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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the Russian offensive in the east and south of Ukraine.
The largest number of Russian assaults took place in the Pokrovsky direction. There, the Russians attacked in the areas of eight populated areas.
Since the beginning of the current day, 81 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The majority of battles are being fought in three directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in a report on Tuesday, June 3.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians attacked three times in the areas of Vovchansk and Vovchanskie Khutors.
In the Kupyansk direction, three enemy assaults continue near Peschanoye, Novaya Kruglyakovka and towards Stepovoye.
In the Liman direction, the aggressor attacked eight times near Kolodyazi, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and in the direction of Novy Mir.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled two enemy attacks towards Belaya Gora. One battle continues.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked eight times in the areas of Druzhba, Toretsk and in the direction of Yablunovka. Currently, one combat clash is ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction , 22 military clashes occurred in the areas of Malinovka, Yelizavetovka, Mirny, Lisovka, Udachny, Novosergeevka and in the direction of Mirolyubovka and Novomikolaevka. Two military clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the occupiers tried to break through 17 times in the areas of Constantinople, Novosyolka, Rovnopol, Volnoye Pole and in the direction of Zelenoye Pole, Novopol, Shevchenko, Komar and Bogatyr.
In the Orekhov direction, two attacks by invaders were stopped near Stepovoye and Shcherbaki.
In the Kursk direction, our defenders repelled 11 Russian attacks.
Let us recall that on June 2, Russia lost 1,100 fighters killed and wounded. At this rate, by the end of June, the total Russian losses since the beginning of the war will exceed 1 million people.
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[NewsFront] 20:50 Drone drivers of the Rubicon Center struck positions, equipment, drones and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the zone of a special military operation.
19:35 From 11:00 to 19:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
19:34 UAV operators of the 6th Army Guards of "North" group inflicted two aimed strikes, destroying the enemy armored vehicle.
18:01 The moment of interception of one of the Ukrainian BEKs during the repulse of today's attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Crimean Bridge –VIDEO.
17:29 FPV drone operators on fiber optics of the Yuzhnaya group of forces destroyed a Turkish-made Cobra-2 armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlement of Chasov Yar.
UAV crews of the mountain motorized rifle unit of the "Center" group of forces destroyed the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using Supercam reconnaissance UAVs and Molniya-2 aircraft-type attack drones in the Krasnoarmeysk direction -VIDEO.
17:05 Correction of the front line in Sumy Oblast. Assault groups of the "northerners" are advancing in the vicinity of the settlements of Vladimirovka, Vodolaghi, Belovody –MAP
16:48 Objective control of the destruction of one of the BEKs by the Lancet UAV operator during the repelling of today's enemy attacks –VIDEO.
15:46 On frames objective control, UAV operators of the 1427th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the Guards "North" inflict targeted damage on the entrance to the "hole", destroying manpower and not allowing the occupiers to infiltrate our territory.
15:13 Vladimir Putin by his Decree appropriated the title of Hero of the Russian Federation to the assistant commander for work with religious servicemen of the 2nd Separate Special Forces Brigade of the Leningrad Military District (posthumously).
14:23 Gunner of the 169th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the West group of forces, call sign "Mad" struck a tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and did not allow its crew to evacuate. The decisive actions of the serviceman did not allow the enemy to advance in the given direction.
13:14 Artillerymen of the 35th Combined Arms Army of the "East" group of forces destroyed enemy personnel, as well as their dugouts and fortified firing positions in the area of the settlement of Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhia region –VIDEO
12:56 Footage of the powerful blow of four FAB-500 on the air defense of the 117th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Novoekonomicheskoe.
12:13 Summary Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of June 3, 2025
👮♂️As a result of active operations, units of the North military group liberated the settlement of Andreyevka in Sumy Oblast.
They defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, infantry, airborne assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novaya Sich, Yunakovka, Korchakovka, Iskriskovshchina and Sadky in Sumy Oblast. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 230 servicemen, eight combat armored vehicles, six cars and four field artillery guns. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of troops took up more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Petrovka in the Khar'kov region, Vovchiy Yar, Yampol and Torskoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 220 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, 16 cars and four artillery pieces. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved their position along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, assault, airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Seversk, Serebryanka, Nikiforovka, Pazeno and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 250 servicemen, eight armored combat vehicles, seven cars, four field artillery pieces and four ammunition depots.
Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated formations of three mechanized, assault, airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novonikolaevka, Novoekonomicheskoe, Yablonovka, Novotoretske, Alekseyevka, Petrovskoye and Poltavka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 535 military personnel, three armored combat vehicles, four cars and six artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Tolstoy, Poddubnoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, Malinovka and Poltavka of the Zaporizhia region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 175 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, four cars, three field artillery pieces and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized brigade and the coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Chervona Krynitsa, Kamenskoe, Stepovoe in the Zaporizhia region and Nikolskoe in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost over 75 servicemen, 13 vehicles, five electronic warfare and reconnaissance stations, and an ammunition depot.
11:46 UAV operators of the Rubicon Center destroyed M-113 armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, foreign production.
11:44 In the period from 8.40 to 9.50 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
09:55 Attack aircraft of the 1194th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the "Southern" group of forces captured stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Seversky direction.
07:31 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
Advance in Yablonovka (DPR) and the surrounding area
Russian Armed Forces entered Kondratovka and Andreyevka➡️
Advance in the area north of Chasovy Yar
Control zone in the Yablonovka area (Sumy region) has been expanded➡️
Advance west of Otradny
07:19 In the period from 20:00 on June 2 to 7:00 Moscow time on June 3, air defense systems on duty destroyed eight Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
Three UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Two UAVs over the territories of Kursk and Belgorod regions,
One UAV over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
07:16 High voltage equipment damaged in the northwestern part of the Zaporizhia region due to night shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There is no power supply throughout the region. Healthcare facilities have been switched to backup power sources.
In addition, in the Kherson region, as a result of a massive UAV attack, more than 100,000 residents of 150 settlements were left without electricity due to an emergency power outage.
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[REGNUM] The Russian side's decision to hand over 6,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian servicemen as a gesture of goodwill was an unexpected blow to the Ukrainian goal.
Zelensky couldn't even hold back and said out loud what was best kept to himself. "As far as I know, 15% of those 6,000 were identified, it's very important to check everything, all of ours must be taken. However, we already had one moment when they handed over bodies and there they handed over, including the bodies of their own dead Russian soldiers," he said, laying down a maneuver to avoid responsibility in advance.
Alinky’s Rule #4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
Because the "humanitarian action" entails large-scale political problems. Especially since the MP from Poroshenko's "European Solidarity" Sofia Fedyna got busy, immediately announcing that it was mainly those who died in the Kursk region that were being transferred from Russia.
And this is a blow to the reputation of Zelensky, who in February 2025 stated that “we have a little more than 46 thousand dead soldiers and there are still tens of thousands missing and in captivity.”
Six thousand at once and only from one region - this is immediate noise in the press, many times more families going crazy, hoping to find their loved one, stories of the dead, unflattering revelations of the participants in the events and, of course, the need to resolve the issue of monetary compensation.
15 million hryvnia for each dead person is almost 10% of Ukraine's military budget for the entire current year, or 90 billion hryvnia. Given that, as deputies previously reported, there is already a deficit of 200 billion hryvnia in funds for the army. And the Russian side can theoretically transfer several thousand dead after each meeting.
However, the “cunning plan” regarding the excessive burden on the Ukrainian budget will not work.
Even 15% of those identified are a reason for doubt, because "Russia cannot be trusted." And for the rest, the identification procedure could drag on for a very long time, since many families of Ukrainian servicemen whose deaths have been established still cannot receive their millions.
A huge bureaucratic machine is working for this, diligently breaking any attempts to squeeze money out of the state. The sudden arrival of refrigerated cars with corpses will aggravate not financial problems, but moral and psychological ones, since all this demonstrates Ukraine's attitude to its soldiers.
And this circumstance will work, creating a real domestic political problem, pressing on the authorities' sore spot. Let's go through it in order.
AMOUNT OF PAYMENTS
In accordance with the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the state pays two amounts to the families of deceased servicemen: 15 million and 2.271 million UAH. The first payment is provided for those who died directly during combat operations, but according to the law, only 20% of the amount is paid immediately, and the rest is paid in parts over three years.
To receive it, it is necessary to have an extract from the order of the military unit and the personal file of the deceased.
The payment of 2.271 million is due to those who died in service, but not in combat. So, depending on the calculation method, the final amount varies greatly. In addition, it matters whether the soldier died from illness, suicide, alcohol poisoning, self-inflicted gunshot, or other reasons - you can indicate anything and deprive yourself of payments.
And this immediately creates a field for discontent and conflict - with its transfer to the public plane.
RECOGNITION OF DEATH
Even if we assume that the families of 15% of the identified VSEU employees will immediately begin to process the documents, this does not mean that their enterprise will be successful.
