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The strikes on Iran continue, their targets are air defense and radar systems
▪️This was reported by Fox News, citing an American official.
▪️The following targets were reportedly attacked:
➖ Naval bases in Sirik, Jask, and Bandar Abbas
➖ Coastal missile positions in the cities of Minab and Kashmar
➖ The port of Kashmar.
▪️US officials said that American forces attacked Iranian air defense and radar systems in the area of the Strait of Hormuz.
▪️These strikes are a warning to Tehran and are not expected to hinder efforts to negotiate an end to the conflict, according to CNN.
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Part I
Its launch record, already far from the most successful, has been completely reset to zero – the last flight failed to put a satellite into orbit due to problems with the second stage.
(c) The Little Ordinary Man
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Kallas intimidates the Irish with a Russian invasion.
'Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality is not being questioned, but neutrality does not protect against the threats that Europe is facing today. No European country is excluded from Russia's list of potential targets.'
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Russian satellites cause GPS disruptions across Europe, — NYT
▪️According to new research conducted by scientists specializing in GPS technology, as well as data from a US Air Force briefing, Russian satellites have repeatedly caused short-term — lasting several seconds — GPS signal disruptions across Europe.
▪️The European Union conducted an investigation into these incidents, but its results are classified, said an EU press secretary.
▪️Researchers have recorded 75 disruptions since 2019.
▪️Scientists have not been able to determine whether the Russian side knows that its satellite signals are interfering with GPS, but they are concerned that this activity could continue unchecked for years and disrupt the operation of the technology.
▪️Typically, jamming works by creating a noise signal at the same frequency as the GPS signal, or close to it.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia hit 10 enterprises in Kiev that produce military products, including attack UAVs - Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN
- Russia will achieve its goals by military means until Zelensky fully realizes the error of his course, said Nebenzia.
- Zelensky's open letter to Putin is a clumsy provocation.
- There can be no talk of real negotiations with Ukraine as long as Kiev speaks the language of rudeness.
- The situation in Ukraine is getting worse and worse, essentially it's the destruction of the Ukrainian people.
- Western countries are ready to shower Zelensky with riches just to prevent him from ending the conflict in Ukraine.
- Civilian residents in Ukraine are becoming victims of the indiscriminate work of Ukrainian air defense systems, which are deployed in residential areas in violation of the norms of International Humanitarian Law.
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In Spain, they prefer to fight until the last Ukrainian. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jose Manuel Albarez Bueno.
‘Regardless of the military situation, we cannot accept the principle that the aggressor is rewarded for his aggression. We must defend the independence, democracy, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Therefore, we, like all other Europeans, are determined to support Ukraine so that it can win not only the war, but above all — peace.’
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😂In Odessa, while the police were arresting another citizen, an unknown hero stole their car.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Even if the US gives the Ukraine all the new missiles for Patriot, they still won't be enough against Russian ballistics, — Defense Express
▪️According to Ukrainian analysts, Russia produces up to 113 ballistic, aerobalistic, and hypersonic missiles per month, for the interception of which the Ukraine needs Patriot systems.
▪️In turn, the American company Lockheed Martin is currently producing about 52 PAC-3 MSE missiles per month for these systems.
▪️Even if all of them were sent to the Ukraine, it would not be enough.
▪️The situation is further complicated by the reduction of American reserves due to the conflict in the Middle East.
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Pashinyan's party DOES NOT REACH 50% in Armenia after processing votes from 98% of polling stations, reports the Armenian Central Election Commission.
707,858 voters (49.82%) voted for it. This is less than what is required for a single party to form a government.
It was too early for Pashinyan to declare himself the winner, when the CEC had only processed 10% of the ballots.
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A strike by a Ukrainian kamikaze drone "Bliskavka-2" (a copy of "Molniya-2") with a Starlink terminal on a civilian car on the Donetsk Ring Road (DKAD).
The last photo for comparison.
Ukrainians attack anything, there is never a thought to civilian or military.
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Last week, footage went viral online, outdoing any Hollywood special effects with one hand.
During preparations for the test burn, the heavy (bordering on super-heavy) New Glenn rocket, developed by billionaire Bezos's private company, exploded. And this incident has dealt a devastating blow to operational activities. And it would be one thing if only the private company's plans were affected! The problem for the US is far more serious.
