BREAKING - Radio Zet: Two stray rockets fell in the town of Przewodów in Poland on the border with Ukraine. They hit the grain dryers. Two people died. The police, the prosecutor's office and the army are on site.
Norway’s nuclear test-ban monitor NORSAR says seismic signals indicate that there was an explosion at the Nova Kakhovka Dam at 02:54 AM on June 6, meaning kinetic action was highly likely used to bring the dam down.
Magnitude estimated between 1 and 2.
BREAKING: Hungary’s government supports the NATO membership of Sweden and Finland and has submitted the ratification documents to the National Assembly, minister says - Politico
BREAKING: Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed while Biden was in Ukraine, US officials say - CNN
Big Russian telegram channel: "To cut off rumors. Two Mi-8s, one Su-35 and one Su-34 were shot down in Bryansk region. We will avenge everyone, we will kill everyone"
Holy moly.
The Legion of Freedom of Russia has just posted the following on telegram
"Russian Volunteer Corps and the Legion of Freedom of Russia are in touch. We hold the line and continue to liberate our Motherland"
BREAKING: Ukrainian drone attack reported against Russia's black sea fleet in Sevastopol. Governor says that the "fleet is now repelling the attack of surface drones. All services of the city are on alert" - TASS
BREAKING: Ukrainian officials say that they almost never launch HIMARS rounds without detailed coordinates provided by U.S. military personnel situated elsewhere in Europe - WaPo
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: US readying $2.2 bln weapons package for Ukraine that includes longer-range rockets for the first time, according to two US officials - Reuters
BREAKING: The US is considering expanding its support for the war in Ukraine, as Kyiv worries that Russia could make a new push to take the capital as soon as January, sources say - Politico
BREAKING: The Chinese spy balloon was 200 feet tall and had a payload the size of a jetliner. The balloon weighed more than a couple thousand pounds and potentially carried explosives "to detonate and destroy the balloon", senior US general says - Reuters
BREAKING: China is weighing sending lethal military aid like weaponry to Russia for use in Ukraine. The US has been concerned enough that they have been sharing this intelligence with allies, officials say - CNN
BREAKING: Some pilots that interacted with the object over Alaska said that it "interfered with their sensors". Some pilots also claimed to have seen no identifiable propulsion on the object, and could not explain how it was staying in the air - CNN
BREAKING: South Korea will for the first time sell artillery shells destined for Ukrainian forces through a confidential arms deal between Seoul and Washington - WSJ
A Russian channel points out after the Kakhovka dam destruction that Russia has a "trump card" which is blowing up the dam in the Kyiv reservoir
"Hundreds of thousands are likely to die. This dam is a time bomb whose timer has already started ticking"
Australia, the US and Ukraine are discussing sending 41 Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 Hornets to Ukraine rather than sending them to the scrapheap as planned, Sources have told The Australian Financial Review
Leader of a Russian paramilitary unit in Ukraine after a video was posted of a Ukrainian soldier being decapitated earlier: "You will be surprised how many of these videos will gradually pop up😁"
1.41K "smiley faces".
Why is it that "american patriots" nowadays almost always support America's adversaries? Like, how does bending over to Russia and China make someone a patriot? Genuine question.
JUST IN: Russia was targeting a Patriot battery with a hypersonic kinzhal missile in Ukraine last week. The same Patriot battery shot down the missile, two US officials say - CNN
Russian military correspondent Sladkov: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine are trying to break through to Staromlynovka. Night events will show either the stability of our defense, or the effectiveness of the enemy"
BREAKING: The Netherlands is considering buying 18 Leopard 2 tanks leased from Germany and then donating them to Ukraine, Dutch PM tells Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Legion of Freedom of Russia: "We 'demilitarized' a motorized rifle company of the Russian Armed Forces, destroying several armoured vehicles. In the near future you will see video confirmation of our actions"
Breaking: Ukraine and its Western allies are engaged in "fast-track" talks on the possibility of equipping Ukraine with long-range missiles and military aircrafts, a top Ukrainian presidential aide says - Nikkei
New footage has emerged showing Russian forces doing an ISIS-style execution of a Ukrainian soldier by cutting off his head while he is alive. One of the worst videos I have ever seen.
