Ukraine daily update June 3, 2025

Ukraine has now given the West the upper hand – since 2022, the West has always squandered these advantages, but early statements from leaders in Europe are positive and say that this is within Ukraine’s right to self-defense, and no one that I can find has condemned Ukraine?

We know that Russia can only respond with more violence until it collapses, and now they must deal with this in one way or another to save Putin’s face before he ends up hanging there in the gas station.

As for Putin, this is Merz’s fault because after Merz’s statement, 10 government planes flew to the war bunkers in Samara, but nothing happened – and then this liberation act happened just as they were about to return to Moscow. There have probably been many anxious WhatsApp messages to Trump 🀣

What options does Russia have – drag out the war and drone away one big target at a time, try to take down all of Ukraine when they have just built a nice defense line a few miles further back that RU can never get through, or escalate while they can?

I know what I believe, but we’ll see.

Yesterday you got the map to how Ukraine wins this war, and unless they win, this won’t end for us in Europe – if the West can only respond proportionally when/if Russia escalates, this might end this year. Spectacular efforts like these also do wonders for motivation in the country and among the troops, giving them the will to continue. I don’t remember if I included Operation Turn Off the Light, but you know about that from before.

We haven’t heard anything concrete from Diaper-Don at the time of completing this post, which was evening your time, but (former) General Flynn was out criticizing Ukraine, so maybe a trial balloon?

However, Merz is going to the USA this week to talk to Trump – we’ll see if Merz starts to nuance his statements after that or not.

There is a high probability that Ukraine intends to carry out a Hiroshima-Nagasaki and show Russia that they have more capacity to hit where it hurts now that they can finally do it after over three years (or can they…) – they are showing strength because that is the only language Russia understands.

In 2023, Russia was supposed to start piracy in the Black Sea if they weren’t allowed back into SWIFT, and all leaders in Europe thought SWIFT was a good idea until Ukraine chased away the Russian fleet.

The Kerch Bridge is a safe bet, and then the Black Sea Fleet (again) – RU has been moving the fleet around in recent weeks, and you don’t win any prizes for guessing that RU will now try to seek revenge, and then the fleet’s caliber platforms are important. Ukraine knows this and will try to strike if the opportunity arises.

The cruiser Moscow was hysterically funny – a UA liaison officer was in a US radar surveillance center in Germany when Moscow suddenly appeared on the screen, and he immediately said, “just going to have a quick cigarette, back in five,” and jogged off. Moscow was then sunk, and the US staff in Germany were furious with the liaison officer, who just walked around with his widest smile for weeks.

The next target is likely the fighter jets they are now trying to combat.

If they have targeted the strategic bomber belonging to the nuclear triad, silos, nuclear weapon manufacturing, islander platforms, and nuclear weapon depots, are they still protected, or are they military targets?

They ARE military targets, and Merz was clear, but did he mean what he said – or rather, did he understand the full implications of what he said🧐

Above all, the Iskander platforms are highly legitimate targets, just like the strategic bombers, because Russia uses them for its terror bombing, and that cannot be talked away.

This week, the entire Western defense forces are probably considering how to update their base protections – in the UK, we have half of the air tanker fleet, and in Asia, the US has its airbases. Once again – there have been warnings for a long time that short-haired Chinese people moving in groups of four have crossed the border from Mexico into the USA, flown around filming and taking pictures, so nothing conspiratorial at all. In Europe, we have as many containers from China as we want, and then our own gangs and criminal clans to deal with.

An interesting rope trick for China to go for Taiwan, and the security service is probably searching through every container in the country this week.

Here’s a good idea – buy Ukrainian Sentinel AI weapon stations for anti-drone protection, they cost 1.5 million SEK when everything else we have in the West costs at least ten times that.

Ukraine talks about negotiations all the time, even today, but to take out the strategic bomber the day before doesn’t exactly indicate a desperation to negotiate – and also releasing all the information on Twitter adds extra pain for the Russians, making Putin weaker, so the willingness to negotiate becomes even more distant.

Zelensky, by the way, warns just like us that Russia intends to escalate in the summer – fall, and we are already in June 🧐

That cannot be misunderstood, and he rhetorically says, “what do your own security services tell you,” which means he knows that they are warning about it.

You have probably also noticed how demonstrations of discontent are increasing in Europe – now a huge demonstration for Palestine is supposed to be held in Stockholm, for example, we have quite a few “terror attacks” and further around Europe, and of course, Robinson is out of prison in the UK and has called for a major demonstration.

Nigel Farage has also woken up a bit by chance.

If you have read previous posts, as you should to learn the latest and become geniuses, you will know that Russia will roll out a huge subversive operation and sabotage across Europe this summer, where the right, left, and Islamists will all demonstrate for their core issues, preferably in the same place. Criminal clans and gangs all have beef with each other and the majority society – we have described it in a few posts.

It seems to be starting to pick up a bit 🧐

We have long parked the Palestinian demonstrations as a Russian influence operation, even though Israel is not helping here because the issue is gaining broad sympathy now, and rightly so. But it does so at a time when all of Europe should be fully focused on supporting Ukraine as that war has a direct impact on us.

Have you heard about the major power outage on the Iberian Peninsula recently, and above all – could it happen again?

