Night is coming.

◽️On June 30, as a goodwill gesture, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation finished fulfilling the assigned tasks in Snake Island and withdrew the garrison that had been operating there.

◽️The Russian Federation has demonstrated to the international society the absence of any obstacles for the efforts of UN to establish a humanitarian corridor for transporting agricultural products from Ukraine.

◽️This solution will prevent Kiev from speculating on an impending grocery crisis citing the inability to export grain due to total control of the northwestern part of the Black Sea by Russia. Now it is up to the Ukrainian side that is still not clearing the Black Sea coastline, including the harbour waters.

The Ukrainian command officially announced the evacuation of Russian troops from Snake Island. According to the Operational Command "South", now there is a fire on Snake Island and the sounds of explosions are heard.

The capture and retention of Snake Island by the Armed Forces of Ukraine will become a serious problem for the Ukrainian army in the conditions of supremacy at sea and in the air of the Russian Armed Forces. It will be possible to supply it only by air, which means that heavy weapons cannot be transferred, plus there are very high risks of intercepting supply helicopters.

And most importantly - for the same reasons, Russian forces can always retake the island.

Well, probably it makes sense from the military point of view. It was becoming increasingly difficult to maintain Russian garrison under constant and increasing shelling and attempts to hit antiaircraft missile systems, which were successfully used against aircrafts and bigger missiles, but can do very little against smaller ones and artillery shells. However, the information coverage from the Russian side of the whole story certainly could have been better.

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Attention. Translated from Ukrainian channel:

There are more and more insides in the telegram that now there is a struggle for grain and the sea.
On the sidelines, almost everyone confirms this information, emphasizing that the Office of the President wants to lift the naval blockade in order to massively export grain, for this it is necessary to lift the blockade for two to three weeks, and then you can again lose control over the sea.
Now rumours are circulating that our General Staff has pulled together huge reserves to the south of the Odessa region for a massive strike on Snake Island, the Russians have seen this and have now begun massively bombing our region with missiles.
For example, Legitimny describes everything correctly that the West is putting pressure on Zelensky in the case of lifting the naval blockade and exporting wheat, since trucks are not an option, too much criticism is directed towards the authorities from the Ukrainians who understand that this could provoke, first of all, an increase in prices due to a shortage of wheat, and in the worst case scenario, famine.
If people start to rebel and block the export of wheat, then the US and the West will be left without grain, which will provoke a shortage in their countries, as well as rising prices and mass protests. So they are rushing our people to lift the blockade and quickly take out all the wheat.

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Attention. Translated from Ukrainian channel:
There were rumours on the sidelines that the Office of the President was preparing to seize Snake Island after the Russians left.
There is a possibility that the island will not be saturated with the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and heavy weapons. It was decided to land a special forces group, which would simply raise the flag and take a photo against the backdrop of the island.

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Well, now it becomes clearer, what, actually is going on there. ⬆️
However, it is a little bit sad, that we have to collect info from Ukrainian channels. Apparently, that would be presented to the world not like a "goodwill gesture" (Russian MOD) and not even like a move taken not to risk lives of the Russian military unnecessarily (which it, most likely, is), but as a "victory" of Ukrainian army.

Just confirmed by another very respected source:
"Most of all, we are interested in what the Ministry of Defence is guided by when it explains its decisions not by an objective military necessity to save lives, but by an appeal to the world community, for the sake of which we make "gestures of good will", and also who is the listener of such explanations when this global community is engaged in arming the Ukrainian army."

However, the good thing is, that while we are aware of almost every rumour in the Office of Ukrainian President - we have no clue, what Putin is thinking and planning...

So, what we have called a poor information coverage, may be a brilliantly carried out disinformation campaign...

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⚡️Emergency statement by Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov

Yesterday, on June 29, 144 servicemen were exchanged for 144.

It had been organised and held according to the direct order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as the lives, the health and the liberation of our servicemen, the fighters of the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics who constitute the majority of the returned individuals, are the most important task.

Everything else is afterwards.

Almost all of the liberated individuals are wounded or gravely wounded. They are already receiving all the medical care they need.

