Ukraine daily update June 4, 2025

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When Dengamle returns, you can rest assured that he will take all the credit (even though it was me with the assistance of GUR who blew up the bridge), so here comes the big truth for preventive purposes – Dengamle wanted to “blow up the Kerch bridge in a cloud of black powder, the only thing that works as everyone knows.” You haven’t heard anything from Budanov because he has been busy with another operation – to get rid of Dengamle so the Kerch bridge can be blown up.

Yesterday, Dengamle stood at the significantly less known Hertz bridge in balsa wood, which he thought was the Kerch bridge, and lit a bunch of sparklers in silver tape that someone had written TNT on with a marker – Budanov has spent a tremendous amount of time minimizing the risks of this operation, and in the backpack, there was also a package that said “to be opened when explosive material is ignited,” and it was a bottle of Caribbean rum that I sent over with DHL.

Dengamle drank the bottle as expected after completing the mission, thinking the explosion from the Kerch bridge was his bridge, and now he is on a helicopter on his way to the command center in Germany where an American colonel will hand over some kind of medal accompanied by an American flag and a trumpeter – they couldn’t find a trumpeter, so they settled for a clarinet-playing student from a nearby German high school dressed in a uniform.

If you think that strategically bombing bombers or the Kerch bridge are complex setups with long lead times, then they are like kindergarten field trips compared to Budanov’s risk minimization of Dengamle. He is on the verge of throwing in the towel and asking for that ambassador position in Washington now.

Probably Ukraine needed to reach the point where Starmer, Macron, and Merz believed they were steering this towards peace in our time and put pressure on Trump to pressure Russia for peace. The troika decided that “Ukraine can target all military objectives in Russia” in a not too creative or daring escalation ladder to get Russia to the negotiating table – that’s what all three have been saying in all channels in their lukewarm statements.

Do I think Starmer, Merz, and Macron all double-crossed Zelensky against Trump – no, I actually don’t, and that’s why I’m so curious about what they will tell the media.

Before May 9th, there were drone clouds to make Putin angry, and the purpose was probably to make the peace delegation behave in their worst Russian way, perhaps?

Ukraine’s peace proposal is also a list where some points only anger the Russians, but to everyone else, they look somewhat okay.

So, Ukraine’s high school manipulation, and our leaders probably didn’t think UA could deliver the doomsday hammer already the week after, but now they have at least hit the Kerch bridge as well, and more is coming 🤣

No engineering degree is required to understand that that bridge is finished, and Russian channels say the bridge pillar is completely shattered.

The reason the bomber was hit when it was done in time was that RU was preparing for another major operation with missiles against Ukraine before the peace talks.

We knew this because we had information about newly deployed bombers and numerous IL76s that had made streamlined jumps to the airports days before. We informed Ukraine so they could act in time, but as usual, we probably won’t get any medals for winning the war.

Ukraine apparently preempted the Russian operation by just hours.

From now on, Hiroshima-Nagasaki (show that you have more than one bomb for the opponent) will play out as we world leaders have guessed (or are we guessing 🧐), and Russia is already faltering after the first resounding slap.

Ukraine has handed over all the negotiation cards to the West on a silver platter, and I pray to the gods every night that the West does not let Putin get away with this as soon as he agrees to a ceasefire – it must not happen, then I will tear up my passport and move.

MAGA is completely crazy now, and Russian psyops are screaming that all nuclear agreements are broken – all to scare. Those of you who read johanno1.se know that Russia themselves have withdrawn from various agreements since 2022 and now regret it through MAGA.

For a change, Trump has kept quiet, no one else in history has been able to make Trump keep quiet; he probably feels deceived because his whole tactical setup has been that he will save Ukraine, and now it is Putin who needs to be saved – I think something about WW3, nuclear weapons, and all high-risk stuff will come from him soon actually 🧐

And where is Putin, to begin with, he probably doesn’t know if he can trust Trump anymore, so he is probably keeping very far away from gas stations right now😀

We know from before that when it really hurts, the Russian bastards keep quiet, so you can rest assured that this is painful, bordering on a feud before the cabinet meetings.

