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International-UN-NGOs

UN chief says Gaza strike a 'horrific example' of civilian suffering

2024-06-07

[GEO.TV] So's slaughtering a thousand people.

The UN chief on Thursday condemned an Israeli strike on a UN-run school that the Israeli military alleged housed a "Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
compound" as a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
hospital said at least 37 people had been killed.

"It's just another horrific example of the price that civilians are paying, that Paleostinian men, women and kiddies who are just trying to survive (are paying)," UN Secretary-General António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
's front man Stephane Dujarric said.

"Of course he condemns this attack. There will need to be accountability for everything that has happened in Gaza," he added.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas tunnel found by IDF in child's bedroom in Rafah

2024-06-07

[NYPOST] Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday.

The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its "precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations" inside Rafah.

"This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and a butcher’s knife next to it. In addition, the troops identified six Lions of Islam near a school in the area of the troops. The Lions of Islam were eliminated by a UAV and tank fire," the IDF said in a statement.

Images released by the IDF show troops operating in the dense urban environment of Rafah. Images also show the cache of weapons, explosives and other equipment troops retrieved during the operation.

News of the operation comes the same day an Israeli strike took out Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
Lions of Islam hiding at a United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
school for displaced Paleostinians in central Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Local officials say that the strike killed more than 30 people, including 23 women and kiddies.

Israel said it was targeting a Hamas compound inside the school containing 20 to 30 fighters and that many of them had been killed.

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Home Front: Politix

Deborah Birx issues new ‘science' mandate: Test every cow and dairy worker in the nation once a week for ‘Bird Flu'

2024-06-07

[AT] The notorious Deborah Birx has apparently never heard the term "let the dust to settle," because mere days after her partner-in-pandemic-crime, Anthony Fauci, appeared for a congressional hearing in which he confirmed that his Covid-19 mandates were not science-based, sending much of the "normie" world into a fit of hysterics because they’ve just discovered what we knew all along, Birx decided to announce new mandates for the American public regarding the "Bird Flu" virus; from Jordan Schachtel of The Dossier:

Deborah Birx says we must test every cow in America (on a weekly basis) for bird flu.

"We should be testing every cow, weekly," Birx says adding, "we could be pool testing every dairy worker."

There are around 40 million cows in the United States.

Trust the science! pic.twitter.com/0xnCAE0T9e
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) June 5, 2024

First, and I must get this out of the way because it’s a critical piece of the puzzle and it’s seemingly been overlooked by the entire media except American Thinker—I’ve written on this twice before, once in December of 2022 and once in January of this year, and I’ve yet to see another outlet or platform pick up on it. When Fauci admits social-distancing policies "sort of just appeared," he’s not saying he made them up, the conclusion to which people and the media jump, because he didn’t. They came to him directly from the Chinese Communist Party and the World Health Organization, via Fauci’s own delegate, a Mr. Clifford Lane.

Fauci’s sworn testimony in a November 2022 deposition alleges that once Lane returned from a WHO-sponsored envoy to China, the two men discussed "pandemic" measures, and it was Lane who brought back the idea of "social distancing" from the Chinese. So Fauci isn’t exactly lying that these measures "sort of just appeared" but he is misleading everyone when he pretends that he doesn’t know from where they sort of just appeared.

(For all the details please see both of my previous blogs here, and here; for the deposition transcript, which seems to keep disappearing off of the internet, please see this archived link here.)

Anyway, back to Birx, who has the gall to tell us what we "should be" doing, after participating in one of the most egregious crimes against humanity in history—not only is her credibility utterly shot, her plan is completely illegal, and a grossly invasive suggestion.

When she declares what "we" should be doing, she’s of course talking about the federal bureaucracy, in this case it would be the CDC, the USDA, the FDA, or any other alphabet swamper that has nothing to do but trample on American farmers—but what legal authority do unconstitutional federal agencies have? Well I say none, and if your county has a good, constitutionally-minded sheriff, then your local law enforcement would concur.

Secondly, this "testing" scheme would either be, a) government-funded, AKA taxpayer-funded or, b) mandated on the farms via the federal agencies, which just means that dairy and beef prices would surge beyond what they already are. Here’s a thought: make every conceivable effort to adjust your spending to prioritize sourcing your beef and dairy from small local farms instead of supporting the big operations

As Schachtel also noted, Birx is intimately involved with the pharmaceutical industry, sitting on a number of advisory boards—which makes me wonder how much she personally stands to (financially) gain if mandated dairy testing were to materialize. Former governor of Arizona Doug Ducey previously sat on the board of TGen, a non-profit company which led much of Arizona’s Covid-19 testing and tracking programs during the scamdemic, making who knows how much money in the process; would you be surprised to learn that "Republican" Ducey repeatedly extended the "state of emergency" for more than two years in Arizona, which kept TGen’s testing and contact-tracing programs in business?

Again, none of this has ever been about following the science, but about following the money.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF Finds Tunnel in Child's Room; Strikes Hamas HQ Inside UNRWA School

2024-06-06

[Breitbart] The snoopy blanket is a nice touch
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Thursday that it had found an entrance to a Hamas terror tunnel inside a child’s room during operations in Rafah.

A Hamas tunnel was discovered by the IDF in the room of a Palestinian child in the town of Rafah, near the Gaza-Egypt border, June 2024 (IDF)

In a statement, the IDF said:

Over the past few weeks, the soldiers of the 828th Infantry Training School Brigade under the command of the 162nd Division have been conducting precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations in the Rafah area. The soldiers located weapons, eliminated terrorists and destroyed terrorist infrastructure in the area.

This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and a butcher’s knife next to it. In addition, the troops identified six terrorists near a school in the area of the troops. The terrorists were eliminated by a UAV and tank fire.

The 828th Brigade Combat Team has completed its mission in the Rafah area and is now preparing for future operations.

The IDF has continued to move slowly through Rafah, fighting Hamas terrorists and eliminating tunnels, including smuggling tunnels along the Egyptian border. One tunnel destroyed this week in Rafah was two kilometers long.

The IDF also conducted a precise airstrike Thursday morning on a complex that it said was used by dozens of Hamas terrorists inside a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) compound in Gaza

In a statement, the IDF said:

A short while ago, IAF fighter jets, directed by IDF intelligence and the ISA, conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of Nuseirat.

Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who belonged to the Nukhba Forces and took part in the murderous attack on communities in southern Israel on October 7th were operating in the compound.

The terrorists directed terror from the area of the school while exploiting it and using it as a shelter. Several terrorists who planned to carry out terror attacks and promote terrorist activities against IDF troops in the immediate time frame were eliminated in the strike.

Before the strike, a number of steps were taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians during the strike, including conducting aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence information.

The Times of Israel reported that Hamas claimed that Israel had carried out a "massacre," and UNRWA said dozens had been killed:

The Hamas-run government media office claimed at least 27 people were killed in what it termed the Israeli "massacre." UNRWA communications director Juliette Touma told Reuters that the number of those reported killed in the Israeli offensive on the Nuseirat school is between 35 and 45, but it still cannot confirm the number at this stage, she added. It was not immediately clear how many of those killed were members of terror groups.

CNN parroted Hamas’s claims, describing the attack as an "Israel [sic] strike on UN school that left dozens dead."

Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told reporters Thursday that the terrorists who were killed included some who were involved in the October 7 attack. He added that the IDF had targeted three specific classrooms.

Mencer added that the school had been used for "staging attacks" and as a "forward operating base." He noted that the IDF had called off the attack twice because of concern about potential civilian casualties before proceeding when it was safest to do so.

Israel has long accused Hamas of using schools for terrorist purposes, and has accused UNRWA of helping it.

Hamas has been fighting back, attempting to infiltrate terrorists into Israel even as the IDF moves into Rafah. One Israeli soldier was killed Thursday in a gun battle after terrorists were seen moving toward the border in the morning fog. Three terrorists involved in the attempted infiltration were killed in an airstrike and in tank fire, the IDF said.

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Cyber

Chinese nationals plead guilty to scam charges

2024-06-06

[BBC] Chinese nationals ran cybercrime syndicate from Zambia.

Twenty-two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to committing cyber-related crimes in Zambia.

They are among 77 suspects who were arrested in April in connection to what authorities described as a "sophisticated internet fraud syndicate".

The swoop on a Chinese-run company in the capital, Lusaka, followed an alarming rise in internet fraud cases in the country, targeting people in countries around the world.

The Chinese nationals are set to be sentenced on Friday, local media report.

There have been increasing cases of Zambians losing money from their mobile and bank accounts through money-laundering schemes which extend to other foreign countries, the Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) said in April.

People in countries including Singapore, Peru, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and others across Africa have also been targeted in the online scam, Zambian authorities said.

Dozens of young Zambians were also arrested after allegedly being recruited to be call-centre agents in the fraudulent activities, including internet fraud and online scams, the DEC said during the arrests.

After a trial lasting several weeks, the 22 Chinese nationals, including one female, pleaded guilty to three charges - computer-related misrepresentation, identity-related crimes, and illegally operating a network or service.

The 22, along with a Cameroonian national, were charged with manipulating people's identities online with intent to scam them.

The accused hold different positions in the Chinese-run Golden Top Support Services, the company at the centre of the raid.

The company, located in Roma, an upmarket suburb of Lusaka, is yet to comment on the allegations.

Li Xianlin, believed to be the director of the company, was charged with operating the network without a licence from the Zambian authorities.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

'Escalation' in Lebanon would risk Israeli security: US

2024-06-06

[GEO.TV] The United States on Wednesday warned against an "escalation" in Lebanon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of an operation, saying conflict would only harm Israeli security.

"We don´t want to see that escalation of the conflict which would just lead to further loss of life from both Israelis and the Lebanese people and would greatly harm Israel's overall security and stability in the region," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.

Not escalating would also harm Israel’s security. Of such decisions are statesmen made.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 5, 2024

2024-06-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:08 Putin said that Russia has the right to supply weapons to regions “from where attacks will be carried out on sensitive facilities of countries supplying weapons to Kiev.” According to him, “the answer may be asymmetrical, we will think about it.” The head of the Kremlin also believes that if the United States stops supplying weapons to Ukraine, “the conflict will end in two to three months.”

22:00 Greece has joined the international coalition for the return of Ukrainian children as an observer, said Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets.

21:56 Zelensky, in a telephone conversation with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, noted London’s permission to strike military targets on Russian territory, the President’s Office reported. The parties also discussed additional opportunities for joint training missions and interoperability of the Ukrainian Defense Forces with NATO.

21:47 Ukrenergo reported that due to exceeding limits, emergency shutdowns were applied in Kharkiv, Sumy, Kiev, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Volyn, Lviv, Odessa, Zaporozhye and Kirovograd regions.

21:03 There is a big scandal in Moldova. The former chief of the country's General Staff, it turns out, was an informant for the Russian GRU for many years. He regularly reported to Russian intelligence officers about the internal political situation in the republic, and also talked about visits by representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. For more details, see the article The Head of the General Staff of Moldova is an agent of the Russian Federation.

20:59 Taiwan's Ministry of Economy has expanded controls over the export of nitrocellulose products to Russia and Belarus to prevent their use for military purposes. New restrictions from June 14 prohibit the export of nitrocellulose with a nitrogen content of less than 12.2%.

20:41 There is a significant shortage of electricity in Kiev, so on June 6 there will be outages in the so-called gray zone according to the schedule, DTEK reported. They emphasized that “a shutdown in the light gray zone is also a shutdown according to schedule. If the situation allowed, at this time the houses falling under this zone would have light.”

20:27 Ukraine has already used American weapons to strike Russian territory, the Associated Press reports, citing an unnamed Western official. He did not provide any details, but noted that this happened “in recent days.”

20:06 In Kiev, the lights are turned off a little more than in other regions, due to a significant amount of critical infrastructure, Yasno CEO Sergei Kovalenko said: “That is, the critical volume is taken away from the maximum possible volume of consumption, and the remainder is distributed among all consumers. I hope "That this situation will balance out a bit in the near future."

19:58 Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson said that Washington should stop “micromanaging military efforts in Ukraine” and lift restrictions on the use of American weapons from the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “I have already spoken about this and will say it again. We will have conversations with the White House about this,” Johnson emphasized.

