Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Chernihiv, Luhansk, Sumy, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, and Donetsk regions were attacked.
by Iryna Lysohor
In the Chernihiv region, the Russians fired five times during the day. They fired artillery and mortars, as well as two unguided rockets into the Novgorod-Siversky district. Without victims and destruction, it is said in the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Sumyat night and in the morning, the Russians launched nine shellings. 51 explosions were recorded. The communities of Bilopolsk, Krasnopilsk, Yunakivsk, Znob-Novgorodsk, Novoslobidsk came under fire. In Krasnopilska, three private residential buildings, a domestic gas supply pipeline, and a power line were damaged. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 21 shelling of the border. A total of 98 explosions were recorded.
Krasnopilsk, Bilopolsk, Glukhivsk, Esmansk, Svesk, and Seredino-Budsk communities came under fire. Three children born in 2010 and 2013 were injured in Glukhivska. and born in 2014 One child was hospitalized, others received medical care without hospitalization. Seredyno-Budsk community: an airstrike was carried out from a helicopter - the launch of five "NURS" type missiles. There were also mortar attacks, as a result of which the roof of the enterprise's administrative building caught fire.
In Zaporizhzhya, the enemy fired 71 shots at 14 settlements: 61 from artillery at Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, Novodarivka, Biloghiri and 10 from rocket salvo systems at Levadny, Olhivskyi, Chervony, Kamianskyi and other front-line villages. 24 reports of destruction of people's homes and property. In the morning, the enemy hit Orikhov, there is a casualty. A 55-year-old man was promptly taken to a medical facility.
In Dnipropetrovsk that night, the aggressor targeted the Marganets community of the Nikopol district. He was from heavy artillery. There are no dead or injured. Detailed information on the consequences is being clarified.
In Luhansk, the enemy became active again in the Svativ district - tried to advance on Stelmakhivka, but received a fire response from the Ukrainian defenders and retreated. The enemy does not reduce the number of used aircraft either. This time, he directed the air strike on Raigorodka and Makiivka. During the day, the occupiers fired 105 shots (496 shells). The occupiers are suffering heavy losses every day. Their military hospitals in the Luhansk region are full of wounded.
In Kharkivska in the Slobozhansk direction, the enemy during the day carried out mortar and artillery shelling of Veterinarny, Alisivka, Staritsa, Ogirtsevo, Gatysh, Pletenivka, Bochkovo and Budarok. In the Kupian direction, the enemy launched an air strike in the Vesely and Berestovo areas. Novomlynsk, Masyutivka, Zapadne, Liman Pershiy and Kislivka were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling.
Yesterday, the enemy fired 120mm mortars at Liptsi, Kharkiv district. A hit on an open area was recorded. As a result of the shelling of Kupyansk, two residential buildings, a railway station and a farm building were damaged, and a fire broke out in an open area.
Occupiers shelled 13 settlements in Donetsk over the past day. Among them: Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar, Kostyantynivka, Oleksievo-Druzhkivka, Velika Novosilka, Severny, Ocheretine, New York, Novoselivka Persha, Skuchne, Keramik, Shakhtarske, Nelipivka.
A total of 17 residential buildings (of which four are multi-apartment buildings), a cultural center, two civilian cars, power lines, a school, agricultural machinery, the administration building of PJSC "AKHZ FMT", the "Vodafone" tower, the administration building of the development department of Toretsk MBA, a transformer substation were damaged. In one day in Donetsk region: 11 wounded.
In Mykolayivska, after midnight, air defense forces and means destroyed two enemy attack UAVs.
The Russians fired 54 rounds (223 shells) in Khersonska during the day, of which 10 rounds (37 shells) were fired at Kherson. The districts of 27 settlements of the region were targeted. During the day, as a result of Russian aggression, two people died, two were injured.
Operational information regarding the liquidation of the consequences of the explosion of the Kvkhovskaya HPP: as of this morning, the average water level is 1.67 meters. 1,649 houses in 17 settlements on the right bank remain flooded. Water pumping continues where the flood level has decreased. Last day, rescuers helped residents of 88 houses. More than 22 tons of water were pumped out from there. The epidemic situation in the region is also stable. No cases of infectious diseases were recorded.
We will remind you that on the night of June 16, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with "Shahed" kamikaze drones. Air defense forces and means shot down both enemy drones.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:02 Ukrainian pilots will be able to master the F-16 in four months, not the standard six, but Ukraine will not receive aircraft until 2024, since the training course for engineers and technicians lasts longer, Reznikov said. He also noted that the airfields for these aircraft will be on the territory of Ukraine.
22:56 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he had held a meeting of the military cabinet: "Our commanders are generals Syrsky, Tarnovsky, Zaluzhny, Shaptala. And our commanders in specific areas of active operations - I don’t name names yet: there is a time for everything. Our movement forward - this is the most important thing. And there was Budanov - separate steps."
22:51 In the Donetsk direction, the Russian attack helicopter Ka-52 was destroyed, the command of the Air Force reported.
22:46 The United States does not see any signs that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, commenting on Putin's statement about the transfer of nuclear weapons to Belarus. According to him, Washington also sees no need to change its defensive position.
22:35 Ukraine has agreed with the Czech Republic and Slovakia on the purchase and repair of infantry fighting vehicles, Reznikov said, promising to announce the details of the agreement later.
22:02 The Defense Forces continue to carry out both offensive and defensive operations and have partial success, although they operate in the conditions of the enemy's aviation and artillery superiority, said Anna Malyar, Deputy Defense Minister. According to her, in the areas where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are on the defensive, not a single position was lost and the enemy could not advance. In the east, the enemy holds a significant number of forces, which he continues to build up, moving additional units from other directions to the Bakhmut direction.
In the Bakhmut direction, the overall intensity of hostilities somewhat decreased. Ukrainian troops carry out offensive operations in separate areas, occupying dominant heights, forest belts in order to gradually oust the enemy from the approaches to Bakhmut. In the south, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting active offensive operations in several directions at once, they have tactical success in almost all areas, moving forward up to 2 km in each direction.
21:54 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, during a press conference with Zelensky, nevertheless confirmed rocket attacks on Kiev: "Today, during our visit, we heard rocket attacks. Such activities do not work very well in the matter of establishing peace, so we are talking about the need de-escalation on both sides so that peace can come and the problem is resolved."
21:45 Zelensky said that in the course of negotiations with the African delegation, he invited African states to take part in the Global Peace Summit, as well as present his vision of how to overcome the consequences of the crimes committed by Russia and prevent their recurrence. In addition, the President addressed the participants of the meeting with a proposal to present their vision of how we can do more together for food security and the creation, in particular, of grain hubs.
"But first of all, we must restore the full force of the UN Charter and stop this brutal Russian aggression and liberate our land, our people from the Russian imperial evil. This requires global efforts," Zelensky stressed.
21:09 President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa named ten components of the position of the countries of the African Union in relation to the Ukrainian-Russian war. "The main component that we brought here is that this war must be settled, there must be peace through negotiations through the diplomatic path," he said.
20:37 The Polish Sejm adopted a resolution on Ukraine's membership in NATO.
20:06 During the day, the Russians fired several times from artillery at Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region - one person was killed, one was injured, the head of the OVA, Serhiy Lysak, said. 17 private houses and 16 outbuildings, three gas pipelines and a power line were damaged in the city.
20:02 The points of the African "peace plan" involve the easing of sanctions against Russia in exchange for the withdrawal of the occupying troops. For more information about what message the leaders of African countries brought and what kind of "peace plan" they are promoting, barter is offered to Kiev in the material .
19:38 The Belgian Council of Ministers has approved the 15th military aid package for Ukraine, said Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder. As part of the package, the country will purchase and transfer tracked armored personnel carriers of the M113 type to Kyiv as soon as the Belgian defense industry enterprises bring them into proper condition. The vehicles were decommissioned by the Belgian army ten years ago, their number is not specified.
19:33 Zelensky said during a meeting with an African delegation that "the cessation of Russian terror and the withdrawal of all their troops from the territory of Ukraine is what can stop this war." The President stressed that Ukraine and the world do not need either frozen conflicts or smoldering wars - they need peace.
19:27 The Ukrainian military has already managed to break through the initial positions of the Russian army on a wide sector of the front, but so far they are far from the main defensive line. About how the counteroffensive is going on - in the material Decisive phase ahead .
