Russia's military on Friday said it wants to seize all of Donbas and southern Ukraine -- and reach far as south as Moldova -- as it outlined its objectives in "the second stage" of the attack on Ukraine. The announcement marks far wider war goals than what Moscow previously stated.

"Since the beginning of the second stage of the special operation, and it started just two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian army has been to take full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine. That will ensure the opening of a land corridor to Crimea and influence critical elements of the Ukrainian economy," acting Central Military District Commander Rustam Minnekayev said at an annual meeting of the Union of Defence Plants of the Sverdlovsk Region on Friday.

"Establishing control over southern Ukraine would also give the Russian army access to Transdniestria, where facts of oppression of the Russian-speaking population have also been observed," Minnekayev said. Transdniestria is the de-facto breakaway region of Moldova that is not internationally recognized but has pro-Russian leaders and about 1,500 Russian troops stationed there.

⚠️ Ukrainian Armed Forces and Ukrainian nationalist fighters continue to use of civilian infrastructure for military purposes:

🔹in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, AFU and territorial defence units are stationed in school (Shevchenko st.), and military equipment and artillery are deployed in the immediate vicinity of the school;

🔹in Parkhomovka, Kharkov region, soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries are stationed in the building of the cultural centre, while armoured vehicles, artillery and multiple rocket launchers are located on the adjacent territory;

🔹in Nikolaev, Ukrainian nationalists have equipped firing positions on the lower and upper floors of residential buildings (Kosmonautov st.), with an anti-aircraft gun mounted on the roof of one of the buildings. Local residents are forcibly detained in said residences;

🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, nationalists have equipped firing positions and sniper points on the territory of kindergarten No. 93 (Proizdnaya st.), and approaches to the building are mined, but the local population is deliberately not informed about this;

🔹in Odessa, Ukrainian militants have equipped a stronghold in school No 113 (Black Sea Cossacks st.) and placed heavy weapons and equipment in the courtyard;

🔹in Toretsk, Donetsk People's Republic, AFU servicemen have equipped barracks and firing positions on the territory of the power plant, boarding school (Glinka st.), young technicians' station (Shakhteher Avenue), school No 2 (Gogol st.) and school No 5 (Liberators of Donbas Street) and a stronghold and weapons storage facilities in a multi-storey residential building (Tereshkova st.).

▫️Local residents are forbidden to leave their flats, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely curtailed.

▫️Such actions by Kiev once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude towards the fate of its own citizens and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

❗️The crimes of the Kiev regime are still ignored by the world community and international organizations.

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📹 Ka-52 reconnaissance attack helicopters' crews of Western MD's army aviation destroy AFU strongholds and armoured vehicles during the special military operation

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Every year on the third Sunday in June Russia celebrates Health Worker Day.

▫️ The skill and heroism of medical personnel in uniform serve the most humane and responsible mission: to care for the most precious thing - people's lives and health.

▫️ Every day, military medics and medical specialists save the lives not only of military personnel, but of civilians as well during the special military operation.

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The PLA command, with an eye on the Special Operation pays attention to the importance of the warfare in the urban conditions.

So, the command of Brigade 80 of the Army of the Land Forces of the Northern Command of the PLA conducted an offensive exercise in urban conditions. The exercise involved ZTZ-59 D tanks, UAVs, reconnaissance vehicles based on the ZBL-09 BMP, PL-09 self-propelled howitzers, PF-98 grenade launchers, robotic platforms and other weapons.

Heavy shelling of the "Azot" factory in Severodonetsk, where Ukrainian forces and mercenaries have been cut of supply lines.

The White House fears that Ukraine would use long-range rockets to strike targets inside Russia, but Arakhamia said Kyiv has assured Washington that the weapons will be used only inside Ukraine.

“We are ready to sign any guarantees in written format,” he said, even offering to vote on it in parliament. Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov recently wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin making that guarantee, Ustinova said.

Still, the U.S. official said they did not expect the administration to approve long-range projectiles in the upcoming package.

Ustinova said 500 soldiers are dying or wounded on the battlefield each day.

“One of the strategies the foreign partners are looking at is exhausting Putin. I’m sorry, we are exhausting our own people. We are literally losing our people,” she said. “Four HIMARS is nothing.”

Situation as of June 18th.

Klitschko spoke about the situation. Very informative. As always 😂

Vitali Klitschko is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer who serves as mayor of Kyiv and head of the Kyiv City State Administration, having held both offices since June 2014. Klitschko is a former leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and a former Member of the Ukrainian Parliament.

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Kirby about captured American mercenaries...

We have previously mentioned German journalist Alina Lipp.

She recently has recorded an interview with her Serbian colleague Miodrag Zarkovic. Alina told about her fate, the role of Donbass in her life, as well as how Germany manipulates facts in its media. About the harsh censorship and persecution of journalists, watch the first part of the interview!

