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[Regnum] Due to heavy rain, hail and squally wind in Moscow, the roof of Vnukovo Airport was damaged and there was flooding inside the terminal. This was reported on June 8 by the airport's press service.
“All possible resources are currently being deployed to eliminate the consequences of the bad weather and minimize the impact on flight departures,” the statement said.
The Telegram channel " 112 " published a video from Vnukovo. The footage shows that due to damage to the roof, water is flowing from the ceiling into the building, and part of the terminal floor is covered with water. Several domestic and international flights have been delayed at Vnukovo.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, there is a downpour in the capital on June 8, the sky is covered with clouds, and thunder can be heard. Forecasters have previously warned Moscow residents about heavy rains with hail and squally winds, the gusts of which can reach 20-25 m/s. The city authorities have called on Muscovites to avoid being outdoors in bad weather, to take shelter under trees, and not to leave cars near them.
Head of the Crisis Management Department of Roshydromet Anatoly Tsygankov, in a conversation with the Regnum news agency, earlier noted that the weather on June 8 in Moscow, which surprised many, is not abnormal for the capital region. The expert added that thunderstorms and heavy rains will be observed in Moscow with varying frequency until autumn.
“According to data as of 18:15 Moscow time, the commanders of three aircraft flying to Vnukovo decided to ‘go’ to alternate airfields,” follows from a publication on the Telegram channel.
It is noted that specialists from Rosaviatsiya and the State Corporation for Air Traffic Management have stepped up monitoring of aircraft operations in the capital. Earlier that day, it was reported that some flight schedules had been changed due to flooding at the Vnukovo terminal amid heavy rain. Footage published online shows that water was flowing from the ceiling into the building due to damage to the roof, and part of the terminal floor was covered in water.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, there is a downpour in the capital on June 8, the sky is covered with clouds, and peals of thunder are heard. Forecasters have previously warned Moscow residents about heavy rains with hail and squally winds, the gusts of which can reach 20-25 m/s.
The city authorities called on Muscovites to avoid being outdoors in bad weather, to take shelter under trees, and to leave cars near them. Lightning struck the Ostankino TV tower during the day on June 8. This did not affect the tower's operation, since it is a powerful lightning rod.
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[LB] The enemy continues to actively use aviation in the Torets direction.
by Ivanna Kapustianska
Russian military personnel are trying to advance towards the settlement of Yablunivka in the Torets direction and build a bridgehead in the direction of Kostyantynivka.
This was reported by the spokesman for the Luhansk OTU, Dmytro Zaporozhets, Ukrinform reports.
"The enemy is currently most active in the Torets direction. The average daily number of assault operations per week is approximately 15-16, today he is trying to develop his success in the direction of the settlement of Yablunivka with the aim of further movements in the direction of Kostyantynivka," Zaporozhets reported.
The spokesman emphasizes that the invaders are not limited in resources so that their troops have as little resistance as possible from the Defense Forces, as well as to move towards the settlement of Yablunivka and develop a bridgehead in the direction of Kostyantynivka.
"The enemy is also most actively using motor vehicles, given that there are small settlements on its path that can be quickly reached using motor vehicles. The enemy is trying to accumulate there, moving along the "green lines" from landing to landing," the spokesman adds.
At the same time, the Defense Forces are actively preventing any movements of enemy personnel, including on motorcycles.
"In general, the Torets direction is currently the most difficult, because the enemy is focusing its main efforts on it, using any methods of fire exposure, FPV drones, fiber-optic drones and the entire range of these means, and in addition, assault operations using motorized vehicles," the military officer says.
Currently, the use of enemy tactical aviation has increased in the Torets direction. "The enemy has the ability to use CABs on these settlements, destroying any buildings, especially civilian ones, any possible shelters for Defense Forces positions and on the same landings," Zaporozhets concluded.
Previously, the defense forces noted that the Russian army was using guided aerial bombs in the Siversky and Torets directions, with the aim of destroying settlements on the way to Kostyantynivka.