We know that already on Sunday, the power grid in the UK was unstable, and then on Monday morning at 09:30, it was significantly unstable in Spain before it started to fail around lunchtime. This has completely disappeared from the reporting, but it was credible media that reported it at the time, and I posted the links in the post.

Now Spain has found ground zero – a substation in Granada, but they don’t know why.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05/15/spain-identifies-power-failure-ground-zero-as-search-for-iberian-blackout-cause-continues

My question then is – if the power grid was already unstable in the UK on Sunday so that a lot of production started to shut down, does anyone believe that ground zero was in Granada on Monday around lunchtime?

Possibly, it was ground zero for cascading effects on electricity production in Spain around lunchtime on Monday, but it was not the root cause because they have not yet figured out what preceded the substation shutting down, or what it did.

It doesn’t feel like Europe is taking this seriously, and it’s easy to understand why – the power grid is interconnected, but we are many different countries each running our own race.

Question two – there was a rumor that China had inserted backdoors in their solar panels, which have been found in the USA.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/ghost-machine-rogue-communication-devices-found-chinese-inverters-2025-05-14

Does anyone believe that China is NOT inserting backdoors in all their products, especially solar panels, which would then have the advantage of being able to short-circuit the entire European power grid – it would almost be a disservice for China not to insert backdoors in them?

Since environmental movements, among others, have managed to shut down all our swing mass (nuclear power) and backup power, our electricity system is apparently as fragile as a delicate porcelain bird and can be short-circuited by 3-4 fires at substations in different locations within a geographically convenient area.

Does anyone believe that Russia will NOT do that to us now that we know they have tried to cut a total of 11 underwater cables in the Baltic Sea?

Do we have surveillance at all substations in Europe – no, of course we don’t 😐

Politically, it’s also messy in Europe, and Romania, Moldova, France, and Germany have barely managed to fend off pro-Russian candidates, but all have paid a high price for it as pro-Russians are more popular than ever because of it.

The Netherlands has already failed, and Keir Starmer is facing huge problems in the UK now, it’s hard to see him completing his term.

In Poland, the pro-Russian presidential candidate actually won, what does that mean for Poland’s willingness to defend the Baltics this fall if needed?

The president doesn’t have much power, but it says a lot about the currents in the country now.

In order to defend the Baltics, NATO and Europe must be able to move troops through Poland, and Polish forces will probably have to enter Lithuania at least.

If Russia manages to lock down Poland so that the parliament cannot vote on what is needed for a few weeks, it could get really tough – you know those parliamentarians no one can name but whose vote is worth as much as anyone else’s, the ones who took the money.

It is therefore declining politically to have the opportunity in Europe to support Ukraine to a victory in the war, and as soon as Russia is ready for a ceasefire, Europe will see it as an attractive alternative, a quick fix.

How is it possible when we know what a murderous sect the Russian army is…

We are there in time when Russia eventually reaches the Donbass line. Ukraine has understood the political landscape in Europe, and that’s why they are building their Maginot Line outside the area they know Russia will want to conquer before Putin agrees to a ceasefire. Analysts have suggested that it is out of drone range and in dominant terrain, but the line curves just outside Donetsk Oblast so the purpose is obvious.

What makes Europe’s leaders weak cowards who don’t want to solve a 300-year-old problem when Ukraine has the solution on a silver platter and also promises to do all the work?

I believe there are several reasons beyond the fact that politics are swinging making it increasingly difficult to secure a majority in votes.

1. I tried to clarify this with the Macron slap incident, but it was missed, and instead the question asked was if I also get beaten by my wife 😐 – our elected officials are just ordinary people who have families and careers, and they never have unrestricted power.

As soon as you go against Russia, you as a person will be subjected to the full GRU subversive treatment. This is the dark secret we never hear about – our elected officials are afraid of Putin because it can end their careers badly in various ways from accidents to those pictures one thought were private.

A modern classic is to have images or videos inserted into the work computer through hackers that then trigger the IT department at work. It becomes a rather strained meeting with the boss, the security chief, and many accusing glances. It doesn’t matter if the investigation is dropped after a year because you have been suspended from work, the media has crucified you a hundred times over, and the divorce has gone through.

The minister who went from standing at the forefront and shaking a fist at Russia like a true hero is now at home experimenting with different whiskey brands full time and feeling sorry for themselves. The kids were busy when they tried to call and say that the investigation had been dropped, and the life partner has already been seen in the media with another colleague at the government office – everyone has moved on and no one wants to socialize with a loser.

Even before all these Russian career killers, it is much easier for a career to not make any difficult decisions at all. Approaching a war with Russia is a drastic step that few want to take to begin with.

And for Russia, steel helmets were seen as a declaration of war that would trigger a nuclear response in 2022 – they know EXACTLY how to play the game of getting our leaders to do as little as possible.

Because that’s the whole point – to delay important decisions for as long as possible.

2. Europe considers itself not ready for war and needs to buy time (a mistaken image but the red storm is probably still there?) – now, after three years, we have reached the point where we are arming ourselves, but it is not to help Ukraine regain its land but for our national defense. This is also attractive for decision-makers because a new industry is showered in money, and as politicians, they show decisiveness without having to make tough decisions. Everyone is happy, and for the industrious, there is much gratitude to be paid for.

