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  • NATO F-16s Scrambled in Eastern Europe as Russia Launches Largest Air Raid on Ukraine Yet

    06/09/2025 9:12:57 AM PDT · by bimboeruption · 13 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 6-9-25 | Oliver JJ Lane
    Russia launched what Ukraine said would be the largest air assault of the war to date, with nearly 500 missiles and drones airborne, prompting Warsaw to scramble NATO air assets to protect its airspace. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 479 drones, four ballistic missiles, and 16 cruise missiles against its territory overnight. If the figures are accurate, it would make Sunday evening the biggest Russian air raid against Ukraine in the course of the over-three-year war to date, and underlines the ability of the combatants to sustain ever-larger drone attacks as the conflict goes on, given Russia launched another...
  • Putin's War Machine Dealt a Double Blow by Kyiv

    06/09/2025 8:00:55 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 6/9/2025 | Isabel van Brugen
    Ukrainian drones struck two major facilities supplying Russia's military on Monday, dealing a double blow to President Vladimir Putin's war machine. The facilities struck in early morning attacks were a plant in the Chuvash Republic, which produces navigation systems for Russian drones and missiles, and a gunpowder factory in Kazan, according to local reports.
  • Putin army reeling as Ukraine destroys £82m planes armed with deadly hypersonic missiles

    06/09/2025 5:05:21 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 35 replies
    Express UK ^ | 6/9/2025 | JOHN VARGA
    Ukraine's military launched another attack on a Russian airbase, thousands of miles from the frontlines. The attack took place overnight and targeted Savasleyka airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The airbase is home to a number of fighter jets, including the MiG-31 K, which can fire lethal Kinzhal ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s army said the attack had wiped out a MiG-31 K and a SU-30/34 aircraft, which are regularly used to launch aerial bombardments on the country. The airbase is home to a number of fighter jets, including the MiG-31 K, which can fire lethal Kinzhal ballistic missiles. Ukraine’s army said...
  • Panic in Moscow after drone strike closes two major airports and oil refinery fire rages

    06/08/2025 1:49:07 PM PDT · by dennisw · 71 replies
    MSN ^ | 5-7 | Debadrita Sur
    Panic in Russia is growing amid intensifying attacks by Ukrainian forces on key infrastructure. Two major Moscow airports were temporarily shut down on Sunday due to a Ukrainian drone strike targeting Russia's capital city, Russian officials claimed, while an oil refinery in Engels, Saratov Oblast was targeted in a similar attack on Friday. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that Russian air defense units destroyed multiple Ukrainian drones flying towards the city. Emergency personnel have been deployed at the wreckage sites, he said. This comes as Russia unleashed a massive air strike in Ukraine, with the war showing no...
  • Exclusive: US believes Russia response to Ukraine drone attack not over yet, expects multi-pronged strike

    06/08/2025 1:08:40 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    Reuters ^ | June 7, 20256:57 PM CDT | Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
    SummaryPutin's retaliation for Ukraine drone strike has yet to fully unfold, US officials say Strikes expected to including missiles, drones, US officials say Moscow's retaliation expected to be 'asymmetrical,' official says WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - The United States believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters.The timing of the full Russian response was unclear, with one source saying it was expected within days. A second U.S. official said the retaliation was likely...
  • Russia says it is sending more Ukrainian soldiers’ bodies to border amid spat over prisoner swap

    06/08/2025 8:59:07 AM PDT · by kiryandil · 30 replies
    CNN Not News ^ | June 8, 2025 | Christian Edwards, Kosta Gak, Billy Stockwel
    Russia said Sunday that trains carrying more bodies of Ukrainian soldiers were due to depart toward the Ukrainian border, escalating a spat with Kyiv over a prisoner of war swap. “I can tell you that in just an hour, repatriation trains carrying the bodies of military personnel will also begin to move,” Lieutenant General Aleksandr Zorin said on Sunday, according to TASS news agency. The transfer of “more than 6,000 bodies” was agreed earlier this week during peace talks in Istanbul, Zorin said, blaming Ukraine for failing to “confirm receipt” of other bodies of Ukrainian soldiers which Russia claims it...
  • Russia claims to have pushed into central Ukrainian region for first time

    06/08/2025 6:07:27 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 40 replies
    CNN — Russia claimed Sunday that its forces are for the first time pushing into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, an area it has been trying to reach for months, in a move that could create new problems for Kyiv’s much-stretched forces. Subunits from the Russian military’s 90th tank division reached the border of Dnipropetrovsk with the Donetsk region, large parts of which are already under Russian occupation, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. After this, they continued into Dnipropetrovsk, the defense ministry claimed.
  • Exclusive-US believes Russia response to Ukraine drone attack not over yet, expects multi-pronged strike

