WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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RussiaNews 🇷🇺

THE HUNT IS ON: RU "Varyag" drone units are vaporizing UA disguised kamikaze launchers!

Kiev hid jet-assisted FP-1/2 suicide drones inside civilian cargo trucks to sneak around.

But after they bragged online, RU turned these trucks into PRIORITY #1 TARGETS.


https://x.com/mog_russEN/status/2062171889980874905

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Prof Michele Geraci, fmr Undersecretary of State

Translated from Italian
Greetings from the St. Petersburg Economic Forum

I can assure you that Russia is in no way pleased with this attack on its own territory, supported by the EU.

If they should react (Putin's patience could run out sooner or later), please do not write that the attack was “unprovoked”

Let’s clarify one thing:

Ukraine can do whatever it wants and respond to any Russian military operation it deems appropriate, including attacks against Russian territory, and if it does so, the conflict will remain between Russia and Ukraine. If that’s the case, it’s their business

However, if other countries like the European Union, and the government #Meloni #Salvini #Tajani, actively support Ukraine and offer any kind of help—military, money, logistics, even bread and butter—that in any way facilitates Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory, then these EU member states, Italy included, will be directly responsible and could be subject to Russian retaliation, which in that case would be widely provoked (let’s hope not, and let’s hope in President Putin’s patience

Dear
@GiorgiaMeloni

@matteosalvinimi

@Antonio_Tajani
, let’s see if you understand it this way:

If Zimbabwe bombs Rome with the support of the State of Atlantis, wouldn’t it be normal for us to bomb the support bases used in Atlantis? I believe so

And so the Italian government—you three—should ask yourselves if you consider yourselves responsible for any damage inflicted on Italy and the Italians, as a consequence of your choice to support Ukraine (the question is rhetorical, but it must be asked)

#Russia #SanPietroburgo #Ucraina

https://x.com/michele_geraci/status/2062177810249383955

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The first part of the video is about Ukraine and the consequences of their drone attack on Moscow. Pepe is scheduled to arrive in Moscow tomorrow to cover the SPIEF 2026.

Sulaiman Ahmed
@ShaykhSulaiman
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3h
BOMBSHELL!!! IRAN HAS A NUCLEAR BOMB

PEPE ESCOBAR

JOIN NOW

https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/2062215977958350977

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Margarita Simonyan

Steve Rosenberg of the BBC turned up to work the St Petersburg Economic Forum, buffet and all, for the same network that sent an official letter refusing to film the teenagers buried under the rubble of the Starobelsk college.

Maria Zakharova's verdict: "Spit in his face and he'll tell you it's raining".

https://x.com/M_Simonyan/status/2062177411496652925

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Kristian_B 🇷🇺 ❤️ 🇩🇪

Translated from German
🇷🇺 The spokesperson of the Foreign Ministry, Maria #Zakharova, also classified today the renewed terrorist attack by the Ukrainian regime on civilians—this time the people in a tour bus—as a "terrorists' hunt for humans."
◾️ She assumes that the Western governments will also not take a position on this, because silence regarding the most recent contemptuous-of-human-life terrorist attacks by the Kyiv regime is part of their ideology, "obviously not condemning Ukraine's evil."
◾️ For—according to Zakharova—the West divides people into those who can and should live with dignity, with all benefits and rights, while the other part of humanity can be hunted and destroyed.
◾️ All of this is part of the [new] international terrorism, which is carried out with the hands of the Ukrainian regime and the money, weapons, and support of the governments, the state actors, according to Zakharova.
💢 For quite some time now, I have been convinced that Maria Zakharova is right. Starting with the brutal actions of the 🇮🇱 Israeli government against civilians in Gaza and Lebanon, those of the 🇺🇸 USA in Venezuela and Iran, and the attacks by the 🇺🇦 terror regime in Kyiv, supported by the West—the states of the 🇪🇺 #EU "at any cost"—on the Russian civilian population, on women, children, young people, students, and pupils.
All of this constitutes war crimes and is international terrorism
🇷🇺 #Russia #Россия #Russia #Захарова #Старобельск
#Ukraine #Kyiv #Zelenskyy #Terrorist #Terrorism #Drone #WarCrimes #Geopolitics

https://x.com/Dr_C_Becker/status/2062212129772499364

[Tintin]

Steve Rosenberg, the execrable BBC correspondent, in Maria's crosshairs now

[Tintin]

I haven't seen this yet but it looks interesting.

