Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:28 GUR representative Andrei Yusov called the Russian Federation’s threats to conduct training using tactical nuclear weapons ordinary nuclear blackmail. According to him, this is “a stable practice of the Putin regime.”
22:26 Russia no longer uses the Crimean Bridge to supply troops in Ukraine, The Independent writes, citing satellite images. They show that Moscow has switched to using land routes in its controlled eastern and southern Ukraine to supply its front lines after repeated attacks on the Kerch Bridge.
Interesting.
22:23 China has committed to refrain from selling any weapons to Russia and will strictly control the export of dual-use goods, Macron said after a meeting with Xi Jinping.
And you believe them, Mr le Président? Adorable.
22:00 The United States recognizes Putin as the President of the Russian Federation, State Department Speaker Matthew Miller said. According to him, the elections in Russia cannot be called fair, but the United States has no doubt that Putin remains president.
To doubt Putin’s election is to doubt his own — an impossibility.
At the same time, Miller added that the United States will not attend the inauguration of the Russian leader. In addition, the State Department speaker stressed that the United States will not send troops to Ukraine. He also noted that Washington sees no signs that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons.
In turn, Pentagon Speaker Patrick Ryder condemned Russia's "irresponsible rhetoric" after it announced its intentions to conduct exercises on the use of nuclear weapons. At the same time, Ryder noted that the United States does not observe changes in the strategic location of Russian forces, but “will continue to monitor the situation.”
21:52 The speaker of the Khortitsa group of troops, Nazar Voloshin, denied the information that the Ukrainian Armed Forces allegedly blew up the bridge across the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal. He also assured that there are no Russian military in Chasovoy Yar: “Over the past week and today, the situation around the city has not changed, active hostilities are going on day and night. However, Russian propaganda periodically makes information that their army has already entered city. There have been no territorial successes of the enemy there in recent days. There is no enemy Russian army in the city."
20:45 During his visit to France, Xi Jinping, following Macron, called for an “Olympic truce” throughout the world during the Games in Paris.
20:27 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today he had telephone conversations with the presidents of Lithuania and Poland Gitanas Nauseda and Andrzej Duda, as well as with the prime ministers of Estonia and Canada Kaja Kallas and Justin Trudeau - he personally invited them to the Peace Summit in Switzerland.
20:20 Macron said that France is not at war with either Russia or the Russian people. “We have no desire to change the regime in Moscow,” the French leader emphasized.
20:16 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters and heard Syrsky’s report on the results of his visit to the front line. There was also a report on our own production of weapons and staffing of brigades. We separately discussed supplies from partners.
20:03 The Netherlands plans to begin sending F-16s to Ukraine this fall, following Denmark, which intends to transfer fighters in the summer, Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren said.
19:44 Chinese leader Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen discussed the war in Ukraine during a meeting in Paris. Xi stressed that China, France and the European Union must counter the escalation of hostilities in Ukraine and create conditions for peace negotiations. He once again stated that China is not “a party to this conflict.” Xi Jinping also said that China will support the holding of an international peace conference, which will be recognized by both Russia and Ukraine.
Von der Leyen, in turn, emphasized that Beijing must make more efforts to prevent Chinese dual-use goods from entering the Russian Federation and ending up at the front.
19:35 Acts of violence, industrial sabotage, explosions, arson and other property damage to European infrastructure - the intelligence services of the European Union countries are awaiting sabotage from the Russian Federation. Russian authorities are willing to act either independently or through proxies, but have little regard for the risk of civilian casualties. For more information about what the Western media learned from their sources in the intelligence community, see the article Russia is preparing sabotage in Europe.
19:00 The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Moscow will perceive the appearance of F-16 aircraft in Ukraine as carriers of nuclear weapons “regardless of their modification.” The department called the supply of these fighters to Ukraine a “targeted provocation.”
18:36 Russia announced military exercises with the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons. The order to carry them out was given personally by Putin. As they say in Moscow, they decided to conduct the training because of “threats from France, Great Britain and the United States.” Note that major nuclear states such as the United States and China regularly test their nuclear weapons, but very rarely publicly link such exercises to specific perceived threats, as Russia does. Read more in the article How statements about NATO troops in Ukraine scared Putin.
18:14 Ukraine has already received additional missiles for Patriot air defense, said Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles. The missiles were donated not only by Spain, but also by other Western countries.
18:02 Italy does not allow Ukraine to use its weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said: “We have always maintained the confidentiality of our military supplies: only parliament is informed. Our goal is to supply non-offensive weapons that serve to protect Ukraine, but on the territory of Ukraine , and not on Russian territory."
17:47 The Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up the bridge across the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal near Chasovy Yar, said the head of the Council of Ground Forces Reservists Ivan Timochko. According to him, in this way the Russian offensive on the flanks of the city is restrained: “The canal itself is a serious obstacle to its assault and the movement of enemy forces. On the other hand, the destruction of the bridge across the canal means that, unfortunately, our troops are on the other side No".
17:31 Ukraine’s maritime exports in April 2024 exceeded February 2022. That is, Ukraine managed to restore the main export route for its grain in the Black Sea. And the Armed Forces of Ukraine turned out to be much more effective in this matter than the UN and international negotiations. Read more in the material Pre-war volumes.
16:58 The Russian Foreign Ministry warned the British Ambassador that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory “could be any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond.”
16:42 The French Foreign Ministry stated that Paris did not send soldiers of the Foreign Legion to Ukraine.
16:20 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stated that it does not recognize Putin as the President of the Russian Federation, and called on foreign states, international organizations and the public “to follow this example, not to recognize the results of the Russian pseudo-elections and the legitimacy of the Russian dictator Putin.”
15:39 Syrsky said that due to the difficult situation in the East, he worked for two days in units that are conducting defensive operations in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhovsky directions - that is, in the direction of the enemy’s main attack. According to the commander-in-chief, this is where the main strike forces of the enemy are concentrated, who are trying to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian troops and reach the large settlements of Kurakhovo and Pokrovsk.
The task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the conditions of constant enemy attacks is to hold occupied lines and positions, inflict maximum losses on the enemy, exhaust him, thereby disrupting the plans of the Russian Federation and gaining time for the formation and preparation of reserves. Syrsky also said that he had worked with unit commanders: “It is impossible for a company or battalion commander to control a battle several kilometers from his units and make informed and adequate decisions at a distance.” The Commander-in-Chief emphasized that the presence of the commander plays a decisive role in maintaining a high level of moral and psychological state of the soldiers.
