WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

Zelensky appoints Shapovalov as the new commander of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/1935762879103291569

⚡ In the Sumy direction, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 60 complex strikes on enemy targets, reports "Dnevnik Paratroopernika":

🟥 In the Sumy district, ammunition depots, an artillery installation, and a communications center were destroyed;

🟥 In the Shostka district, a strike was carried out on a reserve distribution point. The Russian Aerospace Forces struck a deployment point for foreign mercenaries;

🟥 In the Seredino-Budsky district, a stronghold and a field weapons depot were destroyed;

🟥 In the Belopolsky district, a sabotage and reconnaissance group was destroyed.
- UARU

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1935732994146205935

🇷🇺🇨🇳 “The Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), part of Donbass, is set to sign 10 agreements with China tomorrow morning in St. Petersburg. This marks the beginning of direct Chinese investment in Donbass. This is huge—absolutely enormous!” — Pepe Escobar

https://x.com/apocalypseos/status/1935642389164724250

St. Petersburg Economic Forum - Day 1.

https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status...44186695876954

Dmitry Peskov told us some hard truths at SPIEF, where this been a hot topic.

"Talk of Western companies that left returning to Russia is unrealistic right now. No one is coming back. There are hypothetical scenarios, but no one is talking any actual steps.

We must remind ourselves about foreign companies that chose to stay. They make money, they pay taxes, and they create jobs. We need to protect those."

https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/1935769636697784568

🚨🇷🇺🇷🇺 CAN CHINA HELP REBUILD THE DONBASS?

Pepe Escobar speaks to Chinese businesswoman on the sidelines of SPIEF about the prospects of Mariupol becoming the new Shenzen.

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1935707008096731593

That's why I attacked Ukraine!
Putin, Russia

Putin: I am ready to meet with everyone, including Zelensky! Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with the heads of the world's leading news agencies.

One of the questions was about the Ukrainian crisis.

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1935647681973809162

🇭🇺 Hungary will continue its peace mission on Ukraine. This was stated by Péter Szijjártó on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

"We live next door and want peace in Ukraine. We have maintained a very consistent position over the past three and a half years. We have consistently advocated for a ceasefire and peace negotiations. And those who previously criticized us for this are now saying the same thing," said the Hungarian Foreign Minister.

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1935694811752804711

🇮🇹 Call to kill the Russian president by striking the Kremlin from the Italian state television and radio company.⁉️⁉️⁉️

RAI published an article stating that one strike on the Kremlin is enough to kill Vladimir Putin.

After a massive negative reaction, the post was deleted, but the fact of publication was confirmed by Maria Zakharova.

She emphasized that the incident is not over yet:
"This can indeed be qualified as public calls for extremist activity or public calls for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda for terrorism."
And the fact that these extremist statements were made by a representative of the Italian state television and radio company RAI indicates that the situation of freedom of expression in Italy, as it seems to me, has reached a truly frightening stage. "Moscow expects the RAI management to at least officially apologize," Maria Zakharova said, noting:

"But it seems to me that Italian officials should also speak out and say that this is not the norm for Italy, such unbridled behavior and such indulgence. But do you know what the problem is? The problem is that it is not the government officials themselves, the officials in Italy, who are setting such a tone of absolute irresponsibility?"

https://x.com/peacemaket71/status/1935728607948603653

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸 #Russian Su-24 sends greetings to Americans in neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.

‼️🇺🇸 As it flew over a #USA warship, it released warning heat flares.

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1935738661624332690

"Where the Russian soldier sets foot is ours": Putin stressed that Russia does not demand Ukraine's capitulation - today

Russia does not demand Ukraine's capitulation, Moscow needs Kyiv to recognize the situation on the ground, as well as other realities. This was stated by Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

The Russian leader denied the session's moderator's assertion that Russia's position on Ukraine is exactly the same as the US position on Iran, where Trump demands Tehran's unconditional surrender regarding its nuclear program. According to Putin, the situation in Ukraine is fundamentally different; Russia is not demanding Ukraine's capitulation, but is seeking recognition of the realities on the ground. He recalled that Ukraine's sovereignty and independence are based on its neutral and non-aligned status.

