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First Confirmed Leopard 2 Destroyed in Zaporizhia
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/08/2023 14:50 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got Rodgered by artillery
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/08/2023 14:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Forgot to take the cap off the gun turret? Takes a while to learn how be a tank operator.
Posted by: jpal || 06/08/2023 16:47 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought that was a tractor.
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Blows
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian bogger Donetsk

[DonRF] This time the enemy attacked at Zaporozhye at night. Forces to the battalion to the site. Didn't have any success. We are waiting for silence from their side and extravaganza from our side. Although our extravaganza has already been. It's been going on for two days now.

I mean the coverage of the enemy's "hard attack" move. And of course it should be emotional, our fighters are fighting there, but at the same time, too much is too much. From screams, screams, fakes and cheers-propaganda, it is already laying ears. For the last two days and one night we:

1. Prayed three times because IT has BEGUN. The fact that it began back in May is somehow dimished, like the fact that all the tanks in the South on both sides do not even pull on one 5th Guards Tank Army, everyone is somehow silent. There will be no Prokhorovka. For this scale, tanks from all fronts will be needed.
Prokhorovka is the location in Russia during the German Army Kursk attack in July, 1943. It is known as the largest tank on tank battle during WWII. See more here.
2. Three times they celebrated the burning of the Leopards. In two cases, they turned out to be AMX (wheeled tanks of France, in fact - heavy infantry fighting vehicles), in the third - last year's video of the defeat of ATGM combines.

3. They burned the Patriot on the LBS. As a result, he turned out to be Iris T. But that's okay, a very expensive newest complex slammed the Lancet, the cost of which is a penny. But the postscript was clearly superfluous.
See more about the Irin-T missile here.
4. They experienced terrible zrada near Artemovsk and Novodonetsk. In both cases, in vain. Is it like seasoning on a dish of information cuisine. The wheel of genoty must be turning.

In the end ... As a result, the enemy was caught several times in fire bags, Zaluzhny, maniacally repeating Kharkov, showed himself to be a stupid butcher (strange, right? A stupid butcher behaves like a stupid butcher), and Kiev's strategy for breaking through with light armored combat vehicles led to beautiful shots of burning equipment, and messages that you don’t immediately believe, because there are so many. “Damn Muscovites,” it suddenly turned out they know how to fight, they react to attempts to make a fuss with fire and maneuver, and instead of the expected drunks-mobiks, there are soldiers in the trenches. Russian soldiers. Prepared and trained. With tech.
Zaluzhny is the family name of Ukrainian General Zaluzhny.
Now Kyiv is already at a crossroads. He can either build up a lot of strikes, or say that the offensive was in an alternative dimension, nothing was promised to Melitopol, and in general, 10 million F-16s and a hundred Patriots will arrive.

Or they can continue strikes in the current mode. I don't believe in the first. We have a stubborn and strong enemy. Behind him is the military intelligence of NATO. And a great resource. He has little room for error. And he will do EVERYTHING so that there are no mistakes. There will be blows, there will be non-standard moves (two - Shebekino and the dam, we have already seen).

We wait. And we hope for a Russian soldier. We do not pray hysterically on the reality show named after the Russian TG, but simply to ourselves. With a cool head and the hope that ours will stand. Our neighbors, friends, relatives. Those who are in shape. Those who are on LBS. Those who are Russian soldiers. Which is always holy. We commemorate politicians, so that God will enlighten them on the good, and simply enlighten them, and help the army and civilians in the front-line as much as we can. So far so good. But this is no reason to rejoice. Early.

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Offensive Going Better Than Expected, U.S. Says
[The Drive] There are indications from the Biden administration that Ukraine is making progress already during its counteroffensive.

Administration officials "were encouraged by better-than-expected progress Monday, as Ukrainian units pushed through heavily mined areas to advance between five and 10 kilometers in some areas of the long front," Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported Tuesday. "That raised hopes that Ukrainian forces can keep thrusting toward Mariupol, Melitopol and other Russian-held places along the coast."

Biden administration officials say the offensive began on Monday with a Ukrainian thrust south along multiple axes, Ignatius reported, echoing what we reported Monday.

The White House, however, said it is too early to tell how the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam across the Dnipro River will affect the counteroffensive.

"I won't speak to Ukrainian military operations in any way whatsoever," White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday afternoon. "But right now- too soon to assess what kind of impact [the dam destruction] is going to have on the battlefield."

Ukrainian officials have remained quiet about the offensive in an attempt to maintain the element of surprise, a difficult task in a world of social media open source reporting and against an enemy with satellites as well as a network of spies on the ground.

"PLANS LOVE SILENCE," Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Tuesday on her Telegram channel. "The offensive will not start in social networks."

She did, however, say that Ukraine has made additional progress around Bakhmut and expects to elsewhere as well.

Posted by: Enver Slager8035 || 06/08/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Which is to say, at all.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/08/2023 15:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Soros says he expects Ukraine to win. So, what would you expect his employees in the US to say?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2023 15:43 Comments || Top||

#3  I get all my news from Soros. Did you know Taiwan is planning to invade mainland China soon?
Posted by: jpal || 06/08/2023 16:38 Comments || Top||


Russians carried out 28 airstrikes and carried out 20 artillery attacks with multiple rocket launchers - General Staff
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[LB] Today, 21 combat clashes took place in Donbas.

by Iryna Gamalii


During this day, the enemy carried out 28 airstrikes, carried out about 20 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of the Armed Forces and populated areas. In addition to the destroyed infrastructure, civilians suffered.

This was announced on Facebook by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of the 469th day of the large-scale Russian invasion.

The probability of launching missile and air strikes on the entire territory of Ukraine remains very high.

The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions . During the day, 21 combat clashes took place.

On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not changed significantly.

On the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions, the enemy launched an airstrike in the area of ​​Strelcha, Kharkiv region. He carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Galaganivka, Leonivka, Chernihiv region; Novovasylivka, Volfine, Rozhkovichi, Vovkivka, Yablunivka in the Sumy region, as well as Udy, Veterinarne, Graniv, Morokhovets, Ternova, Staritsa, Vovchansk, Gatishche, Pokalyan, Budarky, Zemlianka, Zarubinka, Chugunivka, and Milove in the Kharkiv region.

In the Kupyan direction, during the day, the enemy carried out airstrikes in the area of ​​Kislivka, Kharkiv region, and Stelmakhivka, Luhansk region. Kamianka, Topoli, Krasne Pershe, Petro-Ivanivka, Figolivka, Novomlynsk, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Kindrashivka, Kislivka, Tabaivka, Berestov in Kharkiv region and Novoselivske in Luhansk were subjected to artillery and mortar attacks.

On the Lymanskyi direction, during the day, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the Vesely district of the Donetsk region. He carried out airstrikes near Yampolivka, Bilogorivka, Siversk, Zvanivka, Spirnyi, Vesely, and Nikiforivka in the Donetsk region. Makiivka, Nevske, Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Verkhnyokamianske, Torske, Spirne, Rozdolivka of the Donetsk region were subjected to artillery shelling.

In the direction of Bakhmut, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the direction of Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Ivanivskyi, and the North, without success. He carried out an airstrike in the area of ​​the settlement of Dilyivka, Donetsk region. Vasyukivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Hryhorivka, Bohdanivka, Ivanovske, Stupochki, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Bila Gora, Toretsk, North of Donetsk region were affected by enemy artillery shelling.

In the Avdiivka direction, the enemy made an unsuccessful offensive attempt in the Avdiivka area. At the same time, the enemy carried out airstrikes within this settlement. He carried out artillery shelling of the areas of Berdychi, Stepove, Avdiivka, Pervomaiske, Karlivka settlements of the Donetsk region.

In the Marinka direction, our defenders repelled 9 enemy attacks in the area of ​​the city of Marinka. The enemy launched an airstrike in the Krasnohorivka area. Gostre, Maksimilianivka, Georgiivka, Maryinka, Pobyeda, Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region were hit by artillery fire.

