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[Regnum] The abnormal heat in Moscow will be brought down by a cold front, which is expected over the region after June 10. This was stated on Thursday, June 5, by forecaster, expert of the forecasting center "Meteo" Alexander Ilyin in a conversation with IA Regnum.
The Russian Hydrometeorological Center told TASS that an orange weather alert will be issued in Moscow from June 7 to 10 due to heat of +30…32 ℃. It is specified that the weather will be unstable and short-term rains and thunderstorms are quite possible during these days.
"Abnormally hot days are expected. The temperature will become very high, under +30 degrees on Sunday-Monday, maybe even above +30. In this regard, the fire hazard increases, in the coming days, maybe even tomorrow, there is a possibility of thunderstorm activity. Therefore, many different dangers arise," the weather forecaster said.
He stressed that hot weather over the Moscow region will last from June 6 to June 9–10, after which a cold front will arrive and reduce all the heat. Thus, the front will reduce the abnormal heat and the danger will be minimized.
"A cold front is expected somewhere on Tuesday. Most likely, the temperature will drop by 8-10 degrees. If on the weekend and on Monday it is somewhere around 30-32 ℃, even hotter in the sun, then, accordingly, after the cold front passes, the air can cool down to 18-23 ℃. That is, the maximum temperature will decrease," Ilyin said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 4, the head of the Russian Hydrometeorological Center Roman Vilfand said that there is a 90% chance that this year could be among the top three in terms of the highest temperature. He also noted that from 2025 to 2029, the average temperature on Earth will increase by 1.5 degrees. Each additional fraction of a degree of warming can lead to more dangerous heat waves, extreme rainfall, severe droughts and melting glaciers, Vilfand explained.
According to the head of the Hydrometeorological Center, air temperatures in June in 80% of Russia's territory are expected to be close to the average norm, and only in some regions of the country are they expected to be above the norm.
Vilfand explained that it is impossible to predict the "hottest" summer; meteorology simply does not have such methods. He suggested asking those who promise extreme heat where one can get acquainted with their forecasting method.
Heavy winged long range drones, Iranian designed, manufactured by Iran and Russia.
Enemy monitoring resources report over 120 strike UAVs in the skies over the Outskirts, with more Geranium groups on the way.
The enemy is expecting one of the most massive strikes ever.
"The enemy continues to spread fakes about the attack on airfields. This video, made on the engine of the computer game Arma3, is being distributed in Western social networks.
The goal is to make the average person believe in the thesis about the destruction of exactly 40 aircraft."
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MOSCOW, June 6 — RIA Novosti. Russian military launched a massive strike on Ukraine in response to the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks last night, the Defense Ministry reported.
"Tonight, in response to the terrorist acts of the Kyiv regime, the Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range air, sea and land-based weapons, as well as attack UAVs," the department said.
Targets hit:
design bureaus;
enterprises for the production and repair of weapons and military equipment;
attack drone assembly shops;
flight crew training centers;
warehouses of weapons and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The strike's objective was achieved; all designated targets were hit, the department emphasized.
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Oh, there's an escalation path. Sane people don't want to go there but it's there.
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After 3+ years of threats Russia is suddenly going to go nuclear, with all the international baggage that includes? Nuclear Germany, Poland and Sweden for starters. Yeah, it's there. In theory.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in fierce battles in the east and south of Ukraine.
Most of the fighting is taking place in the Pokrovsk direction. There, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have already stopped 38 Russian attacks.
Since the beginning of the day, 99 combat clashes have occurred on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report on Thursday, June 5.
Thus, in the Kharkov direction, the Russians are trying to advance in the Vovchansk area. The battle is currently ongoing there.
In the Kupyansk direction, two enemy attempts to advance forward in the areas of the settlements of Zapadnoye and Petrovpavlovka were successfully stopped.
In the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 12 times in the areas of the settlements of Grekovka, Novy Mir, Ridkodub, Karpovka, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and in the direction of Grigorovka. Currently, fighting continues in three locations.
