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I've been hearing for the past several decades that China is about to fall apart. Hasn't happened yet. I think that underestimating your enemy is poor strategy. But say it does. Then what? Kazakhs? Uzbeks? Tajiks? Azerbaijanis? Ossetians? Dagestanis? Mongols? They're all having babies. Just imagine each of them with their own Soviet era nukes.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The chief of Russia’s mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, denied planning a coup against President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , saying his army lacked the personnel needed while alluding to defense minister Sergei Shoigu as being in a position to be capable of toppling Putin, according to a report.
Former commander of pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, Igor Girkin, had on Saturday accused Prigozhin of preparing for a coup and labeled the Wagner boss’s insults against the armed forces and top defense officials as criminal.
"In fact, with his statements, Prigozhin made a step towards mutiny," said Girkin according to a video shared by WarTranslated, an independent organization which translates Ukraine war materials. He added: "If Prigozhin remains the head of Wagner, the mutiny will come quickly and radically."
"A coup attempt has been declared... What will happen next, I don't know, especially as Wagner is urgently withdrawn to rear bases... The danger of a looming coup is clear," Girkin said.
Prigozhin argued on Monday that Wagner simply didn’t have large enough numbers to carry out a coup, the think tank Institute for the Study of War (ISW) which tracks daily developments of the Russian war on Ukraine highlighted in an assessment.
The Wagner chief also claimed to maintain good relations with Putin. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, another bullet hole appeared in Butch's hat...... he subtly indicated that the person well-positioned and capable of staging a coup was the defense minister because he had access to the Russian special forces.
Prigozhin gained widespread notoriety for his public rants against the Russian elite and military top brass, and he repeatedly singled out Shoigu and Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov.
Analysts told Al Arabiya English that despite his prominent public profile and high visibility on the global stage, his actual influence is diminishing. They also added that while his attention-grabbing antics persist, there is still a place for him within Putin’s power structure.
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ICYMI: President Vladimir #Putin says a drone attack on #Moscow was #Kyiv’s “response” to a Russian strike on a military intelligence headquarters in Ukraine.https://t.co/DfLneaqeDm
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I was hearing rumors that UKR telegram users were having the cops raid them yesterday. Thrown in jail. I brushed it off. But then heard last night that UKR Intel HQ was hit. UKR trying to keep it under wraps.
Hence Putin's qualifying.
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[LB] The enemy is trying to completely capture the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
by Iryna Gamalii
Tonight, the enemy again attacked the territory of Ukraine, using Iranian strike UAVs of the "Shahed" type. Information regarding the consequences of this attack is currently being clarified. During the past day, the Russian Federation launched two massive air and missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine.
This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the morning of the 461st day of the large-scale Russian invasion.
Last night, the enemy used Kh-101/Kh-555 air-based cruise missiles and Iranian strike UAVs "Shahed-136/131". The forces and means of air commands, in cooperation with the air defense of other components of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, destroyed 36 of 40 Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles and 30 of 38 "Shahed" attack UAVs.
Yesterday afternoon, the enemy used cruise and ballistic missiles of operational-tactical missile complex "Iskander" on objects of civil and critical infrastructure of the city of Kyiv. 11 out of 11 missiles were destroyed by the forces and means of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In total, during the past 24 hours, the enemy carried out 62 airstrikes and launched 54 attacks from rocket salvo systems. Unfortunately, there are victims among the civilian population, private residential buildings and other infrastructure have been damaged. The probability of launching missile and air strikes throughout the territory of Ukraine remains high.
The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. During the past day, units of the defense forces repelled 27 enemy attacks.
In the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation remains stable, no signs of the formation of offensive groups have been detected.
The enemy continues to maintain a military presence in the border areas with Ukraine in the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions . During the past day, there was an airstrike in the Milovi region of the Kharkiv region. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Seredyna-Buda, Pavlivka, Katerynivka, Shevchenkive, Velika Pisarivka of the Sumy region, as well as Udy, Strelecha, Hlyboke, Morokhovets, Ternova, Izbytske, Staritsa, Gatyshche, Vovchansk, Pletenivka, Tyche, Vovchanski Khutory, Mala Vovcha, Varvarivka, Budarka, Zemlyanka, Chugunivka in the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy during the past day conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the area of Masyutivka, Krokhmalne of the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka - Luhansk. Conducted an airstrike in the Stelmakhivka area. Kolodyazne, Kamianka, Krasne Pershe, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Masyutivka, Petropavlivka, Kucherivka, Kislivka, Hlushkivka, Berestov and Bohuslavka of the Kharkiv region were subjected to enemy artillery and mortar attacks.
During the past day, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Lymansky direction. Launched a missile strike in the Lyman area and airstrikes in the Belogorivka areas of the Luhansk region; Siversk and Spirne, Donetsk region. Nevske, Dibrova, Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Spirne of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire.
During the day, the enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction. He carried out an airstrike in the Toretsk district of the Donetsk region. Vasyukivka, Kramatorsk, Tikhonivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Ivanovske, Predtechine, Bila Gora, Zalizne and New York of the Donetsk region were affected by enemy shelling.
The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Avdiyiv direction . He carried out airstrikes in the Avdiyivka and Vodyanyi districts. He carried out artillery shelling of the settlements of Novokalynove, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske and Karlivka of the Donetsk region.
In the Marinka direction, our defenders repelled 12 enemy attacks in the area of the city of Marinka. The enemy launched an air strike in the Georgiivka area. At the same time, Maryinka and Georgiivka in the Donetsk region came under enemy fire.
On the Shakhtarsky direction, the enemy launched airstrikes in the areas of Vugledar and Prechistivka. Shelled the settlements of Paraskoviivka, Novomykhailivka, Vugledar, Novoukrainka, Prechistivka, and Shakhtarske.
The enemy continues to conduct defensive operations in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions . He carried out airstrikes in the Gulyaipole and Mala Tokmachka districts of the Zaporizhia region. He shelled the settlements of Vremivka, Zelene Pole, Novopil of the Donetsk region; Olhivske, Gulyaipole, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Orihiv, Novoandriivka and Stepnogrisk of the Zaporizhzhia region; Kachkarivka, Mylove, Kozatske, Burgunka, Lviv, Ivanivka, Antonivka, Komysany, Dniprovske, Kizomys of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson.
The enemy intensified counter-reconnaissance measures in the temporarily captured Skadovsky district of the Kherson region. The occupiers carry out mass raids on the houses and apartments of local residents. Personal documents and mobile devices are checked. In this way, the occupiers are trying to intimidate the local population and identify those who help the Defense Forces of Ukraine. During the day, our aviation made 15 strikes on areas where enemy personnel and military equipment were concentrated. Also, 4 enemy reconnaissance UAVs of various types were destroyed last day.
