The allies accelerate, aware that It will be a difficult summer for Ukraine and it will be even more so next autumn-winter, with energy production capacity reduced to a bare minimum by the relentless Russian bombing. So it’s raining announcements. The F-16s are coming soonalready this summer. Romania will provide a Patriot system, invaluable for defending the Ukrainian skies. The USA then makes it clear that, in agreement with partners waiting for the advanced anti-missile batteries as per signed contracts, they will give priority to Kiev. Finally the EU.
On a political level, Putin consolidates alliance with North Korea. Russia could in fact supply North Korea with high-precision weapons, i.e. missiles capable of threatening American forces on the peninsula, in response to the bombing of Russia with carriers made available to Kiev by NATO countries. The warning was launched by Vladimir Putin from Hanoi, at the conclusion of a mission in East Asia during which on Wednesday in Pyongyang he signed a pact of mutual military assistance with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the event of aggression against one of the two Villages.
Putin: “I do not rule out sending high-precision weapons to North Korea”
Despite its time, the agreement on the 14th package of sanctions has arrived, very “incisive” according to those who did the calculations. Inside there are measures against the export of liquefied natural gas from Russia, the ban on transshipment in European ports (4-6 bcm per year), the inclusion of around a hundred names on the EU blacklist among natural and legal persons , measures on dual use technology and yet another crackdown on sanctions evasion thanks to triangulation with third countries and subsidiaries. “It will be a big blow for Moscow,” assures a European diplomatic source.
In short, after months of melina – costing many lives on the battlefield, as highlighted by the head of NATO Jens Stoltenberg – it seems that the West is on the edge of its seat. “This summer everything will align,” said Dutch Air Force Commander Arnoud Stallmann. Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway have committed to supplying Ukraine with around 80 F-16s and the first jets are on their way, probably from Copenhagen (deliveries will be staggered over a period of years for operational reasons, however).
Russia could supply North Korea with “high-precision weapons”, i.e. missiles capable of threatening American forces on the peninsula, in response to the bombing of Russia with launchers made available to Kiev by NATO countries. The warning was launched yesterday by Vladimir Putin from Hanoi, at the conclusion of a mission in East Asia during which on Wednesday in Pyongyang he signed a pact of mutual military assistance with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the event of an attack on one of the two countries. Putin does not rule out a revision of his nuclear doctrine, taking into account that potential adversaries “are working on this” with a possible “lowering of the threshold for the use of atomic weapons”. Although he was keen to point out that there is no mention of the possibility of foreseeing a preventive attack, because with a simple retaliation “the enemy would be destroyed”.
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1.39pm
Putin warns South Korea against sending weapons
Russian President Vladimir Putin expects South Korea not to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine, otherwise Moscow will take measures that Seoul will not like. “As for the supply of lethal weapons to the combat zone in Ukraine, it would be a big mistake, I hope this does not happen, we will make appropriate decisions that are unlikely to satisfy the current leadership of South Korea,” the Russian president said while speaking last night with the press from Hanoi, where he had visited. South Korea had previously expressed concern over the signing of a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between Russia and North Korea, warning that Seoul may reconsider its stance on arms supplies to Ukraine. The President of the Russian Federation, commenting on these statements, noted that the Republic of Korea has nothing to worry about, because military assistance in accordance with the treaty occurs only if aggression is carried out against one of the parties.
12.33pm
Ukraine: strengthened defense of Chassiv Yar, gateway to the mines of the East
Ukraine has decided to strengthen the defense of Chassiv Yar, a strategic town on the eastern front, gateway to the main mining cities of Donbass. The army made this known on its Facebook profile. The Russian armed forces want to conquer it, even if it is in ruins, with the aim of breaking through to Kramatorsk, the main city still under Ukrainian control in the region, a garrison of the eastern front. “Units of the 24th Mechanized Brigade have been redeployed to strengthen the defense in the Chassiv Yar sector”, writes the same brigade, admitting that “the situation in and around the city is extremely difficult” and that there have been losses even though “the enemy has been heavily hit”. Videos made from the sky and published on Telegram show a destroyed city from which columns of smoke rise. Today a bombing caused “two deaths and three injuries” in the town of Selydove, 60 kilometers south-east of Chassiv Yar, the city administration reported in a press release. “This morning the Russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on the city, hitting a residential area, five five-storey buildings, six private houses”, said the head of the Donetsk region, Vadym Filachkine, inviting citizens to “evacuate” .
11:04
Kiev, radars and intelligence centers in Russia hit. The Ukrainian General Staff: attacks on refineries and in Crimea
The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed that during the night the Afip, Ilya, Krasnodar and Astrakhan oil refineries and radar stations and electronic intelligence centers in the Bryansk region and Crimea were attacked on Russian territory. This was reported by Rbc-Ukraine. Kiev’s army also said it had hit storage and preparation sites for the use of drones, training buildings, control and communication points for drones being launched from Krasnodar. Following the attack there was a series of explosions and a fire.
09:27
Putin does not rule out missiles for Kim and threatens Seoul’s nuclear IRA that it will reconsider the weapons ban on Ukraine
Russia could supply North Korea with “high-precision weapons”, i.e. missiles capable of threatening American forces on the peninsula, in response to the bombing of Russia with launchers made available to Kiev by NATO countries. The warning was launched by Vladimir Putin from Hanoi, at the conclusion of a mission in East Asia during which on Wednesday in Pyongyang he signed a pact of mutual military assistance with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the event of aggression against one of the two Villages. The Russian president thus clarified Moscow’s plans which he had already spoken about on June 5, meeting with foreign agencies, after the permission given by several Western countries to Ukraine to use the weapons supplied by them to attack Russia directly. On that occasion he had spoken of the possibility of supplying similar weapons to “regions of the world” from where they could be used to strike “sensitive targets” in NATO countries.
08:05
Sanctions from Japan against companies in pro-Russian countries
Japan announced the imposition of new sanctions against eleven entities from China, India, Belarus, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan for helping Russia overcome punitive measures imposed by the international community for the invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions come after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida indicated during the G7 leaders’ summit in Italy in mid-month that his Executive is preparing a new package of such measures aimed at third countries that directly support or indirectly Russia. At that meeting the Group of Seven criticized the export of goods with potential military use to Russia through third countries and showed its willingness to take measures to disrupt these trade routes which allow Moscow to evade international sanctions in its comparisons. Japan “will continue to work together with the G7 and other members of the international community” with the aim of “maintaining the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia”, executive spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi said in a press conference. “These are not sanctions against specific countries, but rather entities involved in evading Russian sanctions,” the spokesperson stressed. The new Japanese sanctions include freezing the assets of individuals, companies and other entities from the countries, as well as more individuals and entities from Russia and restrictions on payments and other capital transactions and a ban on Japanese exports to companies subject to these measures. (AGI)Red/Car
07:15
US ready to ban Russian Kaspersky antivirus
Joe Biden’s administration has announced its intention to ban the sale in the United States of antivirus software produced by the Russian company Kaspersky Lab. Moscow’s influence on the company would represent a risk, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a briefing with journalists. Reuters reports it.
07:12
Moscow: 114 drones launched from Kiev shot down
The Russian armed forces shot down 114 drones launched by the Ukrainian armed forces during the night and destroyed six unmanned boats. This was announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency. In detail, Russian air defense systems shot down 70 drones over the Crimea and the Black Sea, another 43 over the Krasnodar Territory and one over the Volgograd region, according to what the ministry explained. “Last night, the Kiev regime’s attempt to carry out a terrorist attack using unmanned boats and unmanned aircraft against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped,” the statement read.
