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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ministry of Internal Affairs is searching for the wife of fugitive Timofeev
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The wife of 37-year-old Artem Timofeev, who may be involved in the attack of Ukrainian Armed Forces drones in the Irkutsk region, Ekaterina, has been declared wanted. There is information about this in the Ministry of Internal Affairs database.

According to documents, Ekaterina Timofeeva was born on July 1, 1990 in Kyiv.

It is not specified under what criminal article Timofeev's wife was declared wanted.

According to media reports, the couple may have been recruited by Ukrainian special services. They moved from Ukraine to Russia in 2016. Artem worked for his father's company in the Chelyabinsk region, and Ekaterina was a tattoo artist.

On the eve of the attacks, the Timofeevs flew from Russia to Kazakhstan.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on June 1, the Kiev regime, using FPV drones, carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. All attacks by enemy drones in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled.

The drones took off from trucks that belonged to Timofeev’s company.

Earlier, the Ust-Kut city administration published a wanted list for Artem Timofeev, and he was put on the wanted list. Timofeev is registered in Miass, Chelyabinsk. His grandmother currently lives there. She assured that she does not know where her grandson is.

The head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, claimed responsibility for the drone attacks. He called it a "unique operation" that had been in preparation for more than a year and a half. According to Zelensky, 117 drones were involved in the attacks.


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Heavy rain and hail hit cities in Moscow region
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Moscow Region towns of Mytishchi, Korolev and Pushkino were hit by a heavy downpour with hail. Photos and videos of the aftermath of the disaster have spread online.



In particular, the footage published in Telegram channels shows heavy rain falling on city streets, with hail falling to the ground along with the drops at times. The hailstones in the photo are large, and handfuls can easily be collected in the palm of your hand.

It is noted that the bad weather has hit Pushkino, Mytishchi and Korolev. The Ministry of Emergency Situations also called on residents of the Moscow region not to park cars near trees and to refrain from walking.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, earlier the Russian Hydrometeorological Center reported that an orange weather alert level would be declared in Moscow from June 7 to 10 due to heat of +30…32 ℃. At the same time, forecasters specified that the weather would be unstable and short-term rains and thunderstorms are quite possible during these days.


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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian General Staff on where the Russian army attacks the most
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the Russian offensive in the east and south of Ukraine.

More than half of all battles continue in three directions. A significant number of Russian assaults have already stalled.


Since the beginning of the day, 119 combat clashes have occurred on the front in 11 directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Saturday, June 7.

Thus, in the Kharkov direction, our defenders repelled one Russian assault near Vovchansk.

In the Kupyansk direction, a battle is underway in the Stepova Novoselovka area.

In the Liman direction, the invading army attacked 16 times near the settlements of Grekovka, Novy Mir, Ridkodub, Zelenaya Dolina, Torskoye and Belogorovka. Five clashes continue.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled nine attempts by the occupiers to advance forward in the areas of Chasovy Yar and in the direction of Belaya Gora and Predtechnoye.

In the Toretsk direction, the enemy also attacked nine times near Toretsk and in the direction of Dilievka and Yablunovka. Two clashes are still ongoing.

In the Pokrovsk direction, the occupiers carried out 45 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Poltavka, Mirolyubovka, Mirnoye, Yelizavetovka, Promen, Lisovka, Novosergeevka, Udachnoye, Novomikolaevka, Gorikhovoe, Kotlyarovka, Bogdanovka, Novoukrainka and Andreevka. The defense forces repelled 38 attacks. Seven clashes are still ongoing.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, our soldiers repelled 16 attacks near the settlements of Bogatyr, Vesyoloye, Burlatskoye and Volnoye Pole. Four combat clashes are still ongoing.

In the Gulyai-Polye direction, one attempt by the invaders to advance forward near Malinovka was successfully stopped, and three more clashes continue.

In the Orekhov direction, our troops stopped one enemy assault towards Novoandreyevka.

In the Dnieper direction, the enemy made two attempts to advance forward, but was unsuccessful.

In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian units repelled nine Russian attacks. Four more clashes are still ongoing.

Let us recall that Russia's losses have exceeded 995 thousand servicemen since the beginning of the war. In just one day on June 6, more than 1,100 "good Russians" were added.


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Current information on the situation on the front line on June 7 (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 20:12 Russian ArmyliberatedYablonovka, advancing to Sumy.

Russian troops in the Sumy direction have effectively occupied Yablonovka, admit Ukrainian military analysts who geolocated footage of the fighting.

During the day it was reported that our units had taken Novonikolaevka, were storming Yunakovka and Yablonovka, and were advancing towards three more villages – Vrachin, Khoten and Malaya Korchakovka.

