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  • Putin reeling as Ukraine launches 'deepest' attack of war 620 miles inside Russian border

    07/02/2025 8:06:21 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 89 replies
    Express UK ^ | 7/2/2025 | John Varga
    A series of explosions are heard inside the plant, with workers rushing and screaming as they try to get to safety. Ukrainian drones attacked a military-industrial complex in the Russian city of Izhevsk on Tuesday, in one of the deepest strikes inside the country since Putin's full-scale invasion. UAVS struck the Kupol Electromechanical Plant, causing a major fire to break out at the site. Video images circulating on social media channels show the dramatic moment of impact as the deadly drones zeroed in on their target. In one clip, an explosion can be heard, and then a giant ball of...
  • North Korea ‘offers 30,000 MORE troops’ for Putin’s meatgrinder war after tyrant Kim Jong-un wept over soldiers’ coffins

    07/02/2025 7:26:28 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 20 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 7/2/2025 | Sayan Bose
    NORTH Korea is reportedly planning to send 30,000 more troops to fight alongside the Russians against Ukraine. It comes just a day after tyrant Kim Jong-un wept over the coffins of his soldiers whom he sent to die in Vladimir Putin's meatgrinder war. -snip- In April, Kim Jong-un confirmed for the first time that North Korean troops were sent to fight alongside the Russians against Ukraine. Pyongyang's state TV and Kim's propaganda machine KCNA reported that North Korean soldiers made an "important contribution" to help the Russians flush out Kyiv's troops from Kursk. It said Kim deployed "sub-units of our...
  • North Korea’s Kim seen mourning over dead, presumably soldiers who fought for Russia

    07/01/2025 7:33:28 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies
    Anadolu ^ | 7/1/2025 | Staff
    North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been seen mourning over his soldiers believed to have been killed in the Russia-Ukraine war, images aired by state media showed on Tuesday. Aired by Korean Central Television, the images showed Kim solemnly placing a North Korean flag over a coffin during a ceremony for the return of the remains of North Korean soldiers who were deployed and killed in the conflict. The images showed photos of Kim in the background footage during a joint cultural event co-hosted by North Korea and Russia in Pyongyang on Sunday, marking the first anniversary of the...
  • Disaster for Putin as more than 20,000 Russian soldiers go awol in Ukraine

    06/30/2025 11:54:59 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 49 replies
    Express UK ^ | 6/30/2025 | ANDREW PAPWORTH
    Vladimir Putin has been dealt a massive setback after more than 20,000 soldiers deserted the front line in the war against Ukraine – leaving Kremlin forces even more depleted. Courts have received 20,538 cases of service personnel absent without leave, desertion or refusing orders since the illegal invasion began in February 2022, according to Russian independent news service Mediazone. The majority – 18,159 – were for soldiers going awol, with 17,721 being prosecuted under Russia’s Criminal Code. The maximum punishment is a 10-year jail term. However, those found guilty could commute their sentences by serving in the Storm-Z convict assault...
  • Trump Says Zelensky Wants War with Russia to End After NATO Summit Meeting

    06/25/2025 3:44:25 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 192 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/25/2025 | Nick Gilbertson
    President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to see the war between Ukraine and Russia come to a close following their meeting at the NATO Summit. Trump was asked about the meeting during his press conference at the summit in the Hague, Netherlands. “He couldn’t have been nicer. I think he’d like to see an end to this, I do. What I took from the meeting — couldn’t have been nicer, actually — but I took from the meeting he’d like to see it end,” Trump said. “I think it’s a great time to end it....
  • Humiliated Putin loses warplanes worth £148,000,000 despite stepping up security

    06/28/2025 4:23:23 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    Metro UK ^ | 6/28/2025 | Brooke Davies
    Vladimir Putin has lost four warplanes worth £37 million each despite stepping up their defences after Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. A pair of Su-34 fighters were destroyed and two more damaged after an attack on on Marinovka military airfield in Volgograd. Ukraine used long range drones to fly more than 200 miles to inflict the latest £148 million blow to Putin’s aerial firepower. It came less than a month after Russia supposedly tightened its military air base security after 40-plus strategic bombers and spy planes were hit in Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb. Russia responded by hitting Ukrainian civilians with a strike on...
  • Frontline report: Ukraine set a forest trap in Sumy — a Russian battalion vanished inside