Units of missile troops and artillery hit three areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment, an ammunition warehouse, 3 anti-aircraft defenses and 3 more important enemy targets.
We will remind you that yesterday evening, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. At the Headquarters, they discussed the situation at the front, the staffing of offensive brigades and the provision of fast logistics, and new contracts for the supply of weapons.
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[Korrespondent] 16:29 Ukraine received from the allies about two battalions of Leopard 2 tanks, 30 units each, that is, about 60 vehicles in total, Reznikov said. He recalled that the tank coalition includes Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain and Canada.
16:25 Putin said that the "Ukrainian attack" of drones on Moscow is due to the fact that the day before the Russian Federation allegedly struck a blow at "decision-making centers" in Kiev. He specified that it was an attack on the military intelligence headquarters of Ukraine "two or three days ago." According to Putin, with such attacks, the Ukrainians "provoke us to mirror actions," and "the citizens of Ukraine should know what their leadership is pushing for."
16:21 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation put Zaluzhny on the wanted list, follows from the data on the website of the department.
16:18 The Russians have changed their tactics of missile strikes, but they will not be able to repeat such "representations" often, Andrei Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said in an interview with Online.ua. "The tactics of missile strikes have changed. They are mainly aimed at complicating or frustrating the plans of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Forces to further liberate the occupied territories," he said.
In addition, the Russian Federation is using the next wave of missile terror for demonstrative propaganda about allegedly damaging samples of Western weapons. "The attempt is active, massive, unprecedented, but to a large extent these are demonstration performances. The Russians will not be able to repeat such performances so often and with the same intensity and quantity," Yusov said.
16:00 Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia "reserves the right to take the most stringent measures in response to the terrorist attacks of the Kiev regime."
15:51 During the day, the Russians did not advance in any of the directions in which they were attacking, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. According to her, the intensity of enemy offensive operations during the day has been somewhat reduced, but the intensity of shelling and air strikes remains.
In three directions out of six during the day, the enemy did not take offensive actions - Limansky, Avdeevsky, Shakhtyorsky. In the Kupyansk direction, he is conducting unsuccessful offensive operations. In the Maryinsky direction, during the day, the Defense Forces repelled 12 attacks in the Maryinka area. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy has not yet carried out offensive operations, but continues shelling and inflicting air strikes. Also in this direction is the replacement and regrouping of enemy troops.
Malyar stressed that Ukrainian troops control the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. In the north and south of the suburb of Bakhmut, there has been no advance for several days, since the movement of Ukrainian troops has been suspended "to carry out other military tasks."
15:27 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on strikes "on central decision-making points, where, under the guidance of specialists from Western intelligence agencies, terrorist acts were planned on the territory of Russia."
15:25 Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said that almost 1.5 million people from the occupied territories of Ukraine have received Russian passports since October.
15:18 Shoigu said that the Russian military "in recent days" allegedly again hit the Patriot air defense system in Kiev. The speaker of the Air Force, Yuri Ignat, denied this: "Yesterday the complex worked - all targets of the Iskander type flying along a ballistic trajectory were destroyed."
14:40 As a result of Russian attacks, from October 2022 to March 2023, the Ukrainian energy system lost about 40-50% of its capacity, said the head of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky. According to him, the functioning of about 70% of the damaged objects has already been restored.
14:37 The Rada supported the bill, which reduces the age limit for citizens on the military registration of conscripts from 27 to 25 years.
14:29 Syrsky said that in the vicinity of Bakhmut, the Defense Forces continue to move forward, and showed the video.
14:12 In Moscow on the morning of Tuesday, May 30, local residents began to report a massive drone attack on the city. Drones crashed into apartment buildings in the capital of the Russian Federation, and loud explosions were heard in the Moscow region. Read more in the material Attack of drones on Moscow .
13:51 Zelensky said in an interview with Chosun Ilbo that his meeting with Putin is possible only after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. According to him, Putin "only wants to seize Ukraine by war and destroy Ukrainian statehood." In addition, according to the president, the next target of the Russian dictator is Belarus.
13:33 Klitschko said that the woman who died during the night attack by drones went out on the balcony to see how the air defense works. He urged Ukrainians not to do this.
12:44 Peskov said that today's attack by "Ukrainian drones" on Moscow is "the response of the Kiev regime to effective strikes on one of the decision-making centers that were inflicted on Sunday." In his opinion, the Ministry of Defense and regional authorities during the attack "worked properly, worked well." He also said that Putin received direct information on the situation with the drone attack, and that the president is not planning any special appeals to citizens about what happened.
12:39 Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko reported damage to 12 apartments in a house in the Goloseevsky district. According to him, one person died, 11 were injured, five of them were hospitalized.
12:15 Russian media write that a citizen of Ukraine was detained in Moscow, who came to Russia to take orphans from the occupied Ukrainian territories abroad. According to them, she came to the Russian Federation on the instructions of the Save Ukraine Foundation, which allegedly works with the SBU.
11:58 Ukraine returned 79 more bodies of fallen defenders, the Ministry of Reintegration reported.
11:46 China does not directly support Kiev's position on the war, Zelensky said in an interview with the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo: "It is a fact that China does not directly support Ukraine's position. As for the peace initiative put forward by China, we are grateful to other countries for their efforts, but We pointed out that the main thing for us remains our own formula for peace, our own initiative.
The President also expressed his hope that South Korea will provide Ukraine with defense military equipment, such as air defense systems.
11:33 The coalition of aircraft for Ukraine can be expanded with Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, Reznikov said in an interview with Ouest France: "If the UK and Germany combined their capabilities to supply Eurofighter fighters, this would be an important step."
The Minister drew an analogy with the tank coalition, in which the main model is the German Leopard 2, as well as the American Abrams and the British Challenger. Similarly, in his opinion, a coalition of fighters could be formed with the base model of the American F-16, as well as with the Eurofighter and the Swedish Gripen.
According to Reznikov, Ukraine needs about 120 fighter jets in total. "Our British partners are ready to offer Ukrainians training courses on Eurofighter fighters. And we are discussing with our Swedish friends how to start training on Saab Gripen aircraft," the minister added.
11:22 InformNapalm writes that the UAVs to Moscow were launched from the Moscow region and were Chinese.
10:49 At the epicenter of the drone attack in Moscow were the estates of Putin's elite, including on Rublyovka, and federal TV almost does not report on the attack, the telegram channel writes We can explain . In particular, in Moscow itself, prestigious southwestern microdistricts were under attack, in the Moscow region - Rublevskoye Highway and its environs, where Putin's close associates - oligarchs and officials live.