15:24 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense clarified that the Group 13 unit, using the Magura V5 maritime strike drone, destroyed a Russian high-speed patrol boat of Project 12150 Mongoose in Crimea. Boats of this class are used by the Russian Navy and special services as multi-purpose high-speed vessels for patrolling water areas, fighting saboteurs, as well as search and rescue operations.
Modified versions of high-speed boats are equipped with remote-controlled combat modules with the main standard weapon - a 14.5 mm machine gun mount. In addition, on board the Mongoose, the Russians have two automatic grenade launchers AGS-17, a manual anti-sabotage grenade launcher DP-64 and two MANPADS of the Igla or Verba type.
14:45 At night, the Russians dropped five aerial bombs on the village of Zolochev, Bogodukhovsky district, Kharkov region - two police officers and a civilian woman were injured, said the head of the investigation department of the Main Directorate of Police in the region, Sergei Bolvinov. The courthouse, social security department, children's sports school and boiler room, and 12 private houses were damaged.
14:38 Poland will not send its troops to Ukraine, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh said: “This concept was presented by Mr. President Emmanuel Macron several months ago. Poland is not preparing and will not send Polish troops to Ukraine.”
14:04 Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary Zsolt Schemien said that his country “will not send Ukrainian male refugees to death.” According to him, “those who fled to us from Ukraine are all safe, and we will not extradite them.”
13:57 European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton said that the EU has begun work on opening the Office of Defense Innovation in Kiev. He recalled that the EU recently adopted a new defense industry strategy, which “is designed not only to support European defense readiness, but also to strengthen ties between the European and Ukrainian defense industries.” Breton added that the new strategy sets a clear priority for further development of cooperation.
13:25 Borrell called on the EU countries to purchase weapons for Ukraine from Ukrainian defense companies and quickly transfer them to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The European diplomat also noted that the EU should be more creative and explore new ways to deliver military support to Ukraine.
13:02 On May 4, a Russian plane dropped a FAB-500 on Belgorod, as a result, seven people were injured, including a child, 31 households and ten cars were damaged, the opposition Russian publication Astra reports, citing sources in the emergency services. The Russian authorities hid this. So, on the day of the explosion, the governor did not name its cause, but local media assumed that a Russian aerial bomb had fallen on the city. In March-April of this year alone, the Russian Aerospace Forces dropped more than 20 aerial bombs on Russian territory.
12:50 Russian troops tried to recapture the island of Nestryga in the Kherson region, control over which was recently returned to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Dmitry Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces. According to him, over the past 24 hours, “the enemy attacked Krynki twice and again tried to capture the island of Nestryga.” At the same time, Pletenchuk added that no significant changes in the nature of the enemy’s actions were identified, as well as signs of the creation of offensive groups.
12:44 Shmygal said in an interview with CBC News that Ukraine is “one step away” from an invitation to NATO. According to the prime minister, Kyiv expects NATO members to make a decision on their membership application at a summit in Washington in July. Shmygal stressed that Kyiv has carried out “all the necessary reforms, and now we are one step away from an invitation.”
12:39 Ukraine this year can produce weapons worth another 10 billion dollars - if there is funding from partners, said the head of the Ministry of Strategic Industry, Alexander Kamyshin. According to him, the Ukrainian defense industry is capable of producing products worth $20 billion a year. Of these, 6 billion have already been contracted, and they hope to find another 4 billion inside Ukraine. And $10 billion is financing that partners can cover. Denmark and Canada have already invested in Ukrainian weapons production.
12:11 Peskov said that the exercises with non-strategic nuclear weapons are connected with statements coming from the West about their readiness to send troops to Ukraine. The Kremlin speaker called these statements “dangerous” - according to him, this is a new round of escalation of tension, “it is unprecedented, requires special attention and special measures.”
11:36 The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that two GAZelles moving along the road, which were transporting company employees to work, and a passenger car were attacked by kamikaze drones. The incident occurred near the village of Berezovka, Borisov district. Six people died on the spot, 40 were injured, including three children. Russian public pages write that the machines of the Agro-Belogorye company, which specializes in the production of pork, dairy products and feed, were attacked.
Gladkov also stated that in the village of Stary Khutor, Valuysky urban district, an infrastructure communication facility was damaged as a result of a kamikaze drone attack.
11:01 During Xi Jinping’s visit to Paris, Macron will put pressure on his Chinese counterpart to force Moscow to stop the war against Ukraine, writes the Associated Press. According to the publication, Paris expects that the negotiations will help convince Beijing to use its leverage over the Russian Federation to help end the war in Ukraine. In particular, Putin plans to visit China in the near future.
10:38 In Crimea, as a result of an operation by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Group 13, a Russian high-speed boat was destroyed by a Magura V5 maritime attack drone. Intelligence clarified that the boat was destroyed in Uzkaya Bay.
10:35 In the Sumy region, as a result of night shelling, more than 400 thousand consumers were cut off from power, the Ministry of Energy reported.
10:19 Shmygal said in an interview with CBC News that Ukraine will be “infinitely grateful and happy” if Western partners decide to send in their troops. At the same time, he clarified that this would only be “if the time comes,” but for now Kyiv is only asking for weapons.
10:13 In Sumy, as a result of a night attack, one person was wounded and a critical infrastructure facility was damaged, operational command North reported.
10:08 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the General Staff, on Putin’s instructions, has begun preparations for holding exercises in the near future, during which “a set of activities will be carried out to practically test the issues of preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.” The department clarified that the exercises “are aimed at maintaining readiness to respond and in order to unconditionally ensure territorial integrity and sovereignty in response to provocative statements and threats by Western officials.” The exercises will be conducted with missile formations of the Southern Military District and Navy forces.
09:33 In the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed in Chasovoy Yar, and six more people in the region were injured, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin.
09:15 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was wounded, five high-rise buildings and six private houses were damaged, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
08:47 The number of victims as a result of yesterday's strike by the Kabardino-Balkarian Army in the Shevchenkovsky and Kievsky districts of Kharkov has increased to 16, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was wounded as a result of shelling of the town of Zolochev, Bogodukhovsky district. In the village Monachinovka, Kupyansky district, one person was killed, two were injured.
08:44 As a result of a night attack in the Sumy region, the settlements of the Sumy, Romensky and Akhtyrsky districts were left without electricity, OVA reported. At night, power supply was restored in the affected areas and partially in Sumy, and work continues.