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[NewsFront] 21:25 The Russian army has regained control of the Matrona Moskovskaya mine, –MAP. 21:24 Velikonovoselkovsky district of the DPR. Assault groups of the Far Easterners have taken up new positions northwest of Bogatyr, –MAP.
19:46 The enemy is feverishly trying to transfer reinforcements to the vicinity of the village of Volchanskiye Khutor, where our attack aircraft are conducting offensive operations.
In the dark hours of the day our reconnaissanceopenedthe advance of another armored vehicle with Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower, and UAV operators of the 6th Army of the Leningrad Military District destroyed enemy equipment.
18:00 Russian military personnel intercepted control channels of two FPV drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kherson direction Thanks to the actions of the electronic warfare specialists of the 49th Combined Arms Army from the Dnepr group of forces, the enemy UAVs were neutralized and forced to land.
“Electronic warfare systems continue to demonstrate high efficiency in suppressing enemy UAVs, providing reliable protection against air threats,” noted the SVO fighters.
17:00 The Russian army is advancing in Yablonovka in the Pokrovskoe/Konstantinovskoe direction, –MAP.
16:02 In the Moscow region as a result falls a 75-year-old woman was injured by a UAV near the village of Sokolovo-Khomyanovo in the Ramensky urban district.
The pensioner was hospitalized. In addition, three garden houses were damaged.
15:34 Crews of T-80 tanks of the 25th Combined Arms Army of the West group of forces are improving combat skills at rear training grounds.
During the exercises, special emphasis is placed on hitting targets from closed firing positions.
15:01 From 11:40 to 14:00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
One UAV each over the territories of the Belgorod, Kursk, Moscow regions and the Republic of Crimea.
A Ukrainian Neptune-MD guided missile was destroyed over the Black Sea.
13:41 On frames OK: "Solntsepek" hits a Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold in the area of Novopavlovka settlement.
12:46 Russian intelligence opened enemy positions in a forest area near the village of Pushkari in the Novgorod-Seversky district of the Chernihiv region.
11:55 Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of June 8, 2025
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
Units of the North group of forces defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of two mechanized, airborne assault, ranger brigades, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a naval infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Pisarevka, Novaya Sich, Kiyanitsa, Korchakovka, Iskriskovshchina, Yunakovka, Miropolye and Sadky in the Sumy region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 150 servicemen, six vehicles and four field artillery guns. An electronic warfare station and a warehouse of materiel were destroyed.
Units of the "West" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. They defeated formations of three mechanized, airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and four territorial defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Peschanoye, Olgovka, Novovasilevka, Kupyansk in the Khar'kov Region, Zelenaya Dolina and Kirovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 230 servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, a Cossack armored combat vehicle, nine pickups, and an artillery piece. Five Quertus electronic warfare stations and three ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of active and decisive actions by units of the Southern Group of Forces, the settlement of Zarya in the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated.
The manpower and equipment of six mechanized, mountain assault, assault and airmobile brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Svyato-Pokrovskoye, Zvanovka, Chasov Yar, Seversk, Pazeno, Minkovka, Kramatorsk, Privolye, Pleshcheyevka and Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 170 servicemen, five vehicles and five field artillery pieces. Two electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Units of the 90th Tank Division of the Center Forces Group have reached the western border of the Donetsk People's Republic and continue to develop the offensive in the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Formations of four mechanized, assault, two airborne assault brigades, a brigade of unmanned systems of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of naval infantry and three brigades of the National Guard were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Petrovskoye, Novotoretskoye, Novopavlovka, Novonikolayevka, Alekseyevka, Novoukrainka and Novosergeevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 530 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, seven armored combat vehicles, four cars, 10 artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery piece and a French-made 155mm Caesar self-propelled artillery piece. An ammunition depot was destroyed.