19:02 The United States is providing humanitarian assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $205 million, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said. The new package includes food, drinking water, protective equipment, education, legal aid, affordable housing, medical care. According to Blinken, the total amount of humanitarian aid provided to Ukraine in fiscal year 2023 exceeds $605 million, and since February 2022, this figure is more than $2.1 billion.
18:28 About 112,000 residents of the Kherson and Nikolaev regions, who suffered from the Russian explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, will receive a one-time cash payment of 11,600 hryvnias: 5,000 from the government and 6,600 from the UN International Organization for Migration. Payments will begin next week, said Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk.
18:10 The number of victims of a missile strike in the Kiev region has increased to seven, said the head of the regional police Andrei Nebytov.
He also said that in the Buchansk region there was a massive detonation of enemy ammunition due to rocket attacks in the Kiev region and a forest fire near Zdvizhivka. The detonation takes place at the former positions of the Russian army.
17:59 Putin said that the task of "denazification" of Ukraine is one of the key ones. He also did not rule out that if there had been a different administration in the United States, it would have been possible to "take a different path" in the situation with Ukraine.
Commenting on the possibility of using nuclear weapons, Putin said that the Russian Federation does not have such a need, "Kyiv has no military successes." Theoretically, this will be possible "if a threat is created to the existence of the Russian state," the head of the Kremlin added. At the same time, he stressed that Russia has more nuclear weapons than the NATO countries: "They want us to reduce it - fuck them." According to Putin, Russia has moved the first part of the promised nuclear charges to Belarus, "we will complete the task completely by the end of the year."
In addition, Putin claims that Russia can destroy any building in the center of Kiev, but does not: "If we destroyed five Patriot complexes near Kiev, why should we destroy any building and structure in the center of Kiev?"
17:45 NATO intends to hold the first meeting of the newly created NATO-Ukraine Council at the Vilnius summit in July, Stoltenberg said.
17:36 As a result of the Russian strike on Kherson, 23 people were injured , including three children, the President's Office reported. The Tavrichesky microdistrict, the Ship district and the central part of the city were under fire. A medical institution, a kindergarten, a supermarket, residential buildings, cars, power lines were damaged.
17:24 Ukrainian forces continue offensive operations in the Tauride direction and have advanced to a distance of 200 meters to 1 km in the Melitopol, Berdyansk and Mariupol directions, said Valery Shershen, spokesman for the Defense Forces of the Tauride direction. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are having difficulty overcoming enemy defenses due to powerful engineering barriers. In turn, the Russians in certain sections of the first line are pulling up reserves from the second line of defense.
16:52 Estonia has prepared a legal decision that will allow the use of the frozen assets of the Russian Federation as compensation for the restoration of Ukraine, said Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna. According to him, the Foreign Ministry will soon submit to the government a draft amendment to the law.
16:23 Stoltenberg said that Kiev will not receive an invitation to the Alliance at the July summit in Vilnius, "but we will discuss how we can bring Ukraine closer to NATO." According to him, as part of the creation of a new Ukraine-NATO Council, "Ukraine will be joined to NATO members." "We agreed that the doors of NATO are open, and Ukraine will become a member of the Alliance, and this is the decision of the allies and Ukraine. Russia has no veto right," the Secretary General stressed.
16:15 Sweden, as part of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, will train Ukrainian pilots on Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighters. The country's government reported that the total amount of the new package is about 250 million Swedish kronor (about 21.5 million euros).
15:58 Russia wants to blow up the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in order to impose Putin's conditions on Ukraine, Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News: "Russia wants to blow up the nuclear power plant. Because, just like with the dam, they are not interested in security in Ukraine. They constantly need destabilization here, and they want the world to put pressure on Ukraine for the option they want to end this conflict."
15:50 Sweden, as part of a new assistance package to Ukraine, will create logistics and service centers for military equipment that Sweden transferred to Ukraine - among other things, these are CV-90 combat vehicles, Leopard tanks, Archer and Robot 70 type artillery mounts. According to Defense Minister Paul Jonsson, the activities of the centers should begin in early autumn. They will be located in Europe, but not far from Ukraine - for example, in Poland.
15:22 Press Secretary of the President of South Africa Vincent Magvenya called "funny" reports of explosions in Kiev during the visit of the African delegation. According to him, they did not hear any explosions, and people calmly walked through the streets during the alarm: “We were all puzzled when we were taken back to the hotel and we drove through the streets where people were having a normal day. This is very strange and in some In that sense, it is deliberate misinformation."
14:39 The Russians fired at residential areas of Kherson - at least six wounded are known, the Office of the Prosecutor General said. High-rise buildings, administrative buildings of medical and educational institutions, vehicles, power lines were damaged. The shelling continues.
14:18 In the Kiev region, as a result of falling debris from downed Russian missiles, more than 30 houses were damaged, four people were injured, including two children, said the head of the regional police Andrey Nebytov.
13:45 As a result of a rocket attack on the Kiev region, two people were injured, residential buildings and a store were damaged in one of the districts of the region, the Office of the Prosecutor General said.
13:29 In the Bakhmut direction over the past two days, there has been a minimum of military clashes, the enemy has become much more accurate, realizing that the Defense Forces will take advantage of any miss for counterattacks, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Sergei Cherevaty.
The enemy has been trying to attack in the Limano-Kupyansk direction for many weeks, but the situation remains under control, they have not even achieved local success, Cherevaty noted. He added that the enemy is constantly trying to strengthen both the Bakhmut and Liman-Kupyansk directions by rotating troops.
12:53 The visit of African leaders to Ukraine is going "well, as planned," said the representative of the President of South Africa after the rocket attack on Kiev.
12:32 During the daytime attack on Kiev, according to preliminary data, six Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, six Caliber cruise missiles and two reconnaissance UAVs were detected and successfully destroyed, the Air Force command reported. There were no reports of casualties or damage, said Sergey Popko, head of the KGVA. At the same time, he stressed that there is a high probability of repeated missile attacks in the near future.
12:04 Kuleba said that the Russian missile attack during the stay of African leaders in Kiev is a message to Africa: Russia seeks only war, not peace.
11:59 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius did not rule out that NATO allies may agree to a simplified entry of Ukraine into the Alliance. At the same time, NATO excludes the possibility of Ukraine joining while it is in a state of active war.
Pistorius also said that Germany would "immediately" provide Ukraine with another 64 guided missiles for Patriot systems.
11:42 "Authorities" of the occupied Kherson region announced 25 dead after the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, another 17 people were missing.
11:36 The military administration of Kiev and the Air Force warn of the threat of the use of ballistic missiles. Before that, air defense worked in the capital and the region. Meanwhile, an African delegation visited Bucha.
11:05 Yermak said that he had a meeting in Kiev with the EU Special Envoy for the Implementation of Sanctions David O'Sullivan. The head of the Presidential Office stressed that the EU should more actively involve the Ukrainian team in sanctions work, because the Ukrainian side has information about persons close to the military-political leadership of the Russian Federation who are directly involved in the war against Ukraine or support Russian aggression.
As an example, he cited the recent public calls by Russian propagandists for the destruction of Ukrainian equipment and the promise of a "reward" for this. "We expect these propagandists to fall under sanctions," Yermak stressed. Also during the meeting, the parties discussed the prospects for the introduction of a new 11th package of EU sanctions.
10:43 Peskov said that the "Ukrainian problem" can be solved in different ways, Putin supports "any set of ideas to end the conflict."
10:37 At the St. Petersburg Forum, mobile Internet will be turned off before Putin's arrival - ostensibly to carry out "technical work", but in fact in order to secure the forum site from a possible attack by drones, Meduza reports.
10:16 The Russians continue to move some of the most combat-ready units to the Bakhmut direction, Alexander Syrsky, commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. "At the same time, we continue to conduct offensive operations in separate directions, occupying dominant heights, forest belts in order to gradually oust the enemy from the approaches to Bakhmut. Realizing this, enemy units are putting up desperate resistance," he said.
According to Syrsky, in this regard, Ukrainian plans require periodic adjustments and clarifications, this is what his work in the troops is now devoted to.
10:07 Ukraine has established the exact location and names of 11 prisoners handed over to Hungary, Oleg Kotenko, Commissioner for Missing Persons, said. According to him, until that time, there was no information about seven out of 11 Ukrainians.
10:05 British intelligence reports that Russian General Sergei Goryachev "almost certainly" died in southern Ukraine. He became the first Russian general since the beginning of 2023 whose death was confirmed. Goryachev was the head of the headquarters of the 35th Combined Arms Army of the RF Armed Forces, and, probably, at the time of his death, he served as the commander of the army.