"We are not seeking capitulation from Ukraine. We insist on recognition of the realities that have developed on the ground."

- Putin said.

Answering a question about the actions of the Russian army in the Sumy region, Putin noted that Kyiv is to blame for this situation, having created a problem for itself by attacking the Kursk region. At the moment, there seems to be no task to take Sumy, but the Russian leader does not rule out that the city will come under Russian control.

https://en.topwar.ru/266695-tam-gde-...i-ukrainy.html

Ukrainian resistance reports Russian Armed Forces strike on Ukrainian Armed Forces saboteur training center in Zatoka area near Odessa - today

The Russian Armed Forces carried out a pinpoint strike on one of the recreation centers near Odessa, on the territory of which there was a training center for Ukrainian Armed Forces saboteurs. This was reported by the coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, Sergei Lebedev, on his Telegram channel.

According to the Odessa resistance, the Russian Armed Forces, in addition to the night strikes, carried out another one in the morning. The target was an object in the Zatoka area, but not the bridge. It is assumed that they struck one of the recreation centers used by the Ukrainian military for their own purposes, including training saboteurs for operations on Russian territory. As stated, the training is being conducted by British instructors, they teach how to mine bridges, operate unmanned boats, etc.

"In Odessa region, in addition to very good night arrivals, arrivals have started now. Arrives in the Zatoka area. (...) There is an opinion that the arrival is at one of the recreation centers where saboteurs are trained."

- writes Lebedev.

There is no information about the results of the strikes, but they landed well. Locals report that they were hit drones- kamikaze type "Geranium", missiles were not used. Ukrainian Defense In an attempt to shoot down Russian drones, it hit several houses. In general, everything is as usual.

Earlier, the Odessa underground repeatedly reported the appearance in the city of a large number of foreign military personnel, mainly French and British. Both countries have big plans for Odessa, planning to deploy their military contingents on the Black Sea coast.

https://en.topwar.ru/266649-ukrainsk...d-odessoj.html

Putin warns Kyiv against using 'dirty' nuclear bomb -today

Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a stern warning to the Ukrainian authorities, saying that the use of a so-called "dirty" nuclear bomb would be "the Kyiv regime's last mistake." Speaking at a meeting of the Russian Security Council, he expressed hope that the situation would never reach such a catastrophe.

A dirty bomb is a device that combines conventional explosives with radioactive materials, capable of causing contamination and panic, although it does not have the power of a nuclear weapon.

According to the BBC, in 2022, Russia repeatedly accused Ukraine of preparing such provocations, but the IAEA, which inspected Ukrainian nuclear facilities, found no evidence of such activity. However, as Reuters reports, in November 2024, Western publications, including The Times, discussed the theoretical possibility of Ukraine creating a primitive nuclear device from spent fuel from a nuclear power plant, which caused a new wave of alarm.

Putin stressed that Russia is closely monitoring any actions related to nuclear technologies in Ukraine. Moscow believes that Kyiv's access to radioactive materials stored at Ukrainian nuclear power plants could be used for provocations aimed at blaming Russia.

https://avia-pro.net/news/putin-pred...yadernoy-bomby

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J5bId9iKjac

2 Options and Both Are Bad❌ Ukrainians Are Building Defensive Nets🛡️ Military Summary For 2025.06.20

🇷🇺 Vladimir Medinsky responds to the Kiev regime’s ridiculous claims that Russia is passing off the bodies of dead Russian soldiers as Ukrainian soldiers in recent body exchanges:

I would very much ask our Ukrainian negotiating partners to somehow rein in their propagandists, so that they don’t make them look ridiculous—because the analogies, unfortunately, with the Katyn process and all those Goebbels-like manipulations were entirely obvious.

Ukrainians are sincerely insane.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1936142168915358025

Putin, Putin, Putin...

