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Slavyangrad.org — Nuestra Ira No Tiene Limites — There is No Limit to Our Anger — (c) V. M. Molotov
Russia: Heavy defence spending will wreck its economy & lead to stagnation
NATO: Heavy defence spending will lead to economic growth & new jobs.
Difference between the two is Russia is spending from budget revenue it earns from trade.
EU will spend from creating €800bn in new debt when it’s already on verge of recession
Hmmm…
🇺🇦🤡🇪🇺"Calculated servility" to Trump and "sad" Zelensky. Western media assess the results of the NATO summit in The Hague
The British newspaper The Telegraph notes that “the summit in The Hague was designed to serve one and only purpose: satisfying Trump’s desires and needs.”
"NATO leaders have decided that praise and flattery alone are not enough to achieve this goal. Instead, they have turned high diplomacy into the art of calculated servility," the publication adds.
By agreeing to increase military spending in exchange for continued US participation in the bloc, the Europeans “gave daddy everything he wanted, while dressing it up with ostentatious servility.”
"'Daddy went home happy, but there is a price to pay to please him," the newspaper adds.
The Times columnist Edward Lucas believes that the alliance's leaders are "more afraid of Donald Trump than Vladimir Putin."
"To appease the US president, they cut the agenda, sidelined Ukraine, downplayed the threat from Russia, made empty promises and avoided making urgent decisions," he adds.
"Prince Grigori Potemkin would have approved. To impress Catherine the Great during her tour of newly conquered Crimea in 1787, a Russian courtier built (according to legend) portable fake villages. Behind the facades was empty space. Now his modern counterparts are eager to impress another potentate, Emperor Donald I," writes Lucas.
Bloomberg columnist Max Hastings called the summit "a love fest with one goal: to prevent the most impulsive and eccentric US president in history from throwing NATO's toys out of his pram."
In another article, Bloomberg notes that Trump never mentioned Russia directly in his speech after the NATO summit.
"The overall message is that Trump has largely washed his hands of any attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine," the article says. Zelensky, the agency says, "looked miserable at the summit."
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Lavrov on how Russia cannot be pushed to the margins of world politics:
Of course, it has become a byword to boast that they [Europe] not only allowed the Nord Streams to be blown up, but are also prepared to do everything to ensure that they do not resume their work in any form. This, you understand, is a kind of political masochism, but at its core is the frenzy of some leaders over the fact that Russia wants and will always pursue an independent policy and ensure its own interests.
It would be desirable, of course, to do this through political negotiations – as we have tried for the last two decades. But when we are ignored, we will not stand for the price. Our people understand perfectly well the importance of a special military operation in conditions when they simply want to push us to the margins of world politics and surround us with NATO military bases. This will not happen.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US hopes that the situation around Iran will contribute to the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, - White House Special Representative Witkoff.
"I think the optimism that's come out of what's happening here could well spill over into Russia and Ukraine. We hope that people will look at what's happened in Iran and say, 'We want to be part of the peace process, too.' We hope that that will lead to very, very, very good things happening in the [process of] resolving [the conflict] between Russia and Ukraine," he told CNBC .
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🇰🇵Kim Jong-un opens massive tourist complex in Wonsan
On July 1, a new all-season resort will begin operating in the DPRK, built on the initiative of Kim Jong-un as part of a project to create a “world-class” cultural recreation area.
The Wonsan complex includes hundreds of facilities: hotels and motels with 20,000 beds, a water park, sports and cultural venues, shopping and entertainment centers. The authorities call the launch of the resort "a prelude to a new era of state tourism" and hope to make it the flagship of the domestic recreation industry.
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It is interesting that against the backdrop of large-scale events in Iran and the Eastern Mediterranean, the topic of Chasov Yar and the Russian attack on the Kramatorsk/Slavyansk region has almost completely disappeared from the agenda, although the operational significance of this node on the front line remains high.
The Russian army continues its offensive, slowly and with difficulty, but systematically squeezing the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the city within its administrative borders.