What actually happens here is that Ukraine has the cash now, but there is nothing left to buy, and they end up at the back of the line for various arms manufacturers.

The quick-witted remember that Hungary and Slovakia have placed large orders for CV90 and Gripen, for example 🧐

3. It is politically impossible to wage war against Russia today in Europe, as soon as the first thousand fallen soldiers come home in pieces, the government falls because the opposition is too strong in (almost) all of Europe. It is enough if Russia activates a few sleepers in the parliaments, then you won’t get a majority or you face a vote of no confidence. Probably only Finland is ready, and Denmark has also succeeded actually thanks to Mette Fredrikssen, I guess, too bad there’s an election there in a year.

What I suspect is that Russia has threatened Europe with a significant escalation in the summer/fall and at the same time offered to de-escalate only if they get that last piece of land in Donbass. Yes, discussions are ongoing all the time where Ukraine is not involved, and probably Trump is being used as a go-between?

The person who, after Finland, perhaps has the strongest mandate to achieve something is Trump, but it is quite clear that he wants Ukraine to meet Russia halfway and capitulate, Orange Shitgibbon is a fitting name 😑

Finland cannot be expected to send anything at all because they have a shell protection to take care of.

Either Ukraine rolls out the asymmetric warfare described in yesterday’s post, or we are de facto at the point where Ukraine will not win the war by reclaiming its land, and where Putin will then be able to declare himself the victor and be hailed by rogue states as the great despot of our time who defeated NATO.

There is now zero reason for Putin to slow down his subversive activities, which also pay very well – surely he receives a lot of EUR that he can use to buy weapons that way too, not just from the oil and LNG that the EU still buys from Russia.

GRU has criminal clans and gangs that have already infiltrated civil society throughout Europe, so today there is no need for infiltrated spy rings with 15 years of growth, just a company that pays someone’s AB for lectures or other services impossible to verify – and the budget for this is still hidden in Europe’s banking system because we refuse to freeze the funds.

Since we have had good times, we have had politicians who have not needed to behave directly, and all of Europe has roughly the same problems as us with crime, education, healthcare, and the job market. Broad segments of society are dissatisfied, and GRU experts are adept at playing on and amplifying that dissatisfaction.

In the EU, there was also an opportunity to increase power to gain more relevance, and it has grown significantly, so there is also a large portion of anti-EU sentiment in broad segments of the population.

There is thus a lot to draw from opposition candidates, and throughout 2024, we have seen how close they have come to taking over.

The countermove will be quite delicate – they got rid of Le Pen with an Al Capone maneuver, but then the next candidate becomes a threat – they create martyrs, and there is always someone behind them who takes over.

Germany bans AfD, but it is perceived as undemocratic by too many, and AfD is now the largest party in Germany in opinion polls.

Europe is simply not in order after over three years of high-intensity interstate war in our immediate vicinity, and that is remarkable.

I thought it looked very promising at the turn of the year – the equipment arrived, and Ukraine had the upper hand in drone warfare for a while, and then everything came to a complete stop when everyone wanted to discuss peace until June.

If Trump had come out strong on January 20, this would have been settled with a no-fly zone and European troops in western Ukraine.

Now it didn’t happen because Trump has his reasons to stroke Putin’s ego, and we have a reality to deal with.

It is simply too attractive for our elected officials in Europe to have a ceasefire, and both Putin and Trump know that, so those are the strings they are playing.

Peace in our time – until Putin starts round two.

So, it will be a couple of exciting months where we will see if our leaders are prepared to respond proportionally to Russian escalation or not.

Ukraine is doing all the work for us, so it shouldn’t be too difficult, I think. The only thing we need to do ourselves is to immediately mine the border to the Baltics again.

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  1. Update as of 08.00 02.06.2025 on the Russian invasion

    In total, 142β†˜οΈ combat engagements were recorded over the past day.

     

    #Kharkiv 3⏱️3, 6, 4, 9, 4, 9, 5, 6, 5, 5, 8, 6, 3, 3, 6, 3, 5, 6, 3, 4, 7, 3, 3, 6, 4, 11, 18, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 2, 2, 9, 6, 0, 0, 0, 4, 4, 0, 1, 2, 7, 1

    #Kupyansk 7β†˜οΈβ±οΈ10, 10, 11, 4, 8, 2, 5, 2, 5, 5, 6, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 4, 1, 2, 5, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 6, 6, 5, 6, 9, 7, 3, 4, 5, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7, 11, 4

    #Lyman 15πŸ’₯β†˜οΈβ±οΈ20, 18, 29, 13, 24, 32, 16, 21, 23, 16, 12, 17, 30, 23, 22, 24, 17, 16, 24, 29, 20, 25, 8, 17, 27, 24, 21, 31, 22, 16, 27, 27, 36, 21, 18, 20, 22, 19, 15, 20, 14, 25, 12, 14, 17, 20

    #Siverskyi  5⏱️8, 2, 11, 7, 3, 0, 3, 6, 3, 0, 3, 2, 1, 4, 6, 10, 4, 3, 5, 3, 6, 8, 4, 8, 5, 6, 0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 4, 6, 2, 3, 5, 8, 12, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2

