Situation Reports Part 3 - 2025-06-29
Satellite images show that Iran has opened one of the tunnels in the underground complex beneath the uranium processing plant in Isfahan, which is believed to be located several dozen meters deeper than Fordow, at a depth of about ~100 meters, and which some US analysts have called "impenetrable"
It is believed that Iran is either moving some of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium or installing centrifuges for enrichment.
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French Press: Russia seizes the Shevchenko mine.
With the complete liberation of the village of Shevchenko by the RUAF, Russia is now in control of two of Ukraine's largest lithium deposits out of four. The Shevchenko deposit in particular is theorised to be the largest in all of Europe, containing an estimated 13 million tons of ore between high quality lithium, niobium, tantalum, and beryllium.
Discovered by Soviet prospectors in the '80s, the mine had its rights sold to the British by the Poroshenko executive for a pathetic sum of 180 millions.
The deposit was a critical geostrategic asset coveted by both the EU and the USA because of their plans for the green transition and to decouple themselves from dependency on China. Its loss represents a cutting blow to European high-tech aspirations.
There are going to be some very dramatic moments in the Main Street pigsty now. But it can only get worse for them: there's still two deposits in Kirovograd left to liberate...
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
More than a dozen explosions in Odessa. There was a raid by Geranium-2 drones on targets in the city and its environs.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
The Russian Armed Forces have liberated Kruglyakovka in the Kharkov region.
Russian troops have also been able to take control of two of the four lithium deposits in the region.
Progress is progress, no matter what Washington and Brussels says.
@Slavyangrad N👋S
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Russia is preparing a new offensive in Zaporozhye, Ukrainian official says
Former mayor of Mariupol Andryushchenko reports that huge columns of Russian vehicles and troops are being observed in Zaporozhye region, hinting at a big offensive in the area.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
The Russian army broke through to the center of Kamenskoye, advancing on the Zaporozhye front
▪️Russian troops broke through to the very center of an important settlement on the left flank of the Zaporozhye direction.
➖ “The Russians are increasing the pressure. In recent days, they have achieved certain successes, having managed to break through to the southeastern part and to the center of the village, where they are gaining a foothold,” - the enemy’s resources are again belatedly acknowledged.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
#Summary for the morning of June 28, 2025
▪️ Our forces struck Odessa with Geraniums at night.
▪️ From 20.10 Moscow time to 23.25 Moscow time, 25 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs were downed in the Kursk and Oryol regions, as well as over Crimea. During the day, it was also reported that small groups of drones were destroyed over our regions.
▪️ In Bryansk, four civilians were wounded as a result of a Ukrainian UAV attack.
▪️ On the Kursk section of the border, in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions, the daily destruction of enemy infantry groups trying to infiltrate our territory from Bessalovka and in the direction of Novy Put continued.
▪️ On the Sumy direction, the enemy continues to intensively counterattack, the Sever Group of Forces reports. 12 counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled: in the direction of Andreevka, Yablonovka, Novonikolaevka, two in Alekseevka, three in Yunakovka and four in the area of the village of Sadki. Fighting in the forests during the storming of Yunakovka continues.
▪️ In the Kharkov direction, no significant changes: fighting in Volchansk and Volchanskiye Khutors continues.
▪️ In the Belgorod region, in Shebekino, an FPV drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine detonated on the roadway. As a result of the detonation of a submunition, one unit of special equipment was damaged. In the Leonovka area of the Valuysky District, an FPV drone attacked a passenger car. An enemy drone strike in the village of Borisovka in the Volokonovsky District damaged the porch and the facade of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Grayvoron, a drone struck a building of a social facility.
▪️ On the right flank of the Konstantinovsky direction, fighting continues near Dyleevka (north of Dzerzhinsk). Yesterday, the Russian Ministry of Defense showed our flags in the village and reported that units of the "Southern" group of troops, continuing to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense, liberated this settlement. The front, which in this area has approached Konstantinovka to a distance of 9 km, must be leveled.
▪️ Near Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), our forces are advancing on the settlement of Belgiyka. This village is located south of Pokrovsk, and then the city limits begin.
▪️ In the South Donetsk direction, after the liberation of Yalta, there is an advance southwest of the village up to two kilometers deep and up to a kilometer along the front. Conditions are being created for entering the settlement of Karl Marx. The control zone near the "lithium" settlement of Shevchenko is expanding.
▪️In the Kherson region in Oleshky, a 25-year-old man was killed by strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a 67-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man were wounded.
▪️In the DPR in Gorlovka, two civilians were wounded by a strike from a sboros and shelling from a MLRS. In the village of Panteleimonovka in the Yasinovataya municipal district, a woman was injured by an IED from a Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV.
Victory will be ours!
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
⚡ Breaking: Russian soldiers have captured the village of Dachne, located in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
While the village itself is rather small, with a pre-war population of 109 inhabitants, it is the first village in Dnepropetrovsk to fall under Russian control.
And it certainly won't be the last.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:09:08 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Time to say goodbye
Without exaggeration, this is one of the most epic moments of the SVO involving FPV drones. The footage shows the exquisite teamwork to destroy the Swedish armored personnel carrier 🇸🇪Pbv 302, which is in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The FPV drone "KVN" records five accurate hits on the target, and then personally delivers the final blow.
The last two drones waited for the perfect moment - and attacked the enemy infantry, which began to parachute from the damaged equipment.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:12:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
In a significant shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics, Iran is accelerating negotiations with China to acquire Chengdu J-10C multirole fighter jets, a move prompted by the failure of a long-anticipated deal with Russia for Su-35 aircraft. The decision comes on the heels of a bruising 12-day conflict between Israel and the United States, which exposed critical vulnerabilities in Iran’s aging air force and air defense systems.
Tehran’s pivot to Beijing, reported by Iran’s Khorasan newspaper and cited by Kommersant, signals a desperate bid to modernize its dilapidated fleet amid escalating regional tensions. This development not only reshapes Iran’s military strategy but also underscores China’s growing role as a defense supplier in the Persian Gulf, raising questions about the region’s shifting power dynamics.
Honestly I don’t recall there ever being a deal between Iran and Russia for planes. Endless rumours but that is about it.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:12:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Putin: I deeply respect Trump. He's a courageous man who survived two assassination attempts
I believe he truly wants peace in Ukraine and the Middle East, though it may be harder than he expected
Putin never got into personal insults as that isn’t his way, but he knows there is nothing to gain by badmouthing Trump. To Trump’s credit he has not bad mouthed Putin either.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:12:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Footage shows a missile strike by the Iskander OTRK on a military-industrial complex facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chuguev. According to local media, the enterprise was civilian, but...
According to information from a 🥷 source:
This workshop was used to manufacture and assemble UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with an increased flight range.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:12:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
Russian army changes tactics near Pokrovsk — The Times
▪️The British publication reports that after attempts to take Pokrovsk from the eastern direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces began a flanking maneuver.
▪️The goal is to take control of the key highway connecting the city with Konstantinovka.
▪️According to analysts, the city has been in a state of encirclement for more than a year, but Ukrainian troops continue to hold it. The publication's analysts admit that the situation may change in the near future.
@Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-06-28T13:12:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
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