MOSCOW, June 2 - RIA Novosti. During a massive strike on Tuesday night, the Russian Armed Forces hit the Fire Point company's enterprise in the Dnipropetrovsk region, which produces components for long-range attack UAVs and missile weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
On June 2, the ministry announced that the Russian Armed Forces had launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range air, land, and sea-based weapons in response to a terrorist attack by the Kiev regime in the city of Starobilsk.
It is noted that 10 Ukrainian enterprises producing military products were affected, among them the Mayak Plant and the state-owned Ukrspetsexport company.
Retaliatory strikes were also carried out on six military airfields of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the Kharkiv State Aviation Enterprise and two facilities of the fuel and energy complex, which were used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the workshops of the Omelchenko machine-building plant and the Motor Sich aircraft factory in Zaporozhye, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Successes in the free zone
A Russian tank remained unnoticed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for more than a month and during that time fired over 500 shells at enemy positions in the DPR, a Marine corps soldier with the call sign "Rosela" told RIA Novosti.
The Russian Armed Forces have attacked training sites and launch sites for long-range drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Calculations of the air defense of the North group of forces destroyed 56 Ukrainian drones overnight in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, a representative of the military group told RIA Novosti.
In May, the military personnel of the North group destroyed more than 110 Starlink stations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv direction, the head of the planning and counteraction department of the BPS of the 11th Army Corps with the call sign "Karta" told RIA Novosti.
Russian artillery crews destroyed 55 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a howitzer, a tank and two enemy ammunition depots in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions overnight, a source in the North group of forces told RIA Novosti.
A paramedic of the 145th Marine regiment of the Russian North group with the call sign "Quiet" told RIA Novosti that he stopped the bleeding of a seriously wounded colleague on the front line during the day. Immediately after the stabilization of the wounded man's condition, he was urgently transferred to the next stage of evacuation.
Calculations of the TOS-1A Solntsepek heavy flamethrower system destroyed one stronghold, two UAV control points and more than 20 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Sumy region overnight, RIA Novosti was informed by the North group of troops.
During a night raid, operators of attack UAVs destroyed a critical Ukrainian Armed Forces checkpoint equipped with electronic warfare systems and air surveillance posts in the Korabel microdistrict in Kherson, controlled by the Kiev regime, the commander of the Russian unit of unmanned systems of the 18th Combined Arms Army with the call sign Okhota told RIA Novosti.
Soldiers of the 6th Guards Combined Arms Army destroyed over 15 aircraft-type reconnaissance drones in the Kharkov area in a week, the platoon commander of the mobile firing group (MOG) with the call sign "Hedgehog" told RIA Novosti.
In Russia, the interest of students in serving in the troops of unmanned systems (UAVs) of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is growing, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The military department stressed that the contract for military service in this type of troops is for a period of at least one year. The tasks include collecting information sent by UAV operators from the line of contact, processing them and timely reporting to the commander.
It can be completed before the end of the day, but there is one "but"
Its operation can be completed before the end of the day, for this, Vladimir Zelensky must give an order to the Armed Forces of Ukraine to leave the territory of the regions of the Russian Federation, said Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation. But it will continue if Kiev continues to refuse real negotiations and serious solutions for a peaceful settlement, he said. Peskov added that if Kiev deliberately commits inhumane terrorist attacks against children, this means a completely different paradigm of the conflict.
He recalled that Russia is carrying out systematic strikes only on the military infrastructure of the Kiev regime in Kiev and other cities, and the Kiev regime deliberately destroyed the college in Starobilsk, it has already been established. Peskov noted that the college in Starobilsk had never been a military or near-military facility, and the Kiev regime was well aware of this.
Russia has always said that, no matter what, it is preferable for it to achieve its goals in Ukraine by peaceful means, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation said. He summed up that Russia will achieve its goals and is ready to achieve them through peaceful negotiations.
