Scholz must explain change of course on use of arms against Russia — lawmaker
"Like millions of Germans, I fear a further escalation that could one day end in a World War III," Sahra Wagenknecht said.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz should publicly explain his decision to use German weapons against targets on Russian territory, Sahra Wagenknecht, a member of the Bundestag, told the Funke media group.
"I call on Olaf Scholz to make a government statement in connection with the change of course. Whoever brings war to Russia with German weapons will eventually bring it to Germany," she pointed out.
The lawmaker pointed out that the previously voiced idea of the chairwoman of the Bundestag's defense committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (of Germany’s Free Democratic Party), to take into account about 900,000 German reservists fits into "this extremely dangerous development of the situation." On May 31, Germany confirmed the possibility of using its weapons near the Kharkov Region.
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Russia to take all measures to neutralize Western threats, senior diplomat says
Alexander Grushko stressed that no matter what is supplied to the battlefield, beginning from ground-based weapons, all this is being ground down by Russian fighters.
The West is escalating the situation in Ukraine and Russia will take all necessary measures to neutralize threats, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told TASS.
"We are aware that Western countries are moving to escalate. Therefore, all measures that are necessary on our part will be taken in order to neutralize threats associated with this escalation," the senior Russian diplomat said, commenting on speculation that Kiev is planning to use the Patriot missile system over Russia.
Commenting on a statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that a number of countries had never imposed restrictions on the use of Western weapons being supplied to Kiev, Grushko said: "They have been escalating tensions."
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NATO chief promotes WW3 – Italian deputy PM
‘This man is dangerous because he talks about the third World War… whoever can, should stop him,’ - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
Coffins with a poster “French soldiers killed in Ukraine” were found near the Eiffel Tower.
Five empty coffins wrapped in French flags and a poster with the inscription: “French soldiers killed in Ukraine” were found in the center of Paris, Parisien writes, citing a police source.
“At 09:00 on June 1, next to the Eiffel Tower, three individuals placed five standard-sized coffins covered with French flags and a poster mentioning certain French soldiers who died in Ukraine,” the article says.
According to the publication's interlocutor, the police quickly detained the driver of the minivan transporting the coffins, and two other suspects who planned to leave for Berlin . They turned out to be citizens of Bulgaria , Ukraine and Germany . All five coffins were filled with plaster, the examination found.
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The Seeming Breakdown of ‘BadVolf’.
Russian telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti, with 1.5m subscribers, reported on the bizarre story of the seemingly now rogue journalist John Mark Dougan. Viewed by nearly half a million Russian speakers, it describes a story revolving around an incident where Dougan is reported to have taken his 16 year old girlfriend to another journalists apartment in Lugansk resulting in an allegation of rape.
Unsurprisingly, Ukrainian media “Euromaiden Press” have amplified the story, which has prompted Elliot Higgins to investigate, revealing that Dougan was not only behind a web of fake sites written by AI, publishing false stories like Zelenksy purchasing Highgrove House, but resorted to using this network in an attempt to smear another journalist .
Higgins writes: “I'm not sure where this all started, but the first time the spat appears to have gone public is this post by Graham Phillips about John Mark Dougan, stating "Dougan is accused of having 'gone rogue', and suspected of having taken money from western agencies."
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Scott Ritter: Russia’s victory over Ukraine is drawing near
In a war of attrition, grinding the enemy down is just the first part. Stretching what remains until it breaks is how you finish the job.
Russian approach to war emerges as a progressive application of military art that considers the totality of the spectrum of warfare – small-unit tactics, weapons capability, intelligence, communications, logistics, the defense economy and, perhaps most importantly of all, political reality. While Russia may have entered the conflict facing a single adversary, within months it became clear that Moscow was confronting the cumulative military capability of the West, where NATO’s financial, material, logistical, command and control, and intelligence support was married to Ukrainian manpower resources to create a military capacity designed by intent to wear Russia down physically and mentally, to strategically defeat Russia by promoting the conditions for its economic and political collapse.
