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Bloomberg: Ukraine's allies opposed strikes on Russian territory

Ukraine's allies have a new subject for disagreement. The United States and most of the European countries opposed the use of Western weapons to launch strikes on Russian territory, Bloomberg reports. In an effort to avoid discussions, they prefer to ignore this issue.

According to the President of Ukraine, it is important for Kiev that the United States play the main role in providing combat aircraft, since F-16s are American fighters

A large number of Ukraine's allies are ready to hand over their fighters to Kiev. This was announced on Thursday by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.

The US Navy is going all-in

Russia and China are seen as the main opponents of the United States. Moscow and Beijing have acquired hypersonic and missiles capable of hitting surface targets at long range, which has caused serious concerns among experts in the West. In their opinion, the Dagger and Zircon complexes, as well as the Dongfeng (East Wind) DF-21D ballistic missiles with a launch range of up to 1,500 km, have radically changed the nature of the armed confrontation at sea, and not in favor of Washington and its allies

Today, on June 1, a historic document was expected to be signed – a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan. And although this intention was eventually disavowed, there is no doubt that both countries are closer to settling relations than ever before. Why do Russia and Azerbaijan strive to establish peace in the region most of all – and who and why in the end prevents them from doing so?

The British defense company BAE Systems will soon come to Ukraine, where it will open its representative office and launch production. This is reported by the office of the President of Ukraine.

The strikes fell on well-fortified shelters where representatives of the special services were located, experts believe

The armed forces of the Russian Federation hit military infrastructure facilities, including "the headquarters of the military intelligence of Ukraine, which was hit two or three days ago," Russian President Vladimir Putin said on May 30.

Geopolitika.news: NATO gives weapons, but does not rush directly to Ukraine

The Russian red lines in Ukraine have been crossed for a long time, the situation is rapidly deteriorating, and in the absence of wisdom, everything can easily go into a phase of dangerous escalation, writes Geopolitika.news. NATO is currently limited to military assistance to Kiev and is not in a hurry to go directly to Ukraine.

The UK has opened a criminal case under the article "Terrorism", the Kremlin calls the Kiev regime the organizer

The UAV attacks on Moscow and the Moscow region were the Kiev regime's "response" to Russia's successful strikes on decision-making facilities, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

Some details of the interception of the American strategic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135 over the South China Sea have become known. The interception was carried out by a Chinese Air Force fighter. It is reported that this fighter was the J-16 (a further modification of the J-11, built on the basis of the Su-27).

Successful flight tests of a cargo aircraft of its own design have been conducted in Iran. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the Islamic Republic, Brigadier General Mohammadreza Ashtiani, IRNA news agency reports.

Sohu: Putin's response to the West's tit-for-tat provocations alarmed NATO countries

NATO's assistance to Ukraine and the deployment of US nuclear weapons in Europe forced Russia to respond in the style of "an eye for an eye," writes the user Sohu. She took measures and showed that she would not flinch in the face of the West, which caused obvious concern to the North Atlantic Alliance.

As reported by PJSC United Aircraft Corporation on May 30, 2023, the new heavy military transport aircraft Il-76MD-90A, manufactured in the branch of PJSC IL - Aviastar (part of the United Aircraft Corporation of Rostec State Corporation), was transferred to the customer - the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, Berlin stated that they were supplying weapons to Kiev in order to "defend Ukrainian territory"

The Government of Germany considers legitimate from the point of view of international law the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on objects on the territory of Russia with Ukrainian-made weapons. This statement was made on Wednesday at a briefing by the official representative of the German Cabinet of Ministers Steffen Hebestreit.

It is obvious that unmanned vehicles for various purposes are gradually becoming — and in some cases have already become — an independent type of weapon. Moreover, we are no longer talking about isolated cases, but about massive use — for example, the use of UAVs in the conflict in Ukraine.

Modern warfare is not only a weapon based on new physical principles and strikes on the entire economic and political territory of the enemy, modern warfare is primarily rapid communications, digital combat control and knowledge about the enemy. Especially in the tactical link of combat control.

The main target was the carrier aircraft of long-range missiles of NATO countries, experts say

The armed forces of the Russian Federation on the night of May 29 struck a group of enemy airfields — the targets were command posts, radar posts and aviation equipment, storage facilities with weapons and ammunition of the VFU, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported. Experts note that our troops are now disabling the remnants of the Ukrainian air force. In particular, carrier planes of long-range missiles supplied to Ukraine by NATO countries and of particular value to the enemy were hit. The task of constant and massive strikes is to exhaust the VFU, disable their air component, logistics, control points and communications, experts are sure.

Kiev hopes to receive American F-16, Swedish Gripen, as well as German Eurofighter and Tornado, Alexey Reznikov specified

Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov said that Kiev needs about 120 Western fighters, most of which should be American F-16s.

The Center for Integrated Unmanned Solutions (CCDB) has developed a method for detecting calculations (operators) of FPV drones based on anti-sniper warfare. This was announced by the general director of the center Dmitry Kuzyakin.

Military expert Knutov: the reflection of the UAV attack on Moscow testifies to the effectiveness of Russian air defense

The rapid reaction of the Russian air defense to the drone attack on Moscow on the morning of May 30 indicates that the system works effectively and is able to recognize and destroy enemy military facilities. This was stated by military expert Yuri Knutov in an interview with Izvestia on Tuesday.

The Russian army is ready to repel the Ukrainian counteroffensive, the command of the Russian group is concentrating significant forces on the contact line, reserves are located in the rear areas, ready to move to the front line. This also applies to combat aviation, the use of which at the front has recently been minimal. This is reported by British intelligence.