[GEO.TV] Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... told Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that Moscow would have to respond to the recent Ukrainian drone attacks, the US President said.
Trump said the two men "discussed the attack on Russia's docked airplanes, by Ukraine, and also various other attacks that have been taking place by both sides."
Putin "did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields," Trump said in a social media post.
Russia will respond to Ukraine drone attacks, Putin tells Trump
Trump said it "was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate peace."
Moscow said earlier on Wednesday that military options were "on the table" for its response to Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia and accused the West of being involved in them.
Russia also urged the US and Britannia to restrain Kyiv after the attacks, which Ukrainian officials have lauded as showing Kyiv can still fight back after more than three years of war.
British and US officials have said they had no prior knowledge of the weekend attacks on Russian nuclear-capable long-range bombers.
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Currently Ms Rice is the director of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, but she made her name as George W. Bush’s National Security Advisor, and then his Secretary of State. Before that she was a poli sci professor, specializing in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. You may recall the fuss made because she was the highest ranked African American woman ever in the presidential succession.
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Putin will have lost all credibility if he does not respond, not only with Westerners, but with his own people. He will be seen as weak, cowardly and ineffective. He will be seen as a loser. Some young and aggressive group of Russian leaders will decide it's time for a new generation to take the reins of power in Moscow. Putin will be in fear for his own life and he may even lose it.
Maybe that's what American and Western European globalist want but when it happens it might not go the way they hope it will.
This is madness. This is how wars get completely out of control.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the Russian offensive in the east and south of Ukraine.
The largest number of Russian assaults have been recorded in the Pokrovsky direction. There, fighting continues near eight populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 67 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report on Wednesday, May 4.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians twice tried to advance in the Vovchansk area. Currently, one battle is ongoing.
In the Kupyansk direction, our defenders successfully stopped one attempt by the enemy to advance forward in the Zagrizove area.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 15 times in the areas of the settlements of Grekovka, Novy Mir, Karpovka, Lipovoe, Ridkodub and Torskoye. Clashes continue in nine locations.
In the Seversky direction, two military clashes occurred near Belogorovka and Verkhnekamyanskoye. The defense forces successfully stopped one attempt by the occupiers to advance, another battle is ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked three times in the areas of Kurdyumovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka and in the direction of Belaya Gora. Two clashes continue.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy organized seven assaults in the areas of the settlements of Toretsk, Romanovka and Rusin Yar. One combat clash continues.
In the Pokrovsk direction, 16 attacks were carried out near the settlements of Malinovka, Grodovka, Lisovka, Novoukrainka, Udachnoye, Novosergeevka, Kotlyarovka and Gorikhovoe. The defense forces repelled 15 assaults.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, Russians attacked eight times near the settlements of Odradnoye, Vesyoloye, Volnoye Pole, Novosyolka and Novopol. Two attacks are still ongoing.
In the Kursk direction, our defenders repelled 11 attacks.
Let us recall that on June 3, Russia lost more than 1,000 servicemen killed and wounded in 24 hours. The total number of Russian losses exceeds 990 thousand.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:33 Tankers of the "East" group of forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds in forest belts in the South Donetsk direction.
During the battle, the enemy lost up to 30 servicemen, two Kozak combat armored vehicles, one electronic warfare station, and a field ammunition supply point.
20:34 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near Chasy Yara and on the western bank of the Seversky Donetsk-Donbass Canal, –MAP.
19:09 The following were hit by the FPV drone crews of the Rubicon Center: AHS Krab self-propelled guns of Polish manufacture, T-72 VSU, and PzH2000 VSU self-propelled guns of German manufacture.
17:23 UAV crews of the 132nd Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Guards Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District destroyed hexocopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces –VIDEO
Servicemen of the 27th Artillery Regiment of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division of the "Southern" group of forces destroyed an ammunition depot and an electronic warfare station of the enemy in the area of the village of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
A crew of the Lancet loitering munition from the 18th Combined Arms Army of the Dnepr group of forces destroyed a self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson region.
Operators of attack UAVs of the Tula Guards Airborne Unit destroy equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region.