David Z on X has provided this helpful summary/review of the film:

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WAR DOCUMENTARY

'Surviving Krasnoarmeysk'

This film features testimonies from Krasnoarmeysk residents about the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, their lives under bombardment, and their long-awaited liberation, as well as accounts from soldiers who evacuated civilians from the combat zone.

Russian troops freed Krasnoarmeysk at the end of 2025. For months before that, the city’s residents lived among the ruins in basements, waiting for salvation, while fierce fighting still raged outside.

After the city was liberated, Russian soldiers began evacuating people under relentless Ukrainian shelling.

Military police officers from the army group «Centre» participated in the operation. They patrolled the devastated areas under constant threat of enemy drones and artillery, identifying people in need of medical assistance and offering to evacuate civilians.

Getting them to safety wasn’t easy, however. Many were afraid they’d be caught in shelling on the way out, while others were reluctant to leave their friends, neighbors, pets, and the graves of their loved ones behind.

Despite their fears and losses, some said, ‘We will stay and meet victory here.’

Watch the new film by Aleksander Kharchenko and Anton Meshcheryakov 'Surviving Krasnoarmeysk'.

https://youtu.be/g3s-YOqXKnw?is=XVQ7yNHkpv7xXEVx

[Vicus]

Kyiv stated that the drones that attacked St. Petersburg were launched from ships in the Baltic Sea. -yesterday

The Ukrainian drones that attacked St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region today were launched from the sea, from ships departing from northern Baltic ports. This was reported by the Telegram channel "Legitimny," citing sources. The publication notes that this is precisely why Russian air defense systems have difficulty detecting them.

"These drones are not brought from Ukraine; they are assembled directly in the Baltics and immediately used for their intended purpose to inflict military damage on Russia. "

- asserts "Legitimate".

It is emphasized that Russia can counter such attacks in only one way.

"Russia has no other solution to the problem except the "Iranian way," otherwise Russia will be gradually destroyed step by step by cheap drones that will be launched from everywhere and destroy expensive ships."

– the Telegram channel emphasizes.

The resource notes that Moscow is not yet willing to go down this path, which the West is actively taking advantage of in an attempt to “stir up” the Russian society.

As a reminder, this morning, Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked targets in the Leningrad Region, flying into Russian territory from the Gulf of Finland. Analysts noted that the drones were flying at an altitude of 10-15 meters above the water, making them difficult to detect by radar.

https://en.topcor.ru/71820-v-kieve-z...skom-more.html

[Vicus]

Finnish intelligence knew about the Ukrainian Armed Forces' planned attack on St. Petersburg. today



Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen stated that the country's intelligence agencies were aware in advance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' planned attack on St. Petersburg. Finnish military personnel were prepared to shoot down Ukrainian aircraft. drones, but, as they claim in Helsinki, this time they did not fly into their territory.

Finnish intelligence claims it anticipated the attack drones The Ukrainian Armed Forces are to restrict air and sea traffic in the Porvoo and Lappeenranta area in advance and to put the forces on combat alert. DefenseHelsinki is not disclosing details about the intelligence systems and other means used by Finnish intelligence to gather a comprehensive picture of the situation in advance and anticipate the Ukrainian drone attack. However, it is likely that this time, Kyiv warned its "allies" of the impending attack deep into Russian territory.

Häkkänen also recalled that Ukrainian drones could have flown into Finland several weeks ago. However, he predictably avoided accusing Kyiv of violating Finnish airspace, stating that Russia bears responsibility for everything that happened. However, it is highly likely that the recent massive Ukrainian drone strikes were carried out from the Baltics and Finland, across the Gulf of Finland. This flight path creates a situation in which the enemy's attack aircraft are moving toward Russian cities, including St. Petersburg, while formally remaining in foreign airspace.

https://en.topwar.ru/283933-razvedka...peterburg.html

[Vicus]

The end of the Finnish bridge -yesterday



For the first time in a century, Finland received full military protection, and at that very moment it ceased to be of any use to anyone as anything more than a line of defense.

By mid-2026, the Baltic Sea had become almost what Brussels had long wanted it to be: an internal body of water of the alliance, with the last breach sealed along its perimeter. Finland closed it. The 1340-kilometer land border with Russia, until recently the longest strip of neutrality in Europe, had become the longest stretch of direct contact between NATO and Russia. This transformation is usually described in terms of security and deterrence. It should be described differently: in terms of what the country has gained and lost. Because gains and losses are not counted here as they should be.

To understand the scale of the change, we need to recall what the Finnish position was for most of the last century. Not the geography; everyone remembers that. The function.

