Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Anatolievich Medvedev on his Telegram channel:

🈁The drug-addicted freak and his Bandera-affiliated gang have provoked a harsh response from Russia with their terrorist attacks on children.

Apparently, this was intentional. They needed to trigger massive strikes against the structures located in Kyiv.

Let everything burn with blue flames! It's easier to beg for money and weapons that way. It's easier to steal. It's easier to make excuses. Especially since our strikes might help consolidate part of the electorate around the current despicable Kyiv regime. Which, of course, is important for it in the upcoming elections in the country 404.

So what, not to strike at all to avoid provoking the strengthening of the neo-Nazi regime?

No, of course not. We need to strike - as we are doing today, and even much more strongly! After all, the ruins and gray ash in the place of their capital's symbols demoralize the enemy no less than the loss of a battle standard.

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Macron condemned Russia's retaliatory strike on Ukraine with "Orekhnik" after the terrorist attack in Starobilsk. At the same time, the French president did not react to the AFU terrorist attack, the victims of which were sleeping students.

Kallas called Russia's response to Ukraine's actions a "political tactic of intimidation" and promised that EU foreign ministers would discuss how to increase pressure on Russia.

However, the tragedy in the LNR was ignored by the head of European diplomacy, just like Macron.

Source: Russian media
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Howl from European swamps started. Got scared?

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The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, wrote on X:
- Russia's massive attack on Ukraine last night exposed the Kremlin's brutality and its disregard for both human lives and peace negotiations. Terror against civilians is a sign not of strength, but of desperation. We firmly support Ukraine. The aid that will help strengthen its air defense is already on its way.

Next, we helped Ms. von der Leyen a bit and, with the help of AI X (Grok), placed her statement in the current context. She should do this herself every time before she opens her mouth to say anything. Or at least she shouldn't be surprised why she and the entire West are so disliked in the rest of the world.

Source: Коза кричала
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One more detail, yet, unconfirmed officialy but people in chats were writing that there was no air raid alert in Kiev before or during the strike. Looks like Kiev regime was trying to maximize amount of collateral damage.

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Why an Oreshnik looks "slow" from a distance

The reentry vehicles of the Oreshnik travel at roughly 3 to 3.5 kilometers per second on terminal approach. Yet on videos from Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk or elsewhere, the impact often looks as if the projectiles were drifting down from the sky almost leisurely. Bright streaks, clearly visible, sometimes even individually countable. Some commentators conclude from this that the weapon cannot possibly be a hypersonic system. The conclusion is wrong and rests on a perceptual effect, not on physics.

Here are the reasons why the trajectory looks slow from a distance, even though it is not.

First, distance. Anyone filming a video from 5, 10 or 20 kilometers away is watching an object that moves across the field of view. The apparent angular velocity in the sky does not depend on absolute speed but on the ratio of speed to distance. An airliner flying at 900 kilometers per hour at 10 kilometers of altitude also looks slow from the ground. A car passing you at 50 kilometers per hour looks fast. The absolute speed is ten times higher, the perceived speed is the opposite. With the Oreshnik, the person filming is usually several kilometers away, often laterally offset. The eye does not compute speed, it computes motion per second within the visual field.

Second, the angle of flight. Reentry vehicles fall on the target at a steep angle. Someone filming from the side sees the full lateral velocity. Someone standing close to the target or directly under the trajectory sees the body coming almost head-on. Frontal motion produces almost no angular change at the eye. The object barely seems to change position, it only grows larger. In the final seconds before impact, the apparent motion shrinks dramatically even though the real velocity is unchanged.

Third, the brightness and plasma trail. The reentry vehicle creates a glowing plasma trail through friction with the atmosphere. This trail is much longer and more visible than the projectile itself. The eye perceives the trail as the object. A long luminous trail that slowly fades suggests a slow object. In reality, the projectile is long gone. What you see is the afterglow of the air. The comparison is a shooting star. A meteorite traveling at 30 kilometers per second does not look like a projectile in the night sky, it looks like a leisurely gliding streak.