UAV operators of the Vostok group of forces destroyed enemy heavy hexacopters "Baba Yaga" in the South Donetsk direction.
16:38 The Russian Armed Forces have raised flags in liberated Redkodub, – MAP.
15:46 The Russian Armed Forces are fighting in Karpovka and are also continuing to encircle Zelenaya Dolina, – MAP.
14:53 Pokrovskoe (Krasnoarmeyskoye) direction. Right flank/ Druzhkovskoye direction
Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue their offensive in the general direction of Raiskoye and have advanced in the direction of Koptevo, dislodging the enemy from a number of strongholds and farms northwest of Shevchenko-First.
Fierce head-on battles with the use of armored vehicles continue in Poltavka and on the approaches to Rusin Yar.
14:25 Servicemen of the 20th Army of the West Forces Group released the settlement of Redkodub in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Thanks to the coordinated actions of the fighters, the use of aviation, artillery and attack UAVs, military equipment was destroyed and the firing points of the Ukrainian militants were suppressed.
13:37 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of June 4, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
As a result of active actions, units of the North group of forces completed the liberation of the village of Kondratovka in Sumy Oblast.
Concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, tank, airborne assault, ranger brigades, a coastal defense brigade, an airborne assault, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the center of special operations forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Iskrikivschina, Petrushevka, Sadki, Yunakovka, Novaya Sich, Pisarevka, Khoten, Pavlovka and Velykyi Prikol in Sumy Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 230 servicemen, two tanks, three combat armored vehicles, nine cars and five field artillery pieces. A radar station and two ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of decisive actions, units of the West military group liberated the settlement of Redkodub in the Donetsk People's Republic.
Defeat was inflicted on formations of three mechanized, assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the populated areas of Chistovodovka, Kupyansk, Glushchenkovo, Borovaya, Peschanoye, Olgovka, Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region and Volchiy Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 220 servicemen, a tank, four combat armored vehicles, 13 vehicles and three artillery pieces, including a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Bogdana" and a 155mm self-propelled artillery unit "Panzerhaubitze 2000" made in Germany. The electronic warfare stations "Quertus" and "Anklav" were destroyed, as well as five ammunition depots.
Units of the "Southern" group of forces improved the situation along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of three mechanized, motorized infantry, assault, airmobile and mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Dronovka, Seversk, Privolye, Nikiforovka, Serebryanka, Pereyezdnoye, Konstantinovka, Ivanopolye and Aleksandro-Shultino of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 250 servicemen, three vehicles, six artillery pieces and a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket system launcher. Two electronic warfare stations, a counter-battery radar station and three ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of six mechanized, two airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two naval infantry brigades, a territorial defense brigade and two national guard brigades in the areas of the settlements of Petrovskoye, Udachnoye, Novonikolayevka, Dimitrov, Koptevo and Bogdanovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 520 military personnel, five armored combat vehicles and five field artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, airborne assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Komar, Otradnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic and Temirovka in the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 180 servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, five cars, three field artillery pieces and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Plavni, Pavlovka, Orekhov, Novoyakovlevka in the Zaporizhia region, Ponyatovka, Antonovka and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 75 servicemen, eight vehicles and two artillery pieces. Two electronic warfare stations, two counter-battery radar stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the launcher, radar station and control cabin of the IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system manufactured in Germany, damaged a fuel production plant, workshops for assembling strike unmanned aerial vehicles and their storage sites, ammunition depots, a logistics base, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in 133 districts.
Air defense systems shot down three US-made HIMARS multiple launch rockets and 109 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
663 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
61,316 unmanned aerial vehicles,
610 anti-aircraft missile systems,
23,749 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,566 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems,
25,696 field artillery pieces and mortars,
36,441 units of special military vehicles.
12:50 On frames: The destruction by strike drones of the Russian Armed Forces of two 122mm howitzers D-30 and a 152mm howitzer 2S3 "Akatsiya" of the 1st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using the UAV "Inohodets-BLA" and the UAV "Forpost" with the use of UAB-20 in the area of the settlement of Frunzenka in the Sumy region.
11:30 Calculation of the ground robotic complex "Mole-1" struck firing point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unit in the Dyleevka area in the DPR. The work of the "Mole" was adjusted by the UAV crew.
