Various News - 2025-06-04
Today at about 5 am the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted to attack the Crimean Bridge support with an underwater drone.
The attempt was unsuccessful, only the protective barriers and the road barrier were damaged. The bridge is operating normally.
Meanwhile, the Security Service of Ukraine is lying that in this case there was mining and remote detonation.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:40:32 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Victor vicktop55
HORROR in Gaza as wounded crawl to safety near aid site
Over 40 Palestinians KILLED reportedly by Israel fire — Al Jazeera
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:37:52 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Intel Republic
Tel Aviv turns into ghost town as sirens scream through city
Yemen’s launched missile at Israel
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:38:26 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Intel Republic
Netanyahu’s troops say ‘PREPARED’ to ‘HANDLE’ 22yo Greta Thunberg’s flotilla heading to Gaza
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:38:55 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Intel Republic
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Dmitry Medvedev: To everyone who is worried and waiting for retribution.
It's right to worry – that’s what normal people do. Retribution is inevitable.
But keep in mind:
1. Our Army is pushing forward and will continue to advance. Everything that needs to be blown up will be blown up, and those who must be eliminated will be.
2. The Istanbul talks are not for striking a compromise peace on someone else’s delusional terms but for ensuring our swift victory and the complete destruction of the neo-Nazi regime. That's what the Russian Memorandum published yesterday is about.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:39:47 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Victor vicktop55
US Senator Graham on Russia's Victory Worse Than "Even the Withdrawal of US Troops from Afghanistan":
"As for Ukraine and Russia, if this war ends in a way that creates the impression of Russia's victory, it will set the whole world on fire.
The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan was a terrible decision. It became the trigger for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It made America weak in the eyes of the world. I told President Trump this personally, and now I say it publicly: if this war ends in a way that looks like we abandoned Ukraine, it will be even worse than leaving Afghanistan, and will be a serious blow to world stability."
What does "this war ends in a way that looks like we abandoned Ukraine" mean? It means that the US continues to fight against Russia and their goal will remain the same - to destroy Russia. At the same time, Trump pretends that the US has nothing to do with it at all and that he wants this war to end. So what do Trump and the US want?
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:40:18 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Victor vicktop55
📝President - Karol📝
How the Polish leader's election ended
In the Polish presidential election, the opposition candidate, conservative Karol Nawrocki, won with 50.89% of the vote after 100% of the ballots were counted. His opponent, the Mayor of Warsaw and representative of the ruling "Civic Coalition" (PO), Rafał Trzaskowski, received 49.11% of the votes.
🖍At the same time, as expected, the outcome was decided by the turnout - a record for Poland - 71.63%. The gap between the candidates was minimal - just over 369,000 votes, so it cannot be said that the candidate supported by the "Law and Justice" (PiS) party and the majority of right-wing politicians won a confident victory.
🚩The official results, expected on June 2, may adjust the outcome, but it is already clear: Poland is divided in half. This is clearly confirmed by the geography of the vote. Nawrocki showed the best results in the eastern regions of Poland, where conservative and nationalist sentiments are traditionally strong. He was voted for by the majority in the Subcarpathian, Lublin, Podlaskie and Świętokrzyskie voivodeships.
At the same time, Trzaskowski confidently led in the western and northern voivodeships, including Pomeranian, West Pomeranian and Lubusz. These regions are dominated by liberal and pro-European views, which provided significant support for the PO candidate.
📌Nawrocki's victory, through scandals and accusations, may lead to adjustments in Poland's foreign and domestic policy, particularly on issues of relations with the European Union and support for Ukraine. And if Nawrocki may not have the guts or strength to stand up to Brussels, he will be more than happy to support the lives of Ukrainians.
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#elections #Poland
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:41:28 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
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Morning Summary as of June 3, 2025
▪️ Overnight, enemy drones damaged a new substation in the Henichesk district of Kherson Region and a substation in the Melitopol district of Zaporizhia Region, leaving more than 150 settlements without electricity. There were reports of the destruction of Ukrainian UAVs over the sea near the northern and western parts of Crimea.
▪️ Strikes by our "Geraniums" at night hit Odesa, Poltava, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv Regions. The massive missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces announced by enemy channels has not yet occurred.
▪️ On the Kursk section of the border in the Ryzhevka - Tyotkino direction, the enemy twice tried to break through with assault groups of the 24th Separate Motorized Battalion "Aidar" of the AFU. During the day, a storm group from the 225th Separate Motorized Regiment moved from Bessalovka towards the state border. The enemy also tried to break through to our territory in the Iskriskovshchyna area, and in the Pavlovka - Novy Put direction, the enemy sent a group from the 425th Separate Motorized Regiment of the AFU. All AFU assault groups were suppressed by fire, without success. The AFU attacked the village of Azarovka in the Starodubsky municipal district and the village of Polevye Novoselki in the Suzemsky district with FPV drones. As a result of a targeted strike on civilian vehicles, two civilians were injured. In the evening, a Ukrainian drone struck a private house in the city of Rylsk, causing a fire.
