June 7th, 2022
1. New figures related to the SVO in Ukraine have been revealed
On May 7th, 2022 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced new figures related to the implementation of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine. He addressed National Centre for State Defense Control in Moscow via a teleconference with the leadership of the national Armed Forces.
He said that a significant part of the LPR and DPR, including Svyatogorsk, has been liberated, including 97 percent of the LPR and 70 percent of the DPR. Over the past ten days, 51 pieces of foreign military equipment have been destroyed in Ukraine, including 21 howitzers [including U.S. M777] and two MLRS earlier sent to Ukraine. 6,489 Ukrainian military men surrendered. The seaports of Mariupol and Berdyansk at the Azov Sea, controlled by the RF, are operating normally and are ready to ship grain. Zaporozhskaya NPP, controlled by the Russian forces and generating nearly 50% of all Ukrainian nuclear generated energy is working normally.
Totally 33 coal mines, two oil fields and 14 gas fields taken over by Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics during the SVO also continue to operate normally. The liberated territories contain up to 57% of Ukraine's steelmaking capacity.
While retreating, Ukrainian nationalists seek to cause maximum damage to these industries. In turn, the Russian military, while liberating Donbass, is taking industry facilities under its protection, thus preserving the potential for the development of the region's economy.
The liberated territories Donbass can produce 10 million tons of grain crops and 1.4 million of vegetable crops per year.
An automobile communication between the territory of Russia along the mainland to the Crimea has been opened via Donbass. The unhindered water supply of the Crimean Peninsula through the North Crimean Canal that has been blocked by Kiev in violation of humanitarian law has been resumed. Railroad system between Russia, Donbass, Ukraine and Crimea resumed on six railway sections of total length 1,200 km.
More than 27,000 tons of goods (food, basic necessities and medicines) have been handed over to civilians.
2. The Russian Ombudswoman made critical remarks on the ICRC
Tatyana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudswoman, made critical statement on the inefficiency of the International Committee of the Red Cross in dealing with the Russian POW held in Ukraine: "It is of great concern that the International Committee of the Red Cross has so far never informed us about the visit of our Russian prisoners of war [in Ukraine]. We do not have information on how compliance with international norms and rules is monitored in relation to our servicemen who find themselves in this situation," she said.
At the same time, Tatyana Moskalkova noted that she visited Ukrainian POWs in Sevastopol and made sure that their rights were fully respected in accordance with international norms and principles, and are provided with all essential humanitarian needs: bed linen, food and medical care. "I held a personal meetings there. After that, at their request, I informed their relatives about their fate, what they asked for. It is very important that the humanitarian component of our line, the human rights commissioners, work," she added.
It was not the first attempt by the Russian Ombudswoman to knock the door to the ICRC in order to clarify this issue. All her efforts were in vain.
Last April she has asked the ICRC to help in arranging a visit to Russian servicemen held captive by Ukrainian forces, by noting that the ICRC had often served as “the last resort” for the relatives of prisoners of war in the past, as it was the only authority which could provide some information about their loved ones and describe their condition. She outlined that Moscow is unaware of the psychological and physical condition of the Russian servicemen. It is also unclear whether they are getting medical assistance or if the provisions of the Geneva Convention are being observed by the Ukrainian side. “It would be very bitter to realize that such a respected organization as the ICRC had forgotten about the universal principles of humanism, and, like many other international structures, is guided by double standards in relation to our prisoners,” the ombudswoman said.
However, according to Tatyana Moskalkova, neither the Russian government nor the soldiers’ relatives have so far received any information from the ICRC about POWs held in Ukraine. Total blackout.
“Therefore, I once again turned to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Peter Maurer, with a request to provide information about Russian prisoners of war and help me or my representatives visit them. I really hope that my other appeal will not go unnoticed,” Tatyana Moskalkova wrote.
3. Ukrainian nationalists set fire to the wooden religious skete in the DPR and grain in Mariupol
Testimonies of local residents and monks in liberated Svyatogorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, confirm that Ukrainian nationalists while retreating deliberately set fire to the wooden skete of All Saints' of the Russian Land on June 5.