18:57 The EBRD will accumulate 300 million euros to support the energy sector of Ukraine, Shmygal said. The funds will go to state energy companies to restore generating capacity and infrastructure, as well as to build new decentralized generation.

18:44 Zelensky said that he arrived in Qatar for negotiations with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The parties will discuss continuing work on the return of Ukrainian children and preparations for the Peace Summit.

18:39 On Thursday, June 6, limits on electricity consumption will be in effect throughout the entire territory of Ukraine, Ukrenergo reported. To comply with the limits, hourly shutdown schedules will be applied for industrial and household consumers, and if the limits are exceeded, emergency shutdowns are possible.

17:56 All children are being taken out of the Zolochiv community of the Kharkov region in case of a Russian attack, said the head of the village military administration, Viktor Kovalenko. At the same time, he added that now the situation at the border is no longer as threatening as it was last week, but “it’s better to play it safe.”

17:29 Gazprom has suffered greatly as a result of the loss of the European market and will not be able to return to 2020 levels earlier than in ten years, writes the Financial Times.

17:02 Russia has already destroyed at least 210 thousand houses in Ukraine, writes The New York Times. Since 2022, the Russians have destroyed at least 106 hospitals, 109 religious sites and 708 educational institutions in Ukraine. The most extensive destruction occurred in Mariupol, Kharkov, Marinka, Rubezhnoye, Bakhmut, Irpen, Zaporozhye, Orekhov, Kherson, Novaya Kakhovka, Oleshki, and the ports of Reni and Izmail.

16:43 Germany must be ready for war with Russia by 2029, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in the Bundestag: “We must be able to fight by 2029. Three topics are of central importance - personnel, equipment and finance.” The minister also considers it necessary to restore military service. He noted that Russia “has long since switched to a war economy and continues to arm itself,” and its victory in Ukraine will cost the West more than the current assistance to Kyiv.

16:05 Syrsky reported that he was again working in the area of active hostilities in the Kharkov and Kupyansky directions. According to him, the Russian Army is focusing its main efforts on the Kurakhovsky, Pokrovsky, Kupyansky and Kharkov directions. In addition, he carries out active assault operations in Volchansk and on the approaches to Chasov Yar in order to take control of them. In other directions, the enemy is attacking with the goal of stretching the line of the active front, pinning down Ukrainian troops and preventing them from being transferred to other areas.

Overall, the situation remains difficult. In the Kharkov direction, the enemy is trying to advance towards Glubokoe-Liptsov, but suffers significant losses and is unsuccessful. In Volchansk, the main task of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at this stage is to contain the enemy, inflict maximum losses on him and gradually move forward to liberate the territories. In the Kupyansk area, the Russians are trying to break through the defenses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from two directions, and there are fierce battles. The goal here is to stop the enemy and force him to go on the defensive.

“My task is to provide this direction with a sufficient amount of ammunition and combat-ready reserves, which will significantly strengthen the defense. Despite the complexity of the situation, we have a chance to change the situation in our favor,” the commander-in-chief concluded.

15:51 The EU is working closely with Ukraine to help restore the energy system, said European Commission Speaker Tim McPhee. According to him, representatives of the Ukrainian central and regional authorities are working to formulate a list of urgent needs, which should be received by the European Commission.

14:59 Natalya Gumenyuk, who was fired from the post of head of the press center of the Southern Defense Forces after numerous complaints from journalists, was appointed deputy head of the communications department of OK Pivden. “Now this is not the Defense Forces, this is a slightly different entity, but already within the competence of OK Pivden. This department was created as part of the communication reform in the Armed Forces as a whole,” Gumenyuk explained.

14:08 The Ukrainian Armed Forces in the southern direction destroyed two Russian Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun systems, a command post and a drone control post, said Dmitry Pletenchuk, head of the center for strategic communications of the Southern Defense Forces.

13:55 The Main Intelligence Directorate, with its DDoS attack, actually paralyzed the work of a number of government agencies of the Russian Federation and large companies, Ukrainian media write, citing intelligence sources. In particular, access to the electronic services of the government services website, a number of ministries, tax and customs services, and the state civil registry registry has been lost (Russians are massively complaining about canceled weddings). Services of some banks are also unavailable.

12:59 For 17-year-old boys who are abroad, registration will be delayed, said the head of the Ministry of Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk. According to her, a corresponding resolution has already been developed and will be adopted in the near future. “Pre-conscripts and conscripts who are currently abroad will be given a deferment of registration - either until they return to Ukraine or until the end of martial law,” she noted.

12:20 As a result of the morning Russian shelling of the Donetsk region, one person was killed and five were wounded, said the head of the OVA Vadim Filashkin. In particular, in the Pivnichny Toretsk community, one person was killed and four were injured. Another person was injured in Selidovo.

11:43 The Russian army attacked the village of Ingulets, Kherson region - two people were wounded during the distribution of humanitarian aid, the OVA reported.

11:07 The deficit in the Ukrainian energy system is significant, so planned power outages today can also be long, said the Chairman of the Board of Ukrenergo Vladimir Kudrytsky: “If our colleagues invest in the limits that we determine for this day, then the outages will be planned. The deficit is significant, therefore, the duration of these outages, unfortunately, can also be significant. It can be four hours, it can be more, depending on whether we are talking about rush hour - morning or evening - or we are talking about the hours when the situation is. The deficit is a little less acute - this is the day zone and the night."

10:42 Over the past 24 hours, the Russian military shelled 28 settlements in the Sumy region - one person was killed, three more were injured, the National Police reported. Seven private houses and a company warehouse were damaged.

10:31 The Diya application now has a veteran’s certificate, said the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mikhail Fedorov. You no longer need to carry a paper version with you. The document can be added by combatants, people with disabilities as a result of war, war veterans, injured participants in the Revolution of Dignity, as well as family members of a deceased war veteran and a deceased defender of Ukraine.

10:14 From June 1, military personnel with dual citizenship stopped being released from Ukraine. The US Embassy in Ukraine explained that Ukrainian law does not recognize dual citizenship, therefore those liable for military service are considered exclusively as citizens of Ukraine with all relevant responsibilities.

10:08 The United States is ready to provide Ukraine with a loan worth $50 billion, which will be repaid using profits from frozen Russian assets if the European Union extends anti-Russian sanctions against these assets indefinitely, writes the Financial Times. Currently, EU sanctions are extended every six months. To make such a decision, the unanimous consent of all EU members is required.