▪️ On the Sumy direction, the advance of the Russian Armed Forces continues. The Ukrainian deputy Bezugla, appointed by the United States to monitor the spending of funds, claims that the Kursk adventure was not used to prepare the Sumy region for defense, and there are scandals over theft in the construction of defensive structures. After consolidating in Konstantinovka, Russian troops are storming towards the northern outskirts of Kondratovka. Clashes have begun on the northern outskirts of Andreevka, and the Russian Armed Forces are increasing the pace. Reports of an advance south from Belovod and heavy fighting in Yunakivka. Notably, the "North" Tactical Group reports that south of the village of Gornal in the Kursk Region ("old" Sudzha direction), the AFU carried out two counterattacks. As a result of the firefight, most of the invaders were destroyed on Ukrainian territory, and five AFU members were captured.
▪️ In Belgorod Region, in the area of the village of Dobroe in the Shebekino district, as a result of a UAV attack by the AFU on a civilian "Gazelle" van, two civilians were injured. In the village of Maysky in the Belgorod district, a drone detonated on the territory of a commercial facility, injuring a man. In the village of Razumnoye, a vehicle was damaged. In the village of Oktyabrsky, the roof of an outbuilding caught fire due to the detonation of an FPV drone. In the village of Ustinka, a private house was destroyed as a result of a drone attack. In Mokraya Orlovka in the Grayvoronsky municipal district, a power line was damaged. In Novostroevka-Pervaya, residential buildings and three vehicles were damaged. In Novaya Tavolzhanka, an FPV drone of the AFU struck a private house. On the section of the Shebekino - Belgorod highway, a Gazelle caught fire as a result of a drone attack.
▪️ On the Krasnoliman direction, the Russian Armed Forces are developing success from the newly formed salient near Reddko Original msg
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:41:46 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
📝Advances in Sumy Region📝
In the north of Sumy Region, Russian forces continue to advance. According to official data, on June 3, Andriyivka was liberated. Earlier, Oleksiyivka came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, and on the flanks, there are battles for Kondratovka, Novomykolaivka and Yablonovka.
At the same time, unconfirmed reports of much more significant successes of the Russian Armed Forces periodically appear on online resources. However, some of these publications may be part of the opponent's information attacks.
According to the established pattern, Ukrainian PSYOPS structures publish deliberately exaggerated "successes" of Russia, in order to later demonstrate "counterattacks" and allegedly "recaptured" positions - often with video installation of flags on positions that were not even initially occupied.
📌The information confrontation in the Sumy Region is becoming an important component of the overall conflict: both sides actively use the media space to shape the desired picture of the course of hostilities.
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#Kursk #Russia #Sumy #Ukraine
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:41:54 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
📝Attempt to Attack the Crimean Bridge📝
Around 5 a.m., there was another enemy attempt to attack the Crimean Bridge, but if previously these were UAV, missile and USV launches, this time the AFU struck the object with an underwater vehicle.
The explosion thundered near one of the supports, but it was not damaged - the blow fell on the protective barriers. Part of the debris was thrown onto the roadway. Traffic was temporarily blocked, but now it continues as normal.
Although the enemy's resources talk about allegedly "mining the bridge", in reality, it most likely used vehicles like "Marychka" or "Toloka", the development of which has been ongoing since 2023. It is also possible that other previously little-announced types of vehicles were used.
🖍The incident was expected, so preparation for such a scenario has been underway for a long time: the supports were surrounded by protective structures, and a series of boom barriers were erected at the bridge. As can be seen - not in vain.
🚩However, the problem is that passive defense measures alone are not enough. After all, if there are several drones, they can simply go one after the other: the first breaks through the first line, the second the next, and the third already explodes at the support.
❗️To reliably protect the object from the underwater threat, one can use hydroacoustic systems, depth charge launchers, and hydrographic work. Moreover, a specific set of measures was proposed by the industry several years ago.
By the way, did the fleet eventually become interested in them? How is the situation with this now?
#Crimea #Russia #Ukraine
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:42:00 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
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🪖 🚀 Crimean coast.
The footage from objective control shows a good hit on the enemy's USV by our "Ixovod" systems.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:42:18 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
🏁⚔️🇷🇺 NATO Satellites Aided SBU Strike on Olenya Airbase
NATO satellites were directly involved in the June 1 Ukrainian sabotage attempt on Russia’s Olenya airbase. Beyond passive surveillance, they assisted the SBU with target intel and planning.
🛰 American TOPAZ military satellites captured 102 detailed images of the Kola Peninsula in the final week of May. Most were high to maximum resolution—enough to pinpoint objects to within meters.
➡️24 images targeted the non-strategic nuclear weapons depot at Bolshoye Ramozero.
➡️20 images were taken of Olenya itself.
➡️Naval bases at Nerpichya (17) and Gadzhiyevo (16) were also heavily surveilled.
➡️11 passes focused on the Kilpyavr airfield and equipment near Murmansk.
✈️ On top of that, US, Norwegian, and Swedish reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircraft—P-8As and a Gulfstream IV SIGINT jet—flew missions near the area in late May.
The June 1 attack failed, but the lesson is clear: the West’s growing satellite and ISR activity is a warning sign. Russia must act before these “monitoring” missions turn into direct strikes.