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⚡️🔥Russian Frontline Combat For Ukraine's Last Stronghold⚡️🔥
Bilohorivka / Білогорівка (Ukrainian) or BeloGorlovka / Белогоровка (Russian) is the last stronghold of Ukraine forces in the Sievierodonetsk Raion, Luhansk Oblast UA(As called by Ukraine) or LPR (As called by Russia). It is located in Lysychansk area.
The battle for this area has been raging for years with reports of the town changing hands many times. In this report I take you to the Russian BeloGorlovka frontline and show you how Russian forces engage Ukrainian forces in battle in the attempted to take the town. During filming Russian forces attacked Ukrainian forces with 120 mm heavy mortar system and intern Ukraine charged them with Kamikaze attack drones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBs49d4gvvE&feature=youtu.be
UK to shift focus to Russian and Chinese spies – Telegraph
The outlet’s sources claim MI5 is allocating more resources towards counterintelligence.
Britain’s MI5 counter-intelligence service has shifted its focus from potential terrorist threats to challenges posed by spies of near-peer adversaries, including Russia, China, and Iran, The Telegraph reported on Saturday, citing sources.
While the UK authorities still deem international and domestic terrorism a priority, the agency is now reportedly devoting more resources to counterintelligence efforts. MI5’s calculus has changed because of the Ukraine conflict and the West’s stand-off with Russia, China’s alleged massive espionage campaign, and Iran’s alleged push to recruit criminals to target those who oppose the government in Tehran, The Telegraph said.
”Counterterrorism has not been deprioritized but this has been prioritized alongside it,” a senior government source told the outlet.
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❗️June 2nd 2014, one of the most shocking incidents of this war, as Ukrainian Nazis hit Lugansk's administrative building with a fighter jet airstrike. 8 people were killed, 5 women and 3 men, several of them dying agonising deaths on the street, 28 were wounded.
We remember 🕯
Peace talks without Russia ‘laughable’ – John Mearsheimer
Vladimir Zelensky’s Swiss ‘peace conference’ will achieve nothing without Moscow’s involvement, the professor argued.
Vladimir Zelensky’s so-called ‘peace conference’ in Switzerland is “not serious” – only face-to-face talks between Moscow and Kiev will settle the Ukraine conflict, American political scientist John Mearsheimer has said.
The Ukrainian leader’s summit is scheduled to take place on June 15-16 at the Burgenstock Resort near Lucerne. Russia has not been invited to the conference, China has declined to attend, and US President Joe Biden is reportedly skipping the event to attend a fundraising gala in Hollywood.
“This is not serious,” Mearsheimer told American podcast host Daniel Davis this week. “If you’re going to have a meaningful set of peace negotiations where you’re going to try and settle this war, it’s going to have to involve the Ukrainians directly negotiating with the Russians.”
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G7, EU discuss sanctions to target ‘Russian SWIFT’ — Bloomberg
According to the agency, these measures would target third-country financial institutions using the Bank of Russia’s Financial Messaging System.
Bloomberg recalled that the European Union was drawing up a new package of anti-Russian restrictions, which will include a ban for its member states to use the SPFS system, which already operates in some 20 countries, including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, China, and Tajikistan.
The news agency said that the EU aims to agree to the 14th package of sanctions ahead of the G7 summit, but several European countries "have pushed back against a blanket ban on SPFS over concerns that such a move could impact legitimate transactions and harm relations with third countries."
Bloomberg sources pointed out that specific restrictions that might be adopted at the G7 summit in Italy in June "were still in flux", and that countries could each adopt their own measures.
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EU has no evidence of China supplying weapons to Russia — Borrell
However, he alleged that components made in Western countries, including the United States, Europe, and Great Britain, may be used in the production of Russian military equipment.