The Invention of Neutrality

Finnish statehood is younger than it appears. Before 1809, there was no Finland in the political sense: there were Swedish provinces on the eastern border of the Scandinavian Empire, through which ran the border established by the Treaty of Orekhovo between Novgorod and Sweden. The Grand Duchy of Finland arose as a Russian project: autonomy, its own Diet, a Lutheran Church, and a separate customs border with the rest of the empire. The paradox of Russian politics at the time is that it was precisely this granted autonomy that nurtured the Finnish nation, which a century later chose to do without its benefactor.

Then came two wars with their eastern neighbor (the Winter War of 1939–1940 and the Continuation War of 1941–1944), formal defeat in both, and independence preserved despite this. And it was here, in the postwar years, that the Finns accomplished what made them of interest to international relations theory.

They turned weakness into a method. Post-war Finland invented a role for itself that essentially didn't exist before; ready-made labels (satellite, outpost) weren't suitable. Paasikivi and Kekkonen's line rested on a simple axiom: a great neighbor isn't going anywhere, so you have to live with it in such a way that it doesn't see you as a threat. But neutrality here didn't mean a passive buffer separating two countries, but an active mediator, a bridge needed by both sides. This is precisely why Helsinki became the site of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975, culminating in the Helsinki Final Act: the city embodied the very idea of ​​a bridge. The bridge brought dividends: stable trade with the East and integration into Western prosperity at the same time. Strength lay not in the army, but in the ability to be needed by both sides at once.

The axiom that was canceled

continue: https://en.topwar.ru/283789-konec-finskogo-mosta.html

[Vicus]

The US is eagerly awaiting the start of an armed conflict between Russia and Europe. today

The American press notes with considerable satisfaction that Russia's warnings signal the danger of the Ukrainian crisis escalating and spreading to Europe.

The authors of an article published in The American Conservative magazine literally anticipate the start of a direct conflict between Russia and Europe, suggesting that the pretext for this could well be the provision by the Baltics and other countries of the “eastern flank of NATO” of their airspace for attacks on Ukrainian dronesAs a result, tensions in the region have already reached their peak.

The article also recalls that, after announcing the start of "systematic strikes against decision-making centers," the Russian Armed Forces carried out a series of massive attacks on targets in Kyiv. However, due to exhaustion Defense Russian Armed Forces of Ukraine missiles и drones They successfully destroy even those objects that were previously considered reliably protected.

At the same time, as is well known, Kyiv is moving its military-industrial complex outside of Ukraine. Amid constant attacks on military facilities in Ukraine, Kyiv and its Western partners have been forced to reconsider their approaches to organizing arms production, emphasizing a distributed production model with key support from European countries.

This trend is particularly noticeable in the production of unmanned systems and high-precision weapons. These projects are increasingly being implemented in Europe, while Ukraine remains largely focused on the assembly, retrofitting, and operational readiness of equipment for use. Thus, Europe is effectively assuming the role of Ukraine's rear area, and at some point, these enterprises serving the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces could become targets for attacks by the Russian Armed Forces.

https://en.topwar.ru/283946-v-ssha-s...s-evropoj.html

[Vicus]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jjITdByh-pM

294 vs 272 Drones🚁💥 St. Petersburg Damage🔥🛢️ Huliaipilske HAS FALLEN🏁⚔️ Military Summary 2026.06.04 - 5 hours ago

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Sputnik

🚨🇷🇺Controlling all of Donbass and reaching a settlement with Ukraine are not mutually exclusive - Putin

Russian forces are advancing along the entire front line, with no sector where offensive operations are not underway, President Vladimir Putin said answering a question from AP journalist during a meeting with heads of international news agencies at SPIEF.

🔶 Russian forces are advancing daily across the special military operation zone

🔶 The Russian army has taken control of approximately 2,400 square kilometers over the past month

🔶 The main problem facing the Ukrainian military is a severe manpower shortage

🔶 Ukrainian troop strength has fallen by 100,000 personnel

🔶 Monthly Ukrainian losses are around 40,000 troops

🔶 About 20,000 servicemen desert every month

🔶 Roughly 60,000 troops have deserted since the start of the year

🔶 Around 200,000 criminal cases for desertion have been opened in Ukraine

🔶 Nobody wants to fight in Ukraine

🔶 Personnel shortages are leading to further territorial losses for Kiev

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2062586528023359831

Sputnik

🚨🇷🇺Russia is ready for peace with Ukraine on the Anchorage terms, and a settlement could come quickly if Ukraine agrees to compromise - Putin
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2062588401425977566

🚨🇷🇺Putin explains how Russia tested the Oreshnik missile in Ukraine

Russia has not carried out a single full-scale combat use of the Oreshnik missile system in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with international news agency leaders at SPIEF.