They set fire to the newly built wooden skete of All Saints' of the Russian Land built in 2009 with a burst of incendiary ammunition. It was not only the monks who tried unsuccessfully to put out the burning skete, but also the members of the local territorial defence who came to help them. The nationalists prevented this by intimidation fire.
Such barbaric act is another evidence brought about by the hostile Ukrainian regime to religious traditions of its citizens. The values of the Ukrainian Nazis in Kiev are the opposite of the historical values of the Orthodox people in Ukraine.
Thus, Zelensky with his statements about Russia's allegedly conscious destruction of Ukraine's cultural heritage and his demands to expel Russia from UNESCO and the UNO for this once again lied not only to the Ukrainian people, but also to the entire international community.
Ukrainian Armed Forces also set fire to tonnes of grain in Mariupol port during retreat. Grain storage facility in Mariupol port could hold up to 57 tonnes of grain.
“On the territory of the port of Mariupol there is a large amount of grain, it is both corn grain and wheat grain. Judging by the smell and appearance, it is unfit for further use, most of it. This is conditioned by the fact that the enemy, retreating from the port, set fire to the granaries so that this grain would not reach the DPR, so that it would be impossible to use it in any way. It was put out for several days, but to no avail,” Yan Gagin, an adviser to the DPR’s head of government, told RIA Novosti.
4. Situation on the battlefields
On May 6th, Ukrainian barrier troops blew up a road bridge in the town of Svyatogorsk in the northern part of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The move left Ukrainian military units, namely remnants of the battalions of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade and the 81st Separate Airborne Brigade trapped in the town.
“Cut off from the main forces and supply lines due to the destruction of the bridge, [the troops] abandoned military equipment and their weaponry and scattered along the bank” of the Seversky Donets river.
Despite the blockage, some 80 Ukrainian soldiers trapped in the town of Svyatogorsk managed to escape Russian troops by swimming Ukrainian military is using ‘barrier troops’, a discipline-keeping unit comprising hardcore nationalists, to prevent other units from retreating, usually killing them as ‘cowards’. Russian troops did not open fire at them giving them a chance to escape.
In other developments, Russian high-precision air-based missiles have hit 2 command posts, 3 firing positions of artillery batteries, as well as 18 areas of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment concentration.
2 ammunition depots have been destroyed in the areas of Vrubovka and Yakovlevka in Lugansk People's Republic.
Operational-tactical aviation have hit 65 areas of AFU manpower and military equipment concentration.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 170 nationalists, 9 tanks, 2 Grad multiple rocket launchers, 1 battery of field artillery and 8 various purpose vehicles.
Russian air defence means have shot down 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Liptsy, Streleche, Dement'evka, Borodoyarskoe, Mar'ino, Petrovskoe, Grakovo, Malye Prokhody in Kharkov Region, as well as Vasil'ievka in Nikolaev Region, overnight.
Russian missile troops and artillery have hit 39 command posts, 49 firing positions of AFU artillery, as well as 426 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration.
The attacks have resulted in the elimination of more than 400 nationalists, 10 armoured vehicles, 3 Grad MLRS, 10 special combat vehicles, and 3 launchers of S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems near Kramatorsk.
In addition, shelling resulted in the destruction of one 155mm self-propelled howitzer (M109A3) donated by Norway, 2 US 155mm howitzers (M777), and 7 field artillery and mortars, including 1 203mm Pion self-propelled artillery mount.
In total, from 24th February, 190 Ukrainian aircraft and 129 helicopters, 1,139 unmanned aerial vehicles, 333 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,443 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 478 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,807 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,464 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
5. The DPR Justice Minister: some Azov nationalists will face death penalty
The death penalty awaits some fighters of the Azov regiment for their crimes against the civilian inhabitants of Donbas. This was announced by Yuriy Sirovatko, the Minister of Justice of the DPR. He stressed that capital punishment can be imposed only for especially grave crimes involving attempts on a person’s life. At the same time, Sirovatko recalled that such crimes “with particular cruelty number in the hundreds or even thousands” against residents of Donbass.