Via: @Rybar
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:42:24 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
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✨The fact that the attempt to blow up the bridge was carried out not by "sabotage agents who planted explosives," but by an underwater UUV, removes a number of questions from counterintelligence (except for the footage allegedly from the bridge cameras), but maintains questions about the sore topic of the fleet.
The essence of this is the timely detection, identification and destruction of the underwater object. Huge thanks to the engineers and builders who fenced off the Crimean Bridge with walls, "washers," barges, they helped protect this critically important facility.
But the enemy did not keep their developments secret, and Britain as a curator did not hide its aspirations to build underwater drones. That is, the issue of underwater target detection by the fleet is something that should have been thought about earlier.
Because the enemy today conducted demonstrative first experimental tests in combat conditions, and dismissing information dumps, it should be noted that the main fact is: he managed to get close to the target. Today it was heavily protected, but there is, for example, the Novorossiysk naval base, which is the object of sabotage aspirations and a target for drones of all kinds. Now - and underwater ones. We are sure that measures are already being urgently taken and are reasonable, unlike car tires.
✨⭐️We would very much like the enemy to defend his shores, and not us at ours. But, apparently, without personnel decisions it cannot be avoided. It is necessary to break down bureaucratic barriers and rebuild the decision-making system on the go. Another attack on the Crimean Bridge, this time unsuccessful, is just another confirmation of this.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:42:34 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
SBU tried to blow up Crimean bridge this morning,they published images from surveillance cameras.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:42:57 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: ZOKA's Channel
🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Guardian documented how the “kidnapped children can be rescued”.
➡️ It’s just a mundane and annoying bureaucratic procedure apparently.
It was so bad and dangerous, that he barely had time to go to the Red Square to visit tourist attractions and take photos.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:43:54 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Bebo & Friends
💥 This is footage of night time arrivals in Odessa - the port infrastructure, warehouses and railway logistics hub operating in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces came under fire.
Industrial zones are burning in Kharkov and Balakleya, a major fire at the Nova Poshta terminal in Korotych – a fire of 3,000 square meters, the building is destroyed. In Chernigov, Poltava, Nikolayev and Sumy – explosions and power outages. In Slavyansk, which is still under the occupation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, they worked on military facilities.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:44:07 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
On June 2, the North troop group eliminated enemy forward and assault units in the Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions, and continued establishing a Sanitary Zone in the Sumy region.
The enemy keeps on attempting to break through in the direction of Tyotkino and Glushkovo, trying to achieve any victory, if imaginary, while our forces are advancing in Sumy region. The Fearless fight back, the enemy was not allowed to cross the border.
▪️Assault groups of 24th Assault Battalion ‘Aidar’ made two attempts to break through towards Tyotkino. Most of the invaders were eliminated with a comprehensive fire attack, the rest retreated into Sumy region.
▪️An assault group of 225th Assault Regiment set off form Bezsalivka towards the Russian-Ukrainian border at noon. After getting hit with artillery and kamikaze drones, the invaders ran back.
▪️The same 225th Assault Regiment attempted to make a breakthrough in the vicinity of Iskryskivschchyna. The assault group was eliminated with a comprehensive fire attack.
▪️The enemy sent out another group of 425th Assault Regiment’s soldier to die in the direction of Novy Put. Most of them were eliminated 300 meters from the border, the rest ran to Pavlivka, hiding in cellars.
▪️Our artillery and UAV crews continue with their strikes at concentrated enemy manpower in border areas. An IMV, several artillery units and mortar units, as well as ammunition depots and UAV crews were eliminated in the vicinity of Iskryskivschchyna, Dibrova, Bondarivshchyna, Pavlivka and Boyaro-Lezhachi.
In Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions, 8 units of enemy equipment were destroyed in 24 hours.
Some Ukrainian POWs, who surrendered in this part of the front, were hiding smartphones from their command. Their chats and messages show that their decision to surrender has been heavily influenced by their families, who often straight-up beg the soldiers to lay down their arms.
In Sumy direction the Northmen continue advancing and liberating Russian lands.
▪️Our Marines are fighting against heavy enemy resistance in Kindrativka and Andriyivka.
▪️Our Airborne units and Motor Rifle units continue mopping-up action in forest belts along the border while grinding down enemy troops in Yunakivka.
▪️The enemy attempted to counter-attack twice south of Gornal. Most of the invaders were eliminated in a gunfight, five soldiers have surrendered. Both counter-attacks were rebuffed, the enemy was not allowed to cross the border.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions six AFU assault groups along with their vehicles and armor were eliminated with comprehensive fire attacks.
▪️The Northmen advanced over 70 meters in Volchansk, while clearing 5 building of AFU soldiers and advancing over 160 meters in the direction of Vovchanski Khutory.
Over the past 24 hours, the enemy's losses amounted to over 240 people (including over 150 in the Sumy direction and over 50 in the Tyotkino direction). Also uncovered and destroyed:
In Tyotkino and Glushkovo directions:
▪️One MaxxPro AFV (USA);
▪️One Akatsiya SPA, three D-30 howitzers;
▪️Three mortars;
▪️Three UAV crews;
▪️Two ammo depots;
▪️Four pickup trucks, two ATVs.