19:00 A powerful strike with three aerial bombs on the air defense unit of the 129th Separate Territorial Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of ​​the settlement of Ugroedy –VIDEO

18:19 Russian Armed Forces fighters are trying out a Korean 140mm mortar.

18:04 Special Forces Unit FPV Drone calculations are clearing sky from hexacopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the DPR.

17:44 Work of the Sparta reconnaissance battalion on the transport of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using fiber-optic drones –VIDEO

16:03 Russian Armed Forces storm Komar in the South Donetsk direction –MAP

16:11 Calculation of the 122mm D-30 howitzer of the Center group of forces destroyed enemy UAV control point in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.

13:43 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of June 7, 2025💥

Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of a heavy mechanized brigade, three mechanized brigades, a ranger brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Ugroedy, Ivolzhanskoye, Malaya Korchakovka, Radyanskoye, Khoten, Yastrebinoe, Yunakovka and Sadki in Sumy Oblast.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 230 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, six cars and five field artillery guns. Two electronic warfare stations and two ammunition depots were destroyed.📍

Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of three mechanized, assault, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Maleyevka, Nizhneye Solenoye, Kovsharovka, Ol'govka, Moskovka, Kupyansk in the Kha'rkov region, Volchiy Yar, Kirovsk and Yampol in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 225 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored vehicle, 21 vehicles, and an artillery piece. Five electronic warfare stations, a US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radar station, and six ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍Units of the "Southern" group of forces improved their tactical position. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, mountain assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Kleban-Byk, Zarya, Seversk, Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy lost up to 190 servicemen, four vehicles and a field artillery gun. The Nota electronic warfare station and three ammunition depots were destroyed.

Units of the "Center" group of forces improved their position along the front line. They defeated formations of two mechanized, motorized infantry, two airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Sergeyevka, Novonikolayevka, Alekseyevka, Udachnoye and Novosergeyevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The enemy's losses amounted to more than 515 servicemen, four Cossack combat armored vehicles, eight pickups, five artillery pieces, and a US-made AN/TPQ-32 counterbattery radar station.

Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defense. They defeated the manpower and equipment of three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Komar in the Donetsk People's Republic, Gulyaipole and Malinovka in the Zaporizhia region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 205 servicemen, four combat armored vehicles, ten cars and five field artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm M198 howitzer. Two electronic warfare stations and a warehouse of materiel were destroyed.

Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of a mechanized brigade, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhia region, Ilyinka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Kazatskoe, Kamyshany and Antonovka in the Kherson region.

The enemy lost up to 100 servicemen, eight vehicles, an artillery piece, six electronic warfare stations, a Plastun electronic intelligence station, and two ammunition depots.

Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have inflicted damage on temporary deployment points of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and foreign mercenaries in 144 districts.

Four unmanned enemy boats were destroyed in the Black Sea.

Air defense systems shot down 311 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles, including 140 outside the Special Military Operation zone.

13:30 Tonight the Russian Armed Forces inflicted group strikes with long-range precision weapons and UAVs against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine, workshops for the assembly of attack drones, points for the maintenance and repair of weapons and military equipment, as well as ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:05 Krasnoarmeyskoye direction. The Russian army is gradually advancing in Novosergeevka –MAP

12:25 In the period from 8.00 to 12.00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territory of the Belgorod region.

11:29 Destruction of a 155mm self-propelled howitzer "Crab" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by UAV operators of the "Yug" group in the area of ​​the settlement of Vasyutinskoye –VIDEO

11:13 Russian Armed Forces storm Alekseyevka –MAP

11:01 Kupyansk section of the front. The Russian Armed Forces are advancing north of Dvurechnaya –MAP

10:55 An FPV drone operator of the Zapad group of forces immobilized a YPR-765 armored personnel carrier with a precise hit. The combat vehicle was finally destroyed by fire from the Msta-S self-propelled gun.

Drone operators of the "East" group of forces tracked down and destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the South Donetsk direction.

Attack UAV crews of the 132nd Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade destroyed a pickup truck and an armored vehicle, disrupting the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces units –VIDEO

10:26 Crews of strike UAVs of the "Kontory" group of the Russian "West" group burned two tanks and five pickups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kupyansk sector of the front.

10:04 Sumy region. Assault groups are fighting in Yablonovka –MAP

09:03 Russian air defense forces at night and yesterday afternoon intercepted an attack of nine UAVs in the Moscow region, said Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov.

Most of the drones were destroyed on approach. Two residents were injured in Istra, but their lives are not in danger. A private house and outbuildings were damaged. The authorities will help the family with recovery.

07:16 In the period from 00.00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 36 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of Kursk, Bryansk, Kaluga, Smolensk regions and the Moscow region.

