Putin is openly threatening Armenia with a “special military operation.”

ISW: Putin is shown maps that overhype Russia’s gains, so he thinks Donbas can fall by autumn and makes unrealistic demands in talks. Russian commanders paint a rosier picture to hide the slowdown.

For the first time since the start of the full-scale invasion, an air raid alert has been declared in Russia’s Ural Federal District. That’s 2,500 km from the Ukrainian border.

Preliminary reports indicate a missile strike in Chuvashia. A missile alert has also been declared in Tyumen for the first time ever.

❗DeepState: AFU have liberated territory near Novoselivka and are continuing clearance operations against enemy forces near Voronne, Sichneve, Piddubne, Tovste, Novokhatske, and Zelenyi Hai. +46.4 км²

What’s at stake now is a crucial question: should they issue a strong protest or express deep concern? Meanwhile, they could simply shoot down all the deadly crap flying into Ukraine and spilling over into neighboring countries.

Nice bit of whining from a Z-blogger. He says the land corridor to Crimea is in deep trouble, and that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have reached a whole new technological level.

Meanwhile, in Sevastopol, diesel isn’t available at every gas station, and there’s a major gasoline shortage.

🇬🇷 Greece plans a demarche to Kyiv after finding an explosive sea drone near its island. Analysis isn’t 100% sure it’s Ukrainian, but sure—file the complaint after the next Russian strike, Ukraine’s kinda busy.

🗞️ Reuters: Russia wants to sway Armenia’s June 7 vote by flying in diaspora voters—$50M for 100k people, quotas and all. That's Armenia looking toward the EU and distancing itself from the CSTO.

Russia-run “LNR” court gave Ukrainian Kostiantyn Miroshnychenko 13.5 years for alleged spying. Russia is sentencing Ukrainians for refusing to accept the occupation.

Ukrainian drones struck fuel storage tanks at oil pumping station “Yaroslavl-3”. Over 800 km from Ukraine’s border. This facility is a key hub in the Transneft-Baltika / BTS-1 pipeline system, which handles oil supplies for the Yaroslavl Oil Refinery (YANOS) and the export route to Primorsk.

🇺🇳 UN first blacklisted Russia for wartime sexual violence: 310+ cases against POWs in Russia/occupied Ukraine, mostly men, used as torture. Israel also listed over Palestinians (2023–25). Global cases jumped 87% in 2 years.

A Russian overnight strike once again damaged the animal rescue stabilization center in Kramatorsk that belongs to 12 Vartovykh. Thankfully, all the animals brought in by volunteers over the past few days survived. They are now being urgently evacuated.

🔥 HUR joins the logistics wreck. Drone teams keep blocking Russia’s Crimea–Donetsk land corridor, hitting deep rear routes between occupied Berdiansk, Melitopol, and Dzhankoi. Fuel trucks, cargo trucks, and a trailer are burning.

🤦 Romania’s MoD says the military didn’t shoot down the drone because “the army has strict limitations” and feared creating more danger than it would prevent. It’s worth noting that last year, #Romania brought in legislation ALLOWING drones that violate the country’s airspace to be shot down.

🇷🇴 In Romania, near the village of Besești, local residents found another drone with a wingspan of around three meters. Reportedly, it was not carrying explosives.

🇹🇷 Overnight, Russia hit the Vanuatu-flagged Turkish cargo ship ANT heading from Odesa region to Türkiye. Two crew members were injured.

🪖 GenStaff: Last night, Ukraine’s Defense Forces hit Russia’s ST-68 radar in Feodosia, Crimea, used for air-target tracking and air defense data.

🇷🇴 Romanian MoD: The drone that hit a block in Galați on May 29 was Russian. It entered Romania during Russia’s attacks near Ukraine’s border. Two F-16s and a helicopter scrambled; pilots could shoot it down.

🇷🇴 Galați, Romania – a Shahed drone struck a high-rise apartment building.

Volgograd, where an oil refinery was reportedly attacked.

Early reports say this is a fuel tanker near Simferopol.

A Russian overnight strike once again damaged the animal rescue stabilization center in Kramatorsk that belongs to 12 Vartovykh. Thankfully, all the animals brought in by volunteers over the past few days survived. They are now being urgently evacuated.

Zelenskyy: Russia isn’t the only country that doesn’t want Ukraine to develop ballistic missiles. Russia – for obvious reasons – but it’s not just them. Others simply don’t want strong competitors. But I believe I’ll push this idea through, even though it’s extremely difficult.

👀 In Crimea, Ukrainian drones set ambushes near Russian airfields to hit aircraft, says Fire Point co-founder Denys Shtilerman. FP-1s carry two explosive quadcopters that wait near bases for planes to arrive.