08:40 A forum of defense industries of Ukraine and the EU will be held in Brussels, where opportunities for strengthening cooperation will be discussed.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of May 6:
personnel - about 475,300 (+1040) people,
tanks - 7380 (+5),
armored combat vehicles - 14,213 (+34),
artillery systems - 12,250 (+38),
MLRS - 1057 (+0),
air defense systems - 791 (+1),
aircraft - 349 (+0),
helicopters - 325 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 9683 (+47),
cruise missiles - 2148 (+1),
ships/boats - 26 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,477 (+59),
special equipment - 2008 (+6).
08:23 Over the past 24 hours, 125 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, in the Bakhmut direction, 36 enemy attacks were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka in the Lugansk region, as well as Verkhnekamenskoye, Spornoe, Kleshcheevka, Vyemka, Novy, Razdolovka, Ivanovskoye and Andreevka in the Donetsk region. In the Avdeevsky direction, 31 attacks were repelled in the Novoaleksandrovka, Novopokrovsky, Umansky, Yasnobrodovka and Netaylovo districts of the Donetsk region. In addition, the enemy tried 27 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the Novopavlovsk direction - in the areas of Konstantinovka, Krasnohorivka, Vodyanoye and Urozhainy, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 14 attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Peschany, Berestovye, Kharkov region, as well as Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region; on Limansky - six attacks in the Nevsky districts of the Luhansk region, Novosadovoy and Torsky, Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - six attacks in the area of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - three attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
07:59 As a result of a night attack in the Sumy region, a high-voltage facility of Ukrenergo was damaged, the company reported. In addition, in the Kharkov region, as a result of Russian attacks on the evening of May 5, the protection switched off the equipment of the local power supply company. Most of it has already been returned to operation, but the complete restoration of energy supply is hampered by military operations near energy infrastructure facilities.
07:07 Air defense at night destroyed 12 of 13 attack UAVs of the Shahed-131/136 type, which Russia attacked from the Kursk region. All drones were destroyed in the Sumy region, the Air Force command reported.
01:53 The Russians carried out an airstrike on energy facilities in the Sumy region, OVA reported. The head of the Sumy city military administration, Alexey Drozdenko, said that as a result of a massive attack by suicide bombers, the city’s critical infrastructure facilities are being transferred to backup power. In particular, water supply and hospitals will be provided with full backup power. Invincibility points are also deployed in the city.
A total of 22 Russian attacks were repulsed in the Avdeevsky direction.
[Korrespondent] During the day, Defense Forces aircraft carried out strikes on 11 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated.
During the day, 87 clashes were recorded at the front. In the Avdeevsky direction, 22 Russian attacks were repulsed. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced this in an evening report on Monday, May 6.
In total, Russian troops carried out two missile and 69 air strikes, and carried out 52 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas.
In the Kupyansk direction, soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled nine attacks in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka and Peschanoye, Kharkov region; Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to improve the tactical situation.
In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled four attacks in the areas of Nevsky, Serebryansky forestry in the Luhansk region and Ternov, Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, soldiers repelled 11 attacks in the areas of Belogorovka settlements in the Lugansk region; Verkhnekamenskoye, Vyemka, Razdolevka, Kleshchievka and Andreevka in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to improve the tactical situation.
In the Avdeevsky direction, defenders repelled 22 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novoaleksandrovka, Novopokrovskoye, Umanskoye, Yasnobrodovka, Netaylovo and Nevelskoye in the Donetsk region, where the enemy, with the support of aviation, tried to oust Ukrainian units from their occupied lines.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Paraskoveevka, Vodyanoye and Urozhaynoye in the Donetsk region, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried 14 times to break through the defenses of our troops.
In the Orekhovsky direction, the enemy attacked the positions of Ukrainian defenders five times in the area of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region, and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy does not abandon his intention to oust the Ukrainian Armed Forces units from the bridgeheads on the left bank of the Dnieper. Thus, within 24 hours, with the support of aviation, he made two unsuccessful attacks on the positions of our troops in the area of the village of Krynki, Kherson region.
During the day, the Defense Forces' aviation carried out strikes on 11 areas where enemy personnel were concentrated, and units of the missile forces defeated the enemy's artillery. Also, the X-59 guided aircraft missile was destroyed by Ukrainian air defense forces and means.
Let us remind you that over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated 1,040 occupiers. Since the beginning of the full-scale war against Ukraine, the Russian army has lost 475.3 thousand soldiers.
Russian ministry of defense failed to post their daily briefing, so we slumming today.
[NewsFront] 21:30 Personnel the work of the "BOBR" unit to destroy enemy personnel and dugouts.
20:34 Incredible luck of the soldiers of the 35th motorized rifle brigade of the Central Military District during the assault on the village. Outlined.
Military personnel were able to leave from four FPV drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, shooting down one of them several meters above his head.
19:50 Accurate shot by a sniper of the Akhmat special forces at an infantryman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
19:16 Destruction of the enemy DRG.
The enemy reconnaissance group was identified and eliminated by an FPV drone strike -video.
18:25 Another M1A1 Abrams was hit by kamikaze drones -video.
17:59 Destruction of another self-propelled gun ALL in the Svatovsky direction -video.
17:28 Russian Aerospace Forces liquidates the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.
16:57 Artillerymen of the Kalmius brigade defeat the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Krasnogorovka -video.
16:14 The Russian Army’s IX leaders burned the BM-21 Grad MLRS of the Ukrainian Armed Forces -video.
15:32 The forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed five unmanned boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the northwestern coast of the Crimean Peninsula -video.
14:41 Actor and neo-Nazi Evgeny Shumilov was killed on one of the front lines.
Shumilov starred in an advertisement for an express delivery company, where he played a militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the TV series “Physical Evidence”, “Real Mysticism”, “Sidorenki-Sidorenki” (the local analogue of “Ivanov-Ivanovs”), “Ambulance”, “Agents of Justice” and "Department 44" -photo.
13:58 Hot on our heels.
After discovering an enemy SUV, Russian soldiers organized surveillance of it.
At the first parking lot, an FPV was sent in the direction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces transport, which flew right to the target the first time - video.
13:30 Soldiers of the 238th artillery brigade of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed an M777 of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a result of counter-battery fire from a 152-mm howitzer "Gyacinth-B" -video.
12:59 More than 10 Ukrainian militants were destroyed by a UAV strike of the Russian Guard
The discovery of manpower and the successful attack of an enemy stronghold were captured onvideo.