As follows from the previous point, the command of military units must provide a package of necessary documents upon request from territorial recruitment and social support centers (TRC and SP, former military registration and enlistment offices). And this takes, as the secretariat of the Ukrainian ombudsman points out, six months.
At the same time, the unit may already be disbanded, and its documents transferred to another unit - such precedents exist. One of the Ukrainian publications cites the example of Andrey Glembotsky, whose wife has been running around the authorities for a year and a half, since the military unit where the archive of his no longer existing unit is stored is not authorized to issue extracts.
In addition, it turned out that the fact of his service was not recorded.
"The command of the unit where Andrei ended up was in no hurry to register them, to include them in the lists. It is not known on what grounds they were issued weapons and ammunition, on what grounds they were sent on combat missions," cries the wife, whose time is running out - the law allows three years for all cases, and the trial, which must establish the necessary facts, can last even longer.
Now we can multiply all this by six thousand and add to this the problems with proving kinship: many have unofficial wives, some have adoptive parents, some have children with a different surname.
And if the child was born after the father's death, he cannot receive financial assistance, since he was not a member of his family. And this only multiplies the grievances.
FACTUAL DOCUMENTATION OF CRIMES
When the Ukrainian Armed Forces invaded the Kursk region in August 2024, the Ukrainian parliament had to give permission to use the army outside the country based on an appeal from the president.
But he didn’t give it, since there was no such request.
Only in January of this year, a law was passed stipulating that “during the period of martial law, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be located abroad to ensure security, defense, and repel aggression against Ukraine in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter.”
And the law, as we know, has no retroactive effect. That is, for almost half a year, according to their own Ukrainian laws, the servicemen were in an unknown place, on an unknown basis and by whose order. Consequently, the entry in the documents about the death in the Kursk region is a personal documentation of a war crime.
Naturally, Zelensky immediately refused to believe that they were giving his own people to him. And in the end it may turn out that five brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces went to a neighboring country on their own initiative and died there from a hangover, for which no one should be held responsible.
So the only way for families is to confirm the fact of death through the court based on the testimony of witnesses, as did the family of another serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexey Rubtsov, who died in Donbas. After that, they managed to obtain a death certificate and begin the long journey through the authorities.
"Collecting documents is a torment. You think that the worst has already happened, and then problems with these numerous certificates appear. Sometimes it feels like you are trying to get money out of the pockets of the employees of those institutions. And no one gives any deadlines. I am not rushing anyone now, I understand that the money is needed at the front more than I do. But now there is a war, and many people do not have the opportunity to wait long," his wife Irina tells the press.
According to her, one of the biggest problems is the duplication of certificates: they are issued for each family member separately, and each one must apply for it separately. And there are no time limits for the response - they can respond for up to a year.
And this is without the procedure of identifying bodies by DNA analysis, which will take away kilometers of nerves and the last of people’s health.
All this naturally raises the question: what was all this for? "Why did the guys die?" Why does the state mock families like that? Then, the awareness of the simple fact that Ukraine treats people like expendable material - like bullets or toilet paper - will inevitably grow and strengthen.
That hundreds of thousands of young men gave their lives for the right of their families to endure poverty and endless humiliation - without any prospect of seeing justice and a decent life.
And if this is further explained in different ways, such awareness will produce political consequences that are much more impressive than exhortations.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] On June 2, the second round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev took place. As in the first round, the Russian delegation was headed by presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky. And, again, as in the first round, Russia was able to outplay Ukraine.
Firstly, by itself, the continuation of the dialogue in the same place and format. “The Ukrainian side tried to move this meeting to any other point. To the Vatican, Geneva - all in order to break the symbolic connection with the beginning of the Istanbul negotiations in 2022,” former Verkhovna Rada deputy Spiridon Kilinkarov explains to Regnum.
In addition, Kyiv demanded that Russia replace the head of the delegation - Medinsky, in the opinion of the Ukrainian regime, was too tough. The Kremlin did not agree to any of the demands - moreover, it indicated not only the place and person, but also the date when the Ukrainian delegation should arrive in Istanbul. And the Ukrainian delegation arrived there.
Secondly, Moscow did not fall for Ukrainian provocations. The series of strikes carried out on June 1 did not make the impression on Russia that the Ukrainian leadership had hoped for.
The attacks were supposed, according to the calculations of their Kyiv and British organizers, to piss off Russia. To force the Kremlin either to refuse negotiations, or to immediately strike a retaliatory blow, or (who knows) to force the Russian side to make some unfavorable compromises with Kiev.
In general, abandon the current winning strategy of attrition and a tough, but at the same time diplomatically verified position.
