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[LB] Since the beginning of the day, the number of combat clashes has already increased to 38. Currently, 10 battles are ongoing in several different directions.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:07 Zelensky is scheduled to arrive in the Philippines late in the evening on June 2, diplomatic sources report to the local publication Rappler. Continued on Page 49
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation. Continued on Page 49
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 06/02/2024 to 00:00 06/03/2024.
A total of 35 facts of armed attacks by the UFU were recorded by the DPR
Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
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[Regnum] Military correspondent Alexander Kots reported on the start of a counter-offensive operation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). Currently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have become more active in the northern direction, he wrote in the Telegram channel.
“The enemy is now trying to suppress the control of the North group of troops. Permission for Western high-precision strikes on the border was received and immediately began to be implemented,” Kots said.
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[Regnum] In one of the Ukrainian cities, the port infrastructure was damaged. This was reported by the Ukrainian Navy on Facebook (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation; owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation).
It is noted that the port infrastructure was damaged as a result of the impact. In which exact port this happened is not specified.
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[Regnum] Russia is by far the most hacked country in the world. This was announced on May 2 on the eve of SPIEF 2024 by the chief expert of Kaspersky Lab, Sergey Golovanov.
“Russia has the largest number of information security incidents in 2023 in the world, and moreover, the chances that you will now encounter phishing or other fraud just by going online are 73-75%,” quoted his words from the Prime agency.
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[Regnum] The Pentagon has announced a tender for the purchase of books by Western authors about Russian military strategy for training US Air Force personnel. The application was posted on the American government procurement website.
The American military department decided to purchase the works of King’s College London lecturer Ofer Friedman “Strategy: the basis of Russian military strategy”, “Russia’s Grand Strategy in the Age of Global Energy Competition” by Andrew Morgan and the work of another English expert Sameul Ramani, dedicated to the conflict in Ukraine.
In addition, the Pentagon decided to buy books about the works of military classics of Ancient China, the strategy of war in space and the use of artificial intelligence in conflicts. There are six books in total in the tender, with $600 allocated for each. The tender is scheduled to be completed on June 15.
It is reported that the books, after purchase, will be delivered to Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. The Air University and the Air Force Historical Research Agency are located there. The winning vendors are required to deliver the books to the Air Force Command and General Staff College in Montgomery, Alabama, within 30 days of bid approval. The tender is carried out according to a simplified procedure.
As Regnum reported, in December 2020, the Pentagon announced its intention to purchase Russian Mi-24 or Mi-17 helicopters, as well as the An-2 aircraft. It was reported that this was needed to train military pilots in tactics courses to simulate a "realistic" enemy during exercises.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on May 18 that the acute phase of the confrontation between Russia and the West has not only not ended, but is in full swing. The minister noted the particular zeal in attacks on Russia in some European countries. The West is promoting the myth of an imaginary Russian threat to accelerate the pace of the arms race, he emphasized.
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#1 Anyways, what Pentagoners need to read are books on Russian history - so they'll realize:
(a) Russians will never give up on this particular fight.
(b) Russians, so far, were not really serious.
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(a) Russians will never give up on this particular fight.
They had a Battle of Stalingrad once already. Seems like something they might want to prevent.
(b) Russians, so far, were not really serious.
I've been wondering about that lately.
Initially, the number of troops in the Special Military Operation was limited by law - conscripts cannot be used outside the country. (In addition to being ex-KGB, Putin is also a lawyer, in case you needed another reason to hate him). But even after territories were annexed, the Russians never seemed to go all in, at least in my conception of modern, industrial warfare. No carpet bombed cities, no vast waves of tanks, planes and infantry. No complete mobilization. Not even a Thunder Run to Kiev. They seem to be playing the long game with just enough fight to get where they are headed.
[MilInUA] The latest Russian 2S43 Malva 152mm self-propelled gun was spotted on the battlefield for the first time. A break from traditional design of Russian mobile tube artillery in that it is on wheels. Likely cheaper to produce and maintain than tracked vehicles.
The corresponding photo was released by Kriegsforscher, the Marine and OSINT researcher, on his X page.
It is reported that Malva, which belongs to the 9th Artillery Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, was discovered by a long-range reconnaissance drone in the Belgorod oblast.
Recall that the Russian army received the first batch of these self-propelled guns in October 2023, and earlier, in July, Malva completed a three-year cycle of state tests.
It is known that the development of self-propelled guns began to be carried out at the Central Research Institute “Burevestnik” in the 2010s as part of the “Nabrosok” R&D project. Testing of the SPG began in 2020.
2S43 is armed with a 2A64 152mm rifled gun with a 47 calibers barrel length. It is also used in the design of the Msta-S self-propelled howitzers and its towed Msta-B variant.
The maximum range of howitzer fire with conventional high-explosive projectiles is 24.7 km and about 29 km with rocket-assisted shells.
Similar weapons, for example, the French Caesar or the Ukrainian Bohdana self-propelled guns, thanks to their longer barrels, are able to fire at a distance of up to 40 kilometers.
The open installation of the howitzer without additional armor protection or turret made it possible to facilitate the system. With 30 shells of ammunition, its weight is 32 tons. This is a quarter lighter than the tracked Msta-S.
Self-propelled guns are built on the chassis of a BAZ-6010-027 truck, which reduces the cost and accelerates the pace of its production.
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.
