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Researcher & writer based in Hong Kong. Former academic. Longform articles archived at https://lauraruggeri.substack.com and https://laura-ruggeri.medium.com. Email: lauraru852@yandex.ru
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❗Kakhovka Dam Attack Was ‘Deliberate Sabotage’ — Kremlin

Key points from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s daily briefing:

▪Ukraine is behind the destruction of the dam in the Kherson region

▪Russia rejects any accusations of being responsible for the incident

▪Kiev was likely motivated by the recent failings of its new counteroffensive push

▪The dam failure may lead to water shortages in Crimea

▪The attack would hurt the population of the Kherson region, which last year voted to join Russia

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🇺🇦☠️DEMOGRAPHIC DISASTER: Ukraine faces demographic crisis that started even before current conflict as think tank says ONLY "29 million people remain in Ukraine, down from 52 million when it declared independence in 1991."

Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIF) says although half of 20.7 million Ukrainians who left country in February 2022 when conflict began have returned, 8.6 million people have left Ukraine permanently.

Institute blasts Kiev regime, saying "Corruption is the main element and lever of management. The actions of politicians and officials are subordinated to one goal - to keep power".

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🔹 From the Russian Ministry of Defense:

⚡️ Within three days , the Ukrainian regime launched a long-promised offensive on different sectors of the front , concentrating a large amount of equipment and manpower for this purpose.

◽️ On June 4, the forces of the 23rd and 31st mechanized brigades of the AFU attempted an offensive in five areas.
The enemy did not achieve success on any of them, suffered significant losses : 300 military personnel, 16 tanks, 26 armored combat vehicles, 14 vehicles.

◽️ On June 5 , the Kiev regime attempted an offensive in seven directions with the forces of five brigades. It was stopped , suffered even more significant losses: more than 1,600 military personnel, 28 tanks, including 8 Leopards and 3 AMX-10 wheeled tanks, 136 units of other military equipment, including 79 foreign ones.

◽️ Attempts to attack were thwarted, the enemy was stopped, Russian soldiers and officers showed courage and heroism in battles .

❗️ I repeat, the enemy did not achieve his goals, suffered significant and incomparable losses.

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The units of the 433rd motorized rifle regiment of the 127th motorized rifle division, the 37th and 60th motorized rifle brigades have distinguished themselves in battle, showing perseverance and stamina.

◽️ Special heroism was shown by the 3rd company of the 37th motorized rifle brigade under the command of junior lieutenant Yuri Yurievich Zhelanov and the commander of the 1st battalion of the same brigade, Major Vladimir Vladimirovich Polozhentsev.

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These units, being in the direction of the main attack, staunchly defended their positions and inflicted significant losses on the superior forces of the enemy's 37th Marine Brigade . Under the threat of encirclement, Junior lieutenant Zhelanov, being wounded, took his company to pre-equipped defensive positions, where he successfully stopped the advancing enemy units.

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It is especially necessary to note the skillful actions of our operational-tactical, attack and army aviation . They used 50 anti-tank guided missiles . As a result , 5 tanks and 29 other armored fighting vehicles were destroyed.

📊 In just 3 days of hostilities in all directions, the losses of the armed forces of Ukraine amounted to 3,715 military personnel, 52 tanks, 207 armored combat vehicles, 134 vehicles, 5 aircraft, 2 helicopters, 48 field artillery guns and 53 unmanned aerial vehicles.

◽️ Unfortunately, it was not without our losses. In total, 71 servicemen were killed and 210 were injured during the repulse of the enemy offensive in the Joint Group of Forces. We also lost: 15 tanks, 9 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 vehicles and 9 guns.

◽️ Tonight, the Kiev regime committed another terrorist crime : the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station was blown up , which led to the flooding of large areas. The purpose of these actions , according to available data, is as follows .

◽️ Having not achieved success in offensive operations , in order to strengthen its potential, the enemy intends to transfer units and equipment from the Kherson direction to the area of its offensive operations , thus significantly weakening its positions in the Kherson direction . The enemy began to build defensive positions on the right bank of the Dnepr , which indicates his intention to go on the defensive here.

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In order to prevent offensive actions of the Russian army on this sector of the front , the Kiev regime carried out a sabotage , in fact, a terrorist act , which led to the flooding of large areas and will have severe and long-term environmental consequences.

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In addition, according to available data, the discharge of water from the Dnepropetrovsk hydroelectric power station has been significantly increased , which leads to even more flooding of the territories.

