Ukraine has the legal right to defend itself and can "use force outside its borders," said British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly commenting on the drone attack on Moscow

According to Cleverly, "legitimate military targets" outside Ukraine's borders are part of self-defense. "We have to admit it."

Vladimir Putin free to travel....

Vladimir Putin will be able to come to South Africa for the BRICS summit without fear of extradition to the International Court of Justice in The Hague - Bloomberg.

South Africa has said it will grant diplomatic immunity to participants in two meetings of officials from the BRICS group as it prepares to host Russian President Vladimir Putin at the summit in August.

This practice, according to the government, is common.

“This is a standard grant of immunities that we do for all international conferences and summits held in South Africa, regardless of the level of participation,” the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation said.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/na ... s-00099230

An increasingly desperate Ukraine once again badgering western officials for immediate entry into NATO.

Ukraine knows it's their only hope of survival as a nation state. But NATO knows such a move automatically starts WW3.

Ukraine continues to escalate with toy drone attacks on Moscow and this morning tank shelling Belgorod, Russia for 30 minutes.

NATO also continues to escalate with Germany now offering Eurofighter Typhoon jets but when it comes down to it Ukraine is a sacrifice to be lost in the cause of degrading Russia militarily so NATO can concentrate on China.

Ukraine is losing badly, their equipment, ammo dumps and personal bases are being systematically destroyed by Russian drone attack. Their ''spring offensive'' has been put back to ''late July'' at the earliest (there won't be one at all because the Russians will be at the Dnipro river by then).

Ukr sources report that Zelensky tentatively approved a counter-offensive plan for the second half of June in order to demonstrate to partners the ability of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to retake the territories. The counteroffensive will actually be timed to coincide with the NATO summit in Vilnius in July.

(delayed for what? - seriously. A ruse to fool the enemy is one thing but endless months of stalling just confirms inability)


Germany can provide Ukraine with Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, and also start training Ukrainian pilots on these planes.
In an interview with Ouest France, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine said that the main aircraft in the "coalition of fighters" will be the American F-16, but other models may be present.

Dali - to Moscow. Legion "Freedom of Russia" ( calls on thousands of Russian citizens to attack their capital, - The Times. Narazi grouping is available from 500 to 1000 soldiers. The stench may be necessary for everything: mortars, armored vehicles, Stinger MANPADS, portable anti-tank complexes and UAVs, - a riverman to the legion with the name "Caesar". The head of the meta - the fall of the Putin regime, the defense of the fluctuations in the territory of Ukraine.

“A nuclear bomb is an axe. You don’t have to run after your neighbor with an ax,” the leader of the Wagner PMC, Yevgen Prigozhin, spoke against the cores in an interview with Z-military commander Kostyantin Dolgov. Basically: the Ukrainian army is one of the strongest in the world, the “NVO” plan for “demilitarization” failed, according to the son-in-law of the Minister of Defense ( Shoigu “through blue”.

vvFish wrote: Wed May 31, 2023 3:26 pm

Tanks are out...

Ukraine really needs to get more tanks and F-16's

The Russians blew up a section of the road leading to Ukraine near the Three Sisters checkpoint, which is located on the border of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, in order to prevent Ukrainian DRGs from entering the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation
Will not help.
This night Rusny has a lot of arrivals

Affected:
Afipsky Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory;
Ilsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation;
Shebekino in BNR;
temporarily occupied Alchevsk;
border checkpoint in the Bryansk region.

No advancement by Russian forces today

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In the WSJ today western leaders cheer for proposed peace talks that exclude Russia but includes everyone else, either they are all complete idiots or they know the public is.

They say ''the world'' supports them in their sanctions against Russia but their 'the world' is actually just 20% of the real worlds population (US, EU, CAD, AUS, NZ and Japan).

About 80 percent of the surveyed Chinese believe that the USA and Western countries are responsible for the conflict in Ukraine, while 11.7 percent blame Ukraine, and 8.2 percent Russia, according to a survey by the Center for International Security and Strategy of Jinghua University, one of the most prestigious universities in China.

China and India, the most populous countries on the planet definitely do not support them.

Meanwhile in the real world the ''demilitarisation of Ukraine'' continues while the west continues to encourage the sacrifice.

Will Schryver @imetatronink
The British Storm Shadow cruise missile has yet to achieve a single notable success in Ukraine a month or so after its introduction into the battlefield. Instead, 10+ have already been shot down, along with a couple of the aircraft that launched them.

Reports coming in this morning (from Ukrainian sources) that Russian missile strikes took out FIVE of the Ukrainian Su-24s specially modified to carry Storm Shadow missiles, along with a stockpile of the missiles themselves.


Spriter
@Spriter99880
Based on new satellite photos, it is most likely possible to confirm hits on the building of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (GUR) in Kyiv, at coordinates: 50.4713, 30.5282.The latest satellite imagery shows bare ground in the central parking lot between the GUR buildings. According to the residents of Kyiv, the Gavansky bridge has been closed for two days