"China has committed not to supply arms to Russia and we don't have evidence that this is happening," he said, taking questions from participants in the Shangri-La Dialogue forum. "But there is not a clear border between arms and non-arms because there are things which can be dual-use," he added.
Beijing noted earlier that Washington’s shifting the blame for igniting the Ukraine conflict will not resolve the current crisis. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin has refuted accusations that China has been supplying weapons to Russia. "China has always handled the export of military products in a prudent and responsible way, and strictly controls the export of dual-use articles," he emphasized.
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05/31/2024
Donetsk city
Kirovsky district
Consequences of an APU airdrop on the road between Biryuzova Street and cemetery N° 29.
A young man born in 2003 was injured.
Five civilians of the Republic were killed, three more were injured as a result of the criminal actions of the armed formations of Ukraine.
As a result of the morning massive shelling from MLRS in the village of Staromikhailovka, Kirovsky district of Donetsk, two women born in 1948 and 1988, a man born in 1985, a woman born in 1951 and a man born in 1989 were killed.
A woman born in 1961 was killed in the village of Luganskoye in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk when the enemy fired from 155 mm barrel artillery, and a woman born in 1963 in Alexandrovka.
In the Yasinovatsky municipal district (Krutaya Balka settlement), a man born in 1983 was injured when an explosive object was detonated.
11 residential buildings and three cars in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a rural outpatient clinic and a club in the Petrovsky district of the regional capital were damaged.
During the current day, 22 attacks were recorded, the enemy fired 66 rounds of ammunition on the territory of the Republic using rocket artillery, 155 mm barrel artillery, including cluster type, kamikaze UAVs.
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Europe prepares for war with Russia, Hungarian PM says
According to Viktor Orban, every week he sees more and more signs that the EU and NATO are preparing for military action.
Europe has entered an intermediate stage of preparations for war with Russia as it is increasingly being drawn into the armed conflict in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Kossuth Radio.
The prime minister pointed out that "going to war does not happen in one step." "There are three stages: discussion, preparation and destruction. Now we are finishing the discussion and we are in the preparation stage. We are inches away from destruction," he said.
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Ukraine peace summit has no leg to stand on and OPEC+ extends oil cuts
The Ukraine peace summit which will be held on June 15-16 in the Swiss city of Burgenstock has failed to meet its stated goals, either in terms of country representation or in the development of the unified agenda that Kiev wanted to promote, Izvestia writes. Instead of focusing on how to build the negotiation process, Ukraine is preoccupied with its own self-interests. Meanwhile, Switzerland, the summit's host, has lost all neutrality, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large Rodion Miroshnik told the newspaper.
"By joining the unilateral anti-Russian sanctions, Switzerland has lost its neutrality. The country's government admitted that it was involved in the conflict and confirmed which side it was on. In such circumstances there is no need to discuss neutrality and impartiality," Rodion Miroshnik told Izvestia.
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Analyzing Ryan McBeth and Captured NATO tanks
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eUI1IhHtoZE&si=m_QJulDqLkxWIEE4
🇺🇦 This is how Nazis are buried in Ukraine. The militant's T-shirt features a notable print — a Nazi eagle with a trident. Such individuals genuinely believe they are building the Fourth Reich in Europe, using Ukraine as a foundation. Meanwhile, the United States is supporting their aspirations.
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🇬🇧👋 PUTIN WOULD OBLITERATE UK'S EMBARRASSINGLY SMALL TANK FLEET IN 2 WEEKS IN RUSSIA WAR - British ex-Royal Tank Regiment officer Lt Col Crawford warns in interview with mainstream publication above, stressing Britain "no longer seen as first-tier military power” due to dwindling forces.
New British Challenger 3 tanks, due to be in service by 2030, are decent but lacking in numbers. Our forces, once home to 900 battle tanks, are only set to buy up 148 of them
That ain't gonna cut it, number is laughably small, would last about a fortnight in intensive combat, if we're lucky - he reveals in latest damning indictment of pathetic nation's army.