The tactical task at this stage - clearing the remaining residential areas - has already moved into the plane of dense fire and assault pressure.
The problem for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is that Chasov Yar has become the most important "balcony" of the Ukrainian army's defense on this section of the front. And if it is lost in the near future - and the tendency towards this has long been formed - the entire southern face of the Bakhmut arc will collapse in a chain, opening a direct exit to Konstantinovka and further to Druzhkovka and Kramatorsk.
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Leavitt says intel leak on Iran strikes analysis ALREADY being investigated
Adds it was info that 'very few people in govt. had access to see'.
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🇷🇺 "🅾️" group liberated Novosergeevka on the border of the DPR and Dnipropetrovsk region
- Ministry of Defense: Units of the Center group of forces continued to advance into the depths of the enemy's defenses and liberated the settlement of Novosergeevka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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The Pentagon has launched a criminal investigation into leaked intelligence about US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities that suggested they were not destroyed, contrary to what Trump claimed, Politico reports.
"This information was intended for internal use and assessment of combat losses," the head of the department, Piet Hegseth, commented on the situation at the NATO summit in The Hague.
He believes that media reports based on this report are intended to "twist the situation to make the president look bad, even though it was a clear victory."
"We believe that, most likely, (the consequences of a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities) are serious - up to and including complete destruction," Hegseth added.
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US has destroyed its 'SOFT POWER' influence over Iranians — Prof Marandi
Situation inside Iran is 'EXACT OPPOSITE of what West’ thinks
Adds, Iranians are 'completely DISILLUSIONED' with West for condoning 'aggression'
'Unity in Iran' not seen since Iraq invaded in 1980
I recall one opponent of the government noting it will have set back their work 20 years.
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Several European officials have privately expressed dissatisfaction with the subservient behavior toward Trump at the NATO summit, Politico reports.
As an example, the publication cites the words of the Alliance Secretary General Rutte, who called Trump “Daddy”.
"People are very confused. Yes, overall the summit was a success. But the sycophancy was clearly excessive," said one European official, who asked to remain anonymous.
EU has terrible leaders. Bunch of morons and bootlickers. WTF is going on?
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After five long years, a North Korean 🇰🇵 passenger train majestically rolls into Moscow 🇷🇺
Pyongyang's steel serpent returns after an 8-day ride, gliding into Yaroslavsky Station
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◾A protest in Maidan square in Kiev raised the alarm of Zelensky's regime. More than a 1000 men, mostly military active and veteran personnel gathered to protest corruption in the country. Some of the participants were spotted wearing t-shirts of Svastone, a Neo Nazi Ukrainian brand popular with the soldiers of the AFU.
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🇷🇺💥 Work of "Geranium"...
The objective control footage shows the Geranium kamikaze UAVs striking Ukrainian Armed Forces air defense systems in the area of the settlement of Novoekonomicheskoe.
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Zelensky on establishment of anti-Russian tribunal:
'Other institutions, even international ones, don’t have the tools to punish Russia’s aggression'
Tribunal overview claims it'll somehow have 'legal authority' to prosecute Russian leaders, unlike ICC
All rise, clown court is session. Chief clown presiding.
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❗️ The seventh stage of the exchange of prisoners of war between Russia and Ukraine has been completed, in accordance with the Istanbul Agreements.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺Lavrov on how EU decisions on Ukraine are destroying Europe:
[Does this mean that Trump wants to withdraw from the Ukrainian conflict and shift it entirely onto Europe's shoulders?]
I think there is a threat, of course. The threat is getting worse. The taxpayers of the EU countries, and Britain itself, who have been simply robbed over the last three years. And instead of using the resources received through taxation to solve the most acute and aggravating socio-economic problems, this money is used to finance a senseless war in Ukraine. Senseless from the point of view of the lack of any prospects for the Europeans to achieve, no matter how much they brag or strut about their declared goals, namely the strategic defeat of Russia.