Russia did not refuse. The delegation arrived, held negotiations, and handed over its draft memorandum to the Kyiv regime. After which, to avoid any misinterpretations, it was published.
The memorandum itself consists of two parts. First, how to achieve full-fledged peace. In essence, the text sets out an effective and detailed strategy for a diplomatic way out of the crisis.
The memorandum clearly reflects all the stated (and more than once) goals and objectives of the SVO, including the deoccupation of Russian territories, the demilitarization of Ukraine, the dispersal of all nationalist organizations and formations within the National Guard and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Moreover, it outlines the prospects for peaceful coexistence between Moscow and Kyiv, built on mutual respect for interests and the rejection of any Russophobia in Ukrainian foreign and domestic policy.
The Kyiv regime will have to abolish all discriminatory laws, start protecting the rights of Russian-speaking and Russian-thinking citizens, as well as their faith (for which all persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church must cease). The memorandum demands that Ukraine give the Russian language official status.
Simply put, Ukraine is being asked to voluntarily renounce its “anti-Russia” status. And not just renounce it, but also to provide guarantees that this renunciation is final and cannot be changed – after all, from the very beginning of the SVO, Moscow made it clear that it would not allow such an entity to exist near its borders.
The second part is devoted to the measures necessary to cease fire.
Unlike the Kyiv draft memorandum (where the ceasefire is just a respite that Ukraine and its European sponsors will use to rearm the Ukrainian Armed Forces and take the war to a larger scale), in the Russian proposal the ceasefire is an instrument for finally achieving peace.
In essence, the Ukrainian side is offered two options for the entry into force of the ceasefire. Either immediately withdraw troops from the occupied Russian territories, or take a series of preliminary steps, including the cancellation of mobilization, the cessation of receiving weapons and intelligence from the West, the release of political prisoners and, most importantly, the signing of a special document in which the Kiev regime undertakes to fulfill all Russian demands: to liberate the territories, denazify, demilitarize, etc.
The ceasefire will be used to hold elections in Ukraine, after which the new authorities will sign a final peace document with Moscow.
That is, to put it simply, Moscow is consistently promoting the simplest principle: first the terms of a peace agreement and guarantees that they will be observed, and only then the peace agreement itself.
If necessary, through a truce, which will be announced only after Kyiv publicly agrees to the terms of a future peace agreement. And even in this case, the truce is not eternal.
For example, according to the text of the memorandum, the Kiev regime must immediately after signing the truce lift martial law and hold elections within 100 days. After which the newly elected leader of the country will sign a peace agreement previously agreed upon and signed by the current authorities.
Yes, the Kyiv regime is not ready to sign anything now.
"The Ukrainian side is not inclined to any constructive dialogue. It is only performing a certain ritual in order not to receive the status of a state that disrupts the negotiation process," says Spiridon Kilinkarov.
And Europe, the main sponsor of the Kiev regime, is not ready to accept Russian proposals for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. "The European Union has decided for itself that they will do everything possible and impossible to ensure that these negotiations are not successful. Therefore, they write memoranda, put forward obviously unacceptable conditions and do everything to sabotage the negotiations," Kilinkarov continues.
However, few hoped for the opposite. The goal of the Russian delegation at the negotiations was not to obtain the Ukrainian signature under the peace treaty, but to create a diplomatic track that is necessary and beneficial to Moscow. With an agenda, a sequence of actions, an entourage. And Russia achieved this.
In essence, now it is only possible to resolve issues of a humanitarian nature with the Kyiv regime, and the Russian delegation resolved these issues.
It did not arrange PR for “compassionate European childless old ladies” (as Vladimir Medinsky described the demands of the Kyiv regime for the return of children allegedly kidnapped by Russia, whom Moscow was saving from Ukrainian shelling), it did not pull numbers out of thin air (the claims initially made by Kiev about one and a half million kidnapped children were transformed into a list of 339 people - and it is not a fact that all of them are on Russian territory), but it decided.
Thus, Russia agreed to exchange seriously wounded soldiers (i.e. those who will no longer be able to return to service) on the principle of all for all. It also agreed to exchange young (under 25) prisoners.
"At the same time, the overall ceiling, the limit, will be no less than a thousand people on each side. No less than a thousand, perhaps more. These figures are being finalized now," said Vladimir Medinsky.
And finally, it took the initiative to hand over to the Kiev regime 6 thousand bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, which are currently stored in Russian morgues. “We identified everything we could, conducted DNA tests, found out who they were,” explained the head of the Russian delegation.