In the Seversky direction, three military clashes took place near Verkhnekamyansky. One battle is not over yet.
In the Kramatorsk direction, two military clashes occurred in the areas of Chasovy Yar and Kurdyumovka. One military clash continues.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 assaults near the settlements of Dilievka, Toretsk, Nelipovka, Shcherbinovka and in the direction of the settlements of Aleksandro-Kalinovoye, Yablunovka, Rusin Yar. Two combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers carried out 42 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Mirolyubovka, Malinovka, Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Zvirove, Udachnoye, Kotlin, Novosergeevka, Novoaleksandrovka, Gorikhovoe, Novoukrainka, Andreyevka and in the direction of Pokrovsk and Alekseyevka. The defense forces have already repelled 38 assaults.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Russians attacked 13 times near the settlements of Bogatyr, Konstantinopol, Rivnepol, Novosyolka, Zelenoe Pole and in the direction of Alekseyevka. One attack is still ongoing.
In the Gulyai-Polye direction, the enemy unsuccessfully attempted to break through the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ defenses in the Malinovka area five times.
In the Orekhov direction, the invaders carried out four unsuccessful attacks near Stepovoye, Malye Shcherbaki and in the direction of Novoandrievka.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy once unsuccessfully tried to approach the fortifications of our defenders.
In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled seven attacks by Russian troops.
Let us recall that on June 4, Russia lost almost 1,000 fighters killed and wounded in one day. The total number of Russian losses will soon exceed 1 million people.
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[NewsFront] 20:51 Successful clearing of residential buildings in Fyodorovka in the Velikonovoselovsky direction by Russian fighters —video. 20:35 Forward units received another batch of necessary equipment
A serviceman with the call sign "Lord" personally came to collect the valuable cargo straight from the front. His task is to deliver the vehicles to his unit. On the way to the humanitarian aid collection site, he took his son with him.
“I came with my son so that he could see and so that the growing generation could understand what tasks his father was performing,” the fighter shared.
The donated SUVs and motorcycles are particularly valuable to assault units, as they allow for the rapid delivery of ammunition and personnel to the front lines.
19:50 Units of the "Vostok" group continue break through the enemy's defenses and advance in the Komar area.
Southwest of Komar, our units entered Fyodorovka and began to storm it, bypassing the enemy's fortified area between Vesyoloye and Fyodorovka across the Mokrye Yaly River. Before the attack, the enemy in the village and fortified area was subjected to complex fire damage by artillery, aviation, and UAV crews.
18:40 Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted strike on Rylsk. The attack hit an apartment building and private homes. In the alley of Rosa Luxemburg and Frunze streets, several more residential buildings were damaged by the shock wave, and the windows of a non-working bakery were knocked out.
Six people were injured, the 83-year-old victim is in serious condition. They are receiving all necessary medical care.
17:40 Servicemen of the "East" group of forces deployed pontoon crossing in the South Donetsk direction
The crossing was organized to create a sustainable logistics system and rapid delivery of ammunition and food from rear areas to the front line.
An unmanned boat was used to camouflage the crossing. It accompanied the pontoon, creating a smoke screen.
16:30 From 13:25 to 15:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
- Two UAVs - over the Black Sea,
- One UAV - over the territory of the Belgorod region.
15:05 From 12.15 to 13.00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
14:20 In the DPR, UAV units of the 20th Army discovered enemy stronghold in a forest plantation. The FPV drone crew of the Rubicon Center destroyed the detected target with a precise hit.