In the Israeli city of Haifa, an Iranian missile destroyed a cafe "Nasha Kukhnya" (Our Kitchen), which was run by Ukrainian nationalists.

The Kremlin's hand reached out there too.

https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1936174923065512420

An Estonian can't help but laugh after reading the news that one of the heads of Estonian intelligence, speaking to journalists, literally said:

"In Estonia, food prices have never been as high as they are under Putin."

The man laughs:
Holy ****! Putin, what are you doing?


https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1936175595181797486

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/1936150358104875213

https://tass.com/economy/1978021?utm...m_social_share

Ukraine, Middle East, new world order: main points from Putin's keynote address at SPIEF

According to the Russian president, Russians and Ukrainians are one people

ST. PETERSBURG, June 20. /TASS/. Russia views all of Ukraine as its own, but does not deny the country’s right to independence, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the SPIEF plenary session. He called on Kiev to end the conflict, taking existing realities into account.

The head of state also answered questions about the possibility of a mutually acceptable peaceful solution to the conflict in the Middle East, the new world order and the outdated approaches of the West, which continues to ignore the interests of the Russian Federation.

TASS has compiled the main theses of the Russian president.

The situation in Ukraine

Russia is not seeking Ukraine's surrender: "We insist on recognizing the realities that have developed on the ground." Thus, the Russian army "is advancing in all directions along the entire line of contact every day," creating a security zone, to which the enemy is forced to divert its forces, "which are already lacking in the principal areas of the armed struggle."

In the Kursk Region, Ukraine lost 76,000 people, "a disaster for them." The purpose of the attack on the Kursk Region was "of a political nature - to show that they are capable, in order to secure more funding from their sponsors from abroad."

The depth of the security zone in the Sumy Region ranges from 10 to 12 km. "You know, we don’t have a saying, or a parable, but an old rule - where the Russian soldier sets foot, that land is our."

The situation in Ukraine is a tragedy, and it is all the West’s doing: "This is the result of the work of those who do not want to put up with the global changes taking place in the world." The former US administration explicitly stated that it had spent billions of dollars on the "coup [in Ukraine]."

The West tried to act from a position of strength in Ukraine. At every stage, Russia offered Kiev to stop the fighting and negotiate.

Russians and Ukrainians are one people: "In this sense, the whole of Ukraine is ours." At the same time, Moscow has never questioned Ukraine's right to build an independent and neutral state: "The grounds on which Ukraine became independent and sovereign were set out in the Declaration of Independence of Ukraine of 1991, where it is clearly written in black and white that Ukraine is a non-aligned, non-nuclear, neutral state."

About the threats of using a "dirty bomb"

There is no evidence that Kiev is making a "dirty bomb," but such plans may appear "in a sick imagination."

Russia's nuclear doctrine stipulates that "we always respond to all threats posed to us in a tit-for-tat manner: This is why our response will be very harsh and, most likely, catastrophic for both the neo-Nazi regime and, unfortunately, for Ukraine itself. I hope it never comes to that.

The possibilities of conflict resolution in the Middle East

Russia hopes that Israel's threats against Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to "remain at the level of rhetoric."

Moscow does not seek to act as a mediator in the Middle East, but offers ideas: "And if they seem attractive to both countries, we will only be happy about it."

In the settlement of the conflict between Israel and Iran, "acceptable solutions can be found, in my opinion, for both one and the other country: And the countries of the global South, and especially the countries of the region, can certainly have a positive impact on this process, on the search for this solution. In my opinion, such a solution exists."

On this issue, "it is better not to get ahead of ourselves so as not to undermine" the settlement process, but "there are points of possible contact."

Russia continues to work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran and has received assurances from the leaders of Israel and the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, guaranteeing the safety of its employees: "Despite the complexity of the situation, despite certain danger, we continue this work. We are not evacuating our staff from there."