◽️ This fact indicates a large-scale sabotage planned in advance by the Kiev regime.

Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Sergei Shoigu .

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⚡️tectonic shift in the Middle East.
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L'Europa sostiene, finanzia e arma i criminali che hanno provocato questo disastro umanitario e ambientale. https://t.me/European_Insider/3997
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#NovayaKakhovka - The West is cheering, funding and arming the criminal regime behind this humanitarian and environmental disaster. @LauraRuHK
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#NovayaKakhovka❗️Russia requests UN Security Council meeting on destruction of Kakhovskaya HPP.
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🇮🇷 Iran has made impressive strides in developing homegrown high-tech science in critical fields such as defense, nano-tech, nuclear science, etc. placing it self among a select group of countries. This is remarkable given its long-standing status under severe Western sanctions.

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Chinese consumers started boycotting H&M after the Swedish company jumped on the fashionable bandwagon of Western concern about the "use of forced labor in Xinjiang"and stated it would not buy cotton from that region of China. Up till today no proof of forced labour has been shown by those who made the claim. @LauraRuHK
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Writer Zakhar Prilepin  has been awarded the Order of Courage.

Prilepin's assistant Alexander Shubin, who died in an assassination attempt on 6 May, was also posthumously presented with the Order of Courage.

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While China’s domestic flight traffic is now greater than before the pandemic, international flights are still in a “recovery phase”, International Air Transport Association (IATA) chief Willie Walsh told reporters at the close of its annual meeting in Istanbul on Tuesday.
The closure of Russian airspace continues to dissuade American and European carriers from ramping up service to China.
The number of flights between China and the US remains at just 6 per cent of 2019 levels.
After flight bans were imposed on Russia, Moscow retaliated by closing its airspace to countries it considered hostile.
Airlines operating out of the United States and Europe complain carriers from China and India are receiving an unfair advantage by being allowed access to Russian airspace, which cuts down on flight time and fuel costs. Delta, United and American Airlines say their ban from Russian air space costs them US$2 billion a year. (Source: SCMP) @LauraRuHK
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🇸🇰 Former Slovak Minister of Justice Stefan Harabin faces jail for supporting the Russian SMO in Ukraine

✅ Kharabin can be sentenced to up to three years. According to Le Figaro, he was charged with "slandering the country and people and justifying a crime."

The reason was the posts and statements of the ex-minister in social networks about agreement with Putin's decision to send troops to Ukraine.

➖ The Europeans, who enthusiastically supported the US wars in Iraq and Syria, became ministers. For supporting Russia in the fight against Nazism, they are imprisoned. This is Europe today…

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🔴Representatives of the British intelligence services operating in Serbia are actively working to overthrow the President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vucic. This was stated by the President of the Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik.

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Alcuni stralci di un articolo di Viktoria Nikiforova sulla distruzione della diga di Novaya Kakhovka - La bellissima centrale idroelettrica di Kakhovka fu fatta costruire negli anni '50 da funzionari sovietici che non potevano immaginare che i loro stessi nipoti avrebbero usato l'artiglieria per colpirla. È stata costruita dai migliori professionisti dell'Unione Sovietica con tecnologie che allora erano all'avanguardia, e l'intera città di Nova Kakhovka fu costruita appositamente per le esigenze della centrale. L'anniversario dell'inaugurazione della centrale di Kakhovka veniva persino festeggiato nel nostro vasto Paese. Per mesi l'artiglieria delle forze armate ucraine ha preso di mira questo capolavoro di ingegneria e di lavoro umano.

È possibile che questa brutalità selvaggia nasconda un astuto piano militare? Far saltare la diga non faciliterebbe un contrattacco delle forze ucraine? No, la riva sinistra del Dnieper dove siamo noi sarà allagata, trasformandosi in una palude per molti mesi. Vladimir Saldo, governatore ad interim di Kherson, ha appena confermato che la distruzione della centrale idroelettrica di Kakhovka non impedirà in alcun modo ai nostri militari di difendere la riva sinistra.
No, no, non ci sono dei Von Clausewitz da quella parte. Una stupida crudeltà e la passione per la distruzione è tutto ciò che guida i terroristi di Kiev.
La firma dei servizi americani e britannici è chiaramente visibile nella serie di attacchi che hanno dato inizio alla controffensiva delle forze armate ucraine. I terroristi dell'ISIS, coadiuvati dalle spie occidentali, avevano usato esattamente lo stesso modello: hanno fatto saltare in aria dighe e ponti, distrutto monumenti millenari e intere città, come se avessero l'obiettivo di vendicarsi e cancellare dalla faccia della terra tutto ciò che non era stato creato da loro.