One of the drones fell in the village of Ilyinskoye - just 3 kilometers from Putin's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo. The residence of Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is located in the village of Znamenskoye, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu lives next door. Near the village of Zhukovka, the mansions of Putin's closest friends, the Rotenberg brothers, stand opposite each other. Many other members of the Russian elite also live in the areas where the drones were targeted.
10:36 According to the calculations of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Russia's military spending increased by 9.2% in 2022, to $86.4 billion, which is 4.1% of GDP. British intelligence believes that Russia's actual military spending is "highly uncertain" due to increased use of secret budget lines, especially since February 2022, and a lack of transparency.
10:17 The Kiev military administration clarified that as a result of the night attack, one person was killed, seven were injured, of which six were in the Goloseevsky district, where the debris fell into a multi-storey building.
Meanwhile, the National Police report that nine people were injured in Kyiv, one died. Four more were injured in the Kyiv region.
09:58 The South African Foreign Ministry announced that it guarantees the granting of diplomatic immunity to the participants of the ministerial meeting in June and the BRICS summit in August in the country. At the same time, they clarified that diplomatic immunity does not apply to warrants of international courts.
09:36 The Russian Defense Ministry accused the Kiev regime of attacking drones on Moscow. According to the agency, eight aircraft-type drones were involved in the attack, all of them were allegedly hit: three were suppressed by electronic warfare, five more were shot down by the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun system in the Moscow region.
In turn, Russian publics write that more than 30 UAVs attacked Moscow, including the UJ-22 Airborne attack drone, which is manufactured by Ukrjet.
09:07 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Toretsk), ten more were injured. In the Kherson region, one person died, according to the IVA.
08:59 The Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified that in the Goloseevsky district of Kiev, as a result of falling debris and a fire that arose in a high-rise building, rescuers evacuated 30 people, four were injured, one person died. In addition, more than 50 reports of damage to houses, apartments, offices, shops, garages and cars were received in the Kyiv region. Four people suffered from shrapnel wounds.
08:48 Biden said that the possibility of providing Ukraine with ATACMS missiles is being considered. Commenting on the intensification of Russian air attacks on Kyiv, he noted that this "did not come as a surprise" and "that is why we must continue to provide Ukraine with everything it needs." To a clarifying question about the possible transfer of long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, Biden replied that this topic is “still in the game,” meaning that the issue is still being considered.
08:37 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 30.
personnel - about 207,440 (+410) people liquidated,
tanks - 3802 (+1),
armored combat vehicles - 7469 (+2),
artillery systems - 3445 (+10),
MLRS - 575 (+0),
air defense systems - 332 (+1),
aircraft - 313 (+0),
helicopters - 298 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3092 (+38),
cruise missiles - 1107 (+51),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 6219 (+12),
special equipment - 454 (+1).
08:33 On the night of May 30, the Russians launched 31 Shahed-136/131 attack drones across Ukraine, 29 of them were destroyed , the Air Force command reported. Almost all UAVs were hit on the outskirts of the capital and in the sky of Kyiv.
08:29 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled 27 enemy attacks, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
08:11 In Moscow, drones hit two residential buildings, Russian media write with reference to emergency services. One drone hit the upper floors of a residential building on Profsoyuznaya, 98 - the facade and glazing of the house were destroyed, the second - in a 24-story residential building on Atlasova Street. Also "cotton" was heard in Krasnogorsk.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that early in the morning as a result of a UAV attack in several buildings "there was minor damage, no one was seriously injured." During the work of emergency services, residents of several entrances in two houses that were hit by a UAV were evacuated.
In addition, the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, announced the work of air defense. According to him, several drones were shot down on approach to Moscow. According to the Telegram channel Shot, a total of 13 drones were shot down in the Moscow region, three hit houses in Moscow.
05:15 At night, the Russians again attacked Kiev with Shahed drones. The attack was massive, from different directions, in several waves. The air raid lasted about three hours, said the head of the KGVA Sergei Popko. According to preliminary data, more than 20 drones were destroyed in the airspace of the capital. As a result of the fall of debris, there are casualties and destruction in different parts of Kyiv:
in Goloseevsky: due to the fall of debris on a multi-storey residential building, a fire broke out on the last two floors, more than 20 residents were evacuated. Initially, one person died and three were injured. Probably, the ceilings between the floors were destroyed, search work is underway under possible blockages;
in the Pechersky district, debris damaged cars;
a private house caught fire in the Darnitsky district, parked cars were damaged;
in the Dnieper region, burning debris fell on a green zone;
in Podolsky - for non-residential buildings;
in the Svyatoshinsky district, debris fell on the territory of one of the enterprises.
00:58 Explosions are heard in the Crimea near the city of Saki, not far from Novofedorovka, where the Russian air base is located, local publics report.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:36 Personnel effective destruction of objects (warehouses, hangars with weapons and military equipment and weapons in positions) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the right bank of the Kherson region
As a result of the strikes, dozens of units of various equipment and several tons of various ammunition belonging to the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit.
19:42 Job artillery in the Kupyansk direction
18:58 Artillery men covered "Gradom" accumulation of manpower and equipment in the Krasno-Limansky direction
Having received the coordinates of the targets from the reconnaissance, the artillerymen occupied the positional area and after a few minutes fired a volley of 122mm rockets.
Area strikes of the MLRS "Grad" hit the accumulation of manpower and lightly armored vehicles of the Ukrainian troops.
17:39 More than 200 fighters of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine you were out of service only for May 2023.
The day before, in Lvov, the wives of the servicemen of this brigade staged a peaceful procession in honor of their dead or missing husbands.
According to preliminary data, more than 100 people participated in the action. This means that at least 50 families were left without their breadwinners.
The official Telegram channel of the 24thBrigade only in May 2023 reported 56 dead or missing soldiers.
Based only on Ukrainian data, it can be assumed that, taking into account the wounded, 224 fighters were put out of action.
15:32 Mobilization in Ukraine. The recruit is trying to fight off the military commissars.
15:31 Highlights from the new Defense Ministry briefing:
🔹Russian troops destroyed an ammunition depot of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the village of Krasnoye in the DPR;
🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed up to 145 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day;
🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed over 140 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions in a day;
🔹Russian troops destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen in the Kherson direction in a day, an 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, 122mm D-30 and 152mm Msta-B howitzers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
🔹The RF Armed Forces inflicted a defeat on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Velikaya Novoselka and Vremevka in the DPR.
🔹Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group near the village of Vladimirovka in the DPR.