09:58 Orban said that the military situation in Ukraine is "more and more serious", so he gave instructions to the military leadership of the country: "There are many unpredictable elements. At this time, the organizations responsible for the security of Hungary and their leaders must be constantly ready for action, which whatever happens."
09:54 At night, the Russians fired at Novoberislav, Kherson region, from rocket and barrel artillery, two people were killed, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
09:46 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived in Kiev, who, as part of the African delegation, will discuss the "peace plan" with Zelensky. On Saturday, June 17, the delegation will go to St. Petersburg to meet with Putin.
09:42 The level of water pollution in the Dnieper exceeds the norm by 28 thousand times according to certain indicators, Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said in an interview with the BBC. According to him, the entire water area below the Kakhovka dam, as well as the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea, is unsuitable for use and swimming. Treatment facilities have switched to emergency disinfection regimes, and monitoring of water quality in the water supply network has been tightened, Lyashko noted.
09:23 In the Luhansk region, Russians are actively selling military property. According to the GUR MOU, these are mainly recruits from the newly created Storm-Z assault squads, who escape from their units along with small arms. Taking into account the shortfall in the payments promised under the contract, the "stormtroopers" compensate for the "losses" by taking trucks from their units, which they fill with state-owned property. These are mainly auto parts, tires and fuel. Then they try to implement all this in the nearest settlements and leave "in an unknown direction."
Desertion is also becoming more active in the regular units of the Russian army. This was influenced by both the intensification of hostilities and heavy losses, as well as the recent cancellation of vacations for the military. In particular, 90 armed Russians fled from their positions near the village of Arapovka, Svatovsky district, Luhansk region.
08:57 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, ten people were injured. In the Kherson region, two people were killed, two more were injured. In the Zaporozhye region, one victim, according to the OVA.
08:49 The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successful during the offensive in several directions, spokesman of the General Staff Andrey Kovalev said. In particular, Ukrainian forces successfully carried out offensive operations in the directions of Novodanilovka-Robotino (Zaporozhye region) and Levadne-Staromayorskoe (on the border of Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions).
In the area of Ugledar, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were successful in certain areas, and are fixed on the achieved lines. They also successfully carried out offensive operations in the area east of the settlement of Stupochki, Donetsk region, ousted Russian troops from their positions there.
08:41 Biden supported Stoltenberg's proposal that Ukraine would not need to implement the NATO membership action plan, Axios reports, citing sources.
08:20 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 16.
personnel - about 218,500 (+590) people liquidated,
tanks - 3965 (+10),
armored combat vehicles - 7683 (+16),
artillery systems - 3812 (+19),
MLRS - 606 (+2),
air defense systems - 364 (+0),
aircraft - 314 (+0),
helicopters - 301 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 3357 (+24),
cruise missiles - 1199 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 6519 (+13),
special equipment - 519 (+0).
07:59 The Russian army continues to concentrate its main efforts on the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions - over the past day there have been more than 30 clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
07:43 At night, air defense forces destroyed two Iranian attack UAVs Shahed-136/131 in the Nikolaev region. Also, over the past day, an enemy strike UAV Lancet, Orlan-10, Orlan-30, Zala and one drone of an unidentified type were destroyed, the Air Force command said.
00:48 The Spanish Ministry of Defense announced the dispatch to Ukraine of 20 armored personnel carriers, a field hospital and four Leopard 2A4 tanks that were under repair.
#1
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius did not rule out that NATO allies may agree to a simplified entry of Ukraine into the Alliance. At the same time, NATO excludes the possibility of Ukraine joining while it is in a state of active war.
So why would Putin want to end the war with Ukraine only to have a new war with NATO?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/17/2023 13:09 Comments ||
Top||
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov
[RIA] Although Vladimir Putin refused to recommend anything to Joe Biden, the key point of his speech at SPIEF was formulated by him in his closing words. What is remembered is what was said last - and this phrase of Putin is addressed to the American president, and to the whole world, and to Russia: "We will do what suits our interests. And this will have to be taken into account."
But all three hours of presidential work at the forum session were devoted to what exactly we will do. For almost an hour and a half, he talked about what needs to be done in the economy - to develop, strengthen, reform - to work so that Russia becomes stronger in the new, emerging post-Western world.
In Putin's speech there was not a word about the hostilities in Ukraine, but everyone understands that everything else depends on their outcome for Russia. And then the president more than unequivocally made it clear: they will not be able to knock us off our course, they will not be able to interfere with us, they will not be able to defeat us. In Ukraine, we will go to the end, that is, until the achievement of our goals.
What are they? Denazification - that is, a change not just of power, but also of the political regime in Ukraine. Security Council Secretary Patrushev recently said this, and although Putin did not speak about it directly, he emphasized that the Kiev regime is glorifying Bandera, that is, covering for neo-Nazis, and it is clear that no compromise on maintaining the current Ukrainian government is unacceptable for Russia.
Demilitarization - which is expressed not only in the fact that Ukraine is already running out of its own weapons and military-industrial complex, but also in the intention to destroy any weapons transferred by the West. And if military aircraft are delivered and they begin to operate from the territory of other states, then "we will have to see how to hit them."
That is, Putin openly warned of his readiness to strike at the airfields of NATO countries - this has so far kept the Americans from delivering their aircraft, but recently there has been a feeling that the West is preparing to test this level of escalation. So a reminder will not be superfluous - especially in conditions when the alliance is increasingly drawn into the conflict.
And as for another topic that has been actively discussed in recent days - the possibility of using nuclear weapons - Putin was more than restrained. He only recalled that its "use is theoretically possible if there is a threat to the existence of Russia," but now there is no need to use it. Because the situation both in general and at the front is developing favorably for Russia and unsuccessfully for the West.
And the point here is not the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and not the provocative attacks on the Belgorod region: Putin is sure that Russia can win without resorting not only to nuclear weapons, but also to carpet bombing of Ukraine.
His words that “everyone is waiting,” as in response to provocations “we will start pressing buttons, but we will not do this,” refer not only to attacks on Kiev, but also (indirectly) to the use of tactical nuclear weapons. And in general, with regard to our entire strategy in relation to Ukraine, Russia cannot be pissed off, it will not be possible to provoke, Moscow is determined to act for a long time, to go to the end. Tactical tasks may change in this case - it is no coincidence that Putin said that with the continuation of attacks on the border territories (as was the case with the Belgorod region), the issue of creating a "cordon sanitaire" in Ukraine would be considered.
By the way, this does not mean that if there are no such attacks, the same Kharkiv region will be left alone - it is too early to talk about the configuration of the future Ukraine (more precisely, what will remain of it), but neither Novorossia nor other historically Russian regions will definitely be in it. And this despite the fact that the new Ukraine, by definition, will not only not join NATO - it will be connected with Russia in all possible legal and physical ways.
Is the West ready for this? Of course not, but that doesn't bother Putin either. Because now they don't want to have a conversation with Russia, "but they want to, and we'll see at what point and what we can talk to them about." Let's see under what conditions and how to negotiate a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine.
Putin is convinced that the West will retreat sooner or later, convinced of the futility of betting on victory over Russia. That is, our country will win in Ukraine in any case - not by knockdown, but by points, not by the destruction of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but by reducing and actually stopping the supply of Western weapons and ammunition, without which the Ukrainian army simply will not be able to fight.
In any case, everything will end only after the actually complete and unconditional surrender of Kyiv, and only time will tell how it will be named and framed. But this defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
At the same time, the Atlanticists will not sign any agreements with Russia - they will simply retreat from Ukraine, leave, convinced of the hopelessness of attempts to move the border between the West and the Russian world to the east. But in order to bring this day closer, Russia must be determined to stand to the end, not to doubt its strength and its rightness. And Vladimir Putin is set up that way. And everyone will have to take this into account.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:51 Video- The mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine thought that it was not visible.
The Zala operator found the enemy, gave an adjustment. After the blow, the enemy began to have chaos on the air, over the interception they transmitted about nine wounded.
21:42 Video- Donetsk 1st Army Corps works on the accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:34 Video- Destruction of the observation post of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansk direction with the help of the Kornet ATGM.
21:29 Video- A sniper knocked out a Ukrainian observer in the Limansky direction with an accurate shot.
20:50 Video– Destruction of the Ukrainian radar station P-18 in the area of the settlement. Novoaleksandrovka.
20:34 During the "successful" counteroffensive in the Zaporizhia direction, the commander of the assault 23rd Motorized Brigade was killed.