13:45 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of 06/05/2025
Units of the North Forces Group inflicted defeat of concentrations of manpower and equipment of the mechanized, two airborne assault, Jaeger brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an assault center of special operations forces in the areas of the settlements of Korchakovka, Varachino, Khrapovshchina, Pisarevka, Vorozhba, Yunakovka, Sadki and Velykyi Prikol in Sumy Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 180 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, six cars, four field artillery pieces and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of two mechanized, assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk, Glushchenkovo, Borovaya, Peschanoye, Olgovka, Andreyevka in the Khar'kov region, Kirovsk and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 195 servicemen, three tanks, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, a UK-made Snatch armored combat vehicle, 10 vehicles, and two Western-made artillery pieces. Eight ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Southern" group of troops improved the situation along the front line. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, motorized infantry, assault, airmobile and mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Nikiforovka, Ivanopolye, Fedorovka, Konstantinovka, Nelepovka and Pleshcheyevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 240 servicemen, an Italian-made Puma armored personnel carrier, eight vehicles, six artillery pieces, including three NATO-made ones. An electronic warfare station, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counterbattery radar station, and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of four mechanized, two airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Petrovskoye, Udachnoye, Kotlino, Novonikolayevka, Novosergeyevka, Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 500 troops, seven armored combat vehicles, including a US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, eight pickup trucks and six field artillery pieces, including a British-made 155mm FH-70 towed howitzer.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a naval infantry brigade in the areas of the settlements of Zaporozhye, Karl Marx, Komar and Fedorovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 195 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, three cars, four field artillery pieces and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, a coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and three territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Kamenskoye, Pavlovka, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, Stepovoye in the Zaporizhia region, Krupitsa and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 90 servicemen, nine vehicles, two self-propelled artillery units, two Grad multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles, six electronic warfare stations and three ammunition depots.
12:40 Artillerymen are delivering crushing blows to the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
– The 122mm D-30 gun crew of the Dnepr troop group destroyed a dugout with an enemy UAV crew in the Orekhov direction.
– The 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer crews of the Vostok group of forces carried out targeted strikes on temporary deployment points of Ukrainian formations in the area of the village of Zeleny Kut in the South Donetsk direction.
12:10 Around 9.45 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
11:20 On the border of Sumy region, servicemen of the 22nd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the North group of forces evacuated destroyed foreign equipment of Ukrainian militants.
Among the captured items were:
- Two M1 Abrams tanks,
- Two International MaxxPro armored personnel carriers,
- One Stryker armored fighting vehicle,
- One Challenger recovery vehicle.
10:17 For shelling civilians in the village of Pogrebki in the Kursk region, to a long prison term sentenced VFU grenade launcher
The evidence collected by the Main Military Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation was found by the court to be sufficient to sentence a serviceman of military unit A-3283 (17th Separate Tank Brigade), grenade launcher, senior soldier Sergei Stokoz. He was found guilty of committing a terrorist act in the Kursk region (subparagraphs "a" and "c" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
10:15 UAV operators GV "Sever" destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry at the border with Sumy Oblast, — video.
9:45 Ukrainian drones twice attacked a car with a film crew from Zvezda in Oleshky, Kherson region. The car burned down, the escort was injured.
9:35 Drone Drivers continue a series of precise strikes
– Special forces servicemen of the “West” group of forces, using attack drones, eliminated an enemy UAV crew, as well as repeaters that increase the range of enemy unmanned aircraft.
– Drone operators of the reconnaissance battalion of the Center group of forces supported the offensive actions of the assault groups.
– FPV drone operators of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ communications antenna and disrupted the rotation of enemy units in the Konstantinovka area.
9:05 Units of the West group of forces are developing offensive on the Ivanovo-Makeyevka bridgehead.
Russian assault units are fighting in Karpovka. The enemy is aware of the consequences of our troops' further advance westward in the direction of the Oskol River.
From the direction of Lipovoye, our units advanced to Zelenaya Dolina and took up positions on the near approaches to the village from the north and west. As a result, taking into account the cutting of the road to Shandrigolovo by our units to the south, this led to the virtual encirclement of the village. Between the northern and southern envelopments, the enemy has 1.3 km of pocket neck left.
North of Redkodub, the Russian Armed Forces advanced in the direction of Novy Mir to the Krasnoyarskoye farmstead, and to the south, they expanded their control of the territory on the approaches to Karpovka along the heights.
