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This Kalingrad situation is one to watch, it could easily be the fastest way for NATO to be forced to become involved in all this directly as Lithuania is a NATO member. Effectively Kalingrad and the people who live there are now partly under siege - without being able to obtain supplies or personnel from Russia, but only by sea.

Russia will want very much to reestablish the right to use or to take over the rail routes into the area, either by negotiations or by other means.

I've had too many doomfests to get really freaked out, but right now I think the chances of this war expanding just got larger than they have been since day one. Also, the use of nukes, even tactical ones, becomes much more likely every hour this situation continues.
 
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Ex-general calls for NUKES to be sent to Kaliningrad

Lt-Gen Evgeny Buzhinsky said the West is playing with fire after deliveries of coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology were stopped from entering the Russian territory via Lithuania.
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Russia vows retaliation with a 'serious negative impact on Lithuanian population' as Kaliningrad blockade threatens to drag NATO into war and ex-general calls on Putin to send in NUKES
Lithuania blocked goods sanctioned by the EU from reaching Kaliningrad
Lt-Gen Evgeny Buzhinsky said the West is playing with fire following the move
Putin's spokesman warned that all trust evaporated between West and Moscow
By WILL STEWART and RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 09:13, 21 June 2022 | UPDATED: 12:17, 21 June 2022

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Russia has vowed to retaliate against Lithuania with measures that 'will have a serious negative impact on the Lithuanian population' after the country blocked EU-sanctioned goods from reaching the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said Moscow will respond shortly to Lithuania's move to block deliveries of coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology from mainland Russia to Kaliningrad.

'Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions. Relevant measures are being worked out in the interdepartmental format and will be taken in the near future,' Interfax cited Patrushev, a former KGB spy, as saying.

'Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania,' he added.

Patrushev's warning comes as retired Russian general Evgeny Buzhinsky urged Putin to send nuclear weapons to Kaliningrad.

The President's spokesman also weighed in, warning Moscow will never trust the West again following the move.

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Lt-Gen Evgeny Buzhinsky told Russian state TV that the West is playing with fire after deliveries of coal, metals, construction materials and advanced technology were stopped from entering the Russian territory via NATO state Lithuania.

Buzhinsky said Lithuania's decision to ban the delivery of sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad, a Russian outpost on the Baltic Sea surrounded by EU territory, was a 'threat' to Russia's national security.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov meanwhile warned that all trust has now evaporated between the West and Moscow.

'Relations between Russia and the West will not be back to the previous level, because Moscow will never again trust such 'partners',' he told MSNBC. 'It will be a lengthy crisis, but we will never trust the West again.'

The threats come after the Kremlin warned of 'very tough actions' against Lithuania if it did not reverse its 'openly hostile move'.

Patrushev, one of Putin's top allies, arrived in Kaliningrad on Tuesday to discuss national security amid the row with NATO member Lithuania.

He will chair a meeting about security in Russia's northwest in Kaliningrad, the state RIA news agency said.

RIA said the trip, which included a discussion about transport, was planned before Vilnius banned the transit of goods sanctioned by the European Union through Lithuanian territory to and from the exclave, citing EU sanction rules.

Russia's foreign ministry on Tuesday also summoned the European Union ambassador to Moscow, Markus Ederer, over the 'anti-Russian restrictions' on the transit of sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad.

'The inadmissibility of such actions, which violate the relevant legal and political obligations of the European Union and lead to an escalation of tensions, was pointed out,' the ministry said in a statement.

In response, Ederer urged Russia on Tuesday to refrain from 'escalatory steps and rhetoric' over what Moscow calls 'anti-Russian restrictions', an EU spokesperson said.

'He conveyed our position on Russia's aggression against Ukraine and explained that Lithuania is implementing EU sanctions and there is no blockade, and asked them to refrain from escalatory steps and rhetoric,' spokesperson Peter Stano said.

The retired Russian general urged Vladimir Putin to send nuclear weapons to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad after EU-sanctioned goods were blocked from reaching the territory. Pictured: Russia launches the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile in testing on April 20

The retired Russian general urged Vladimir Putin to send nuclear weapons to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad after EU-sanctioned goods were blocked from reaching the territory. Pictured: Russia launches the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile in testing on April 20

Meanwhile, Buzhinsky said 'Russia won't stop' defending its territory, 'otherwise they'll deprive us of Kaliningrad'.