In the direction of Shakhtarsky, the enemy launched airstrikes in the areas of Prechistivka and Shakhtarsky. He shelled the settlements of Vugledar, Shakhtarske, Zolota Niva and Vremivka in the Donetsk region.

The enemy continues to conduct defensive operations in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions . He carried out airstrikes in the areas of Novopol in the Donetsk region and Olhivskyi and Poltavka in Zaporizhzhia. He carried out artillery shelling of Burlatske, Novosilka, Novopil, Temyrivka settlements of the Donetsk region; Olhivske, Poltavka, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Biloghirya, Novoandriivka, Shcherbaki, Stepove and Kamianske of the Zaporizhzhia region; Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region; Beryslav, Vesele, Tokarivka, Sadove, Bilozerka of the Kherson region and the city of Kherson.

The Russian Federation does not care about the problems of the local population in the occupied territories, it is capable of any crimes and large-scale destruction. Thus, after Russian terrorists blew up the dam of the Kakhovskaya HPP, the residents of the village of Kozachi Lageri, who found themselves in the flooding zone, did not wait for help from the so-called occupying authorities and tried to leave the partially flooded settlement on their own. However, the Russian servicemen, being intoxicated, blocked all possible ways of leaving the city and prohibited evacuation.

At the same time, in the city of Gola Prystan, the occupiers drive the owners of two-story buildings out of their apartments and settle in them themselves. The invaders set up firing positions on the roofs of these buildings.

During the day, the aviation of the defense forces made 15 strikes on personnel concentration areas and 2 strikes on the enemy's anti-aircraft missile systems. Our defenders destroyed 4 enemy reconnaissance UAVs.

During the day, units of missile troops and artillery struck 4 control points, 1 area of ​​concentration of manpower, weapons and military equipment, 3 ammunition depots, 2 anti-aircraft missile systems and 1 enemy radar station.

We will remind you that Germany handed over another package of military aid to Ukraine, which, among other things, included Bandvagn 206 all-terrain vehicles.

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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: June 7th, 2023
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:12 The Russians fired artillery at Ukrainsk, Donetsk region - it is known about three dead (two adults and one child) and three wounded children, the President's Office reported.

22:49 Zelensky said in an evening video message that international organizations such as the Red Cross should immediately join the rescue operation and help people in the occupied part of the Kherson region.

"The Ukrainian military and special services, as much as possible, despite the shelling, are saving people. But large-scale efforts are needed ... Every death there is a sentence to the existing international architecture, to international organizations that have forgotten how to save lives. If now there is no international organization in the zone this catastrophe - it means that it does not exist at all, it means that it is incapacitated. There are all relevant appeals from Ukraine, our government," the president emphasized.

22:34 The destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by the Russians not only led to a large-scale man-made disaster, but also affected the course of hostilities. Many experts attribute the bombing of the hydroelectric power plant to an attempt by Russia to disrupt or complicate the Ukrainian counteroffensive. About what are the real military consequences of the destruction of the hydroelectric power station - in the material New opportunities .

21:46 Zelensky said in an interview with Bild that the schedule for the start of the Ukrainian offensive has been approved: "We have approved the schedule for the start of the movement of our troops, decisions have been made."

21:42 Shmygal appealed to the leadership of the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international humanitarian organizations about the blowing up of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station by Russian troops. He urged them to immediately intervene and take over the evacuation of people from the territories of the Kherson region occupied by the Russians.

“As a result of this terrible terrorist attack, dozens of settlements were flooded. The Ukrainian authorities organized the evacuation from the territory of the Kherson region controlled by us. However, on the left bank, under temporary occupation, people were abandoned by the Russians to their fate. Hundreds of houses literally disappeared under water. People are forced to leave their homes on their own , and those who can't are trapped in the elements," the Prime Minister stressed.

21:23 The occupied city of Oleshki, Kherson region, is 85% covered with water, there are victims due to flooding, head of the GVA Tatyana Gasanenko told Radio Liberty. According to her, it is impossible to evacuate from the city on her own - the occupation authorities do not let her out, instead they offer to leave only for the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation. Some people continue to sit on rooftops.

Mayor Oleshek Yevgeny Ryshchuk told Suspilny that three people had been killed.

20:49 The Russians fired four rockets at Avdiivka, Donetsk region, one person was injured, Mayor Vitaliy Barabash said. According to him, 1,731 people remain in the city.

20:36 The peace mission of the presidents of several African countries to find ways to resolve the "Ukrainian crisis" will arrive in Kiev on June 16, said an employee of the non-profit organization Brazzaville Foundation, which facilitates the trip. After Kyiv, the African presidents will visit St. Petersburg.

20:30 Zelensky told Bild that he was shocked by the reaction of the UN and the Red Cross to the breakthrough of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. According to him, the largest international organizations either did not respond to the request for assistance, or it was in fact a refusal "in diplomatic formulations." "People and animals have died. From the roofs of flooded houses, people can see the drowned people passing by. It is very difficult to take people out of the occupied part of the Kherson region," the president said.

He also added that the blowing up of the hydroelectric power station "does not help us in the counteroffensive and does not facilitate it." At the same time, Zelensky specified that when the counteroffensive begins, "everyone will feel it."

19:42 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with Macron, spoke about the current situation in the Kherson region, discussed the possibility of using international mechanisms to investigate the causes of the disaster at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station. "We agreed to continue defense cooperation, in particular, to protect our skies. We expect the training of Ukrainian pilots to start as soon as possible. We discussed the formats of security guarantees for Ukraine, expectations from the NATO Vilnius summit and preparations for the Global Peace Summit," the president said.

19:14 Mortality in Mariupol from "natural causes" this week crossed the mark of 400 people - this is 2.6 times more than the peak of covid mortality, when 150 people died in a week. Moreover, then it was 150 people per 500 thousand of the population, now it is 400 per incomplete 100 thousand, Piotr Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.

18:38 After the Russians undermined the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the residents of the village of Kazachy Camps, without waiting for help from the occupying "authorities", tried to leave the partially flooded settlement on their own. However, the Russian servicemen, being in a state of intoxication, blocked all possible ways to leave the city and forbade evacuation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said. Meanwhile, in the city of Golaya Pristan, the occupiers are driving out the owners of two-story houses and settling themselves in them. They set up firing positions on the roofs of these buildings.

18:20 Danilov denied the information that the counteroffensive had already begun: "The counteroffensive has not yet begun. All this is not true. When we start the counteroffensive, everyone will know about it, everyone will see it."

18:07 Concerns about a new chemical disaster in Ukraine are growing in the world. The day before, Russian troops shelled the world's largest ammonia pipeline Tolyatti-Odessa for the second time in two days. As a result of enemy strikes, the pipeline was depressurized and 134 tons of ammonia leaked. More details - in the material New terrorist act of the Russian Federation .

17:43 Germany donated eight Bandvagn BV206 all-terrain vehicles, two MAN HX81 tank tractors, 16 patrol vehicles, 14 Vector drones, three drone detection systems and 2,000 warheads for Gepard to Ukraine, the country's government said.

17:19 Putin and the President of South Africa discussed the African "peace initiative" on Ukraine, and agreed that the Russian President would receive a delegation of a number of African heads of state in the near future, the Kremlin said.

16:45 Ukraine appealed to the International Criminal Court in The Hague in connection with the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station , said adviser to the Prosecutor General Maxim Popov. According to him, Kyiv provided the ICC with primary information on the blowing up of the hydroelectric power station.

16:38 Due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 29 settlements are flooded, of which 19 are in the territory controlled by Ukraine, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said. According to him, during the night the water in Kherson rose by a meter, it is expected that it will arrive before the end of the day. 1854 people were evacuated, most of them from the Kherson microdistrict Korabel.