Lots of shifting glances, sweaty foreheads, and a clear smell of anxiety.

Operation Garbo but like a boomerang straight in Putin’s face.

Ukraine must deploy full asymmetric warfare against Putin in the coming months, and even though they look strong, these efforts are limited in number (but more are coming), and they have only once managed to launch 400 drones in a combined operation over Crimea – they are doing the best they can.

They need an amplifier, and that is – the power grid, Russian liberation groups, provinces rising up, opposition in Moscow starting to stir, and lots of demonstrations against the war.

Ukraine is in contact with – political opposition, provinces wanting to break free, neighboring provinces wanting to align with Ukraine, freedom movements, and provinces in Russia wanting to be free.

If they all rise up at a given signal, it’s over – but they won’t do it until Russia looks weak.

Is Russia starting to look weak 🧐

Can the West once again make Putin look strong?

But if so, this will end with Russia collapsing, and Putin swaying in the wind where he hangs at the gas station, are our Western leaders prepared for this in 2025?

For three years, they haven’t been, and this news segment, like a genius in two shoes, posted on johanno1.se (not me for a change) clearly states that the USA (Biden and Sullivan) stopped Ukraine the whole war. We knew this and have been harping on about it endlessly, but now we see what happens when Ukraine is no longer stopped.

So the question is, what is being said behind closed curtains right now, besides raising the alert against Russian missiles over the EU that have strayed there due to technical malfunctions?

You just saw, like me, that not all types of strategic bombers were taken out, so apparently some restraint has been observed.

It’s not far-fetched to guess that Trump now realizes he has been completely spun around by Zelensky.

Since Zelensky said it in plain language (exclusively in yesterday’s post), our intelligence services have already informed Western politicians that Russia intends to escalate. Either you believe me and Zelensky, or you are mistaken.

Trump, Starmer, Macron, and Merz all know about this because they also read johanno1.se, right? Many world leaders receive this site as an early bird briefing, except for Friday hangovers.

Anyway, I find it extremely suspicious that they downgraded Zapad 25 to nothing, and Lukashenko was in every media outlet swearing that he only wants peace.

When you are weak, projecting strength is the name of the game, and the largest possible Zapad 25 would have been just that – either it’s a deal with the West, or they intend to escalate.

Because before every peace negotiation, the Russians rain down robots and shaheds over Ukraine and threaten with nuclear weapons – trying to project strength.

So what would project strength more than a violent Zapad 25?

It included the Northern Fleet, the Western Military District, the new St. Petersburg Military District, and the Baltic Fleet. Then it was 13,000 troops supposed to conduct joint exercises in Belarus, and now it’s probably even less?

But well – the way things are developing, they probably won’t have Zapad 25 before the country collapses 😀

It’s quite lively here in Europe, with citizens wanting to demonstrate and criminals wanting a better life – not everything, but much, is active influence.

Perhaps a new wave of bombings?

More swastikas hanging by the highways?

Burned Qurans?

Maybe GRU will check off the entire list at once.

Have you also noticed how our social media is now flooded with videos of migrants committing crimes, especially against elderly or pregnant women, and imams declaring war on Christians – no new videos at all, but when they make the rounds, everyone gets upset, which is the purpose of the Russian operation that has collected these videos over time.

And then comes a religious terrorist attack, all paid for and prepared by GRU, who now want to ignite the great religious conflict among us.

And have you noticed how some within the SD party are now posting “keep Sweden Swedish” (just like in other parties, GRU has bought certain representatives, and you can probably start guessing who).

GRU doesn’t need to pay for S because they are carrying out a “forced relocation of citizens” entirely on their own, thinking it’s smart politics.

All at once and increasingly revealing quite a lot 🧐

This will be a very eventful summer, and those who don’t read here and evolve into walking geniuses don’t see that this is all connected, but much is interconnected.

By the way, Russia has also planned sabotage Ukrainian-style against our infrastructure, and we are probably even less prepared with basic protection and our protected sites than Russia is.