BREAKING: The Biden administration is planning to send advanced electronic equipment to Ukraine that converts unguided aerial munitions into “smart bombs” that can target Russian military positions with a high degree of accuracy, senior U.S. officials - WaPo
BREAKING: A Russian nuclear strike against Ukraine would trigger "such a powerful answer" from the West that the Russian army would be "annihilated", EU's foreign policy chief says
Zelensky in his nightly address says "I am grateful to every warrior, to all our defenders, who provided us today with the news we have all been waiting for in the Bakhmut direction. Well done, warriors"
BREAKING: Twelve countries have agreed to supply Ukraine with around 100 Leopard 2 tanks if the German government gives its consent, a senior Ukrainian official tells ABC News
BREAKING: There are signs Putin is weighing making a "big move" in the next several weeks to regain the initiative in the war, officials familiar with the intelligence tells CNN.
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: The Biden administration is leaning toward sending a significant number of Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine and an announcement of the deliveries could come this week, U.S. officials says - WSJ
BREAKING: The Biden administration is considering releasing intelligence it believes shows that China is weighing whether to supply weapons to support Russia’s war in Ukraine, US officials say - WSJ
Ukrainian troops witnessed Russian soldiers being swept up in flood waters and fleeing the east bank of the Dnipro River after the collapse of the Nova Khakovka dam. Many Russian troops were killed or wounded in the chaos, an officer in Ukraine's armed forces says - CNN
"World War III would start the moment Russian tanks arrived in Kyiv and on the borders of Europe. Making sure they do not arrive is the only way to stop World War III", Italy's defence minister says - ANSA
BREAKING: China has recruited dozens of former British military pilots to teach the Chinese armed forces how to defeat western warplanes & helicopters, officials say - Sky News
NEW: The Pentagon has overvalued U.S. equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion. The error opens up the possibility of more weapons being sent to Kyiv, a senate aid and defence official says - Reuters
BREAKING: The US is considering sending Ukraine thousands of seized weapons and more than a million rounds of ammunition bound for Iran-backed fighters in Yemen, U.S. and European officials say - WSJ
Russian telegram channel Military informant: The Ukrainian army "managed to completely cut off the Vremievsky ledge". Russian forces withdraw to the Staromaiorske & Urozhaine line and will most likely have to leave Rivnopil.
Slovakia is ready to send 30 T-72 tanks to Ukraine "immediately" provided it can receive Western tanks to replace them, Defence Minister says - Reuters
BREAKING: UK defence minister has been tasked with investigating what jets that we may "be able to provide to Ukraine", UK PM Sunak's spokesperson - Reuters
BREAKING: The U.S. has secretly modified the Himars rocket launchers it gave to Ukraine so they can’t be used to fire long-range missiles into Russia, U.S. officials say - WSJ
BREAKING: There has been "fairly specific" intelligence since November that ISIS-K wanted to carry out attacks in Russia. US intelligence warned Russia about this, sources tell CNN
@elonmusk
Try telling people in Bucha, Izyum, Mariupol and all across Ukraine to "remain neutral" after Russia brutally attacked their homeland and killed thousands. Would you say the same if it was the US that got attacked?
BREAKING: Putin says Russia may consider formally adding the possibility of a preventive nuclear first strike to disarm an opponent to its military doctrine - Bloomberg
BREAKING: A "unidentified flying object" has been spotted in the waters near the coastal city of Rizhao in China's Shandong Province. Authorities are preparing to shoot it down, Local maritime authorities say - Global Times
BREAKING: Nine countries jointly commit to collectively pursuing the delivery of an "unprecedented set of donations" to Ukraine, including main battle tanks - Reuters
The group includes the UK, Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Czech Republic, Netherlands and Slovakia
Breaking: Republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee says that the momentum in Washington was shifting towards sending long-range missiles and fighter jets to Ukraine - Reuters