16:33 The European Union has activated a civil protection mechanism to provide assistance to Ukraine in connection with the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and is already sending the necessary equipment and machinery, the European Commission said. In particular, Germany will donate 5,000 water filters and 56 generators, Austria - 20 water containers and ten mud water pumps. In addition, Lithuania and Germany offered shelter equipment, including tents, beds and blankets.

16:02 Zelensky confirmed that he had a telephone conversation with Erdogan. In addition to the situation with the Kakhovskaya HPP, we discussed the return of illegally detained Ukrainians, in particular the Crimean Tatars, the extension and expansion of the grain initiative.

The office of the Turkish President also said that after talking with Zelensky, Erdogan spoke with Putin. They discussed the situation around the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Erdogan stressed the importance of a comprehensive investigation, "so that there are no doubts."

15:57 Danilov said that Russian troops blew up the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station on Putin's orders. This was done with the explosives that they planted back in September-October 2022. "The command for this terrorist act was given from the Kremlin, from Putin's office. Such instructions are not given at other levels. This is not the level of a battalion, division, this is not even the level of the situation related to Shoigu," the NSDC secretary is convinced.

According to him, the invaders blew up the dam because they expected a Ukrainian counteroffensive: “They are all waiting for our counteroffensive. Moreover, they raised the water level to the maximum. It was 18, 16 meters, they raised it more than 19 meters. create when blown up".

15:33 Erdogan had a telephone conversation with Zelensky, discussed the idea of ​​creating an international commission to investigate the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station, the office of the Turkish President reported. Erdogan proposed to include representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the UN and third countries, including Turkey, in the commission.

15:15 Russian troops on the left bank of the Kherson region retreated 5-15 km from the Dnieper after the destruction of the dam, said the speaker of OK Pivden Natalya Gumenyuk. She clarified that they began to withdraw troops a few days before the bombing: "Tracking the situation with the behavior of the enemy on the left bank, we can state that they are pulling back their units. They began their movement a few days before this terrorist attack."

14:48 The United States has enough funds to continue providing assistance to Ukraine until the end of the fiscal year, which ends in the fall, said the speaker of the National Security Council, John Kirby. He added that if the Biden administration needs additional funds, it will turn to Congress.

14:45 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in the Masyutovka area of ​​the Kharkiv region, the "Ukrainian DRG" allegedly blew up the Togliatti-Odessa ammonia pipeline, and now ammonia residues are being bled off. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that it would take one to three months to repair the ammonia pipeline.

14:41 The Swiss Senate approved an amendment to the law that allows the re-export of weapons to Ukraine. But the lower house of parliament had previously voted against it, and now it will have to consider this issue again.

14:19 Due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, 20 thousand consumers of the Kherson region remain without electricity, and 129 transformer substations are flooded in Kherson, the Ministry of Energy reported. The pumping station of the Kherson CHPP was also flooded, but the main capacities of the combined heat and power plant remain outside the risk zone. Besides, in the Nikolaev area as a result of a flood two solar power stations are flooded.

13:47 The New York Times interviewed several explosives experts and engineers and concluded that an explosion from the inside is the most likely cause of the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

13:30 A massive fish kill has already begun in the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the President's Office reported.

13:26 3382 shelters have already been checked in Kiev, which is 73% of the total fund. The vast majority of shelters remain without free access, said Alexander Kamyshin, Minister for Strategic Industries. At the same time, 35% of the checked shelters are not suitable for operation, 65% are "technically suitable", however, the list of comments on them remains significant.

13:18 In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian troops switched from defense to offensive and advanced from 200 to 1100 meters in different areas in a day, said Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar. According to her, the Russians in this direction went on the defensive, trying to hold their positions, pulling up reserves from the depths for protection. Wagnerites remain in the rear units, as of now, the regular army of the Russian Federation is conducting military operations, using air assault units.

Malyar explained that it was possible to keep the defense of the Bakhmut direction for so long and now it is possible to attack it, among other things, thanks to fortifications prepared in advance: "The whole area around is actually a fortified area. The fortification was prepared in advance by the forces of our troops and local military administrations. They were built thoroughly."

12:51 Evacuation on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region "completely failed by the occupiers", Ukraine will turn to international organizations, Zelensky said following a conference call, which considered, in particular, the situation with the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. The meeting also considered the interim results of the inspection of bomb shelters, "unfortunately, disappointing," the president added.

12:23 Ukraine is ready to consider applications for evacuation from the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, said Andrei Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to him, active hostilities and internal riots in the Russian region continue, the fighters of the Legion of Freedom of Russia, the Russian Volunteer Corps and part of the local residents actually perform the function of armed self-defense.

"Support for the rebels among the local population is growing. This applies both to those who expressed a desire to take part in the armed struggle against Putin, and to local residents who ask for protection," Yusov noted and added that Ukraine "in due course" will consider the appeals on the evacuation of civilians, if any.

12:02 The Russians have been preparing to undermine the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station for a long time, and the involvement of the Russian Federation in this terrorist attack unconditionally proves a number of public information, Andrey Yusov, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said: "Even if we look at the chronology of the reactions of propagandists, officials of the rashist regime regarding today's events, there you can see: at first nothing happens, then it happens, but partially, and then Ukraine is to blame, but the occupiers are very happy that the islands on which our defenders were supposedly based are flooded."

Yusov also drew attention to the chaotic reaction of Russian propaganda to the blowing up of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station and emphasized that, given the engineering features of the structure, no one except the Russians had the physical ability and means to carry out such a large-scale explosion.

"Ukraine has informed publicly, as well as partners through other channels, that mining is being prepared and a possible explosion. This is not a spontaneous act, this is a terrorist attack that has been preparing for a very long time," he said. Yusov also added that the Security and Defense Forces were preparing for various options for actions by the Russians, including the blowing up of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

11:48 Sources of The Washington Post in the White House also confirm the information about the beginning of the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In particular, on Monday, June 5, attacks began on the south in several directions, which were probably quite successful. According to sources, Ukrainian units broke through heavily mined areas and advanced 5-10 km in some areas. US officials believe that the main goal of Ukrainian strikes is to cut the land corridor to Crimea. Ukraine also has successes near Bakhmut.

11:24 Maxar showed new satellite images of the Kherson region, which show the scale of destruction due to the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.

10:50 At the bottom of the Kakhovskaya HPP, there could be many substances hazardous to health: chemicals, pathogens from cemeteries, toilets, garbage dumps can end up in wells and open water, warns the Ministry of Health. Also, in the next 3-5 days in Kherson and in the flooded areas of the Zaporozhye region, due to the rapid drop in the water level, there will be a pestilence of fish - it is strictly forbidden to eat it, since there is a risk of getting botulism.

The Ministry of Health urges residents of the affected territories to drink only bottled or imported water, and to take water for cooking and household needs only from trusted sources, which are not a river, a well and a pipeline with technical water. Fruits and vegetables should also be washed with clean water. In addition, it is necessary to refuse products flooded with water - even conservation. All products must be heat treated. Clothing that has been contaminated during flooding should not be worn without first washing and disinfecting.

10:43 As a result of the explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the supply of water to Crimea in the near future will become physically impossible, Danilov said: "The act that Russia has committed will soon exclude the possibility of supplying water to Crimea from the word" completely ". In the next three, five , ten years, until this dam is rebuilt, the supply of water to Crimea will simply be physically impossible."

10:32 The West is seeing signs of a Ukrainian counter-offensive, a senior NATO source told CNN. So, according to him, Ukraine in the past few days not only attacked in the south of the Donetsk region, but also carried out "several notable operations and reconnaissance in the southeastern region of the Zaporizhia region, between Kherson and the ZNPP."

Also, a “significant increase in hostilities” is noticeable in eastern Ukraine, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the help of ground attacks and artillery strikes, began to probe for weaknesses in the Russian defense.