The launches that have taken place were tests intended to assess the system's performance and gather data for its future full-scale deployment.

Putin described the tests as important for the missile complex's future full-scale use.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2062590048269447352

🚨🇷🇺 EU cannot act as a mediator in Ukraine talks because mediation requires neutrality - Putin

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/2062591094022418743

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Putin speaking at the SPIEF 2026,


DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺 Putin: controlling all of Donbass and reaching a settlement with Ukraine are not mutually exclusive.

Speaking to international news agency heads at SPIEF, Putin said Russian forces are advancing along the entire front line with no sector where offensive operations are not underway -- 2,400 square kilometers seized in the past month alone.

The picture on Ukraine's side is dire. Troop strength is down 100,000. Monthly losses run around 40,000. Some 20,000 desert every month -- roughly 60,000 since the start of the year, with around 200,000 criminal desertion cases opened. Nobody wants to fight, Putin said, and the manpower crisis is driving further territorial losses for Kiev.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2062587329018044882

DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺 Russia cannot trust as mediators those who keep calling for its strategic defeat -- "das ist das Problem," Putin said.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2062591123722269132

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STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺

“The war will last for a couple of decades. We need to learn to live with it.”

A powerful speech by the legendary intelligence officer and professional analyst Andrey Bezrukov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It resonates with what I usually say in response to the question: "When will all this end?" I reply: "Accept that war is our new normal."

Key theses - in quotes.

🔻 New type of war
"We are in a new war. Since it's pointless to seize territory anymore... this is a war of attrition and subversion." "Leaders, military, civilians, scientists" and "critical infrastructure on which the country depends" are being targeted. "This is the war we need to prepare for. It's happening, and it will continue."

🔻 West's strategy of 'boiling the frog'
"The West's strategy is very simple: to avoid a nuclear clash with us, from which they would emerge as losers. And so they need to 'boil the frog slowly' - gradually escalate tensions." "We're seeing this today. And they won't stop, because they have nowhere to retreat to. We're an existential threat to them."

🔻 First 'hill' of world war
"We're currently on the first hill of world war. There will be two hills, as in the First and Second World Wars... The rules of the game will be born after the next clash. It's likely to happen in Asia." What happened in Iran, he says, "proves that the hegemon is no longer the hegemon."

🔻 Strike on nuclear forces
The enemy's main task is to "avoid the nuclear threshold... and neutralize our nuclear forces": either by building a system in space to "prevent anything from taking off", or "like in Operation 'Spider Web', planting it here through their agents and striking our nuclear forces at a certain moment."

🔻 Destabilization and strike on infrastructure
"The plan is to overwhelm our decision-making system with complex attacks from all directions - ideological, physical, military." Already today, "a drone can fly into any region via Starlink and land in a precise location... Unfortunately, we weren't ready for it."

🔻 Threat of biowar
"All those labs around us... were making weapons of the future." Technology allows "an individual on individual equipment to create viruses that... could wipe us all out."

🔻 What to do
"We must admit that for the next... couple of decades we will be at war... We will have two generations that can practically be considered at war." The economy needs to be built in such a way that it "not only fulfills the task of development, but also the task of defense": deepen and protect critical infrastructure, create a "headquarters" for management, invest in protection against bioterrorism, and merge the army and society.

🔻 'Stop being good'
"We need to stop being good. We're too good for our enemies... They don't fear us because many red lines remain on paper." At the same time, Western Europe is dependent on imported gas, and "exploding a gas tanker is equivalent to a small nuclear explosion." The expert's conclusion: the country needs an "image of the future."

https://x.com/STANISKRAPIVNIK/status...49390909170079

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DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Kremlin has seen Zelensky's letter — Putin will be briefed on it later, Peskov said.

As for a meeting: if Zelensky wants to see Putin, he can come to Moscow


https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2062613330615783645

[Tintin]

Can't say this comes as much of a surprise. Everybody's 'favourite' Gollum in the company of a certain we-know-who: it certainly appears to look like him.

Description, here:

Translated from French
🚨REMINDER🚨🇺🇦👁‍🗨 Zelensky would have been close to Jeffrey Epstein.