Northwest of Novomikhaylovka – battles for strongholds on the approaches to Novy Mir from the eastern side.
Fighting in the eastern part of the settlement of Kolodezi and for the settlement of Mirnoye with a section of the dam, which the enemy continues to control.
The enemy has become active in the area of the settlement of Torskoye. Our units are repelling counterattacks. Fierce fighting is underway.
8:25 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed 30 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 15 – over the territory of the Rostov region,
– 11 – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
– Two – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– One each over the territories of the Moscow region and Kursk region
. 8:10 Calculation of the 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer destroyed enemy UAV control point in the Orekhov direction.
Russian paratrooper artillerymen fired from a closed firing position at a range of over 20 kilometers. The enemy was detected and the gun fire was subsequently adjusted using aerial reconnaissance equipment from the unmanned aircraft units of the formation.
8:00 From 22:00 Moscow time on June 4 until 0:00 Moscow time on June 5 by air defense systems on duty destroyed 29 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
– 15 – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
– 11 – over the territory of the Rostov region,
– Three – over the territory of the Voronezh region.
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[REGNUM] In Ukraine, there is a new round of dispossession of Zelensky's iconic political rivals. This time, it is Petro Poroshenko, who was crushed by an elephant. And this is no joke.
Having fallen under personal sanctions, one of the richest people in the country and its former president decided to save his property from arrest and confiscation by formalizing it by dividing everything the family owns. At the end of March of this year, the ex-president's wife Marina filed a lawsuit in the Kryzhopolsky Court of thell Vinnytsia Region demanding that all the property acquired with Petro be divided and that she be given what she claims.
And the claims were estimated at 17 billion hryvnia.
Here are shares of enterprises, cash, and real estate. First of all, a controlling stake in an investment fund that lays golden eggs in the form of dividends: 1.6 billion hryvnia for 2024 alone.
According to the wording of the lawsuit, the husband was supposed to be left with a 2021 Honda motorcycle, a semi-trailer, a four-year-old Volvo, a share in a company that has been in a state of cessation of operations since 2016, 3.19 billion hryvnia in cash for a simple, modest life, as well as several paintings and an elephant sculpture by Salvador Dali, purchased in 2012 at a Sotheby's auction for $338.5 thousand.
And of the nearly fifty works of art listed in her husband’s declaration, Marina Poroshenko wanted to keep 32 for herself, including works by Russian artists Korovin, Polenov, Levitan and Bryullov – despite the proclaimed policy of “decolonization” and separation from the terrible past associated with Russia.
As of the date of the claim, the value of the art objects was estimated at more than 100 million euros. A trifle compared to Marina's property, but still nice.
Although in this family there are no trifles when it comes to money. Therefore, the oligarch's wife demanded and returned from the state 15 thousand hryvnia (about 28 thousand rubles), spent on filing a lawsuit against her husband.
"The lawsuit on division of property is a general tactic of protecting the Poroshenko family from Zelensky's attempts to block Petro Poroshenko's ability to finance assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and political activities. Since Zelensky, with his decree on sanctions, prohibited Petro Poroshenko from making any transactions, even paying taxes, the financing of the Poroshenko Charitable Foundation can only be unblocked through a corresponding court decision," this is how the press service of Poroshenko's European Solidarity party explained what is happening, but is in no hurry to explain anything about the 15 thousand hryvnias taken from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
And it seems that the idea of a fictitious division of everything “acquired through backbreaking labor” could result in new accusations of fraud.
The court closed the proceedings because there was no subject of dispute between the spouses, but only an oral agreement on the division of property. And against the backdrop of the lawsuit, the couple exchanged touching photos on social networks, demonstrating love and mutual respect, which confirmed the business basis of the divorce.
In addition, the above-mentioned private collection of paintings was recognized by the State Bureau of Investigation in 2020 as material evidence in a criminal case on smuggling, tax evasion, laundering of property obtained by criminal means, and forgery of security documents. So the attempt to rescue the property "to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine" is not counted.