09:48 The construction of a new station on the site of the destroyed Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station will take at least five years and about $ 1 billion, said the head of Ukrhydroenergo Ihor Syrota. According to him, after the de-occupation of Kakhovka, the company expects to build a temporary dam in a month and fill the Kakhovka reservoir. The explosion of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station destroyed the irrigation system of the Kherson region, which covered about 500,000 hectares. It will be possible to restore this system only after the construction of the hydroelectric power station.

09:24 At night and in the morning, the Russians fired four times at the border of the Sumy region. In the Yunakov community, a Shahed-type UAV hit a fire in a private house, killing two people and injuring one, the IVA reported.

08:56 In the Bakhmut direction, the Defense Forces continue to move forward on the flanks, the enemy is losing positions near Bakhmut, Syrsky said.

08:40 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two people were killed (in Torsk and Severny). In the Kherson region, one person died and another was injured, according to the IVA.

08:27 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of June 7. In particular, a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was destroyed yesterday.

  • personnel - about 212,030 (+880) people liquidated,

  • tanks - 3873 (+13),

  • armored combat vehicles - 7560 (+17),

  • artillery systems - 3640 (+37),

  • MLRS - 594 (+4),

  • air defense systems - 352 (+1),

  • aircraft - 314 (+1),

  • helicopters - 299 (+0),

  • UAV operational-tactical level - 3219 (+7),

  • cruise missiles - 1171 (+0),

  • ships/boats - 18 (+0),

  • automotive equipment and tankers - 6349 (+17),

  • special equipment - 492 (+3).

08:14 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to completely occupy the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Over the past day, there have been more than 30 combat clashes, the General Staff said in the morning summary. In particular, the Defense Forces repulsed all 13 enemy attacks in the Marinka area.

08:00 The "mayor" of the occupied Nova Kakhovka reported that, according to preliminary data, seven people were missing in the vicinity of the city after the explosion of the hydroelectric power station. According to him, the water level began to decline.

07:58 The intensity of flooding in the Kherson region is decreasing, but due to the significant destruction of the dam, water is still coming, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin. According to his forecasts, the water level will increase by about a meter over the next 20 hours. This night, the Belozersk community began to be flooded, to which the water had not yet reached yesterday. As of morning, 1852 houses were flooded in the right-bank Kherson region. 1,457 people were evacuated, 1,286 of them from the Korabel microdistrict.

07:21 As a result of undermining the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, bridges in the Snigirevsky district of the Nikolaev region were destroyed and flooded, the head of the Snigirevsky GVA Ivan Kukhta said. According to him, the bridge in the village of Elizavetovka was destroyed, and in the village of Galaganovka it was completely flooded. The community is evacuating residents of three houses.

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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief June 7th (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:16 Also reported about Geraniums flying towards the Dnepropetrovsk region.

23:14 Ukrainian TG channels report about the explosions in Zaporozhye (occupied by the Armed Forces of Ukraine).

22:59 Explosions in the Kharkov region.

22:50 Above the Zaporozhye region works "Geranium".

22:37 Again explosions in the Kharkov region.

22:34 Ukrainian TG channels report about explosions in Chuguev, Kharkiv region.

22:22 Summary of today's "offensive":

1) The beginning of the movement was noticed at 10:53 in the Orekhovskoye direction.

2) The enemy suffered losses in the amount of approximately 180 manpower, up to nine tanks and seven armored personnel carriers.

3) Used kamikaze drones - unsuccessfully.

4) At the time of the evacuation of the wounded at approximately 16:32, it was eliminated by the ATGM crew.

5) During the massive advance of the enemy infantry in the area of ​​​​Stepovoye - Pyatikhatki, it was destroyed by artillery forces.

6) In the area of ​​​​Tokmachka, the tank and infantry of the enemy were blown up by mines.


21:59 Russian drone finishes off abandoned APU equipment

An aircraft drops ammunition on Ukrainian armored vehicles abandoned in the area of ​​Opytnoye near Donetsk. As a result of a strike from a drone, an enemy BMP-2 was destroyed.

20:19 Job TOS-1A in Marinka

19:28 Another armored Canadian-made Roshel Senator vehicle successfully demilitarized by gunners of the RF Armed Forces

18:41 Aviation of the RF Armed Forces destroyed the location of the equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the village of Chervona Krinitsa in the Zaporozhye direction

17:36 Russian fighters destroyed dozens of pieces of equipment at Novodonetsk

The Ukrainian army involved quite large forces in the attack on the Yuzhnodonets direction. Dozens of armored vehicles supplied from NATO countries were thrown into the battle, including French AMX-10RC wheeled tanks.

The enemy attack was repulsed by the OBTF "Cascade" fighters. A key role was played by artillery, whose fire was adjusted using ZALA drones.

16:55 regular tanks APU abandoned by the crews near Tavolzhanka. A group of Ukrainian militants tried to get to them for evacuation and was destroyed. The tanks were finished off by the Russian military from RPGs.

15:55 Highlights from the new briefing of the Russian Defense Ministry:

🔹The "southern" grouping of Russian troops repulsed eight attempts to attack the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including on the western outskirts of Artyomovsk and in the Kleshcheevka area.

🔹In the Novoselovskoye region (LPR), the activities of three Ukrainian DRGs were stopped. During the day, over 50 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, two vehicles, as well as a Paladin self-propelled artillery mount were destroyed in this direction.

🔹A Su-27 fighter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was shot down by means of air defense in the area of ​​Nikiforovka (DPR). A MiG-29 was shot down in the Zaporozhye region.

🔹Two fuel depots of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed near Avdiivka (DPR).

🔹During the day, 24 missile defense systems HIMARS, Uragan and Alder were intercepted, and 22 Ukrainian drones were destroyed.

🔹In the Kherson direction, up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen, five armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, the American M777 artillery system, the 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount, and the 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed.

🔹Command and observation posts of the 67th Mechanized and 44th Artillery brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit in the areas of the settlements of Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR) and Novoivanovka in the Zaporozhye region.


14:36 ​​The Armed Forces of Ukraine, having not achieved the goals of the offensive and having suffered significant losses in the South-Donetsk direction, tried to break through the defense in the Artemivsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

Eight attempts of the offensive of the Ukrainian detachments were successfully repelled, the enemy did not achieve its goal, wedged into the defense was not allowed, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in this direction amounted to 415 soldiers, the ministry said.

13:28 The enemy lost US equipment in the attack on the Zaporozhye Front and retreated
▪Having started offensive actions around 10:30 am, the armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced in the direction of Lobkove.

▪ Soon the first two American armored vehicles were blown up in a minefield, the armored group stopped and began to crawl back under artillery fire.

▪Two units of armored vehicles were abandoned in a minefield, the rest crawled away, artillery continues to work in the area of ​​​​their base.

The enemy continues to clear minefields with their bodies and NATO armored vehicles.


12:17 Armed forces of Ukraine with the help of UAVs attacked the city of Nova Kakhovka during the evacuation of citizens - the head of Nova Kakhovka Leontiev

“Yesterday, it was especially cynical and blasphemous that those people who took out citizens were attacked by a drone, an improvised explosive device was dropped,” the head of the city administration said.

12:17 Personnel combat work of the crews of T-80BV ZVO tanks at the forefront in the Kupyansk direction

11:56 Another tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine bred out of service.

11:55 An alarm is reported throughout Ukraine. Departure of Russian MiG-31s ​​with "Daggers".

11:55 Shebekino again under fire, new arrivals

11:30 Another one, visited splinters, a car of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the NWO

11:29 Personnel detention of a Primorye who was spying for Ukraine

It was established that he passed information about Russian facilities to Ukrainian intelligence.

A criminal case has been initiated against the man under Art. 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (treason). He faces up to 20 years in prison.