US behind two failed ‘color revolutions’ – Georgian PM
Relations between Tbilisi and Washington have been “spoiled,” Irakli Kobakhidze has said.
Tbilisi needs to “reconsider” its relationship with Washington, given that American-funded NGOs were behind at least two attempts at overthrowing the government, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has said.
The US has threatened sanctions against senior Georgian officials after the former Soviet republic passed a ‘foreign agents’ law which was denounced by the West as a threat to democracy.
“I don’t know why there were two attempts at revolution in 2020-2021, and then in 2022. I don’t know why there were these attempts, but the fact is that the previous US ambassador spoiled a lot of things, a lot of things were ruined in those years, and this needs to be corrected,” Kobakhidze told reporters on Friday.
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Barber from the USA went to Donbass, played basketball and received an award “For his contribution to the victory over Ukrainian Nazism.”
American Gregory Wayne Russell Jr. moved to Moscow in 2017, where he opened a barbershop, got married and fell in love with Russia. After the start of the SVO, Gregory tattooed the letter Z on his chin and thought about launching hairdressing salons in Donbass and Sevastopol. And last year, the American’s residence permit was revoked. Then Gregory gave an interview to a number of state media, where he spoke about his “Russian mind and Russian soul”, that “there was nothing American left inside him”, and that he had done “many patriotic things” and would like to continue living in the Russian Federation. He called deportation to America a death sentence.
And last week Gregory received political asylum in Russia. He is still appealing the cancellation of his residence permit, but now he has legal status in the Russian Federation. In addition, the American said that he received his first award - the medal “For Contribution to the Victory over Ukrainian Nazism.” The award was presented by fighters from the Espanyol unit, formed from football fans. Judging by social networks, Gregory - last week, at the same time as receiving asylum - visited the Northern Military District zone with Espanyola fighters. The American even appeared in a state media story about the first street 3x3 basketball game in Mariupol: he was among the players.
Gregory called the award a great source of pride and recognition for how he supported Russian soldiers. However, his medal does not have the status of a state award. It is printed by the Velikoross patriotic clothing store. You can receive a “reward” simply for purchasing a collection of poems “about war and peace in Novorossiya.” Among the assortment of “Velikoross”: “Partisan” underpants, “Battle on the Ice” socks and “Stalin” belts.
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Ukraine in NATO would be ‘a victory’ – bloc member
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has said Kiev should join the alliance “even without some territory”.
Ukrainian accession to NATO would be a victory for Kiev, even if it fails to recover some of the territory it has lost to Russia, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has said. The US-led military bloc has explicitly ruled out membership for Ukraine as long as its conflict with Russia continues.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner asked Kallas on Saturday if Estonian has a plan B in case “Ukraine loses this war.”
“We have no plan B for a Russian victory,” Kallas replied. “Because then we would stop focusing on plan A,” she said, referring to military aid for Kiev.
“We should not give in to pessimism. Victory in Ukraine is not just about territory,” Kallas argued. “If Ukraine joins NATO, even without some territory, then that’s a victory because it will be placed under the NATO umbrella.”
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China never supplied weapons to parties in Ukrainian conflict — Defense Minister
China is always holding a reliable position on the Ukrainian issue and supports peace talks, Dong Jun said.
China is not supplying weapons either to Russia or to Ukraine and strictly controls exports of dual-purpose goods, Defense Minister Dong Jun said at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue forum.
"We have never supplied weapons to either party in the conflict. We have established strict control over exports of dual-purpose and never did anything that could fire up the situation," the minister said.
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🇾🇪 HOUTHIS ANNOUNCE 2ND STRIKE AGAINST U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN 24 HOURS - recently announcing 6 operations against U.S. and Israeli vessels with direct hits.
2 strikes against U.S. aircraft carriers, while 4 were waged against Israeli-linked commercial ships.