Moreover, it is precisely to give them back, and not to exchange bodies on a one-for-one basis, as the head of the Kiev delegation, Rustem Umerov, said. Russia, unlike Ukraine, does not fight with the dead.
But Ukrainian discontent is understandable. Firstly, the release of 6 thousand dead VSEU soldiers shatters Zelensky's myths that no more than 30 thousand Ukrainians died in the war.
Secondly, the head of the Kyiv regime does not need the bodies of its fighters for financial reasons - for each one, it will have to pay multi-million dollar compensation to the families.
As a result, the second round of Istanbul negotiations showed that Russia is ready to continue to resolve humanitarian issues – however, Kyiv and Brussels should not even dream of Moscow retreating from the principles of a final resolution to the conflict (with the elimination of its root causes).
Yes, Ukraine may carry out new provocations before the third round, but they will not lead to a result. The West may threaten sanctions again – but the result will be exactly the same. Nothing will force Russia to abandon the defense of its national interests and sovereignty.
And it will not force us to return to the Minsk format – a roadmap based on Kyiv’s false promises to fulfill what it signed in the presence of Europeans.
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[Regnum] The attack by drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Russian military airfields could not have been carried out without American satellite communications. This was stated by former French army officer Guillaume Ancel in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde.
"This is possible and conceivable only with the support of a powerful satellite communications system. Since the Ukrainians do not have such experience, if they were able to act remotely, this is certainly a credit to the United States," he noted.
The former military man also expressed confidence that Washington continues to transmit intelligence to Kyiv about the location of strategic facilities on Russian territory.
Ansel suggested that US President Donald Trump was thus sending a "signal" to Russia.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the Kiev regime carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. The attacks were carried out using FPV drones, which are controlled by an operator using real-time video.
All attacks on military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled. All fires were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities. The Defense Ministry also added that some of the participants in the terrorist attacks were detained.
"To all those who are worried and expecting retribution. You need to worry - this is a characteristic of a normal person. Retribution is inevitable," Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel.
He called for remembering that Russian troops are currently continuing their active offensive.
“Everything that is supposed to explode will certainly explode, and those who are supposed to be exterminated will disappear,” Medvedev wrote.
The negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul are needed not for a compromise peace “on unrealistic conditions,” but for the speedy victory of Russia and the complete destruction of the neo-Nazi government in Kyiv; this is the meaning of the Russian memorandum on the settlement of the conflict, the deputy chairman of the Security Council emphasized.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Kiev regime had committed a terrorist attack using FPV drones against five Russian airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. Fires broke out at two airfields. They were extinguished, there were no casualties. Some of the participants in the terrorist attacks were detained.
The Russian Federation's memorandum on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, published on June 2, assumes, in particular, the Kiev regime's refusal to join NATO, the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the territories of regions that returned to Russia in 2022, confirmation of Ukraine's non-nuclear status, and ensuring the rights and freedoms of the Russian-speaking population, as well as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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How do you know they didn't get the intel while Biden was still in office?
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The attack ... could not have been carried out without American satellite communications
Maybe. Maybe not.
By treaty, the bombers in question must be out in the open for verification. Commercial satellite imagery is readily available.
The comm links between the drones and operators could have been digital radio locally, or via cell phone for longer distances.
tl;dr: It was a brilliant operation, but carried out with off-the-shelf parts. It would be unsurprising to learn the Ukrainian intel service had some outside help.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.
[ColonelCassad] Satellite images of the airfield in Ivanovo (taken on June 3) appeared after an attempt to attack the airfield with kamikaze drones launched from special trucks. The images do not show any serious damage to the airfield or damaged/burned aircraft.
The planes are still parked in the open, as before.
This confirms that the aircraft were lost at airbases in the Irkutsk and Murmansk regions. The truck did not reach Ukrainka in the Amur region. Judging by the photos, everything is fine in Ivanovo.
Photos of the airfield in the Ryazan region (but according to reports on June 1, they also fought back there) and in Olenegorsk, where a number of aircraft were hit, have not yet been published.
In general, there are certainly no 40 destroyed aircraft. In reality, 12-14 aircraft were damaged at two airfields, some of which were destroyed, some were out of action for lengthy repairs.
I predict that the loss of several Tu-95MS in the coming months will force the program of replacing Tu-95s with Tu-160s, which was stretched out until 2035-2040, to be accelerated.
We currently produce four Tu-160s per year. At this rate, replacing retired and simply outdated aircraft is, frankly speaking, not a quick matter. But we will have to speed up - strategists are needed one way or another, because it is unclear when the PAK DA will be there again.
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