12:31 Russian fighters discovered a crew of UAVs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversky direction and sent Lancet to them -video.
11:58 A Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter lost control and planted the BRDM into a crater.
The jet division of the 9th brigade took advantage of the moment and destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle - m.
11:31 Defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery crew by the Russian Army -video.
10:42 Arrival of LMUR at the temporary deployment point of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Prechistovo from the army aviation of the 11th Air Force and Air Defense Army -video.
10:27 In the Zaporozhye direction during the battles there was discovered the corpse of a young girl, a serviceman of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The badge taken from the body surprised our fighters a little. A certain Svetlana Piletskaya turned out to be not just young, but underage. She would not have turned 18 until the end of May.
The token issuance date is summer 2022. That is, she was only 16. The likelihood of error is minimal.
Most likely, the denazified girl was a member of a paramilitary teenage group, underwent training and went to the front voluntarily.
09:43 Artillery of the 25th Army is working on Ukrainian oporniks on the approaches to Yampolovka in the Liman direction -video.
09:27 Arrival of the Lancet to the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier in the village. White Well in the borderland -video.
08:57 A militant of the 60th separate battalion of the Polesie Wolves troop, Vasily Vlasyuk from the Rivne region, was eliminated.
Denazification took place in the Kharkov direction.
The nationalist has been fighting since February 2022 -photo.
08:06 Artillery of the 38th brigade on Ukrainian positions in the Gulyai-Pole area of the Zaporozhye region -
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[NewsFront] 21:35 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Kupyansk direction: capture of Kotlyarka and battles in Kislovka, advancement to the west of Kolomyychikha.
In the Kupyansk direction, a local offensive by the Russian Armed Forces is developing in the Kislovka-Kotlyarovka sector.
In the afternoon, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of the village of Kotlyarovka. In reality, Russian forces reached the western outskirts of the village on May 4-5, while the assault continued in neighboring Kislovka with artillery and air support.
Already today, unconfirmed reports have appeared about the liberation of Kislovka. Given the close proximity of the villages (the furthest houses are about 500 meters away) and the official liberation of Kotlyarka, it is most likely that Kislovka was liberated by Russian forces. The presence of the enemy, if it persists, is focal.
By the end of the day, footage appeared of the raising of Russian flags over the central part of Kislovka and the east of Kotlyarovka, which confirms the information about complete or almost complete control of both villages.
In other areas of the direction, information about other successes of the RF Armed Forces is not recorded in the public field; the parties exchange artillery strikes and conduct mutual reconnaissance. However, as practice shows, a lull in the public sphere does not mean the absence of offensive military operations. Take the same recent push west of Kolomychikha.
In this area, where the front remained static for a long time, Russian troops on wheeled vehicles, under the cover of a tank, occupied a forest belt, advancing in the direction of Stelmakhovka. The footage appeared on May 5, but in reality the events could have happened somewhat earlier, and by now there may be more progress.
21:05 During the counterbattery fight, artillery crews of 152mm towed 2A36 "Gyacinth-B" guns of the airborne artillery formation destroyed self-propelled gun and towed howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of Western production on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
20:31 Summary: 1st Tank Armyc leared out and gained a foothold in Kislovka and Kotlyarovka, hoisting Russian flags over villages in the Kharkov region.
Units of the 47th Motorized Rifle Division had previously broken through several lines of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Kotlyarovka adjacent to Kislovka in the Kupyansky direction and, during the battles, liberated both settlements.
Then the populated areas were completely cleared and our fighters established a foothold in them.
19:41 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Kherson direction: activity of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the island zone of the Dnieper.
In the Kherson direction, the focus of attention in the media space has recently shifted somewhat from the situation in the Krynok region to the situation on the island of Nestriga, located in the Dnieper delta southwest of Kherson and closer to the right bank.
At the end of April, information resources of the so-called. Ukraine, with reference to the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, announced the taking under control of the island of Nestriga. At the same time, comments from Ukrainian “military experts” appeared in the media about the operational significance of the said island for holding territories.
Nevertheless, the island actually continues to remain in a gray zone, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attempts to take control of it by sending in small assault groups often end in the destruction of the landing party, going to their death for the sake of a media picture.
In addition, the conduct of military operations to establish control over the islands in the Dnieper delta is hampered by the high water level in the river. In this regard, most of the island territory remains in a semi-flooded state, and the footage filmed there is partly reminiscent of chronicles of movements in swampy areas during the Vietnam War.
Enemy units are also active to the northeast of the Cossack Camps: two days earlier, the Ukrainian Armed Forces landing force on several boats landed in the island zone on the approaches to the village and dispersed in residential areas, but later retreated under fire from Russian troops.
Ukrainian formations continue to strike the left bank with artillery and mortars, as well as use drones for supplies, remote mining of the area and attacks on various targets.
At the moment, the Ukrainian leadership is in dire need of symbolic victories due to the loss of territories in the Avdeevsky and Kupyansko-Svatovsky directions, so reports about the expansion of control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the islands are another attempt by the Kyiv regime to win a “media victory,” and a rather clumsy one at that.
19:19 According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation over the Republic of Crimea shot down Enemy UAV. The air target was destroyed in the northwestern part of the peninsula over the Black Sea.
Russian air defense forces worked in a timely manner, preventing a strike.
18:43 Statements by representatives of the “West”, “South”, “Center”, “East” and “Dnepr” groups on the progress of the special military operation (as of May 6, 2024) –video.
17:42 Around 17.30 Moscow time suppressed another attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.
17:15 Dnipropetrovsk region. Explosion!
Reported, that as a result of today’s daytime missile strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities, a military equipment assembly shop for armored vehicles and a warehouse with parts were hit. The strike was carried out by our missilemen from the Iskander OTRK.
16:37 Special military operation. Situation on May 6 –map.
15:49 Telegram channel «Fisherman":
Activity of Ukrainian BEC near the Crimean Peninsula
That night, Ukrainian formations attempted to attack the base of the Black Sea Fleet and the Russian FSB border service in Chernomorskoe with four unmanned boats.
At around 4-5 am, four BECs were discovered by Russian military personnel, and fire was opened on them. As a result of this, the drones were destroyed at the booms, unable to break into Uzkaya Bay.
This situation again demonstrates the importance of such basic things as booms. Their presence simply did not allow naval drones to penetrate their home base and easily repel an attack.
However, this group of BECs was not the only one: another squad of drones was spotted near Cape Tarkhankut. After detecting their movement, the unmanned boats turned around and departed in the opposite direction.