⛽ Fuel crisis is worsening in occupied Ukrainian areas and parts of Russia after Ukrainian strikes on enemy refineries, oil depots, and logistics. Shortages reported in Sevastopol, Yalta, Melitopol, Donetsk, Tver region, and Ryazan.

🗞️ Politico: At NATO drills on Gotland, 18K troops from 13 countries trained for a possible Russian attack. 17 Ukrainian drone operators “wiped out” Swedish units, forcing Sweden to restart parts of the exercise 3 times.

Russia has announced to the whole world that people should flee Ukraine, yet nothing has happened since. Most likely, they’d try something Friday night into Saturday since this Sunday is Orthodox Trinity.

⚡Pavlo Palisa: Ukraine will get its first Swedish JAS 39 Gripen jets with long-range METEOR air-to-air missiles. This “long arm” can push Russian KAB carriers from the front, boost infantry protection, and strengthen the Air Force vs jets, missiles, and drones.

Satellite images of the FSB base near Henichesk, destroyed during the night of May 17. The place is wrecked. By Dnipro #Osint

Comedy. On the left – a map of the “Orikhiv direction” from the Russian General Staff, dated April 9, 2026. On the right – the exact same frontline on the DeepState map for the same date. No wonder Putin has these wild delusions in his head.

❗️In Kherson, a Russian MLRS hit a children’s playground. A man was killed; his wife and daughters, aged 3 and 6, were injured. One girl is in serious condition.

👀 Drones hit 3 Russian shadow-fleet tankers off Turkey’s Black Sea coast. James II’s engine room was struck; Altura and Velora were hit during a ship-to-ship transfer.

Trump endorsed Pashinyan a week and a half before the elections in Armenia. It’s worth remembering that #Trump previously backed Orbán, so for Pashinyan, that’s more of a bad sign.

From “Kyiv in three days” to “it’s not about winning, it’s about taking part.” The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets explained why losing the war against Ukraine could actually benefit Russians.

🇺🇦🇸🇪 Sweden is giving Ukraine its first 16 Jas 39 Gripen C/D fighter jets – completely free of charge. The deliveries are expected to begin in early 2027. Another 20 Gripen E/F jets have been purchased through an EU-backed loan – as the first step.

Russia’s internet crackdown has gotten so absurd that Zelenskyy’s Telegram channel has become the most-cited source among Russian audiences, even overtaking the Russian MoD. This ranking is based on how often channels mention and repost each other.

Moscow is installing new Pantsir-SMD-E air-defense systems on civilian rooftops because of the threat posed by Ukrainian long-range drones. Pantsir-SMD-E is a more static, modular Pantsir-S1: no 30mm guns, built for mass drone attacks, with up to 48 small missiles or 12 standard ones.

🗞️ Guardian: the UEFA still hasn’t acted on FAKE Shakhtar and Zorya teams in Russia’s 4th tier, despite a UAF complaint last October. Shakhtar plays in Taganrog and even claims Donetsk roots and history.

❌ Talk of the US Embassy leaving Kyiv is false. The embassy says it’s working as usual, with no changes, and calls such reports fake. Earlier, Kaja Kallas claimed it had left amid Russian threats.

🇸🇪 Sweden may send Ukraine several JAS 39 Gripen C/D jets and open talks on selling newer Gripen E fighters, with EU-loan funding possible. Official news is expected soon.

Not enough, though. It takes an insane amount of effort for Russia to actually start feeling a shortage of basic stuff like gasoline and diesel.

Russian crimes in Ukraine pushed Central Asian intellectuals to challenge Moscow’s history harder. The debate shifted from “was it colonization?” to how the Russian Empire/USSR erased cultures, languages, memory, and political agency of the region.

🙈 Russia and the Taliban signed a military-tech cooperation deal. Terms are secret; Moscow says it’s building a full partnership with Kabul. In April 2025, Russia’s Supreme Court paused the Taliban ban. Before that, the group was officially labeled terrorist and banned in Russia.

🇬🇧 GCHQ chief Anne Keast-Butler says almost 500k Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine — the first senior UK confirmation of that estimate. She added Putin is “retreating on the battlefield.” Ukraine’s GenStaff puts Russia’s killed+wounded at 1.3m+.

⚠️ Russia is preparing extra mobilization in occupied territories, Zelenskyy says. Moscow wants to boost its occupation forces by at least tens of thousands more troops.

💔 First bank — PUMB — is closing its Sloviansk branch due to regular shelling.

❗️In Kherson, a Russian MLRS hit a children’s playground. A man was killed; his wife and daughters, aged 3 and 6, were injured. One girl is in serious condition.

AFP: The US refused to condemn Russia’s threats of “systematic strikes” on Kyiv and skipped a UN joint statement. Nearly 50 states backed it.