And the former president of Ukraine came under the sights of Ukrainian security forces literally immediately after he lost power.
Let us recall that in 2019 he lost the next presidential elections with a bang. At first, the motive of the new "green" government to persecute Poroshenko was justified by the fact that Zelensky, during the election campaign in the style of "stadium - so stadium" promised a lot and thickly to deal with the corruption of his predecessor.
In some remote places in Ukraine, remnants of election posters are still hanging around: “Spring will come - we will plant!”
Then the grip of the new government, dizzy with success, permissiveness and impunity, weakened, and Poroshenko was left alone for a while. But after visiting the British intelligence office in October 2020, Zelensky made a 180-degree turn in ideological terms. And the ex-president turned out to be his direct competitor in cultivating the nationalist electorate.
They took on him with renewed vigor.
They dug up dirt on him - cooperation with the main pro-Russian politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, secret trade with the DPR-LPR, indirect financing of the Russian army through paying taxes to his candy factory in Lipetsk, illegal appropriation of state oil pipeline networks and much more.
All these criminal cases, and there are more than a dozen of them, threaten Poroshenko with the complete confiscation of the enormous fortune that he has accumulated over the years in power - he stole, caroled, robbed, took away, and raided.
And then personal sanctions arrived, under which a simple Ukrainian oligarch could lose everything. As a result, the family went for a fictitious division of property and money.
Although the persecution of the ex-president is not the fight against corruption that Zelensky promised his supporters at the dawn of his political career.
Suitcases of cash confiscated during searches at medical commissions, TCCs and military commissars, huge shortages of foreign aid money, constant scandals with purchases of everything and anything for the Ukrainian Armed Forces at inflated prices, holes in the budget, wild news about the number of the most expensive cars in the world imported to Ukraine and even the country's constantly growing corruption rating - all this testifies to the fact that no one is fighting corruption. Moreover, it has simply been successfully led.
The sanctions against Poroshenko are just a primitive and banal competitive struggle for the electorate. Here is what one of the leading Ukrainian media resources, Novoye Vremya, which is in the orbit of the "Sorosites", wrote:
"Amid the uncertainty of the war in Ukraine, the "shaping operations" continue. The goal is clear - to create a political landscape that, if elections are held, will allow Volodymyr Zelensky to have an opponent who is easy to defeat..."
Poroshenko, who has a whole network of opinion leaders, "talking heads", experts of all stripes, is quite good at snapping back. The publication Eadaily broadcast the sedition that "Poroshenko's people organized a powerful campaign called "President Zelensky's powers have ended", and there are no grounds like "martial law" that allow him to rule in violation of the term allotted by the constitution.
Also, having a long experience of political intrigue, the “gray-haired hetman” is trying to attract famous people to his political team, for example, making plans to put the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny into politics.
And since Poroshenko has pretty good connections with the European political establishment, he continued to go to all sorts of political events in the EU. And now he has enough strength to shake up Europe if prison looms over him.
It will be quite problematic for Zelensky to imprison an unloved opponent. And is it necessary? It is easier to pluck Petro Oleksiyovych like a chicken, depriving him of money, TV channels, blocking his pocket speakers from speaking on central channels. And the experience of the confrontation between Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko shows that imprisoning an opponent who lost the election battle will not benefit, but harm the winner: a sitting political competitor instantly turns into an electorally resourceful leader of the "opposition".
Therefore, we predict that the matter will end with just a small fright, everyday problems and banking difficulties.
The political landscape of Ukraine will not change from these fights of spiders in a jar. Only the owner of certain wealth, resources and opportunities can change. After all, Zelensky and his entourage use the topic of fighting corruption as a screen for dispossession of the rich, emptying other people's money bags, degreasing all those who have at least something stuck to their hands, and robbing ordinary rank-and-file entrepreneurs.