09:39 As a result of Russian shelling in Volchansk, Kharkov region, on June 4, two people were injured, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another person was wounded in the village. Volchanskiye Khutor, Chuguevsky district.

08:57 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, as a result of Russian shelling, one person was killed and eight were injured, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Three high-rise buildings and eight private houses, an educational institution, a dormitory, an office building, catering, shops and a gas pipeline were damaged.

08:16 In the Poltava region, during a night attack, an enemy drone hit an industrial facility, one person was injured, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin.

07:55 Air defense at night destroyed 22 of the 27 Shahed-131/136 type UAVs that Russia attacked from Kursk and the Crimean Cape Chauda, the Air Force reported. Drones were shot down in Nikolaev, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy and Poltava regions.

07:38 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 5:

personnel - about 513,700 (+1280) people,

tanks - 7806 (+12),

armored combat vehicles - 15,036 (+16),

artillery systems - 13 385 (+40),

MLRS - 1092 (+0),

air defense systems - 830 (+3),

aircraft - 357 (+0),

helicopters - 326 (+0),

UAV of operational-tactical level - 10 805 (+39),

cruise missiles - 2270 (+2),

ships/boats - 27 (+0),

submarines - 1 (+0),

automotive equipment and tank trucks - 18,297 (+69),

special equipment - 2223 (+12).

05:24 Biden will meet with Zelensky in France on Thursday, June 6, and next week will meet again with the Ukrainian president in Italy, said US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. He also announced the transfer of new aid packages to Ukraine in the coming weeks.

01:23 Putin has been wearing a bulletproof vest under his clothes at open-air public events since last year, The Moscow Times writes, citing two Russian officials and a source close to the Kremlin. In particular, at the May 9 parade, Putin “was definitely wearing a hidden bulletproof vest,” one of the sources said. At the request of the publication, British security consultant Jade Miller studied video footage of Putin’s speech at the parade on May 9, 2024 and also came to the conclusion that the head of the Russian Federation was wearing a bulletproof vest.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

'Shamefully few tanks': Western media reveal their unpreparedness for war with Russia

2024-06-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Evgeny Konovalov

[REGNUM] By allowing Ukraine to attack Russia with American weapons, US President Joe Biden brought the world closer to a big war. At the same time, the head of the White House does not offer any recipes for ending the conflict.

Such conclusions were reached in an article for the American edition of The Washington Post by the head of the policy department of the American NGO Rand, Samuel Charap, and the director of EU international relations research, Jeremy Shapiro.

In their opinion, strikes deep into Russia may slow down the military operations of the Russian army around Kharkov, but will not change the course of the conflict globally.

“The Russians will most likely adapt, just as they adapted to previous similar steps by the United States,” the authors of the article predict.

They suggest looking at things objectively: Russia is winning on the battlefield, so President Vladimir Putin does not need direct conflict with the United States and its allies. Moscow, Charap and Shapiro believe, may well respond, but most likely it will do so in an asymmetrical manner, and not “launch a missile at some European capital next week.”

The authors warn: the Russian army will continue its offensive, and in three to six months the United States, trying to save the Kiev regime, will again be forced to raise the stakes. But such escalation without a strategy is unwise policy.

“It would be necessary to demonstrate that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory using US systems are part of a comprehensive strategy to end the conflict on terms favorable to Ukraine and the United States,” the article says.

But Biden has said nothing about strategy. Maybe it just doesn't exist. Moreover, in Washington there is not even a consensus on what is considered an acceptable ending in Ukraine, says journalist and writer David Sanger. In his publication for The New York Times, he notes that Ukraine is talking about “total victory,” while in Washington such statements sound less and less convincing, and the Russian army continues to advance.

“Zelensky has repeatedly clashed with Biden and his staff over the refusal to provide him first with long-range artillery, then tanks, F-16s, and now he has again launched a campaign of public pressure to force Biden to soften restrictions on strikes with American weapons across the Russian border, ” Sanger reports.

Biden's aides have stressed that the president has "created an exception to the general rule of 'non-escalation,'" but Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in late May that this may not be the last exception - the United States intends to respond to changes on the battlefield.

In non-public conversations, the author of the article writes, the American president’s advisers admit that the priorities of the United States and Ukraine diverge. Kyiv has nothing to lose, but Biden has a different situation.

“The White House fears that Vladimir Putin will deploy tactical nuclear weapons to convince the world that if Kiev continues to drop American-made bombs and missiles on Russian territory, it will use them against Ukraine,” The New York Times said.

Against this background, NATO is preparing for a possible war with Russia, convinces Brussels correspondent for The Telegraph Joe Barnes. According to his information received from representatives of the Alliance, its top leadership is warning Western countries: they need to prepare for a conflict with Russia, which could happen in the next 20 years.

“Land corridors” are already being prepared to move American troops and equipment to the front line if a ground war with Russia breaks out in Europe, Barnes writes. It is reported that the soldiers will land at ports in the Netherlands and then travel by rail through Germany to Poland.

“If NATO forces arriving in the Netherlands come under Russian attack or ports in northern Europe are destroyed, the alliance will shift its attention to ports in Italy, Greece and Turkey. From Italian ports, American troops could be transported overland through Slovenia and Croatia to Hungary, which borders Ukraine,” the article says.

At the same time, the head of the NATO Joint Logistics Command, Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank, said that military operations within the framework of the Russian-led military defense showed that large logistics bases such as those created in Afghanistan and Iraq cannot be used, because they will be destroyed at the very beginning of the conflict.

Another author of The Telegraph, Sean Rayment, also writes about the military problems of the West. He spoke to former British Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Crawford and learned that the British Army's "disgracefully small" tank fleet would be destroyed in just two weeks of war with Russia.

At the same time, the author of the article recalls the words of the former Deputy Supreme Commander of the Allied Armed Forces in Europe, General Richard Shirreff : the lack of troops and military equipment means that it will be difficult for the British army to bring even a combat brigade of five thousand people to the front.

“We plan to purchase only 148 Challenger 3 tanks, which is alarmingly low when you remember that at the height of the Cold War, not so long ago, the British Royal Armored Corps could expect to field about 900 main battle tanks,” says Colonel Crawford.