19:58 One of delivered in Ukraine, the Leopard 2A4 tanks have become a local landmark in the rear, because despite attempts, apparently, they cannot get it, being bogged down in the soil of the Zaporozhye region.
First, specialists from the 73rd Naval Center for Special Operations (MTs SpO SSO) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took pictures with him, and then soldiers from the 47th Separate Motorized Brigade were also found.
19:55 During the fighting eliminated former head of the Zhytomyr regional military registration and enlistment office, Colonel Sergei Konopatsky.
An active supporter of the punitive operation in the Donbass, before the NMD, he led the local association of veterans of the ATO “Polessky Hart”.
18:38 Epic footage: The Russian Army destroys equipment and militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the flank of Artyomovsk —video
First, a separate reconnaissance battalion of the Lugansk 2nd Army Corps with an accurate ATGM strike destroys a Ukrainian tank along with the crew in the Seversk direction.
Then, in battle, the 85th Brigade: assault operations near Belogorovka, destruction of enemy equipment and personnel.
18:34 "Lancets" massively destroy enemy artillery on the Zaporozhye and Kherson fronts -video
The defeat of the artillery guns of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Zaporozhye front.
In the Kherson direction in the Novodmitrovka area, the 80th Arctic Brigade destroyed an American M777 howitzer. The Lancet operator used it in combat for the first time after completing the training.
17:33 Artillerymen of the RF Armed Forces continue to destroy the equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on all fronts. Another delivery vehicle successfully demilitarized -video
17:30 Russian tanks continue to suppress and destroy all identified firing points of the Ukrainians in a constant mode -video
16:42 "Alligators" and "Night Hunters" destroy NATO equipment, repelling the enemy's advance on the Vremevsky ledge -video
The attack helicopters of the group [V] burn Western equipment on a daily basis in the Zaporozhye direction.
Only during one successful night raid (on the 1st video), rotary-winged combat vehicles destroyed four more enemy armored vehicles.
16:40 Footage of FPV kamikaze attacks on enemy strongholds in the Zaporozhye direction -video
Our fighters actively use shock drones in battles.
As a result of the strikes, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons who were in the trenches were destroyed.
15:44 Over the past two weeks in the NWO area eliminated the following senior officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the list is far from complete):
1. Colonel Alexander Makaev;
2. Colonel Vladimir Samitsky;
3. Lieutenant colonel Sergey Lut - deputy commander of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade;
4. Lieutenant colonel Sergey Gasparyan - commander of the rifle battalion;
5. lieutenant colonel Yaroslav Sokirinsky - commander of a rifle battalion;
6. Major Sergey Andrushchak;
7. Major Yevgeny Stolyarov - commander of a fire support company;
We will add daily.
15:40 Special forces destroyed the American M113 armored personnel carrier -video
Scouts of the 58th Separate Special Forces battalion, using thermal imagers, discovered the movement of the M113 armored personnel carrier. With a well-aimed shot from an anti-tank system, the equipment, together with the crew, was destroyed.
14:21 In the NWO zone eliminated Russophobe Denis Demyanik is a well-known right-wing radical in Vinnitsa.
14:19 To one of the private houses in Kyiv in flammation Ukrainian SAM
13:39 General mobilization human and transport resources announced in Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, the Western Courier newspaper reported on Friday.
13:37 The RF Armed Forces destroyed the warehouse with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction -video
On the right bank of the Dnieper, our fighters liquidated the warehouse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It stored 152mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzers, 122mm caliber projectiles, 122mm D-30 howitzers, mines for mortars, as well as ammunition for foreign-made artillery systems.
12:32 Footage of the joint work of the army special forces with the call sign “Osman” with infantry artillery, as well as the destruction of NATO equipment by loitering ammunition “Lancet” in the Zaporozhye direction -video
12:30 Alarm in Ukraine quieted down as suddenly as it started
There were no reports of Russian missile arrivals. Everything suggests that it was another cheap performance for foreign guests.
And in Kyiv, we recall, today there are:
- President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa;
- President of Zambia
- President of Senegal
- President of the Comoros (leads the African Union);
- Prime Minister of Egypt
- Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uganda.
Tomorrow the whole delegation plans to go to St. Petersburg to meet with Putin.
11:39 Main new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
More than 10,000 Ukrainian tanks and other armored fighting vehicles have been destroyed by the Russian army since the beginning of the special operation;
Russian troops destroyed up to 65 Ukrainian soldiers in the Krasnoliman direction;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation repelled five attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction in a day, up to 215 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the ammunition depot of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Novgorodsky region in the DPR;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to suffer significant losses in the course of unsuccessful attempts to attack in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Donetsk directions;
Russian air defense systems intercepted four HIMARS MLRS shells, destroyed 22 Ukrainian drones;
The RF Armed Forces repulsed five attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Vremevsky ledge, destroying more than 200 military personnel and five enemy tanks;
The RF Armed Forces stopped the activities of two Ukrainian DRGs in the area of the settlement of Novoselovskoye in the LPR.
11:38 All over Ukraine announced air alert.
10:16 The RF Armed Forces are continuously working on the accumulation of manpower of the Ukronazis in a constant mode, not allowing them to raise their heads -video
10:14 We publish regular footage of the work of Ukrainian policemen - the call continues, some mobilized are injured and wounded even before participating in hostilities -video
09:38 OBTF "Kaskad" destroys enemy armored vehicles on the Vremevsky ledge -video
With the Lancet strike UAV, Donetsk fighters inflict well-aimed blows on the heavy armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Nazis.
09:36 Soldiers of the Dnipro group of troops destroyed equipment and manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson region
In the island zone, damage was inflicted to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day:
- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ten militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, six were injured of varying severity.
- M-777 howitzer with ammunition, 6 fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, two were injured of varying severity.
In the Kherson direction, damage was inflicted to the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the day:
- 122mm SAU 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew of five people and ammunition;
- three 120mm mortar crews and ammunition for them, ten servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, 12 were injured of varying severity;
- 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition, four fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, three more were injured of varying severity.
In the Kakhovka direction, the following units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were damaged during the day:
- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, five military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, four more were injured of varying severity;
- 120 mm mortar crew and ammunition for it, five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, two were injured of varying severity;
- enemy helicopter MI-8.
08:15 Destroyed armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Levadny area on the Vremievsky ledge, footage from the enemy side. Among the wrecked vehicles are the T-64BV, BMP-1/2 tanks and Western-made armored vehicles -video
08:13 Now the best capable Ukrainian forces are being destroyed so that Zelensky can show at least some success. But the army of Ukraine cannot achieve anything sensible. If we were to drop such a huge amount of technology for the sake of achieving such minimal results, then we would all be arrested for such an unreasonable attitude. They bring a large amount of ammunition close to the LBS. We know these places - yesterday we destroyed one warehouse. And everything that will appear - today, tomorrow - will be destroyed -video
Recently, they worked well - they were waiting for a large number of armored vehicles to pass. A large number of armored vehicles simply did not go our direction. And who went - did not return back. And all this ended with the fact that the Ukrainian army will never show how we defeated their main positions. They asked for help from above. From above - it means from the birds. Our iron rooks flew in and sent several FABs there - that's all. The whole situation is over. And all Ukrainian offensive fervor is over.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 23:55 Over the past day Representation reporte dabout 31 facts of firing by the VFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 27 attacks from a shock UAV, 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky three artillery attacks from 152mm artillery. On Volnovakhsky one artillery attack from 155mm artillery.
Having fired 168 units of various ammunition.
Under enemy fire were areas of four settlements of the Republic: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromlinovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the death of a civilian - a woman, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Wounds of varying severity were received by 9 civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and the previously liberated Staromlinovka.
Damaged two residential buildings in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, as well as one civil infrastructure.
A previous 21 attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU during the day.
21:53 During offensive on Pyatihatki, the Armed Forces of Ukraine ran out of equipment: crowds of infantry are thrown into the “meat assault”
The 128th Mountain Assault Brigade today suffered heavy losses in armored vehicles, breaking through to the settlement. Pyatikhatki in the Vasilyevsky district of the Zaporozhye region.
ATGMs of the 19th Division, special forces of the airborne forces and helicopter crews burned a whole mountain of enemy armor.
The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to further protect the surviving equipment and sends infantry in waves to "meat assault", trying to gain a foothold on the western outskirts of Pyatikhatki.
The militants are shot by snipers, machine gunners mow down, but they push on.