10:30 As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the island zone, the following were destroyed:

- two enemy boats, seven servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, two were injured of varying severity in the area of ​​the village of Kizomys;

- three enemy boats in the area of ​​Veliky Island;

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the village of Stanislav, losses: 5 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; 3 - received injuries of varying severity;

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Solonchaki, losses: eight servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; two - received injuries of varying severity.

As a result of fire damage by the formations of the Dnepr grouping of troops in the Kherson direction, the following were destroyed:

- eight enemy boats, 16 AFU servicemen were destroyed, four were injured of varying severity in the area;

- the place of temporary deployment of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the settlement. Priozernoye, losses: 5 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed; two - received injuries of varying severity, two units. automotive equipment - disabled.

- 122mm ACS 2S1 "Gvozdika" with a crew of five people and ammunition;
five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, six were injured of varying severity.

- M777 howitzer with ammunition in the area of ​​Chervonnaya Zorka settlement, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, three were injured of varying severity.

As a result of fire damage by formations of the Dnepr group of troops in the Kakhovka direction, the following were destroyed:

- the position of one of the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, losses: eight servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed; three - received injuries of varying severity;

- four 120 mm mortar crews and ammunition for it, nine servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, six were injured of varying severity;

- 122mm D-30 howitzer with ammunition, losses: four servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, two were injured of varying severity;

- 152mm MSTA-B howitzer with ammunition, losses: three servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, four were injured of varying severity.


09:50 In Ukraine, mercenaries from Taiwan began to “flicker” more and more often

09:17 APU dropped two explosive devices on an electrical substation in the Kursk region, there is a victim.

Governor Roman Starovoit said that due to the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there is now no electricity in Popovo-Lezhachi and Tetkino. He also noted that when the demining teams finish their work again, the repair teams will continue to restore power supply.

“During the restoration of power supply, one of the workers received shrapnel wounds. He is in the central district hospital, doctors are providing him with all the necessary assistance,” the governor said.

08:57 Servicemen of the 88th Brigade of the Southern Group of Forces in the Seversk direction with the help of a strike UAV destroy the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -video.

08:20 Russian Ministry of Defense publishes frames of combat work of the crews of T-80BV tanks of the Western Military District at the forefront in the Kupyansk direction.

08:07 Near Artemovsk eliminated commander of the grenade launcher squad of the mountain assault company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolai Mayorchak. Originally from the Lviv region

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#1  Ouch. Being a traitor is not safe anymore in Ukraine:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1666821013169111041/photo/1

Russians firing on areas with rescue workers and 0 military, who would have imagined such? Surely not the wannabe Russians here?
https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1666819872246857728

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1666820919023792129

Why is anyone loyal to a state that acts like this? At least the US government tries to fake concern:

https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1666820162056785920

Kiss ass or leave!
https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1666813709774372869
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Actual information about the situation on the front line: June 7 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFrontInfo] 22:20 UndershellingUkrainian militants in the village of Maksimilyanovka in the city of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155 mm were fired.

21:09 Ukrainian troops tried to break through the defense line in the DPR using a large amount of equipment, but the Russian units were ready and successfully repelled the attack, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

19:43 Donetsk and Makeevka are under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, 11 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

19:17 Statement of head of the press center of the group "South":

During the day, the enemy launched eight attacks in the direction of the defensive positions of the "Southern" group of troops. The sabotage and assault groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reinforced with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, were stopped by the fire of artillery and anti-tank weapons of the group.

As a result, with heavy losses, the enemy was forced to retreat. The group's aviation attacked the strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Vesyoloye, Belogorovka, Krasnoye, Bogdanovka and Avdievka.

As part of the counterbattery fight, artillery crews of the formations of the Southern Military District destroyed an enemy self-propelled gun and two 120mm mortars of the enemy in the Seversk area, a tank in the Razdolovka area, two infantry fighting vehicles and a tank in the area of the settlement of Druzhba, a 122mm D-30 artillery gun at the position of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in near Yasnobrodovka and two 152mm D-20 howitzers in Krasnogorovka.

The crew of the Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system of the radiation chemical and biological defense unit of the Southern Military District destroyed the platoon stronghold of the 79th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Maryinka area.

18:26 On the Orekhov-Tokmak highwaystoppedoffensive of the Armed Forces. After our troops struck with artillery at the advancing enemy infantry with the support of infantry fighting vehicles, he rolled back. At the same time, their mortar was destroyed with an accurate blow.


18:17 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

18:00 The Orekhov-Tokmak highway: the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to advance.

Project Sourceswargonzothey report that now, on both sides along the Orekhov-Tokmak highway, attempts by the enemy are again being made to attack the infantry. So far, without the support of armored vehicles. At the same time, the rumble of armored vehicles is heard not far from this route. In addition, the enemy is conducting a massive artillery arrack of 122mm BM-21 "Grads".

18:00 Ukrainian punishers attacked the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka. Enemy rounds exploded in the immediate vicinity of the TES furniture factory. This was announced by the mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko.

17:47 Fixation of consequences of the artillery arrack of the Kievsky district of Donetsk on 06/07/2023

Specialists of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC confirmed the artillery arrack of the Kievsky district, and also specified the direction of firing and the weapons used. Yasnobrodovka, from 122mm MLRS BM-21 Grad.

17:23 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kyiv district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

17:20 Summaryaccording to the situation at the front, Zaporozhye direction.

The enemy used the forces of four brigades of the 10th Army Corps for offensive operations in the direction of Orekhov - Tokmak - Melitopol. Composition: 115, 116, 117, 118 OMBR.

In total: up to 20,000 people, up to 90 tanks, up to 180 AFVs, up to 120 MLRS, up to 80 field artillery guns and mortars. The goal of the enemy: a rapid breakthrough to the south and the blocking of Melitopol from the north.

The plans of the enemy are also known in advance, the calculation of the factor of surprise did not materialize, and this time, a warm welcome is provided.


17:15 On the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for June 7, as of 17:00, additional information was received about the damage as a result of the artillery arrack of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:

Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): - st. Abakumova, 51 - apartment building.

n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): - st. Stozhka, 115 - an apartment building.

16:23 Zaporozhye. The attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the side of Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka was repelled.

Project Sources wargonzo reported that this afternoon, simultaneously from two directions - from Orekhov and Malaya Tokmachka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attempted an offensive.

It is reliably known about the destruction of one tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Digging. In addition, to the south of Malaya Tokmachka, Russian Aerospace Forces helicopters destroyed several enemy armored vehicles, after which it rolled back, possibly to regroup.

16:12 In the Kherson region, 36 settlements were flooded due to damage to the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station - the acting governor of Saldo.

16:02 The Zaporozhye direction of Belogornya and Novopokrovka, having received a rebuff from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stopped offensive operations. Western equipment is on fire, 200 and 300 Ukrainian fighters are being evacuated.

15:48 Under fire from Ukrainian militants, the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

15:35 Summaryfrom the Zaporozhye front:

This morning, the enemy fired from hailstones at the settlement of Pyatikhatki, in parallel with this, he unleashed a flurry of fire, including with the use of aircraft at the settlement of Lobkovoe.

Our fighters, using the advantage of the terrain and the maneuverability of the defense, launched the enemy on vehicles (up to four combat vehicles) into Lobkove and defeated them from ATGMs and artillery.

Only one Nazi car managed to escape. The rest were destroyed. Having suffered losses in the amount of at least 15 militants, the Armed Forces of Ukraine retreated to their original positions.

15:25 AFU fired at Tavriysk in the Kherson region. Ukrainian artillery hit the outskirts of Tavriysk, where there are fields with strawberries. Ordinary hard workers worked there -video.

15:10 Consequences of the artillery arrack of the Kyiv region of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants

14:48 Under the fire of the VFU, the Gorlovsky village of the mine named after. Gagarin, said Gorlovka Mayor Ivan Prikhodko.

14:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine, having failed to achieve the goals of the offensive and having suffered significant losses in the Yuzhno-Donets direction, tried to break through the defenses in the Artemovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.

