[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Follow up to this and this from yesterday.
30% or more of the Russian Air Force’s fleet of long-range nuclear-capable strategic bombers were reportedly damaged and/or destroyed during today’s operation by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), in what Russian milbloggers are calling “Russia’s Pearl Harbor” pic.twitter.com/YaVUA2oPwS
So, it appears Zelenskyy gave the go ahead to attack parked Russian nuclear capable bombers without informing @realDonaldTrump (if true that our President was not consulted nor informed, this isn’t simply a breach of protocol. It’s a geopolitical insult and a warning… pic.twitter.com/L976NhwFy6
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The last time I looked there was a dearth of hangers at Diego - and Barksdale etc. if they actually took 18 months to plan this exercise there is no way the US/UK intel sides weren’t read in, consulted and gave it their blessing. And the Russians (and the Chinese- at a minimum) know that. I’d anticipate asymmetric repercussions
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FWIW there were 8 messages today on UVB-76 the Russian numbers radio station (example: 15:44 Moscow Time "NZhTI 09849 UTKOROY 5470 9627". In a nutshell "that's not comforting"
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[Korrespondent] The General Staff has published data on military clashes at the front.
The greatest activity of the Russian army is recorded in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already repelled 47 attacks since the beginning of the day.
Since the beginning of the day, 107 combat clashes have already occurred on the front in ten directions. This was reported in the General Staff report on Sunday, June 1.
In total, the enemy carried out 3 missile and 50 air strikes, using six missiles and 50 guided bombs, 1,396 kamikaze drone strikes, and carried out more than 4,000 shelling attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the Kharkov direction, the Defense Forces repelled an enemy assault in the Figolivka area, two more clashes continue in the areas of Glubokoe and Krasnoye Pervye.
The enemy attacked our fortifications in the Kupyansk direction seven times in the areas of the settlements of Stepovaya Novosyolovka and Novaya Kruglyakovka, one combat clash is still ongoing.
In the Liman direction today, Russian troops stormed the positions of Ukrainian defenders 19 times near the settlements of Grekovka, Novomykhaylovka, Nadezhda, Ridkodub and Yampol, three clashes continue to this day.
In the Seversky direction, the Defense Forces repelled eight attacks by enemy troops in the area of Belogorovka, Verkhnekamyansky and in the direction of Grigoryevka.
Today our troops repelled three enemy attacks in the area of Chasovy Yar and in the direction of Belaya Gora in the Kramatorsk direction, another battle is currently ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the occupiers stormed the positions of our defenders near Toretsk and Dilievka 11 times today.
In the Pokrovsky direction, the enemy carried out 47 assault and offensive actions during the day. The activity of the Russian occupiers was observed in the areas of the settlements of Popov Yar, Mirolyubovka, Malinovka, Lisovka, Udachnoye, Novosergeevka, Novomikolaevka and Andreevka. The fighting has not subsided to this day in three locations. There, our soldiers eliminated 145 and wounded 140 Russians in this direction; destroyed an armored personnel carrier, 13 cars, nine motorcycles, 31 UAVs, two electronic warfare systems, a Murom-M visual observation station, six shelters for personnel; an enemy mortar was also damaged.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the invaders carried out 14 attacks on the positions of Ukrainian troops, the enemy tried to advance in the areas of Novosyolka, Zelenoe Pole, Novopol, Volnoe Pole, Bagatyr, Konstantinopol and Oradnoe. One combat clash is currently ongoing.
In the Orekhov direction, Ukrainian defenders twice repelled an enemy offensive near the village of Stepovoye.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kursk direction today repelled 16 attacks by the invading army, three more clashes remain unfinished; the enemy carried out five airstrikes, dropping 14 KAB, and also carried out 195 shellings, six of which were from multiple launch rocket systems.
While in other areas there have been no significant changes in the situation.
The General Staff noted the Ukrainian soldiers of the 27th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine and the 406th Separate Artillery Brigade named after General Ensign Oleksiy Almazov, who are steadfastly holding back the enemy.
Let us recall that from February 24, 2022 to June 1, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 988,560 people (+1,230 per day).
Earlier, Ukrainian servicemen captured 10 Russian soldiers in the Kursk direction.
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[NewsFront] 20:50 TOS-1A of the 35th Army burns out Ukrainian positions in the Malinovka area of the Zaporizhia region —video. 20:23 A crew of the Iskander operational-tactical missile system struck a tent camp of the 158th Separate Mechanized Brigade and the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the Novomoskovsk training ground. Dnipropetrovsk region —video.
19:45 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committeewill be investigate the circumstances of civilian injuries as a result of criminal actions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the LPR and Belgorod Oblast
According to information from executive authorities, civilians were injured in the shelling of Pervomaysk and Krasnodon in the Luhansk People's Republic.