BEC activity has increased near the Crimean Peninsula. The day before yesterday, about five or six drones appeared near the Kerch Strait, which is why the bridge was blocked. The search for drones continued for several hours, but the BECs disappeared in an unknown direction.
The number of BECs these days indicates that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are assessing the state of defensive fortifications in Crimea. The presence of drones was noted at the bridge, and at Tarkhankut, and in Chernomorskoye, but in small numbers, when, as in the last attack on the BDK, more than ten BECs were involved at a time.
At the same time, according to the already classic scheme, before the attack near Crimea, a British reconnaissance aircraft RC-135 operated, which was located 100 km southwest of Sevastopol.
Taking this into account and the coming weekend in Russia, we should expect massive strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Moreover, the enemy has been pausing for several days, clearly accumulating forces for an attack.
15:05 Russian army expands control zone in the area of the liberated settlement Kislovka.
In the Avdievka direction, Russian fighters are advancing towards Novoaleksandrovka.
Northwest of Donetsk, the Russian army has reached the center of Netailovo and continues to clear the pocket south of Pervomaisky.
To the southeast of Urozhainy, the Russian army takes control of new territories.
14:41 Russian Defense Ministry officially reported on the liberation of Kotlyarka and Solovyevo. One of these days you should expect the same announcements for Kislovka, Keramik, Novokalinovo and Arkhangelsk.
13:35 Sumy region. District settlement Stetskovka
Reportedabout the arrival of our KABs at military installations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including military equipment. Cinkovka has become a legitimate target for our videoconferencing for the third time in the last week.
12:22 Statement by the head of the press center of the “South” group -video.
Units of the “Southern” group of forces, as a result of active actions, occupied more advantageous positions, inflicted fire damage on manpower and equipment of the 22, 93 Mechanized, 5, 92 Assault and 56 Motorized Infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Grigorovka, Kleshcheevka and Red.
The enemy in the Donetsk direction lost up to 290 military personnel and two vehicles in the wounded and killed.
During the counterbattery fight, a 155mm American M777 howitzer, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, and a 100mm MT-12 Rapier anti-tank gun were destroyed.
11:46 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group -video.
Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the special military operation zone.
During active operations, the group's units improved the situation along the front line and thwarted attempts by the enemy to strengthen forward positions in the areas of Vodyanoye, Nikolsky and Charivnoye.
Fire from rocket and cannon artillery, heavy flamethrower systems hit strongholds and areas where manpower and equipment accumulated in the 72nd Mechanized Brigade and the 108th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Urozhainy and Staromayorsky districts.
Enemy losses amounted to up to 135 military personnel, three pickup trucks, a 155mm FN-70 howitzer, a 152mm Msta-B howitzer and a 100mm MT-12 Rapier anti-tank gun, eight aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles and three ammunition supply points.
11:15 At night off the northwestern coast of Crimeawas destroyed at least three enemy BECs.
10:22 Enemy for the morning acknowledges complete loss of the village of Kislovka in the Svatovo-Kupyansky direction. A little earlier, Russian troops liberated the village of Kotlyarovka. The offensive of Russian troops continues.
09:47 Criminal Kyiv regimecontinuesto fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Dnepryan two rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki four rounds;
-- n.p. Razdolnoe four rounds;
-- n.p. New Mayachka two rounds;
-- n.p. Kakhovka two rounds;
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka four rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Chernyanka, Chelburda settlement, Podstepnoye, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Novaya Kakhovka, firing a total of 19 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:25 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning 05/06/2024
- Zaporozhye Front. The assault operations of Russian troops in Rabotino continue. LBS without significant changes.
– Donetsk front. In Krasnogorovka, fighting continues in the industrial zone of the Refractory Plant. In Uman, the Russian Armed Forces managed to advance inside the populated area. In the Umansky area - without much change. In the area of Semyonovka and Berdychi there are oncoming battles. In the Ocheretino area, Russian troops continue to advance towards Aleksandrovka.
– Chasovoyarsk direction. Heavy fighting continues along the entire line of contact. Long-range weapons are actively working.
08:51 Telegram channel “Fisherman":
Chronicle of a special military operation: events of the week from April 29 to May 5, 2024
– Russian troops continue to strike enemy targets in rear and front-line areas. In Kharkov, the building of the Research Institute of Veterinary Medicine, where units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were located, was hit.
– In Odessa, the target was the headquarters of the operational command “South” - several officers were eliminated, including the head of the communications center department. Several more flights were made to the warehouse of the logistics company Novaya Poshta, as well as to the workshop of the Telekart-Pribor plant.
– In the occupied part of the DPR, the railway infrastructure in Krasnoarmeysk was damaged. A high-voltage substation in Pavlograd was also hit, causing the city to be temporarily de-energized.
– Ukrainian formations, in turn, attacked energy infrastructure facilities in Russia. The drones damaged several traction substations, causing temporary power outages and delaying several trains.
“In addition, the enemy again attacked the Ryazan Oil Refinery with drones. A fire broke out at the facility, which was quickly extinguished.
– The Ukrainian Armed Forces also launched ATACMS missiles several times at targets in Crimea. The targets of the raid were airfields in Dzhankoy and Gvardeyskoye.
– In the special operation zone, Russian troops continue to build on their success in several sectors of the front. In the North Ukrainian direction, the enemy is strengthening defensive lines and is also training personnel at training grounds.
08:02 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC.
A total of 27 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC.
Two civilians were reported injured.
Damaged:
Two residential buildings,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.
Eight attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction,
A total of 19 attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Gorlovka direction.
In total, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired 75 units of various ammunition.
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[Regnum] The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, began preparations for exercises with missile formations of the Southern Military District (SMD) with the involvement of aviation, as well as forces of the Russian Navy. This was reported to the Russian Ministry of Defense.
“On the instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in order to increase the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to carry out combat missions, the General Staff has begun preparations for holding exercises in the near future with missile formations of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation, as well as naval forces”, says the Telegram channel of the defense department.
It is noted that during the exercise, the Russian Armed Forces will conduct activities to practice the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
The ministry added that the exercise is aimed at maintaining the readiness of personnel and equipment of units for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and in order to unconditionally ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Russia in response to provocative statements and threats of individual Western officials against the Russian Federation.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on April 12, a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile of a mobile ground missile system (PGRK) was carried out from the Kapustin Yar test site. It was noted that the launch was successful.