Recently disclosed surveillance video footage from Epstein's properties appears to show the Ukrainian leader spending time on his private island and in the company of the latter.💥

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Posted by Tintin (here)
Steve Rosenberg, the execrable BBC correspondent, in Maria's crosshairs now

Note to self: Don't piss off Maria.

[Tintin]

A two minute segment from Douglas Macgregor's recent interview on Redacted with some revelations that some of us have anticipated yet utterly fascinating to hear being broadcast so widely now. Well worth a listen - do take note on his comments concerning Ukrainian population denudation and Israeli settler replacement, in Ukraine, namely the western part:

[Tintin]

On the Ukrainian marine drone incident in Constanța Port, Romania

Firstly, some of the footage captured in real time:

The drone, believed to be one of a handful (?), clearly seen snagged in the oil-spill mitigation lines before detonation:



Romanian journalist on site as it happened:



...as were CNN:



Additional footage from the scene:



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And a well composed summary shared on X:

Translated from Polish
"If the drone in the port had turned 2–3 seconds later, it would have reached the ammonium nitrate warehouse directly." The behind-the-scenes of the failed operation by the Ukrainian Navy in the area of the port in Constanța.

Yesterday, you could have read in Polish and international media that the Ukrainian sea drone, which exploded in the Romanian port of Constanța on the Black Sea, ended up there accidentally as a result of Russia deploying electronic warfare measures. That's what the article headlines announced to you, as they uncritically repeated the version provided by the Ukrainian side. Below is the truth about what actually happened in the port of Constanța and on its nearby waters.

In the early morning of May 5, 2026, around 05:00 local time, a sea drone of the Sea Baby class in its command-and-reconnaissance version, controlled covertly by Ukrainian Navy operators and equipped with Starlink and high-quality image recording devices, entered the port of Constanța. The task of the Ukrainian drone operator was to locate and identify the tanker "Safeena Elona," anchored in the Romanian port and sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands. The vessel in question is part of Russia's "shadow fleet" used to bypass international sanctions imposed on Russia. "Safeena Elona" was scheduled to depart from Constanța that morning toward Novorossiysk. Near the port of Constanța, three other Ukrainian Sea Baby-type drones in combat version, each carrying about 100 kg of explosive payload, were already waiting for it.

Around 5:30–5:50 local time, the Ukrainian drone became entangled in a floating oil spill containment system. The incident likely occurred due to a GPS signal error. Because of it, the drone operator turned left toward the terminal 2–3 seconds too early, 30 meters before the end of the breakwater—a possible error in satellite communication. As a result, it accidentally snagged on a floating oil spill barrier located 3 meters from the shore. It's worth noting that if the drone in the port had turned 2–3 seconds later, it would have reached the ammonium nitrate warehouse directly, which could have triggered an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than the drone itself.

Due to the entrapment of the reconnaissance-command "mother drone" of the Ukrainian strike team, the Ukrainian Navy's maritime operation had to be aborted, and the Russian tanker calmly departed from Constanța around 09:20, then set course for Novorossiysk. The Ukrainian combat drones positioned near the port entrance could not attack it, likely because they were deprived of the observation drone, which also served as a relay station. Around 10:30, Ukrainian Navy command decided to self-destruct the drone entangled in the oil spill containment barrier. This was done to destroy evidence of the intentional violation of Romanian territorial waters. Several dozen minutes before the self-destruction, Romanian authorities were notified by the Ukrainian side of the need to evacuate the area. Over 1,000 people were evacuated from beaches in the Constanța district. The port's operations and the functioning of the city itself were also seriously disrupted. Around 11:00, the three remaining Ukrainian strike drones near the port of Constanța—including one in its territorial waters—were also remotely destroyed by Ukrainian operators. Thus ended the Ukrainian Navy's operation in the Constanța area.

I remind you that on May 11, 2026, near Lefkada Island in the Ionian Sea, Greek fishermen found another Ukrainian sea drone, this time in its combat version equipped with a 100 kg explosive charge. Due to a likely failure in the control system, it had probably drifted there from Misrata in Libya, where a Ukrainian base for operators of these drones is reportedly located. Following this incident, Greek authorities issued an official protest, and the Greek Minister of National Defense publicly stated that it could have had very tragic consequences if the uncontrolled drifting sea drone had struck a passenger cruise ship. "How can anyone, regardless of the need to defend their homeland, endanger the lives of innocent people because they believe it serves their strategic planning?" Minister Nikos Dendias asked at a press conference.

Below: The Ukrainian Sea Baby sea drone in its reconnaissance-command version, trapped in oil spill containment barriers in the port of Constanța.