Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine (2 year anniversary)

“The situation is desperate.” Gazprom does not know what to do with 60 billion cubic meters of unsold gas.

After losing the European market and failing to sign a new contract with China, Gazprom has accumulated tens of billions of cubic meters of gas surplus, and the authorities are trying to figure out how to use it, Reuters reports , citing Russian officials and top managers of the company.

Gazprom’s excess gas should be used to support the coal industry, which has incurred 200 billion rubles in losses since the beginning of 2023 and is on the verge of bankruptcy. “We can build (gas) power plants near (coal) mines,” Sorokin suggested. Gazprom, which has the world's largest gas reserves, is left without the ability to sell it. And the company's situation is “desperate,” says Mikhail Krutikhin, an expert on the oil and gas market.

“The overall picture is not in Gazprom’s favor,” Krutikhin states. “It is impossible to monetize the colossal gas reserves (the largest in the world). No one trusts the reliability of this supplier. And if by some miracle something works out with the Chinese, then the income from supplies will not cover either the construction of gas transportation infrastructure or even the operating costs of gas production and transportation.”

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/06/28/polozhenie-otchayannoe-vgazprome-neznayut-kuda-det-60-milliardov-kubometrov-nerasprodannogo-gaza-a167372

Putin - the master strategist

3MAR2025 Operation “Cutter” and gold bars: How Iran became the hub of Russian espionage in the Middle East

Following the rapid collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime this past December, Russia's primary espionage hub in the Middle East shifted from Syria to Iran. However, Moscow's deepening ties with Tehran had already begun in 2022, as evidenced by a surge in flights to Iran by Russian intelligence operatives. The Insider has uncovered who runs the GRU’s residency in Tehran, which banks and shipping companies profit from the supply of combat drones bringing death to Ukraine, and why Russian spies in Iran owe their drinks to the FSB’s Fifth Service.

Information about Iran's drone program came to light thanks to hackers from the Iranian opposition group PRANA Network, who posted secret correspondence between Russian and Iranian interests online. The messages in question show the relationship between Sahara Thunder, a subsidiary of Iran's Ministry of Defense that supplies drones, and Russian recipients from Tatarstan. As a result of negotiations between the parties, an agreement was reached regarding the training of Russian specialists in Iran and the supply of components for drone assembly in Russia at a plant in Alabuga. To maintain secrecy, drones were referred to as “cutters,” while Iran was code-named “Belarus.” On the Russian side, the deal involved JSC Alabuga Special Economic Zone for industrial production, represented by its general director Timur Shagivaleev, and LLC Alabuga Machinery, represented by Nikolay Aftapov. Iran was represented by Sahara Thunder's general director Hossein Bakhshayesh, who according to the U.S. Treasury Department has been circumventing sanctions while trading with Venezuela, India, and China, leading to Bakhshayesh himself being placed on the sanctions list.

https://theins.ru/en/inv/279304

It certainly was a busy night:

As a result of the night strikes.

The oil refinery in the settlement of Drohobych in the Lviv region was hit by a massive strike of up to 100 Geran-2 UAVs, as well as up to 15 Kh-101 cruise missiles. As a result of the strikes, the facility was seriously damaged.

The Kremenchug oil refinery was also hit by a second strike, this time a finishing strike by more than 70 Geran-2 and 2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, as well as a group strike by an Iskander OTRK division.

The Lviv aircraft repair plant, where the enemy produced large UAVs, was hit by a group strike of Geran-2, Kh-101, Kalibr.

The final assembly site for large UAVs in the settlement of Smela, Cherkasy region, by a group strike of the Geran UAV and the Iskander OTRK.

The final assembly site of the UAV, Poltava, by a group strike of the Geran-2, the Iskander OTRK, the facility was well protected by air defense, so a finishing blow was subsequently delivered by hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.

The Nikolaev aircraft repair plant, where attack UAVs were produced, was hit by a massive strike of the Geran-2 and the Iskander OTRK.

In total, over 400 high-precision weapons of medium and long range were launched at the enemy's military infrastructure overnight.

As we said earlier, the rate of production allows for up to 3 such waves of strikes per week, no air defense will be able to contain such.

The Nazi state will be destroyed, and for this reason alone they absolutely must conclude any peace at any cost in the near future, of course, the allegedly peaceful intentions of the Ukrainians should not be trusted.

️Source: Telegram "llordofwar" https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/06/29/1477868.html

In many video clips there is no sign of air defence, the missiles or drones fly in unmolested.

https://www.youtube.com/live/HABwKORAaZE

"The real reason the Imperial West hates Russia."

