecution, eviction, invasion and
expropriation of indigenous people, from
the time it was 'discovered', until now.

"It doesn't just happen in the United States;
it is happening in southern South America,
with the (indigenous) Mapuche people, and
with indigenous people in North America,"
he states.

Elena says the United States "likes to think
it's the seat of democracy, but it has political
prisoners just like a dictatorship might have."

The Mario Benedetti Foundation was founded
to support human rights and cultural causes
in line with the work of the Uruguayan writer
after whom it was named, who died in 2009.

Peltier is incarcerated at the United States
Penitentiary, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.

James Swan, the head of the Black Hills chapter
of the United Urban Warrior Society - a nonprofit
group that helps Native Americans fight racial
discrimination and injustice - describes Peltier
as a political prisoner whose case needs to be
reviewed by an independent body.

"What we want people to realize is that this
is an injustice," AP quotes Swan as saying.

Peltier, 66, was given two life sentences in
'77, on false charges of killing 2 FBI agents.

Peltier asserts that he is innocent and
the FBI framed him for political reasons,
especially for his activities as a member
of the Native American Movement. He
has lodged numerous appeals against
the conviction - but all unsuccessfully.

He's been denied parole again and
again, and will not be eligible for it
again until 2024, when he turns 79.

Peltier's relatives say he suffers a
number of health problems such as
diabetes, arthritis, and the loss of
vision in an eye after a minor stroke.

Many activists say Leonard Peltier is
the most important political prisoner
in the US.

In a review of the US' human rights record,
at a United Nations Human Rights Council
UPR conference in Geneva, a group called
for a new trial for him.

The US Human Rights Network filed a 423-page
submission to the Geneva meeting about him.

One item, entitled “Political Repression -
Political Prisoners,” about 19
70's cases,
indicts the FBI: accusing COINTELPRO of
“maiming, murdering, false prosecutions
and frame-ups, destruction and mayhem
throughout the country.”

It cites the FBI for targeting the Puerto Rican
Independence Front, the Black Panther Party,
the Weather Underground, the American Indian
Movement, the Black Liberation Army, as well
as “peace activists and everyone in between,”
  and says “many of today's political prisoners”
in the US were jailed indefinitely as a result.

Repression has grown since 9/11, it says.

The political repression paper demands an
“immediate criminal investigation into the
conspiracy,”
and also new trials for two
aged activists jailed on
murder charges,
Mumia Abu Jamal and Leonard Peltier.






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