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🚨CHINA’S NEW MOVE IN THE WEST PHILIPPINES SEA IS RAISING ALARMS | The presence of Chinese nationals on a floating platform inside Bajo de Masinloc, coupled with the coordinated deployment of PLA Navy warships, China Coast Guard vessels, maritime militia units, and rotary-wing aviation assets, reflects a calculated campaign to entrench China’s influence and establish a persistent footprint within Philippine waters.
These actions are indicative of an ongoing gray-zone operation aimed at transforming temporary presence into perceived control, undermining Philippine sovereignty while advancing China’s strategic objective of consolidating dominance in the West Philippine Sea.
📢 The World is Watching. Share and Expose the deception. Defend the truth.
#BRPSierraMadre #WestPhilippineSea #ScarboroughShoal #BajoDeMasinloc #DefendTheTruth #KnowTheFacts #RulesBasedOrder #ProtectWhatIsOurs #MaritimeRights #FactsOverPropaganda
MORE: Ukrainian forces conducted a FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile strike overnight on June 9 and 10 against a Russian military plant that produces key components for Shahed drones and missiles. Ukrainian forces conducted an almost identical F-5 Flamingo missile strike against the Russian VNIIR-Progress Plant on May 5 and the missile strike on June 10 demonstrates Ukraine’s increasing ability to sustain and intensify long-range strikes against key Russian military facilities.
Ukrainian forces also continued their long-range strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure on the night of June 9 to June 10. Ukrainian forces have been successfully intensifying the scope and scale of their long-range strikes on Russian oil infrastructure in Russia over the last several months, exploiting overstretched Russian air defenses. Ukrainian strikes against Russian fuel storage tanks will likely intensify the spread of fuel shortages in Russia that have already begun in some Russian regions and parts of occupied Ukraine.
NEW: Japan’s Defense Ministry is moving a GSDF Type-12 surface-to-ship missile launcher and targeting drones to Minamitorishima, Japan’s easternmost island, as it prepares to establish a Pacific-side firing range.
The project would mark Japan’s first deployment of surface-to-ship missile infrastructure to the remote island, roughly 2,000 km southeast of Honshu, with live-fire drills expected to begin in FY2027.
Below is our visualization of the Type 12's deployment and operational range on Minamitorishima:
The Philippines, Japan, and the United States reiterate their support for the 2016 Arbitral Ruling on the South China Sea and reaffirm their opposition to unilateral attempts to change the status quo in the South China Sea by force or coercion. https://t.co/il9g0shdxm
Ukraine has intensified its long-range strike campaign against high-value targets deep inside Russia, as President Zelenskyy has vowed to "bring the war back to Russia" so that ordinary Russians feel the impact of the conflict. 1/
⚡ Two consecutive Ukrainian strikes have critically damaged the Chongar Bridge, completely halting all vehicle traffic.
In response, Russian forces are deploying pontoon bridges and rerouting supply lines through Armiansk.
Footage of the strikes on the bridge in Armiansk and the convoy of trucks carrying ammo and fuel.
Fire Point drones launched a series of precise strikes. This amazing success is the result of systemic work of joint multi-domain Falanga center of the 1st Separate Assault Regiment named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo, CODE 9.2 and Alpha Center of Special Operations at Security Service of Ukraine.
It is reported that the bridge is damaged enough to paralyze one of the key Russian logistical routes from Russian-occupied Crimea.
There were up to 50 trucks near the bridge, ready to be sent closer to the Russian front line.
📹: CODE 9.2
Taiwan is a free, democratic society, not under Beijing’s jurisdiction.
Framing coercion as “law enforcement” won’t hide expansionism.
Peace requires dialogue without threats or force. Pressure & intimidation only strengthen Taiwan’s resolve to defend its status quo.
Magyar's update:
USF Birds deep inside enemy operational depth. Two SAM systems – a Tor and a Buk – plus a colorful lineup of targets across the TOT.
Among the targets of the night of June 10:
🔥Tor SAM system, Vershyna Druha settlement – 1st USF Separate Center and the 131st Separate Reconnaissance Battalion
🔥Buk-M3 SAM system, Shevchenko settlement, Donetsk region – 20th USF Separate Brigade “K-2”
🔥Tugboat, Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia region – 412th USF Separate Brigade “NEMESIS”
🔥Fuel tank cars, Mariupol, Donetsk region – Detachment “13” of the 414th USF Separate Brigade “Magyar’s Birds”
🔥Command post of the 88th Motor Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Army, Sentyanivka settlement, Luhansk region – 20th USF Separate Brigade “K-2”
🔥Military equipment storage site, Novoazovsk settlement, Donetsk region – Detachment “13” of the 414th USF Separate Brigade “Magyar’s Birds”
🔥UAV unit and personnel of units from the 4th Air Assault Brigade “Nevsky” Volunteer Corps, Miusynsk settlement, Luhansk region – 1st USF Separate Center
🔥Electrical substations:
330 kV “Melitopolska” substation, Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region – 412th USF Separate Brigade “NEMESIS”
Electrical substation, Zolote settlement, Luhansk region – 20th USF Separate Brigade “K-2”
Electrical substation, Debaltseve settlement, Donetsk region – 20th USF Separate Brigade “K-2”
🔥Command post of the 429th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 19th Motor Rifle Division, 58th Army, Rozdol settlement, Zaporizhzhia region – 1st USF Separate Center
PIDRAKHUYKA – the USF online scoreboard:
https://t.co/dGuQnteiUl
MAGYAR 🇺🇦
11.06.26
I presented state awards to warriors of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, handed over the Order of the Golden Star to the family of a fallen Hero who was awarded this title posthumously, and presented combat flags to the units.
The Unmanned Systems Forces are one of Ukraine’s greatest achievements – proof of Ukrainian leadership in technology and in saving lives through technology. The number of Russian targets struck thanks to our Unmanned Systems Forces already reaches hundreds of thousands per year, and over the past year alone – from June to June – it amounts to more than 356,000 Russian targets struck.
Thank you! I am proud of every man and woman serving in the Unmanned Systems Forces – from soldiers and sergeants to Magyar and all commanders. And we always remember every Ukrainian warrior who gave their life so that Ukraine can live and remain independent and strong.
We wanted to capture Moscow and beat up Russian Defense Minister Shoigu there.
But first, we planned to take Rostov and beat up Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov — a captured Wagner fighter, call sign Ossetin, about Prigozhin’s March on Moscow in 2023. 1/
Beijing essentially admits that the research and survey work at Scarborough Shoal is all part of the “national nature reserve” plan, which in the first place has provisions for limited construction activities in delineated zones. 🤷🏻♂️
"Our way or the highway"
Drone operators from the Mobile Police of Vietnam Public Security staging attacks on their comrades during anti-UAV training. If "soft kill" methods won't work for some reasons, men will resort to "hard kill" ones: good-old bullets!
Ukraine's Defense Forces continue destroying Russian logistics hubs across Luhansk region.
The 3rd Army Corps carried out drone strikes on logistics hubs, trucks carrying troops, and enemy fuel supplies.
New Chinese platform at Scarborough Shoal, which China calls a "research platform."
Philippines, this structure sits just 120 nautical miles from your coast.
The possibility that China building another outpost this close to your country is higher than ever.
An even closer look at the aftermath of the FP-5 Flamingo strike on the VNIIR-Progress facility in Cheboksary.
The footage also offers a detailed view of the massive anti-drone protective structure surrounding the building.