In Ucraina, le tattiche terroristiche hanno trovato terreno fertile perché gli ucraini sono mossi dall'invidia. Circa vent'anni fa gli ucraini in massa si resero conto che stavano sbagliando strada. Che lo sviluppo della Russia progrediva a passi da gigante, mentre loro restavano fermi agli anni '90. È stato allora che l'invidia nei confronti dei "moscoviti" ha cominciato a trasformarsi in odio.
La nostra unica colpa stava nel fatto che vivevamo meglio di loro. Abbiamo costruito belle case, autostrade e il ponte di Crimea, abbiamo creato parchi e abbellito gli argini, e trasformato le nostre città in giardini.
Ad esempio, gli abitanti della nostra Novaya Tavolzhanka hanno riconosciuto immediatamente come false le riprese video fatte dagli ucraini che sostenevano che quella fosse la loro città, perché a Novaya Tavolzhanka non ci sono case così fatiscenti, muri cadenti, marciapiedi rotti. Sono separati dai loro vicini ucraini da pochi chilometri - e decenni di progresso. La nostra prosperità fa arrabbiare a morte la parte ucraina. "Mosca è una città incredibilmente ricca, può combattere per decenni", scriveva Dmytro Korchinsky, l'ideologo del nazismo ucraino.
Questo spiega il motivo per cui adottano tattiche terroristiche: i droni su Mosca, il bombardamento della regione di Belgorod, il bombardamento del ponte di Crimea, il piano di usare una bomba nucleare sporca. Non hanno nessun senso dal punto di vista militare, nessuna strategia, solo quella di creare più sfascio, danni, devastazione.
Qualsiasi persona normale è disgustata da questo modo di condurre la guerra. È doloroso vedere come le granate volano sulla bella Shebekino in fiore. Sui social network si grida: è ora di colpire, è ora di colpire. Tuttavia, è proprio quello che vogliono i terroristi. Se le Forze Armate russe si muovono verso Belgorod, significa che una parte del fronte sud sarà esposta, e l'intero fronte è di circa mille chilometri. Gli ucraini intendono lanciare una controffensiva lungo questo tratto. Poi invieranno i loro sabotatori kamikaze in un'altra città russa alla ricerca di una falla nella nostra difesa. (1/2) Continua sotto
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(2/2) Certo noi continuiamo a colpire, ma la vittoria ama il silenzio. È la parte perdente che grida più forte: deve proiettare l'immagine giusta per compiacere i suoi sponsor. Ma il bilancio degli attacchi terroristici nella regione di Belgorod è terribile per gli ucraini. Solo il primo attacco è costato loro settanta morti.

Gli attacchi di successo contro il nemico hanno un aspetto molto diverso. Non sono preceduti da una rumorosa campagna di pubbliche relazioni del tipo "wow, stiamo per colpire". Non sono accompagnati da video virali. Solo un silenzioso lavoro di intelligence, e poi un missile "Kalibr" di alta precisione colpisce le coordinate, e infatti ora decine di alti ufficiali militari ucraini e i loro "consiglieri" occidentali sono andati a tenere compagnia a Stepan Bandera.
La realtà della guerra ibrida è che se si perde sul campo di battaglia, nessun attacco terroristico di alto profilo potrà salvare la situazione. Ieri, le forze ucraine hanno tentato un contrattacco nella direzione sud di Donetsk e hanno perso più di 1.500 soldati in un solo giorno. Questo è il risultato reale, non i video di TikTok o gli articoli del New York Times. Un'altra prova che i regimi terroristici non durano a lungo.
...E ricostruiremo Shebekino al meglio delle nostre capacità. Vi fioriranno le rose come a Donetsk, e le strade pedonali saranno rivestite di pietra bianca come a Mosca. Non è un caso che ora, come ai tempi dell'Unione Sovietica, i migliori professionisti di tutta la Russia stiano ricostruendo Berdyansk e Mariupol. Alla fine faremo ripartire anche la centrale idroelettrica di Kakhovka. Come popolo unito affronteremo tutto e nessuna enclave terroristica potrà sconfiggerci. (Fonte: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK https://ria.ru/20230606/kakhovskaya_ges-1876489938.html
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Some excerpts from an article by Viktoria Nikiforova on the destruction of the Novaya Kakhovka dam - The beautiful Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was built in the 1950s by Soviet officials who could not imagine that their own grandchildren would strike it with artillery. It was built by the best professionals in the Soviet Union with technology that was state-of-the-art at the time, and the entire town of Nova Kakhovka was built specifically for the needs of the plant. Our vast country even celebrated the anniversary of the inauguration of the Kakhovka power plant!