    #Kramatorsk 6⏱️5, 6, 2, 7, 15, 11, 5, 10, 4, 4, 4, 3, 6, 6, 9, 8, 8, 8, 4, 4, 9, 10, 6, 10, 5, 4, 10, 6, 8, 6, 6, 13, 10, 16, 13, 8, 13, 1, 6, 4, 5, 7, 6, 8

    #Toretsk 11πŸ’₯⏱️11, 10, 11, 6, 21, 19, 12, 10, 16, 21, 9, 16, 14, 13, 11, 14, 19, 8, 18, 6, 9, 6, 12, 15, 9, 13, 8, 6, 16, 7, 8, 4, 10, 6, 14, 9, 29, 16, 17, 13, 23, 10, 18, 26, 11

    #Pokrovsk 46πŸ’₯πŸ’₯πŸ’₯⏱️47, 51, 47, 66, 54, 65, 65, 63, 65, 61, 44, 54, 44, 72, 65, 54, 52, 75, 74, 54, 60, 70, 60, 65, 71, 61, 77, 78, 115, 78, 113, 83, 64, 85, 75, 59, 64, 68, 44, 65, 56, 53, 61, 39, 54, 64 According to preliminary data in the 22-report at 36β†˜οΈ of 117↗️ combats, AFUπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ killed 77β†˜οΈ occupants and wounded another 65β†˜οΈ, for a total of 142β†˜οΈ(⏱️285) KWIA in this sector. Ukrainian troops also destroyed three armoured personnel carriers, 17 vehicles, 10 motorcycles, four UAVs and one electronic warfare vehicle; also damaged an armoured personnel carrier, three vehicles, four motorcycles, two cannons and a BM-21 Grad.

    #Novopavlivka 22πŸ’₯↗️⏱️14, 12, 25, 24, 21, 25, 24, 24, 14, 30, 14, 19, 33, 22, 24, 23, 18, 23, 26, 30, 24, 13, 19, 31 , 28, 32, 23, 24, 52, 66, 23, 15, 16, 13, 23, 13, 13, 19, 10, 15, 17, 19, 5, 12, 9, 9

    #Huliaipil  0⏱️0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1. 3, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 13, 0 , 0, 1, 1, 2, 7, 5, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0

    #Orikhivsk 1⏱️2, 9, 4, 3, 6, 11, 4, 5, 4, 5, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 7, 2, 3, 3, 3, 6, 6, 2, 6, 3, 7, 4, 14, 3, 3, 5, 4, 5, 0, 5, 1, 4, 4, 9, 3, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1

    #Prydniprovsky 0⏱️0, 1, 4, 1, 2, 0, 1, 3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, 3, 6, 5, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1 , 1, 3, 1, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0

    #Kursk 18πŸ’₯⏱️19, 35, 34, 26, 33, 32, 23, 26, 39, 43, 21, 5, 13, 10, 18, 14, 13, 14, 9, 12, 9, 8, 25, 19, 19, 19, 11, 18 23, 23, 20, 33, 21, 25, 15, 23, 15, 30, 27, 26, 22, 21, 16, 20, 23, 21 There were 18 firefights in the Kursk sector. The enemy πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί made 182 artillery attacks, including two from multiple launch rocket systems, and carried out 17 air strikes, dropping 28 guided aerial bombs.

    1. Thank you! πŸ‘

      A few less clashes, but KWIA up to 1100 and we also had a few more losses of tanks and other armor than there have been in a few days.

  2. Good morning!
    Russian losses in Ukraine on 2025-06-03:

    • 1100 KWIA
    • 7 Tanks
    • 8 AFVs
    • 48 Artillery systems
    • 1 MLRS
    • 1 Anti-Aircraft system
    • 12 Aircraft
    • 126 UAVs
    • 145 Vehicles & Fuel tanks

    SLAVA UKRAINI!

     

  3. Bannon expressed his frustration over Ukraine’s stunning drone attack on Russia’s strategic bombing fleet, which destroyed 40 aircraft deep inside Russian territory, giving Ukrainian forces a potential morale boost.

    Bannon said the White House should condemn the military strike and crack down on Graham’s diplomacy. The senator applauded Ukraine’s resourcefulness in pulling off a successful attack Sunday.

    β€œThe White House has to condemn this immediately and pull all support and tell Lindsey Graham to come home or we are going to put you under arrest when you come home. You’re stirring it up,” Bannon said Monday on his β€œWar Room” podcast

    https://thehill.com/homenews/5329011-bannon-arrest-graham-ukraine/

  4. “Kina skruvar Ryssland med kraftig underbud pΓ₯ ett kΓ€rnkraftsreaktorprojekt Kinas nationella kΓ€rnkraftskorporation (CNNC) har erbjudit Kazakstan att bygga tvΓ₯ HPR-1000-reaktorer med en total kapacitet pΓ₯ 2,4 GW fΓΆr endast 550 miljoner dollar. Rysslands Rosatom citerade Kazakstan 1,2–1,5 miljarder dollar.”

  5. β€˜We face war in Europe’ β€” UK announces major defense spending boost amid Russian threat. The U.K. will boost its defense spending amid the increased threat Russia poses to European security, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on June 2.”