In the Belgorod region, as a result of shelling of the village of Tolokonnoye in the Belgorod district, a civilian was injured.
19:15 Calculation of the engineering system "Agriculture" spent mining of rotation and supply routes for units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Having received the coordinates of the location of the enemy’s military equipment and personnel, the servicemen of the ISDM “Zemledeliye” crew fired a salvo of 122mm ammunition.
17:45 Ukrainian Armed Forces with Storm Shadow missiles fired upon the city of Krasnodon in the Lugansk People's Republic
16:05 On behalf of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia, criminal cases on the facts of incidents in the Bryansk and Kursk regions transferred to the Main Investigation Department of the agency.
15:05 Ukrainian Armed Forces with the help of drones attacked Ryazan region
A fragment from the downed UAV damaged the roof of a residential building, there were no casualties, according to preliminary data, the drones' target could have been the airfield in Dyagilevo.
13:55 Iskander-M calculation hit at the launch point of a long-range aircraft-type kamikaze UAV in the Khar'kov region.
As a result of the pinpoint missile strike, the following were destroyed:
- Six launch pads for launching drones,
- Eight vehicles,
- About 30 Kamikaze UAVs.
12:50 Ministry of Defense summary of the progress of the Special Military Operation as of June 1, 2025
Applied defeat of concentrations of manpower and equipment of three mechanized, three airborne assault, and a ranger brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Andreevka, Pavlovka, Mogritsa, Sadki, Ryzhevka, Korchakovka, Novaya Sich, Pisarevka, Khrapovshchina, and Iskriskovshchina in Sumy Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 200 servicemen, an armored personnel carrier, six vehicles, five field artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of two mechanized, assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Dibrova, Glushchenkovo in the Khar'kov region, Volchiy Yar, Krasny Liman and Torskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 210 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, nine cars and five artillery pieces, including a Polish-made 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Krab". The electronic warfare station "Kvertus" and three ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the situation along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of four mechanized, assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Nelepovka, Seversk, Serebryanka, Kleban-Byk, Konstantinovka, Ivanopolye and Dyleevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 280 troops, three vehicles, three artillery pieces, as well as an M113 armored personnel carrier and a US-made HMMWV armored combat vehicle. Two electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Units of the Center group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of six mechanized, assault, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two naval infantry brigades, two territorial defense brigades, three national guard brigades and the Azov special forces brigade in the areas of the settlements of Shevchenko, Poltavka, Razino, Muravka, Udachnoye, Dimitrov, Yablonovka, Krasnoarmeysk, Rusin Yar, Ulyanovka, Petrovskogo and Alekseyevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 510 troops, five armored personnel carriers, including three Finnish Sisu Pasi XA-185 and two US M-113, a US HMMWV armored vehicle, seven vehicles and three field artillery pieces. A 36D6 airspace surveillance radar and an AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery radar, both US-made, were destroyed.
Units of the "East" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airmobile, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Komar, Otradnoye, Karla Marksa of the Donetsk People's Republic, Komsomolskoye and Temirovka of the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 155 servicemen, two combat armored vehicles, six cars and five field artillery guns. An electronic warfare station and four ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, two coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoye, Pavlovka in the Zaporizhia region, Berislav, Antonovka, Tokarevka and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost over 85 servicemen, six vehicles, two 155mm howitzers,
12:20 Units of the North group of forces as a result of decisive actions released the settlement of Alekseevka, Sumy region.
11:45 In the Velykoburluk direction in the Khar'kov border area, special forces actively support attack aircraft strikes by drones on fiber optics, destroying enemy concentrations, firing points, dugouts and fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
10:30 Ukraine begins mobilization of internally displaced persons
In case of loss of documents, the migrant is not released from the obligation to appear at the military registration and enlistment office.
They are required to report any change in registration location within 10 days of moving.
9:55 By the calculation of the loitering munition of the "Vostok" group discovered and destroyed a self-propelled artillery unit, camouflaged by the enemy in a forest belt.
9:15 In the area of the village of Voronezh (Shostkinsky district), the enemy equipped a UAV launch site from which aircraft-type drones were launched in the direction of peaceful cities in the Kursk region.
Russian intelligence uncovered an enemy facility, after which pilots carried out a targeted missile strike.
8:30 Demining specialists of the Dnepr group are clearing routes for equipment and assault groups in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region.
8:25 Russian Armed Forces inflicted powerful strikes on Ukrainian military facilities
The strikes were carried out on targets in the Kyiv, Cherkasy, Rivne, Dnepropetrovsk, Khar'kov and Zaporizhia regions. One of the targets was also the Ozernoye airfield near Zhitomir.
8:00 Calculation of the Lancet loitering munition of the Vostok group struck 152mm 2S3 Self-propelled gun "Akatsiya" of the enemy in the South Donetsk direction.