In Sumy direction:
▪️One IFV;
▪️Two APCs, including one Stryker ICV (USA);
▪️Two IMVs, including one Roshel Senator IMV (Canada);
▪️Four pickup trucks, one ATV;
▪️Five UAV crews;
▪️68 airplane-type UAVs, six heavy copters.
In Volchansk and Liptsy directions:
▪️Two IMVs (one Humvee, USA, one Roshel Senator. Canada);
▪️Three mortars;
▪️Five pickup trucks;
▪️Four radio relays, three satellite communication terminals;
▪️Two UAV crews;
▪️One Furia airplane-type UAV, ten heavy copters.
Victory will be ours!
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:44:50 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: North Wind
After an unsuccessful morning attempt to blow up our beloved Crimean Bridge, enemy channels are issuing information blanks.
The first was about "mining of the bridge by SBU agents", which is not true (the strike was an underwater MBE). But the bridge's defense worked and this did not allow the enemy's plans to come true.
Now the enemy is explaining why they chose this particular place to attempt an attack: the destruction of the supports at the bridge arches would have led to a very complicated operation to restore the spans.
As for the information about the BEC attack after lunch: apparently the enemy woke up the "sleeping BECs" after failing to achieve success. It is good that the engineers carried out work on the construction of above-water barriers and the installation of barges, which helped to delay and destroy it.
✨ Separately, we note that the silence of official sources once again gives the enemy room to maneuver and throw in stories about "mining by agents." If they had said about the underwater BEK right away, there would have been no need to invent anything.
The information field cannot be left empty. The enemy will take it.
✨✨ Traffic on the Crimean Bridge has been resumed.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:45:35 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
📝 NATO watches Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks 📝
While the Ukrainian side carries out one attack after another, NATO reconnaissance aircraft are watching what is happening, as they say, with all their eyes. And today, during the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Crimean Bridge, the same situation occurred.
▪️ South of Kerch , at a fairly close distance of just over 100 km, in the period 09:00 – 14:30, an American high-altitude U-2S aircraft was operating, which monitored the actions of our troops and Ukrainian BEKs.
▪️ In addition, flights of the Italian B-350ER electronic reconnaissance aircraft and the US CL-650 ARTEMIS aircraft, which patrolled along the Romanian coast, were observed in the western part of the Black Sea.
▪️ And another important aircraft was flying near Snake Island – a Turkish E-7T AWACS, which is already operating for the second time in a week in the interests of Ukrainian formations in the North Atlantic Alliance format.
▪️ Also, one or two Tekever AR5 UAVs have been flying non-stop over the Golitsyn gas production facilities for over a week, usually operating in tandem with unmanned boats. For example, for two nights in a row, the Tekevers guided the UAVs to the Tendrovskaya Spit .
🖍 Such reconnaissance activity, especially when the number of aircraft involved exceeds 4 units, is a complex operation to identify our positions, tactics of action and objective control over the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
🚩 Yes, at some point it may seem that their flights are becoming routine, but a full-fledged analysis is based on collecting information, accumulating it and drawing certain conclusions.
❗️ This is what we are getting at again, that we cannot ignore NATO's activities in the Black Sea zone. For example, there was similarly high activity recently on the Kola Peninsula . And we all know what it led to.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:46:03 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
🏁⚔️🇷🇺 NATO Satellites Aided SBU Strike on Olenya Airbase
NATO satellites were directly involved in the June 1 Ukrainian sabotage attempt on Russia’s Olenya airbase. Beyond passive surveillance, they assisted the SBU with target intel and planning.
🛰 American TOPAZ military satellites captured 102 detailed images of the Kola Peninsula in the final week of May. Most were high to maximum resolution—enough to pinpoint objects to within meters.
➡️24 images targeted the non-strategic nuclear weapons depot at Bolshoye Ramozero.
➡️20 images were taken of Olenya itself.
➡️Naval bases at Nerpichya (17) and Gadzhiyevo (16) were also heavily surveilled.
➡️11 passes focused on the Kilpyavr airfield and equipment near Murmansk.
✈️ On top of that, US, Norwegian, and Swedish reconnaissance and anti-submarine aircraft—P-8As and a Gulfstream IV SIGINT jet—flew missions near the area in late May.
The June 1 attack failed, but the lesson is clear: the West’s growing satellite and ISR activity is a warning sign. Russia must act before these “monitoring” missions turn into direct strikes.
Via: @Rybar
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:46:11 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Murderer known as Lindsey Graham: "The war in Ukraine won’t end until China pays for helping Russia"
"What Trump is doing to bring Putin to the negotiating table is what I call 'charm offensive diplomacy.' I once told Trump: 'I don’t care if you go on vacation with Putin.’ We need to end this war — in a way that’s ‘honorable and just’ — to avoid ‘rewarding aggression.’ But all this sweet talk won’t work.