The fighters from the scene assume that the fighters are on drugs.
Heavy fighting continues.
21:47 APU again shelled TV tower in Chaplinka in the Kherson region.
Today, June 16, the Ukrainians fired several times at a TV tower in the village of Chaplinka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine a few months earlier managed to almost completely destroy it.
However, Russian television and radio broadcasting specialists managed to restore it and set up broadcasting.
21:34 The enemy started the 3rd wave assault: fierce battle on the Zaporozhye front continues
In the morning, a battle has been going on in the Vasilyevsky district, the enemy has brought additional forces into the battle and is storming Pyatikhatki.
With the support of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, despite the losses, managed to enter the outskirts of the village, advancing in waves.
A fierce battle continues on the western outskirts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied the first few houses.
The soldiers of the 19th Bivision are actively counterattacking, they have already thrown the enemy back several times, but a new wave of the offensive was again able to enter the western outskirts of Pyatikhatki.
Ours continue to cover the enemy with howitzers, MLRS, Suns and mortars. Tanks are working, “Alligators” Ka-52 flew in several times.
Our infantry now defends, then goes on the counterattack.
20:50 The offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Vremevsky ledge - the enemy went on the attack and got stuck. About the setting informed Deputy Head of the National Guard for the DPR A. Khodakovsky.
“The attitude to what is happening is twofold ...
On the one hand, the number of losses that the enemy bears cannot but satisfy: he is weakening. But by and large, his loss does not cause joy. Of course, it would be strange now to talk about the trinity of Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians - at this point in the space-time continuum, Ukrainians and I are “not one pair in a boot,” as one movie character used to say. But we know who is who outside the situation, and we understand that there are fewer Ivanovs, Petrovs, Sidorovs, to the delight of those who do not particularly love us.
But if without “lyrics”, but about specifics: the enemy has been intensively working with artillery and scattering remote mines in unlimited quantities in recent days, he was preparing to test our strength again. Today he went on the attack, but got stuck in the first positions, and at the end of the day he did not complete the task. I don’t want to belittle his “dignities”, but so far our rather tired comfreys manage to knock off excess self-confidence from our “counterparts”. Meanwhile, the counteroffensive has been going on for more than a day.”
20:25 Governor of the Kursk region informed about the fall of an enemy UAV in the village of Korenevo.
As a result of the detonation, a local resident received shrapnel wounds. His house was also damaged.
19:39 Enemy comes on the flanks near Artemovsk: fierce fighting is underway on the southern flank
On the southern flank, Ukrainian fighters continue their attempts to break through: fighting in the west and north-west of Kleshcheevka, near Ozeryanovka and Kurdyumovka. Here the enemy attacks not only during the day, but also at night.
So, at night, the enemy attacked our positions with the support of mortars, armored vehicles were brought in to break through the defense line, volunteers from the “Torch” battalion fought, and the army men supported us.
With the fire of the ZU (anti-aircraft installation), our guys knocked out the BMP, crawled away smoking, but the infantry was less fortunate - the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered losses in killed and wounded.
The fighters say that the Ukrainians fought directly, but the negotiations of mercenaries were heard from behind.
19:11 Video– Destruction of the point of temporary deployment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region with the help of Krasnopol, which is directed by the Forpost-RU UAV.
18:32 Video- The crew of the Su-30SM VVO discovered and destroyed the enemy aircraft in the special operation zone
In the course of performing combat missions, the crews of multirole fighters worked out patrolling in a given area and covering the actions of helicopters, as well as bomber and ground attack aircraft.
During one of the sorties, an enemy aircraft was detected and destroyed in a timely manner.
18:05 Operational lines the DPR JCCC for June 16, as of 18:00, received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- on st. Biryuzova, a woman born in 1953 died.
Seven civilians received injuries of varying severity: women born in 1954, 1958, 1959, 1967, 1983, 1984. and a man born in 1978
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovskiy district):
- st. Biryuzova, 14, 15 - apartment buildings.
de-energized 51 transformer substations. Without power supply 19,029 subscribers of the Kirovsky and Petrovsky districts.
17:57 Progress is reported our troops in the Krasnolimansky direction towards Torsky.
17:34 According to Mash, APU with the help of UAVs attacked infrastructure facility in the village of Suzemka, Bryansk region.
Several drones fell on the territory of the village, some of which were shot down by air defense
17:10 Vremievsky ledge situation as of 16.00 June 16, 2023
Fighting continues on the Vremievsky ledge. Now Ukrainian formations are trying to attack the positions of the RF Armed Forces in the forest belt between Novodonetsk and Harvest.
The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is intensively hitting the strongholds of the 37th Brigade of the RF Armed Forces, covering the transfer of Ukrainian infantry in armored vehicles to the forest plantation. In one of the sections, enemy units wedged in at 150-200 meters.
Apparently, the Armed Forces of Ukraine intend to break through the line at the junction of the defense of the Russian troops and advance directly to Staromlynovka.
16:54 Battle for Marinka situation according to conditio nas of June 16, 2023
Tonight, Ukrainian formations tried to recapture the positions lost the day before. The Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced from the area of the so-called "menagerie" southeast of Pobeda, but the Russian fighters successfully repelled the attack.
The menagerie is a powerful fortified enemy position. All approaches are shot through, and a large number of minefields are installed around, which complicates its assault.
In Marinka itself, the positional offensive of Russian military personnel continues. Paratroopers of the 95th Airborne Brigade arrived from Blagodatnoye in the Limansky sector to replace the 79th Airborne Brigade. In addition, in the rear areas there is an accelerated preparation of those mobilized to be sent to the city.
16:37 FAB on the Zaporozhye front
There is information about airstrikes on the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Orekhovo and Gulyaipole with FAB-250/500 UPAB-1500B.
According to preliminary data, our aviation is actively using FAB-250/500 air bombs with universal planning and correction modules (UMPC), as well as UPAB-1500B special power guided bombs.
Apparently, the targets of the airstrike were the accumulation of reserves of UAF militants and buried bunkers for storing ammunition, including Soviet vegetable stores.
Aviation continues to destroy Nazi reserves in places of concentration, violating the schedule of their offensive on the Zaporozhye Front.
16:19 Video- The 85th Brigade is advancing on Belogorovka, destroying the enemy in the ruins on the outskirts
Artillerymen of the 85th Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces continue to destroy militants and positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Belogorovka direction, supporting the assault infantry.
15:52 Video– a militant of the Armed Forces of Ukraine freaked out during the attack of the special forces of the “brave”
Mobile groups of Special Forces of the “Center” group are knocking out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the fortifications at the front near Svatovo-Kremennaya.
During the attack of the special forces, the Ukrainian military freaked out and began to fire without aiming, sparing no cartridges.
Reconnaissance and special forces fighters go to firing positions with lightning speed, inflict fire damage on the defensive positions of Ukrainian fighters and also quickly hide from enemy return fire.
15:42 Video- Tank battle: ours are destroying enemy armored vehicles on the Zaporozhye front near Orekhov
Drone footage: conducting and adjusting the fire of our tanks on the accumulation of enemy wheeled and armored vehicles. The tankers are firing at the vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that have moved into position, adjusting the UAV. After the destruction of equipment, two tanks advanced to the enemy position.
The combat episode shows the fierceness of the fighting near the city of Orekhov in recent times. Our fighters in active defense enter the battle. After the fire defeat of the enemy, our tanks move forward.
15:27 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group
In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the group of troops "Vostok", with the support of artillery and aviation, inflicted fire damage on the enemy, who is trying to conduct offensive operations.
An attempt to conduct reconnaissance in force in the area south of Vodyany was reflected. The living force of the nationalists was destroyed. An enemy attack was repelled in the Levadny area, advancing up to two platoons, and a fire defeat was inflicted on a convoy of APU equipment. Having suffered significant losses in manpower and equipment, the enemy evacuated to their rear areas.
During the counter-battery fight, the 152mm Msta-B howitzer in the Dobrovolya area and the mortar crew in Novomikhailovka were destroyed.
Army aviation forces destroyed three tanks, an armored combat vehicle, hit more than a dozen places of accumulation of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Makarovka, Levadny, Novodarovka.
The air defense forces destroyed the Furia and Leleka UAVs.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy did not conduct active operations. He conducted reconnaissance, fired artillery, and also made attempts to regroup forces.
By means of aerial reconnaissance, one enemy DRG was opened and destroyed in the Dorozhnyanka area.
Artillery fire from the grouping destroyed a 122mm D-30 towed howitzer, inflicted defeat on accumulations of enemy manpower.