The fact that Russia is increasing pressure in Ukraine is clear, and I don’t understand why Gregg or anyone else talks about “de-escalation” – a mystery.

Ukraine has offensive capabilities, but it will be crucial how we in the West position ourselves in all of this now.

Ukraine has prepared for the worst – the Donbass line.

But they aim for a big win as usual, and with our help, they can get there.

You don’t hear anything for the very simple reason that Ukraine has learned to keep quiet the hard way – it almost cost them the war to keep our Western leaders updated on the battle plans. The USA leaked like a sieve.

If you have read johanno1.se, you know that Ukraine has significant offensive capabilities, but everything is relative, and I don’t have a complete overview of RU’s capabilities.

What RU is doing now they are good at, but if it turns into mobile warfare, their weaknesses will show – how well prepared is RU’s defense, which must be overcome before mobile warfare can happen?

In Northern Luhansk, the Russian attack vector towards Oskil has advanced five kilometers in a few days, and once it reaches Oskil, it will probably be difficult to save that area unless Russia collapses.

Russian presence is increasing in their areas at the northern front, but it’s a slow progress.

There is higher RU activity at Zaporizha

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3999725-afu-spox-number-of-clashes-in-zaporizhzhia-has-doubled.html

Read this and think about it.

“And we demonstrate it fairly, against military targets, and we also demonstrate it not only to the Russian aggressors, but also to all our allies who were strong allies, but began to have doubt. Trust in Ukrainians and faith in Ukraine have returned,” the head of state stated.

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3999874-zelensky-spiderweb-ukraines-own-operation.html

Tomas the doubter seems like a big optimist compared to our cowardly leaders 😲

It’s now or never – if our leaders just stand behind Ukraine, the Russian house of cards will fall in the year 2025.

If Ukraine fires off its biggest fireworks, and the West says “ceasefire and the path to peace” – then we have made a huge mistake that our children will have to pay the full price for when they eventually go to war.

Let the country fall, and from the ashes the same sh1tland will rise, but not as big since it will be divided, so the next 300 years will be exactly the same but with a little less intensity.

I’m dreaming of a landing in Crimea – one must have some use for all those 300 landing craft, I think?

Or the two corvettes built in Turkey, one must be ready?

Airborne operations – a few hundred helicopters have been delivered.

Crimea has the advantage that the land bridge to the mainland can be relatively easily locked, and now the Kerch Bridge is a walking dead.

Only the ferries remain if RU wants to reinforce the peninsula, which are just sitting ducks.

But for all that, everything must be on red alert – the Russian navy must be subdued, the air force eliminated, and then all access routes to Crimea must be blocked.

Or Belarus – the people in Belarus want freedom.

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77 thoughts on “Ukraine daily update June 4, 2025”

  4. Lammis watching ruzzian empire go BOOM

    Thank you for the update – a lot to process! It will be exciting to see how Merz’s meeting with Trump in The Evil Room will unfold; it will probably give us some hints about what has been going on.

    SBU has published videos of when the trucks with the drones started and drove off on their “missions” – it seems like SBU followed in a car and had full control (?). https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1930183881266778127

    A truck driver a few miles later, during a much-needed break:
    https://x.com/PortugueseFella/status/1929984417398657466

  5. Peter Den Större

    I repeat my pondering from the other day – at what point can we say that Ukraine has won the war? When Russia stops at current lines, or when we are back to the year 2022 or 2024?

    Because the truth is that no matter what point we aim for, the war won’t end until Russia stops fighting. Simple as that.

    Which leads to the world-leading conclusion that we probably need to aim for a total collapse of Russia. It can happen militarily possibly with the help of economic exhaustion or Russian opposition.

      1. Lasse W

        No Zapad 25 this year projecting strength. Russia’s military resources seem heavily strained. The front is long, and the strategic bomber fleet has been bled dry. A bomber fleet that is a cornerstone of Russian nuclear doctrine. Is there any AWACS left?