Well, it's true that they've already softened their expectations. At first they started talking about how they can't let Russia win. Now they've realized that even that won't work. Now they're saying that there should be an immediate ceasefire, but we'll continue arming Ukraine.
Macron said: "An immediate ceasefire without any conditions. And don't dare hope during the ceasefire that we will stop supplying weapons to Ukraine." Quite frankly, cynically. But of course, another suicidal decision by the European Union, these bureaucrats in Brussels imposed their approaches on the popularly elected government, including a ban, a complete ban on oil and gas supplies from the Russian Federation, supplies that have served as a long-term, reliable foundation for the economic well-being of Europe for many decades.
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Turkey’s Anka-3 UCAV prototype crashed today. The aircraft, in development for the Turkish Air Force, was participating in the International Anatolian Eagle exercises at Konya airbase in central Turkey. Anka-3 is a stealth UCAV powered by a domestically produced turbofan engine
Crashing is part of the process. Without a doubt Turkey has been making large strides in the arms industry.
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Russia’s “Gerbera” drones are overwhelming Ukrainian air defenses. Cheap, plywood-built decoys mixed with real strikes force Ukraine to waste missiles on empty targets. A simple but effective tactic.
- Rybar
Decoys are so critical in modern warfare now with the amount of sensors out there.
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Daily hit parade.
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On June 25, the North group of troops destroyed the enemy's forward and assault units in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions and continued to create a security zone in the Sumy region.
Against the backdrop of colossal losses in the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions, the enemy reduced its activity, concentrating its efforts on replenishing the assault groups with recently mobilized Ukrainians who had undergone short-term training at training grounds in the forests of the Kharkov region (near Chuguev).
At the same time, the enemy tried to break through to our territory twice. The northerners repelled both attacks, preventing a breakthrough of the state border.
▪️ In the morning, an assault group of neo-Nazis "Aidar" (24th separate battalion) advanced in the direction of Tyotkino . As a result of our fire strike, the occupiers were destroyed.
▪️ Also in the first half of the day, the occupiers from the 158th separate mechanized brigade tried to infiltrate the Kursk region through the forests in the vicinity of Bessalovka . As a result of the small arms battle and complex fire damage, most of the enemy attack aircraft were destroyed, the rest fled in the opposite direction.
▪️ Obituaries of the destroyed neo-Nazis of the 24th separate battalion speak of the effectiveness of our artillery and mortar strikes on enemy positions in the vicinity of Ryzhevka.
In the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions , 4 units of enemy equipment were destroyed in 24 hours.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces command continues to transfer new units, including foreign mercenaries, to the Sumy direction . The northerners are repelling enemy counterattacks and continue to advance toward the regional center.
▪️ Over the course of a day, the enemy launched eleven unsuccessful counterattacks: in the direction of Yablonovka, Novonikolaevka, three each in Alekseyevka, Yunakovka , and in the area of the village of Sadki.
In total, the enemy used over 80 people in eleven counterattacks, of which over 40 were killed, over 20 were left wounded lying on the line of combat contact, and the rest fled to their original positions.
▪️ Fearless marines and motorized riflemen continue to clear forest areas in the vicinity of previously liberated settlements in the Sumy region.
▪️ Severyan Airborne Forces units, having repelled three enemy counterattacks, cleared several households in different areas of Yunakovka , and also advanced through fierce fighting in the border forest belts.
▪️ An analysis of the obituaries of destroyed enemies showed that UAV crews from the 59th separate brigade (a unit within the unmanned systems forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces) are operating in this section of the front.
It is characteristic that one of the occupiers from the 59th separate brigade destroyed by the Northerners is an Argentine mercenary with combat experience , Gabriel Piparola, who, during his participation in military operations in Ukraine, managed to start a family in Kiev.
In the Volchansk and Liptsy directions , as a result of fire damage, eight assault groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed along with their vehicles, artillery guns and UAV launchers.
Over the course of a day, the Northerners advanced into Volchansk , where they cleared 11 households and also drove the enemy out of a stronghold in the direction of the village of Volchanskie Khutor .