Eight offensive attempts by Ukrainian detachments were successfully repelled, the enemy did not achieve the goal, wedged into the defense was not allowed, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine per day in this direction amounted to 415 soldiers, the ministry said.

14:17 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for June 7, as of 14:00, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery arrack of the VFU cities of the Republic:

Donetsk:

Petrovsky district: - infrastructure of the Construction and installation company "Donstroymontazh" on the street. Revyakin.

Kyiv district:

- st. Putilovskaya, 12 - a direct hit in a private residential building;

- st. Putilovskaya, 10 - ignition of a private residential building.

n.p. Gorlovka (Central City District): - st. Karpinsky, 25, 38 - private residential buildings, power lines were also damaged.

14:10 Orekhovsky area situationas of 14.00 June 7, 2023:
Today, around 10 am, two assault groups of the 128th Guards Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on several M113 armored personnel carriers and two HMMMV armored vehicles conducted reconnaissance in battle near Lobkove, southwest of Orekhovo.

As a result of the ensuing battle with the support of artillery, the Ukrainian formations lost at least one armored combat vehicle, as well as more than a dozen people. The rest of the enemy units rolled back to their original lines.

A couple of hours later, the Armed Forces attacked the positions in Lobkove again. This time, the assault group was covered by two tanks that entered the village from the north side. Now there is a fight going on in the village.

In addition, separate formations of the enemy went down to the Zherebyanki settlement, trying to squeeze the Russian troops out of the two villages. At the moment, the clashes continue.

At the same time, accumulations of APU were noted in Kamenskoye and southeast of it. Most likely, the Ukrainian command keeps them as a reserve, ready to advance to support or consolidate on the borders.

13:59 Aleksandrovka is under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

13:25 About 600 houses are flooded in Novaya Kakhovka. “The water level in Novaya Kakhovka has dropped to 60 centimeters from the peak after the emergency at the hydroelectric power station, but water is coming downstream of the Dnieper,” said Vladimir Leontyev, head of the Novokakhovskaya VGA.

13:10 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, 19 rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

12:45 Fighting is going on in the Zaporozhye direction. APU attacks are not successful.

Pubic and Foal. One Ukrainian attack was repulsed, our guys knocked out enemy equipment.

Now the second attack has begun. Again the Armed Forces are throwing forward their armor. There is something and someone to beat her. This occurs east of the Kakhovka reservoir. The enemy "climbs", if in a straight line, towards Melitopol.

The line of defense there is multi-layered, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no prospects. But the guys who are now fighting in Lobkove and Zherebyanki are not even allowed to enter the advanced trenches of the enemy.

12:28 The peak of the water rise in the city of Alyoshki, Kherson region, after the damage to the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, is expected in the coming hours, the authorities report.

12:27 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Kyiv district of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, five rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

12:06 Molochansk in the Zaporozhye region under fire from the APU militants. Today at about 9.00 Ukrainian Nazis shelled the city of Molochansk. Arrivals were recorded on the territory of the foundry shop of the plant. Previously, the artillery arrack was carried out from the HIMARS MLRS. According to the information available at the moment, two people were injured.

12:05 It is reported that the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the village of Lobkove (Zaporozhye region) has been repelled.

12:00 According to the operational lines of the JCCC DPR for June 7, as of 12:00, information was received about damage as a result of artillery arrack of the VFU of the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Alexandrovka: - st. School, 105 - a direct hit in a private residential building; completely destroyed.

n.p. Gorlovka (Central City District): - st. Karpinsky, 41, 43 - private residential buildings, the car was also damaged.

11:52 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

11:48 Enemy 128th brigade began assault operations in the Kamensky direction, they had been preparing for this for a long time, their dream was to reach Vasilyevka.

Thanks to aerial reconnaissance, in Kamenskoye (where the brigade was staying), a lot of equipment, observation posts, warehouses with BC were destroyed on the ground. At the moment, the enemy was trying to break through using NATO equipment (so far in small quantities). Thanks to our reconnaissance, the enemy was discovered in time. Looks like they've beaten the wave. The forecast is made for June 12, they can go in large numbers. They have been preparing for this for over a month.

11:32 The attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine south of Avdievka was repulsed, Experimental and Vodyanoye are under the control of the RF Armed Forces.

Combat aircraft and AA were used to destroy enemy artillery crews. For infantry scattered in forest plantations, they worked out TOSs. The fighting is between Avdeevka and the village of Severnoye.

11:30 Enemy on US armored vehicles launched an attack on the Zaporozhye Front: the battle is on

- Armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and up to the assault company of infantry attacks in the direction of Lobkove - Pyatikhatka.

- NATO armored vehicles, four armored personnel carriers/infantry fighting vehicles of the M113 type, two tanks and Hummers left.

- Part of the equipment was blown up by mines, artillery hits the rest.


11:17 Under fire from Ukrainian militants Gorlovka (Central City district). According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 152mm were fired.

11:05 The enemy has been artillery arrack the Zaporozhye region since the morning: explosions thundered in the village of Mirny north of Melitopol and in the city of Tokmak not far from the line of clashes. The nature of the damage, as well as the number of victims, is still unknown.

11:03 Zaporozhye Front, Orekhovskoe direction: enemy infantry went into battle. Behind her - six combat armored vehicles and one tank.

10:40 Ukrainian militants fired 10 rockets from the MLRS to the Kyiv region of Donetsk - DPR JCCC.

10:35 Zaporizhia direction on 07.06: Enemy movement is activated from the side of Orekhov settlement. The number of aerial reconnaissance of the enemy, compared with that year, increased several times. Russian fighters are working on the enemy with mortars and artillery. The situation in the direction under complete control.

10:30 Statement of head of the press center of the Vostok group:

In the South-Donetsk direction, advanced units of the Vostok group, with the support of artillery and aviation, inflict fire damage on the enemy, who is trying to conduct active operations. The enemy advance is successfully contained. Anti-aircraft gunners of motorized rifle units shot down a Mi-24 helicopter of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The calculations of the Osa and Tor anti-aircraft missile systems shot down six Fury unmanned aerial vehicles and one Valkyrie.

In the Zaporozhye direction, howitzer artillery fire hit strongholds in Nesteryanka, Kamensky and Novoandreevka, destroyed manpower at a temporary deployment point in the Malye Shcherbaki area, and manpower at militant positions in the Chervona Krinitsa area.

During the counterbattery fight, an American-made M777 howitzer was opened and destroyed by artillery fire in the Novoandreevka area. Anti-aircraft gunners shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Energodar. Anti-aircraft missile systems "Tor" and "Strela-10" shot down two unmanned aerial vehicles "Furia" and "Leleka".


10:18 The latest information from "Dnepr": the struggle for survivability in the flooded areas continues. Activities for the evacuation of the population are carried out by units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, under the cover of the troops of the Dnepr group. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to interfere in various ways, conducting reconnaissance from quadrocopters, vilely firing from small arms.

At the Kakhovka reservoir, the water level dropped by two meters. The rise of water in various areas in the floodplain of the Dnieper ranges from two to eight meters. The water level in the flood zone slowly began to decline.

09:55 Exclusive frames of battles near Novodarovka.

Destruction of enemy armored vehicles by fighters of 127 Motor Rifle Division 5A during the recent “successful” enemy assault operations, this time in the Zaporozhye region. In these objective control footage, at least 11 enemy armored vehicles, along with their crews, are sent to Valhalla.

Fighting on the Vremevsky ledge continues. Far Eastern warriors effectively hold back the enemy, forcing him to pay a bloody price for every meter of advance.

09:16 As a result of damage to the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, about 2,700 houses were flooded and almost 1,300 thousand people were evacuated. Emergency mode introduced in Kherson region - emergency services

09:15 The representative office of the DPR in the SCCC reports 43 facts of firing by the AFU over the past day.