14:40 In Rubizhne (LPR) in the basement of a cafediscoveredtorture room organized by Ukrainian nationalists.
The owner of the institution provided them with premises for bullying civilians and captured military personnel.
“According to local residents, the owner of this cafe was an avid Ukronazi. We suspect that the National Battalions were tortured here. The owner was very friendly with the Right Sector* and the Aidar Battalion,” the fighter said, showing the basement of the cafe.
There were shackles and cages in the basement. According to media reports, shooting was carried out over the heads of the prisoners in order to extort the necessary information. Also, one could get into the torture chamber for ordering the “wrong song” or in case he said something without thinking.
13:31 Destroyed tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by artillerymen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, or rather its smoking tower
13:31 Ukrainian Nazi and right-winger Borislav Bereza in his TG channel admires the vushniks who installed an artillery mount in the courtyard of a residential building. The Ukronazi's special emotion is caused by a beach umbrella over a gun.
And the video explains to us why the expulsion of Bandera from settlements is always associated with the destruction of civilian housing. Because from their houses the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrange firing points in which they need to be suppressed.
13:30 Main statements of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu:
🔹Western curators demand that Kyiv go on the offensive, despite the significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
🔹Russian troops intercepted 29 Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles in a month;
🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are improving the use of aviation in the course of a special operation, mastering new equipment and weapons;
🔹Russian troops track and strike Western arms supplies to Ukraine;
🔹Measures to ensure flight safety allowed the RF Armed Forces to practically eliminate accidents due to the human factor.
12:19 Personnel well-coordinated combat work of motorized riflemen of the 429th Regiment to destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction
12:17 Ukromaraders decided to play with cars in one of the kindergartens, which they occupied for the accommodation of personnel
11:35 According to information from our source from the close circle of the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, tonight in the area of the settlement. Goncharnoye (Kherson region) an artillery strike was carried out on the position of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which a 122mm D-30 howitzer with an artillery crew was destroyed, three military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed; four - received injuries of varying severity
10:51 Russian kamikaze drone strikes APU transport
As a result of the strike, an enemy off-road vehicle was destroyed.
09:31 The work of kamikaze drones of the 9th brigade -video
Kamikaze drones of the 9th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army Corps (formerly the 9th Regiment of the NM DPR) daily hunt Ukrainian nationalists in the Avdievka direction. Despite the panicky attempts of the UAF militants to defend themselves, the drones of the Donetsk soldiers are incredibly effective in destroying the enemy’s manpower.
09:29 SBU created in the Dneprovsky and Komsomolsky District Departments of Internal Affairs of Kherson, torture chambers for reprisals against people who collaborated with the Russian authorities when the city was under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
In these cells, several people were killed or disappeared without a trace, a representative of the Russian law enforcement agencies said, citing a source in the National Police of Ukraine.
And if Ukrainians mostly work in the Dneprovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, then in Komsomolsky there are many foreign mercenaries who speak English, Polish, Georgian. They use local militants as brute force to crack down on unwanted people, the source added.
08:25 The American press spoke about liquidated US veterans - foreign "volunteers" who went to die for independence were paid a penny
Since the beginning of the NMD, hundreds, if not thousands, of soldiers of the Foreign Legion, fighting on the side of Ukraine, have been destroyed. According to the publication, 20 thousand Americans “expressed a desire” to die for Zelensky, and there are “perhaps thousands” in the combat zone. An obituary appeared on the WP website about sixteen "invaders" who returned to the United States in a zinc coffin.
The miserable existence of veterans in the United States causes them to continue to kill for "democratic ideals" all over the world. The price of love for freedom - from 500 US dollars. Successfully invested pennies from the beneficiary in the death of Russian people. Former teachers, retired military men and the dregs of the market decided to kill Russians for a small salary by American standards. Unnecessary to anyone in their country, they found themselves among those who die for the status of the hegemon of their country.
08:09 Guests are flying to Kyiv, explosions in the Kirovograd region, alarm in central Ukraine -video
UAV-kamikaze "Geran" fly in the direction of the capital of Ukraine.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:49 Ukrainian troops at 21.20 fired six rounds of 155mm caliber in Donetsk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported (JCCC). 19:31 A series of explosions in Melitopol, the Russian army reflects enemy strike
Air defense forces shoot down enemy missiles.
This is reported to us by our readers from the scene
19:28 Pologovsky district under fire militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The Nazis shelled a residential area in the village of Skelevatoye, Pologovsky district.
Arrivals were recorded in the residential sector, there is destruction of houses.
The village is currently de-energized.
Information about the victims and destruction is being specified.
18:27 My profession come in handy after the victory
If not for partial mobilization, a native of the Kuban with the call sign "Beard" would still be in the Donbass. Being a builder by profession, he was already going to go to the DPR with another mission - to restore the cities destroyed by the bombing and artillery attack of neo-Nazis. Well, after defeating the ukroreich, he will do this. In the meantime, the professional skills of a serviceman are also used on the line of contact in the Donetsk operational direction.
However, the personnel of the motorized rifle unit not only equip their strongholds and are on duty, but also work out skills in the “science of winning” at the training ground located in the rear area of the NMD. These skills will come in handy when the appropriate order follows.
The mobilized serviceman is confident that, together with his new comrades, he will successfully solve all the tasks set by the command. There is no other way: behind him is the Motherland, parents, close people.
18:25 At night APU fired upon Mikhailovka village in the Zaporozhye region.
Four explosions were recorded on Pushkin Street, one private house was completely destroyed.
There were no casualties.
17:28 Racer behind the wheel of 122mm BM-21 "Grad" - the main thing is to leave quickly -video
"Alonso" from the OBTF Cascade received his call sign because of the many fines for speeding - in civilian life he delivered fresh bread. In war, he delivers and delivers no less, but hotter products.
17:23 Detect and destroy -video. Combat work of the mortar crew of the 126th coastal defense brigade of the Dnepr group of troops.
Fire is fired from a 120mm mortar 2B11 "Sled" on the accumulation of manpower and enemy equipment in the Kherson direction
Shooting is carried out from closed firing positions at a distance of about six km with constant adjustment of firing by unmanned aircraft crews.
16:22 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress holding special military operation (05/30/2023)
During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out group strikes using long-range high-precision air-launched weapons at central decision-making points where, under the guidance of specialists from Western intelligence agencies, terrorist acts were planned on Russian territory.
All assigned objects are hit.
In the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire from the "Western" group of forces hit enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Timkovka, Kharkov Region, and Novoselovskoye, Luhansk People's Republic.