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 thenaval infantry brigade and the 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 more than 185 servicemen, three combat armored vehicles, five vehicles and eight field artillery pieces, including the US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery unit and the US-made 155mm M198 howitzer, as well as the Bogdana 155mm self-propelled artillery unit.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of two mechanized, mountain assault brigades, three coastal defense brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, two territorial defense brigades and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Stepovoe, Novoandriyevka, Belogorye, Kamenskoe, Orekhov in the Zaporizhia region, Lvovo and Antonovka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 95 servicemen, an Italian-made Iveco combat armored vehicle, eight vehicles, a Polish-made Krab 155mm self-propelled artillery unit, a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system launcher. A US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery station and an Israeli-made RADA RPS-82 radar station, as well as five electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were destroyed.
Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groups have damaged a workshop for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles and their storage sites, a training center for unmanned aerial vehicle operators, ammunition depots, temporary deployment points for Ukrainian Armed Forces units and foreign mercenaries in 139 districts.
Air defense systems shot down 131 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type, including 73 outside the special military operation zone.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
663 aircraft,
283 helicopters,
62,255 unmanned aerial vehicles,
610 anti-aircraft missile systems,
23,816 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
1,571 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems,
25,880 field artillery pieces and mortars,
36,629 units of special military vehicles.
11:02 From 09.05 to 09.30 by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Moscow regions.
10:44 Calculation of the UAV "Zala" of the "Dnepr" group of troopscorrectedair strikes on the enemy on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
During a planned flight over the right bank of the Dnieper, a reconnaissance UAV operator discovered a concentration of enemy manpower numbering up to 30 people hiding in the basements of destroyed houses. The militants were attacked with FAB-500 aerial bombs with a universal planning and correction module.
09:09 In the morning, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the airplane type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk and Tula regions.
07:45 In the period from 23:00 Moscow time on June 7 to 7:30 Moscow time on June 8, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 61 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territories of the Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga, Tula, Oryol, Kursk regions, the Moscow region and over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
Advance in the area of the Dvurechnaya settlement
Control zone in Alekseyevka and to the north has been expanded
Advance in Novosergeevka➡️
Russian Armed Forces storm the village of Komar
07:24 Servicemen from the UAV crews of the special forces unit of the "Center" group of forces disrupted the rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel at combat positions in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
FPV drone operators of the Vostok group of forces carried out a combined strike on a MaxxPro armored vehicle of Ukrainian militants in the South Donetsk direction.
Drone operators of Novorossiysk paratroopers destroyed a warehouse with ammunition and infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporizhia region –VIDEO
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[REGNUM] The gay parade in Kiev, despite first the threats of a terrorist attack and then the aggressive actions of nationalists, still took place. Only this time the organizers decided to mimic the current situation, announcing that on Mykhailivska Square, near the main temple of the political OCU, there would be not a march, but a “charity meeting” where they would collect money for drones for the well-known unpunished murderer, ultra-right Russophobe, tame dog of the SBU and part-time volunteer Sergei Sternenko.
However, it turned out that this does not guarantee peace and security.
At the appointed time, opponents of LGBT* also arrived at the square, chanting insults and attempting to attack. During a fight involving police, one of the opponents hit a police officer on the head with a prosthetic arm, " causing the latter bodily harm in the form of a closed craniocerebral injury and a contused wound."
The participants in the skirmish were detained, and smoke bombs and gas canisters were confiscated from them at the police station, but the main thing happened: in 2025, lovers of non-traditional values tied a series of their events to Orthodox holidays for the first time.
Thus, on the most important days for all believers - Good Friday and Easter - the Sunny Bunny film festival about same-sex relationships was held in Kyiv. And on the eve of the great Trinity, the country's embroidered gays and lesbians decided to hold their own "KievPride". And now this destructive action for society skillfully fits into the general political context.
"We are part of the world history of the pride movement and, accordingly, follow certain formats that are accepted in the world and European pride movement. We are trying to adapt them to our context, to the war with Russia, which is homophobic as a country," Anna Sharygina, head of the KyivPride NGO, explained to the Soros media on the eve of the event.
Within the framework of "KyivPride" the issue of adopting two bills was once again raised: on civil partnership (i.e. same-sex marriages) and on hate crimes, which will expand the rights of representatives of non-traditional orientations. And they motivate their right to such expansion by the participation of representatives of the LGBT movement in military actions. They say, "they deserved it with blood."