11:03 Calculation of the Iskander-M OTRK with a precise hit destroyed The enemy's IRIS-T air defense missile system in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
09:31 Calculation of the Geranium UAV destroyed warehouse of Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the Kherson region.
Objective monitoring equipment recorded a secondary detonation of the affected object.
08:36 122mm BM-21 BM-21 Grad MLRS crew of the Aleysky motorized rifle unit of the Center group of forces inflicted a strike against concentrations of enemy manpower and equipment on the approaches to Krasnoarmeysk.
08:24 Sumy region
The assault forces of the Russian Armed Forces, after a complete clearing of the settlement of Andreyevka and adjacent locations, are preparing to storm the settlement of Khoten, which is less than seven km away.
After which a stable bridgehead will be created for the assault on Sumy.
08:08 Sumy region. The Russian Armed Forces entered Novonikolaevka –MAP.
07:34 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Andreevka has been liberated➡️
Advance in the Vladimirovka - Belovody area
Control zone south of Yablonovka has been expanded
Advance north of Romanovka👉
Correction of the control zone in Staritsa in favor of the enemy
07:13 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed seven Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
Four UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Two UAVs over the territory of the Kursk region,
One UAV over the territory of the Belgorod region.
06:37 Servicemen of the 90th Guards Tank Division of the Center Group of Forces told of details of the liberation of the village of Troitskoye in the DPR.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Sergey Adamov
[REGNUM] In the development of the situation in the SVO zone over the past two weeks, two trends can be identified. While units of the "North" group of the Russian Armed Forces are advancing from the state border to the south, expanding the buffer zone in the Sumy region, in the DPR our troops are approaching another section of the border defined by the Constitution in several directions. Next is the Dnepropetrovsk region.
On June 4, the Ministry of Defense confirmed that Russian troops had occupied the village of Kondratovka. The distance from this settlement to the regional center, the city of Sumy, is no more than 21 kilometers in a straight line. In some areas, the distance from the line of combat contact to Sumy is about 19 kilometers.
Footage taken by Russian drone operators is being published online, showing the northern and eastern outskirts of the city.
Earlier, our assault units in the border area also managed to dislodge the Ukrainian Armed Forces from two villages - Alekseyevka, taken under control on June 1, and Andreyevka, which Russian troops entered on June 3. The fighting continues near Kondratovka, in the area of the settlements of Yunakovka and Novonikolayevka. Footage of the raising of the Russian flag over the settlement of Vodolaghi also appeared online.
In just one day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 200 soldiers, an armored personnel carrier, six army vehicles, five field artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station in the Sumy border area.
The enemy officers also acknowledge the worsening situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border area.
The day before, Ivan Shevtsov, a representative of the 15th mobile border detachment of the State Border Service of Ukraine, stated that Russian troops had occupied “approximately 15 kilometers along the front and about 6-7 kilometers in depth.”
At the same time, according to reports from the field, the enemy is trying to stop the breakthrough by pulling additional forces into the border area.
Ukrainian troops made a series of attempts to pull Russian troops away from the bridgehead in the area of liberated Sudzha, making a series of attempts to cross the border further north - near the village of Tyotkino in the Kursk region. All attempts by the enemy to advance in this area were thwarted by air and artillery fire.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces also constantly use drones and missiles for terrorist strikes on the territory of the Kursk and Bryansk regions. In response, the Russian Armed Forces struck a series of Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities both in Sumy and in the city's outskirts. According to unconfirmed reports, the target of one of the strikes was the headquarters of the local SBU department, as well as training grounds where Ukrainian army recruits were being trained.
"WHILE THE ENEMY AWAITS THE ASSAULT..."
Our troops continue to actively advance into the DPR, 75-80 kilometers northwest of Donetsk. In the Krasnoarmeysky (Pokrovsky) direction, Russian troops are storming the settlements of Novosergeevka and Novonikolaevka in the DPR, located directly on the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
According to reports from the field, east of the city of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), Russian troops have driven the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Nikolayevka. Some sources report the successful completion of the assault. This settlement adjoins the village of Novoekonomicheskoe, which, in turn, is part of the Krasnoarmeyskaya agglomeration. With the liberation of Novoekonomicheskoe, Pokrovsk-Krasnoarmeysk and its satellite city of Mirnograd will find themselves in a large semicircle.