  6. Russians are reporting a loss of at least 18x Tu-95 ($250M each) & Tu-22 ($350M each) strategic bombers and 2x A-50 AWACS aircraft ($350M each). That’s about a $6 billion loss so far and it means Russia only has one functioning A-50 AWACS remaining.

  7. Once again, it seems that Russia only showed up in Istanbul to try to prolong the process and pretend to negotiate. This is what Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov writes on Facebook after the new round of negotiations.

    “They are trying to create a ‘diplomatic show’ for the USA without taking real actions,” he writes.

    Umerov is particularly critical of Russia not presenting its proposals in advance, as Ukraine did.

  8. “During the talks between Russia and Ukraine on Monday, Kyiv demanded that the Kremlin return nearly 400 children who have been kidnapped from Ukraine to Russia during the war, Reuters reports. According to President Zelensky, Russia has agreed to “discuss” ten of these children.

    – This is how they view humanitarian issues, Zelensky said according to the Ukrainian state Ukrinform.”
    https://omni.se/kyiv-vill-att-400-kidnappade-barn-slapps-kreml-kan-prata-om-tio/a/rP75ml

    1. Great article! πŸ‘

      Liked:
      “– There are only about 36 airplanes that can be flown. Now the other airplanes need to be fixed. It will take time.”

  9. Ukraine, Russia conclude talks in Istanbul, a 1,200-for-1,200 prisoner exchange is in the works, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the next prisoner exchange would feature at least 1,000 people on each side, and might reach a 1,200-for-1,200 swap that would possibly also include imprisoned journalists and political prisoners held in Russia.

    https://kyivindependent.com/istanbul-talks-june-2

    1. Westley Richard

      Both sides wanted to show something to the world, especially to Trump.

      The sides are very far apart and neither has any overall advantage, which makes a peace agreement feel very distant.

       

  10. Destroyed Russian bombers seen in first satellite images after Ukrainian drone strike. The photos, captured by U.S. aerospace company Umbra Space, appear to confirm the destruction of at least three Tu-95MS strategic bombers and one Tu-22M3 aircraft, with an additional Tu-95MS visibly damaged. Another image shows two more likely destroyed Tu-22M3 bombers on the field.

     

    https://kyivindependent.com/first-satellite-images-show-destroyed-russian-bombers-after-ukrainian-drone-strike-on-belaya-air-base

  11. Belgium plans to create an investment fund of 36 billion euros, which will finance the large-scale rearmament of the army and the formation of a new mechanized brigade.

      1. They write like this:

        75 enemy Shahed type BPLAs (drones of other types) in the east, south and north of the country have been defecated by air defense. 60 – shot by fire impact, 15 – location lost/suppressed REB.

        So the decoys should hopefully be among those 37 (112-75) that were not shot down.

        Now quite a few videos have already been released with the results of the night, and unfortunately quite a few reached their target, but it is not clear how many.

        1. Location lost I unfortunately often think is a decoy/self-supporting. So less than 50% ratio – not good, but has been like that at times during the spring. Has to do with jet engines instead of moped engines, which also go higher (+2000?) and out of reach for AA guns. And then with a behavior described as young. Suddenly diving towards targets in swarms.

           

          What is needed/can handle the combat? Better EW? Patriots? German AA? Attack helicopters? Fighter jets? .. ?

          1. All is needed! πŸ˜„

            For some MOP to really know, Patriots and SAMP/T and similar should be able to pick them up even if they are fast but they do not cover the whole of Ukraine and are of course very expensive. 
            But it should of course be compared with the damages Shaheds can cause and not what they cost in themselves so it is probably worth it.

        2. As of 09.00, air defence defence neutralised 75 enemy Shahed-type UAVs (and other types of drones) in the east, south and north of the country. 60 were shot down by firepower, 15 were locally lost/suppressed by electronic warfare.

          locally lost =skenmΓ₯l?

           

          1. Maybe, if so, there were too many who came forward.

            Then maybe it’s the same with Shaheds, that they have a certain margin of error so it falls down on its own sometimes. 

  12. After Ukraine’s strike on Russian bombers, governor mulls rewarding citizens for attacking UAVs with stones. “In the operational staff, we will evaluate the actions of concerned citizens who tried to interfere with the work of drones and decide on their recognition,” Governor of Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast Igor Kobzev wrote on Telegram.

    Videos that surfaced on Russian social media earlier showed civilians in Irkutsk hurling rocks at first-person-view (FPV) drones flying out of trucks, the same kind of makeshift launch systems Ukrainian intelligence operatives used in a bold and destructive operation on June 1.

    https://kyivindependent.com/russian-governor-praises-citizens-for-attacking-ukrainian-drones-with-stones

    Comment: I envision a new consumer market in the USA: drone weapons. I believe that some progress is already being made in that direction, saw an article/tweet/reel about something electronic a year ago.

     

    1. Westley Richard

      Mike Johnson belongs to Trump’s puppets, which makes his statement interesting. Is there a turnaround in progress or is one party trying to unite in order to push through its domestic policy. 