The total number of captured or surrendered Ukrainian servicemen is more than 6,000 people.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov

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Another long awaited explanation from the Russian MOD. ⬆️ Now, faster, than usual, yet with a big delay comparing with the Ukrainian news. Hopefully, they learn and improve.

Confirmation of "Turkey trace" in the Snake Island saga:
The Russian Defence Ministry announced that as part of a "goodwill gesture" it will withdraw troops from Snake Island to unblock Ukrainian ports for the withdrawal of grain.

Negotiations on this matter continued in Turkey for more than a month.

Regarding the withdrawal of troops from the Snake Island, which is presented as a "step of good will", all this is seen as part of behind-the-scenes agreements on the export of grain from Ukraine, negotiations on which have been dragging on for a long time in Turkey and progress on which was announced through the UN. There is not much faith in good will here.

Regarding the military component of the withdrawal from Snake Island, which is hiding behind agreements in Turkey to unblock the export of grain, it is quite obvious that the attacks on the island (using Western howitzers and MLRS), which have continued since May, have greatly strained the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, which was involved in ensuring the retention of the island (From the last that was announced, a hit from the "Pantsir" air defence missile system last week).
It is obvious that this "goodwill gesture" will be presented as a success of the NATO weapons that have been fired at Snake Island since May and, accordingly, serve as a motivation for further increasing supplies in order to achieve new "goodwill gestures" - the wording is, of course, complete mess.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Statements by US President Joe Biden at the Madrid summit:

▪️Americans will have to pay a high price for gasoline "as long as it takes";

▪️The reason gas and food prices are rising is Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia;

▪️I do not intend to separately ask Riyadh to increase oil production: this “should be done” by all countries in the region;

▪️Expects to secure congressional approval for the supply of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey;

▪️The United States in the coming days will announce the allocation of new "military assistance" to Ukraine for $800 million, this aid package will include air defense;

▪️Western leaders instructed their assistants to work out a mechanism for limiting oil prices from the Russian Federation, they believe that this can be achieved;

▪️The mechanism of "price limits" will allow the Russian Federation to profit from oil exports, but not "exorbitant", as it is now;

▪️The United States and allies will not give Russian ships oil transportation insurance to interfere with transportation;

▪️The United States does not change its decision on the pace of military assistance in the light of Kyiv's statement about the desire to achieve an end to hostilities by winter

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Erdogan does not give up! Translated from a respected source:

Of course, the bargaining between Turkey and NATO is not over, and today new confirmations of this have come. Ankara insists on the extradition by Sweden and Finland of 73 people who received political asylum in these countries. Without this, Erdogan refuses to agree on their entry into NATO.

Even the consent of the United States to supply Turkey with F-16 fighters did not help (Earlier, Washington froze supplies due to Erdogan's purchase of Russian S-400 air defence systems). Now the European democracies are faced with a difficult dilemma: give Ankara what it asks for (disregarding its own political principles), or abandon the idea of ​​joining the North Atlantic Alliance.

Moreover, if the Turkish demands are met, it is not a fact that this will be enough. After all, there is also the issue of American support for the Kurds of Rojava. It is very important for Turkey, because it is categorically against the existence of even a semi-independent Kurdish state entity.

So everything is just beginning. Erdogan is trying to get the most out of NATO expansion. And appetite comes with eating. Therefore, the West will have to pay dearly for the entry of Sweden and Finland into the alliance.

Beautiful. Z squadron.💤

Somewhere in Poland Ukrainian hysteria is spreading like a disease.

"We need help", one of the banners behind the girls says.

Indeed.

Another Freudian slip from Biden.

‘Bombs fell on us. But people can´t live without bread. When we arrived, they were looking with such eyes. It’s so hard to remember’. The head of sales for the Luhansk Bread factory Yuri Filippov tells how since 2014 they had to bake bread during Ukrainian shelling.

Reality of civilian in Donbas.

‘I’d take a bullet for Vladimir Putin’. The 91-year-old former Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he supports the Russian president and describes him as “a first-class person”.

We need to pay tribute to the British people. The most frequent comment to the the article above ⬆️ is: "He is entitled to his opinion." However, it is not in accordance with the "cancel culture", when people are being ostracised for their opinions, if they are not in the trend of the liberal woke agenda.