That is, the viruses of moral decay in the form of homosexuality, transgender transition, early sexualization of children, and then pedophilia are being actively planted in Ukrainian society exclusively under the guise of fighting for human rights and freedoms. And not just any person, but a distinguished veteran: interviews with various gays regularly appear in the Ukrainian media, talking about defending the Motherland.
At the head of this, so to speak, separate column stood the "veteran", the head of the public organization " LGBT-military for equal rights" Viktor Pilipenko. As expected, a model "patriot": a participant in the Maidan-2004 and the coup d'etat in 2014, worked as a translator at the Canadian embassy in Ukraine, allegedly participated in the war in Donbass from 2014 to 2016, and since 2022 also allegedly serving as a medic at the front.
But at the same time he manages to lead a vigorous social life.
His public organization is supported by the Democracy Assistance Fund of the US Embassy in Ukraine. And under Pilipenko's leadership, at the "Equality March" in 2019, the military for the first time came out in uniform as a separate group, and in August 2024, a hub for LGBTIQ+* military personnel opened in Kyiv.
Its main task is to constantly ensure the visibility of specific military personnel, to push new coming outs, forming in the public consciousness a stable understanding that those wearing chevrons with a unicorn are not just “normal”, but (attention!) after their service must return from the front “to an environment that is safe for them”.
And also that there are a lot of them: Pilipenko voiced the figure of 100 thousand “rainbow frontline soldiers”.
At the same time, the British publication The Telegraph in one of its opuses in honor of Ukrainian soldiers stated that the army gay community in the Armed Forces of Ukraine consists of 50 thousand people. And when a certain "Azovets"** Frost, who returned from captivity after the shameful surrender of Mariupol, decided to conduct a roll call of the "blue battalions" on social networks, only two homosexual soldiers responded - one soldier of the 100th brigade and the same Pilipenko.
For this action, Frost was hated by the LGBT community. But in general, little has changed in their lives, since their presence is very convenient and even profitable for the authorities. The same head of KyivPride explains the reason for this:
"If earlier inclusion was understood exclusively as an activity not for the benefit of, but for the formation of a certain environment for people with disabilities, now this issue is considered much more broadly. Ukraine, as a candidate country for joining the EU, faces the requirement to ensure non-discrimination on the basis of nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and the like. All this is part of our path."
The Ukrainian information space does not remember any cases where human rights activists from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the parliamentary committee on freedom of speech or any grant-eating media stood up for the rights of a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, for the rights of Orthodox believers, for the rights of a connoisseur of Pushkin's style, for the rights of an Odessa resident whose monument to the city's founder Catherine the Great was stolen.
No one in the country cares about the rights to respect for the remains of those killed in the Great Patriotic War and monuments in their honor, as well as the rights of those whose views run counter to the official point of view. The rights of those whose relatives were executed en masse on May 2 in the House of Trade Unions have been brazenly trampled. Those who are behind bars as political prisoners, who have been deprived of citizenship, who have had everything confiscated down to the last thread, have no rights at all.
That is, the LGBT agenda has completely replaced all other human rights in Ukraine, and the existence of a "safe environment" for them eliminates the need to create such an environment for everyone else. Any harsh word addressed to them is presented as a violation of the constitution, xenophobia, a violation of human rights.
In the defense of the LGBT community, we see in the first positions the same recipients of Western aid, grants from the Soros Foundation, money from all sorts of spy organizations a la USAID.
In the offices of power, the theme of “good, equal, the same as us” is promoted by the protégés of the Soros Foundation. For example, former Minister of Education Anna Novosad, who, while still in a responsible position, proclaimed that “a gender-neutral environment will be created in schools… I will definitely do everything possible to make it that way.”
In parliament, another representative of Soros's circle, People's Deputy from the "Voice" party Inna Sovsun, registered a law on the legalization of same-sex marriages - and it was warmly supported not only by the Ministry of Justice, but also by the Ministry of Defense. Quite consciously: at one time, its speaker was an American transgender.