Ukrainian nationalists fired from MLRS, 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 285 different types of ammunition across the territory of the Republic.

Gorlovka (Central City, Kalininsky, Nikitovsky districts), Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky, Kievsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district), Staromikhaylovka, Yelenovka, Dokuchaevsk, Olginka and Urozhaynoye were under fire from the VFU.

Also, over the past day, information was received about the injury of four people in the Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, Staromikhaylovka and Urozhayny.

A total of 14 residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, Chervonogvardeysky district of Makeevka, Tsentralno-Gorodsky and Nikitovsky districts of Gorlovka, as well as two civilian infrastructure facilities.

09:10 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:

-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka fired seven rounds;

-- Eight rounds were fired at the settlement of Podstepnoye;

-- Seven rounds were fired at the village of Podlesnoye;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery fired 14 rounds;

-- n.p. Aleshki fired seven rounds;

-- n.p. Dneper fired six rounds;

-- n.p. Cairo fired nine rounds.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Kakhovka, Vasilievka settlement, Gornostaevka settlement, Rayskoe settlement, Sergeevka settlement, firing a total of 34 cannon artillery rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.

08:49 Russian military groups "South" recorded eight enemy attacks.

Enemy sabotage and assault groups, reinforced with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, launched eight attacks in the direction of the defensive positions of the South grouping. The Armed Forces of Ukraine were stopped by artillery and anti-tank weapons, as a result of which they suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat.

In addition, Russian aircraft attacked strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlements of Veseleye, Belogorovka, Krasnoe, Bogdanovka and Avdievka.

08:37 Explosions sounded in Melitopol, according to preliminary data, the air defense system worked, said the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

08:20 The village of Korsunka completely went under water after the damage to the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station

08:16 Information on the artillery arrack of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on 06/07/2023

08:10 Frontline summary on the morning of 06/07/2023:

Russian artillery was actively working in the Zaporozhye direction. Under artillery arrack positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kamensky, Stepnoy, Shcherbaki, Preobrazhenka, Novodanilovka, Malaya Tokmachka, Belogorye, Charovny, Gulyaipolsky, Zheleznodorozhny, Gulyaypole, Malinovka, Poltavka, Olgovsky and Temirovka. The Ukrainian army struck at Tokmok.

At the Uglidar sector, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continued their assault operations in the area of Novodonetsk. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the locations of Ukrainian troops in Vremevka, Bolshaya Novosyolka, Prechistovka, Novoukrainka and Vugledar.

On the Donetsk front, the Ukrainian army counterattacked near Nevelskoy and managed to take new lines on the hill. Russian troops were noted for the dense work of artillery and aviation. Under the blows were units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Novomikhailovka, Pobeda, Nevelsky, Pervomaisky, Karlovka, Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka), Avdievka, Lastochkino, Novokalinovo, New York and Toretsk. The Ukrainian army hit Mariupol, Donetsk and Gorlovka.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted assault operations in the Kleshcheevka area. And with the support of artillery - on the southwestern outskirts of Bakhmut. No advance. Russian troops shelled Ukrainian positions in Belaya Gora, Stupochki, Ivanovsky, Chasovy Yar, Khromovo, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Rozdolovka, Spornoye and Verkhnekamensky.


08:09 Seven people, according to preliminary data, went missing in the vicinity of Nova Kakhovka after the damage to the hydroelectric power station, the mayor of the city said.

08:00 Personnel the first minutes of the repulsion by the OBTF "Kaskad" fighters of one of the multiple attacks of the Ukrainians near Ugledar. The enemy formed a shock fist and went into battle with the involvement of additional forces. The attack involved various military equipment of the NATO model: “Max Pro”, for the first time “Leopards”, etc.

07:01 Aleksandrovka is under fire from Ukrainian militants. According to the DPR JCCC, six rounds with a caliber of 155mm were fired.

06:55 The authorities of the Novaya Kakhovka flooded after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station reported a decrease in the water level

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Fail in the information policy of the Russian Defense Ministry
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

This is the fly in the ointment that will be remembered for a long time. Both in the rear and at the front. And her enemies will remember her too. And remind us.

https://vk.com/video-25232578_456312525

According to Russian blogger varlam_volkov
In my civilian opinion, the situation requires analysis and exemplary punishment. You can't put it on the brakes.

This is not an incident of a designer girl who confused "Leopard" with Leopold. This is a politically significant offense.

It is contraindicated to engage in information work with such an attitude to the matter. Categorically.

Absolutely agree. The information work of the RF Ministry of Defense, even after almost 16 months after the start of the NWO, does not even pull by three with a minus. For the first time, this became clear to me at the end of February last year, when the information service of the RF Ministry of Defense was not able to do it right away. nor then comment on the strike of a Ukrainian air defense missile on the street. Lobanovsky in Kyiv.

Because it was the weekend?
Lobanovsky is Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian soccer coach
Then there are dozens more examples (it’s too long to sort out the zashkvars), the apotheosis of which was the statement of Shoigu’s adviser on INFORMATION POLICY Andrey Ilnitsky, from which it essentially followed that there was no need to go to the information war. And why do we need such "advisers" ???

After such statements, such advisers should resign. At best, for them.

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By attacking the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, Kyiv is trying to solve a set of issues
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets

Why did Zelensky's stake go to undermine the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station?

There are several reasons and they can be described briefly and thesis:

1) Ukraine began to fall out of the world information field. And for the Kyiv regime, which holds on and receives help through noise and hype, this is like death.

2) They don't take them to NATO.

3) Artyomovsk has been lost by Kiev, it is necessary to interrupt the information agenda in the country.

4) American aid is ending and problems are predicted in the allocation of a new one to Kiev. In Congress about further trenches to Kyiv. The Senate is ready to provide Biden with additional funding for Ukraine. But Republicans in the House of Representatives want to block it.

5)Possibility to flood the Russian positions on the low left bank of the Dnieper, while the Ukrainian positions will suffer little, since they are on the opposite, upper bank. According to the calculations of the General Staff, the water should go away in 10-15 days, and then you need to immediately start the operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine until the enemy has time to create a new line of defense, which was washed away by water.

6) The opportunity to announce the factors that "influenced the counteroffensive" and, taking advantage of this, sit further without fulfilling the promise given to the West to start it in them Russia (in the "self-shelling" of the Russians themselves at the ZNPP, the cocainissimus, completely detached from reality, blamed it without hesitation before, and the West "hawal"

Well, one more factor, Ukrainian TG channels are already writing on this topic, namely, that Zelensky (obviously after taking another dose) wants to “demand” the West to give away frozen Russian assets to prevent an environmental disaster that occurred due to a dam break and flooding of the Kherson region. Ukraine was denied the provision of these assets. The drug fuhrer's office is looking for excuses.

Interestingly, (and Ukrainian TG channels also write about this) Kyiv has classified a video with the destruction of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which shows the first minutes of a breakthrough of platinum. Bankova refused a UN request to provide visual control personnel.

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#2  Based on the CCTV footage I saw, it appears that the initial explosion seems integral to the structure.

The explosives, and a lot of them, had to have been placed down low and internally for that to happen. I don't believe any conventional field weaponry (including drones, MLRS and/or cruise missiles) that either Ukraine or Russia are using right now could pack enough punch to penetrate an earthen dam enough to cause this.

I do know that Ukraine damaged the roadway over a small sluice channel north of this new breach previously with a HIMARS, but this explosion is well beyond what those are capable of.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/08/2023 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Curious underwater infrastructure targeting, like the pipeline.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2023 9:08 Comments || Top||


#5  Yeah, but without the pipe pigs, Skid.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/08/2023 9:54 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2023 10:02 Comments || Top||

#7  ^^ 617 Squadron with their Lancasters.