The new world order as the "sunrise"

A new world order is taking shape "naturally, like the sunrise: There's no getting around it!" Russia and China are not forming a new world order, "we are only shaping it" and, perhaps, "paving the way for this process so that it is more balanced and meets the interests of the vast majority of countries."

Russia's decision to develop relations with the global South was made a long time ago, "bearing in mind global development trends," which are objective in nature.

Western countries are losing their positions in the global economy, and if they "want to maintain their monopoly position at all costs, if they want to preserve the instruments of colonial influence in the world, then they will have to be content solely with the position into which they are gradually slipping by way of these using these tools." Nevertheless, Russia is ready to "negotiate all issues with them."

Russia was promised that NATO would never expand to the east: "After that, we had five waves of expansion, we can say six already." The security of one country "cannot be ensured at the expense of the security of another."

NATO's disregard for Russia's interests is "a remnant of an old, if not ancient, neocolonial policy, to a certain extent adjusted to modern realities.".

NATO INVADED UKRAINE

NATO DID NOT PROMOTE PEACE, NATO PROMOTED WARS

Ukraine Was not in NATO, but NATO Was in Ukraine Since 2014

Not dissolving NATO in 1990 was a big mistake, and it’s time to fix that mistake.Putin Exposes NATO’s Imaginary ‘Threat from Russia’

https://x.com/ivan_8848/status/1936035463296430188

Israel Admits Long Attrition War Iran Huge Missile Arsenal; Putin Hints End Goal Ukraine Is Russia
This video update covers both Iran and Ukraine, the segment relating to Ukraine starting at 47:37
https://youtube.com/watch?v=s17Xa8gjX0U (1:23:33)

Via Lord Bebo on X:

2 Ukrainians opened fire and wounded two military recruiters, to avoid being mobilized.

Mobilization timeline:
1) People who want to fight voluntarily ran out
2) People who do no resist forced mobilization nearly ran out
3) Next are people who violently resist

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I do expect that there'll be an increase in these sorts of events. Indeed, maybe there have been many others that we haven't seen :flower:

Russian Iskander strike on AFU training ground | settlement of Davydiv Brod in Kherson oblast

Footage has now emerged from earlier reports:



Description from VolgaLad on X:

This morning’s Iskander strike with a cluster warhead, between Dnipro, Kherson, and Mykolaiv, targeted an AFU training ground near the settlement of Davydiv Brod in Kherson oblast

Quote:

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Posted by Tintin

Via Lord Bebo on X:

2 Ukrainians opened fire and wounded two military recruiters, to avoid being mobilized.

Mobilization timeline:
1) People who want to fight voluntarily ran out
2) People who do no resist forced mobilization nearly ran out
3) Next are people who violently resist

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I do expect that there'll be an increase in these sorts of events. Indeed, maybe there have been many others that we haven't seen :flower:

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What struck me most was the non-reaction from bystanders who have become inured to it. Tragedy

🇷🇺➖🇺🇸 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS that Putin has no plans to speak with Trump following the U.S. strikes on Iran, though a line of communication could be established quickly if needed.

ukraine_watch

https://x.com/dana916/status/1936801951355941115

‼️🇺🇦🇷🇺 After talks with military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov, #Zelensky publicly declared plans for further attacks on #Russian territory.

“We’ve identified key pressure points of the aggressor state and will carry out targeted strikes to defend our country and people, and to significantly degrade #Russia’s potential,” he said.

https://x.com/MaimunkaNews/status/1936784669069963361

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦 Footage has emerged of an "Iskander" missile strike on a Ukrainian training ground, previously reported by the Ukrainian Ground Forces.

▪️The training ground was located near the village of Davydiv Brid, in the Kherson region.
▪️According to military sources, Ukrainian forces suffered losses.
As a result of what is described as irresponsible behavior by the Ukrainian command toward its own personnel, the strike reportedly hit:

Around 11 vehicles;

Up to 75 personnel (killed and wounded);

An air defense crew with a "Taran"-type interceptor drone.