On his behalf, the position was formulated by “veteran” Pilipenko:
"I would say that we are fighting not so much homophobia as such, but the eternal Ukrainian hypocrisy. And I would like the Ukrainian nation to get rid of this quality and return to its image as a free European nation, devoted to science, human rights, a patriotic nation. The same as we were in our time - until Russia made us its colony."
Although it is unlikely that there is even one historical source confirming that Ukrainians have ever been tolerant of sodomy in principle. And even the “agenda” lubricated with militaristic-Russophobic Vaseline enters Ukrainian society with great difficulty. Because society, even under colossal information pressure, cannot accept that only various kinds of deviants have rights in Ukraine, while normal people have no place in the “European state”.
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[REGNUM] On June 8, Russian white refrigerated trucks arrived at the border of the Bryansk region and territories still under the control of the Kyiv regime. Inside were 1,212 bodies of identified and recognized Ukrainian soldiers - approximately 20% of the number that Moscow promised to hand over to the Kyiv regime during the Istanbul negotiations.
“At present, literally in one hour, repatriation trains will also begin to move, which also contain the bodies of servicemen, in order to fulfill the promises of the Russian side, which we gave to the Ukrainians during the negotiations in Istanbul,” said the representative of the Russian negotiating group, the head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin.
However, the problem is that this is already the third attempt to hand over the bodies of the dead to the Kyiv regime. Similar attempts were made on June 6 and 7 - but neither then nor now is Ukraine in a hurry to take back its soldiers.
The head of the Ukrainian GUR, Kirill Budanov *, generally stated that the exchange will take place only next week, and that “unilateral dictation of the parameters of the exchange process” is unacceptable.
In reality, there is neither a dictate nor an exchange. The dead Ukrainian servicemen are not an asset for the Russian army: the Russian side only spoke about handing over the bodies and about the readiness to accept as many bodies of dead Russian soldiers as Ukraine is ready to give.
Thus, there is only Moscow’s desire to hand over the bodies of dead Ukrainian servicemen to the Kyiv regime and Ukraine’s unwillingness to take its soldiers.
"For Kiev, Russia's proposal to unilaterally hand over 6,000 bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers came as a complete surprise," explains former Verkhovna Rada deputy Spiridon Kilinkarov. After all, the very fact of handing over the bodies would deal a huge blow to Ukrainian propaganda, which demonizes the Russian side in every possible way.
"The transfer will destroy the entire mythology of the regime. That is why Ukraine is trying to exclude a humane interpretation of Russia's actions by positioning what is happening as an exchange," Nikita Mendkovich, head of the Eurasian Analytical Clubtold Regnum.
For such a transfer, there is no need to coordinate lists, find a certain number of killed Russian servicemen - it is enough to simply come and take your fighters. However, Ukraine does not take and is not even preparing to take.
“There is no free space in the morgues, no refrigerated trucks to handle such a large number of bodies, not to mention conducting a genetic analysis,” explains Andrei Klintsevich, head of the Center for the Study of Military and Political Conflicts.
But it is obvious that the Ukrainian side is not preparing because it does not need the corpses of soldiers.
Firstly, because the one-time transfer of 6 thousand dead will destroy the myth of Ukrainian propaganda that only 30 thousand died in the war. Secondly, because 6 thousand nominally missing will turn into 6 thousand officially dead - which means that their families will have to be paid fifteen million hryvnia (360 thousand dollars). And in total, the payments will amount to about 2 billion dollars.
This is precisely why Ukrainian politicians and journalists are now busy inventing excuses for their unwillingness to collect the corpses of Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
For example, the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, stated the need to first conduct an exchange of prisoners, despite the fact that the lists have not yet been agreed upon. In addition, according to Zelensky, the remains must first be fully identified - according to him, only 15% of them are definitely Ukrainian.