For this purpose, a rather effective, albeit primitive, scheme was devised: personal sanctions against one’s own citizens.
The businessmen Boguslaevs, politicians Novinsky, Medvedchuk, Zhevago, Shufrich, Boyko, various owners of very profitable businesses - casinos, rich smugglers and thieves in law - were caught in the crossfire.
Some of them said that they were offered a bribe to remove their name from the sanctions list. In particular, influential businessman and smuggler Seyar Kurshutov, according to whom "security officials trade places on the sanctions list, even if a person had no chance of getting there. They call businessmen... instill fear, and then offer to remove you from the list."
The Ukrainian publication “Strana UA”, citing Kurshutov, also cites the “anti-sanction price” – from 100,000 to 3 million dollars.
In general, Zelensky's time is passing under the motto "rob the loot". Young boys in beautiful suits, girls with a dubious reputation, stand-up comedians from "95th quarter", who went to parliament, the government and the presidential office in 2019, turned out to be no better than the post-Maidan power of Poroshenko. And considering their role in bringing a huge 40-million country to suicide, they cannot be compared with the power of a huckster, a profiteer and a thief.
The elephant Dali may be confiscated from Poroshenko. But the country will not be saved.
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[Regnum] The family of the teenager who desecrated the St. George ribbon in Obninsk does not yet know that the Investigative Committee will deprive them of Russian citizenship. The schoolboy's mother, Roxana, is very worried about her son's actions: the woman understands the seriousness of the situation, because both of her great-grandfathers fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, and her family has great respect for the symbols of Russia and Victory Day.
She trusts the decision of the investigative bodies and does not yet know whether she will challenge it. Roxana, the mother of the teenager who trampled the St. George ribbon in Obninsk,told Regnum News Agency about this.
On June 4, it became known that the families of the children who desecrated the St. George ribbon in Obninsk would be stripped of their Russian citizenship. This was announced by the Minister of Internal Policy of the Kaluga Region, Oleg Kalugin. According to him, the regional department of the Investigative Committee is currently working on this issue. Kalugin specified that the foreigners had received Russian passports quite recently, and after the scandal that had occurred, they had left Russia.
Journalists from Regnum News Agency managed to contact Roxana, the mother of one of the teenagers who trampled the St. George ribbon. She, her son and family are currently in their homeland in Tajikistan. According to the woman, they do not yet know anything about the Investigative Committee's decision to deprive her family of Russian citizenship.
"We have not been informed about this decision yet. Will we challenge this decision? It is difficult to answer now. When we receive official notification and a decision from the Investigative Committee of Russia, then we will look at the situation and think about what to do with it," Roxana told IA Regnum.
According to the woman, she deeply regrets her son's actions and regrets not having looked after him. Roxana emphasized that she strongly condemns such displays of disrespect for symbols associated with Russia and Victory Day. The woman noted that both her great-grandfathers, as well as her husband's grandfathers, fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War.
"I am very sorry about the situation that happened, about my son's actions. If I didn't regret it, I wouldn't repent of it, you understand? I didn't raise my children to insult the symbols of Russia, the symbols of those people who fought at that time, because my grandfathers also fought - my two great-grandfathers fought in the Great Patriotic War. And my husband's grandfathers also fought. This is not only the symbols of Russia, this is the symbols of the USSR, the USSR included 15 republics, including ours," Roxana emphasized.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 10, in the city of Obninsk in the Kaluga Region, teenagers trampled a flag with the St. George ribbon, a symbol of military glory, installed on one of the houses. The incident occurred on the territory of the residential complex "Cosmos 2.0", on Tabulevich Street. According to local residents, the participants in the incident do not live in this residential complex and were visiting it as guests that day.
The schoolchildren's actions caused a wide public outcry. During interrogation, the schoolchildren stated that they did not understand why they were taken to the police station. The children claimed that they simply wanted to block the fountain with a flag and did not mean anything bad. The teenagers and their parents publicly apologized for their actions and promised not to do anything similar in the future.