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[REGNUM] On the evening of May 31, in the Bryansk region, a road bridge collapsed onto passenger train No. 86 Klimov-Moscow passing underneath. There were 388 passengers on board. Seven people died. The tragedy occurred at 22:44 on the single-track Pilshino-Vygonichi section.
Several hours later, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said that the cause of the disaster was the explosion of the bridge. The version of the explosion was also later confirmed by experts from the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR). The train did not have time to reach the Vygonichi station. Then the train was supposed to make a stop in the regional capital Bryansk.
By 11:00, the number of victims of the train crash had risen to 73, 44 of whom were hospitalized. Among the victims was a four-month-old child. As reported by the Regnum news agency, he was sent to Moscow by helicopter.
The driver of the truck, who was driving across the bridge at the time of the explosion, was also injured. According to eyewitnesses, the truck fell onto the locomotive.
Passengers of the Klimov-Moscow train were brought to the capital on a reserve train. They are being assisted by doctors and psychologists.
"WE THOUGHT SOMEONE PULLED THE EMERGENCY BRAKE"
The surviving passengers were met at the Kievsky railway station by correspondents from the Regnum news agency.
According to the son of one of the victims, information that people were being taken back to Moscow was only obtained from the Russian Railways information desk. Relatives were also unable to immediately contact their loved ones.
"Dad has bruises, he doesn't feel very well, so I came to meet him. It was impossible to get through on the phone for a long time. When I called, it was barely audible. He said: everything is fine, I'm on my way," the source told the publication.
Soon a train arrived, from which the young man's father got off. On the platform, he was examined by medical workers. According to the man, whose name is Fedor, the evacuation of the victims was organized, volunteers and employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations did everything possible for the safety of people. When the crash occurred, he fell from the second bunk of the eighth carriage.
"People were helping each other, getting out. In the carriage that overturned, they were shouting: help, help. The doors in our carriage were blocked, we were getting out through another carriage," he shared his experience with journalists from the Regnum news agency.
The sudden stop of the train made passengers think that someone had pulled the emergency brake, another victim said.
"We got off the train with our things and headed towards the highway. We helped the victims as best we could, bandaged their arms and legs. By that time, most of the people had been evacuated," the man said.
The Federal Passenger Company (FPC) promised to pay compensation to passengers, in addition, people will be awarded 20 thousand points under the RZD Bonus program.
According to Russian Railways, the locomotive driver died, and nine other train crew members were hospitalized.
The railway network of the border Bryansk region has been the target of sabotage attacks more than once. Thus, at about eight o'clock in the evening on May 2, 2023, a locomotive and 20 cars of a freight train derailed on the Snezhetskaya - Belye Berega section, southeast of Bryansk.
The train was traveling from Bryansk to Karachev. The cause of the disaster was the explosion of the railway tracks.
And the day before, saboteurs blew up the tracks at the 136th kilometer of the Bryansk-Unecha section. As a result, a locomotive and seven cars carrying fuel and building materials crashed.
CRASH IN KURSK REGION
A similar scenario occurred last night in the Kursk region on the 48th kilometer of the Trosna-Kalinovka highway in the Zheleznogorsk district while a freight locomotive was moving. There, a railway bridge collapsed onto the highway while a freight train was passing over it.
"According to preliminary information, one of the locomotive drivers has injured his legs - the entire team was taken to the hospital. They are under the supervision of doctors," said acting head of the region Alexander Khinshtein.
The burning locomotive was quickly extinguished by firefighters.
The conclusion of the investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in both cases is unambiguous - a terrorist act. The investigation of criminal cases on explosions on the railway in the Bryansk and Kursk regions has begun, reported the official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was briefed throughout the night on the progress of the rescue operation and the initial findings of law enforcement investigators.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin received reports from the FSB and the Ministry of Emergency Situations throughout the night about what happened in the Kursk and Bryansk regions with the trains,” said the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov.
By midday it became known that another section of the Bryansk region railway network had been blown up. The railway track on the Unecha-Zhecha section was blown up when a track-measuring train was passing through. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but this section of the track is closed to train traffic.
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[Regnum] Negotiations between the delegations of Russia and Ukraine will take place, despite recent events. This was stated by a member of the Russian negotiating group, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexander Fomin.
“Negotiations will be held,” RIA Novosti quotes Fomin as saying.
The Russian delegation arrived in Istanbul on the evening of June 1. Earlier, the Turkish Foreign Ministry reported that the start of the second round of direct Russian-Ukrainian talks is scheduled for 13:00 Moscow time on June 2. The meeting is expected to take place in Istanbul's Ciragan Palace. The composition of the delegation remains the same. It will also be headed by Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Kiev regime had carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields : in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. The attacks were carried out using FPV drones, which are controlled by an operator from the pilot's point of view, thanks to real-time video.