        There should be voices in Russia raised now. When does the price become too high for this, as the SMO was called. The country is bled economically, militarily, and in terms of population in a way that is not sustainable. When will the first voices be raised inside Russia?

        1. Westley Richard

          They probably had 10 AWACS and it went well with 2 of them. So 8 left if all are intact and clean, which they probably are not.

           

          1. Lasse W

            I saw a task about RU being very short on AWACS. How current the planes are is unclear. They are packed with electronics that can fail. I will try to get better clarity in the future.

    2. Lammis watching ruzzian empire go BOOM

      Peter the Great, my thoughts: Putin cannot stop waging war, there is no way back for him – war, putting Russian society on a war footing, both physically and mentally, is his only way to survive. At the moment, there are enough oligarchs making fortunes from the war economy and therefore supporting him, we’ll see how long that lasts. And the war against Ukraine and the rhetoric against NATO is not about “the Russian empire” – it’s a mafia group that feels that the West, after the fall of the Soviet Union, has unjustly encroached on what they see as their spheres of interest. Sure, there are “true” nationalists in Russia; for example, Girkin actually seems to be driven by deep ideological conviction, but for Putin and Co, it’s about money and power.

      The West did not dare to let the whole Soviet Union (Russia) collapse, and thus an entire state structure could be taken over and used for its own purposes. Unfortunately, I believe that we will see the same half-hearted, laissez-faire approach now as well – instead of demanding proper purges of corrupt Russian power structures, there will be agreement on some kind of compromise candidate after Putin; the corrupt structure will remain intact and everything can start over from the beginning. The “provinces” are not alternatives – all power has been concentrated in Moscow; for example, governors used to transfer money from their budgets to the common state budget, now it is the Kremlin that first collects tax revenues and then transfers them to the various regions (if they behave….).

      Hm, what did I want to say? Well, that the war will not end as long as Putin is in power, but the Russian economy is doing so poorly that I don’t think he will stay in power for much longer – but if that happens, will the West allow Ukraine to regain all its territories (including Crimea)? Time will tell….

      My own crafted girl guesses! 😜

      (Adding this as support for the fact that the West probably will not let Russia collapse this time either: https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-top-russian-lng-buyers-wary-of-brussels-gas-ban/)

      1. Lasse W

        I believe there is a lot to the fact that Putin has committed himself to such an extent that he cannot – based on the goals set for the SMO from the beginning – back down with honor intact. It’s a matter of sink or swim.

  12. MatsExtrude

    It would be interesting to know how it has affected unemployment. Previously, last month, the number of new hires had probably increased while the number of unemployed had also risen.

    “The number of employed in the private sector in the USA increased by 37,000 people in May, according to a survey by ADP Employer Services. This prompts US President Donald Trump to react against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, CNBC reports.

    “The ADP figure is out! ‘Too late’ Powell must now lower the interest rate,” he writes on his own platform Truth Social.

    This is the lowest ADP figure in several years, CNBC notes. Analysts were expecting an increase of 115,000 people.”
    https://omni.se/trump-om-privata-jobbdatan-sank-rantan/a/jQeMO9

  15. MatsExtrude

    Nothing new really, the images have already made a few rounds.

    “New satellite images from Planet Labs show destroyed Russian bombers at Belaja airport in the Siberian region of Irkutsk.

    The images show at least three severely damaged strategic bombers of the Tupolev Tu-95 type, according to the BBC. Defense experts tell the channel that the planes are likely completely destroyed.

    At the far end of the base, located around 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, there are also burn marks where Ukrainian drones have hit other bombers.”
    https://omni.se/nya-satellitbilder-visar-forstorda-ryska-planen/a/jQeMrq

  16. MatsExtrude

    “Ukrainian media organizations demanded that True Story Festival organizers remove Russian speakers from the June event in Bern, citing five Russian representatives scheduled for war-related sessions while no Ukrainian journalists appear on the programme.”

  18. MatsExtrude

    “Ukrainas SBU har släppt slående bilder på FPV-dronattacker mot fyra ryska strategiska flygbaser: Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo och Belaya. Enligt tjänstemän uppgår de totala bekräftade ryska flygförlusterna till 41, hälften av dem är bortom reparation, enligt president Zelensky.”