    06/07/2025 6:23:20 PM PDT · by Mariner · 31 replies
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | June 7th, 2025 | Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened retaliation against Ukraine over its drone attack last weekend has not happened yet in earnest and is likely to be a significant, multi-pronged strike, U.S. officials told Reuters.The timing of the full Russian response was unclear, with one source saying it was expected within days. A second U.S. official said the retaliation was likely to include different kinds of air capabilities, including missiles and drones.The officials spoke on condition of anonymity. They did not detail Russia's expected targets nor elaborate on intelligence matters. The first official said Moscow's...
  • Russian MASSIVE ‘Retaliation’ Air Raid Campaign Continues Unabated for a Second Night – Trump Says Ukraine ‘Gave Putin a Reason To Go In and Bomb the Hell Out of Them’

    06/07/2025 10:22:13 AM PDT · by Kazan · 143 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Jun. 7, 2025 | by Paul Serran
    For a second night in a row, Russian Federation forces pounded military targets in Kiev, Kharkov and many other Ukrainian cities, in what many see as retaliation for the Ukrainian terrorist attacks on civilian trains in Bryansk and Kursk, and – of course – for the drone raid on Russian strategic airfields.Russian military Telegram channel Military Chronicle has put forward a thought-provoking theory that the ‘retaliation’ will take the form of a prolonged series of missile and drone raids over the next days.“Russia’s missile strike on the night of June 5-6, 2025, according to the latest information, was not a...
  • Planned Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap descends into blame game and uncertainty

    06/07/2025 1:44:04 PM PDT · by McGruff · 18 replies
    CNN ^ | Jun 7, 2025 | Christian Edwards, Kosta Gak and Billy Stockwell
    A planned exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war failed to take place on Saturday, with Moscow accusing Kyiv of postponing the swap at the last minute, something Ukrainian officials dismissed as “dirty games” from the Kremlin. Russia said Ukraine unexpectedly postponed a transfer involving prisoners of war and the bodies of dead soldiers, leaving more than 1,200 frozen Ukrainian bodies waiting in refrigerated trucks at an exchange point with no one to collect them. Ukraine rejected Russia’s account of the events, saying that the two sides had agreed to exchange seriously wounded and young troops on Saturday but...
  • Huge fire breaks out at Russian oil refinery after suspected Ukrainian drone attack

    06/07/2025 11:08:00 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 53 replies
    i Paper ^ | 7th June 2025 | Joe Duggan
    A huge blaze has erupted at an oil refinery in a Russian town that was hit by Ukrainian drones earlier this year. Footage shows a fire raging at the industrial site in Kstovo, around 500 miles from the front lines in eastern Ukraine. A thick column of black smoke poured from the plant, reportedly the Lukoil oil refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
  • Ukraine says it shot down Russian Su-35 fighter jet

    06/07/2025 2:26:51 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 47 replies
    AOL News ^ | 6/7/2025 | Reuters
    Ukraine's air forces shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet on Saturday morning, the Ukrainian military said. "This morning, on June 7, 2025, as a result of a successful Air Force operation in the Kursk direction, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet was shot down," the military said on the Telegram messenger. It gave no more details. Russian forces have not yet commented on the matter while Reuters could not independently verify the report.
  • VIDEO: The Incredibly STUPID Reasons Why Ukraine War Started and Continues

    06/06/2025 8:55:43 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 54 replies
    Rumble ^ | June 6, 2025 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOThe Ukraine War should much more accurately be called "The War of NATO Expansion." Or maybe the "TDS War." Or perhaps "The Proxy War Against Russia." "The Beyond STUPID War" is my personal favorite label.I've always been an avid reader and one of the books I read when I was fifteen was "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman which detailed how World War I began. I was amazed at the time at how easily avoidable that war was by simply not following through on absurd entangling alliances. Unfortunately, although it is easy to start a war it is very...
  • US president Trump issues stern warning to Russia at White House meeting- has once again threatened Russia

    06/06/2025 9:13:30 AM PDT · by dennisw · 55 replies
    RBC Ukraine --MSN ^ | 6 5 | Kateryna Shkarlat
    American President Donald Trump has once again threatened Russia. He claims that if Russia crosses the line, the United States will respond, Trump made this statement during a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House. Furthermore, Trump recently said that in two weeks, he would know whether Putin is trying to deceive him about ending the war. According to Trump, if the Russian President lies about peace, the US will change its approach. "If i see somebody's out of line. If I see Russia's out of line — you will be amazed. Remember this: they like to...
  • BREAKING: Russia Retaliates Against Ukraine With MASSIVE Missile & Drone Strike Targeting Kiev