South of Krasnoarmeysk, the advanced units of the Russian army are also advancing in the direction of the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region. The successful assault on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has led to the settlement of Shevchenko being semi-encircled. It is located on the T-0515 highway, leading from the south of the DPR (more specifically, from the large village of Konstantinopol liberated in March ), along the western border of the DPR through Krasnoarmeysk to Kramatorsk. At the same time, success in this direction creates the preconditions for a decisive strike to the north and the encirclement of the city, a frontline source for the Regnum news agency reports :
"Everything is going as expected. While the enemy is waiting for the assault on Pokrovsk, pulling new reinforcements into the city, including mobilized ones, we are flowing around the enemy's defense along the borders of the agglomeration. The future of the offensive in this area will depend on the assault on Novoekonomichesky - whether it will be possible to cut off the enemy's logistics or not."
A similar operation is underway in the area of the city of Konstantinovka, the first in a "chain" of cities stretching from south to north (Konstantinovka - Druzhkovka - Kramatorsk - Slavyansk). Russian troops are expanding the bridgehead created in this area in recent weeks. Fierce fighting continues in the area of the village of Yablonovka, as well as near Aleksandro-Kalinov, Poltavka and Rusyn Yar.
The offensive continues in the southern Donetsk direction, to the west of Velyka Novosyolka.
On June 3, our units drove the VSAS troops out of three strongholds in forest belts and on one of the heights west of the village of Volnoye Pole, which is located near the junction of the borders of the Dnepropetrovsk region and two Russian regions - the DPR and the Zaporizhzhya region.
The Ukrainian defense in this area is being built in the area of the village of Komar, also a few kilometers from the border with the Dnepropetrovsk region. In this direction, the enemy has repeatedly attempted to counterattack, but has been thrown back to its original positions.
SPRING FAILURES OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE
The results of our troops' offensive in the spring months and the first days of the beginning of summer look extremely disappointing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The main success, of course, was the completion of the operation to defeat them in the border area.
In three months, the Russian Armed Forces in the Kursk region liberated 33 settlements, including a number of villages that the enemy held at the cost of huge losses in personnel and military equipment. "On the shoulders" of the retreating enemy, the Russian army managed to break into the territory of the Sumy region, occupy more than ten settlements and create a buffer zone of 200 square kilometers.
In Donbass, the decisive success was the breakthrough of the enemy's line of defense between two strategically important cities - Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka. The created bridgehead was expanded in depth and along the front to a distance of up to 15 km. South of Krasnoarmeysk, the forces of the "Vostok" group captured the key node of the enemy's defense - the village of Bogatyr, which allowed them to be pushed back from the eastern part of Donbass to the borders of the Dnepropetrovsk region. In total, 48 villages and settlements were liberated in the DPR from March to May.
Another major success during the spring campaign was the "defrosting" of the Zaporizhzhya Front. Here, Russian troops were able to occupy at least five settlements and create a bridgehead on the approaches to the city of Orekhovo, a key settlement, control over which theoretically allows for an offensive on Zaporizhzhya.
The successes of Russian troops are recognized in the West as well. Since the beginning of spring, Russian troops have only increased the pace of their advance, expanding their zone of control by an average of 14 square kilometers per day, The New York Times reports — twice as fast as in late winter and early spring.
In just one week, Russian troops liberated 18 settlements and occupied an area of almost 200 square kilometers, according to the German publication Bild.
According to foreign media, the last week has been “black” for the Ukrainian army: Kyiv is facing precise missile strikes on the rear of its troops and is suffering defeats at the front.
Western analysts cite the depletion of human and moral resources of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the technical superiority of Russian troops, as the reason for these failures.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Olga Borisova
[REGNUM] The allegedly kidnapped Ukrainian children were one of the topics discussed by the Russian and Ukrainian delegations during the negotiations. This was confirmed by the head of the Russian negotiating group, assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, but he emphasized that the topic was not central, and the Ukrainian side simply made a "show for compassionate Europeans" out of it.