  19. MatsExtrude

    “The treasure chest” is slowly decreasing, although they managed to scrape together some rubles in May after all.

    “As of June 2025: The liquid portion of the Russian National Welfare Fund holds:

    👉 153.6981 Billion Yuan (-10.8991 billion)
    👉 139.5091 tons of gold (-28.5520 tons)
    👉 1.271.3 Billion Rubles (+0.8737 billion)

    And that’s it.”

    1. Robert Calvert

      Here I had to calculate a bit on the gold, to get an idea of its value;

      The daily price of 28.5 metric tons of gold corresponds to 3,092,250,000 USD.

  20. ANDERS RYDEN

    Should one blow something up with gunpowder, one does it on the 5th of November.
    It’s been that way for ages.
    The old man should know that.
    He was in London in 1605 trying to blow things up with gunpowder back then too.
    “Remember, remember, the 5th of November,
    Gunpowder, treason and plot.
    I see no reason
    Why gunpowder treason
    Should ever be forgot.”

    The main effect of the recent events of the past few days is probably that Putin wants to shift the blame onto someone.
    Either the military or the intelligence service.
    He probably demands that heads must roll.
    I believe that Ukraine is trying to provoke a coup in the Kremlin with these actions.
    Nothing makes someone more motivated to stage a coup than when they have everything to gain and nothing to lose except a short flight from a tall building.

    2. Westley Richard

      Between 1950 and 2012, 473 authoritarian leaders were deposed worldwide. In two-thirds of the cases, they were deposed by the regime’s own favorites, rather than through popular uprisings. Of all the coup attempts in the world between 1950 and 2010, around half were also successful. The greatest threat to a dictator’s power thus comes from within their own ranks, the regime’s insiders, rather than the people they oppress or foreign powers. For a dictator, the regime’s elite is both the enabler and the greatest threat to power.

      https://timbro.se/smedjan/i-huvudet-pa-en-diktator/

       

  28. MatsExtrude

    “Ukraine will not lose the war. In 2024, the enemy captured only 0.5% of the territory, another 0.2% since the beginning of this year. But at the cost of 167 killed occupiers for every kilometer. This does not look like a “quick victory,” — Colonel Pavlo Palisa in an address to US senators.”

  34. 205

    The art in Ukraine’s theory of victory — and what we can all learn from it after the June 1 drone strikes

    ”Finally, then, there’s the part targeting the Russian mindset — the art of bringing fear and paranoia to Russia about its own security, the art of showing Russians they can’t live blissfully unaware of the slaughter of Ukrainians, the art of demonstrating that morale, will, and adaptability are assets on Ukraine’s balance sheet that Russia can never fully predict or account for. No, this drone strike won’t stop the war. But it took away a piece of the Soviet machinery that Moscow relies on. Unlike how they view the lives of their soldiers and conscripts, the Kremlin lost something it knows is irreplaceable.”

    https://www.greatpower.us/p/operational-art-and-the-salvation

     

    https://x.com/mollymckew/status/1930251200693150118?s=46

  35. Fram i Natten

    I don’t understand anything about war matters, but here are some beautiful pictures.
    Enjoy your evening. 🌻

    High-resolution images of wreckage 💥 🛩️

    😀

    1. 205

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      https://x.com/hthhans/status/1930339835614539955?s=46

  37. 205

    🇩🇰Denmark has provided 3.2bn DKK (430m EUR) of a total of 9.4bn DKK (1.26bn EUR) in 2025 for acquisitions of weapons to 🇺🇦 Ukraine via the “Danish model” directly from Ukrainian industry. The funding is provided by 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇦 & the 🇪🇺 (interest from frozen Russian assets) Link👇🏻

    https://www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2025/artillerisystemer-angrebsdroner-missiler-og-panservarns-vaben-for-32-milliarder-pa-vej-til-det-ukrainske-forsvar/

     

    https://x.com/hthhans/status/1930339835614539955?s=46

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