      1. I know that Jake Broe speculated a bit about that.
        He meant that the majority of Republicans actually want to put Russia in its place and support Ukraine.
        At the same time, Trump wants to keep both Putin and MAGA satisfied.

        He guessed that Trump realizes that he is at a disadvantage and therefore chooses not to go public with anything about sanctions and tougher measures against Russia, but at the same time, he will not prevent them from voting through any proposals. Then he can blame them and still retain support from MAGA and stay buddies with Putin.

        He has campaigned fiercely against Ukraine throughout the war, so he will probably find it difficult to suddenly make a 360-degree turn without losing the trust of his core voters.

        Just as Putin cannot convince the Russians that cooperation with the archenemy USA is a good idea. 

        1. Good post. Yes, approaching Russia is strange and counterintuitive since the USA is the largest country in the Western world. Trump has amassed too much power. He just wants to conduct his business undisturbed by any ongoing wars. He is more of a businessman than a president. It is sad to see.

  13. I am skeptical that it actually represents a real turning point, but it still has enormous significance. Both for Russia’s diminished capabilities, but perhaps mainly for increased confidence for Ukraine and for the world’s view of the war where Russia and their supporters constantly claim that they cannot be defeated. Ukraine is showing that by being smart and using simple means, they can strike hard!

    “With ‘high probability,’ Ukraine’s impressive drone attacks in Russia will go down in history as the day Ukraine gained a decisive advantage in the war. This assessment is made by Stefan Hedlund, professor of Eastern European studies, in an opinion piece in Expressen.

    After being subjected to bombings for months, Ukraine managed to take out large parts of the Russian bomber fleet.”
    https://omni.se/1-juni-gar-nog-till-historien-som-krigets-stora-vandpunkt/a/4BkWnE

  14. A bit off topic, Sweden and our economy and economic policy:

    “On the editorial pages today, it is written, among other things, about who is responsible for the situation in the Swedish economy. The three suspects are the government, the opposition, and Donald Trump.

    According to Aftonbladet’s Kalle Sundin, the continued shrinking GDP measure is a sign that the government “has been lousy for Sweden’s economy.”

    He writes that the Tido parties explain the trend with the uncertainty from Trump’s tariff threats, but do not buy it – because Sweden’s exports have increased.

    At the same time, the Social Democrats’ proposal for shortened working hours would worsen the situation, according to DN.”
    https://omni.se/ledare-regeringen-kan-inte-skylla-allt-pa-trump/a/qP4Q20

  15. More off-topic, if it’s true, it doesn’t sound very good.
    “There is a risk that Ulf Kristersson (M) is biased when he is to consider the proposal to ban international adoptions to Sweden, writes Tobias HΓΌbinette in DN Debatt.

    Kristersson was the chairman of Adoptionscentrum, which is Sweden’s largest mediator of international adoptions, between 2003 and 2005. At that time, adoptions increased to their highest level ever – despite several alarms about human trafficking.

    According to HΓΌbinette, the Prime Minister is also said to have buried information about irregularities in adoptions from China.”
    https://omni.se/javrisk-nar-kristersson-beslutar-om-adoptioner/a/Gy96j4

    1. Westley Richard

      HΓΌbinette is a crazy full-blooded communist who has fought all his adult life to spread unrest among the adopted. But in essence, he is right, Kristersson was chairman for a period and that is probably why he has contributed to an investigation. It is not likely that he would have been involved in any league that has been involved in kidnapping children.

      There is quite a big issue surrounding adoption. Especially now that it is becoming more common for all adopted children to seek out their biological mother and hold her accountable for why she gave up her child for adoption. Unfortunately, the adopted children may not always receive a truthful answer, that they did not want or could not take care of their child may not be the spontaneous answer they give when a rich kid who has traveled the world knocks on the door and wants answers. Now, a chairman of an adoption association had spoken out in DN and wanted all adopted children to receive a “travel grant” and for Sweden to also financially support her mother, suspecting that the association she represents already receives quite a lot in grants but they would like to have more. So, there is an economic incentive in this that we cannot ignore.

      Would the children have been better off if they had stayed with their helpless parents? How would their healthcare, education, daily food, and shelter have been, would they even have survived?

      Now they have all of that plus hopefully a couple of parents who have loved them. Adoptive parents who are portrayed as kidnappers in social media while they still want to have a good ongoing relationship with the child they have raised, cared for, and supported.

      I have a relative who has adopted and there were quite thorough investigations before they were allowed to adopt, if regular parents had to go through such investigations, there wouldn’t be as many children being born.

      It’s not easy when the country is marinated in an emotional sauce.

      1. Now I think you are simplifying the problem a bit too much.

        If he is a full-blooded communist, one might assume that he is also pro-Russian, and then shouldn’t he rather be in favor of child abduction?

        I’m not denying that there are certainly many cases involving money, emotions, etc., but are you suggesting that there are no cases of child abduction or any problems at all when it comes to adoptions?
        That it’s just about emotions?

        What does he have to gain from raising the issue other than attention?
        Are you saying it’s just political propaganda from his side? That as a communist, he wants to go after the moderates?

        I understand that those on the far right like to dismiss him because of his work on mapping the extreme right and Nazis, but that hardly means that one can completely dismiss his research on adoptions, right? It seems like he tends to exaggerate some things and be generally uncomfortable.

