🔥Hey world, we Georgians are still standing!
🇬🇪🇪🇺 Day 556 of the Nonstop Pro-European Protests against the Authoritarian Regime in Georgia!
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Ukraine's defense forces carried out a precision airstrike in central Pokrovsk, hitting a Russian Molniya drone launch and reconnaissance site. The strike significantly limited Russian drone units' ability to conduct surveillance and attacks in the area.
Russian propagandists:
“And how are things on the front line?”
“The situation is such that we have 17 drones per kilometer, while they have 10 drones for every one of our assault troops advancing.”
🤡 The Kremlin has found an explanation for the new U.S. sanctions
Putin adviser Anton Kobyakov claims Washington is tightening restrictions because it already understands how the war will end.
“Why did Marco Rubio and the U.S. Congress propose tougher sanctions the other day? It's simple. They now understand the outcome of the special military operation. And it's not in their favor.”
❗️In the temporarily occupied Crimea, restrictions have been introduced on the sale of sugar, salt, and cereals, according to local media.
▪️ Many stores already have empty shelves.
▪️ The Russians have restricted passenger transportation on the highway to Crimea, which was recently brought under fire control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️ People are fleeing Crimea en masse — this morning there was a queue of 620 cars in front of the Crimean Bridge. People are waiting in the exit queue for several hours.
No, you’re not sending “more money to Ukraine,” and you never have.
You used to send American money to American arms manufacturers so that American workers and engineers could have more contracts, jobs, salaries, and tax revenue while producing American weapons in America for Ukraine or replacing old equipment from U.S. stockpiles.
That allowed the Ukrainian military to keep saving their country, while your top-tier geopolitical enemy, a KGB dictatorship obsessed with hatred toward you, could be defeated in its war of aggression in Europe and critically weakened for decades to come -- without a single American soldier firing a single shot.
But then you decided to start pretending that night is day.
Putin tries to tell the audience at his St Petersburg propaganda forum that Ukraine's strikes on the local naval base merely hit some coal, causing some smoke.
Despite mountains of video and satellite imagery confirming the destruction of missile carrying member of the Baltic Sea Fleet "Boyky"..
Criticism of Putin and the Russian army within Russia is growing increasingly loud.
This is fatal for the perverse dictator.
"We have 17 drones per kilometer, and Ukraine has 10 drones for every Russian soldier," said a Russian military correspondent on Russian television.
Ukrainian forces carried out a widespread drone attack on Russia this morning, scoring a number of successful hits.
Dozens of drones swarmed St. Petersburg, striking Baltic Fleet installations, the port of Mariupol was hit, and a major oil depot in Ust-Labinsk was set ablaze.
NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer to negotiate an end to the war and reiterated the Kremlin’s commitment to fulfilling its war goals. Putin also reiterated his belief that Russian forces’ military victory is inevitable, despite available data indicating otherwise.
Other Key Takeaways:
Putin’s claims about the battlefield are incompatible with available evidence and suggest that the Russian military command is not providing Putin accurate intelligence about the reality of Russian battlefield performance. Russian advances have largely stagnated while Ukrainian forces have achieved some tactical successes in 2026.
Russian officials, including Putin, are again leaning on the lack of clear information about the August 2025 Alaska Summit to falsely portray Russia as willing to negotiate with Ukraine.
Putin also used his SPIEF remarks to posture economic strength, ignoring Russia’s economic realities from over four years of war.
Ukrainian forces are expanding their battlefield air interdiction (BAI) campaign to strike Russian naval vessels and railway infrastructure in occupied southern Ukraine and in the Sea of Azov.
Romanian and Ukrainian authorities reported that Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems caused a Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle (USV) to enter Romanian territorial waters at the Port of Constanta on June 5.
Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Pokrovsk direction. Russian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka tactical area.
Ukrainian forces continue strikes against Russian military assets in border regions. Russian forces launched two cruise missiles and 216 drones toward Ukraine overnight.
Ukrainian drone operators are now getting real-time data straight from US commercial satellites. Target detection and strike time cut by 90%. Images from Vantor reach the front in 15 minutes, WSJ reports.
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Putin lives in a reality that is increasingly detached from the actual state of things. Most likely, he is being provided only with information that he is expected to like.
Putin wants the war to continue. He is supported by a relatively small group of "hawks" and "Z-patriots," who make up roughly 29 percent.
There is also a silent majority that has started to feel the effects of economic problems and is increasingly experiencing fear caused by Ukrainian drone strikes and, likely, the prospect of mobilization. They are the ones who could eventually erupt.
The key question is whether a group of people will emerge within Russia itself, above all among its elites, who understand that the war is destroying Russia itself and who will be able to do something about it, one way or another.
Ukrainian long-range drones struck a fuel depot in Ust-Labinsk in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia this morning.
Thousands of cubic meters of gasoline and diesel are going up in flames.
Most of it would have been sent to Crimea.
🤡 Putin Has Captured Four Ukraines! (Not Really)
The Kremlin dictator claimed that the Russian army had taken control of some 2.44 million square kilometers of territory.
For comparison, the entire territory of Ukraine is four times smaller — just over 603,000 square kilometers.
The embarrassment is hard to overstate.
Putin, who dreams of immortality, is making more and more mistakes these days — and freezing up like an old computer.