In addition, the UK is now catastrophically short of ammunition, General Shirreff is sure. The shortage needs to be made up, but it is not clear how to do this: decades of “cutting” of the army have led to the fact that it is impossible to quickly establish production. The country's arsenals, according to Shirreff, were “drained almost to the bottom” in order to transfer everything to Ukraine.

But even this does not help - it is becoming increasingly difficult for the West to save the Armed Forces of Ukraine from collapse, writes Forbes military columnist David Ax. He, citing Ukrainian analysts, reports that the Ukrainian army has nothing to oppose to the Russian troops, which use adjustable aerial bombs (KAB) weighing 500 and 1000 kilograms.

Ax called glide bombs “miracle weapons” that Russian fighter jets launch from a distance of about 60 kilometers—outside the range of the Ukrainian air defense system. Because of this, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the Forbes publication, turned to the United States with a request to supply gliding bombs and re-equip “dozens of remaining Su-27 fighters and about 50 surviving MiG-29 fighters.”

But in any case, this will take time, which is now obviously playing against the Ukrainian army - Russian troops are winning on the battlefield, which the Western press is no longer even afraid to write openly about.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin says the tragedy of Ukraine began with a coup d'etat

2024-06-06

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
The guy they dumped was a Russian puppet. I think that was the "Orange Revolution." Then they held (kinda honest) elections. Zelensky was a comedian before becoming president.
[Regnum] In the West they often say that Russia started the conflict in Ukraine, but no one in the West likes to remember how the tragedy of this country began, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 5 in St. Petersburg at a meeting with the heads of international news agencies.

The conflict began with the anti-constitutional coup that took place in Ukraine in 2014, the president emphasized. The United States provoked the seizure of power in Ukraine through unconstitutional means, he noted.

“Everyone believes that Russia started a war on Ukraine. But no one - I want to emphasize this - no one in the West, in Europe, wants to remember how this tragedy began. It began with a coup d'etat in Ukraine - an unconstitutional coup d'etat. This is the beginning of the war,” Putin noted.

After 2014, Russia made every possible attempt to resolve the conflict peacefully, but, as Western politicians later confirmed, they did not intend to implement the Minsk peace agreements, the president recalled. Russia was “simply led by the nose,” Putin said.
Like a bullying husband standing over his beaten bloody wife: "Look what you made me do!"
The meeting of the president with agency heads took place on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), which takes place from June 5 to 8, 2024. The main topic will be “The basis of a multipolar world—the formation of new growth points.” Advisor to the President, Executive Secretary of the SPIEF Organizing Committee Anton Kobyakov reported on May 31 that 136 countries and territories have confirmed their participation in SPIEF.

Russia notes a significant change in global conditions and stands for business cooperation based on law and on mutually beneficial conditions, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on June 5, answering the question about the ideology of the forum in 2024.

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The US must stop supplying Ukraine with weapons, the conflict will end - Putin

The US authorities must stop supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime, and in this case the conflict will end in 2-3 months. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, answering a corresponding question from the editor-in-chief of the news service for Europe and Africa of the AR (USA) James Jordan on June 5 during a meeting with the heads of international news agencies.

The Russian leader said that in response to a letter from American President Joe Biden, he wrote some time ago that if the United States wants to stop hostilities in Ukraine, they should stop supplying weapons.

“The actions will cease within two, maximum three, months. That’s all,” Putin explained, adding that his opinion on this issue has not changed.

As Regnum reported, the Russian military destroyed a truck carrying Western missiles for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in early June in the Nikolaev region, reported Sergei Lebedev, a representative of the pro-Russian underground, on June 5.

Russia's losses during the conflict in Ukraine are several times less than the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin said on June 5 at a meeting with the heads of world news agencies.

Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops destroyed warehouses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces group “Khortitsa” and militants of the “Foreign Legion”, and also hit a storage site for unmanned boats, said the official representative of the department, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

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Ray DiLorenzo - It's Official, We Are Now a Banana Republic

2024-06-05

[Canada Free Press] We live in a strange time. The law in many states, cities, and jurisdictions in this country, especially in Democrat strongholds, has been laid low. In Chicago, a judge acquits an attacker who stole a police car, ran over a Chicago cop, and crashed into four vehicles.

In California, shoplifting is now de facto legal.

Shoplifting merchandise with a value under $950 is now a misdemeanor in California, which means the police will not bother to investigate and will most likely let the thief go. It has resulted in brazen acts of smash and grab and flash mobs walking in stores, sometimes with shopping carts, filling them up, and walking out. Fact-checkers will disagree, because it is their job to forward the Left's narrative. As a result, hundreds of businesses have closed, leaving neighborhoods either without stores or stores with locked toothpaste.

George Floyd's refusal to face arrest allows leftist mobs to get away with burning down major parts of a city. The most expensive insurance in U.S. history. However, the perpetrators of this misapplication of protest rights found solace in the Democrat Party, which paid for many of their bail bonds. It makes one ask, Who are these thugs working for? This is the country we now live in.

The Democrats have turned our country into a corrupt shithole because they have shown themselves to be unwilling to pass the mantle of power to any other political party. They feel obligated to use any legal or illegal means to bring down and destroy their opposition—weaponize the law, if you will.

In the Banana Republic of Mexico, 36 murders of candidates have taken place thus far during their current election cycle. Just days ago, a right-leaning mayoral candidate named Alfredo Cabrera was shot multiple times during a rally. He is dead. Cabrera, like so many others, failed to receive approval from the criminal cartels.

The Democrat Party is the criminal cartel in this country.

Since the Trump trial and its deliberations have dominated conversations for the past few weeks and days, I thought it would be helpful to explain the legal issues and the trial's conduct.

President Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records under New York Business Law 175.10. It states:

A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”

The New York Election Law 17-152 violation was another charge against President Trump:

“Conspiracy to promote or prevent an election. Any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means and whose conspiracy is acted upon by one or more of the parties thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”

The 34 counts, or records, consist of 11 checks written to Michael Cohen, along with comparable vouchers and invoices. The prosecution alleges that the payments marked as legal expenses, were reimbursements for payments made by Cohen to Stormy Daniels to aid in the election of Donald Trump. What was Clinton's payment to Paula Jones listed as? Remember, Paula Jones accused Clinton of rape!

