❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces decided to "congratulate" the Black Sea Fleet in their own way on the holiday. Since early morning, due to the enemy's air activity in Crimea, the missile danger alert has been triggered three times.

During the first attack, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, four Storm Shadow missiles and seven drones launched from the Kherson region were shot down.

The next two alerts in southern Russia were false alarms due to flights of cruise missile carriers over the Mykolaiv region. Given how much the Western curators love symbolic dates for their attacks, this is clearly not the last attempt for today.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Missile Strike on Belbek

🔻During the night, Ukrainian forces carried out a new strike on Crimean airfields. This time, the target was Belbek, where up to 16 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles with cluster warheads were launched.

▪️The sounds of the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division were heard by the population of Crimea and Sevastopol around 2 AM. Flashes and explosion sounds in the sky were even reported by residents of Chernomorske. In total, about 13 missiles were shot down on the approaches to Belbek.

▪️Unfortunately, one or two missiles could not be intercepted. And the results of the impact became known to the whole world again thanks to the publication of a video from a surveillance camera online. How and why this is still possible in the third year of the war is a rhetorical question.

❗️As we and our colleagues have noted before, until criminal liability is introduced for publishing such videos and photos, Ukrainian forces will easily assess the results of their strikes even without the help of NATO satellites.

🔻It is not entirely clear where the missile launch was carried out from. Past raids were from the Beryslav area. But the enemy usually changes positions to avoid detection. And the 300 km range of ATACMS increases the combat capabilities of the AFU.

At the same time, it is not excluded that this time the launch was carried out from the Kherson region. However, some of our sources report that the flight of the missiles was recorded from the direction of Zmiinyi. So the launchers could have been somewhere near Vylkove on the border with Romania.

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Footage of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet exercises to combat kamikaze UAVs.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Chasiv Yar: Advances of the Russian Armed Forces in the Canal neighborhood
Situation as of 5:00 PM on May 20, 2024

Heavy fighting has been ongoing on the eastern outskirts of Chasiv Yar since early April. After a month and a half of intense shelling of enemy positions, Russian forces have managed to carry out several successful sorties into the multi-story residential and private sectors of the neighborhood, significantly expanding their zone of control.

▪️In the central part of the neighborhood, a Russian armored group attacked along Highway O0506, which turns into Zelena Street at the entrance to Chasiv Yar. After losing several armored vehicles, they managed to fight their way to the buildings adjacent to the territory of School No. 77 and deploy infantry. According to some reports, assault groups also managed to consolidate their positions in the first five-story buildings on Horbatova Street.

▪️To the north, Russian troops expanded their control zone in the dacha areas, clearing the area east of the Chasiv Yar Repair Plant, where fighting is currently ongoing.

▪️On the southern flank, the Russian Armed Forces have taken almost full control of the territory of the Stupky-Holubivski-2 nature reserve, as confirmed by footage from objective control: Russian army armored vehicles are relatively calmly driving along the entire forest area, reaching the southernmost outskirts of the Canal neighborhood. The footage published online captured several attempts to enter the residential area.

🔻At the moment, they have not been able to consolidate directly in the multi-story residential area: the fighting is taking place in the area of the garages adjacent to the houses on Obraztsova and Horbatova Streets. However, the very fact of the breakthrough in this area indicates that the Russian Armed Forces have managed to break the enemy's defense, and the capture of the eastern part of the city is only a matter of time.

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Personnel from the first stage of the exercise with practical training on the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 USVs with MLRS - now a reality

The special military operation is truly transforming modern conflicts from top to bottom. We have seen many significant trends that are echoing in other crisis regions around the world.

And the drone sphere is a key one of them. From the most basic copters to the conversion of light aircraft into kamikaze drones - we have seen all of this during the SMO.

🔻The same can be said about unmanned surface vessels, whose capabilities have expanded from simple kamikaze drones to makeshift air defense systems equipped with anti-aircraft missiles and machine guns.

And now our colleagues from the channel Beyond the Fogs have demonstrated the use of rocket projectiles from a USV near the Tendra Spit. It turned out to be a kind of ersatz MLRS launcher that can be used against ground targets.

