Dockside footage is here, a quick look:
Damage is significant to the upper parts of the superstructure, between the bridge and aft mast. Main mast have toppled, possibly from the composite itself burning up. Think we see that happening
Repairable, but will take time and money.
On 2 June, two French🇫🇷 @Armee_de_lair fighters from Baltic Air Policing, scrambled from Šiauliai Air Base 🇱🇹 to conduct several interceptions involving six Russian 🇷🇺 aircraft operating within the Baltic Area of Responsibility:
1 x Su-35 fighter aircraft
1 x Il-76 military transport aircraft
1 x Su-24 and 1 x Su-34 fighter aircraft. The interceptions were conducted jointly with two Swedish 🇸🇪 @flygvapnet Gripen fighters
1 x An-12 and 1 x An-30 reconnaissance aircraft
Under Eastern Sentry, NATO fighter aircraft routinely scramble to maintain the safety, security and integrity of NATO airspace.
🔥 Magyar: KRONSHTADT (St. Petersburg), June 3. Birds of the 1st OC SBS hunted down and set fire to the corvette "Boykiy", a carrier of guided missile weapons.
On 23 May Tu-214R MULLET RF-64514 XAV9022 took off from Kazan and flew northwest. It is now flying north along the RUS – FIN border in what is likely a SIGINT mission. I posted yesterday that I did not know for what or where RUS would use this aircraft; however, today it seems obvious.
Ukrainian drone strikes last night targeted a Russian Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette/small missile ship in the area of the port of Kaspiysk in southwestern Russia, over 1,000km from the current frontline in Ukraine.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the extent of the damage is being determined.
The Karakurt-class corvette is capable of carrying up to 8 Kalibr cruise missiles.
Victory Day parade in Moscow may not take place for the first time in 30 years. A decision to cancel or postpone it could be made over fears of strikes by new Ukrainian missiles capable of reaching Russia's capital within 10-30 minutes.
According to Z-blogger Ilya Tumanov ("Fighterbomber"), there are reports that Russian authorities have already canceled the aerial portion of the parade in Moscow and St. Petersburg and are considering postponing or canceling the ground segment.
A day earlier, Peskov gave an evasive answer when asked about a possible cancellation, saying: "We are preparing for the Victory Day celebrations." No further official statements have been made.
Preparations for parades have already begun in some cities - but there have been no such reports from Moscow or St. Petersburg.
Tumanov says that a rehearsal of parade formations was scheduled to take place at a training ground on Sunday, but it was canceled, and the troops were told they would return to their permanent bases "until further instructions." He suggested the parade could be moved to another date, as happened in 2020 due to COVID.
According to him, the reason is long-range Ukrainian missiles. Cruise missiles could reach Moscow in about 30 minutes, while ballistic missiles could do so in as little as 10 minutes.
"Imagine: 'Parade, attention!' - and a missile alert is announced. What would happen on the square and around it? It would be a major blow in media terms, even if nothing actually hits," Tumanov said.
BREAKING 🔴
The Iranian Moudge class frigate IRIS Dena is SINKING a few miles off Sri Lanka after a U.S. Navy strike.
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister says 30 of the 180 sailors on board have been rescued so far.
BREAKING: A sanctioned Russian LNG tanker, Arctic Metagaz, part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, is on fire off the coast of Malta and Libya. The vessel was attacked by unknown naval drones.