I’m currently working with Trump’s team on severe sanctions against both Russia and China. I’ve always believed this war won’t end until China is punished for helping Putin. My sanctions package will be passed by the Senate next week. It includes a 500% tariff on any country that buys Russian oil, gas, or other goods.
I think it will cause real damage. And I expect Trump will change course — it’s clear Putin isn’t interested in peace."
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:46:47 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
🇷🇺🔴 The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced the liberation of Andreevka in the Sumy region.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:46:54 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Ukrainian MP: Evacuate Sumy Region — Defenses Collapsing, Russian Advance Underway
Ukrainian MP Maryana Bezuhla has called for immediate evacuation from Sumy frontline areas, admitting the region is unprepared and undefended.
She says no real fortifications were built, local leadership failed, and military command is paralyzed by infighting.
According to her, Russian forces correctly identified Sumy as the weakest point.
“Let’s be realistic — I advise civilians to evacuate Sumy’s frontline and potential frontline areas without waiting.”
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:47:15 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
🇷🇺✈️🇺🇦 Air Raid alert across Ukraine due to MiG-31K.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:47:40 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
Ukrozombies have been demonstrating their underwater drones for a long time - the most famous are the marichka (video) and toloka in various modifications (photo).
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:47:53 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
🇷🇺 A high-resolution satellite image confirms another target selected by Ukrainian special services during Sunday’s FPV drone attacks: the airfield near Ivanovo, home to the rare A-50U airborne early warning aircraft.
No aircraft were damaged or destroyed.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T10:48:48 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
⚡️ Two Majors #Summary for the morning of June 3, 2025
▪️ At night, enemy drones damaged a new substation in the Genichesk district of the Kherson region and a substation in the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region, which left more than 150 settlements without power supply. There were reports of the destruction of Ukrainian UAVs over the sea near the northern and western parts of Crimea.
▪️ Our Geraniums struck , Poltava, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, and Nikolaev regions in the dark. The massive missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces announced by enemy channels has not yet occurred.
▪️ On the Kursk section of the border, in the Ryzhevka-Tetkino direction, the enemy twice tried to break through with the forces of the assault groups of the 24th separate battalion "Aidar" of the AFU. During the day, an assault group of the 225th separate battalion advanced from Bessalovka in the direction of the state border. The enemy also tried to break through to our territory in the Iskriskovshchina area, and in the Pavlovka-Novy Put direction, the enemy sent a group of the 425th separate battalion of the AFU. All assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are under fire and have not achieved success. The AFU attacked the village of Azarovka in the Starodubsky municipal district and the village of Polevye Novosyolki in the Suzemsky district with FPV drones. As a result of a targeted strike on civilian cars, two civilians were injured. In the evening, an AFU drone struck a private house in the city of Rylsk, causing a fire.
▪️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to advance in the Sumy direction. Ukrainian MP Bezuglaya, assigned by the United States to monitor the spending of funds, claims that the Kursk adventure was not used to prepare the Sumy region for defense; scandals are underway regarding theft during the construction of defensive structures. After consolidating in Konstantinovka, Russian troops are storming in the direction of the northern outskirts of Kondratovka. Clashes began on the northern outskirts of Andreyevka, and the Russian Armed Forces are increasing the pace. They report an advance south from Belovody and heavy fighting in Yunakovka. It is noteworthy that the North Group of Forces reported that south of the village of Gornal in the Kursk region (the "old" Sudzhanskoye direction), the AFU launched two counterattacks. As a result of the small arms battle, most of the occupiers were destroyed on Ukrainian territory, and five enemy soldiers were captured.
▪️ In the Belgorod region, near the village of Dobroe, Shebekinsky district, two civilians were injured as a result of an attack by an AFU drone on a civilian Gazelle. In the village of Maysky, Belgorod district, a drone detonated on the territory of a commercial facility. A man was injured. In Razumnoye, a car was damaged. In the village of Oktyabrsky, the roof of an outbuilding caught fire from the detonation of an FPV drone. In Ustinka, a private house was destroyed as a result of a drone attack. In Mokraya Orlovka, Graivoronsky MO, a power line was damaged. In Novostroyevka-Pervaya, houses and three cars were damaged. In Novaya Tavolzhanka, an AFU FPV drone hit a private house. On a section of the Shebekino-Belgorod highway, a Gazelle caught fire as a result.
▪️ In the Krasnolymansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces are developing their success from the newly formed salient near Redkodub. The enemy's channels are nervous about the assault on Karpovka that has begun, our troops have entered the eastern and northern parts of the settlement.
▪️ At Chasy Yara, they reported success in the adjacent settlement of Stupochki, located 3 km from the north-eastern outskirts of Konstantinovka.
▪️ In the South - Donetsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched unsuccessful counterattacks, losing one armored fighting vehicle. The Vostok Group of Forces continues offensive operations.
The summary was compiled by: ⚡️
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:49:58 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
Sumy direction on 03.06.25: offensive on Sumy - Andreevka, Novonikolaevka...
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrskyi is stoically calm about this direction, which until recently was his favorite. Meanwhile, Ukrainian politicians and near-military bloggers are sounding the alarm, saying that some kind of "crap" is happening north of Sumy.