        But that doesn’t mean he has to be completely wrong.

        1. Westley Richard

          In all activities, mistakes are made, and surely mistakes have also been made in some adoptions, but sometimes you have to be able to let go and move on. In the majority of cases, things have likely been done correctly. The problem has grown as lunatics like Hubinette, who are obsessively fixated on race, drive this. There is not a single person in Sweden who has been charged with any crime related to adoption, despite the media portraying adoption as deeply criminal.

          The race warrior Hubinette naturally takes the opportunity to go after the naive Kristersson and portray him as ultimately responsible for this alleged criminal activity. No thanks for the resources spent on an investigation and the likely rain of taxpayer money over all adoptees and their parents, as well as the creation of a lot of well-paid jobs for them where they can glide around in their victim coats.

          If this lunatic Hubinette had had his way, we would have had skull measurements and all jobs would have been distributed based on race and the outcome of the skull measurements. That guy is as dangerous as a Nazi, it’s just that he’s at the other end of the scale.

          But it’s nice that we can at least agree that there is an economic incentive to push these issues and that the parents who have given up their children for adoption may not be entirely truthful.

  16. Where are the nuclear threats??? Has Medvedev started to lose his edge? πŸ˜‚

    “Dmitry Medvedev β€” longtime war cheerleader, ex-Russian president, and Putin puppet β€” goes on another vodka-fueled rant: β€œRevenge is inevitable. Everything that must explode will explode. Everyone who must be annihilated will vanish. Talks? Just a step toward wiping out the neo-Nazi regime.””
    https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3lqosfjsms22p

  17. “Fiendly KABs har blivit lΓ€ngre rΓ€ckvidd och kan trΓ€ffa pΓ₯ ett avstΓ₯nd pΓ₯ upp till 95 km, – Kharkivs Γ₯klagarmyndighet. De ryska luftbomberna kan attackera inte bara Kharkiv, utan ocksΓ₯ bosΓ€ttningar sΓΆder om staden. Ryssarna kan installera nya luftbomber med ΓΆkad rΓ€ckvidd planeringsmoduler.”

  18. Peter Den StΓΆrre

    I wonder what the UK’s Kier Starmer means when he talks about a war with Russia? Does he mean when Russia has been pushed back and returns after five years? Or does he mean here and now, with which Russian forces then?

  19. Fram i Natten

    I hope they detonate pillar 2 soon.
    That way, the slime gnomes can film carefully when the black construction goes into the pluret and traps the remnants of the fleet inside/outside…

    1. Westley Richard

      Now a bridge pillar has been chosen for the high bridge that is stronger than the other bridge pillars.

      If another one had been chosen, it might have cracked.

      Is there any bridge builder here besides the old one who was involved in building the bridge over the River Kwai who can tell how this affects the bridge.

       

      1. Spontaneously, it does feel like 1100kg of explosives among those steel columns at the bottom could potentially cause some chaos? If it’s placed there over time, little by little, perhaps they’ve placed appropriate amounts per column? And then maybe they’ve considered exactly how much is needed on exactly how many columns to simply disrupt the bridge foundation’s ability to handle the load?
        *Hope*

  20. Last Sunday, I was out driving when funny things happened, now I took a short car ride to the recycling center, and funny things happened there too.
    I have to start driving more! πŸ˜„

  21. “The Ukrainian Security Service has carried out an attack on the Russian Crimea Bridge, reports Kyiv Independent. During the special operation, which has been planned for several months, they have blown up the supports of the bridge below the water surface.

    The bridge had been mined with 1,100 kilograms of dynamite and shortly before 05:00, local time, in the morning, the first charge detonated. The bridge is said to have been seriously damaged in the attack. The security service states that no civilians were harmed.

    Russia’s Ministry of Defense stated overnight that they had shot down three drones over the Crimean Peninsula.”
    https://omni.se/ukrainsk-attack-mot-ryska-krymbron/a/OoOa7w

    https://kyivindependent.com/breaking-ukraines-sbu-strikes-crimean-bridge-in-underwater-attack/

  22. “A treasure in Donald Trump’s budget proposal risks lowering the dollar and triggering a sharp decline on Wall Street. This is predicted by Allianz’s top executive Ludovic Subran, according to CNBC.

    The tax proposal in question involves increased taxes for individuals and companies from certain other countries and is flying under the radar for many investors, according to Subran.

    If the proposal becomes reality, he predicts a stock market crash of 10 percent, a 5 percent weakening of the dollar, and a half percentage point increase in U.S. long-term interest rates.”

  23. RT (Russia Today) apparently has not received any instructions yet on how to spin it, because so far they don’t mention the bridge at all. πŸ˜„

  24. Can’t understand the terms in Swedish.

    They seem to have tried to blow up one of the “load-bearing pillars” under the water.

    What you see is piling that is then anchored in the bridge foundation before a pillar rises and attaches to the bridge.

    So, the forest of piles is under the lake bottom.

    1100kg of TNT wrapped around the bridge has certainly caused significant damage, you can be sure of that.

    They chose it because if they had blown up a smaller pillar, the others could probably have supported the bridge, and they have already repaired the deck.