In his words, the rights of all Ukrainian prisoners of war, regardless of the type of military formation, were respected. All have been provided with normal food and the necessary medical care. According to reports, there are currently over 2,300 captured POWs of the Ukrainian nationalist battalions on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic alone.
Earlier, it was reported that a court case against British and Moroccan mercenaries who had fought in the Ukrainian Armed Forces started in Donetsk. The fighters face the death penalty.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of the LPR has opened about 600 criminal cases on the crimes of Ukrainian formations in that republic since the aggravation of the situation in the Donbass in February 2022, said the official representative of the department, Inna Semenova.
6. Head of Hungarian MFA shared the opinion that Zelensky has mental problems
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto supported the assumption of the Speaker of the country’s Parliament Laszlo Kever about the presence of mental problems with Vladimir Zelensky. Peter Szijjarto noted that the official government of Kyiv allowed itself unacceptable statements against Hungary. “Based on all this, Laszlo Kever is absolutely right, even if the Ukrainians are outraged by this,” Szijjártó agreed. Earlier, Kever said that the statements of the President of Ukraine sometimes sound very strange and it is likely that Vladimir Zelensky faced “some kind of personal mental problem”.
Annex
1. KIEV CONTINUES THE THIRD AGGRESSION VS DONBASS
Day in, day out the Kiev criminal and failed regime continues shelling of civilians in Donbass hating it from 2014 when it unleashed three successive wars against its people.
On June 4, the rocket artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered a massive blow to the Kuibyshev and Petrovsky districts of the capital of the DPR. Two civilians were killed, two more were seriously injured, a hospital, residential buildings were damaged, an ambulance was destroyed.
On June 5, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched rocket attacks on residential areas in the center of Donetsk and the villages of Elenovka and Panteleimonovka. The strikes were carried out by the Grad MLRS and 122 mm and 155 mm artillery. Residential buildings, the Central Market, an electrical substation and a radio-television center were damaged. There are victims among the local population. It was established that the shelling was conducted from the territory of the Ukrainian-controlled settlement of Georgievka.
Every day the intensity of such Ukrainian "combat operations" with the targeted destruction of assets located outside the areas of combat operations increases. The Ukrainian Armed Forces suffer defeats and abandon previously held settlements in Donbass due to the multiple superiority of the Russian Armed Forces in firepower. In order to reduce the rates of occurrence of the armed forces and attract the attention of the West the command of the AFU, acting like retreating in 1943 the Nazi Germany, shelling everybody and everything every day.
On June 6 and 7, 2022 the AFU shelled Donbass with more than 300 shells and missiles per day. More than ten civilians were killed, two dozen of them injured. Ukrainian and the U.S., French, Polish and the UK heavy weapons have been used indiscriminately against houses, schools, hospitals and social infrastructure.
According to the UN High Commissioner, over 14,000 civilians have been killed in Donbass since 2014. And this figure continues to grow. Since the beginning of the Russian special military operation, the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) has initiated more than 800 criminal cases under articles for genocide and ill-treatment of the civilian population in Donbass. In cooperation with the law enforcement agencies of the DPR and the LPR, all the circumstances are being established and a thorough investigation of the crimes committed is being conducted. "All those involved in the brutal crimes against the civilians in Donbass will be identified and, of course, will be punished as they deserve," said Aleksandr Bastrykin, the Chairman of the ICR.
In addition, there has been a tendency for the AFU to strike at border settlements located on the territory of the Russian Federation. Since the end of April, various populated non-military areas located in the Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Voronezh and Bryansk Regions have been hit. The Kiev regime prefers not to take responsibility for the strikes, covering its criminal acts with provocations.
The Russian Federation has repeatedly warned both the Ukrainian authorities and the ‘Western partners’ supplying the Kiev regime with weapons about the imminent retaliatory actions and the elimination of any possibility of strikes both on peaceful settlements in Donbass and on the Russian territory. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev assures that "when attacking our cities, the Russian Armed Forces will fulfill their threat and strike at the centers of criminal decision-making," which, according to him, are often located outside Ukraine.
