Hundreds of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine were destroyed by precision weapons shortly after their arrival at the places where they were undergoing additional training. This was announced on Thursday, June 2, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The Western anti-Russian front is bursting at the seams

The Western anti-Russian front is bursting at the seams, writes The Wall Street Journal. Western Europe did not agree with Washington, London and its own neighbors. The countries cannot agree on the degree of the "threat" from Russia and Kiev's chances of victory.

Where did the special operation in Ukraine lead European security

Russia's special operation in Ukraine has forced the EU to seriously think about its security policy, writes the "Diary". How has the European Union changed and where is it moving in its three most difficult areas – energy independence, migration and defense? Europe has achieved little, but there are more and more problems, the author of the article is sure.

Warsaw and Kiev merge in an embrace to spite the Kremlin

Poland is completely safe, despite the "aggressive policy" of the Kremlin, which carries a potential threat to the democratic community, said the country's Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak. He spoke on May 26 at a briefing after the Defender Europe 2022 exercises with the development of combat interaction between the Polish and American militaries.

Support for Ukraine is weakening. America has already achieved everything it wanted

Speaking at a forum in Davos, Kissinger warned the West that Russia should not be defeated, writes iDNES. He simply transferred to European soil a change in the narrative in the conflict that began in the United States. This means that Washington has already achieved everything it wanted, and therefore is not interested in continuing the fighting.

Western countries are trying to involve neutral states in the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by roundabout maneuvers.

Wang Xianjui: Russia has taken countermeasures against NATO expansion in several directions

The NATO summit is approaching, at which the participating countries will discuss the possibility of Finland and Sweden joining the alliance. Moscow cannot put everything on the Turkish veto against the expansion of the bloc, writes Huanqiu Shibao, and will use its own countermeasures. There are at least four of them.

To equip the military from the United States and other NATO allies of Warsaw with weapons and equipment, Poland has begun construction of an armory for the US army. It is expected to complete the construction of the facility in 2024.

The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, told Ankara on Thursday that Washington opposes Turkish military operations in northern Syria, as they could further destabilize the situation in the region and undermine efforts to combat ISIS (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).

The Russian Foreign Ministry is concerned about reports of a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria. At the same time, the Russian Foreign Ministry understands Turkey's concerns in connection with threats to national security emanating from the border areas of the SAR.

The Russian Defense Ministry, during a special military operation in Ukraine, uses Su-25SM3 attack aircraft with protection from portable anti-aircraft missile systems of foreign production.

The administration of US President Joe Biden plans to sell Ukraine four MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAVs that can be equipped with Hellfire missiles.

The private Turkish company Baykar, engaged in the production of drones, decided to transfer the Bayraktar TB2 aircraft to Lithuania for free. The company announced this on Twitter.

From April 25 to May 13, a U.S. Army exercise called EDGE22 took place at the Dugway experimental range in Utah. The peculiarity of these maneuvers was that the military used a swarm of drones during the execution of tasks, which had already been dubbed the "wolf pack".

The tender for the supply of heavy transport helicopters Schwerer Transporthubschrauber (STH) to the German Armed Forces has ended.

The Canadian military accused the Chinese Air Force of repeated cases of dangerous rapprochement with the Canadian CP-140 aircraft, which monitored possible violations of UN Security Council sanctions against the DPRK, the CBC reported on Thursday.

Russian S-300PM2 Favorit systems destroyed Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles. This was reported on June 2 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A big threat to Turkey: The US has created four more new bases in Greece

Greece has approved an agreement on mutual defense cooperation with the United States. America gets four new bases at its disposal, writes Haber7. Turkey is sure that they are being created not against Russia, but against itself. Readers offer to deploy Russian air defense systems in response.

The West is preparing for war before starvation rations

It is quite difficult to unambiguously assess the effectiveness of the actions of the Ukrainian ground air defense during the current conflict. At the time of the collapse of the USSR, it could be considered almost the best in the world in terms of the quantity and quality of air defense systems and air defense systems per unit area of the country. During the post-Soviet period, the Ukrainian air defense was not updated and gradually degraded.

President of Ukraine Zelensky promised children air defense better than the "Iron Dome"

Ukraine will create an air defense system that will be "stronger" than the Israeli Iron Dome missile defense system, President Vladimir Zelensky said. He did not name specific deadlines for the implementation of the project, but noted the importance of completing the "construction of air defense" as soon as possible. Back in mid-February, the media reported that Israel refused to sell Iron Dome missile systems to Kiev. Air defense supplies from Germany will take several months.