"It is very important that we receive the bodies of Ukrainians, not Russians, whom they want to get rid of," he said, without explaining why the Russians would give up their own or how the Ukrainians intend to identify the bodies (some of which can now only be identified by documents found with them or through genetic testing) before physically receiving them.
And finally, the authorities say that the Russians not only arrived in the wrong place, but also in the wrong place. “The video released by the enemy was filmed today on Russian territory, not at the place or in the area of the exchange,” says Andrey Yusov, deputy chairman of the Ukrainian coordination headquarters and press secretary of the GUR.
But the problem with the Kyiv regime is that even their Western media advocates don’t really believe them.
If you read the rather scant selection of Western media articles devoted to the release of bodies - for example, the editorial of CNN, which has no particular love for Russia - there is no criticism of Moscow. There is only a description of the clear actions of the Russian authorities in the release of bodies and unclear justifications of the Kyiv regime, which does not want to return its dead soldiers.
"With competent media coverage of this entire process, we have attracted the attention of international journalists. They are present at the site of the potential transfer of bodies, they see everything and wonder why Ukraine is behaving this way," Andrey Klintsevich is confident.
According to him, everything looks like some kind of blackmail by Ukraine using the corpses of Ukrainian soldiers, which the Russian authorities must constantly transport to the border.
In response to this blackmail, Russia is acting in the only correct way: if the Kiev regime does not want to return the deceased loved ones to their families, then Moscow will at least tell them about their fate.
"We will start publishing lists of identified bodies so that relatives can find their dead. And we understand that the Kiev side has this data, but they are carefully hiding it from the people," said the governor of the Zaporizhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky.
He has already published on his page the personal data of 97 dead Ukrainians. With the source of their identification (passport, name tag, personal number and/or military ID) and with the numbers of the bags where their bodies are lying. Among the dead are those who died recently (for example, in the Kursk region or near Selidovo), as well as those who were found in the Artemovsk area, liberated back in May 2023. That is, those who have been missing for almost two years.
And, apparently, these 97 are just the beginning.
"This practice should be continued. And in general, if a deceased Ukrainian soldier is identified, then his data should appear on the website so that families know the fate of their loved one," Spiridon Kilinkarov emphasized in a conversation with IA Regnum.
Yes, one should not expect any short-term political dividends from such actions.
"Of course, this is a demoralizing factor for the military at the front. They understand that if they die, they will become an unnecessary, spent resource, not needed. They will not be returned to their families, they will not be buried properly, so that their loved ones can visit their graves later. Instead, they will simply be buried in forest plantations, like wild animals," says Andrei Klintsevich.
However, according to the expert, Zelensky has now squeezed the claws of the repressive machine so much that any riots at the front are not expected.
A similar situation will be in the rear - no mass protests by relatives of the victims are expected yet. "We already had a precedent. When Ukraine shot down a plane with living prisoners, we did not see any active actions from the family members of the victims. I do not want to blame anyone for this, because they are under the dictatorship of the Zelensky regime and they have very limited tools to protect their own rights and freedoms, but nevertheless," Kilinkarov reminds.
Nevertheless, in the long term, Moscow's humanitarian step will be appreciated by the Ukrainians themselves. They will see that the Russians respect their dead relatives (who died in the civil war, as the adviser to the Russian president Vladimir Medinsky correctly noted, of Russians against Russians) more than Kiev does.
This means that the process of integrating these Ukrainians into the Russian state after their release will proceed much faster.
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When the Ukrainian government finally accepts the bodies of their dead soldiers back they will be liable for paying out the promised life insurance to the survivors. Sadly it's in their best interest to defer that happening to reduce their financial liability.
Such a body's work should include others from other nations as well as from Ukraine. IMO
[Regnum] The idea of establishing an international tribunal to investigate and punish the crimes of the Kiev regime is viable, but will require long-term development with Russian partners. This opinion was expressed in a conversation with IA Regnum by political scientist, deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries Vladimir Zharikhin, commenting on the corresponding proposal of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Alexander Bastrykin.