    06/27/2025 7:09:42 PM PDT · by Uncle Lonny · 125 replies
    Euromaidan Press ^ | 27/06/2025 | Eroromaden Press
    "Russian forces launched a new offensive into Sumy Oblast, charging across open fields with the expectation of minimal resistance. But what they encountered was a carefully planned Ukrainian trap. Drawn far from their defensive lines and exposed in the open, Russian units were hit hard by a sudden Ukrainian counterstrike. Artillery, drones, and precision infantry movements devastated the attackers. Ukrainian forces quickly overran Russian command posts, shattered frontline cohesion, and forced dozens of Russian soldiers to surrender."
  • Putin should end war in Ukraine before mediating in Middle East – Trump

    06/18/2025 12:42:13 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 18 replies
    APA ^ | 6/18/2025 | Staff
    Russian leader Vladimir Putin should first end the war that Russia started in Ukraine before talking about mediating in the Middle East, stated US President Donald Trump during a conversation with journalists, APA reports citing RBC Ukraine. "I spoke to Putin yesterday, he offered to help mediate. I said, do me a favor — mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first, OK? I said, 'Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first, you can worry about this later," Trump said. According to the US President, he told Putin that he should deal with Russia first before involving himself elsewhere. "So many people have...
  • North Korea plans to send military construction workers and deminers to Russia

    06/18/2025 2:21:50 AM PDT · by Apparatchik · 21 replies
    NBC Spews ^ | June 18, 2025 | The Associated Press
    SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea will send thousands of military construction workers and deminers to support reconstruction work in Russia’s Kursk region, a top Russian official said Tuesday, the latest sign of expanding cooperation between the nations. North Korea has already supplied thousands of combat troops and a vast amount of conventional weapons to back Russia’s war against Ukraine. In April, Pyongyang and Moscow said that their soldiers fought together to repel a Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region, though Ukraine has insisted it still has troops present there. Wrapping up a one-day visit to Pyongyang, Russian Security...
  • North Korea has lost more than half of its troops sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine

    06/16/2025 3:41:29 PM PDT · by Engraved-on-His-hands · 47 replies
    The Express (UK) ^ | June 16, 2025 | Carrington Walker
    Half of the thousands of North Korean troops sent to help Russia's attempted invasion of Ukraine have died in action, according to British Defence Intelligence. Roughly 11,000 troops have been dispatched by Kim Jong Un to aid Vladimir Putin's war effort in Eastern Europe since 2022 as the ties between their two countries has become closer. Now it has been revealed that more than 6,000 soldiers from North Korea have lost their lives after being stationed to the frontline in the Kurk region
  • Trump Calls for ‘End’ to Israel-Iran War, Says Putin Agreed in Call

    06/14/2025 4:49:24 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/14/2025 | Nick Gilbertson
    WASHINGTON– President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he wants the war between Iran and Israel to come to an end and that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a call they had in the morning. Trump took to Truth Social to reveal that Putin shared his sentiment about the conflict during a call in which the Russian president wished Trump a happy birthday in the morning. “President Putin called this morning to very nicely wish me a Happy Birthday, but to more importantly, talk about Iran, a country he knows very well. We talked at length. Much less time was...
  • Country That Allegedly Had No Cards to Play Keeps Finding New Cards to Play

    06/04/2025 6:34:27 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 82 replies
    National Review ^ | June 2, 2025 | Jim Geraghty
    President Trump, angrily, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, February 28: “You don’t have the cards! You’re buried there! Your people are dying! You’re running low on soldiers!” Since that time . . . In March alone, the Russians suffered an estimated 41,000 combined killed or wounded in action, with 272 Russian tanks, 1,644 artillery systems, and 607 combat armored vehicles destroyed or disabled. (Since the start of the war, Russia has lost an estimated 12,835 tanks and armored vehicles, 305 aircraft, and 22 naval vessels.) Without anything resembling a manned navy, Ukraine has largely nullified the...
  • Ukraine’s Cutting-Edge Ballistic Missile Reportedly Enters Combat Use

