German military assistance to Ukraine remains paltry. Berlin reportedly failed to meaningfully supply Ukraine with any weapons in April and May and has yet to deliver a single heavy weapon since the start of the war. Although a few major systems are expected to reach Ukraine later this summer, the real prize—an advanced anti-aircraft system—won’t deploy until this fall, at which point German intelligence assesses Russia may have already completed its conquest of the Donbas. The scuttlebutt in Berlin is that this is intentional: Scholz does not want footage of German equipment engaging Russian forces to be published.

https://youtu.be/elt-bfwkWuo

The translation could be better and more accurate!
17.06.22
@TrFormer

Heavy bombardment of Donetsk city center 18 June 2022

Why is it still "Special Operation"? That's why. This is a queue of Melitopol residents for Russian passports. @TrFormer

— Lithuania blocked goods sanctioned by the EU from reaching Kaliningrad
— Russia accused the NATO state of being 'openly hostile' and provoking Moscow
— Kremlin loyalists claim it is an act of 'direct aggression against Russia'

The Russian foreign ministry said: 'We consider provocative measures of the Lithuanian side which violate Lithuania's international legal obligations, primarily the 2002 Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the European Union on transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation, to be openly hostile.'

Chilean blogger and writer Gonzalo Lira, who was kidnapped in mid-April and held for a long time by the Security Service of Ukraine, published a video on his new channel. His previous account was taken over by the SBU.

In the video, he said that Ukraine is suffering huge losses, and the official Western media are hushing it up. The journalist is sure that NATO is provoking Russia into a conflict with Lithuania and Poland because of Kaliningrad. And the Biden administration is fuelling it. He also expressed concern that the US might use nuclear weapons. Telegram channel "Every 30 minutes" has collected a cut of the stringer's main quotes.

Recall that Gonzalo Lira is one of the few Western journalists who dared to speak openly about the atrocities of the Kyiv regime. Since the beginning of the special operation, he has been covering the fighting and talking about the situation in Ukraine.

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🇷🇺💥 Crew of Bastion coastal missile system launches Oniks high-precision missile at military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine from the Black Sea.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine
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About the current situation on Snake Island. Briefly written by a comrade, a naval officer. "Hi. Snake Island is standing. We have no losses. Arrivals did not reach the island. We took into account the mistakes."

In short, it can be stated that Kyiv has not yet succeeded in achieving the promised victory. And, presumably, it won't.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 A unit of tactical aviation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as foreign cannon and rocket artillery stationed in the Odessa region, continue to work on Zmeiny (Snake Island). Targeting, apparently, is again provided by the Bayraktar TB2 UAV.

Despite the information from the Pridnestrovets channel that out of the four Ukrainian planes that went to bomb Snake Island, only one returned, this does not mean anything. The Ukrainian Air Force manoeuvres and constantly changes take-off and landing airfields in the Odessa, Mykolaiv and Dnepropetrovsk regions, trying to avoid a retaliatory strike.

There is no smoke or fire on the island itself, but a tower is burning to the east of the Serpentine Island.

Sources from "Chernomornefteaz" (Russian oil company) report that Russian drilling rigs and block conductors at the Odessa field were hit. In Ukraine, the field is considered its exclusive economic zone.

It is not clear whether the strike was carried out by tactical aircraft or whether it was a boat group of the Ukrainian Navy. It really could well have been a Ukrainian armoured boat: on June 17, a similar attack was made on the Russian tugboat "Vasily Bekh" from the east side, 40 km east of Snake Island.

This is the second attack on Russian civilian targets in the Black Sea in a week. Apparently, the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to move from attempts to destroy the military potential of the RF Armed Forces to the maximum terror of civilian objects in the Black Sea region.

If we add to this the narrative about the need to disable the Crimean bridge, which is carefully dispersed in the Ukrainian information field, then we can draw a completely logical conclusion: the Armed Forces of Ukraine will rely on strikes on civilian infrastructure and dual-use facilities to achieve a psychological effect. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine are moving away from direct military confrontation.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Explosions are heard in Odessa, local residents also report “arrivals” at objects.

The Ukrainian media have already dubbed the shelling as revenge for the morning attack on the drilling platform near the Snake Island.

🇷🇺 Awarding of the military personnel of the medical service of the 106th Guards Division.

It was thanks to their professionalism that we managed to save hundreds of lives of our guys.

Happy Medical Worker's Day, dear! And thanks for your service!

The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy in full force left the ports and headed towards Odessa

According to "Come and See", Russian ships with full ammunition have lined up in battle formations and are heading towards Odessa. Apparently, a decision was made on the final liquidation of the remnants of the Ukrainian fleet.

At the same time, according to the radio broadcast, the Armed Forces of Ukraine put the coastal forces on alert. At the moment, 14 missile strikes have been confirmed in the Odessa region, the destruction of warehouses and logistics hubs in Ochakov, Odessa and Belgorod-Dnestrovsky.

Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Russian drilling platforms of "Chernomorneftegaz" (Russian oil company). And it was a big mistake.

Attention. Translated from Ukrainian channel:

Our source reports that tonight the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched missile attacks on Russian oil rigs in the Black Sea, which after 2014 were “captured” by the Russian Federation, and Ukraine considered them to be its own.
This is a kind of response for Saturday's rocket attack on the Kremenchug Oil Refinery, the Shebelinsky Gas Processing Plant in the Kharkiv Region (according to the governor, it is still on fire), the mini-refinery in Gubenikha, the Novomoskovsky District of the Dnipropetrovsk Region.

The main thing is that the Russians should not start firing missiles at our energy resource facilities and substations in response. Then the whole country runs the risk of being left without electricity.

Well, give me a reason, why Russia should not do exactly that?

@TrFormer 💤

🇬🇧 Fascinating video of a Russian Aerospace Forces Su-34 flying over the heads of vacationers on the beach of Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

An X-31 air-to-surface missile can be seen under the wing.

Shebelinsky gas processing plant in the Kharkiv region, which was hit on Saturday, is still on fire.

⚡️🇱🇹 On June 20, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Chargé d'Affaires of Lithuania V. Umbrasiene.

❗️ The head of the diplomatic mission was strongly protested in connection with the ban imposed by Vilnius without prior notification of the Russian side on the rail transit of a large range of goods through the territory of Lithuania to the Kaliningrad region. They demanded the immediate lifting of these restrictions.

We indicated that we regard the provocative measures of the Lithuanian side that violate the international legal obligations of Lithuania, primarily the Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the European Union on transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation dated 2002 as openly hostile.

In this regard, they stated that if in the near future cargo transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation through Lithuania is not restored in full, then Russia reserves the right to take actions to protect its national interests.