Ukrainian near-military monitoring channels, in turn, reluctantly admit that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are "heroically destroying hordes of orcs", but are retreating.
And they are indeed retreating and quite quickly. So quickly that in the last few days we have sometimes taken control of two villages a day.
That was the case yesterday. Our units took Andreevka and Novonikolaevka (and there are already prerequisites that today will be no less successful).
We are obviously already heading for Khoten (located 12 km from the northern outskirts of Sumy), which we will try to turn into our stronghold and a place for accumulating reserves (this is the only urban-type settlement here with strong capital buildings) and the wooded hills northeast of the city, where you can accumulate and hide anything (I grew up there and know these places very well).
And this will become an excellent springboard for an aerial UAV-bloggade of the city and for preparing for its assault.
Once again I appeal to my fellow countrymen - do not expect a miracle. There will be no miracle - evacuate. You will return to a city liberated from the tyrant.
Keep your fingers crossed and pray for the guys.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:50:06 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
Pokrovsk direction on 03.06.25: Nikolaevka...
Information has appeared that our units on the eastern outreach of the Pokrovsk agglomeration managed to drive the enemy out of Nikolaevka this morning. And thus they reached Novoekonomichesky from the east.
We also reached the southern outskirts of Novoekonomichesky along the western bank of the Kazeny Torets River.
The situation for the enemy's Pokrovsk group here has noticeably worsened. The fall of Novoekonomichesky is its death sentence. And in the very foreseeable future.
We keep our fingers crossed and pray for the guys.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:50:20 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
Integrated work of reconnaissance and strike UAV operators in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. Tandem of "Superkam" and "Molniya".
To conduct aerial reconnaissance, "Superkam" operators fly over the line of combat contact by more than 20 kilometers, overcoming active electronic countermeasures from the enemy.
Surveillance of the terrain and the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is carried out both day and night, thanks to thermal imaging cameras installed on the drones. This time, an American infantry fighting vehicle got into the drone's lens. Then the crews of the strike drones had their say. As a result, the enemy lost another "Bradley" IFV.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:50:59 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
Missile strike on Sumy - no details yet...
Unfortunately, I was out of touch for three hours and during that time the strike was carried out.
In fact, it was a very strange strike. I am currently collecting details through my people in the city. You can ignore the nonsense that is being carried on our channels (and I suggest that these same "our channels" not carry nonsense for which you will all have to blush later).
Judging by the preliminary data so far, everything was completely different there.
I will definitely write as soon as I figure it out.
And for the umpteenth time I am telling my fellow countrymen - whoever can, leave the city. It is already near the frontline, and the front will only get closer to it. With all that CONSEQUENTIAL.
And it is not that there are "elves" and "orcs" in the world (as propaganda tells you). In a frontline city, things always go to hell very quickly. And very soon, this same shit will happen in Sumy.
I know what nonsense the "unified news channel" and the gathering of information prostitutes of the regime are telling you, but the truth is banal and simple. The Russian army is quickly approaching the city. As of this morning, it was 18 km to the northern outskirts. From Khotyn, where it is heading, it is only 12 km. When Russian drones settle there (or on the hills south of Yunakovka, which is already almost completely under the control of the Russian Armed Forces), the entire city will be in a "web" of optics. They will hit the locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with everything that will fly. At the same time, as usually happens, some of the shells/missiles will fly "in the wrong place".
And very soon everyone will stop counting arrivals in the city, because there will be a lot of them, and no one will care. Just as much as, for example, almost everyone in Ukraine today cares about arrivals to the same Pokrovsk or Konstantinovka. Sumy residents, who knows how many there were in the last 24 hours? I'm sure NO ONE.
So in about two months no one will even keep track of arrivals in Sumy.
And hence my advice once again - LEAVE. Or at least take the children away.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:51:37 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
An Israeli air strike killed a group of civilians in Al Remal Neighborhood in Gaza city.
طيران الاحتلال يستهدف مجموعة من المواطنين في حي الرمال في مدينة غزة.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:54:49 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Eye On Palestine
Scenes show the rescue operation of a baby girl and other children who were trapped under the rubble of their home which was bombed by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza city.
مشاهد توثق عميلة إنقاذ رضيعة و أطفال اخرين من ركام منزلهم في غـ…ـزة.
Posted: 2025-06-03T10:55:38 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Eye On Palestine
📝NATO Collective Defense in Action📝
In addition to the latest trends in assessing a potential armed clash between NATO and Russia, attention should be paid to the ongoing series of exercises “Defender Europe – 2025,” taking place from May 11 to June 24.
Many have already weighed in on it. This year’s program includes three exercises—Swift Response, Immediate Response, and Saber Guardian—conducted on the territory of the countries of Northern and Eastern Europe.
The purpose of these exercises is to validate regional defense plans and to rehearse various scenarios for providing collective military assistance to allies on the “eastern flank” of the Alliance in the event of armed “aggression” by the Russian Federation.
❗️But what is far more interesting is the exercise’s scenario: an escalation of tensions in Europe resulting from the support by member states of the Treaty Organization for Military Assistance (TOMA) “Okkasus” for protests on the European continent.