He also threatened Britain will 'physically cease to exist' if the new standoff in Lithuania triggers a nuclear Third World War.

The Lithuanian chargé d'affaires in Moscow was told that unless cargo transit was resumed to Kaliningrad in the near future, Russia reserves the right to act to protect its national interests.

The Russian foreign ministry said: 'We consider provocative measures of the Lithuanian side which violate Lithuania's international legal obligations, primarily the 2002 Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the European Union on transit between the Kaliningrad region and the rest of the Russian Federation, to be openly hostile.'

Loyalist senator Andrey Klimov warned it was 'direct aggression against Russia, literally forcing us to immediately resort to proper self-defence'.

Any direct Russian attack on alliance member state Lithuania would be seen as an act of war against NATO and could spark a world war.

Buzhinsky, speaking on the state-owned Russian television channel Russia 1, said the situation is 'deeply serious', and claimed the West had ulterior motives.

'This is a long game to push us out from the Baltic Sea, an attempt to block and cut Kaliningrad off, and finally take it away from us,' he claimed.

The West intended to 'block Kaliningrad economically, completely, until our people howl from destitution', Buzinsky added.

Buzhinsky, who served in senior positions in the Russian defence ministry, said: 'We have to take very decisive steps, starting with diplomatic steps'.

These included nullifying the Soviet recognition of Lithuania's independence.

Putin should 'disavow the 1991 recognition of Lithuania, disavow the agreement with the EU on Lithuania, including on their borders, then switch Lithuania off from energy,' Buzhinsky said.

'And then finally we must take military measures,' he said. He urged the Kremlin to take control of the so-called Suvalkovsky corridor - the supply route across Lithuania from Russian ally Belarus.

'We need to demonstratively move nuclear weapons to Kaliningrad... We've got to do something. We've got to strengthen our military presence at the border with Lithuania as we did in December last year, and January this year at the border with Ukraine.

'Tell the Americans, first via confidential channels, that they are playing with fire.

'You guys will actually play to the point that Russia won't stop, because this is a threat to our national security, an attempt on our sovereign territory. The world will feel it. Ukrainian grain will feel like a joke compared to our decisive steps.'

Pro-Putin TV anchor Yevgeny Popov then asked: 'In other words, this is a war with NATO?'

Buzhinsky responded: 'Yes - what else do we do? Otherwise they'll simply strangle us. We can't stop, otherwise they'll deprive us of Kaliningrad.'

Meanwhile, Gen. Buzhinksy also lashed out at British general Sir Patrick Sanders, who took command of the UK's land forces this week with a rallying call to troops to prepare to fight and beat Russian forces in a Third World War.

'He doesn't understand that as a result of the Third World War Britain will physically cease to exist,' said Buzhinsky.

'The island will vanish, so I've no idea where he or his descendants will live.'


In his message to troops, Gen. Sanders had said: 'I am the first Chief of the General Staff since 1941 to take command of the Army in the shadow of a land war in Europe involving a continental power.

'The scale of the enduring threat from Russia shows we've entered a new era of insecurity.

'It is my singular duty to make our Army as lethal and effective as it can be. The time is now and the opportunity is ours to seize.'

On Tuesday, the UK's foreign minister Liz Truss said the British government is determined to impose further sanctions on Russia, as she promised more support for Ukraine.

'We are determined to provide more weapons, impose more sanctions and back Ukraine in pushing Russia out of their territory,' Truss told parliament.

Truss said she would be travelling to Turkey on Wednesday to discuss options to help get grain out of Odesa, saying that there was only a matter of weeks to find a solution.

Britain, the United States and the European Union have coordinated in imposing massive sanctions on Moscow for what they call an invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed it a military operation.

"We will continue to impose sanctions, we will continue to stop importing goods from Russia until we see Russia fully withdraw from Ukraine," Truss said.

Britain has targeted Russian businessmen, politicians, religious leaders and businesses as part of its wide-ranging sanctions on Moscow.

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the West's action against Kaliningrad 'openly hostile'.

'Lithuania must understand that the characterisation of Vilnius's actions on Kaliningrad transit as 'hostile' means the time for talks has gone,' she told pro-Kremlin TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov.

'It is them [the Lithuanian authorities] who behave aggressively.

'They have crossed the line of international law and towards unfriendly, rough actions.

'It is them who behave provocatively, aggressively - hostile.'

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said his country was simply implementing sanctions imposed by the EU.