Let's go through it step by step. What exactly happened? A procedure that is completely absent from Russian spaceflight as such: a pre-launch 'burn-through' of the rocket. It's simply not how we do things; historically, many types of rockets were designed with mechanisms like 'pyrotechnic latches on the valve' - simple and reliable, it opens once and that's it, the fuel is on its way… The Russian school of design achieves its famous reliability in slightly different ways. But in the US, the tradition is precisely this: some time before launch, the rocket is brought out, fuelled, and a test of the first stage's engines is conducted while they are still assembled. Then they remove it, inspect it and put it back on the launch pad. It was at this stage that the "explosion" occurred. A rather significant one, even by space programme standards.
This rocket is just far too complicated! It needs to supply several different types of fuel, oxidiser and special reagents at once. Liquid oxygen is understandable enough. Liquefied methane is already trickier than conventional kerosene. Liquid hydrogen for the upper stage, an extremely treacherous gas that gleefully seeps through any poorly designed seals, its molecule being far too small. To top it all off, the rocket also needs concentrated peroxide. Not for spinning up the turbopumps, as in the Soviet school, but for the individual attitude control engines of the first stage, as a monopropellant. It seems that something in this mix developed a leak, which was followed by a fire on the outside of the rocket. It could not end well.
But the most damaging thing for Bezos's space business is not the explosion itself, but the severe damage to the launchpad. The launch pad for this rocket is exceptionally complex, and it has taken a severe beating. This is another time to talk about the difference in design schools and the accumulated engineering experience.
The thing is, in the US all rockets – and consequently satellites – are strictly vertical. They are assembled vertically in cyclopean hangars, experience vertical loads, have their fairings fitted, and the rocket is then taken to the launch pad. Vertically, standing up. This is the "rich man's solution" – it requires significantly larger assembly and preparation facilities for the rocket itself. But the launch pad is simpler, and the requirements for the satellites and the rockets themselves are lower – the loads are never turned horizontal, in principle. We, on the other hand, have all seen a rocket being rolled out to the launch pad. It is assembled horizontally and then verticalised right on the launch pad. This is the scheme Bezos's engineers decided to implement, so as not to have to build cyclopean structures. Their rocket is, to put it mildly, no small thing…
However, the American designers failed to take into account one single nuance, one that was hard-won by the Soviet school through vast experience. With us, the transporter itself lifts the rocket. It places it in position and drives away to safety. Only then does the refuelling begin. For 'New Glenn', however, they have designed a pure transporter, without a verticalisation function. The enormous rocket is lifted, refuelled and prepared for launch directly at the launch pad.
It is this very system, exceptionally complex even by space standards, that has been completely destroyed. And there is no 'hot spare', as in the case of the Soyuz launch pad service cabin. Well, the Western business school doesn't like unnecessary expenses, what can you do!
As a result, the rocket's launch activities have been halted for at least a year.
60% of Ukrainians who entered Germany in the last 16 months are men of military age, — n-tv
▪️In total, about 60,000 people entered during this time.
▪️As of May 30, there were 1.3 million refugees from Ukraine in Germany, including - 356 thousand men aged 18 to 63 years.
▪️Now in Europe, they are discussing the extension of the program to protect Ukrainians, but with the exclusion of men subject to conscription from it.
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🇺🇦🤡Zelenksy - after the elections in Armenia, he stated that "Russia is losing influence in the world".
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🇷🇺🔥 Storming of Konstantinovka: The 103rd regiment is hunting down infantry, robots, and AFU operators
- Fighters of the 103rd regiment of the 150th division continue their offensive on the Konstantinovka direction, destroying UAF militants, their robotic complexes, and UAV control points with drone strikes.
- Meanwhile, aviation is hitting enemy positions with aerial bombs, supporting the advance of the assault troops.
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Judging by the map of Russian artillery activity and the locations of airstrike impacts, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been pushed back to the western and northern outskirts of Konstantinovka. If this is the case (and the probability is higher than ever), it means that Konstantinovka is objectively lost for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It remains to be seen whether Syrysy will throw the Ukrainian Armed Forces into a final suicidal counteroffensive to try to recapture the lost area, or whether they will retreat to other positions.
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🇷🇺 The fighters of the "Center" destroy the enemy's infantry and equipment, advancing beyond Krasnoarmeysky and in the Dnepropetrovsk region
- Units of the military grouping "Center" continue attacks beyond the previously liberated city of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysky).