The prosecution must demonstrate President Trump's intention to defraud or conceal the alleged conspiracy by creating business records.

That all somewhat sounds clear, but the jury, and a myriad of legal observers said it was confusing or made confusing from the start. The charges were never made clear tof jury. This was a case that has quite possibly destroyed the election system of our country. Elections are supposed to be won by issues, not the weaponization of the law. To even the casual observer, this case was 100% political. These charges were never brought before a court by anyone in American history. No one wanted to take this case to court except those who were elected with the promise of 'getting Trump.' Witnesses were called who had nothing to do with the case. The Democrats are now using the case as campaign fodder. How is all this not political? The strategy in court was to gather as many witnesses as possible to testify that Trump is a bum. 'Maybe we'll find something to hang him with.'

Is this how we conduct presidential elections?

The jury seemed confused much of the time. The case never should have been heard in New York City, a Democrat stronghold where elections routinely go 80–90% Democrat. A change of venue was denied.

Some witnesses, like Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, demand special attention. Here is a man who cannot tell the truth, a convicted perjurer who lost his license to practice law, hired Lanny Davis, a long-time Democrat operative, as his attorney, and was sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion, making false statements to a federally insured bank, and campaign finance violations. He spent most of his sentence in home confinement and vowed that he would never go to prison again. That leads to the conclusion that he will say anything the feds or Democrats want him to say.

The judge, Juan Merchan, is a Colombian-born American who regularly donates to Democrats and progressive causes. He has a daughter, who is president of Authentic Campaigns, a Chicago-based progressive political consulting firm whose top clients raised $93 million for Democrats during the Trump case. Recusal of the judge was denied.

This was a kangaroo court by its very definition. Does a bookkeeping violation warrant 34 felony counts? This judge never even allowed Trump witnesses to explain their answers. No one seems to know what the jury convicted Trump of. The judge (paraphrased) instructed the jury to find something to convict.

What in American history can we compare this with? Turning our country into a banana republic? At the same time, the Democrats have been attacking the Supreme Court, trying to get Alito to recuse himself because his wife likes to fly flags from America's past, like the Appeal to Heaven, a flag hung by other cities routinely throughout our history.

What this all comes to is the realization that we are in danger of a split or divorce. Where are our common values, the E Pluribus Unum? The Democrat Party wants to jail Donald Trump because he's about to win an election? The Left in our country does not respect our Constitution, our system of government, or our elections. They don't like the electoral college. They would rather have mob rule, and the word 'mob' is perfect to describe Democrats. Even James Carville believes left-wing Democrats are "annoying and silly."

The Democrat Party has shown that, in spite of their claim to protect democracy, the rule of law, and the integrity of our institutions, they have systematically dismantled this country. This case was not about the law. It was about stopping Trump. They've weaponized the law to destroy all opposition they deem dangerous to their hold on power. This cannot continue.

If we do not get a handle on this split and come to some kind of consensus, I fear violence and civil war. The Democrat Party has been taken over by leftist fanatics, with almost the entire media encouraging and feeding them. If there are any centrists still in the party, they need to come together and take their party back. A banana republic in the United States will not stand!

We need to put the sleeping giant back to sleep.

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America's elites aren't as smart as they imagine

2024-06-05

[UnHeard] When Joe Biden mishandled classified documents in an apparently egregious manner, he attracted the attention of a special prosecutor. The ensuing investigation proved without a doubt that Biden had violated the law. If I had done the same thing, and stashed government secrets in my garage near my trusty Rav4, I would never see the light of day again. But again, I’m not Biden. He belongs to a special class. The prosecutor’s report admitted Biden’s guilt but refused to prosecute because the president of the United States, leader of the free world, was too old and dotty to be held accountable.

Then there’s Trump. The New York State district attorney, Alvin Bragg, is a Democrat with powerful political motives to bring down the likely Republican nominee. That should be a scandal but, in the ethical muddle of our age, it seemingly isn’t. The actual charges concocted by Bragg against Trump I leave for the legal experts to parse. None of them rose to the level of Clinton’s server or Biden’s garage sale of secrets. But Trump is the monster that haunts the nightmares of the privileged class. He must be prosecuted in multiple times and places, convicted, fined hundreds of millions, imprisoned, annihilated, pulverised.

The whole process stinks of desperation. If the progressive elites who run the Biden administration felt confident they could defeat Trump at the polls, we would hear Homeric laughter ringing from the White House and its pet organs in the news media. But Biden is terribly unpopular, even among his base. America’s elites fear and mistrust the American voter. They have lost faith in democracy, a system that in 2016 delivered the power of the presidency to the monstrous Trump, and they dream of a rising class of Platonic guardians, people exactly like themselves, with the right pedigree, the right opinions, the right manners, who rule not because they have won an electoral lottery but in perpetuity, as a reward for their superior virtue.

Convicting Trump as a political insurance policy brings us a step closer to a fatal turning point in American history. This country, Abraham Lincoln said, was founded on a proposition: that all are created equal. That proposition has liberated millions from within and attracted millions more from abroad. For most of us, it meant little more than being left alone by the cops and the structures of power. But for others, evidently, there was an expectation of utopia, of perfectly proportional equality in every dimension and transaction, that has failed to materialise. Dismayed, the progressive elites have turned their backs on representative democracy and now seek an aristocracy of virtue. The forms will remain the same but the substance, with a wink and a nudge, will respect caste and breeding.

Can this really happen? To an alarming extent, it already has. A single monolithic class controls most of the key institutions of American life. Between a high official at the State Department or the FBI, an executive at Google or Nike, and an editor at the New York Times or NPR, the difference is scarcely noticeable. Conformity in word and gesture is mandatory. And these people have persuaded themselves that contemporary society is too complex for the public to navigate safely. Given the madness of social media, the prevalence of fake news and disinformation, the appeal to simple minds of post-truth populists like Trump — given all the chaos, there’s a need for stern measures. Information must be controlled. Prominent dissenters must be cowed into silence if they wish to keep their jobs. The cops must go after the populists and haul them off to prison.