Two Furia UAVs were destroyed by air defense means.
The military personnel of the Vostok group of troops show courage and heroism in the performance of combat missions. The gunner-operator of the TOS-1 Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system, Sergeant Viktor Petrunin, in the area of the settlement of Novodonetskoye, under continuous enemy fire, as part of the crew, inflicted fire damage on the advancing forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of courageous and well-coordinated actions, the crew of Sergeant Petrunin destroyed several dozen nationalists and two armored fighting vehicles.
Having suffered losses, the enemy retreated, the positions of the Russian troops were held.
15:00 APU continue artillery attacks on the settlements of the Kherson region of Russia. The village of Dnepryany came under fire from Ukrainian formations, at least seven rounds of ammunition fell on Korsunskaya and Naberezhnaya streets.
In addition, a humanitarian team from the Ridovka Helps Foundation came under enemy fire in Gola Pristan.
14:30 IMPORTANT: "Rocket strike" in Kyiv - Ukrainian provocation for the visit of Russian-friendly presidents of African countries
The Zelensky regime organized a provocation with explosions in the sky and the “protection” of Kyiv by air defense forces. The psycho-operation is organized during the visit of African leaders to show that the "evil aggressor" Russia is attacking despite the visit of the President of South Africa, who spoke well of Russia.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have already declared that they shot down:
- 6 missiles "Dagger";
- 6 cruise missiles "Caliber";
- 2 reconnaissance UAVs.
African leaders took refuge in a bomb shelter after the explosions in Kyiv - Reuters TV film crew. Meanwhile, a representative of the President of South Africa said that the visit of African leaders to Ukraine is going "well and according to plan." The presidents of Zambia, Senegal, South Africa, the Comoros and the Prime Minister of Egypt visited Bucha and are waiting for the start of negotiations with Zelensky.
14:14 Brief summary of the Zaporozhye direction.
Currently, fighting continues in the area of ??Lobkovoe - Pyatikhatki.
In the area of the settlement of Pyatikhatki, the enemy tried to advance with forces up to the 128th Guards Brigade, was stopped, suffered losses and retreated to the settlement of Lobkovoe.
During the retreat, the enemy left his wounded and dead with a small cover group, at the moment the group is blocked by the forces of the RF Armed Forces, a sweep is taking place.
14:00 Video– Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group
In the Krasnolimansky direction in the area of the settlement of Torskoye, the enemy, up to a platoon of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attempted to regain lost positions. As a result of a small-arms battle and an artillery strike from the "Center" grouping of troops, the enemy suffered losses and retreated.
Assault and army aviation of the group of troops carried out air strikes on five areas of concentration of manpower and firepower of the enemy. In addition, bomber aircraft hit a temporary deployment point and two strongholds of Ukrainian troops.
Artillery units of the "Center" grouping destroyed a D-30 howitzer and two 120mm mortar crews, and also struck at places where equipment accumulated.
13:44 Zaporozhye and Yuzhnodonets directions situation as of June 16, 2023
The situation on the Vremievsky ledge
According to the Warrior of the Far East, our units are actively defending the Vremievsky ledge. Air strikes destroyed four infantry fighting vehicles near Levadny. Also, several enemy armored vehicles were hit near Harvest and Makarovka.
Tonight, Ukrainian formations transferred infantry in four armored combat vehicles to forest plantations nearby in the direction of Novodonetskoye. The enemy is accumulating assault groups to resume the attack on the village, which is under the control of the RF Armed Forces.
The situation at the Orekhovsky site
In the morning, units of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade, after regrouping in Lobkove at night, resumed the attack on Pyatikhatki. Several tanks and other armored vehicles are involved in the offensive. Now the fighting is going on on the western outskirts of Pyatikhatki, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to gain a foothold. Several more tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated in the reserve near Lobkovy.
At the same time, both on the Vremyevsky ledge and on the Orekhovsky sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use similar tactics: first, after powerful fire training, infantry goes into battle, deployed in armored vehicles close to settlements, and then heavier equipment is used in the collision.
Unlike attacks in the first days of the offensive, this method allows the enemy to keep more weapons and equipment. The infantry is more maneuverable, but at the same time it is an expendable material, which the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine does not mind throwing under artillery and aviation fire.
13:29 Video– Night hunting of the Ka-52 crew in the South-Donetsk direction
The crew of the "Alligator" discovered the armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The enemy armored combat vehicle was destroyed by a guided missile strike.
13:03 In general, Ukrainians decided to arrange show on the arrival of the president from Africa. Already shot down six daggers.
But for some reason, there is less video and information than with the usual night raid of geraniums, surprisingly.
Also, apparently, the information about the launches of calibers from the Black Sea also turned out to be incorrect, sorry.
12:49 According to the Ukrainians, Kalibr and Daggers were launched in Kyiv. As many as six pieces were shot down and that, and that. And nothing got anywhere. Of course we do.
Do you know what it all looks like? Like a circus and a performance in front of the President of South Africa. Again they act out the performance so that the high-ranking person sits under the alarms in the shelter.
What indicates this? An organized information throw of all the TG garbage dumps of Ukraine, as well as politicians about “This is how Putin “strengthens trust” with his partners.”
12:30 Head of Gorlovka Administration Ivan Prikhodko told about the artillery attack of the city by Ukrainian armed groups.
“Now we have a relatively small number of shelling, about 8-12 artillery attack per day. Over the past week, there was no artillery attack of the city center, only the outskirts, front-line villages. And a week ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the center with multiple rocket launchers. Worked on the squares. Then we had 14 people injured, four more people died.
Most often, civilians of the city receive shrapnel and mine-explosive injuries, the head of the administration emphasized.
Prikhodko also noted that there were no changes on the Horlivka defense line. The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not carry out intensive attacks, as in other areas in the DPR and Zaporozhye.
12:12 Video– UAV operators hit the enemy stronghold in the Zaporozhye direction
A quadrocopter-type UAV was used at the detected stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
As a result of the strike, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons who were in the trenches were destroyed.
11:55 Explosions in the Podolsky district of Kyiv - the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko.
11:47 A series of explosions in Kyiv: applied attack by cruise and ballistic missiles
The enemy detects new missile launches from the border
11:30 Armed formations of Ukraine continue to bombard the Kherson region of Russia.
During the night, Novaya Kakhovka, Korsunka, Kakhovka and Bolshaya Lepetikha were hit.
In Nova Kakhovka, Ukrainian UAVs dropped three rounds of ammunition on a hospital, four civilians were injured. There were no soldiers at the facility.
11:25 Enemy on armored vehicles began attack on the Zaporozhye front: the battle is on
In the Vasilyevsky district of the Zvporozhsky region, the enemy again switched to active offensive operations.
Armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with up to 15 armored vehicles and assault infantry are attacking along the Lobkovoe-Pyatikhatka line.
NATO armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers / infantry fighting vehicles of the M113 type, tanks and Hummers are participating in the attack.
Artillery is active on both sides.
Even during the first wave of the offensive a week and a half ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine entered Lobkove, located in a gray zone in a lowland and since then under the fire control of our troops. Our artillery is actively hitting the area from the heights.
11:00 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of June 16, 2023)
- During the day, the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued to suffer significant losses during unsuccessful attempts to conduct offensive operations in the South-Donetsk and Donetsk directions.
- On the Vremevsky ledge, the most active hostilities took place in the areas of the settlements of Rovnopol and Urozhaynoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, where, as a result of the courageous actions of the Russian units of the Vostok group of forces, air strikes and artillery fire, five attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
More than 200 Ukrainian servicemen, five tanks, seven infantry fighting vehicles, five armored fighting vehicles, four vehicles, and two mortar batteries were destroyed in a day.
- In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of the "Southern" group of forces successfully repelled five enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Pervomaiskoye, Petrivske and Staromikhaylovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
During the fighting, up to 215 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, five vehicles, and two 152mm D-20 howitzers were destroyed.
In addition, an ammunition depot of the 109th Territorial Defense Brigade was destroyed near the settlement of Novgorodskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
- In the Kupyansk direction, the activities of two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the area of the settlement of Novoselovskoe of the Lugansk People's Republic were suppressed by army aviation strikes, artillery fire and active actions of units of the "Western" group of forces.
During the day, as a result of fire damage, up to 45 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, as well as an M777 artillery system made in the United States were destroyed.