    If the bridge doesn’t collapse, all Ukraine needs to do is aim at the same point with robots, underwater drones, or surface drones until it collapses – just a matter of time now πŸ‘πŸ‘

    Do you understand the scope of the operation – 1100kg smuggled in with underwater vessels and divers 😢

    Pure Operation Garbo

     

    1. The information about 1100kg seems to suggest that the entire pillar mount is quite unstable and also difficult to repair!

      This explains why they didn’t waste Storm Shadows and other things trying to take the bridge from the air. They already had a plan.

      I previously wrote that if it took 18 months to plan the drone attack on the plane, I wonder what they started planning for 17 months ago. πŸ˜„

  25. Checked what RT wrote about the attack on the field. They are trying to spin it as a sign that Russia is winning the war! πŸ˜‚

    “The last drone parade: Ukraine tries to reset a war it already lost
    With dwindling weapons, collapsing morale, and no strategic gains, Ukraine turns to spectacle as a last resort.
    The Ukrainian army is in steep decline. Troops are retreating slowly, but desertions are surging.
    Near the end of World War II, Germany pinned its hopes on the V-2 rocket – a weapon launched by the hundreds, against which no defense was possible. It was powerful, terrifying, and militarily useless.”

  26. Lammis watching ruzzian empire go BOOM

    Apparently a powerful explosion around 3 pm local time in Kerch, saw a short video with smoke development from the bridge – but it could be those smoke machines that the Russians themselves activate in case of a potential attack.

  27. I don’t know if you noticed some issues with the site?
    It was fine to surf, but when I was in the admin area, it came to a complete stop.
    Too many users/visitors, had to adjust some values on the server so that it could handle all requests!

      1. Of course!
        We are preparing to celebrate this week’s surprises from Ukraine to Russia.
        The Russians lurking here are hanging out, but instead of drowning their sorrows! πŸ˜‚

      1. Then I know, then you were also affected by the overload.

        Actually, the server wasn’t overloaded in itself.
        When setting up sites, they have default values for (simplified) how many simultaneous requests can be made.
        If these are exceeded, you end up in a queue and may have to wait or receive an error message.
        In this case, it was just a matter of adjusting some parameters to make it work.

        Not allowing unlimited amounts is because it affects the entire server. If a site is subjected to a DDOS attack, for example, it risks consuming all resources and using up all memory until the entire server collapses.

        Actually, the first time I’ve needed to increase from the default values.

  28. I’m starting to get a little sentimental here at work before lunch.

    What street-smart absolute warriors Ukraine is ✊✊✊

  29. The old man has now lit his sparklers at Hertzbron – tomorrow you will get the entire risk minimization operation.

    That’s why Budanov has been so quiet.

  30. I still have some trouble logging in, but it’s probably mostly the Sicilians I work for and not GRU.

    This is shaping up to be a very good day – there are no sober scalps between the office cubicle walls ✊

      1. πŸ˜‚πŸ‘

        Johan sometimes joins in and sometimes not, but you are right.

        If you can’t log in and reply, you can always go to the contact page and submit it that way because it doesn’t require logging in.

        It can also be used if you have feedback or requests, etc. that you don’t want to bring up in the comments.

  31. Not a dry eye is a nice expression, but I believe that the expression “not a thread member is sober” is more suitable for a day like this.

  32. The recent events of the past few days must surely lead to significant purges in Putin’s security apparatus, right? Many heads will roll? This must be extremely embarrassing for Putin. I hope they have a third act in the works so Putin looks extremely weak.

  33. Westley Richard

    πŸ‘€β—οΈIn May, polls showed that the proportion of Russians who believe that peace talks should be held now increased to 64%, an increase of 6% since March 2025. β–ͺ️The number of respondents who believe that military action should be continued now also decreased by 6%, to 28%.

     

    https://bsky.app/profile/savchenkoua.bsky.social/post/3lqpp37d5u22m

    Attached is a picture of the survey where one can also conclude that it is mainly older men living in Moscow who want to continue with the Russian aggression, Moscow is perhaps full of Putin copies?

     

  34. What a day, and what a week, nothing but reasons to be happy. πŸ˜€

    I’m on a business trip in a Baltic country, and you can definitely sense a positive atmosphere on this holiday when the drawbridge has been blown up.

      1. Fram i Natten

        Good. Then it’s verified.

        Let’s move on to the next step.
        Shadow fleet with controlled collision into the same pillar.

        DenGamle has signed on as a machinist.

  35. Westley Richard

    Elon Musk has had enough of the American Congress budget. On X, the billionaire writes that he is “sad and that he has had enough.” “This enormous, scandalous, and ‘pork-filled’ congressional budget is a disgusting abomination. Those of you who voted for it should be ashamed – you know you did wrong,” his post says. In a separate post, he warns that the budget could cause the USA’s “already gigantic” budget deficit to soar. Senator Rand Paul has also criticized the budget for raising the debt ceiling by several trillion dollars – something that has prompted Donald Trump to attack.

     

    Is the bromance over?

     

  36. Fram i Natten

    5000 men. 2 brigades.
    Can they establish a foothold and push back the slime?

    I believe so. Then send in another 10 brigades and push away the ryzars.

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