In the area of the village of Sinkovka, Kharkiv region, the activities of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were stopped.
During the day, up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three vehicles, as well as a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed.
In addition, in the area of the settlement of Moskovka, Kharkov region, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar was destroyed.
In the Krasno-Limansky direction, army aviation and artillery fire of the "Center" group of troops defeated enemy units in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova, Kuzmino of the Luhansk People's Republic and Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
More than 85 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a 152mm D-20 howitzer, and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed.
In the Donetsk direction, as a result of strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, active operations of units and artillery fire of the "Southern" group of forces, up to 145 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
An ammunition depot of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the settlement of Krasnoe in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, air strikes, artillery fire from the Vostok group of troops defeated units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Velyka Novoselka and Vremevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group was liquidated in the area of the settlement of Vladimirovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the day, over 140 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as four vehicles, were destroyed in these areas.
In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, the enemy’s losses per day amounted to up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, five vehicles, the 152mm Akatsia self-propelled artillery mount, as well as 122mm D-30 and 152mm Msta-B howitzers.
Operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation over the past day hit 88 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 96 districts.
Air defense systems hit seven HIMARS multiple rocket launchers and one HARM anti-radar missile during the day.
In addition, eight Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Inzhenernoye in the Zaporozhye region, Staromayorskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, Kolomyychikha in the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as Velyky Vyselok and Petrovskoe in the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 429 aircraft, 235 helicopters, 4,379 unmanned aerial vehicles, 424 anti-aircraft missile systems, 9,328 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,100 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 4,941 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 10,544 units of special military vehicles.
16:21 Processing the positions of the Ukrainians with a multiple launch rocket system of the RF Armed Forces -video
15:21 Speech by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at the thematic conference call meeting with the leadership of the RF Armed Forces
Main theses:
Over the past month, Ukrainian formations have suffered significant losses, namely: more than 16,000 members of Ukrainian formations, 16 aircraft, 466 unmanned aerial vehicles and over 400 tanks and other combat vehicles.
Over the past few days, ammunition depots in Khmelnitsky, Ternopil and Nikolaev have been destroyed.
Of the eight Ukrainian kamikaze drones, three were suppressed by electronic warfare in Moscow, another five were shot down by the Pantsir complex in the Moscow region.
Western countries demand that Kyiv go on the offensive, despite the serious losses suffered by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Russian forces have intercepted 29 Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles over the past month.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are actively improving the use of aviation within the framework of the NMD, mastering new equipment and weapons.
Russian troops monitor the supply routes of Western weapons to Ukraine and strike at this equipment.
The measures taken to ensure flight safety allowed the RF Armed Forces to practically eliminate accidents related to the human factor.
15:15 UR-77 "Meteorite" clears the way for "winged infantry" near Kremennaya -video
As the commander of the engineering company with the call sign "Cigara" said, the firing range of the installation can reach 500 meters. UR-77 has two charges 96 meters long, each of which contains more than a ton of plastic explosive.
In the conditions of modern warfare, when the enemy is equipped with the most modern weapons, this technique is simply irreplaceable, the paratroopers believe. “Human lives come first. The sapper himself does not go to the minefield. Since thermal imagers are everywhere, this is not safe, so remote demining is better," says the commander of an engineer company.
By the way, not only minefields, but also enemy defenders can fall under the impact of the mines. The sappers of the Airborne Forces have repeatedly used the installation to perform tasks unusual for it, and, as experience has shown, the UR-77 copes with enemy fortifications just as well.
14:22 This is how Artyomovsk looks today — what did the Nazis do to the flourishing city —video
14:18 Donetsk direction 30.05 12:35
Our attack aviation is working, in particular, the Su-25 "Rook" struck at the enemy's position.
Several enemy strongholds are reported to have been destroyed.
13:33 For five months, sappers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR neutralized over 24,000 explosive objects -video
Operational demining of socially significant facilities, as well as infrastructure facilities, is one of the main tasks of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic. Only since the beginning of the year, sappers have surveyed more than 950 hectares of territory.
13:30 Fighting on the flanks of Artemivsk: LPR fighters using copters conduct accurate fire on the enemy -video
Artillery of the 2nd Army Corps (LPR) of the Southern Military District is constantly destroying the enemy in the Seversky direction in the Artemovsky district of the DPR.
12:26 Commentary of the Sledkom on the attack of Ukrainian drones on Moscow and the Moscow region -video
11:16 Zaporozhye direction 30.05 10:40
Some activation of enemy movement in the area of ??Orekhovo settlement.
After the received data, our artillery and self-propelled mortars work.
11:14 Kherson direction
Yesterday an artillery strike was inflicted in the area of ??the settlement. Tyaginka, as a result of which a 120mm mortar crew and ammunition for it were destroyed, five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, three were injured of varying severity at night by artillery fire in the area of the settlement. Pottery destroyed 122mm howitzer D-30 with ammunition loss of three dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, four were injured of varying severity
The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired from barrel artillery:
-- n.p. Kazachi Lageri fired 12 rounds;
-- 9 rounds were fired at the settlement of Podstepnoye;
-- 15 rounds were fired at the settlement of Golaya Pristan;
-- n.p. Korsunka fired seven rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki fired six rounds;
-- n.p. Sagas fired eight projectiles.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement New Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, N. Golaya Pristan, N. Cairo, firing a total of 28 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
10:19 Today, fighters of the howitzer self-propelled artillery battalion of the 9th Brigade established the location of the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in one of the houses of the settlement. Pervomaiskoye, in the Donetsk direction, and aimed artillery fire at it with a D-20 howitzer gun with a caliber of 152mm -video
10:16 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 05/29/2023 to 00:00 05/30/2023
Over the past day, the Representation reported 33 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 15 attacks from the MLRS, 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky 15 attacks from MLRS, artillery 152mm.
On Yasinovatsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
On Volnovakhskoye two artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm.
By releasing 210 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were the areas of seven settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), Ozeryanovka, Yasinovataya, the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Vladimirovka, Komsomolsky.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a man, in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Two civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. teenager born in 2006 #ChildrenNotTarget, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
Seven residential buildings were damaged in the Kievsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk, Nikitovsky and Central City districts of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
In the previous day, 43 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
09:27 Summary on the morning of May 30, 2023
At night, enemy targets in Kyiv were under a massive attack by the Geran UAV - the third one in a day. The air raid alert sounded for almost three hours. In the afternoon, Klitschko published a photo of a “downed Russian missile”, which turned out to be fragments of a Patriot anti-aircraft missile. Targets in Odessa and Khmelnytsky regions were also hit.