For months, the artillery of the Ukrainian armed forces hammered this masterpiece of engineering and human labour.
Could this savage brutality hide a cunning military plan? Wouldn't blowing up the dam facilitate an AFU counter-attack? No, our left bank of the Dnieper is flooded, turning into a swamp for many months. Vladimir Saldo, acting governor of Kherson, has just confirmed that the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant will in no way prevent our military from defending the left bank.
No, no, there is no Von Clausewitz on that side. Stupid cruelty and an appetite for destruction is all that drives the terrorists in Kiev.
The signature of the American and British services is clearly visible in the series of attacks that started the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian armed forces. ISIS terrorists, aided by Western spies, had used exactly the same blueprint: they blew up dams and bridges, destroyed millennia-old monuments and entire cities, as if they wanted to take revenge and wipe off the face of the earth anything that had not been created by them. In Ukraine, terrorist tactics have found fertile ground because Ukrainians are driven by envy. About 20 years ago, Ukrainians realised that they were moving in the wrong direction. That Russia's development was progressing by leaps and bounds, while they were still stuck in the 1990s. It was then that envy towards the 'Muscovites' began to turn into hatred.
They blamed us because we lived better. We built beautiful houses, highways and the Crimean bridge, we created parks and beautified the embankments, and turned our cities into gardens.
For example, the inhabitants of our Novaya Tavolzhanka immediately recognised as false the claim that a video distributed by Ukrainians had been shot in their town, because in Novaya Tavolzhanka there are no such dilapidated houses, crumbling walls, broken pavements. They are separated from their Ukrainian neighbours by a few kilometres - and decades of progress. Our prosperity angers the Ukrainian side to no end. 'Moscow is an incredibly rich city, it can fight for decades,' wrote Dmytro Korchinsky, the ideologue of Ukrainian Nazism.
This explains why they adopt terrorist tactics: the drones over Moscow, the bombing of the Belgorod region, the bombing of the Crimean bridge, the plan to use a dirty nuclear bomb. They make no military sense, they are not part of a strategy. They only intend to create devastation, devastation and more devastation.
Any normal person is disgusted by this style of war. It is painful to watch as the grenades fly over beautiful, blooming Shebekino. On social media, people shout: it is time to strike, it is time to strike. However, this is precisely what the terrorists are aiming for. If the Russian Armed Forces move towards Belgorod, it means that part of the southern front will be exposed, and the entire front is about a thousand kilometres. The Ukrainians intend to launch a counteroffensive along this stretch. Then they will send their kamikaze saboteurs into another Russian city in search of a gap in our defence.

Of course we continue to strike, but victory loves silence. It is the losing side that shouts the loudest: it has to project the right image to please its sponsors. But the balance of terrorist attacks in the Belgorod region is terrible for the Ukrainians. The first attack alone cost them seventy dead. (1/2)
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(2/2) Successful attacks against the enemy look very different. They are not preceded by a noisy 'wow, we are going to strike' public relations campaign. They are not accompanied by viral videos. Just quiet intelligence work, and then a high-precision 'Kalibr' missile hits the coordinates, and indeed now dozens of senior Ukrainian military officers and their Western 'advisors' have joined Stepan Bandera.
The reality of hybrid warfare is that if you lose on the battlefield, no amount of high-profile terrorist attacks will save the day. Yesterday, Ukrainian forces attempted a counter-attack in the southern direction of Donetsk and lost more than 1,500 soldiers in a single day. This is a real result, not TikTok videos or New York Times articles. Terrorist regimes do not last long.
...And we will rebuild Shebekino to the best of our ability. Roses will bloom there as they do in Donetsk, and the pedestrian streets will be paved with white stone like in Moscow. It is no coincidence that now, as in the days of the Soviet Union, the best professionals from all over Russia are rebuilding Berdyansk and Mariupol. Eventually we will also repair and restart the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. As a united people we face everything they throw at us and no terrorist enclave will be able to defeat us. (Source: RIA Novosti) Edited and translated by @LauraRuHK https://ria.ru/20230606/kakhovskaya_ges-1876489938.html
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