Over the course of 24 hours, the enemy suffered over 180 casualties (including over 110 in the Sumy and over 30 in the Tyotkinsky directions). Also discovered and destroyed:
On the Tyotkinsky and Glushkovsky directions:
▪️two mortars;
▪️a pickup truck and three ATVs;
▪️ammunition depot.
In the Sumy direction:
▪️howitzer "D-30";
▪️four mortars;
▪️five pickups, three ATVs and an all-terrain vehicle;
▪️three UAV launchers;
▪️ten fixed-wing UAVs and twelve heavy copters.
On the Volchansk and Liptsy directions:
▪️howitzer "FH-70"
▪️electronic warfare station;
▪️three pickups;
▪️four satellite communication stations;
▪️three UAV launchers;
▪️nine heavy copters.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Russian army liberated the village of Shevchenko, breaking through to the Dnepropetrovsk region in another area
- In the Novopavlovsk direction, Russian troops continue to break through the enemy's defenses and drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the village of Shevchenko, raising Russian flags.
- "Russian Armed Forces seized the Shevchenko residential development near Velyka Novosyolka.
- Area of advance: 24.4 hectares," Ukrainian military analysts admitted.
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Streaming now on Slavyangrad: Beloe Zlato
Today's mood: What's not to love about four naturally beautiful young women from Siberia singing Russian folk songs, acapella style?
"Beloe Zlato" (Белое Злато), which translates to "White Gold", is a Russian all-female folk music group from Siberia. They are known for their original compositions and performances of Russian folk songs, often featuring a mix of traditional and modern elements. The group consists of a female ensemble from a Siberian village, known for their sister-led dynamic. They are recognized for their dedication to Russian folk music, incorporating traditional instruments and vocal styles. Their repertoire includes various musical styles, from traditional folk to cooking lessons with acapella singing.
Streaming on 64gram at 128kbps
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The White House summed up the NATO summit with the song 'Daddy's Back Home' (performer Usher)
'Hi baby,
Daddy is back.
Did you miss me while I was away?
I'll fix everything tonight,
'Daddy's home.'
👀
This is late stage Rome…
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🇺🇦🤔 SBU and police began raids in the center of Kiev this morning
- As part of the "anti-terrorist protection of places of mass gatherings" in the Shevchenkivskyi district, everything will be checked: documents, cars, premises, and passages and driveways along the streets may also be restricted.
- Citizens are asked to have documents, local media write.
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German Chancellor Palpatine Schmerz: "The conflict in Ukraine can't be solved through military means".
During the recent NATO circlejerk session meeting, German chancellor Schmerz stated that there's no military solution to this conflict while announcing the 18° package of sanctions and inviting the USA to join in.
According to Schmerz, the way to solve the conflict is to increase economic pressure on Russia.
Hold on a second!
After more than three years spent accusing anyone who dared to say that Ukraine could've never won this war of being a paid-in-rubles Kremlin agent, a Putin supporter, and a traitor to the West, after insulting anyone who asked for negotiations by calling them "pacifakes", after stating maximalist goals like "capitulation of Russia" and "onwards to the last Ukrainian", now they say that there's no military way out?
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'THE HAGUE is the perfect venue' to put Russia on trial — Zelensky speaking at Council of Europe
'Crime of aggression must be recorded, judged and punished'
Ironically, Zelensky ends speech proclaiming 'Glory to Ukraine', slogan used by Nazi-era war criminal Stepan Bandera
- RT
According to Europeans US and Israel attacking Iran didn’t violate international law, so by their own words there was no crime. I also recall Ukraine supporting these attacks.
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AGGRESSOR must LOSE' — Zelensky speaking to Council of Europe
Adds that 'JUSTICE matters'
'War criminals must have nowhere to hide'
Will his words make Washington and Tel Aviv nervous?
- RT
Ukraine started the ATO in 2014, and went to war on the people in Donbass. Justice is being served.
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