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Putin promised to respond with "strikes" if Kiev gets the opportunity to attack Russia with missiles from the United States

Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin in the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" on the channel "Russia 1" commented on the announced US deliveries of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine. The Head of State said that if the range of the missiles transferred to Kiev allows it to hit the territory of the Russian Federation, then Russia will strike "at those objects that it has not yet struck."

A serious conflict is growing between Zelensky and his generals, the head of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said. Zelensky does not interfere in any way with Poland's plans to "chop off" Western Ukraine, which causes just indignation in the General Staff, Lukashenko explained. But the quarrel arose, apparently, a month ago: the first reports about it were received after the unsuccessful landing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Snake Island. Is Ukraine facing a military coup?

The supply of a wide range of Western weapons to Ukraine is not only aimed at, as the EU leadership puts it, "defeating Russia on the battlefield." Moreover, according to a number of signs, the combat effectiveness of both Stingers, Javelins, and Bayraktars turned out to be almost shameful. However, the very fact of the participation of these types of weapons in real battles is of great importance for the West. Why?

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.

In the DPR, the city is surrounded, from where Donetsk was shelled for eight years

The cleaning of Severodonetsk continues in the LPR, and the operation to encircle the city of Avdiivka is progressing in the DPR. His release will solve the problem of water supply to Donetsk, experts explain.

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.

Five decades of Russian expansion in the Sahel

Russia is aware that the Sahel region is the main reference point for expansion into the depths of the African continent, writes Al-Quds Al-Arabi. According to the author, in order to realize its ambitions, Moscow needs to overcome some difficulties, in particular, the traditional influence of Paris.

The Polish army seems to have decided to get rid of the remnants of its armored legacy from the Warsaw Pact. Now the nationalists of Ukraine are being sent extremely stale goods - old T-72M of the 1980 model.

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.

The Ukrainian military received American self-propelled artillery units (ACS) M109, writes Rossiyskaya Gazeta with reference to the Telegram channel "Military Informant".

Military expert Andrey Frolov — on whether Germany will supply IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft systems to Ukraine

On June 1, German Chancellor Scholz announced plans to transfer IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). The decision immediately caused increased attention, since for the first time it came to the supply of Western-made air defense systems to Ukraine. Before that, only portable complexes were supplied to Kiev.

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

On June 1, US President Joe Biden announced new military supplies to Ukraine in the amount of $ 700 million, RIA Novosti reports.

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.

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

Western analysts are discussing the decision taken by the White House to supply HIMARS missile systems to Kiev. The discussion is primarily due to the fact that at first Biden stated that he would not send Ukraine weapons with which it could strike at the territory of the Russian Federation, but the very next day the same Biden signed a document on such supplies.

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 heads of the military departments of Slovakia and Ukraine signed a contract for the supply of eight Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers to Kiev.

Biden's decision to deliver HIMARS long-range MLRS to Ukraine opened up such an opportunity for other Western countries, who were only waiting for Washington's go-ahead. Following the United States, the United Kingdom also announced the sending of multiple launch rocket systems to Kiev.

The Swiss government vetoed Denmark's request to send Swiss-made armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, citing a policy of neutrality, which consists in refusing to supply weapons to conflict zones.