    06/10/2025 11:00:38 AM PDT · by Grzegorz 246 · 62 replies
    United24 Media ^ | Jun 10, 2025 | Vlad Litnarovych
    Ukraine has achieved a breakthrough in its domestic missile program. A new Ukrainian ballistic missile has completed a combat test, striking a Russian command post nearly 300 kilometers from the launch site, military analyst and director of the Center for Army, Conversion, and Disarmament Studies Valentyn Badrak revealed. The missile’s development began in May 2022, with a successful test already conducted in the summer of 2024. According to Badrak, the system is now entering serial production, Badrak stated in a recent interview with Ukrainian news outlet Ukrinform on June 10. “I don’t know how many missiles we can expect per...
  • 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.
  • 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...
  • Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 1.4 Million, Study Finds

    06/03/2025 3:08:33 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 124 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 3, 2025 | Helene Cooper
    Nearly one million Russian troops have been killed or wounded in the country’s war against Ukraine, according to a new study, a staggering toll as Russia’s three-year assault on its neighbor grinds on. The study, published on Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that close to 400,000 Ukrainian troops have also been killed or wounded since the war began. That would put the overall casualty figure, for Russian and Ukrainian troops combined, at almost 1.4 million. Officials cautioned that casualty figures were difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war...
  • Biden Thought that Russia Should be Destroyed — Brazilian Leader

    06/03/2025 9:28:48 AM PDT · by marshmallow · 77 replies
    TASS ^ | 6/3/15
    Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva noted that "Europe, which held a middle-ground position for some time, finally sided with Washington and now is spending billions to rearm itself"PARIS, June 3. /TASS/. Former US President Joe Biden, while in office, said he wanted Russia to be destroyed, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in an interview with French newspaper Le Monde. Commenting on the situation in Ukraine, the Brazilian leader said that at first he had condemned Russia’s special military operation. He stressed however that "Western countries also bear part of responsibility." "Joe Biden, whom I talked to about...
  • Security Service of Ukraine have blown up a pillar of the Kerch Bridge

    06/03/2025 4:23:41 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 31 replies
    SBU agents reportedly attached explosives to the bridge's concrete pillars, which were detonated earlier this morning, damaging it
  • Ukraine Wipes Out Dozens of Russian Nuclear Bombers in Drone Strike Deep Inside Russia – Escalating War with Russia – Trump WAS NOT Notified – Takes Place Two Days After Lindsey Graham’s Visit with Zelensky

    06/02/2025 6:33:37 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 81 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | June 01, 2025 | Staff
    Ukrainian drones took out numerous Russian bombers on Sunday over a thousand miles from the border with Ukraine. This comes one day before peace talks resume in Turkey. ================================================================== Ukrainian drones on Sunday took out an estimated 36% of all Russian strategic aviation! $2 billion worth of damage! Volodymyr Zelensky announced that 117 drones were used in the strike inside Russia that wiped wiped out dozens of nuclear “doomsday” bombers and other aircraft. President Trump WAS NOT NOTIFIED of the attack before it took place – because Trump wants peace and the globalists want World War and the destruction of...
  • Rubio doubles down on Trump’s call for peace after Ukraine wipes out Russia’s doomsday nuclear bombers

    06/01/2025 5:27:23 PM PDT · by McGruff · 75 replies
    NY Post ^ | June 1, 2025 | Mark Lungariello
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio doubled down on President Trump’s demand for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia after the war escalated over a weekend with a series of intense bombings inside both countries. Rubio told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday that both sides needed to engage in direct talks “to achieve a lasting peace,” according to the State Department. The message came after Ukraine’s forces wiped out and damaged 41 of the Kremlin’s nuclear bombers and aircraft, attacking at least four air bases across Russia in a massive operation.