▪️“Okkasus” in this context is analogous to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), in which the leading roles are played by the fictitious countries “Murinus,” “Griseus,” and “Plumbeus,” located within the borders of the Russian Federation and Belarus.
▪️According to the scenario, the bloc (i.e., “Okkasus”) supported mass protests of a “national minority” in Bulgaria, Romania, North Macedonia, Estonia, and Finland, and then invaded Europe. NATO member states made the decision to invoke Article 5 on “collective defense” and to commence hostilities.
▪️The number of forces involved exceeded 25,000 military personnel and 3,000 units of weaponry, military vehicles, and specialized equipment, which were deployed along the Western strategic axis: the main grouping in the Black Sea region, with auxiliary forces in the Scandinavian and Baltic regions.
▪️Participating units include: the U.S. Army’s 5th Army Corps; NATO’s Rapid Response Corps “Northeast” and “Southeast”; formations from 24 NATO countries; and five non-NATO states—namely Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, and Moldova—as well as Kosovo.
📌According to the scenario, NATO is practicing precisely the concept that is raising particular concern in Europe—public discontent over ongoing events, with the Kremlin inevitably blamed for instigating them.
Another noteworthy element is the participation of non-NATO countries. Austria, Kosovo, Georgia, and Moldova are not especially surprising, but Bosnia and Herzegovina and Brazil are rather unusual contributors—especially when one recalls the volatile situation on the Balkan Peninsula.
#NATO #Russia
⭐️@rybar
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:29:07 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
📝NATO Keeps an Eye on UAF Attacks📝
While the Ukrainian side conducts one strike after another, NATO’s reconnaissance aviation is observing events “with eyes wide open.” Today, during the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ (UAF) strike on the Crimea Bridge, the situation was no different.
▪️South of Kerch, at a relatively close distance of just over 100 km, between 09:00 and 14:30 (local time), the U.S. high-altitude U-2S aircraft was operating, monitoring both our forces’ activities and Ukrainian unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
▪️In addition, over the western part of the Black Sea, flights were recorded by Italy’s B-350ER signals intelligence aircraft and by the U.S. ARTEMIS-equipped CL-650, which was patrolling along the Romanian coastline.
▪️Another noteworthy aircraft was operating near Zmeinyi Island: the Turkish E-7T AWACS, which, for the second time this week, has been flying in support of Ukrainian formations under the NATO framework.
▪️Also, over the Holitsyn gas-production platforms, one or two Tekever AR5 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been flying continuously for over a week—typically operating in tandem with unmanned surface vessels. For example, on two consecutive nights, these Tekever UAVs guided USVs toward the Tendrovskaya Spit.
🖍Such a high level of reconnaissance activity—especially when more than four aircraft are involved—constitutes a complex operation aimed at identifying our positions, tracking our tactics, and maintaining objective oversight of UAF actions.
🚩 Yes, it might seem at some point that these flights become routine, but a comprehensive analysis relies on gathering information, accumulating data, and drawing specific conclusions.
❗️Here again is the point: it’s impossible to ignore NATO’s activities in the Black Sea region. For instance, similarly high activity was observed recently in the Kola Peninsula. And we all know where that led.
#Crimea #NATO #Russia
⭐️@rybar
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:29:07 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Rybar in English
Looks like Elon finally sobered up from his Ketamine bender.
Or maybe he's on one. Who knows.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T12:30:05 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
Public Support for Israel Plummets Across Western Europe
Public sentiment toward Israel has dropped to historic lows across Western Europe, according to the latest YouGov poll. Fewer than 20% of respondents in six key countries expressed a favorable view of the country.
Support for Israel has fallen sharply since the beginning of tracking in 2016. Germany (-44), France (-48), and Denmark (-54) now show record-low net favorability. In Italy (-52) and Spain (-55), the numbers remain at the rock bottom levels first seen in 2021. Even in traditionally more pro-Israel Britain, net favorability stands at -46—just slightly above its all-time low of -49.
Across the board, only 13% to 21% of people in the surveyed countries view Israel positively, while 63% to 70% express a negative opinion. When asked whether Israel’s actions in Gaza are justified, only 6% of Italians and 16% of French respondents agreed—down drastically from last October. In the UK, just 12% supported the military campaign.
Meanwhile, a notable segment of respondents—ranging from 29% in Italy to 40% in Germany—believe that while Israel had the right to act, it went too far, causing unacceptable civilian casualties. In Britain, this view is shared by 38% of respondents. Additionally, between 12% (Germany) and 24% (Italy) said that Israel should never have entered Palestinian territory in the first place.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T12:30:16 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: DD Geopolitics
Destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold in the Pokrovsk direction using a "robot vacuum cleaner" (TM-ki).
After the stronghold was blown up, the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers located there surrendered.
@belarusian_silovik
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Posted: 2025-06-03T12:30:53 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
✨ The fact that the attempt to blow up the bridge was carried out not by "agents who planted explosives," but by an underwater MBE, removes a number of questions from counterintelligence (with the exception of footage allegedly from the bridge cameras), but leaves questions about the sore subject of the fleet.