The Russian Armed Forces stepped up operations on the Svatovo-Kremennaya front in the Masyutovka area in the Kupyansky district. Ours continue to storm Belogorovka (15 km south of Kremennaya).
In the Kherson direction - artillery duels and drone strikes.
In New Moscow, two aircraft-type UAVs crashed into high-rise buildings, detonation of charges occurred. Explosions in Odintsovo and Krasnogorsk are also reported.
The Belgorod region is subjected to heavy attacks by enemy artillery and UAVs. Shebekinskiy urban district suffers most seriously. There are civilian casualties.
Intensification of enemy actions in the Ugledar direction. The enemy is using tanks as a roaming weapon to bombard our positions. The delay in the passage of combat control signals does not allow timely destruction of enemy equipment.
On the Zaporizhzhya front, at night the enemy struck at the junction of the Zaporizhzhya and Ugledarsky sectors. Tanks and artillery were also used, communication problems did not allow timely transfer of coordinates for the destruction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
According to the DPR, the enemy fired 210 ammunition per day. Gorlovka, Ozeryanovka, Yasinovataya, Donetsk, Makeevka, Vladimirovka, Komsomolsky are under fire. A civilian died. Two civilians received injuries of varying severity, incl. teenager born in 2006.
09:26 Kyiv regime continues terror of the civilian infrastructure of the left bank of the Kherson region - emergency services
Yesterday, militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 57 rounds from cannon artillery at settlements: Kazachi Lageri, Podstepnoe, Naked Pier, Korsunka, Krynki, Sagi.
At night, the artillery attack did not stop - the Ukrainians fired 28 rounds from cannon artillery at Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Gola Pristan and Cairo.
08:16 "They rolled out - we worked" -video
The gunner-operator of the tank with the call sign "Swan" talks about the battle for which he received the Order of Courage. “We went out, hit tanks, lightly armored vehicles, worked on infantry,” says the Russian soldier. - A company with three tanks was burned. It went on all day."
“They rolled out - we worked out,” the gunner modestly sums up the battle.
The close-knit crew of the Lebed performs tasks on a modern T-90M tank. The Russian military-industrial complex daily provides the army with new equipment with excellent characteristics.
08:06 Frontline summary on the morning of 05/30/2023
Ground fighting intensified in the Uludar sector. Russian troops, supported by artillery, attacked in the direction of Bolshaya Novosyolka. Several important highways pass through this settlement at once.
In turn, the Ukrainian army in the southwestern part of the Nikolsky dachas forced the units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to retreat across the Kashlagach River. Russian artillery hit Novopol, Shakhtyorsky, Prechistovka, Novoukrainka and Vugledar. The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled Pavlovka and Nikolskoye.
On the Donetsk front, units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with the support of artillery, conducted assault operations in the city of Maryinka. No activity was shown in other areas. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Paraskovievka, Pobeda, Karlovka, Pervomaisky, Avdeevka and Toretsk. The Ukrainian army hit Donetsk and Vodyany.
To the south-west of Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted assault operations in the direction of Andreevka. Thus, the Ukrainian troops are trying to bypass the heights on the western approaches to Kleshcheevka. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation counterattacked in the area of Ivanovsky and Orekhovo-Vasilyevka. They failed to regain the positions they had previously lost. Russian troops attacked Ray-Aleksandrovka, Veseloy, Spornoye and Verkhnekamensky.
On the Luhansk direction, oncoming battles in the Belogorovka area. The Russian Aerospace Forces worked in the village itself. With the support of artillery, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation again conducted assault operations from Masyutovka. No promotion. Under artillery attack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Torskoy, Ivanovka, Nevsky, Sergeevka, Berestovoy, Kislovka, Zapadny, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Figolevka, Krasny Pervoi and Kolodeznoy.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] On the morning of May 30, Moscow was attacked by Ukrainian drones. Bloggers wrote that two or three dozen drones took part in the raid. However, in fact, there were many times fewer drones.
"Eight aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were involved in the attack. All enemy drones are hit. Three of them were suppressed by electronic warfare, lost control and deviated from their intended targets. Another five unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by the Pantsir-S anti-aircraft missile and gun system in the Moscow region," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
Despite the fact that this attack did not cause any serious damage (with the exception of several broken windows and burning spots on the houses where the drones got out of control), the Western media paid maximum attention to what happened in Moscow. Moreover, the media coverage of this Ukrainian attempted terrorist attack was built on the basis of several key theses.
INEQUALITY AND INSOLENCE
The first thesis is the disproportionate blows. In fact, we are talking about an attack by Ukrainian drones on civilian objects in the Russian capital. And the West, which blamed Russia for such attacks, faced an unpleasant fork. If Moscow is being criticized for attacks on Kiev (which are carried out exclusively on military targets, and only fragments of downed drones or flying Ukrainian air defense missiles fall on civilian houses), then Kiev will also have to be criticized for attacks on Moscow, right?
This is where the thesis about disproportion, about the disproportion of blows, came in handy.
The drone attack rocked Moscow early Tuesday morning. This attack caused only minor damage, but forced the evacuation of people, because for the first time in the entire war, residential buildings were hit in the capital. At the same time, the Kremlin continued its relentless bombardment of Kiev, making its third raid in the last 24 hours. — In the Ukrainian capital, burned-out cars, windows and debris littered the street near a building where apartments were destroyed.
In Moscow, only a few broken windows and charred outer walls were visible. At the same time, the affected buildings were quickly repaired and painted.
"Compared to Kiev, where, according to official information, as a result of a large wave of drone attacks on Wednesday night, one more person was killed and several others were injured, Moscow got off lightly," according to the German publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Everyone else writes about the same, devoting considerable space in their articles about the strike on Moscow to a story about how allegedly “brutal” the strikes on objects in Kiev were. So, they say, it is impossible to accuse the Ukrainian authorities of trying to strike at Moscow, since these strikes are "justified."
The second thesis is the audacity of the attack. Drone strikes shocked the Russian capital.
Thus, the media demonstrate to everyone (and, above all, to their readers, at the expense of which the Western governments actually finance the military operations of the Kyiv regime) the ability of Ukraine to continue to effectively resist the Russian army. The ability to inflict asymmetric strikes on Russia and continue hostilities. Why Ukraine, respectively, needs new weapons and cash tranches.
"Attacks on Moscow could also mean that Ukraine, without admitting it, is using new ways and means to confuse the enemy and limit Russia's planning capabilities. They, too, can be seen as part of the preparation for the offensive," says the German Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Yes, it would seem, what kind of ability are we talking about, if we compare Russian and Ukrainian combat capabilities? Any supply of weapons will only somewhat delay the inevitable defeat of Kiev, which even European Commissioner for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell ( who says that he is “not particularly optimistic” about further hostilities) is already very thickly hinting at. However, here the media includes the third and fourth thesis.