- RVvoenkor

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1936838934408872384

🇷🇺🇺🇦

Footage of the liberation of Perebudova in the Donetsk People's Republic

▪️Fighters of the 37th motorized rifle brigade of the Vostok group planted Russian flags on the western bank of the Mokrye Yaly River, providing a springboard for a further offensive.

▪️During the fighting, the enemy lost up to 30 personnel, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ equipment and weapons were destroyed.

https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/1936743944143904827

📸 Putin Lays Wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier on Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, 22 June 1941 is the day operation Barbarossa started, the attack by Germany on the USSR

https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1936743487778467911

Servicemen of the WMD - participants in a special military operation on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow joined the nationwide action "Candle of Memory" in memory of all those who died during the Great Patriotic War


https://x.com/jaccocharite/status/1539615651177943042

🇷🇺🕯1,418 candles - one for each day of the Great Patriotic War - were lit near the walls of the main temple of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

On the eve of the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, the "Candle of Memory" event is taking place on Cathedral Square. Servicemen of the Moscow Military District with lamps lined up in the form of the number "1418" and installed them along the perimeter of the "Road of Memory" museum complex.

thearcangel

https://x.com/dana916/status/1936561889066033156

🇷🇺 Russian Ministry of Defense Top News Today

▫️As a result of active and decisive actions, units the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Petrovskoye (Kharkov region), and units of the Vostok Group of Forces completed the liberation of Perebudova (Donetsk People's Republic).

▫️Air defense systems shot down six JDAM guided aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles as well as 164 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

▫️The Russian Defense Ministry shows Strela-10 SAM systems, FPV drone operators, and Islander-M operational-tactical missile systems in action within the special military operation.

Russian Defense Ministry

https://x.com/dana916/status/1936897519788728538

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Main events as of June 22, 2025:

Russian forces have liberated Petrovskoye in the Kharkov region and Perebudova in the DPR, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost about 1,355 servicemen in various directions over the past day.

Commenting on calls to "turn the page" on the events of the 2014 coup in Ukraine, Peskov said that Russia and Putin are not ready to "turn the page" on anything — it is necessary to address the root causes of the conflict.

Air raids have been declared in the Sumy, Odessa, Chernigov, and Kiev regions of Ukraine, according to online data from the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

A separate group within the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been formed for the defense of Sumy, and a person in charge of building fortifications has been appointed, Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Syrsky reported.

France will continue to require Ukraine to make direct purchases of French weapons under the Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine initiative, French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated.

ukraine_watch

https://x.com/dana916/status/1936897893493059948

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Chronicle of a special military operation for June 21-22, 2025

Russian troops once again launched a combined massive attack on the oil refinery in Kremenchug, and also launched an Iskander OTRK attack on the Ukrainian Armed Forces training ground in the Davydiv Brod area.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, fighters from the 36th separate motorized rifle brigade liberated Zaporozhye and approached Yalta, engaging in battles on the approaches to the settlement.

In the Novoselovsky direction, the Russian Armed Forces broke through the enemy's defenses in Shevchenko, and also drove out units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Perestroika, having crossed the Mokrye Yaly River.

rybar

https://x.com/dana916/status/1936898498235957530

🛫 The enemy complains that a significant number of attack UAVs are flying at targets in Ukraine

According to monitoring channels, there are already more than 90 Geraniums in the sky.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1936880902983790966

Fires break out in Kherson after impacts

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1936881090116866289

💥 "Gerani" arrived in Cherkassy

Objects in Kanev, Cherkasy region, were also hit. The enemy complains that up to 250 attack UAVs may visit Ukraine tonight.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1936891906383880365

💥 Repeated explosions thundered in Poltava. The "Geranium" raid continues

It is also reported that an air raid alarm has been declared in Kyiv.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1936892028421349817

I was aware there was some sketchiness in the background of the new MI-6 chief. It shouldn't necessarily reflect on her and her abilities - she may well have attained the position purely on merit. However, according to Rina Lu:

Alexander Dyukov, member of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation on Interethnic Relations and director of the Historical Memory Foundation, wrote in his Telegram channel:

“METREVELI, David Mikhailovich, [the grandfather of the new head of MI6, Blaise Metreveli] born on January 2, 1907, in Feodosia. From November 1929, he served his mandatory term in the Red Army. In 1941, he was mobilized again; his final rank was captain, serving as assistant commander of the 334th Rifle Regiment of the 47th Rifle Division.
He went missing in action (captured) on May 27, 1942, near Kharkov.