Operation 'Chastise'. Great story.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/08/2023 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8 
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 06/08/2023 13:52 Comments || Top||


Russian General Teplinskiy at the front
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] The general has dropped out of the media agenda in recent months due to the enormous amount of work he has been doing to improve the stability of our military formations, including in the Zaporozhye direction. The successful repulse of the enemy offensive on the Vremievsky ledge, including his personal merit.

Why did the commander of the Airborne Forces disappear again? We are answering a question that has long been of concern to readers of the “front-line” Telegram channels.

The commander of the Airborne Forces, Hero of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Teplinskiy, unlike other main persons of the NVO, is a man deliberately avoiding publicity, who does not speak, but does. Having become the most successful commander of the 2022 campaign, in January Teplinskiy was unexpectedly sent on a 3-month vacation, the reason for which neither he nor the Ministry of Defense explained.

But judging by the fact that a replacement was already ready for the general, the only reason for his “exile” could be a conflict with the leadership. They say that the further fate of the successful, but not embarrassed in the interests of the case, contradicting the authorities of the general was decided not on Frunzenskaya, but even higher.

As a result, on March 30, com. Airborne withdrawn from vacation and sent to the front. But where exactly and in what capacity? After all, divisions and brigades of the Airborne Forces during his absence were parted in different groups and directions.

The paratroopers covered the flanks of Bakhmut, fought near Kremennaya, burned the enemy with "Lancets" in the Kherson region, but the commander, who was used to seeing on the front, in positions, was not noticed either there or there. And having recorded a video message to the Ryazan graduates (April 29) and awarded the military personnel 83 Separate Air Assault Brigade (May 2), Teplinskiy again disappeared from the Telegram space. So where was Mikhail Yurievich all this time?

It turned out - all in the same place, on the front and in the trenches. Only no longer landing.

Immediately upon arrival in Rostov-on-Don, Teplinsky was appointed deputy commander of the OGV (c) for military operations, and from April to this day he has been continuously “plowing” the line of contact. They say that the results of the first checks by Teplinsky of the Vostok and Dnepr groups impressed the NGSh so much that he “registered” him in the alleged direction of the enemy’s main attack with the task of assisting in organizing the defense. Who is lucky, as they say, and bring down.

Having revealed by mid-April a lot of shortcomings in the organization of combat formation along the entire length of the LBS - from Ugledar to the Dnieper, Teplinskiy not only indicated to commanders on the ground where to lay a minefield, where to place ATGMs, where - an anti-tank reserve, where to transfer personnel from the second trenches - in the first, but also conducted daily classes with officers. Of course, while still managing to manage the airborne forces entrusted to him via communications.

By the way, an episode of this two-month "field plowing" hit TV. And it seemed to the author of these lines that when Vladimir Putin listened to Teplinsky's report on the state of affairs in our battle formations on April 18, in the eyes of the Supreme Commander one could read obvious satisfaction with the work of the general he had returned to service.

They say that Teplinskiy then informed the Supreme Commander of the real state of affairs: in the event of an offensive, the enemy would break through our defenses ...

Coincidence or not, but a day later a minister with a retinue of deputies flew to the headquarters of the OGV (s). At the same time, shortly before Teplinsky, another of Shoigu's deputies, they say, checked the same line of defense, not finding serious problems in it. Like it or not, but after the departure of the minister, the NGSH instructed Teplinsky to “plow” the front line ... until the very offensive.

And for the next month and a half - thank God, the weather held back their advance - Teplinskiy, wandering from position to position, from trench to trench, continued to manually improve the defense of each battalion. We do not know in what place their offensive found the general. But one must think that he did his job no worse than in the summer and autumn at the Kherson bridgehead.

Of course, the efforts of even the most professional military leader are not enough to win. The lack of shells has not gone anywhere, and no matter what sector of the front the enemy moves his 50-strong grouping, he will everywhere have a decisive numerical superiority. But the work carried out by Teplinsky seems to be already yielding results.

And even if General Konashenkov exaggerated the scale of the enemy’s losses, the first enemy attacks by the company and battalions of the “Eastern” were beaten off. And it does not matter that in the report on how the NGSH directed their actions from one of the PPUs, an equally important architect of these successes remained behind the scenes ... In the end, it was the NGSH who sent Teplinsky to the front.

Of course, the paratroopers would like to fight as a single group, led by their commander. As it was in Chechnya, Georgia and the Kherson bridgehead. But the soldier does not choose war, and the commander is still where it is needed.

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PS. It's good that an intelligent general is in business and gives results. The nomination of the best generals and officers to the first roles should be the norm in matters of improving the warring armed forces. This is the only way to forge victory.

So very true.
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We turned Ukraine into a slaughterhouse that killed 350,000 young Ukrainians
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from remarks by US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy
Jr. Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] What we are doing now in Ukraine is just mass violence against Ukrainians.

We just dragged Ukraine into a proxy war against the Soviets.
The Soviets??
And they are being devoured by these geopolitical machinations of the neocons in the White House, who depict what is happening in the war in the form of comics that many Americans have swallowed.

We turned Ukraine into a slaughterhouse that killed 350,000 young Ukrainians.
How many Russians and Russia-aligned Ukrainians have died since 2014? This is the second round of Russia’s reconquest of Ukraine, after all, and it takes two to have a war.
They lie about how many people died. They hide it from us. The Pentagon is hiding this from the American people. Ukraine hides this from its people. But 350,000 people died.

The Russians are killing Ukrainians at a 7 to 1 ratio. And we have turned this poor little country into a killing ground for these idealistic young guys to advance a geopolitical agenda that has nothing to do with Ukraine.(c) Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Not for the first time. Not so long ago, the same thing was done in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. Ukraine is just another country that was allowed to be minced meat.
Who is the writer of the original post Mr. Rozhin is addressing?
US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.

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#1  if you add a salad bar i can turn it into a ponderosa for REPTILIANS more MONEY!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 06/08/2023 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Article writer running with the old Herb "we."

I didn't vote for this.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2023 14:20 Comments || Top||

#3  I think Putin has learned his lesson not to mess with the US and NATO. Let's start a new proxy war with China now over Taiwan. We could get Japan and S.Korea to support us since we have military bases in their countries.
Posted by: jpal || 06/08/2023 16:31 Comments || Top||


Fears of ANOTHER environmental disaster in Ukraine after world's largest ammonia pipeline is shelled, 'releasing huge poisonous gas cloud', a day after dam is blown up, sparking huge floods
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Russian and Ukrainian sources reported shelling in Ukraine's Kharkiv region

  • World's largest ammonia gas pipeline runs 1,534 miles from Togliatti to Odessa

  • Ammonia is a key fertiliser ingredient but is also highly toxic for lungs and eyes
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#1  aliens from venus have box seats for the idiocy something about how clownish and comical it all is!
Posted by: Cholutle Thrans9751 || 06/08/2023 13:55 Comments || Top||

#2  In Ohio, we let the local volunteer fire chief call the shots in this type of situation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 06/08/2023 15:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Russians with more than two brain cells to rub together must be wondering what have we done making Putin dictator for life?
Posted by: jpal || 06/08/2023 16:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Some day, historians are going to have a lot of questions about how we let charlatans and criminals rule a lot of countries when we had the power to actually help them free themselves, as opposed to "spreading democracy" as our own mountebank politicians sold it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/08/2023 16:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Must have it before one can spread it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2023 20:47 Comments || Top||


Europe
NATO's show of strength to Putin: Alliance prepares for its biggest ever air force drills over Europe with 10,000 personnel from 25 nations responding to simulated attack
  • The Air Defender 23 exercise starting next week will have 10,000 participants

  • 250 aircraft from 25 nations will respond to simulated attack on Nato member country
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2023 00:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do it in the foulest weather in the Baltics and Poland, forcing their air force into the skies and challenging landings.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/08/2023 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Fair weather flyers?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/08/2023 9:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Attack of the pro-nouns!!

Show the Russkies how advanced we are.


Posted by: AlanC || 06/08/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||



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