WEAKNESS AND AWARENESS OF WEAKNESS
The third is about the "weakness" of the Russian armed forces, which the current strikes allegedly confirmed. The BBC, citing its experts, that Russian radars are unable to detect drones.
"Shame on the Russian Armed Forces," the German Zeit titled its article. Western publications write that this terrorist attack (like the drone attack on the Kremlin, as well as the attacks by Ukrainian saboteurs on the Belgorod and Bryansk regions) supposedly shows that the Russian army is a colossus with feet of clay, that it is unable to defeat Ukraine in the current high-tech war.
The fourth thesis is that drone attacks bring the myth of the weakness of the Russian army right into the brain of the Russian population. The one who used to believe in his own security.
"Despite Kyiv's denials, the attack on Moscow shows that Ukraine and its supporters are intent on bringing the war right to the doorstep of Russian citizens. Signals greater readiness for hybrid attacks," writes The Washington Post . "For the first time, residents of the Russian capital are facing the immediate consequences of the brutal fighting that their country is waging."
Yes, reality refutes this thesis, because all the drones were either shot down or strayed off course. And Vladimir Putin considers this result only "satisfactory".
"The air defense system of Moscow worked normally, satisfactorily, although there is something to work on ... In general, it is clear what needs to be done to seal the air defense of the capital, and we will do it," the president said.
However, the West rests on the psychological, not the military component. Seeks to intimidate.
"Such attacks, having no sense from a military point of view, apparently, are directed exclusively against the civilian population in order to sow panic among civilians," the Russian Foreign Ministry agrees with this thesis.
And panic is needed in order to change people's attitude towards SVO.
"The war in Ukraine was largely perceived by the Russian public as something far away, but attacks on Moscow could change that perception. And perhaps even jeopardize public support for Mr. Putin's actions in what the Kremlin has called a "special military operation," according to The New York Times.
Why don't they adopt a law recognizing Ukraine as a terrorist state?
Moreover, we are talking not only about ordinary people (whose support is critically important for the authorities as part of the course taken to maintain a long-term self-defense system, up to the solution of all the tasks set), but also about the elites.
"The suburbs in the west of Moscow, where the residences of President Putin (meaning Novo-Ogaryovo. - Approx. IA Regnum ) and other representatives of the Russian elite are located, were hit," writes the BBC .
Thus, they say, Kiev shows both to the elites their own vulnerability, and to the population the fact that the government cannot protect even itself, even Muscovites - how, they say, can it then protect ordinary residents of the same Belgorod and Bryansk regions? Therefore, they say, the inhabitants of these regions should demand an early cessation of hostilities and not pay attention to the words of Ukrainian officials about the need for foreign occupation of the Belgorod and Bryansk regions.
We ARE ALREADY STARTING
Finally, the fifth thesis designates the current attack as a prologue to something big.
"This was almost certainly a prelude to a major escalation in hostilities," writes The Washington Post. "These attacks on Russia could serve as a pretext for Mr. Putin to escalate the war. For example, to strike at key government buildings in Kiev and attempt to behead the Ukrainian government," says The New York Times .
The problem, however, is that these strikes are already happening.
President Vladimir Putin made it clear that the drone attack was linked to Russian strikes on decision-making centers in Ukraine.
"This category also includes the headquarters of the military intelligence of Ukraine, which was hit two or three days ago," the Russian president explained. Apparently, we are talking about a strike on the military facility of the GUR on Rybalsky Island.
"With the beginning of the air raid, the center’s personnel descended into the shelter, but the Russian Aerospace Forces used a missile with a penetrating warhead, which pierced the building through and through, penetrated the foundation and exploded, destroying the shelter, where at that moment there were up to a hundred officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and civilian personnel, including twenty foreign military from the USA and Great Britain, who interacted between the Center and similar Western headquarters," writes the well-known Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin.
But still, the Western media are right in their last thesis - the strikes are indeed a prologue to the intensification of hostilities. What Putin himself hinted at. “They provoke us to mirror actions. Let's see what to do with it," the Russian leader said.
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[Regnum] The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) Valeriy Zaluzhny on the wanted list . This May 30 follows from the department's database.
“Valery Zaluzhny, Ukrainian, born on July 8, 1973, wanted under the article of the Criminal Code ,” the Interior Ministry database says.
In May, the Investigative Committee charged Zaluzhny and other Ukrainian military leaders in absentia with shelling of civilians and civilian objects in the Donbass.
As IA Regnum reported on May 29 , the Interior Ministry put US Senator Lindsey Graham on the wanted list . In relation to him, the chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to initiate a criminal case for Russophobic statements.
From the beginning of May, Zaluzhny stopped appearing in public, which provoked a series of rumors about his death. They began with the general's suspicious refusal to meet with the chiefs of the general staff of NATO member countries. Later on May 21, the hacker group “Joker DPR” reported that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was seriously wounded during a missile attack on the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early May, which could cause him to leave his post. After that, old photos of Zaluzhny began to appear on the Web , which they tried to pass off as relevant.
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[Regnum] The rocket, the wreckage of which was found in April near the city of Bydgoszcz in Poland, fell near the training center of the North Atlantic Alliance. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to Western officials .
WSJ: Missile found near Bydgoszcz in Poland fell near NATO training center
According to the publication, in December 2022, the projectile crossed half of the territory of Poland and fell about 10 miles (about 16 km) from the NATO training center. This created problems for the protection of the airspace of the alliance, the newspaper notes.
A NATO official did not comment on the incident. At the same time, a newspaper source from the Polish administration stressed that the alliance constantly monitors its air defense system to ensure the protection of allies.
As IA Regnum reported, in a forest in northwestern Poland, not far from Bydgoszcz, on April 27, fragments of an “unidentified airborne military facility” were found. Some Polish media and public, citing their sources, wrote that these are fragments of an object resembling fragments of a rocket with inscriptions in Russian.
A high-ranking Polish military man said that this missile was Russian and fired from an aircraft from the territory of Belarus . At the same time, he noted that he cannot give a 100% guarantee of confirmation of his assumption, since we are talking about a situation that occurred several months ago.
The commander of the Polish Armed Forces, Tomasz Petrovsky, noted that the rocket could have arrived on December 16, there was no explosion at the scene, and no one was injured.
The Polish radio station RMF, in turn, suggested that a military facility discovered in the forest could belong to the Polish army . According to her, the object appeared in the forest, probably not as a result of shelling from Ukraine. We are talking about fragments of military equipment belonging to the Polish army. At the same time, it remains unknown under what circumstances this object got there.