07:03 Servicemen of the "Center" group are working off assault operations at a training ground in the rear area of ​​the special operation zone🪖

Soldiers learn to overcome open terrain under “fire” from a simulated enemy, including attacks from FPV drones, and to storm “enemy” fortifications.

05:33 Changes tomapover the past 24 hours:

Advance in the area Green Valley - KolodeziFedorovka has been liberated

Control zone west of the settlement of Novopol has been expanded

Moving along the route to Yunakovka from the state border➡️

Control zone in the Yablonovka-Loknya area has been expanded


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Russian Ministry of Defense announces its readiness to begin transferring the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Moscow is ready to hand over the bodies of the dead soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to Kiev right now, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin, a representative of the Russian group at the negotiations with Ukraine, said on June 7.

“We are ready to work right now, because the bodies are in close proximity to the exchange site, and we are interested in carrying out this purely humanitarian action,” the Russian Defense Ministry reports Zorin’s words on its Telegram channel.

He recalled that the Russian side had fulfilled the agreements concluded in Istanbul on June 2 and delivered the first part of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to the Ukrainian border – 1,212 bodies. However, the humanitarian action did not take place because no one from the Ukrainian side made contact.

Some Ukrainian and international media outlets later reported that Kiev allegedly intends to postpone the prisoner exchange and return of the bodies of the dead until next week, June 9–15. Moscow will wait for official statements on this issue, Zorin concluded.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the second round of negotiations between Moscow and Kiev on the settlement of the conflict took place on June 2 in Istanbul. The Russian and Ukrainian sides agreed to exchange prisoners of war under the age of 25, as well as the sick and seriously wounded, on the principle of "all for all."

This is expected to be the largest prisoner exchange since the start of hostilities, which could include between 1,000 and 1,200 people. In addition, Moscow will unilaterally hand over to Kiev 6,000 bodies of fallen Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.

On June 7, Vladimir Medinsky, an aide to the Russian president and head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, said that the leaders of the Kiev regime had unexpectedly postponed the acceptance of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers and the exchange of prisoners of war with the Russian Federation. Medinsky called on representatives of the international media to come to the site of the planned exchange and make sure that Russia was fulfilling its part of the agreement.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmitruk said on June 6 that the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, personally ordered that the bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers not be taken away. In his opinion, Zelensky refused to return the bodies of the soldiers from Russia because he was used to taking payments for the dead.

More from regnum.ru
Medvedev: Ukraine does not take the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers because it does not want to pay the widows

Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev believes that the Kiev regime did not take the bodies of its military personnel from the Russian side for two reasons.

"The Kiev bastards don't want to take the bodies of their dead. There are two reasons for this: it's scary to admit that there are 6,000 of them, and they don't want to pay the widows," Medvedev wrote on his page on the social network X.

The Russian Defense Ministry's contact group arrived at the border with Ukraine on June 7. However, the Ukrainian side unexpectedly postponed both the acceptance of bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war for an indefinite period. At the same time, the Kiev negotiating group did not even arrive at the exchange site. Moscow called on the Kiev regime to comply with the agreements and immediately begin the humanitarian action.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, the residents of Ukraine will curse the Kiev regime if the Ukrainian side does not take the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said on June 7. Earlier, commenting on Kiev's refusal to accept the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers, Zakharova said that the Kiev regime, which committed genocide against its own people, does not need Ukrainians, either alive or dead. She also noted: there is no nation or ethnic group in the world that would refuse to bury its soldiers.

Verkhovna Rada deputy Artem Dmitruk said that the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, personally ordered that the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers not be taken away. According to the parliamentarian, Zelensky made this decision because he was used to taking payments for the dead.


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Science & Technology
New Russian navigation system
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from the Telegram channel of aviasalonmaks

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Russia has created a navigation system that does not require satellite communications and is protected from electronic warfare.

It is reported that the device created by the RosEl holding (part of the Rostec State Corporation) is an improved modification of the small-sized Doppler speed and drift angle meter (DISS).

The company noted the following improvements:

  • Increased strength;

  • Increased accuracy of readings;

  • Energy consumption reduced by 4 times;

  • Multiple reduction in size;

  • Reduction in device weight by 90%.

The main advantage of the new system is that it does not require satellite communications for navigation. This makes it an excellent choice for installation on aircraft operating in regions where there are difficulties with satellite communications or there is a risk of signal suppression by electronic warfare.

RosEl emphasized that work on the device began in 2020 and that today it has already passed flight tests and is ready for serial production.

An interesting solution for large drones, which with such a device will be less dependent on the shortcomings of our orbital satellite group, which will be able to provide full coverage no earlier than 2030. And of course there is the question of the cost of the product, which is extremely important in matters of installing such devices on drones.

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