Of course, the accuracy of such systems is lacking, as in the case of air defense missiles, but now it is no longer just a kamikaze drone, but a quite combat-capable unit that can create some kind of problems in the already turbulent Black Sea.

❗️One can say a lot "yes, they are useless, the accuracy is poor, no benefit at all", but the important thing is that the development of this sphere is progressing by leaps and bounds. And further technologies will become better, and ways to counter (and introduce similar weapons) need to be sought now.
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The Kalashnikov Concern presents an exclusive video of the flight of the SKAT 350 M drone, designed for round-the-clock aerial reconnaissance in the optical and infrared ranges.
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❗️🇷🇺🪖 On the arrest of the head of the Main Directorate of Communications, Vadim Ashmarin

Rumors about investigative actions against the head of the Main Directorate of Communications appeared the day before yesterday.

Despite the fact that his predecessor Khalilov was arrested back in 2020, the investigation into that case is still ongoing.

There are many claims against the Main Directorate of Communications: since 2013, a very small percentage of R&D (research and development) has been implemented, although for 11 years since the dissolution of the DRIIT, all R&D has been carried out through the Information Technology Development Directorate. And this is all - money, and a lot of it. Spending was there, but implementation was not.

There are plenty of claims against Shamarin regarding falsification, inflating reports about how everything is fine, and unjustified organizational decisions that have harmed the organization of communications in the troops.

And if you add to this the stories about the scandalous Azart-BV, the numerous fakes that were, to put it mildly, ineffective, the list of uncomfortable questions will be huge.

Moreover, last week, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Accounts Chamber landed at "K-Tekhnologii". This company is responsible for computers, screens, the famous multimedia globe in the atrium of the National Defense Control Center - in general, everything expensive, rich and useless from the series of products that have no analogues.

📌 All these movements began after the Board of the Ministry of Defense of Russia: yes, there is no witch hunt, but there is an audit.

And on the example of K-Tekhnologii, it is obvious that now the audit is being conducted along a different line: the Main Military Investigation Directorate and the Main Military Prosecutor's Office have been somewhat pushed aside.

And as we can see, this audit is tough and effective, since not only Yuri Kuznetsov was taken, but now Vadim Ashmarin as well.
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🇷🇺Russian President Vladimir Putin allowed the use of American property in the Russian Federation to compensate for damage from the seizure of Russian property in the United States

The special commission will identify property owned by US persons, including securities, that can be used to compensate for damages.
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🇷🇺🪖 On the cancellation of the "Tank Biathlon" and the 2024 Army International Games

This year, one of the main events of the Russian Ministry of Defense has been canceled. The army is rejoicing: there will be no distractions from combat operations, no "showmanship", people are doing serious work. But the need has disappeared for somewhat different reasons.

If we look at the "Tank Biathlon" and Army International Games not from the military perspective with its obvious shortcomings, but from an economic and PR point of view, then earlier (let's express an unpopular version) this event could be found to have several positive aspects:

▪️ It created an information background for concluding contracts through the military-industrial complex, FSVTS and Rosoboronexport;

▪️ It created a beautiful picture of powerful and effective armed forces;

▪️ In the Russian army, a spirit of competition was maintained (according to reports), there was an incentive to grow further, receive awards, and so on.

📌 In general, a product was created that allowed creating both demand and supply, as well as motivating a certain part of the personnel. And Russians liked it (jokes about the "Dobrynya" tractor are appropriate).

❗️Now the SMO has made all this unnecessary (again, we are talking about the economic and PR component of the issue). Orders have dried up because Russia is now an untouchable country from the West's point of view, and the state defense order has allowed the military-industrial complex to spin up to full speed. Funny competitions are not needed: people are fighting, and the outcome of winning is to stay alive and destroy the enemy. Equipment shows itself in all its glory in modern military conditions.

Footage from a "king-size grill" raid on Krasnohorivka or the destruction of an enemy stronghold with a FAB-1500 JDAM, filmed on a shaky Mavic camera, is now better than a reporting video from the Army International Games. And all the components of the project are being implemented. And the tasks are being solved as well.
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