Fourth, the frame rate effect. Phone cameras film at 30 or 60 frames per second. At these speeds, a reentry vehicle covers several hundred meters between two frames. The eye does not see the actual projectile, it sees a series of bright points smearing into a line. This smearing is interpreted by the brain as motion, but the apparent speed is a function of the line length, not of the real trajectory. The human visual system is overwhelmed by speeds above roughly Mach 3 and begins to smooth the image.

Fifth, the psychological comparison. We know the apparent speed of airplanes, helicopters, birds. Our brain unconsciously converts what is seen into familiar categories. When something appears in the sky, the brain automatically sorts it into the speed range it knows. True hypersonic speed does not exist in civilian experience. The brain has no reference category and underestimates by default.

In short. The Oreshnik looks slow from a distance because the eye does not measure absolute speed, it measures angular motion per second. Because plasma trails glow longer than the projectile is actually present. Because the human visual system smears above Mach 3. And because our brain has nothing in lived experience that could serve as a comparative yardstick. Anyone drawing conclusions about real speed from such a video is drawing them from the wrong dataset.

For verification, look at footage of US missile defense tests from Vandenberg, or recordings of Soyuz capsule reentries. Both move at similar speeds. Both look calm and gliding from a distance, even though the real numbers are far beyond anything in daily experience.

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Alexander Belyayev - Азартная политика regarding European reaction on Oreshnik strikes:

🈁This time, the European elites surprisingly quickly understood the meaning of the "Oreshnik" message. Kaja Kallas and Macron drew conclusions and made a statements today <...>

I believe there's no reason to deny the obvious: yes, the strike on Kyiv, in addition to the openly announced goal of retaliation, also serves to intimidate European fools. We often write that the current political, business, and administrative elites in Europe are deliberately formed from individuals who are not very intelligent. The reason is clear - such people are easier to control from the position of large transnational corporations.

However, if things start to go wrong for the TNCs and it becomes necessary to make complex and well-calculated decisions, the 'good people' appointed on gender, racial, and political principles will not only not help, but will also exacerbate the situation with their idiotic schemes. As, for example, we have seen with the sharp creation of a fuel (and not only) crisis in Europe due to the refusal of Russian oil and gas under the pressure of Ursula von der Leyen and other heads of the European Commission and the European Council.

Now, thanks to the massive strike on Ukraine with 'Oreshniks', 'Zirkons', 'Kinzhals', and much more, it has become clear to the main instigators and authors of the war against Russia that our country is indeed much stronger than they thought. Now Kallas is outraged that the Russian Armed Forces were able to break through the protective shell of her stupidity and really scared her. Macron, as always, decided to scare us with his 'determination' - well, so be it.

In conclusion, I want to note that I'm satisfied with the dismayed reaction of the European, so to speak, leaders.
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Iran could withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and break the naval blockade if the US invades the Persian Gulf or "commits any aggression" against the Strait of Hormuz, said the adviser to the Iranian leader, Mohsen Rezaei.

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Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli Minister of National Security, has been banned from entering France since May 23. This was announced on the social network X by the country's Foreign Minister, Jean-Noël Barrot. He called on the EU to impose personal sanctions against the Israeli politician.

"This decision follows his unacceptable actions towards French and European citizens, passengers of the Global Smud flotilla. We do not approve of the approach of this flotilla, which does not bring any useful benefits and overloads diplomatic and consular services, whose professionalism and dedication I welcome," wrote the diplomat.

"Like my Italian colleague, I call on the European Union to also impose sanctions on Ben-Gvir," added the minister.

Recall that earlier, the Jewish minister Ben-Gvir published a video in which activists detained by the Israelis are kneeling with their hands tied and their heads bowed to the ground.

Source: Взгляд
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And seriously, Brezhnev's real pacifism as a leader of the country should be assessed precisely through the prism of his frontline experience, first of all, and the fact that he witnessed an atmospheric nuclear explosion in person, secondly.

It was a generation on both sides that knew the value of war and peace. For them, war was not an abstraction but a concrete sensation: the howl of approaching shells, the drawn-out roar of explosions, the hellish clatter of tank shots, the smell and dirt of the slaughter.