Further supplies of weapons by Western countries to Ukraine not only lead to further escalation of the conflict, but also involve third countries in the so-far formally bilateral Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The situation will radically change if Western weapons are sanctioned to be used against assets on the territory of Russia, or will be directed against the civilian population of the south-east of Ukraine.
2. HUGE U.S. AND POLISH SPENDING ON UKRAINE. NOT TO BE RETURNED
On June 3, the American media publication Politico published a demand from the US Congress to Joseph Biden on the provision of a report on the expenditure of aid provided to Ukraine for more than $ 40 billion. Congressmen expressed doubt about the ability of the White House to account for the unprecedented amount of funds transferred, as well as to track the weapons and equipment supplied to Kiev that proved to be hostile, but inefficient. The Pentagon has previously barely coped with reports. Thus, information on the costs associated with ensuring the security of partners in Europe was not provided in a timely and incomplete manner.
The aid, estimated at such huge amount, is already the seventh package that the United States has allocated to Ukraine.
The first one was authorized on February 25, with two packages arriving in March and three in April. The Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin believes that Kiev directly receives no more than 15 percent of the funds allocated by ‘Western partners’. In the signed decree Joseph Biden carried out a detailed distribution of funds allocated to Ukraine.
35 percent of this amount will be used to finance the U.S. armed forces in Europe ($3.9 billion) and for replenishment of U.S. weapons stocks ($9 billion). More than 45 percent is also planned to be spent not on Ukraine, but on other countries, including world food security ($5 billion) and long-term support for NATO allies ($2 billion). About 5 percent more is provided for assistance to refugees ($1 billion) and for other purposes.
The United States, by providing Ukraine with so-called financial assistance, intends to extract significant economic benefits. Obligations to repay the full amount of the debt are imposed on Kiev who will lives with empty wallet during many decades to come. However, the Kiev regime, anticipating the next "cut" of the percentages they rely upon, turns a blind eye to the absence of almost $ 13 billion in the estimate of the intended purpose, which, first of all, the U.S. Congress was interested in.
A new type of business is flourishing in Ukraine itself – the sale of humanitarian aid coming from the West. Almost every day criminal cases are initiated against enterprising officials who make quick money on everything that comes as a gift to Ukrainians. But, apparently, three years staying behind the bars do not frighten anyone – the scale of thefts is only growing. Harvest sacks of money as soon as possible, and free from the country as quickly as you can. That is the credo of such ‘businessmen’.
Whole supermarkets have appeared on the network, ready to send fully assembled different types of weapons to anywhere in the world, including Africa, the USA, Germany and, of course, Ukraine. A Javelin AT missile costs at the ‘white markets’ (that is openly) in Ukraine $ 30.000. Lots in such stores with various firearms, ammunition and military attire have mashroomed there. It is even possible to sell and purchase weapons from Ukraine "from hand to hand". Individual sellers have already made more than thirty huge transactions.
More deadly weapons to be sent to Kiev from Poland to continue aggression vs Donbass.
The Polish authorities announced new arms supplies to Ukraine worth almost $630 million. Warsaw will sign a contract for the supply of weapons to Ukraine worth almost $630 million. This was stated by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of State Assets of Poland Jacek Sasin. "As a matter of fact, we are now signing one of the largest, if not the largest, arms export contracts in the last 30 years. The sale of weapons for Ukrainians, to Ukraine," Moravetsky admitted. "There has not been such a contract in the Polish defense industry in the last 30 years," he said.
Earlier, the Polish government said that Poland had transferred weapons worth more than $1.6 billion to Ukraine. As reported by Polish Radio, the Ukrainian army received from Poland 18 Krab self-propelled howitzers, more than 200 T-72 tanks and several dozen infantry fighting vehicles.
The team of Volodymir Zelensky is not only unable to pay back foreign debts to wage three wars in 2014-2022, but it is a tricky thing that it not going to do it all.
Written by Vladimir P. Kozin