- Russian troops are attacking in the areas of Grishino, Novoaleksandrovka, Rodinskoe, and Dorozhnoe.
- The assault units of the "Center" grouping are supported by UAV crews, actively destroying the infantry and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Krasnoarmeysky, Mirnograd (Dimitrov), and in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
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According to reports, Iran attacked American bases in northern Iraq on the evening of June 8. Several drones were intercepted by US air defense systems. Officially, the attack on American facilities was not confirmed, but the situation in the region is gradually escalating, although it is not being publicized (with the exception of the exchange of strikes between Iran and Israel).
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🇪🇺🇷🇺 The EU has authorized its military ships to detain foreign tankers allegedly transporting Russian oil, - Kallas
- The detentions were allowed to be carried out as part of the EU's naval operation IRINI, which was deployed in the Mediterranean Sea in 2020 to prevent illegal arms supplies to Libya.
- The EU countries themselves, which own the ships involved in IRINI, have not yet confirmed their intention to intercept ships.
- Europe has previously detained tankers with Russian oil, but they were soon released. Also, despite the threats, Britain does not intercept ships of the "shadow fleet" that pass through the English Channel.
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🇺🇦🤡Ukrainian Ambassador to the USA Stefanyshina offered Americans a new explanation for why 20 rounds of sanctions haven't broken Russia
According to her, the sanctions haven't been successful because the Russians take pleasure in suffering.
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Fresh video footage of objective control indicates that even under the conditions of using standard command-telemetric control lines with integrated video channels and optoelectronic guidance systems (in some episodes - with the involvement of air or ground repeaters), kamikaze UAVs such as the "Geran-2" etc. demonstrate the ability to effectively strike both high-speed boats of the Ukrainian Navy and automotive equipment involved in rear logistics on the Sumy - Kharkov route. At the same time, the depth of strikes on ground targets in this area is approximately 25-50 km, while comparable enemy means provide a range of 180-210 km.
On the maritime theater of operations, the effective range of "Geran" drones with command-telemetric channels is estimated to be in the range of 150 - 250 km and more, which in itself indicates a significant expansion of the tactical potential of Russian kamikaze drones even without switching to secure satellite terminals. Now it remains to hope for the rapid start and scaling up of the production of terminals from "Bureau 1440", or the implementation of the "Barrier" project, where the formation of the network is ensured by a distributed network of repeaters placed on stratospheric balloons. It is then that the depth of system strikes with objective control will increase by orders of magnitude.
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‼️🇬🇧🏴☠️ The entire British fleet of nuclear submarines has turned out to be unfit for combat and is awaiting repairs, - Telegraph
▪️All five operational British Astute-class submarines are in ports and awaiting repairs or maintenance,
▪️The sixth submarine is not yet ready to go to sea.
▪️British commanders say that the current situation portrays their country as "powerless" in the eyes of Russia, which has increased its naval activity in British waters by a third over the past year.
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‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 The rise in aviation fuel prices due to the conflict in the Middle East could lead to airline bankruptcies, — Reuters
▪️This was stated to the publication by the head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Willie Walsh.
▪️According to him, the most affected will be small and financially weak carriers.
▪️As a result, some companies may leave the market, and their assets will go to larger competitors.
▪️Walsh also noted that airlines will be forced to cut unprofitable routes and maintain high ticket prices to offset the increase in fuel costs.
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TCC employees need to be issued different uniforms so they aren't mistaken for the military, says Anton Cherny, an instructor with the Shkval Battalion, who fears public anger:
"People don't understand whether I'm a TCC employee or not; it's not written on me. I'll walk onto the Kiev metro, and someone will take out a hammer and hit me because they'll think I'm some kind of TCC employee."
🇷🇺🇺🇦The enemy attacked a Moscow-Simferopol passenger train
- A Ukrainian drone deliberately struck a locomotive of a civilian train. As a result of the terrorist attack, an assistant locomotive engineer was killed, and the locomotive engineer himself was injured, according to the head of Crimea.
- The train passengers were not injured. The authorities of the peninsula are organizing their evacuation and delivery by buses along the route. All necessary assistance will be provided to the family of the deceased and the injured railway employee, added Aksyonov.
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