By late 1942 – early 1943, he was already working at the Special Preliminary Camp in the city of Auschwitz, where Caucasian-origin Nazi collaborators were trained. He served as a radio instructor there.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuGguOoW...pg&name=medium

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Russian missile and drone strikes continue on targets in Kiev and as usual they're looking pretty precise. Not a lot of detail on the targets yet but strikes were reported in the vicinity of Zhuliany airport earlier:

Russian warships have begun escorting tankers in the English Channel amid NATO attempts to stop them

Mark Douglas, an analyst at Starboard Maritime Intelligence Ltd., told British journalists that the tankers Selva and Sierra recently passed through the English Channel together with the Project 20380 corvette Boykiy of the Russian Baltic Fleet. Before that, the tankers had been sailing in the strait without a military escort.

Finland had already stopped the Eagle S tanker, which was sailing from a Russian port in the Baltic Sea, but later released it. And Estonian special forces and border guards were driving a Russian Su-35S away from a similar tanker.

https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1937192145590382788

Indeed, maritime incidents nearly always a prelude to escalating conflict. If I remember rightly I think it's the annual gathering of knuckleheads (NATO) taking place today (?) or at least this week.

Here's some interesting information from Mats Nilsson on X published today:

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Sweden has now announced that starting on July 1 its navy will stop, inspect and potentially seize all suspect vessels transiting its exclusive economic zone, and is deploying the Swedish air force to back up this threat. Since the combined maritime economic zones of Sweden and the three Baltic states cover the whole of the central Baltic Sea, this amounts to a virtual threat to cut off all Russian trade exiting Russia via the Baltic — which would indeed be a very serious economic blow to Moscow.

It would also threaten to cut off Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad, which is surrounded by Poland, from access to Russia by sea.

This is the kind of action that has traditionally led to war. The Swedish assumption seems to be that the Russian navy and air force in the Baltic are now so weak, and so surrounded by NATO territory, that there is nothing Moscow can do about this.

However, it is very unlikely that the Swedes would take this step unless they also believe that in the event of a clash, Washington will come to Sweden’s defense, even though the EU and Swedish decisions were made without U.S. approval and are not strictly covered by NATO’s Article 5 commitment.

And despite all the hysterical language about Russia being “at war” with NATO countries, these moves by the EU and Sweden are also based on an assumption that Russia will not in fact lose its temper and react with military force.

This is what's called piracy. But by all means, that's after all how my dear Swedish state began.

According to Jan Glete: Warfare at sea, https://routledge.com/Warfare-at-Sea...KsqafdY-kqYAXs, the Swedish state was built up by the Vasa family as a company in the protection industry.

At that time, it was almost impossible for a country without much trade to have such a large fleet as Sweden had. But it was not used to protect its own trade but to tax other people's money.

Now they're back again.Hopefully this will land the Swedish state in International Court of Justice. Or given a slight bloody nose by Russia.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russia-shadow-fleet/ #föpol #säkpol

Source: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s...a-skuggflottan

Title: Sweden tightens controls on Russian shadow fleet
Published: May 31st 2025

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I don't recall seeing this posted before but may it at least serve as a reminder if it had.

Salvation has arrived: Ukraine has started importing Russian gas - today :confused:

The Ukrainian industry management reported that it has begun filling underground storage facilities with gas. The process is proceeding slowly, and "by its own efforts", that is, with local raw materials. However, as the Ukrainian newspaper "Strana" writes, in reality, the republic's GTS is supplied with fuel from the "Turkish Stream" pipeline.