"We were always trying to document what children were 'stolen by the Russian Federation', there were no lists. It was said that one and a half million Ukrainian children were kidnapped. Then it became 200 thousand. Now the official figure is 20 thousand. We tried to somehow document it, but there were no lists," he told journalists.
When the Ukrainian side finally handed over the list of those very “stolen children,” it contained only 339 names—not thousands, and certainly not millions, as Kyiv had been claiming all these years.
But these children were not kidnapped either. They were evacuated and rescued by Russian soldiers. Every child whose legal representative was found is returned to his family, Medinsky emphasized.
" Children from a similar list recently ended up in Germany, but the claims were made against the Russian Federation. This shameful PR campaign must be stopped. All families will be reunited, it is a matter of honor," he added.
Those same children - 161 children from Ukraine were found evacuated to Germany a year ago, which was confirmed by the head of the National Police of Ukraine Ivan Vyhovsky. At the same time, for two years in a row, all the world's media wrote about "abducted", or in the mildest formulation - "forcibly deported" children to Russia and Belarus.
From the very beginning, the Russian ombudsman for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, stated that this was simply a dishonest PR campaign by the Ukrainian authorities to demonize Russia.
"Stolen Ukrainian children" is another bright myth of Ukrainian propaganda, like the "Bucha massacre" or the "Holodomor". The number that was initially voiced - one and a half million - absurd and abstract - at first really did evoke emotions in the foreign public.
The Ukrainian authorities and propagandists tried to present the evacuation of children from the combat zone as an act of "genocide". There were even theses that these children, temporarily staying in sanatoriums and boarding houses on the Black Sea until they were reunited with their families, would lose "their Ukrainian cultural identity".
In reality, the process of family reunification did not stop during the entire period of the SVO. Children met with their relatives through the mediation of Qatar, Belarus and other countries, as the Ombudsman's Office regularly reports. And the Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets does too.
PEOPLE ARE A RESOURCE
Are there other goals besides PR behind Kyiv's insistent demands for the immediate return of the children? It is quite possible, because the Ukrainian government views its citizens solely as a valuable resource.
Every day, men are seized, beaten and maimed on the streets of Ukrainian cities and sent to the front without any serious training.
The Ukrainian authorities are doing everything possible to return refugees from the EU countries, primarily men, of course. The rules for issuing documents have been made as difficult as possible for them, and some countries in Eastern Europe are threatening to start issuing them at the request of Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices.
Talk of a possible mobilization of women flares up and then dies down again, but recently the Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk announced the creation of a network of National Resistance Training Centers - essentially military training centers throughout the country, where both women and men will be accepted.
She illustrated this initiative with her militant photographs from training at one of the training grounds in the Kyiv region - with a machine gun in her hands and an enthusiastic gleam in her eyes.
But what about the children?
If Kyiv is concerned about their safety, the Ukrainian authorities should be happy that the children are away from the fighting, in evacuation. But no. Ukrainian and European volunteer communities were shocked this week by the news that children with disabilities, who were evacuated back in 2022, were returned to Ukraine from Austria.
In Kyiv, they motivated this by saying that the children needed to be placed with Ukrainian families and state institutions. They promised to return them to safe regions, but in fact they were brought to Kropyvnytskyi (renamed Kirovohrad) in the central part of Ukraine. The regional administration explained that the children had reached the age when they should be adopted. At the same time, the age of 52 children ranged from three to ten years.
The Austrian social services were shocked by this decision. Until now, the children had been living safely in the SeneCura special institution in Burgauberg-Neudauberg under the supervision of Ukrainian specialists.
Former Austrian People's Party state secretary Christine Marek wrote an open letter to the Ukrainian ambassador, calling the decision "completely incomprehensible" and threatening the well-being of children. Concern was also expressed by the UNHCR representative in Vienna, Christoph Pinter.
But neither this nor dozens of indignant articles in the Austrian media helped. On June 1, the children were taken away, and stories about how carelessly, without observing any medical requirements, they were taken to Kropyvnytskyi spread through Ukrainian volunteer chats.
