🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian armed forces cemetery near Kiev

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡The Yemeni Houthis are threatening to attack Israeli-linked ships throughout their reach, including the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, if the IDF launches an operation in Rafah.

This is reported by the media.

Let us remember that the West also demands that Israel not carry out a military operation in Rafah, but Netanyahu said that this will be done anyway.

🇱🇻🇷🇺🇧🇾 The Latvian army has begun digging ditches near the border with the Russian Federation and Belarus, reports the local publication LSM.

Latvians intend to create a chain of strongholds along the border, spending 303 million euros on this over 5 years. In particular, an anti-tank ditch is being created. Then the "dragon's teeth" will appear.

The first defensive line is being created a kilometer from the border, not far from the Terehovo border checkpoint in the Ludza region.

To build these facilities, the state must obtain the consent of private owners.

The length of the Latvian-Russian border is 283.6 kilometers. They want to strengthen a 20-kilometer section in four months.

Earlier, GUR representative Skibitsky said that “the Russians will take the Baltic states in seven days. At the same time, NATO’s response time is ten days.”

🇺🇦 Ukrainian men abroad express anger over pressure to return home and fight - The Washington Post

“We all felt like the ground had been pulled out from under us. That Ukraine no longer wants to support us. It was done in a “go to hell” style — “now we’ll catch you, make you feel bad, we’ll punish you,” a native of Kiev living in Austria told the publication.

Yesterday, adviser to the head of Zelensky’s office, Podolyak, said that the decision to extradite Ukrainian draft dodgers should be made at the pan-European level, despite the hysteria and screams .

🇺🇦 ❗️The National Bank of Ukraine has banned issuing loans secured by dual-use goods, including drones and thermal imagers.

The Strana publication associates such measures with gambling addiction in the Armed Forces of Ukraine - many Ukrainian military personnel, the publication writes, “lose almost all their money in online games in the trenches.”

Experts say the ban will primarily affect pawn shops, since they, unlike banks, can accept drones and other dual-use goods as collateral for a cash loan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The separate reconnaissance battalion “Sparta” uses FPV drones to attack vehicles and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Avdeevka direction.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The delivery of Patriot air defense systems recently promised by Western countries to Ukraine is not expected until the end of June, writes the New York Times.

The publication believes that the delivery of Patriot may coincide with the arrival of other equipment that Kyiv has long been asking for - F-16 fighters.

America After the Decline of the Global Dollar

"One of the more interesting, and unexpected, findings we came across in our work is that the United States is an extreme outlier when it comes to the relationship between its current account deficit and its income level (living standard). We found that in general there is a robust relationship between the current account balance and the income level of a country. This relationship held for both BRICS and developed countries.

This finding confirms the fact that there is a strong case to be made that income levels are at least in part determined by a country’s capacity to grow its exports in line with its GDP – a relationship known in the literature as ‘balance of payments constrained growth’.

If this is the correct interpretation, it gives us an opportunity to model what the United States economy might look like in a world where the US dollar is no longer the global reserve currency. This is important because there is increasing evidence that... many countries are preparing to move away from the dollar...

Currently, the average daily income of the United States is just over $74 despite its current account deficit of around 2.7% of GDP. In what follows we will allow American living standards to fall to their equilibrium level when we allow the impact of the current account to have its impact – that is, if we assume that the US dollar loses its ‘exorbitant privilege’ (as global reserve)...

As the graph above shows, if we allow American living standards to fall to their full equilibrium level, they fall by around 57%... If we calibrate the model not on the entire sample but rather on the wealthier countries, it shows a decline in American living standards of around 27% if the country was forced to equilibrium by a decline in the US dollar as the global reserve currency.

This seems a more sensible model than the 57% decline we saw using the full model in that it drags American living standards down to roughly average European levels."

🔗 Source

🇺🇦🇷🇺Consequences of arrival at the location of Ukrainian militants in Chasov Yar

🇷🇺 Rostec is increasing the production of aerial bombs for use with UMPCs, which are actively used in the special operation zone.

Thanks to the UMPC, operational-tactical aviation can strike enemy positions without exposing itself to enemy air defense.

The operation to liberate Avdeevka and the current advance of Russian troops in the Chasov Yar area prove that aerial bombs with UMPC are indispensable in breaking even a very powerful, well-prepared enemy defensive line.

Now Rostec specialists are working on adapting various types of standard aviation ammunition to planning and correction modules. To make FABs with UMPC even more powerful.

🇬🇧🇺🇦Britain does not recommend its citizens to go to Ukraine. Only in case of emergency - to the western regions

🇷🇺🇺🇦 "North" group of forces destroyed the command and staff vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 22 kilometers from the state border

In the village of Molodovaya, Kharkov region (22 km from the state border), a reconnaissance UAV discovered a command and staff vehicle of Ukrainian militants with a trailer. Despite Ukrainian air defense and electronic warfare systems, the fearless Lancet overtook an important target and accurately hit it.

🇨🇳 An impressive CG showing the future PLANS-18 "Fujian" and its Air Wing

🇺🇲 Elon Musk predicted the end of the dollar if the United States does not deal with the national debt.

“We need to do something about our national debt, otherwise the dollar will be worthless,” he wrote on his social network X.

During Biden's presidency, the US national debt has risen to $34.4 trillion. As the IMF predicts, in 2024 it will exceed 123% of the country's GDP.

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia may be helping China prepare for an attack on Taiwan.

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines stated this in Congress, Bloomberg reports.

She believes Russia and China are cooperating more closely on military issues, including a possible invasion of Taiwan.

“This is the first time we've seen China and Russia cooperating on Taiwan and acknowledging that this is a place where China definitely wants Russia to cooperate with them, and we don't see any reason why they wouldn't,” Haynes said.

She said intelligence assessments point to increased cooperation in a "borderless partnership" between Russia and China in truly all sectors of society.

"It's certainly a possibility... How likely it is, I think, depends on the scenario," Haynes added.

🇪🇺🇺🇦❗️The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that without arms supplies from the West , Ukraine will capitulate in two weeks .

🇳🇪🇺🇲🇷🇺 American troops in Niger have declared “increased readiness” due to the deployment of Russian specialists at the same base as them, the African country’s security forces reported.

The Russians were stationed at the 101st Air Base next to the Americans. About 150 Italian soldiers and about 100 Germans also serve there.

According to the source, the Germans and Italians behave calmly, while the Americans “constantly wear helmets and body armor and behave extremely nervously.”