In addition, Ukrainian troops attacked an industrial zone in the city of Krasnodon in the Luhansk People's Republic with Storm Shadow missiles.
The Kiev regime did not ignore the emergency situations with trains in the Bryansk and Kursk regions. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called Ukraine's reaction to the tragedies gloating and "hellish joy."
All events took place a day before a new round of negotiations between delegations from Moscow and Kiev. In Istanbul on June 2, the parties intend to exchange memoranda with their proposals to eliminate the main causes of the Ukrainian crisis and the terms of a ceasefire.
Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director of the HSE Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, told Regnum that the terrorist attacks are aimed at turning the US against Russia again. He emphasizes that the timing is chosen in such a way as to either disrupt the negotiations and thereby prompt US President Donald Trump to impose tougher sanctions on Russia, following the example of the Biden administration, or to provoke Moscow into taking tough retaliatory measures.
The American administration had no information about the Kiev regime's plans to organize a massive UAV attack on military airfields in Russian regions on Sunday, June 1. This was reported by CBS White House correspondent Jennifer Jacobs.
"Administration sources told CBS News that the White House had no knowledge of the preparation of today's large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on Russian military aircraft," she wrote on the social network X.
At the same time, the Axios portal earlier on June 1 claimed that the Ukrainian authorities notified Washington of their intention to carry out a massive attack on the Russian Federation. It was also noted that the Ukrainian special services had allegedly been developing this operation for more than a year.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of June 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that Kiev had used FPV drones to carry out terrorist attacks on airfields located in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. Several aircraft caught fire at their bases in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions. No information was received about the dead or injured.
The military department also specified that the drones were launched from areas in close proximity to airfields. Some of the participants in the terrorist attacks were detained by law enforcement officers.
The press service of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reported that military prosecutors have begun inspections at military facilities that were subjected to the Ukrainian attack. Specialists have traveled to the scene of the incidents, where oversight activities have been organized.
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[RIA] The Defense Ministry reported terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on airfields. Key statements:
Kiev carried out a terrorist attack using FPV drones against airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions;
At military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions, all terrorist attacks were repelled;
In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, as a result of the launch of FPV drones from the territory located in the immediate vicinity of airfields, several units of aircraft caught fire;
The fires have been extinguished;
There were no casualties among military personnel or civilians;
Some of the participants in the terrorist attacks have been detained.
Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin adds:
[ColonelCassad] P.S. One of the trucks that was supposed to attack the Ukrainka airfield in the Amur region exploded before it reached it.
P.S. 2. I think we will see the exact number of burned/damaged vehicles in the next 24 hours on satellite images of the attacked airbases.
P.S. 3. The trucks were equipped with drones at a rented warehouse in Chelyabinsk. It has already been found.
Even more from the V Kontake page of Tatyana Vasilyeva ‼⚡⚡⚡🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺⭕️ ⭕️ ⭕️About the scale of the damage:
In the Murmansk region, at the Olenya airfield, fires were recorded on four Tu-95s. At the Belaya airfield, where the Tu-22M3 and Tu-95MS were located, five columns of smoke were also noticed.
In the Amur region, it was not possible to carry out an attack - a truck with a UAV caught fire on the road. The sought-after target, apparently, was the Ukrainka airfield, where strategic aviation is also based.
There were reports of a UAV threat at airfields in the Ryazan and Ivanovo regions, but there was no footage of explosions or burning aircraft from there. Later, the Ministry of Defense reported that the attacks were repelled.
Information about the landings in Severomorsk and Voskresensk is also not true - moments of explosions at Olenya were passed off as footage of "landings".
The Ministry of Defense admitted the loss of equipment at Olenya and Belaya. At the same time, they added that there were no casualties among personnel or civilians.
In the evening, information appeared that the workshop for assembling and installing drones on a container was located in the Chelyabinsk region.
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[Regnum] Russian troops will receive new Il-76MD-90A aerial ISR platforms in 2025. This was announced on June 1 by Vladimir Artyakov, First Deputy General Director of Rostec.
"In fact, this is a new aircraft that meets all modern requirements. This year, the troops will receive new machines within the framework of the state defense order," Artyakov was quoted as saying on the department's Telegram channel.
According to him, the new aircraft is a significantly improved version of the Soviet Il-76. The aircraft has a new engine, an improved wing, and modern onboard radio-electronic equipment. In addition, the aircraft has an extended flight range and increased cargo carrying capacity.
He also noted that Russian aircraft manufacturers are working on creating a whole line of military transport aircraft – new super-heavy and light class aircraft.
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He also noted that Russian aircraft manufacturers are working on creating a whole line of military transport aircraft – new super-heavy and light class aircraft.
..."Narrator: they were not, in fact, working on a whole line of military transport aircraft."
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