A year ago, the Ukrainian authorities wanted to return orphans from Berdyansk, evacuated to the Italian province of Bergamo, in the same way. Fortunately, the juvenile court of the city of Brescia prohibited this, the children were given an extension of their placement in local centers and were left under the protection of Rome.
"ALL FAMILIES ARE REUNITED"
The situation with children evacuated to Russia is different.
In an interview with Regnum News Agency, the director of Lugansk Children's Home No. 1, Victoria Mochalova, said that her children were first evacuated in 2014, when Ukraine began shelling Lugansk. The children were then taken to Odessa Oblast, but they never returned to Lugansk.
Little by little, the orphanage, which had suffered from attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and deprivation, began to have new pupils. And in February 2022, these children were taken to Azov, Rostov Oblast, away from military action, when Ukraine again began to launch artillery strikes on residential areas of Lugansk, not caring at all about the children.
That's why others worried about the children.
"After all, the Russian soul is the Russian soul. Do you understand? We arrived there with these red bags - each with spare panties, socks, T-shirts. And when we were leaving, I called my guardianship authorities: I said, "Please give me a bus so that everything fits." Just everything. And clothes, and shoes, what people themselves brought when they found out about us. The Azov authorities immediately organized an educational process for us.
We had a child with us... who required special attention. The girl was not very healthy. We took this girl of ours into our family. So thank God for helping us and the good people who always cross our path. Probably, everything in this life is not just like that," she said about this evacuation.
A similar story is told by children from the boarding school in Perevalsk in the Luhansk People's Republic. The director of the institution, Tatyana Semenova, told the Regnum news agency how in 2022, the boarding school staff searched all over the world for relatives of those children who ended up under its roof in the turmoil of military action and evacuation.
Parents and relatives were in Russia, Ukraine, and Europe.
"We found one family in the Mari El Republic. The family was literally divided in two: the parents with three children were evacuated one and a half thousand kilometers away, and the three younger children - a girl and two boys - were with us, in the LPR.
In Mari El, they were given a house as a large family. The police were able to find them only in January 2023, and then the family was reunited," Semenova recalled.
THE END OF THE MYTH
Each such story is the fate of a small, defenseless person. But will those for whom the Ukrainian authorities have been showing a "show for compassionate viewers" on all channels for the third year already know about these children from Luhansk, Berdyansk, Gorlovka?
Why they are persistently trying to return children to Ukraine, disregarding their safety, is unknown. And besides, it is illogical, because Elena Zelenskaya, who heads the humanitarian aid fund, recently stated that every fourth Ukrainian child would like to leave their home country and settle abroad.
Well, there simply were no millions of children, as Russia had been claiming year after year. The list of 339 names provided by the Ukrainian side not only confirms this fact, but also puts an end to this issue.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum. There are no “20 thousand children kidnapped by Russians” that representatives of the Kiev regime spoke about. This was stated at a briefing on June 4 by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.
She added that the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul received a list with the data of 339 Ukrainian children who were lost due to various circumstances, lost contact with their parents or legal representatives. The Russian side intends to examine this information in detail, Zakharova said.
“As we see, there are no 20,000 allegedly abducted children, as the Kiev regime previously claimed,” said the Foreign Ministry representative.
Zakharova pointed out that the Kiev regime had stated this at all levels, while Ukraine was unable and did not even try to confirm these figures with documents, did not provide specific facts, lists of children, or information about the parents who were looking for them.
"And why hasn't the Kiev regime done anything over these years? Because it was all a lie. Moreover, there is not a single "abducted" child. Russia saves them from shelling, taking them out of the combat zone to safe places <…> does everything to reunite children with their families," the diplomat noted.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 2, the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Istanbul, Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, reported that the list of children Ukraine wants to return contains 339 names, although in reality there are several dozen such children. He emphasized that the Russian side has long wanted to receive a list with the names of children who, according to Kiev, have lost contact with their parents. Each situation will be studied, the presidential aide assured.
According to Medinsky, some of the children on the list may be in the Donbass and Novorossiya territories, and some may have gone to Europe. He stressed that no one kidnapped these children, they were taken out of the combat zone.