On March 1, the Ministry of Defense published footage of the successful launch of the Yars rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The training launch was carried out by the Yoshkar-Ola missile formation.
In March, Putin, in an interview with journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, said that Russia is ready to use weapons, including nuclear weapons, if there is a danger to the existence of the Russian state, the risk of harming the sovereignty and independence of the country. The President recalled that all this is spelled out in the core strategy, which has not changed. The head of state also said that the Russian nuclear triad is more modern than that of any other country.
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[Regnum] The result of the investigation into the murder of Sputnik agency correspondent Russell Bentley, a native of the United States with the call sign Texas, in the DPR should be the punishment of those responsible. This was announced on May 6 by Dmitry Kiselev, CEO of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
“This is our military correspondent. The crime must be investigated; there is a principle of inevitability of punishment. “Everyone is equal before the law,” Kiselyov emphasized, as quoted by RT.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF RUSSELL BENTLEY
63-year-old Russell Bentley disappeared in Donetsk on April 8 after shelling of the city by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to his wife Lyudmila, Bentley went to the private sector near the car depot to help people injured in the attack, after which he stopped communicating. That same evening, a woman found the military officer’s car near a service station, with his broken phone inside. There, an eyewitness told Lyudmila that “someone was being twisted.” Bentley had with him a Russian passport with Donetsk registration, a weapon with a permit for it, and a military ID.
On April 12, the Petrovsky district police department of Donetsk put Russell Bentley on the wanted list. A few more days later, on April 19, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel Margarita Simonyan reported that Texas died in Donetsk. She noted that Bentley fought for Russia and collaborated with Radio Sputnik.
MURDER INVESTIGATION
A criminal investigation has been opened into the death of Russell Bentley. It is being dealt with by investigators from the Main Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, noted the Telegram channel “Operation Z: Military Correspondents of the Russian Spring.”
According to the lawyer of the military commander’s widow, the suspects “wear shoulder straps.” They are detained and confess.
A TEXAN WHO FOUND A HOME IN DONBASS
Russell Bentley, a native of the American state of Texas, came to Donbass in 2014. He joined the ranks of the militia, fought in the Vostok battalion, and took part in the battles for Donetsk airport. According to the American, he was amazed by the courage and resilience of the Donbass residents who resisted the Ukrainian Nazis.
Bentley was actively involved in volunteer activities and was awarded DPR awards. In March 2022, he announced that he had raised $100,000 to help the affected residents of Donbass.
Texas has repeatedly expressed support for the Russian special operation in Ukraine. As IA Regnum reported, in March he said that the danger of nuclear war was greater than ever before in history. He believed that two scenarios that would avoid a nuclear conflict were a Russian victory in the conflict in Ukraine or a change in war-supporting regimes in the West.
In Donbass, Bentley got married, received Russian citizenship, bought “a small house with a big garden,” and in 2016 received Orthodox baptism. The American called Donetsk his home and admitted that he no longer wanted to leave anywhere.
Foreign Ministry: Russia will begin production of INF systems in response to US actions
[Regnum] Russia, in response to the actions of the United States to deploy intermediate- and short-range missiles (IRMS) in Europe and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region (APR), will intensify development and begin production of its missile systems, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported.
“The United States began to import the corresponding missile systems (ground-based with medium- and shorter-range missiles. - Ed.) to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, allegedly for the duration of exercises with allies, which indicates that the production and “testing” of these weapons is in full swing progress,” says a statement published on the diplomatic department’s website.
The Foreign Ministry noted that Russia reserves the right to respond to US actions in a mirror manner, which will mean the termination of the unilateral Russian moratorium on the deployment of these weapons systems. In addition, as a response to Washington, the Russian Federation will intensify the development and begin production of similar missile systems, and taking into account the previously announced R&D and the accumulated developments of the Russian military-industrial complex, this process will not take much time, the Foreign Ministry emphasized.
“When making potential decisions on the deployment of such weapons, we leave the geography of their deployment at our discretion,” the Foreign Ministry clarified.
As Regnum reported, Washington intends to deploy medium-range missile systems in the Asia-Pacific region by 2024.
A spokesman for the US Army Pacific Command said that “everything is going according to plan” to achieve its goals of marking the missiles by the end of the year. Such a step, according to experts, will be aimed at containing China.
The US is believed to be considering deploying the Typhon ground-launched medium-range missile system, which is being developed by the US Army and could be equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of more than 1,600 km and the new SM6 interceptor missile. They were successfully tested in 2023.
The installation of missiles in the region will be the first since the US and Russia signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) in 1987. The INF Treaty previously prohibited the two countries from possessing ground-launched medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 km.
In turn, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov noted that Russia fears that Washington’s decision to deploy medium-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region is irreversible.
More from regnum.ru Historian compares the West's desire to dismember Russia with Hitler's plans
The West is striving for the strategic defeat of Russia and its dismemberment, the same goals were previously set by the head of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler.Political scientist, historian, publicist, candidate of pedagogical sciences, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries Igor Shishkin told a Regnum correspondent on May 6, commenting on information in documents declassified by the FSB that Hitler in 1944 was waiting for a split between Great Britain, the USA and the USSR in order to start fighting together with the United States and the United Kingdom against the Soviet Union.
As Shishkin noted, the information that Hitler hoped to join forces with Anglo-French and American troops in the war against the Soviet Union is not sensational. This was well known and had not been hidden before. Such plans actually existed and Hitler repeatedly spoke about his hopes for such an outcome.
The historian also mentioned the “miracle of the House of Brandenburg.” In the 17th century, the death of the Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna saved the King of Prussia, Frederick II, from imminent collapse. This was due to the fact that Peter III, who came to the throne after Elizabeth, stopped the war with Prussia and became its ally.
Shishkin noted that Hitler regarded the death of then US President Franklin Roosevelt in exactly the same way. He really hoped that after Roosevelt’s death he would be able to come to an agreement with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for a joint war with Russia. And there was every reason for this.
“At that time, the British and French tried to transform the Second World War into the category of a common European, pan-Western campaign against the Soviet Union. I mean plans for attacks by the British and French on the Soviet Union in 1940 from the north to Murmansk, Karelia, supposedly in support of Finland fighting the Soviet Union, and an attack from the south on Baku in order to deprive the Soviet Union of energy resources, where at that time the main production of gasoline, diesel fuel and other fuels was concentrated. Hitler knew about this plan. Churchill was one of its active organizers. The documents were captured by the Germans after the occupation of Paris in 1940 and were transferred to Moscow to show who the USSR wanted to be allied with against Germany. Similar plans were developed both by England and France (which dropped out in 1940), and by Germany,” the political scientist noted.