In the present case, however, such tactics may backfire. It is remarkable to note how much of Trump’s popularity is a function of the intemperance of his enemies. After his defeat in 2020, Trump drifted downward in a semi-quiescent state. The announcement of his candidacy for the 2024 Republican nomination wasn’t greeted with wild enthusiasm. This exhausting reality s

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 4, 2024

2024-06-05

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:13 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have finally stopped the Russian offensive in the Kharkov region. The West is already calling on Ukrainian troops to counterattack, but it is far from certain that this is possible in the current situation. More details can be found in the article Fortified near Kharkov.

22:07 Everyone who was in Russian captivity was subjected to cruel treatment or torture, said Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin. According to him, to date, 2,200 victims have been identified who were subjected to torture and inhumane treatment in Russian captivity. More than 500 of them testified to the use of physical violence against them during interrogations, in particular electric shock torture. There are also cases when Ukrainians who returned from captivity say that they witnessed the murders of other prisoners. At least 25 facilities for holding Ukrainian prisoners have been established in 15 regions of Russia.

In addition, 27 criminal proceedings are being investigated regarding the execution of 61 Ukrainian prisoners of war, Kostin said.

21:58 Washington has never established restrictions on Ukrainians shooting down planes on Russian territory, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said: “I just want to point out that there has been confusion about this. There have never been restrictions on Ukrainians shooting down enemy planes, even if these planes are not necessarily in Ukrainian airspace."

21:16 Today was the most difficult situation with energy supply in the last few days, and tomorrow the restrictions will be in effect all day, said YASNO CEO Sergei Kovalenko. He warned that emergency shutdowns would be applied if limits were exceeded and urged people to “think about that the next time you turn on your air conditioning.”

Meanwhile, the Odessa City Council announced that from June 5 the production of trams and trolleybuses on city routes will be significantly reduced. Reducing the number of rolling stock will lead to an increase in the interval of public electric transport.

20:54 The Russians fired at the Khotyn community of the Sumy region - according to preliminary information, two people were wounded, including a 17-year-old teenager, the OVA reported. As a result of the shelling, two private houses were destroyed, one of which caught fire. In addition, the enemy launched a missile attack on the infrastructure facilities of the Konotop community, no people were injured.

20:51 Putin appointed Shoigu as coordinator of work on the development of the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation.

20:42 On June 6, Macron will receive Zelensky, who will arrive in Paris on a visit to celebrate the day of the Allied landing in Normandy, the Elysee Palace reported. They clarified that the parties will discuss the current needs of Ukraine.

20:38 The Russians are increasing the intensity of shelling in the Zaporozhye region, said the head of the OBA Ivan Fedorov: “We see an increase in intensity - it is increasing daily. If a month ago there were 200-250 shellings per day, now it is 400+ shellings per day, and there were 500-550 shellings. The enemy usually attacks settlements such as Rabotino, Gulyaypole, Orekhov - these are front-line settlements that are most often under enemy shelling."

20:17 FPV drones protected the front while Ukraine was waiting for artillery supplies from partners, Zelensky said in an evening video message. According to him, it has already been proven that drones are capable of giving an advantage and regaining the initiative. “This is something in which we should constantly feel an increase in volumes... Our long-range drones have proven that Ukraine is capable of limiting the internal strength of a terrorist state. We must continue this,” the president emphasized.

Zelensky also said that now most of the fighting and the heaviest attacks are taking place in the Donetsk region - in fact, this is the main direction of Russian attacks.

19:29 In Kiev and the region, from June 5 to June 13, command and staff exercises will be held with military units of the group of forces and means of defense of the capital, said the commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Pavlyuk. During the exercises, “practical actions will take place with the involvement of personnel, military equipment and weapons of all ground, river, anti-aircraft and anti-sabotage units.” There will be movement of personnel and movement of heavy equipment, local residents are asked to remain calm and not film the movement of troops and equipment.

19:15 Zelensky said that he returned to Kiev and held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. I heard a report from Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky on the situation at the front, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, and Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin on the fight against Russian drones and the development of our own UAV and electronic warfare technologies. We identified priority areas for the deployment of expected air defense systems.

Chief of the General Staff Anatoly Bargilevich reported on the state of preparation, acquisition of weapons and personnel of brigades and reserves. The heads of the Kharkov, Sumy and Chernigov military administrations reported on the construction of fortifications and the protection of important facilities, in particular generation.

18:42 Russia has not launched strikes on Kharkov with S-300 missiles for two days now - this is due to the fact that Ukraine’s partners have allowed them to use weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation, says Deputy of the Kharkov Regional Council Alexander Skorik. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces recently destroyed several S-300 installations, and the alarm is being declared due to the threat of KABs.

18:38 Iceland will contribute an additional 667 thousand euros to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund, which will increase its contribution to 2.72 million euros, the country's government reported.

18:33 The SBU reported that it had identified anti-Ukrainian literature in the network of church shops of the UOC-MP. Among those seized were pro-Russian publications that promoted religious intolerance and justified the Russian war against Ukraine. Consignments of enemy copies were found in Uzhgorod, Zhitomir, Nikolaev and Kyiv on the territory of one of the networks of church shops. Shop owners ordered propaganda literature in bulk from a printing house in the Ternopil region.

18:20 On Wednesday, June 5, electricity consumption limits will be in effect throughout the entire territory of Ukraine, Ukrenergo reported. To comply with the limits, hourly shutdown schedules will be used for industrial and household consumers, and if the limits are exceeded, emergency shutdowns are possible.

17:57 Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets said that he officially appealed to the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova about opening criminal proceedings against soldiers who abused Ukrainian prisoners of war. However, he added that he does not hope for a positive response from the Russian side. “But then the Russians will once again confirm that the refusal to open criminal proceedings against their soldiers is a violation of international humanitarian law by Russian law enforcement officers,” Lubinets explained.

16:14 The Russians fired artillery at the civilian infrastructure of the town of Seredina-Buda, Shostkinsky district, Sumy region, one person was killed, the prosecutor’s office reported.

16:46 Kiev is returning to the blackout schedule, said YASNO General Director Sergei Kovalenko.