The head of the Russian delegation also said that Ukrainian institutions abroad do not deal with conflict situations and do not help fellow citizens in matters of reunification with children. Therefore, Ukrainian parents are forced to contact Russian consulates with such questions. Medinsky emphasized that in the spring of 2024 alone, 255 children were removed from Ukrainian families in Germany and several other countries. The reason for such actions by the juvenile justice system could be that a parent spanked his child.
On June 3, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Viktor Vodolatsky reported that the Ukrainian authorities are deliberately taking children from liberated territories to Europe and Western Ukraine. Cases have been recorded, in particular in the DPR and Kursk Oblast, when the Ukrainian authorities took children from their families. At the same time, neither the parents, nor the Russian child welfare services, nor the Red Cross can establish their whereabouts. In turn, the Russian military is rescuing children from combat zones, especially from orphanages and boarding schools that are being shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the deputy added.
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[Regnum] The destroyer Paul Ignatius and the command ship Mount Whitney of the US Navy entered the Baltic Sea. Together with almost 50 ships from different countries, they will take part in the NATO exercise Baltops 25. This was reported on June 4 by the Izvestia newspaper, citing informed sources.
Military expert Dmitry Kornev noted that these ships quite often visit the Baltic Sea and have repeatedly taken part in various exercises of the North Atlantic Alliance.
“The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is a standard American destroyer with a vertical launch system for up to 56 Tomahawk cruise missiles of various types, which can reach as far as the Urals,” the expert said.
He also recalled that the Mount Whitney ship is designed to manage operations of diverse naval forces.
It is noted that Germany has sent the frigate Bayern to participate in the exercises, and Great Britain will be represented by a group of P2000 patrol ships. Military aviation will also be involved in the maneuvers.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the annual naval exercises of the North Atlantic Alliance countries, Baltops-2025, began in the Baltic Sea on June 3. They will take place in the southern part of the Baltic Sea – from the Danish Straits and the Jutland Peninsula to the Gulf of Gdansk. NATO has been holding them in the Baltic Sea since 1972.
Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Grushko said that the military bloc is conducting these maneuvers to prepare for a potential conflict with Russia. He emphasized that the exercises are extremely provocative, they are aimed at fighting a comparable enemy. According to Grushko, this is indicated by the concept of the maneuvers, the deployment structure and quality of military forces, as well as the tasks of the exercises.
On May 27, the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy began scheduled exercises to defend bases. The maneuvers involved units of the Northern Fleet with the support of the Aerospace Forces, Moscow and Leningrad Military Districts.
German experts expressed the opinion that the simultaneous maneuvers in the Baltics are fraught with the risk of a more serious escalation and possible provocations. They suggested that Russia is using the exercises for reconnaissance and surveillance of NATO activities, and pointed out that Moscow's actions are legitimate, they demonstrate the strength and ability of the state to act.
On May 22, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated that the Baltics could become a place of permanent confrontation between Russia and Western countries.
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[Regnum] The Kiev regime's raid on airfields in Russia showed that British troops need to rethink the way they wage wars. The Economist wrote about this.
According to the authors, the attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces looked like “old-fashioned sabotage with cult weapons.”
"The surprise attack is a reminder of why complacency looks like a mistake. UK troops must relearn how to fight from a wider range of positions and disperse their ammunition, spare parts and fuel," the publication noted.
It is emphasized that Britain is in dire need of funds for rearmament and preparation for new war conditions.
As reported by IA Regnum, attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Russian airfields will not help Kiev increase its advantage over Russia in a special military operation. This opinion was expressed by journalists from the Politico publication.
US President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin warned him of his intention to respond to the Kiev regime's attacks on Russian airfields.
On June 1, the Kiev regime 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 via video link in real time.
All attacks on military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled. Fires broke out in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, they were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities. The Ministry of Defense reported that some of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks were detained.
On June 4, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Ryabkov said that Moscow is waiting for a clear reaction from Washington and London in connection with the aforementioned attacks by Kiev in order to prevent further escalation of the conflict.
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The deep state authorized these strikes, knowing exactly what a dangerous escalation they are.
Schumer just traveled to Ukraine. How much more obvious can they make it?
The elected government isn't in charge in America.
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