🇪🇺 🇨🇳 The EU is preparing sanctions against two Chinese banks that allegedly enabled banned trade with #Russia, the first attempt by Brussels to target a third-country lender for supporting Moscow’s full-scale invasion of #Ukraine
https://www.ft.com/content/c60ee798-872b-44c4-ab1c-3f526dfce11e
Archive: https://archive.is/CyOqr
“The French carmaker would collaborate with a small #drone specialist to mass produce drones under the plans, in the first move by French businesses to manufacture weapons on Ukrainian soil.”
Renault asked by French govern...
Somehow I don’t think the strikes over the last week are retribution for operation spiderweb…
"Your enemy is NOT the refugee.
Your enemy is the one who made him a refuge."
-- Willie Nelson
#politics #Kleptocracy #GreedyBastards #EatTheRich #oligarchy #plutocracy #refugee #poverty #enslavement #RichBastards #Billionaires
#Ukraine special forces reportedly destroy 2 more #Russia warplanes, just over week after drone attacks on 6 airfields demolished around 13 and damaged at least another dozen
Assault on Savasleyka airfield in Nizhny Novgorod region, around 400 miles from the Ukrainian border
Base for MiG-31K fighters carrying Kinzhal ballistic missiles
⚡️⚡️⚡️ #Russia may have lost a nuclear submarine in today’s attack by Ukraine 🇺🇦!!
👉 #Ukraine just did more to make the world a safer place than did 40 years of negotiating with Russia and the #USSR before it.
Help Ukraine 🇺🇦 get more #drones!
https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NFLMSPJE77ERL
🚘❌ Irkutsk, they are checking everyone, not letting anyone in, the roads are blocked, everyone is stopping trucks, they are afraid...
✈️🔥👀 A fire was recorded at one of the Russian airfields located in Tikhoretsk (Krasnodar Krai). The fire was observed in the area of two hangars.
❗️The airfield in Tikhoretsk is a military air base of the Russian Aerospace Forces. It is home to the 627th Training Aviation Regiment. The main aircraft at the base is the L-39 Albatross training aircraft.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🚫 The United States did not share intelligence with Zelensky. Ukraine collected the information for "SpiderWeb" operation itself, - CBS News citing the White House
Oh boy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/ukraine-drone-attack-on-russian-air-bases-explained/105364708
40+ aircraft, up to $7B damage.
"How did Ukraine pull off the drone attack?
"A senior US defence official told AP that the US was not given notification before the attack."
3/ Satellite images of the Bely air base in the #Irkutsk region of Russia's Far East, near the border with Mongolia, show at least three, possibly four, Tu-95MS long-range strategic bombers destroyed as well as one Tu-22M3 long-range strike bomber.
The attacks drive home the point that I have been making for years: OUR military bases are also not protected against this kind of attack, as proven again and again by the many recent drone sightings.
One could argue that this attack,
is actually less of a drone story, than a covert operation story. Afaik the tech/systems, while used in ingenious ways, weren’t new - the impressive bit is pulling this off. However…
✈️🔥 Details of Operation "Web" from Yuri Butusov:
▪️SBU agents transported 150 small attack drones and 300 ammunition to the territory of Russia.
▪️116 drones took to the air.
▪️The attack on the Tu-95 aircraft base at the Olenya airfield was particularly successful - drones hit refueled fuel tanks and a large number of aircraft burned to the ground.
▪️As a result of the attack, 41 aircraft at 4 bases were confirmed to have been damaged.
👀🔥 Amur Region, near "Ukrainka" airfield. The truck carrying the drones exploded.
@MAKS23
Frederick Benjamin "Ben" Hodges is a retired United States Army officer who served as commanding general, United States Army Europe. He is a well known and regular commentator to #UkraineRussiaWar at German TV news as he has German language knowledge.