16:29 Biden said in an interview with Time that if Ukraine is allowed to fall, then Poland, the Balkans and other countries of Eastern Europe will fall next. However, he does not believe that Kyiv should be accepted into NATO: “Ukraine should never be occupied by Russia. And this does not mean that they become part of NATO. This means that we have the same relations with them as with other countries, when we supply them with weapons so that they can defend themselves in the future. But I was the one who said that I was not ready to support the NATOization of Ukraine." Biden also added that he was in Ukraine as a senator and vice president and saw “significant corruption” and “difficult circumstances.”

15:55 Ukrenergo reported that electricity consumption limits were significantly exceeded in Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Nikolaev, Kiev and Kiev, Kirovograd, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky regions. From 14:25, emergency shutdowns were applied in these regions, and from 14:50, special emergency shutdown schedules were applied for domestic and industrial consumers. There may be interruptions in the power supply to critical infrastructure facilities.

15:16 The Cabinet of Ministers approved the Reform Matrix - a plan of changes that systematizes reforms and contains officially approved recommendations and documents of the European Commission, structural beacons of the IMF, the Plan for the Ukraine Facility program and the conditions of the World Bank.

15:07 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region - one person was wounded, a private house was damaged, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. He also said that as a result of the morning attack in the Dnieper, more than 30 private houses and 11 high-rise buildings were damaged.

15:03 In Kiev, the limits on electricity consumption have been exceeded. Emergency power outages have been introduced and schedules are not in effect, said YASNO CEO Sergei Kovalenko.

14:28 The UK and Latvia have announced a tender for the purchase of FPV drones for Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense reported.

13:59 Due to Russian attacks on the energy sector, saving electricity will be part of the daily life of Ukrainians over the next years, Shmygal said. “Our goal is to save at all levels: from large enterprises to individual houses and apartments,” the prime minister added. According to him, the situation is very difficult - more than 9 GW of generation capacity have been lost, and the enemy continues to attack energy facilities.

Shmygal also said that the government strategy includes: strengthening air defense, repairs of damaged equipment and further development of protection against drones, decentralization of the energy system, international support and cooperation, as well as energy efficiency and responsible electricity consumption.

13:24 NATO is creating a plan for the transfer of US troops to Europe in case of war with Russia, writes The Telegraph. According to the publication, several land corridors are being created, which, if necessary, will replace the main one, which involves the landing of American troops in the port of Rotterdam and their transfer to Poland through the territory of the Netherlands and Germany by rail.

13:02 The Russians shelled Veletenskoye, Kherson region, one person was killed, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. Two more people were wounded as a result of shelling in the central part of the village of Belozerka.

12:48 Peskov said that any instructors who train the Ukrainian military “have no immunity.”

11:43 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that the Defense Forces have regained lost positions in Volchansk, northeast of Kharkov. In particular, we are talking about a location along Dukhovnaya Street in the city center.

11:01 Today, power outages can last up to seven hours instead of the usual four, said YASNO CEO Sergei Kovalenko. This is due to the planned repair of two nuclear power units and the repair of the electricity import line from Slovakia.

10:49 Almost 1.4 million Ukrainians updated their data through the Reserve+ application, said Dmitry Lazutkin, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense. Among them, 190 thousand are women, more than 18 thousand live abroad, 164 thousand are reserved, more than 153 thousand are conscripts, 90 thousand have a deferment. Lazutkin also said that if those living abroad have a “wanted” status in the application, then they must personally come to Ukraine and contact the TCC.

10:25 Scholz said that strikes on Russian territory with German weapons will not lead to escalation. According to the chancellor, the decision to lift restrictions on Ukraine was carefully thought out in cooperation with “friends and allies” of Berlin. At the same time, Scholz clarified that, “as the US President said, we are only talking about the ability to protect a big city, for example Kharkov.”

09:54 The US and EU have imposed sanctions against Iran for transferring drones to Russia, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. Restrictions were applied against four organizations associated with the company Rayan Roshd Afzar (which the United States had included in the sanctions list earlier), and against the head of the Iran Aviation Industries Organization (a subsidiary of the Ministry of Defense and Logistics of the Iranian Armed Forces).

09:37 In the Kherson region over the past 24 hours, four people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the OBA, Alexander Prokudin. 15 private houses, an educational institution, a kindergarten, a pharmacy, an office building, gas pipelines, and the territory of an agricultural enterprise were damaged.

09:12 In the morning, the Russians shelled Kupyansk, Kharkov region - according to preliminary information, one person was wounded, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In addition, the night before, one person was injured as a result of enemy shelling. White Well of the Volchansk community. Another person was wounded in Kharkov - in the evening, as a result of a Russian strike on Lyubov Malaya Avenue, 30, the building of a state educational institution was damaged.

08:56 In Dnieper, the number of victims as a result of the morning rocket attack has increased to seven, among them two children, said the head of the OBA Sergei Lysak.

08:49 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 4:

personnel - about 512,420 (+1290) people,

tanks - 7794 (+15),

armored combat vehicles - 15,020 (+18),

artillery systems - 13 345 (+65),

MLRS - 1092 (+2),

air defense systems - 827 (+3),

aircraft - 357 (+0),

helicopters - 326 (+0),

Operational-tactical level UAV - 10,766 (+27),

cruise missiles - 2268 (+0),

ships/boats - 27 (+0),

submarines - 1 (+0),

automotive equipment and tank trucks - 18,228 (+69),

special equipment - 2211 (+12).

08:32 The Air Force clarified that at night the Russian Federation attacked the Dnepropetrovsk region with two Iskander-K cruise missiles fired from the territory of Crimea. Both missiles were shot down. In addition, at night the enemy used four UAVs (type to be determined) in the northern direction. Two of them were destroyed in the Chernigov region, two more “ceased to exist independently.”

07:26 The Russians launched a missile strike on the Dnieper in the morning, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. Air defense forces shot down two missiles, but as a result of falling debris, civilian infrastructure was damaged and a fire started. Six people were injured, including a baby and a 17-year-old teenager.

01:21 Swiss authorities sent about 4,000 military personnel to the city of Bürgenstock, where the Global Peace Summit will take place on June 15-16, Swissinfo writes. The military, in particular, will help the police guard critical facilities and monitor airspace. From June 13 to 17, airspace restrictions will be in effect in the summit area regarding non-commercial flights and flights of unmanned objects. The area will be constantly patrolled by F/A 18 fighters. Switzerland has allocated about $11 million to ensure security during the Peace Summit.

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