He noted that in late 1944 and early 1945, Churchill ordered the development of a plan called “The Unthinkable.” This plan envisaged a joint war with Germany against the USSR. However, it was not carried out because the Soviet leadership found out about it in time and took all necessary measures to disrupt it, convincing the United States that it would be disastrous for them. Therefore, US President Harry Truman did not support Churchill's plan at the last moment.
Shishkin emphasized that the joint campaign of the Germans, Anglo-Americans and French against the Soviet Union is not fantasy and Hitler's delusional ideas. This is a very real threat that the Soviet Union and its leader Joseph Stalin have been reckoning with since 1939.
“In 1939, Stalin, thanks to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, managed to split the united Western front against the Soviet Union, pitting the enemies of the USSR against each other. As a result, Great Britain and the United States in World War II found themselves allies of the Soviet Union, against which they themselves raised Hitler's Germany. This was Stalin's diplomatic victory, which largely predetermined the victorious outcome of the Great Patriotic War. The West is currently waging a hybrid war against Russia. However, Russia has not yet managed to split the Western camp and pit one Western force against another,” the historian noted.
Now the West is trying to complete what it started but failed to do during that period. Then it was not possible to destroy Russia in the guise of the Soviet Union. Now the West is setting the same goals for the strategic defeat of Russia and its dismemberment. Hitler planned to do the same.
The Soviet Union in 1939 found itself facing a united front of Western powers, which set the same goals as now. The historian recalled that Russia opposed the united West in the Crimean War, after the 1917 revolution and the civil war in the 1920s and early 1930s, as well as in the Cold War and now again.
As Regnum reported, according to declassified documents, in 1948, Hitler's former personal adjutant Otto Günsche described in a statement to the USSR government the events that took place at the Fuhrer's headquarters in the late summer and autumn of 1944. Günsche himself, along with other close associates of the leader of Nazi Germany, was arrested in May 1945 by the Soviet military counterintelligence Smersh and was taken to Moscow.
According to the Fuhrer, the goal of the Third Reich was “to gain time by all means and to help ensure that Germany’s opponents quickly break up.” He saw an opportunity for the Third Reich to reach an agreement with the United States and Britain on the “joint destruction of Bolshevism.”
In addition, Hitler read at the meeting a message from one of the British news agencies, which contained sharp attacks on the USSR. However, events on the fronts were not in Germany's favor.
In October 1944, Hitler again held a meeting where he stated the need to conclude a separate agreement with the United States and Britain against the Soviet Union.
However, the Fuhrer's hopes did not come true, since the Red Army launched an offensive earlier than planned, after which British and US troops entered German territory.
From archival documents published by the FSB, it became known that Hitler’s intelligence used Ukrainian nationalists in preparing the Third Reich for an attack on the USSR. Such information was revealed during interrogation by the leaders of German military intelligence.
In April, the FSB directorate in the Smolensk region declassified archival documents about crimes committed by the Nazis in the region during the Great Patriotic War, including materials about the executions of Poles and the falsification of the “Katyn Affair” by the secret services of the Third Reich.
In February, the intelligence service declassified materials about the brutal execution of underground members of the Young Guard by the Nazis in the winter of 1943. In particular, copies of interrogation protocols of participants in the execution of Oleg Koshevoy, Lyubov Shevtsova and other Young Guards were made public.
Even more from regnum.ru Russian Foreign Ministry: nuclear exercises will cool down “hot heads” in Western capitals
Exercises on the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons by Russia should be considered in the context of recent belligerent statements by NATO countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on May 6 on the department’s website.
“We hope that this event will cool down the “hot heads” in Western capitals, will help to realize the possible catastrophic consequences of the strategic risks they generate and will keep them from both assisting the Kiev regime in its terrorist actions and from being drawn into direct armed confrontation with Russia, ” the statement says.
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that the exercises should be considered in the context of recent bellicose statements by NATO countries. The statements of French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of sending French and other NATO contingents to Ukraine are striking in their irresponsibility and thoughtlessness, the Foreign Ministry added.
“We have also recorded a series of steps from the French side, including military exercises and other events, which, apparently, should support Macron’s statements by demonstrating the nuclear capabilities of Paris,” the statement said.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that he admits the possibility of sending French troops to the conflict zone in Ukraine if Kiev requests it or if the Russian army breaks through the front line.
As Regnum reported, on May 6, the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, began preparations for exercises with missile formations of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation, as well as Russian Navy forces. During the exercises, the military will conduct activities to practice the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
The Ministry of Defense stated that the exercises are aimed at maintaining the readiness of personnel and equipment of units for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and in order to unconditionally ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian state in response to provocative statements and threats of individual Western officials against Russia.
Press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov, commenting on preparations for the exercises, said that the possible dispatch of Western troops to Ukraine is a new round of escalation of the conflict.
The preparation of the Russian Armed Forces for military exercises with the study of the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons shows that Western countries have begun to allow themselves too much, these maneuvers will sober them up, said political scientist Yuri Svetov.
Even more from regnmum.ru Admiral Kostyukov said that the West was preparing aggression against Russia before the Special Military Operation
The West intended to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia as a result of the aggression that was being prepared in anticipation of the special operation. It was the same before the Great Patriotic War, said the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Hero of Russia Admiral Igor Kostyukov.
Earlier, the Victory Museum received declassified documents about the activities of Soviet military intelligence on the eve of and during the Great Patriotic War. It followed from them, in particular, that Nazi Germany hoped to crush the USSR and capture Joseph Stalin in just three weeks.
“History repeats itself. In the pre-war years, as well as on the eve of a special military operation, the West was preparing aggression against our Fatherland with the aim of inflicting strategic defeat on it,” Kostyukov said.
He added that the unconstructive position of Western countries, both then and now, interfered with Russia’s peace-loving aspirations to create a collective security system for all countries.
In 1945, the Wehrmacht, for which the industry of all Europe worked, was defeated. This will be the case now with Kiev, which receives military-technical support from the United States and its satellites, the admiral emphasized.
As Regnum reported, documents declassified by the FSB indicate the intention of the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, to fight together with the United States and Great Britain against the Soviet Union. He expected a split between the allies in 1944.