A criminal case was opened on the fact of the incident under the article on desecration of symbols of military glory of Russia (part 3 of article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). It soon became clear that the teenagers were children of natives of Tajikistan, who had recently received Russian citizenship. On May 11, the Regnum news agency reported that the Investigative Committee would check the legality of obtaining citizenship by these families. The Investigative Committee opened another case under the article on negligence (article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)
At the same time, neighbors of the scandalous family told IA Regnum that the children had previously demonstrated aggressive behavior. Thus, the mother of one of the pupils of the kindergarten reported that the younger brother of the teenager detained in Obninsk for desecrating the St. George ribbon threatened to bring a knife to the kindergarten to kill other children.
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[Regnum] The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced a search for the alleged participant in the attack on Russian military airfields, Artem Timofeev. The corresponding information appeared in the ministry's database on June 5.
“Reason for search: wanted under the Criminal Code,” follows from Timofeev’s card in the agency’s wanted list database.
However, it is not specified under what article Timofeev is wanted.
On June 3, the Ust-Kut city administration reported that a man born in 1987 was suspected of involvement in the drone attack on the Belaya military airfield near Irkutsk. Descriptions of Timofeev were sent to all departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the Kiev regime, using FPV drones, carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. All attacks by enemy drones in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled. Several aircraft caught fire in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions. The fires were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities.
As Irkutsk Region Governor Igor Kobzev specified, the UAVs in the region were launched from a truck. Later, an eyewitness in Olenegorsk, Murmansk Region, added that drones also flew out of a truck there. Later, Belarusian driver Anton Matskevich told how he and other truckers who found themselves in a parking lot in the Usolsky District of Irkutsk Region tried to prevent drones from flying out of a parked truck.
The head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, claimed responsibility for the drone attacks. He called it a “unique operation” that had been in preparation for more than a year and a half. According to Zelensky, 117 drones were involved in the attacks.
Following a telephone conversation on June 4 with Russian President Vladimir Putin, American leader Donald Trump said that Moscow intends to respond to the Kiev regime's massive attack on Russian airfields.
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[Regnum] The planes were not destroyed during the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Russian airfields on June 1. They were damaged and will be repaired, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS.
"The equipment in question, as was also stated by representatives of the Ministry of Defense, was not destroyed, but damaged. It will be restored," the diplomat said.
Ryabkov emphasized that "there is nothing close" to what the Kiev regime claimed when presenting the results of its attack. It is necessary to follow and trust the data officially disseminated by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Deputy Foreign Minister pointed out.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, after a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 4, American leader Donald Trump emphasized that Moscow intends to respond to the Kiev regime’s massive attack on Russian airfields.
Trump found it useful to learn Putin's opinion on Kiev's recent terrorist attacks on Russian regions, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on June 4.
In a telephone conversation with Trump, the Russian leader emphasized that Kyiv was trying to disrupt the negotiations in Istanbul by striking civilian targets, Ushakov noted.
On June 1, the Kiev regime carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. The attacks were carried out using FPV drones, which are controlled by an operator via video link in real time.
All attacks on military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled. Fires broke out in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, they were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities. The Ministry of Defense reported that some of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks were detained.
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[RIA] Modern American political culture will go down in history as a turning point, says Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the international media group "Russia Today" and the RT TV channel, in her Telegram channel.
"Modern American political culture will go down in history as a turning point, of course. Like the English Industrial Revolution. Only in reverse. But it's fun to watch," she wrote.
There was a public spat between American entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump over the head of state's proposed large-scale bill to cut federal spending. Musk called the proposal "disgusting abomination" and called for "killing the bill." Trump responded by saying he was disappointed with Musk because he "did a lot for him." Musk then expressed the opinion that it was thanks to him that Trump became president and the Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress.
Following the spat with the president, Musk's Tesla stock prices fell nearly 9% at the opening of trading on Wall Street on Thursday.
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.