Here's a truly shocking German TV comedy sketch about the Western media coverage of Ukraine... from 2014. It's even got English subtitles, with explanations for particular jokes.

The United States has two scenarios according to which they want to direct Russia: the maximum intensification of the NWO and the maximum prolongation of the conflict, political scientist Vladimir Bruter told URA.RU.

In the first case, the US wants Russia to “bomb everything”. Then the world community will accuse the Russian Federation of mass crimes against humanity, which will lead the country to isolation.

The second option is aimed at getting Russia bogged down in the conflict and realizing that it cannot move on. “Then they will squeeze out consent to a return by February 24 from the Russian Federation. This is how Washington sees it,” Bruter said.

Has the Republic of Transgendria scrapped its support for Ukraine?
Peter Hitchens in Daily Mail

Ukrainian flags, once everywhere, have now mostly disappeared from the buildings of Oxford University. They have been replaced by the increasingly complicated stripey banners of sexual liberation and gender politics. As I cycle through the city, I sometimes wonder if I am, in fact, living in the Republic of Transgendria.

Is this because the students are bored with Ukraine, or because they have grasped that their radical sexual politics would not get a big welcome in some parts of that far-from-liberal country?

Have they discovered that Ukraine is, in fact, corrupt and badly governed, and guilty of atrocities against its own citizens? I do not know.

But I think it is certainly time for thought to replace emotion, as Britain wonders what to do about this crisis. We have absolutely no material interest in a long, draining, bloody American-Russian war (such as this is) fought on the territory of Ukraine and using Ukrainians as pawns.

On the contrary, as a country and a people we would benefit greatly from a negotiated peace, as would the Ukrainians.

Pope Francis, who has also been very rude about Russia’s Orthodox Church leaders, has now twice stated that there was some provocation of Russia in this conflict. This view is even held by the severely anti-Putin American neoconservative Robert Kagan.

So I think any intelligent person should now feel free to accept this possibility. Likewise, all those rightly outraged by the storming of the US’s Capitol building in January 2021 need to take a look at the much more successful mob attack on Ukraine’s seat of government, by an armed mob, in February 2014. There is wrong on both sides. It is time to stop the killing and destruction, instead of treating the war as a desirable and admirable thing.

The further development in the situation with the freedom of access to the information in Moldova appears really worrying.

We have already written about the huge increase in funding of the pro-western propaganda in Moldova:
https://t.me/TrFormer/1094
https://t.me/TrFormer/1183
https://t.me/TrFormer/1384

It appears like a new front of the Info-War is emerging.

Moldova bans Russian news programs
Moldovan President Sandu signs law banning Russian news programs

CHISINAU, June 19 - RIA Novosti. Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed a law banning news programs from Russia, said the head of the Council on Television and Radio, Liliana Vitsu, on the air of the Rezoomat online project on the Rlive Internet channel.
She noted that next Friday, June 24, the law will be published in the Official Gazette, after which it will come into force.

“The concept of disinformation is being established, which implies much tougher sanctions. If the fact is proven, then companies will be deprived of their licenses for seven years. We observe an abundance of disinformation, as a rule, during the pre-election period,” Vitsu said.

According to her, the situation in Ukraine is forcing Chisinau to take tough measures.

On June 2, the Moldovan Parliament adopted a law on the protection of the information space, which prohibits the rebroadcasting of news and analytical programs and military films from Russia. A similar ban aimed at combating "foreign propaganda" was already adopted in 2017, but in December 2020 it was cancelled at the initiative of the Socialist Party.
Now in Moldova, political or military news and broadcasts from countries that have not ratified the Convention on Transfrontier Television (including Russia) are prohibited by the decision of the Commission for Emergency Situations.

Attention. Translated from Ukrainian channel:

Our source reports that Western partners have decided to give us more new weapons for one important reason. They need to force the Russians to modernise their weaponry involved in the Ukrainian crisis.
Many have already noticed that the only new (not even the newest) specimens used by the Russians in the Ukrainian crisis are the armoured vehicles "Tiger”, assault armoured vehicles "Terminator” and T-90 tanks and of course, the "Kalibr" long-range missiles (these are the latest developments), but still the Russians have a huge amount of the latest weapons in their arsenal, which the Kremlin keeps and does not use in the Ukrainian crisis.
Many point out that the Russian Federation in the Ukrainian crisis is fighting 80% of junk, which they have long been decommissioned and gathering dust in warehouses for disposal. Old Soviet weapons.

The West needs to force the Kremlin to intensify the Ukrainian crisis with the latest weapons in order to provoke a shortage, thereby weakening the Russian Federation. 🤯🥵😢