“Odessa is Russia” graffiti on the walls of Odessa. (Following up a question from our subscriber)

We do not forget our Chinese comrades.
Is China really preparing for a special military operation in Taiwan?

Footage from the military exercise of the PLA in the Taiwan direction.
Quite demonstrative exercises: floating howitzers destroy coastal fortifications, then a landing takes place.

I think, not any other country in the world has self-propelled howitzers, capable of not just floating, but of also of precise shooting when afloat... There should be a reason for that. Correct me if I am wrong.

⚡️Earlier, the Chinese Ambassador to France, in an interview with Livre Noir, said: "We will return Taiwan by any means, including military."

⚡️ Urgent ⚡️ "Azov" killed and then burned the bodies of foreign mercenaries.

In one of the bunkers at the Azovstal plant, we found a crematorium where more than ten bodies of mercenaries were destroyed. Most likely, realizing that captivity could not be avoided, the "Azovites" were given the command to destroy foreigners.

Documents and personal belongings were burned, but, apparently in a hurry, the Nazis did not check the result, or maybe because of their stupidity. Some of the documents were not burned to the ground and we found the remains of a US citizen's passport and many other interesting proofs.

Moreover, this bunker is the first, but not the only one with such surprises for the world community.

A characteristic feature of the war is that (the guys from other fronts also talk about this) as soon as the Armed Forces of Ukraine lose a settlement, they immediately begin to level it to the ground with artillery. For several days they hit the settlement, destroying everything around. We already know about this peculiarity, so measures are being taken.

"Ukraine will be free, or deserted." Apparently, this saying of the Ukrainian nationalists, the Ukrainian Armed Forces understand literally. Any lost settlement automatically turns into an enemy one for Kyiv, and together with the population. However, such a policy of Kyiv regime plays against them. The local population, which initially perceives our soldiers with distrust, very quickly begins to hate Ukrainian military fiercely.
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‼️25 years ago on Russian TV they foretold today's war in Ukraine

On May 30, 1997, an episode of the TV show "One on One" aired in which Leonid Kravchuk, 1st President of Ukraine, and Sergey Karaganov, a Russian politician, took part. The show's host Alexander Lyubimov said the following words:

"Recently, staff exercises were held in one of the American academies. And there, hypothetically, in some 2025, a situation is being developed that America is at war with two states: China and Russia and the reason for the war is precisely that Ukraine has started a war with Russia on the side of NATO. It is also believed in Russia, as well as in America, that Russia may start a war with Ukraine if Ukraine is in NATO, and Russia is not."

Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, 2022 thwarted these long-standing plans of the United States and NATO by striking first 😎

💒 In Popasny, the Banderites began to "iron" the Orthodox church with artillery. As a result, this religious object was completely damaged, the only thing that miraculously survived was the fresco of the Apostles Peter and Paul.

"Ukraine should give up Donbass in order to get a ceasefire"

Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines wrote an article in which he stated that the goal of Western allies remains unclear. Negotiations with Russia and a realistic attitude to the situation are vital to achieve peace in Ukraine.

"The long-term goal should be that Ukraine controls all its territory, but it does not necessarily follow that military force should be used to liberate Crimea or even all of the eastern Donbas region.Some of these goals might be better served through diplomacy and the selective easing of sanctions."

Western "culture" in one picture

https://youtu.be/pwVKzaYx_4E

Ukraine is embracing European standards. Where it will leads them only God knows but you can guess.

The people are already drawing various stages of Ukraine's integration into the European Union| #UkraineWar | #Russia | #Ukraine |

Another long-read from the National Interest:

The United States is principally responsible for causing the Ukraine crisis. This is not to deny that Putin started the war and that he is responsible for Russia’s conduct of the war. Nor is it to deny that America’s allies bear some responsibility, but they largely follow Washington’s lead on Ukraine. ... The United States has pushed forward policies toward Ukraine that Putin and other Russian leaders see as an existential threat, a point they have made repeatedly for many years. Specifically, I am talking about America’s obsession with bringing Ukraine into NATO and making it a Western bulwark on Russia’s border. The Biden administration was unwilling to eliminate that threat through diplomacy and indeed in 2021 recommitted the United States to bringing Ukraine into NATO. Putin responded by invading Ukraine on February 24th of this year.

The Biden administration has reacted to the outbreak of war by doubling down against Russia. Washington and its Western allies are committed to decisively defeating Russia in Ukraine and employing comprehensive sanctions to greatly weaken Russian power. The United States is not seriously interested in finding a diplomatic solution to the war, which means the war is likely to drag on for months if not years. In the process, Ukraine, which has already suffered grievously, is going to experience even greater harm. In essence, the United States is helping lead Ukraine down the primrose path. Furthermore, there is a danger that the war will escalate, as NATO might get dragged into the fighting and nuclear weapons might be used. We are living in perilous times.

LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said that there were no civilian hostages left on the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk.

“Today, the territory of the Azot industrial zone has been completely liberated from Ukrainian militants... Ukrainian militants have no one left as hostages.

People stay there (in the Azot industrial zone) for several reasons.

Firstly, a certain number of people simply have nowhere to go, and they do not want to leave the territory of Severodonetsk. There are about 30% of such people.

These are people who have decided to stay there in bomb shelters for the time being, our fighters are now bringing them food, water, and medicines.

...According to this morning data, a little more than 500 people who decided to leave the shelter on the territory of the Severodonetsk "Azot" were taken out by transport, mainly to Starobelsk.

There is a distribution point where people are already making a decision, where they want to go next, where they have relatives, or they want to go to temporary accommodation points,” Miroshnik said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.

Russia has pushed back against the default designation, saying it has the funds to cover any bills and has been forced into non-payment. As it tried to twist its way out, it announced last week that it would switch to servicing its $40 billion of outstanding sovereign debt in rubles, criticizing a “force-majeure” situation it said was artificially manufactured by the West.

“It’s a very, very rare thing, where a government that otherwise has the means is forced by an external government into default,” said Hassan Malik, senior sovereign analyst at Loomis Sayles & Company LP. “It’s going to be one of the big watershed defaults in history.”

Finance Minister Anton Siluanov dismissed the situation on Thursday as a “farce.”

With billions of dollars a week still pouring into state coffers from energy exports, despite the grinding conflict in east Ukraine, he reiterated that the country has the means, and the will, to pay.

“Anyone can declare whatever they like,” Siluanov said. “But anyone who understands what’s going on knows that this is in no way a default.”

His comments were prompted by the grace period that ended on Sunday. The 30-day window was triggered when investors failed to receive coupon payments due on dollar- and euro-denominated bonds on May 27.

The cash got trapped after the US Treasury let a sanctions loophole expire, removing an exemption that had allowed US bondholders to receive payments from the Russian sovereign. A week later, Russia’s paying agent, the National Settlement Depository, was also sanctioned by the European Union.

In response, Vladimir Putin introduced new regulations that say Russia’s obligations on foreign-currency bonds are fulfilled once the appropriate amount in rubles has been transferred to the local paying agent.

The Finance Ministry made its latest interest payments, equivalent to about $400 million, under those rules on Thursday and Friday. However, none of the underlying bonds have terms that allow for settlement in the local currency.

So far, it’s unclear if investors will use the new tool and whether existing sanctions would even allow them to repatriate the money.

According to Siluanov, it makes little sense for creditors to seek a declaration of default through the courts because Russia hasn’t waived its sovereign immunity, and no foreign court would have jurisdiction.

“If we ultimately get to the point where diplomatic assets are claimed, then this is tantamount to severing diplomatic ties and entering into direct conflict,” he said. “And this would put us in a different world with completely different rules. We would have to react differently in this case -- and not through legal channels.”

The Kremlin commented on Bloomberg's morning statement that a default had allegedly occurred in Russia on Monday night - non-payment of foreign debt obligations.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, said that these allegations are absolutely unjustified, since the corresponding payment for two issues of sovereign Eurobonds with maturities in 2026 and 2036 was executed by the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in advance.

“These allegations of default in this case are absolutely unjustified, because back in May the necessary payment in foreign currency was made. The fact that Euroclear withheld this money, did not bring it to the recipient, is no longer our problem,” -- the Kremlin stressed.

The Russian Defence Ministry has released details of a missile attack on a military target in Kyiv.

Following up our publication and similar conclusion from Oleg Tzarev.

On June 26, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike with four high-precision air-launched missiles at the shops of the Artem Rocket-Building Corporation in the Shevchenkovsky district of Kyiv.

This enterprise produced ammunition for Ukrainian multiple launch rocket systems.

According to objective control data, all four missiles reached their target. The object is hit.

The civilian infrastructure of the city of Kyiv was not damaged as a result of the use of high-precision weapons.

The Kyiv regime made attempts to intercept Russian high-precision missiles by anti-aircraft weapons deployed in the city. More than 10 anti-aircraft missiles were used by Ukrainian crews of S-300 and Buk M1 anti-aircraft missile systems.

Due to the lack of interaction between launchers of air defence systems and radio equipment located in urban areas, two S-300 anti-aircraft missiles were shot down in the air by Ukrainian Buk.

Presumably, one of the downed anti-aircraft missiles fell on a residential building.