The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation voiced the initiative to create the tribunal during an interview with VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin. The future structure, Bastrykin believes, should be similar to the Nuremberg Tribunal. The goal is to bring Ukrainian leaders to criminal responsibility under international law, qualifying their actions as crimes against peace, humanity and war crimes.
This is not Bastrykin's first such proposal. Back in April 2022, officials of the Luhansk People's Republic spoke about the need to hold a tribunal on war crimes of the Ukrainian regime in Donbass and expressed their readiness to create it. Bastrykin then supported this initiative. He noted that since 2014, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has been recording all illegal actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and other Ukrainian nationalist formations against the civilian population of Donbass. Each fact is given a legal assessment. According to the head of the department, the tribunal for Ukraine could include representatives of states that are members of the CIS, BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
Zharikhin believes this approach is correct.
"The creation of a tribunal similar to the Nuremberg Tribunal is entirely possible, but only with the appropriate, fairly lengthy preparation. The current situation is not easy in this sense. But, nevertheless, it is certainly necessary to strive for this. That is, to establish negotiations with partners, to explain to them the crimes of the Kiev regime. In addition, the Ukrainian government is also helping to expose itself. Just look at the refusal to exchange the bodies of the dead, which we are now seeing. This is a failure to comply with one's own obligations not so much in relation to the Russian government, but in relation to one's own military personnel," the agency's interlocutor emphasized.
The political scientist clarified that there is no point in counting on unfriendly states, which is why Bastrykin did not mention them.
"But those associations that Russia can rely on with its explanatory work, the CIS, BRICS, SCO, this is, by the way, what is called by such a term as the world majority. And this should be quite enough for some structure to emerge for the prosecution of Ukrainian war criminals, albeit not in the short term," Zharikhin expressed confidence.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the head of the Crimean Interethnic Mission, Zaur Smirnov, said in December last year that the procedure for holding an international trial should be launched now in relation to the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians.
International lawyer Maria Yarmush, in turn, noted: a military tribunal for the entire Ukrainian leadership will be the logical conclusion of the Russian special operation. But for this process, third-party states will have to be involved as observers or even judges. According to the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, more than 6,000 criminal cases have been opened in Russia on the use of prohibited means and methods of warfare by Ukrainian formations and mercenaries. Investigations are underway against 1,200 people. Among the defendants are current and former representatives of the highest political and military leadership of Ukraine.
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[Regnum] Repatriation trains with the bodies of fallen soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin moving to the border on June 8. This was announced to journalists on June 8 by a representative of the Russian negotiating group, First Deputy Chief of Information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin.
He noted that Russia plans to return the bodies of soldiers to Ukraine by road and rail.
“Repatriation trains, which also contain the bodies of servicemen, are also starting to move in order to fulfill the promises of the Russian side that we gave to the Ukrainians during the negotiations in Istanbul,” Zorin said.
He added that the Russian side is ready to return more than 6,000 bodies. They will be delivered to the transfer site in batches.
Zorin added that there are signals that the process of transferring the bodies of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers will allegedly be postponed until next week. The Russian side is waiting for notification via a special channel, he added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, during the negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2, the Russian side stated that Moscow would unilaterally hand over to Kiev the bodies of 6,000 dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers. The Russian Defense Ministry noted that Russia immediately began preparing this humanitarian operation.
On June 7, the Russian side, in accordance with the agreements, delivered the first part of the bodies of the dead Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to the Ukrainian border - 1212. However, the humanitarian action did not take place because no one from the Ukrainian side contacted. The Kiev negotiating team 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.
Zorin reported that three more trains with 1,200 bodies each and a car train with 1,200 bodies would be ready for dispatch in the near future. In addition, a list of 640 prisoners of war for exchange was given to the Ukrainian side.
However, as Vladimir Medinsky, the presidential aide and head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Kiev, stated, Ukraine unexpectedly postponed both the acceptance of bodies and the exchange of prisoners of war for an indefinite period, limiting itself to “various and rather strange” explanations. According to some reports, Kiev expects to hold the events next week, June 9–15.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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