    06/06/2025 9:02:42 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 55 replies
    100 Percent Fed Up ^ | June 06, 2025 | Staff
    After Ukraine launched a huge drone strike on Russian airbases last weekend, Putin vowed retaliation. In a phone call with President Trump, Vladmir Putin was reportedly insistent that Russia must respond to Ukraine’s attack, which damaged over 40 aircraft. Now, we have reports that that retaliation may be underway. Russia has launched a massive overnight drone and ballistic missile strike on Ukraine, targeting Kiev and several other major cities. Alleged footage of the strike is going viral online: VIDEOS AT LINK..................... The Kyiv Independent said: Russia barraged Ukraine with missiles and drones throughout the night, threatening every region in the...
  • Russian President Putin greets Muslims on Eid al-Adha

    06/06/2025 5:38:10 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 28 replies
    Anadolu ^ | 6/6/2025 | Elena Teslova
    Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday greeted Muslims all over the world on Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice and known in Russia as "Kurban Bayram." In a statement posted on the Kremlin website, Putin noted that this holiday marks the completion of a pilgrimage to ancient religious rituals, promotes unity among people, and gives believers joy by connecting with their ancestors' rich historical and spiritual legacy. "Following ancestral teachings and traditions, Muslims celebrate Kurban Bayram by performing kind and compassionate deeds, sincerely caring for those in need of help and sympathy," he said. The Russian...
  • Russia Has Won the Ukraine War and ‘Defeated’ NATO

    06/06/2025 4:51:34 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 45 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/6/2025 | Andrew Latham
    The idea that Russia might still lose the war in Ukraine has become a kind of security blanket for Western elites – a comforting illusion clutched in think tanks, editorial pages, and official briefings long after the battlefield realities have changed. We are now well past the phase where optimism could be excused as ignorance. The facts are in. Ukraine is exhausted. The West is demoralized. And Russia, despite its many internal challenges, is grinding toward its war aims with brutal consistency.
  • Ukraine strikes Russian air bases in 'preemptive strike' ahead of drone, missile attack, General Staff says

    06/06/2025 3:21:35 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 60 replies
    Kyiv Independent Yahoo News ^ | 6/6/2025 | Tim Zadorozhnyy
    Ukrainian forces struck multiple Russian airfields and military facilities overnight on June 6, hours before Russia launched one of its heaviest aerial assaults of the war, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported. Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted Engels and Dyagilevo airfields — two key hubs for Russia's long-range bomber fleet, as well as logistics sites in Russia's Kursk Oblast. -snip- Engels-2 air base, located in Saratov Oblast, nearly 600 kilometers (370 miles) from Ukraine's front lines, hosts Russia's Tu-95, Tu-22M3, and Tu-160 bombers — aircraft regularly used in missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. Ukraine's General Staff said a strike...
  • This D-Day, Let’s Avoid WWIII

    06/06/2025 4:16:41 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 9 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 6 Jun, 2025 | J.B. Shurk
    June 6 marks the eighty-first anniversary of D-Day, when Allied troops crossed the English Channel, landed under heavy fire on the beaches of Normandy, and launched the successful campaign to liberate Europe from Nazi control. It was one of the riskiest amphibious assaults in military history — not only because of the size of the operation, but also because everyone on the continent knew that it was coming. The German High Command anticipated the timing and location of the Allies’ arrival; but for robust counterintelligence measures, brilliant logistical planning, and good fortune, June 6 could easily have become a day...
  • Ukraine is using an AI-powered, automated turret to shoot down Russia's devastating Shahed drones

    06/05/2025 6:49:40 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 16 replies
    Business Insider ^ | Jun 2, 2025 | Sinéad Baker and Jake Epstein
    Ukraine has deployed an AI-powered turret that has already shot down at least six of Russia's devastating Shahed drones, a military officer told Business Insider. Yuriy, the commander of Ukraine's air defense group, told BI last week that the system, called the Sky Sentinel, has "already been deployed in real combat, demonstrating high effectiveness." He said one prototype shot down six Shaheds in as many operational uses. This appears to be the first confirmation that one of the Sky Sentinels had downed up to six exploding drones. Ukraine previously said that the turret had been successfully tested, including on the...