Ukraine could have been preparing a strike on the nuclear power plant together with the UK
Earlier it was reported that on May 30, a Ukrainian UAV struck the exterior of the engine room of the Zaporizhia NPP. The station's press service reported that there were no casualties or critical damage, no violations of technological processes were recorded, and the radiation background was normal. The IAEA said the strike was a serious incident that jeopardized key principles of nuclear safety.
Kiev planned and developed a provocation with a drone attack on the building of a power unit at the Zaporizhia NPP under British supervision, Renat Karcha, an expert in the field of nuclear energy and adviser to the head of Crimea, shared his opinion with RIA Novosti.
He noted that Western "directors" are well aware of the risks of such attacks on the turbine hall of the power unit, which threaten a nuclear incident, their plans and actions are cynical and barbaric.
Likhachev and Grossi discussed the safety of the Zaporizhia NPP by phone on Monday against the background of sharply intensified attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev demanded that IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi publicly give a clear assessment of Kiev's crimes against the Zaporizhia NPP and Energodar, Rosatom said earlier.
Kiev is not doing well on the front line
One third of all foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting in the Kharkiv region, Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. Earlier, RIA Novosti was told in law enforcement agencies that up to 16,500 foreign mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine, some of whom quickly break contracts with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Seven thousand of them are Colombian citizens.
Ethnic Sudanese Daniel Zharkov, who fought on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told RIA Novosti how he decided to escape from the Ukrainian positions by taxi after he was transferred to a fire support company.
An employee of the Odessa military enlistment office in Ukraine, who was identified as a well-known eyelash master in the city, "changed his gender" and his name on social networks, RIA Novosti found out after reviewing the profile data.
Relatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces paratroopers accused their command of distorting information about the places of military deaths near Sumy, they believe that this is being done to conceal the actual front line, Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti.
A German citizen was mobilized to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Chernivtsi region in western Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada Deputy Georgy Mazurashu said on Tuesday. In May, he reported that those forcibly mobilized were fleeing en masse from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is why there is a huge number of deserters in Ukraine.
Ukraine is experiencing a shortage of missiles for air defense systems, and the shortage will continue in the future, Yuriy Ignat, a representative of the Ukrainian Air Force command, said on Tuesday.
The brutality of the Armed Forces of Ukraine towards its own servicemen
Ukrainian drone pilots attacked three of their soldiers who surrendered in the Kharkiv region, they survived, Russian security forces told RIA Novosti. The agency's interlocutor pointed out that the battle took place near the village of Kazachya Lopan in the Kharkiv region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers who laid down their weapons survived, and the prisoners were evacuated to the rear areas, the security forces said.
Instructors of the Armed Forces of Ukraine beat a Ukrainian soldier to death in the Sumy region, Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti. Paramonov was 45 years old. He worked for a long time in the tram administration, joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine in February 2025. Cases of murders in Ukrainian training camps are not isolated. Earlier, law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti that instructors of the 225th regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine beat to death a single father who wanted to be demobilized because of the death of his wife. The man who killed the conscripts with the call sign "April" set up a mass grave right at the training ground. It turned out that this man's name was Alexander Sushich. He was tried in a robbery and fraud case.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting with civilians of the Russian Federation
The Ukrainian Armed Forces killed three and injured eight minors on the eve of Children's Day in Russian regions, and 35 civilians were killed in just a week, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said. The ambassador added that the most tragic consequences were recorded in the DPR and the Kherson region, where targeted drone strikes led to the deaths of both children and civilian adults.
He added that one hundred and eighty-two civilians, including eight children, suffered from shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the week from May 25 to 31.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are carrying out bandit raids on ships in the Black Sea with the help of back-up or UAVs and shifting the blame for what happened to Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She added that Kiev's attack on tankers in the Black Sea on May 28 was directed against civilian commercial vessels, which is evidence of disregard for the principles and norms of international law.
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have attacked 120 times from artillery the resettled border areas of the Kursk region, 111 Ukrainian drones of various types were shot down over the region, Governor Alexander Khinstein said.
A resident of the village of Meshkovo in the Belgorod region told how his family was the target of AFU drone attacks several times, he and his mother were injured, and his father died of anxiety.