More from regnum.ru Medvedev called the General Staff's exercises with nuclear weapons a response to Western provocations
The preparation of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces for exercises with missile formations of the Southern Military District (SMD) with the involvement of aviation, as well as the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, is explained by the “total degradation” of the ruling class in the West. This opinion was expressed by Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.
“The chorus of irresponsible scoundrels among the Western political elite calling for the sending of their troops to a non-existent country is growing. Now it includes representatives of the US Congress, French and British leadership, and individual madmen from the Baltic states and Poland. They also call for the active use of their missile weapons, which they supplied to Bandera’s supporters, throughout Russia,” Medvedev wrote in the Telegram channel.
According to the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, such rhetoric from Western politicians is a “cynical calculation” for political dividends. At the same time, Medvedev noted, in the West there is a “total degradation” of the ruling class, which does not want to realize that sending troops to the territory of Ukraine will entail the direct entry of these countries into a military conflict, to which Russia will be forced to respond.
Medvedev also added that such a development of events would lead to a global catastrophe.
“By the way, Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to understand this more than 60 years ago. But the current infantile morons who have seized power in the West do not want to understand. And that is why today the General Staff began preparations for the exercises, including activities for practical testing of the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons,” concluded the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council.
As Regnum reported, on May 6, the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin, began preparations for exercises with missile formations of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation, as well as Russian Navy forces.
During the exercises, the Russian military will conduct activities to practice the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
The Ministry of Defense noted that the exercises are aimed at maintaining the readiness of personnel and equipment of units for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and in order to “unconditionally ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian state in response to provocative statements and threats of individual Western officials against Russia.
On the same day, the press secretary of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, said that the preparation of the Russian Ministry of Defense for exercises with missile formations of the Southern Military District is Russia’s reaction to the possible dispatch of Western troops to Ukraine.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron said that he admits the possibility of sending French troops to the conflict zone in Ukraine if Kiev asks for it, or if the Russian army breaks through the front line.
After this, Peskov on May 3 called the next statement by the French leader about the possible dispatch of troops to Ukraine very dangerous. He emphasized that France, represented by Macron, continues to announce the possibility of direct involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.
At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly noted that a full-scale conflict between Russia and NATO would bring the world to the brink of a third world war. At the same time, the Russian leader expressed confidence that the West’s desire to reach Russian borders led to the conflict in Ukraine.
Commentary by Russian military journalist is italics
[ColonelCassad] The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Russia's readiness to attack British assets outside Ukraine in response to British attacks from the territory of Ukraine.
On May 6, the British Ambassador to Moscow N. Casey was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, to whom a strong protest was expressed in connection with the recent statement by British Foreign Minister D. Cameron in an interview with Reuters about the right of Ukraine to strike Russian territory using British weapons.
N. Casey firmly pointed out that D. Cameron's hostile attack directly contradicts the previously sounded assurances of the British side when transferring long-range cruise missiles to the Kyiv regime, that under no circumstances would they be used on Russian territory. Thus, the head of the Foreign Office disavowed this position, de facto recognizing his country as a party to the conflict.
The ambassador was told that the Russian side views D. Cameron's words as evidence of a serious escalation and confirmation of London's increasing involvement in military operations on the side of Kyiv. N. Casey was warned that the response to Ukrainian strikes using British weapons on Russian territory could be any British military facilities and equipment on the territory of Ukraine and beyond its borders.
The Ambassador was called upon to think about the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps from London and to immediately refute in the most decisive and unequivocal manner the bellicose provocative statements of the head of the Foreign Office.
(c) Russian Foreign Ministry
A little earlier, Medvedev spoke in a similar style.
The chorus of irresponsible scoundrels from among the Western political elite, calling for sending their troops to a non-existent country, is expanding. Now it includes representatives of the US Congress, French and British leadership, and individual madmen from the Baltic states and Poland. They also call for the active use of their missile weapons, which they supplied to Bandera’s supporters, throughout Russia.
And this is not a spring aggravation, but a cynical calculation for political dividends. There is some kind of total degradation of the ruling class in the West. This class really does not want to logically connect elementary things. Sending your troops to the territory of b. Ukraine will entail the direct entry of their countries into the war, to which we will have to respond. And, alas, not in the territory of b. Ukraine.
In this case, none of them will be able to hide either on Capitol Hill, or in the Elysee Palace, or on Downing Street 10. A world catastrophe will come.
By the way, Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to understand this more than 60 years ago. But the current infantile morons who have seized power in the West do not want to understand.
And that is why today the General Staff began preparations for the exercises, including activities for practical testing of the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
You don’t have to worry, things won’t happen without another incarnation of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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[Regnum] The Russian side informed the US State Department of the detention of an American serviceman in Vladivostok. He is accused of breaking the law. Pentagon official representative Cynthia Smith reported this to RIA Novosti.
The man was detained on May 2.
“Russia notified the State Department of the detention of the military man in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. He is being provided with consular support,” Smith explained, adding that the man’s family has also been informed.
She did not elaborate, calling the situation a “delicate issue.”
As Regnum reported, an American serviceman was detained in Russia on suspicion of theft, NBC News reported on May 6, citing three US officials. There is a version that he was detained for theft. No charges were officially announced.
According to the TV channel, the American serviceman served as part of the US contingent in South Korea. I went to Russia of my own free will.
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[Regnum] On May 6, the official representative of the UN Secretary General, Stephane Dujarric, commented on the exercises being prepared by Russia on the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, calling for avoiding actions that could lead to escalation with catastrophic consequences.
“Current nuclear risks are alarmingly high. All actions that could lead to miscalculation and escalation with catastrophic consequences should be avoided,” he said.
As Regnum reported, the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, began preparing for exercises with missile formations of the Southern Military District (SMD) with the involvement of aviation, as well as Russian Navy forces. During the exercises, the Russian military will conduct activities to practice the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
The exercises of the missile formations of the Southern Military District are, among other things, a response to provocative statements and threats by individual Western officials, the Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized. The department noted that the exercises are aimed at maintaining the readiness of personnel and equipment of units for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and in order to ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Russia.
According to presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, the West is provoking a new, unprecedented round of tension, and this requires retaliatory measures from Moscow.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that he admits the possibility of sending French troops to the conflict zone in Ukraine if Kiev requests it or if the Russian army breaks through the front line.
In addition, on May 2, Reuters published statements by British Foreign Minister David Cameron about the supposed “right” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to use British weapons to launch strikes on Russian territory. Cameron’s statement was the first recognition that the West is fighting against Russia at the hands of the inhabitants of Ukraine, noted Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
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