- In the Krasnolimansky direction, air strikes, artillery fire of the "Center" group of troops defeated the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Nevskoye and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Luhansk People's Republic, as well as Serebryansky forestry.
During the day, up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored personnel carriers, two pickup trucks, an 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mount, and a 122mm D-30 howitzer were destroyed.
- In the Kherson direction, as a result of fire damage, up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, five vehicles, an 152mm Msta-B howitzer, as well as a US-made M777 artillery system were destroyed during the day.
- Operational-tactical and army aviation, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day defeated 96 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 104 districts.
During the day, the air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces intercepted four rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
– In addition, 22 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Sladka Balka, Tokmak, Zaporozhye region, Volnovakha, Artemivsk, Verkhnetoretskoe, Donetsk People's Republic, Svatovo, Luhansk People's Republic, and Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 444 aircraft, 238 helicopters, 4,652 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 anti-aircraft missile systems, 10,018 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,124 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 5,128 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 10,983 units of special military vehicles.
10:28 Video- Statement by the head of the press center of the West group.
During the hostilities in the Kupyansk direction, the crews of Ka-52, Mi-28 attack helicopters and Su-25 attack aircraft of the Zapad aviation group of troops inflicted eleven blows on the concentration of manpower, weapons, military and special equipment from the 14th OBR and 103th arr TerO.
The artillery of the group thwarted three attempts to rotate the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the forefront of the 14 Separate Mechanized Brigade, 103 TerO and 28 Separate Rifle Brigade in the area of ??the settlement. Sinkovka, Novomlynsk and Kolomyychikha.
In the defense zone of the 1st Tank Army, in the course of counter-battery fire, 152mm artillery guns "Hyacinth-B" under the command of sergeants Artem Rodionov and Vladimir Kaznacheev destroyed self-propelled guns of foreign production. In the area of N. p. Peski artillery units destroyed an American-made howitzer M-109 "Palladin", in the area of the settlement. Petropavlovka, the installation of the Polish production "Crab" was destroyed.
Air defense grouping in the area of N. p. Zhovtnevoe and Novozhdanovka, two Puma and Valkyrie UAVs were destroyed by Tor air defense systems.
10:05 Morning summary. Zaporozhye direction 16.06
After yesterday's night sortie, the enemy got hit in the teeth and suffered losses in manpower and equipment.
I note that the enemy artillery (both cannon and rocket) worked quite closely.
We state that this was not the most massive attack of enemy manpower and armored vehicles.
You can call it another trial run.
But taking into account the arrived reserves, a massive attack of the enemy will take place any day.
09:28 Over the past day VFU 21 times opened fire on the territory of the Republic – DPR Representative Office in the JCCC
Ukrainian nationalists fired from MLRS, 122mm, 152mm and 155mm artillery, firing a total of 134 units of various ammunition.
Gorlovka (Nikitovsky and Central City (Ozeryanovka) districts), Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Aleksandrovka and Volnovakha were under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Also, over the past day, information was received about the wounding of a civilian man in the Central City district of Gorlovka.
A total of 10 residential buildings were damaged in the Kievsky district of Donetsk and the Central City district of Gorlovka, as well as one civil infrastructure facility.
09:26 Morning summary on the artillery attack of the left bank of the Kherson region at 09:00 am on June 16.
Yesterday, during the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 59 rounds from cannon artillery and MLRS at the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region.
The blows were inflicted on the following settlements:
During the night, the Kiev regime continued artillery attack civilian infrastructure in the settlements of Novaya Kakhovka, Kakhovka, Korsunka, and Velyka Lepetikha, firing a total of 31 barrel artillery rounds.
Information on casualties among the civilian population and destruction of infrastructure is being specified.
08:28 Special mission - to save people -video
Medical specialist Sergei Naryzhny, who voluntarily went to the NVO zone, told why he was awarded the Order of Courage.
In the special operation zone, he assisted the soldiers in the medical center and took part in the evacuation of the wounded from the front lines.
During one of his duties, Sergei received information that several fighters were blown up by mines. The officer, together with the orderly and the sapper, decided to walk through the minefield in order to save his comrades. But on the way back, carrying a wounded man, Sergei himself was blown up by a mine.
The wounded medic could not be carried out of the minefield for a long time.
"I lay for an hour and a half or two, and maybe more, alone, waiting for the artillery attack to end. A “bird” hung right above me, and I actually lay and thought to fight back with a helmet," says Sergey Naryzhny.
Now the officer is undergoing treatment in a military hospital. In the special operation zone, the senior lieutenant saved hundreds of lives. For his work, he received the Order of Courage.
“For me, of course, he was a hero from the first day we met. Now he is even more of a hero to me,” says the wife of the officer, Anastasia.
08:05 Frontline summary on the morning of 06/16/2023
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were attacking Rabotino. This is the way to the strategically important Tokmok. There is some progress. Also, the Armed Forces of Ukraine managed to take new positions from Dorozhnyanka. This is the road to the strategically important Pologi. Russian artillery fired on Ukrainian units in Gulyaipole and Krasnoye. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the positions of the RF Armed Forces in Pyatikhatki.
On the Ugledar sector, oncoming battles continued near Staromayorsky and Urozhayny. The parties are fighting for the initiative. Ukrainian troops conducted assault operations near Pavlovka. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Levadny, Zeleny Pole, Novopol, Novodarovka, Free Pole, Makarovka, Neskuchny, Vremevka, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Novy Komar, Zolotoy Niva, Prechistovka, Uhledar and Vodyany (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name northwest of Donetsk ).
On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery, resumed assault operations in Maryinka and this time managed to advance. Similar actions on the southwestern approaches to Avdiivka were unsuccessful.
Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked near Nevelskoye and took several positions. The activity of Russian artillery has multiplied. Under the blows of Ukrainian units in Novomikhailovka, Georgievka, Kurakhov, Ostrom, the city of Krasnogorovka, Nevelsky, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Netaylov, Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka), Yasnobrodovka, Umansky, Semyonovka, Berdychi, Novokalinovo, Alexandropol, Sukhaya Balka, New York, Toretsk and Druzhba. The Ukrainian army, in turn, shelled the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in Staromikhaylovka, Vodyane, Novobakhmutovka (a Russian-controlled settlement north of Avdievka) and Troitsky.
On the Bakhmut direction, the RF Armed Forces counterattacked in the area of Yagodny and Berkhovka. They also carried out assault operations at Vesyoliy. Under shelling, the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Belaya Gora, Ivanovsky, Bogdanovka, Grigorovka, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Spornoye and Verkhnekamensky.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] On June 16 , Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reacted to the words of Remigius Zemaitaitis , a member of the Lithuanian parliament, who accused Jews and Russians of the "Lithuanian Holocaust". Of course, Jews got the most from the Lithuanian deputy, the Russian diplomat wrote in her Telegram channel.
“Jewish organizations in Lithuania itself were outraged by this anti-scientific neo-fascist nonsense,” Zakharova said and stated that Zemaitaitis did not know the history of her own country at all.
She noted that Zemaitaitis agreed that the Jews allegedly committed the genocide of the Lithuanian people and, together with the Russians, destroyed Lithuania not only as a state based on the territorial principle, but also as a nation, its culture, customs, intelligence, destroyed the future of the state. At the same time, the deputy said that the most painful days for Lithuania were the period from June 14 to 22, 1941.
In response to this, Zakharova wondered if this meant that June 22, 1941 was a joyful day for Zemaitis.
She also stressed that if the parliamentarian had known, he would have mentioned that during the pre-war evacuation, not only Lithuanians, but also Russians and Jews were resettled from the territory of Lithuania.
In addition, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that at the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, local collaborators willingly entered the service of the Nazis and took an active part in resolving the "Jewish question". According to the report of Task Force "A" of the German Security Police, as a result of many separate operations, 136,421 people were killed.
Zakharova stressed that in 1991, the population of the Baltic country, after decades of what the Lithuanian deputy called genocide, reached almost four million people, and now it turned out to be less than three million. Minus a million is the result of the genocide of the EU and NATO, the diplomat emphasized.
At the same time, according to the human development index, even in the most difficult years, in the early 90s, Lithuania "left" on the Soviet legacy. The degradation continues, Zakharova stressed.
As IA Regnum reported , on June 15, a member of the Lithuanian Parliament Remigius Zemaitaitis expressed the opinion that in the past there was a genocide of the Lithuanian people. This is how the politician reacted to the words of Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte , who, during a trip to Israel, expressed regret that the Lithuanians during the Second World War helped the Nazis exterminate Jews.