Young Politicians of Canada: Unmasking A NATO Front

https://yvesengler.com/2025/06/28/unmasking-nato-front-young-politicians-of-canada

"NATO fears losing its ideological grip on the young so the belligerent military alliance's backers are fighting back...This is the context in which to understand the Young Politicians of Canada." 18

Another confirmation:

https://t.me/SputnikInt/88126 19

The Ukrainian secret services are the organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attack perpetrated in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow, the Russian media reported, citing documents from the dossier. Thus, one of the terrorists indicated that after committing the attack, Dalerjon Mirzoyev and Chamsidin Faridouni, the authors of this attack, sent a certain coordinator, Saifoullo, a message to inform him of having carried out the attack. "I also learned during their conversation that Saifoullo told them that the sponsor of this terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall was a structure of the Ukrainian state," he noted. According to the testimonies of one of the four perpetrators of the terrorist attack, the accomplices should have "gone to the border between Russia and Ukraine and crossed it". Saifoullo then allegedly gave them additional instructions to travel to Kiev, where they should have received one million rubles (about 10,800 euros) each from the sponsors of the attack.

"I understood that we were used in the interests of another country, Ukraine, which has nothing to do with the Islamic world, but which solves some of its problems on Russian territory by proxy. The members of the Daesh-Khorasan terrorist group were only the organizers of our actions at the request of the Ukrainian government structure, as Saifoullo himself finally said, " the minutes of the interrogation indicate. The testimonies of the defendants also reveal that the perpetrators of the attack had a special legend so that the public would think that the attack perpetrated at Crocus City Hall had been committed exclusively in the interest of the Islamic State terrorist organization, and that the rapid identification of the terrorists would be confirmation of this. Saifullo convinced the defendants that they had to help Ukraine, because it is at war with Russia, which is the enemy of Muslims.

Yandex translation from French.

Senator Graham reported today that President Trump told him that it is time to start moving his sanctions bill.

Bone-Crushing Sanctions!

War Ending Sanctions!

Naturally, US involvement in a hot war with Russia’s ally Iran took priority for 12 days, and the Big Beautiful Bill still has a few more days to make it to the President’s desk - but then the decks are clear, for the Bone-Crushing of the funding of Putin’s murderous war making.

Sell your Russian stocks and Russian currency - anyone who is watching will see what’s coming.

Putin should have taken the deal. He will just have to Find Out.

I pity the fool, and all the captive population in Russia that will have to pay for Putin’s crime spree.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 29, 2025

Russia conducted its largest combined strike series of the war on the night of June 28 to 29 by launching over 500 missiles and drones against Ukraine. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian launched a total of 537 strike vehicles, including 447 Shahed and decoy drones from the directions of Kursk, Oryol, and Bryansk cities; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea.[1] The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces also launched four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from the airspace above Tambov Oblast; seven Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles from Voronezh Oblast; 41 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles from Saratov, Kursk, and Bryansk oblasts; five Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea; and three S-300 air defense missiles from Kursk Oblast. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces shot down 221 drones, one Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missile, 33 Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missiles, and four Kalibr cruise missiles and that 225 drones and one Kh-101/Iskander-K cruise missile were “lost in location” or suppressed by Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) systems. Ukrainian officials reported that Russian forces struck civilian infrastructure, including residences and educational facilities, in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Cherkasy, and Mykolaiv oblasts and railway and industrial infrastructure in Lviv and Poltava oblasts.[2] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that a Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilot died while repelling the strikes.[3] Russia is continuing to use increasingly large numbers of drones in its overnight strike packages in order to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses and enable subsequent cruise and ballistic missile strikes.[4] The increases in Russia's strike packages in recent weeks are largely due to Russia's efforts to scale up its defense industrial production, particularly of Shahed and decoy drones and ballistic missiles.[5]

Ukrainian forces were notably only able to shoot down one of the seven Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and did not shoot down any of the four Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles during the June 28 to 29 strike series. Zelensky called on Ukraine to strengthen its air defenses and reiterated that Ukraine is ready to buy US air defense systems.[6] US President Donald Trump recently spoke with Zelensky about possible US sales of Patriot air defense systems on June 25.[7] Patriot systems are vital to Ukraine's ability to defend against Russian ballistic missile strikes, especially as Russia is reportedly increasing its production and stockpile of ballistic missile production capacity to enable larger and more frequent ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine.[8]

Russia appears to be increasingly striking civilian areas in its large-scale strike packages. Kyiv City Military Administration Head Timur Tkachenko stated that Russia has changed its strike tactics in order to inflict as much damage to civilian areas as possible.[9] Tkachenko noted that Russian missile and drone strikes heavily targeted Kyiv City three times in June 2025, launching a total of 285 drones and 65 missiles against the capital so far in June 2025 – a sharp increase from the 35 drones and one ballistic missile that Russian forces launched against Kyiv City in January 2025. Tkachenko noted that 42 civilians, including a child, have died due to Russian strikes against the capital since the start of June 2025 and that 234 people, including 11 children, have sustained injuries. Tkachenko reported that Russian forces are conducting “double tap” strikes against emergency responders and using cluster munitions with delayed detonations that threaten both civilians and rescue workers. ISW has observed Russian officials and milbloggers respond to recent large-scale and deadly Russian strikes against Kyiv City by calling on Russia to intensify its strikes.[10]

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-29-2025

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