The new face of war was also given to them in concrete sensations of the omnipotence of the shock wave, sweeping away in an instant what previously required several days of work by hundreds of bombers. They saw the notorious "grin of death" up close, closer than we see ourselves in the mirror in the morning, and they knew the value of their words and deeds.

With Ford, who was putting out a fire on the aircraft carrier and carrying out the burned and scorched from there, he had something to talk about.

Source: Коты и кошка Крамника
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WOW!! FIRST TIME RECORDED:

Listen to the eerie, bone-chilling up-close sounds of the Russian Oreshnik IRBM warheads screaming down from the sky!

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Clowns from BBC write:

Russian electronic warfare systems jammed the signals of a Royal Air Force plane carrying the British Defense Minister during a flight near the Russian border.

John Healey was returning to the UK from Estonia, where he had been visiting British soldiers.

Source: Военный я обозреватель
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Actually, that is a lie. First of all, Russia doesn't attack aircraft outside of the borders of Russia.
Secondly, it's not the way how they deal with aircraft that has violated the borders, usually jets are sent to intercept it.

I have no idea what BBC was trying to achieve when publishing this.. Prove that their jets and pilots are that professional so they can fly with disabled avionics? Or prove that Russian EW is that bad?
In any case, Brits have to service their aircraft on time and normally, because, if state of their air fleet even slightly resembles state of their Navy, they'd better book Ryanair flight next time - it will be much safer.

And this is report by TASS on the same event:

An airplane carrying the head of the British Ministry of Defense lost satellite signal near the border with Russia, writes The Times.

John Healy was visiting British troops in Estonia on May 21. It is noted that the pilot used an inertial navigation system throughout the three-hour flight, which does not require external signals. The newspaper does not draw conclusions about whether the interference was the result of deliberate actions against this aircraft.

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🫶Units of the "Vostok" troop group liberated Dobropasovo in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

In addition, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted damage on ammunition and fuel depots, military airfield infrastructure, an assembly point for unmanned boats, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 142 areas.

Source: Zvezda
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❗️The FSB prevented a terrorist attack on a gas carrier.

It arrived from Belgium to the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region. On board the ship "Archenius", there were magnetic mines in the area of the engine room, attached from the outside. The ship was supposed to go to Turkey.

The gas carrier could not be mined in Russia - this was confirmed by experts' assessment. In Belgium, the ship was kept at the dock for a day - allegedly due to a strike in the port of Antwerp.

Source: Zvezda
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We must return to an intense war in Lebanon — head of Israel's national security Ben Gvir
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I have no comments that wouldn't contain profanities.

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🫤Putin spoke on the phone with the King of Bahrain.

They discussed the situation in the Middle East and stressed the need for a prompt political and diplomatic settlement.

The leaders confirmed their mutual intention to further strengthen Russian-Bahraini cooperation in the trade-economic, financial-investment, and cultural-humanitarian spheres.

Source: Zvezda
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Opinion by Юрий Баранчик (Yuri Baranchik):

⚡️American AI wants escalation

The connection between the killing of schoolgirls in Lugansk and the killing of schoolgirls in Iran.

The Iranian incident, according to data from open sources, is linked to a possible "error" in the use of Palantir systems. Allegedly, their AI could have mistaken the school for a military target. A similar assumption was made in the case of the strike on the college in Starobelsk.

However, it's quite likely that the AI chooses targets related to children in order to strike at emotions and increase the level of escalation. According to this logic, the strikes are not a planning error, but a deliberate cynical killing of children.

An explosive rise in suspicions also occurred after it became known that Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, visited Kyiv shortly before the tragedy in the LPR.

Many paid attention to the public statements of Mr. Karp, who, while in Kyiv, said that his company aims to save the lives of civilians. This statement, made against the backdrop of the tragedy in Iran, where dozens of children were killed, was perceived by many as cynical.
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I find this interesting, to say the least.

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Today at 21:00 MSK/20:00 CET/14:00 we'll be going live with YouTube on the channel Press Of Mass Destruction.