Their purpose is to promptly detect, identify and destroy an underwater object. Many thanks to the engineers and builders who fenced the Crimean Bridge with walls, "washers", barges, they helped protect a critically important object.
But the enemy did not keep its developments secret, and Great Britain as a curator did not hide its aspirations to build underwater unmanned vehicles. That is, the issue of underwater target detection by the fleet would have been thought about earlier.
Because today the enemy has conducted demonstrative first experimental tests in combat conditions, and, dismissing information leaks, it is necessary to note the most important fact: he managed to get close to the target. Today it was heavily protected, but there is, for example, the Novorossiysk naval base, which is the object of sabotage aspirations and a target for drones of all types. Now - and underwater. We are sure that measures are already being taken urgently and are reasonable, unlike car tires .
✨⭐️ I would really like it if it were the enemy holding the line on its own shores, and not us on ours. But, apparently, we cannot do without personnel decisions. We need to break down bureaucratic obstacles and rebuild the decision-making system on the fly. Another attack on the Crimean Bridge, this time unsuccessful, is just another confirmation of this.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:30:53 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
💬 Tetkino direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces want to block Tetkino 💬
✍️ The enemy continues its offensive operations in the Tetkino direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking several sections of this short front. The first is in the cemetery area, practically on the state border with Sumy Oblast.
💭 Relying on the cemetery, he tries to enter Tetkino itself. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are also attacking from the area of the treatment facilities, where they were able to consolidate and accumulate forces. Now the enemy is trying to develop success in the direction of Popovo-Lezhachi in order to cut off the group in Tetkino.
💭 The enemy conducts assault operations exclusively with infantry without the support of equipment. Fire support for the offensive is actively supported by FPV drones and artillery. And supplies at the front line are provided by Baba Yaga drones. In this way, medicines, ammunition and other means of logistics are delivered.
💭 In the area of Novy Put, the enemy, having entered our territory, was blocked in the area of the railway, about 100 meters from the state border. And now artillery is working on him, they are knocking him out, digging him out of the occupied positions.
✍️ Also, some of the enemy's assault groups have taken up positions in the forest near Komsomolskoye. Thus, the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue their attacks in this area of the Kursk region, practically without changing their tactics.
Архангел Спецназа
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:30:53 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
🇬🇧 UK launches autonomous underwater threat tracking project
The UK Ministry of Defence has officially confirmed the start of work on the CABOT – ATLANTIC NET project, which we wrote about earlier .
As a reminder, the project aims to monitor vast expanses of water and counter submarines and drones in the North Atlantic using a network of sensors and autonomous drones.
That is, the British have already begun work on "digitizing" anti-submarine warfare using unmanned surface and underwater platforms. There will be two phases in total, the first has already entered the procurement stage.
The contract involves the procurement of unmanned systems, sensors and is valued at £ 20 million . They will collect acoustic data and transmit it to a secure Remote Operations Centre (ROC), where Royal Navy personnel will analyse it using AI and machine learning tools .
The aim of the first phase (ATLANTIC NET) is to create a distributed network of autonomous systems to cover the Greenland-Iceland-UK area.
✨ As previously reported by the UK Ministry of Defence, the project aims to “accelerate the Royal Navy’s transition to autonomy, with a particular focus on anti-submarine warfare” , complementing the Navy’s capabilities and reducing the burden on the Royal Navy’s traditional forces by assigning automated systems to carry out routine monitoring tasks.
If fully implemented, the CABOT project will significantly enhance the UK's ability to detect and track underwater threats at great distances from infrastructure and naval bases.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:30:53 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
Fierce fighting near Pokrovsk: "🅾️brave" soldiers massively burn robots and NATO equipment, infantry and artillery of the enemy
▪️A selection of combat work of fighters of the "Center" group of forces on June 3 to destroy robotic complexes, military equipment, weapons, infantry and positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during active combat operations in the Pokrovsk direction.
▪️The footage shows NATO combat armored vehicles, firing points, mortars, infantry, positions and enemy transport being burned.
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:31:06 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
Destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold in the Pokrovsk direction using a "robot vacuum cleaner" (TM-ki).
After the stronghold was blown up, the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers located there surrendered.
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Posted: 2025-06-03T12:31:21 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
Ukraine will suck every euro - Hungarian Prime Minister.
Ukraine will “suck out” every euro, forint and zloty that could go towards developing the European economy, Viktor Orban said about the possibility of Ukraine joining the EU.
In his opinion, for Brussels this is “political damage control and a good deal in the middle of a lost war.”
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:31:32 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
🤙 There are no obstacles for "KVN"!
It's a joy when the enemy has excessive faith in their defenses and feels too relaxed because of this.
These characters were driving towards their positions in a Niva in broad daylight, fully confident that they were under the reliable protection of an anti-drone net stretched over the road.
The first time they were very lucky. They noticed the approaching FPV and managed to leave the car.
But the second attempt to drive in the opposite direction on a pickup truck that arrived to replace the burnt Niva ended with the most tragic outcome for them.
Posted: 2025-06-03T12:32:05 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Of War
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