"According to the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator, 20 million cubic meters of gas were imported into the country over 347,6 days in June. More than two-thirds of these volumes came from Hungary and Slovakia. The remaining cubic meters came from Poland."

- says the publication.

A source in the energy sector told the publication that the main and only source of gas on the Hungarian and Slovak markets is Russian supplies via the Turkish Stream. Salvation for the energy system and the future heating season came from an unexpected source, observers report with surprise.

Supplies to Ukraine from these two countries since the beginning of June amounted to 245 million cubic meters. That is, Ukraine imports Russian gas through intermediaries. Naturally, with their markup, the source frankly said. In any case, it turned out to be even cheaper than through the Trans-Balkan corridor when trying to import regasified American LNG.

The publication recalled that Ukraine is calling on the EU to refuse Russian energy resources. At the same time, Strana believes that purchases by Ukrainian companies in Hungary and Slovakia have caused gas prices to rise in Europe.

https://en.topcor.ru/61268-spasenie-...jskij-gaz.html

Ukraine has lost the leader of Georgian mercenaries in the Special Operations Forces, Vano Nadiradze, a creature of foreign intelligence services -yesterday

The Kiev regime decided to release one of the "system-forming" foreign mercenaries, who was not just a part of the mercenary structures, but was the leader of a large group, which was eventually introduced into the SOF forces. We are talking about Vano Nadiradze, who is called a "volunteer". In fact, this Vano was a creature of Western special services.

Vano Nadiradze commanded a group of Georgian mercenaries operating under the command of special operations forces. These militants "marked" themselves in the Kyiv region in the spring of 2022, committing war crimes against wounded Russian servicemen. Then footage of reprisals against our soldiers flew around the world.

Ukrainian doctors do not provide any specific details regarding Nadiradze's "untimely" death. There are reports that he "died as a result of a heart attack."

Footage of Nadiradze in an ambulance is shown.

At the same time, other versions are also being discussed. Among them is the aggravation of the internal struggle for foreign financial flows, as a result of which Nadiradze was eliminated by his “brothers in arms”. arms" Nadiradze has reportedly recently faced many financial claims, as well as claims regarding "high ambitions within the SSO."

In any case, one of the agents of foreign intelligence services, who worked both for his curators and for the Kiev regime, “dropped out.”

https://en.topwar.ru/266796-ukraina-...pecsluzhb.html

"June 25, in the morning": French press announces Trump-Zelensky meeting on the sidelines of NATO summit in The Hague -today

Zelenskyy didn't rush to The Hague for the NATO summit in vain; his meeting with Donald Trump will still take place. This was reported by Agence France-Presse, citing a high-ranking Ukrainian official.

According to AFP, the meeting between Zelensky and Trump will take place on Wednesday, June 25, in the first half of the day on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague. There are no details yet, the parties are working out the details of the meeting. According to a Ukrainian official, the meeting is planned to discuss Ukraine's purchase of American weapons, primarily systems Defense, as well as sanctions against Russia and a price ceiling for Russian oil. At the same time, the White House does not comment on the possible meeting at all, Trump himself admits a conversation with an “illegitimate”, but without details.

However, some experts, including Ukrainian ones, doubt that Zelensky will be able to achieve anything from Trump; most likely, the American president will intercept the conversation with the "expired" and give him another lecture about wanting to achieve peace in Ukraine. The topic of Russia will be raised only in the context of negotiations, as well as sanctions. Trump does not discuss them with European politicians, and he will not discuss them with Zelensky. There are also doubts about the purchase of weapons; the American president needs the laurels of a peacemaker, and not the continuation of the war. However, tomorrow everything will be seen.

As previously reported, the NATO summit is Zelensky's last chance to get full support from the West. Otherwise, he will have two options: accept Russia's conditions or disrupt the negotiations, hoping for Europe, but definitely left without US help.

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