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak admitted that the rocket that fell on the territory of Poland in December 2022 could have come from Ukraine. Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki said that he learned about the December fall on the country's territory only at the end of April.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] According to the UAV attack on Moscow and the Moscow region at 9 am.
1. Up to 32 UAVs of various types were used. 19 were shot down by air defense, 10 fell caught on wires and trees on the approach. zThree flew to New Moscow
2. Launched from the northern regions of the Sumy or Chernihiv regions. It is also possible that some of the DRGs could be launched from the territory of the Russian Federation.
3. Now the situation is calm, the debris is being collected and the consequences are being eliminated.
4. The question of the need to increase the number of conventional anti-aircraft guns covering MSCs is quite relevant, they are in warehouses, for such purposes they are quite effective for themselves.
5. As a response to yesterday's attacks on Kyiv, and not only did it turn out to be rather sluggish, but it is obvious that attempts will be made to repeat such attacks. Therefore, it is better to prepare in advance.
PS. The Ministry of Defense reported that there were 8 aircraft-type drones - 5 were shot down, 3 were rejected by electronic warfare.
More via Rozhin: Swarm drone testing Commentary by Boris Rozhin is in italics.
AUKUS: testing a swarm of artificial intelligence drones and various vehicles
A swarm of Australian, British and American AI air and ground vehicles jointly located and tracked targets during testing.
More than 70 military and civilian employees of the defense industry, as well as industry representatives, who are part of the AUKUS Advanced Capabilities Pillar or Pillar 2 program, created to accelerate the trilateral development of critical technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, cybernetics and hypersound, participated in the experiment.
During joint field testing, Blue Bear Ghost and Insitu CT220 drones participated; Challenger 2 main battle tanks and Warrior armored vehicles; unmanned ground equipment Viking; commercial self-propelled gun FV433 Abbot; former BMP OT-90 of the Eastern Bloc, BMP.
@Belarus_VPO
PS. The swarm use of UAVs will be one of the main trends in the development of military drones already in the middle - the second half of the 20s. It is very important not to lag behind in this matter.The leading armies of the world have been experimenting and developing in this direction for several years.
Of course, the issue of combating swarm-type drones will inevitably be relevant.
In the early months of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, many called the Bayraktar TB2 drones the saviors of Ukraine and the future of hostilities.
Numerous messages and videos appeared on the network about how Ukrainian troops used them to strike. Their popularity was so great that the Ukrainians even wrote a song about them, which quickly became viral.
However, a year after the start of the conflict, almost all of these drones were shot down by Russian troops, and those that still remain, according to the expert, are now used exclusively for reconnaissance and surveillance.
"The general characteristic of drones like the TB2 is that they work very well, provided they are not targeted with complex air defense and electronic defense systems," said Samuel Bendett, analyst and expert on unmanned and robotic military systems at the Center for Naval Analysis.
“Being a relatively slow and low-flying UAV, the Bayraktar can be an easy target for a range of well-established air defense systems. We have seen this in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh,” he explained.
RUSSIA HAS A MODERN ELECTRONIC WARFARE SYSTEM AT ITS DISPOSAL
Although Russia was indeed vulnerable to Ukrainian drone strikes in the first months of the special military operation, it quickly adapted and improved its electronic warfare capabilities. Since then, it has successfully shot down and jammed Ukrainian drones.
"Once the Russian troops got their bearings, they could shoot down a lot of TB2s," Bendett added.
Last year, Ukraine reported that it had received 50 TB2 drones since the start of the Russian special military operation, but by the end of 2022 they had practically disappeared from the battlefield.
The commander of the Russian air defense forces, Lieutenant General Andrey Demin, said that in April, Russian forces destroyed more than a hundred drones.
According to Bendett, Ukraine now uses TB2 mainly for reconnaissance, surveillance and reconnaissance, and not for attack.
According to him, the Ukrainian military uses "the modern optics and sensors of Turkish drones to control the attacks of other drones, but at the same time TB2 remains outside the reach of Russian air defense and electronic warfare systems."
Indeed, according to the latest data, Moscow has a distinct advantage in the so-called “drone war”. The Russian military shoots down about 10,000 Ukrainian drones every month.
Electronic warfare is a "key component" of Moscow's tactics and is the reason Ukraine is losing so many of its drones. This is stated in a report published by the British Royal Institute for Defense Research. The Russian army has managed to adapt to Ukrainian methods of resistance, experts at the institute said.
What a "sudden open". Even at the beginning of the war, it was said that Bayraktars were poorly adapted to operations in theaters with a high density of air defense systems. This was confirmed by subsequent events.
The Kremlin reacted to an attempted attack by Moscow.
1. The work of the air defense forces was rated as good.
2. Everything was reported to Putin in the morning.
3. The attack was assessed as an attempt to retaliate against effective arrivals from the Russian Aerospace Forces in Ukraine.
4. It was also stated that a certain decision-making center was hit during the latest strikes.
5. This attack shows that the NWO needs to be continued.
The Kremlin did not specify anything about the decision-making center mentioned, but there are two main versions - a certain buried object was hit, or it means an arrival near the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate in Kiev. So we are waiting for the details.
The attack on Moscow itself did not cause significant damage, so the enemy will try to milk it for at least a PR effect. But one should not fall into complacency. The enemy will certainly take this failure into account in future attacks.
According to Shoigu, another Patriot air defense system was hit in Kyiv the other day.
Earlier it was reported about the arrival in the area of the Zhuliany airfield, where the control station and 5 launchers of the Patriot air defense system had already been destroyed. The hunt continues. There is still at least one unaffected complex.
From other statements:
Shoigu about the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the fight against Western weapons.
1. Over the past month, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost more than 16,000 military personnel, 16 aircraft, 466 UAVs and more than 400 tanks and armored combat vehicles;
2. Western curators demand that Kyiv go on the offensive, despite the significant losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Kiev authorities use NATO weapons to strike social facilities and carry out terrorist attacks against Russian civilians
3. Russian troops intercepted 29 Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles in a month; Also intercepted were 196 HIMARS missiles and 16 HARM missiles.
4. In recent days, large arms depots in Khmelnitsky, Ternopil and Nikolaev have also been destroyed.
5. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are improving the use of aviation in the course of a special operation, mastering new equipment and weapons;
6. Russian troops monitor the supply routes of Western weapons to Ukraine and strike at them;
7. Measures taken to ensure flight safety allowed the RF Armed Forces to practically eliminate accidents due to the human factor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