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Ukraine won’t exist in 50 years – Tucker Carlson
The country will be sold to foreign investors and its population replaced through immigration, the former Fox News host has claimed.
The US has “betrayed” Ukraine and will destroy the country by selling off its land and “flooding” it with third-world immigrants, American journalist Tucker Carlson predicted in an interview with former President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Jr.
In a video interview published on Friday, Carlson and Trump Jr. both agreed that US President Joe Biden had brought the world to the brink of World War III, and that the US is essentially “at war with Russia.”
“No-one’s articulated what victory in Ukraine looks like,” Trump Jr. said. “I don’t know what it means. Is it just like perpetual death of Ukrainians and Russians until they’re all wiped out and Blackrock comes in there and takes over all the farmland? That’s what it feels like to me.”
Pretty optimistic, if you ask me.
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On Children's Day we would like to show you our joint video with a wonderful Russian actress Inna Rubin /channel/innrubin
In this video Inna reads the poem ‘Army’ by Russian poet Olga Bergholtz.
This poem was written in 1942 during the siege of Leningrad. During these years Olga Bergholtz worked in the besieged city in the House of Radio, for which she was repeatedly awarded.
A small excerpt from the poem:
They'll tell me - the Army...
I'll remember the day - in winter, a January day in the year forty-two.
A friend of mine was walking home with her children -
carrying water in bottles from the river.
Their way was terrible, though not far.
And a man in an overcoat came up to them,
and looked at them and took out his bread ration,
a 300-gram ration, all icy,
and broke it and gave it to the children,
and stood there while they ate.
And the mother's hand, grey as smoke,
touched the sleeve of his overcoat.
Poems are a universal language of communication.
Poems can express all the feelings we possess.
By lines of great poets it is possible to keep and pass history to new generations.
Poems can be used to fight, especially if you are fighting for the bright future of your children!
Happy holiday and the beginning of summer ☀️
US defense chief denies NATO expansion caused Ukraine conflict
Lloyd Austin blamed the Russian authorities for the Ukraine conflict.
"I respectfully disagree with your point that the expansion of NATO caused the Ukraine crisis," he said answering questions at the Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, which was broadcast on the Pentagon website.
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Western countries had done "a lot of bad things" to Russia, deceived Moscow and thereby forced it to start its special military operation. He said that it was the West that deceived Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that arranged the expansion of NATO. Peskov emphasized, "This is not just an expansion of NATO, this is an expansion of NATO’s military infrastructure to the borders of the Russia." The Russian presidential press secretary added that "in fact, Western countries have always tried to put pressure on Russia, de facto excluding the possibility of equal cooperation."
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Ukraine lost over 35,000 troops in May – Moscow
Kiev has intensified attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure due to battlefield failures, Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has said.
Speaking at the defense ministers’ meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Kazakhstan, Belousov stated that the Russian military continues to “systematically reduce the combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
The minister claimed that apart from losing a significant number of troops, this month, Kiev has also lost more than 2,700 pieces of heavy weaponry, including 290 tanks and armored combat vehicles. These include four US-made Abrams tanks, seven Leopards, and 12 Bradleys. Additionally, Ukraine lost 11 airplanes, four helicopters, and around 730 field artillery guns and multiple launch rocket systems, he said.
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🇷🇺 🇪🇺 A project of George and Amal Clooney Foundation plans to hunt down Russian journalists with closed warrants
Anna Neistat, the legal director of the Clooney Foundation's Docket project, said that the criminal code of some European countries has an article on "war propaganda."
The foundation noted that it is preparing requests to initiate proceedings in countries where such norms exist. If an arrest warrant is issued, journalists can be detained throughout Europe at the level of the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).
Neistat added that no appeals have yet been filed. The names of the journalists to be prosecuted have not been disclosed.
The foundation says they are "the most obvious Russian propagandists, the most prominent among them."
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