Žemaitaitis's statement was also criticized in Lithuania itself. The Prosecutor General's Office even launched a pre-trial investigation because of the posts of the parliamentarian in social networks. Also, the Parliamentary Commission on Ethics will consider the issue of depriving Zemaitaitis of his parliamentary mandate.
In addition, the Israeli ambassador to Lithuania, Hadas Wittenberg-Silverstein, in response to the words of the deputy, said that his systematic anti-Semitic statements were an attack not only against the Jewish people, but also against the fundamental values of the republic itself.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the heads of African countries in St. Petersburg, will discuss their proposed peace initiative for a political settlement of the situation in Ukraine and the future of the grain deal.
The presidents of the Republic of South Africa, Senegal, Zambia and the Comoros, as well as representatives of Egypt, Congo and Uganda, attended the talks.
On Friday, June 16, a peacekeeping mission of African countries to find ways of a political settlement of the conflict in Ukraine arrived in Kyiv. Later, the delegation went to Poland, from where on Saturday, June 17, it will fly to St. Petersburg.
As IA Regnum reported , earlier Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said at a press conference with the leaders of African countries that he sees no logic in their decision to visit Russia. At the same time, the Ukrainian leader stressed that the leaders of African countries have every right to make such decisions, since these countries are free.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Putin on the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region
In none of the areas the enemy was able to achieve their goals, even using strategic reserves.
Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from June 4 to June 16 as a result of the offensive:
Tanks - 186
AFVs - 418
The total loss ratio is about 1 to 10.
Enemy attacks continue right now (today the enemy was active in the Pyatikhatki area in the Orekhovskoye direction and in the Urozhaynoye area on the Vremevsky ledge), chances on the success of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to Putin, no.
The broadcast of hostilities in Ukraine continues as usual in Telegram https://t.me/boris_rozhin - if you are interested, subscribe
More from Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots:
Why the "Leopards" demolishes the tower
A photo of one of the Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 tanks appeared on social networks , struck by a successful hit on the roof of the tower. It is clearly seen how an armor plate with a thickness of no more than 15-20 millimeters was literally broken by an unknown force and bent inside.
The fate of the wrecked tank is unknown, but with damage of this kind, field repairs are usually out of the question. The car was either abandoned on the battlefield or dragged to the rear.
The photographs once again prove that even well-armored tanks are extremely vulnerable in the upper hemisphere.
The roof of the tower and MTO "Leopard" are protected, at best, from splinters. These tanks were put into service in the 80s, when there were no strike drones, loitering ammunition and anti-tank roof-breakers yet. It was believed that the thickness of the armor of the turret roof could be sacrificed so as not to overload the vehicle too much. The CBO showed the fallacy of this approach. Such a roof can be pierced even with a landmine.
In the Russian segment of social networks, a couple of months ago, they laughed at the photo of Leopards, on which Ukrainians welded modules of the ancient dynamic protection Contact-1. In fact, there is no reason for laughter here - they are adapting Western technology to the new theater of operations.
By the way, the Russian army is also doing the same thing, installing anti-missile "visors" and anti-drone nets on the towers of its tanks.
In modern armed conflict, the main enemy of a tank is not another tank, grenade launcher, or howitzer. Aviation poses the greatest threat to him. Helicopters, attack aircraft and attack drones are specially “sharpened” for hunting heavily armored targets. And, often, they hit them on the roof of the tower.
We need to actively use this advantage - having launched an offensive, the enemy was forced to get out of the "umbrella" of his air defense. Aviation, which has played a supporting role since the beginning of the NWO, is now coming to the fore.
More from the V Kontakte page of Tatyana Vasilyeva
▪At night, the Russian Armed Forces, using Geraniums, hit targets in the Nikolaev region
▪From the Zaporozhye Front (Orekhovskoye direction) it was reported that around midnight the Armed Forces of Ukraine began offensive operations under heavy artillery fire. Daytime reconnaissance attempt in combat in the area of the settlement. Rabotino ended with the destruction of the tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪Fighting continues on the Vremievsky ledge, the enemy did not achieve advancement, even throwing tanks into battle.
▪In the Kherson direction, Russian aircraft attacked the enemy bank of the Dnieper. The Armed Forces of Ukraine became more active: they sent DRGs to the islands in the floodplain of the river, sent them to the area of the settlement. Alyoshka bomber drones. In Novaya Kakhovka, the Russian Armed Forces fired to kill on enemy UAVs with small arms.
▪On the Artemovsky (Bakhmut) direction, fighting continues on the flanks north and south of the city, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using company tactical groups and armored vehicles.
▪South of Marinka, the Russian Armed Forces advanced to the settlement. Mikhailovka
▪In the Kursk region, an enemy UAV attacked a communications tower andentered the administration building. After that, a fire started.
▪The enemy fired 134 rounds of ammunition in the DPR, Gorlovka, Donetsk, Makeevka, Aleksandrovka, Volnovakha are under fire. Injured civilian
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
1. Russia withstood the economic blow of the West and has a solid economic foundation for further development. The United States failed to crush the Russian economy and will not succeed.
2. Russia will not close and go into autarky. The stake will be placed on the development of relations (of all types) with the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America and with the European frontiers. Europe is receding into the background in long-term planning.
3. Russia is gambling in the apparent Syrianization of the conflict. Just as in Syria, Russia and Iran defeated the United States and the West in a marathon race, they also expect to win in Ukraine as part of a long-term conflict.
Of course, the territory of Ukraine in the coming years will face destruction comparable to Syria, where 75% of the infrastructure was destroyed, as well as a further reduction in the population living in the territory of the former Ukraine. The responsibility for this lies with the US and the Nazi regime in Kyiv, who are killing Ukraine against Russia.
4. The Russian Federation will use nuclear weapons only as a last resort. The bet is now being placed on a long-term conventional war. More than others (besides Ukraine), Europe will suffer from this, which has already entered a recession and will become even more dependent on the United States.
5. In general, Russia is fully aware of the need to wage a Cold War 2.0 for a long time and a multi-year war in Ukraine in the style of "Syria at maximum speed".
The goals of the NWO will not be abandoned. On the contrary, the last year of the war clearly showed that without achieving the denazification of Ukraine, other goals cannot be considered achieved.
In general, we go on a knurled track. The United States, of course, understands this, so further escalation of the war in Ukraine on their part is inevitable. Therefore, Ukrainian cannon fodder is being driven on the offensive. Decisive results are needed to reverse Russia's long-term war strategy.
And also on the topic of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia.
1. Kyiv's attacks on the Kremlin, Belgorod and other regions of Russia with attempts to provoke Russia into powerful retaliatory actions.
2. Everyone is waiting for us to start pressing buttons, but we will not do this, Kyiv has no military successes. Kyiv must understand that in the event of continued attacks on Russia, the issue of creating a "cordon sanitaire" in Ukraine will be considered.
3. If we destroyed 5 Patriot complexes near Kiev, then we should destroy any building in the center of Kyiv, but we do not do this.
4. The West did not want to have a conversation with Russia, but they want to, and we'll see.
5. Russia has no need to use nuclear weapons now. The use of nuclear weapons is theoretically possible if there is a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation.
#1
Truly a grand master. This current Russian history is the result of Putin's years of efforts. He stayed the course. This speech lasted about an hour. No weakness here and the Russians give him high marks.
#3
Despite our Pooty Fanboi's enthusiasm, the average Russian prolly thinks different.
But, what do I know? I don't talk to a lot of people.
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/17/2023 7:39 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Say what you want about Putin. I'm not a fan either. But if you put Putin and Biden in a chess match, I'm betting on Putin. Well, good thing Biden has people around him to help. You know, people like Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin. People like Baraq and, now, Alex Soros. Chess masters all, pulling the strings of a dementia patient.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
06/17/2023 13:33 Comments ||
Top||
Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov appeared to lament the break up of the Soviet Union during a recent broadcast.
The anchor of an evening show on the Russia 1 state TV channel that bears his name, Solovyov has repeatedly framed Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a proxy battle between Moscow and the West. His rhetoric includes calling for missile strikes on countries supporting Kyiv, as well as decrying Ukraine and the West that supports it as "satanic."
But during his radio show Full Contact, he seemed to hanker for a Cold War world, according to a video tweeted by Ukrainian internal affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko.
"Give back the territory," Soloyvov said, "give back the Soviet Union its territory."
#2
What a fooking retürd. You already have the West believing that Putin wants to restore the old Soviet Union, so rubbish such as this just reinforces that idea.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