Topic "New Iron Curtain"

https://www.youtube.com/live/tGN8xE-pz4M?si=wO57Mnv5fFzZGrn6

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❗️The Russian Federation recommends that foreigners leave Kyiv as soon as possible, and its residents - not to approach military and administrative infrastructure facilities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported.

❗️The attack on Starobelsk has exhausted the patience, and the Russian Armed Forces are starting to systematically strike Ukrainian defense industry enterprises in Kyiv, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

❗️ According to the Foreign Ministry's statement, the Russian Federation will strike both decision-making centers and at command posts in Ukraine.

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АДЕКВАТ Z on MFA statement regarding strikes on Kiev:

🈁For those who haven't had a chance to see the Foreign Ministry's statement yet, read it carefully - thoughtfully, thoroughly, word for word. The city of Kyiv is waiting, not once, but day after day, for something it hasn't experienced even in winter, when many locals got a taste of what it means to defecate into bags that later fly out the window. Now all signs indicate that the selective Ukrainization will not be optional, but universal, and right under their own noses.

It has finally become clear that the preliminary flattery the city received yesterday was not a simple temporal shift of everything that was promised to the Khokhly for their misbehavior on May 9. In our official statements at the time, the emphasis was on the one-time nature of possible retaliation. Today, the emphasis is on the fact that we will keep pounding targets in the city for as long as we deem necessary. And there should be no doubt that the total amount of resources allocated for these purposes will surpass all imagination, even in Europe, and its sheer size (especially considering that it will not be the last resort) will become one of the important components of the animal terror that is about to erupt in the ruins of Kyiv.

An extremely important point, which the Euroscum should also hear and especially consider: those who didn't hide - I'm not to blame, and we bear no responsibility for any skins that might be pierced as collateral damage, including those in civilian facilities that have been used for years to shield some of the upcoming targets. You've been warned - either run for your life, or you might end up being dug up and buried elsewhere. The diplomatic corps, which is also advised to flee, is subject to the same rules: no adjustments will be made for the proximity of targets to diplomatic residences.

We've been waiting for this for a long time. Now it's not long before the implementation begins, and I think even the most demanding expectations will be satisfied. The war is finally taking a qualitatively new - and, as I said this morning, ripe - turn, and we'll certainly hope that this is a turn before the final stretch. Perhaps not the shortest, but undoubtedly one in this regard.
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Looks like the moment we've all been waiting for has come and MFA announced strikes will be carried out, taking out Ukrainian (and Western) facilities.

Knowing Russian military, they already know where and what to strike. There would be enough of howls and cries in the Western press that Russia is targeting civilians, but, as it was mentioned, the drone producing facilities, decision making centers and points of combat control are scattered throughout Kiev.

I guess we'll never know how many European and American advisers and alike people will be called back to their countries and how many of them are in Kiev now. But this situation strongly reminds me of terror acts in Russia that were carried out also by West-sponsored terrorists in 1999 and what happened later. If so, we could see end of active phase of SMO in observable future. But, there would be counter-terrorist operation carried out after the active phase is over. At least, it was like that before.

Regarding the West. I guess, dialogue with Europe is possible IF people who come to power there are nationally oriented. Is it feasible? Hard to tell, but those who are in power now must go. I guess, example of Kiev must sober them up.

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Lavrov and Rubio held a telephone conversation, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The main points:

▪️Lavrov informed Rubio about the steps taken by the Russian Armed Forces on Putin's orders;

▪️Lavrov drew Rubio's attention to the recommendation to ensure the evacuation of American diplomatic personnel from the Ukrainian capital;

▪️Lavrov and Rubio exchanged assessments of diplomatic initiatives on the Strait of Hormuz and regarding the situation around Cuba;

▪️Lavrov and Rubio confirmed their mutual intention, despite known disagreements, to intensify efforts to normalize the work of diplomatic missions;

▪️Lavrov expressed regret in the conversation with Rubio that the "aggressive efforts of the European elites" and the Kiev regime are undermining the Anchorage agreements.

Source: TASS
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