He said the measures implemented were taken after 'consultation with the European Commission and under its guidelines.'

'Sanctioned goods (will) no longer be allowed to transit Lithuanian territory,' Landsbergis added.

Lithuania had informed Kaliningrad's railways that from June 18 the transit of some goods from Russia was limited due to EU sanctions.

The foreign ministry emphasised it has not imposed 'unilateral, individual or additional' restrictions.

But Russia disagrees, with Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying: 'This decision is really unprecedented. It's a violation of everything.'

He warned: 'We consider this illegal. The situation is more than serious... we need a serious in-depth analysis in order to work out our response.'

The Kaliningrad governor Anton Alikhanov said the move was illegal and violated the agreements that the country committed to when joining the EU.

Konstantin Kosachyov, senate deputy speaker, claimed Lithuania was flouting international law in banning goods reaching Lithuania from Russia via Belarus.

The Kaliningrad exclave, home to some 430,000 people, is surrounded by Lithuania and Poland, another EU country, to the south and isolated from the rest of Russia. Trains with goods for Kaliningrad travel via Belarus and Lithuania.

There's no transit through Poland. Russia can still supply the exclave by sea, without falling foul of EU sanctions.

Russian state TV reporter Grigory Yemelyanov, from Channel 1, warned over footage of blocked trains: 'The attempt to isolate the region is - from the point of view of international law - in fact a casus belli, a term meaning a formal reason to declare war.'

Another senator Andrey Klishas stated: 'Lithuania's attempt to establish a virtual blockade of the Kaliningrad region is a violation of Russia's sovereignty over this region and may be the basis for very tough and absolutely legal actions on the part of Russia.'

Putin foe Mikhail Khodorkovsky warned in The Financial Times that the Kremlin leader's 'next step' would be an 'air blockade' of Lithuania.

'It will allow Russian aviation to fly right through between Russia and Kaliningrad. Then Nato will face a question of what to do.'

Former Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak - a TV presenter - warned: 'After Lithuania banned the transit of sanctioned goods to the Kaliningrad region through its territory, Russian politicians and the media have started talking …the basis for declaring war.'

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted: 'Russia has no right to threaten Lithuania. Moscow has only itself to blame for the consequences of its unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.'

Kremlin henchmen were also warning of the threat of war in Kazakhstan after Putin was 'humiliated' by Kazakh leader Kassym-Jomart Tokayev when they shared a platform together on Friday at Russia's major economic summit in St Petersburg.

Tokayev snubbed Putin by refusing to recognise as independent states the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics.

One account said Putin was 'literally furious' and felt humiliated. He was ready for 'revenge'.

Pro-Putin MP Konstantin Zatulin warned of 'Ukraine-like measures' from Russia in Kazakhstan.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov warned Kazakhstan: 'You've got to stand with Russia and show your position, and not be scared of US and EU sanctions.'

Kazakhstan and other ex-Soviet states were 'all silent, fearing the sanctions of America or Europe'.

An oil exporting terminal in Kazakhstan had been disrupted by Russia, according to reports.

In another report General SVR channel claimed Putin has not ruled out a major mobilisation of half a million men in five regions of western Russia close to Ukraine.

This could happen if Ukraine hit civilian and military facilities on a continued basis.

The regions mentioned were Bryansk, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov.

Ukrainian reports said that Putin is seeking to pressure Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko into opening a second front by invading Volyn, Rivne and Kyiv regions.

Elsewhere today, new footage shows Ukrainian troops obliterating a Russian tank and two infantry fighting vehicles using British M777 howitzers.

Aerial video purports to show the 81st Airmobile Brigade using the long-range weapons to target the vehicles.

The Command of the Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said: 'Gunners of the 81st Brigade of the DShV [Ukrainian Air Assault Forces] destroyed one tank and two infantry fighting vehicles of the Russian invaders.

'The video shows the successful work of artillery soldiers of the 81st Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who, using British M777 155-mm field howitzers, destroyed equipment and manpower of the racists.

'In particular, one tank and two infantry fighting vehicles of the Russian occupiers - along with their crews - were turned into scrap metal. Death to the Russian occupiers! DShV - Always First! Glory to Ukraine!'

It is the latest blow to Russian forces who have suffered heavy losses to personnel and military hardware in their costly four-month invasion.

Ukraine claims Russia has lost 33,800 personnel, 1,477 tanks, 3,588 armoured combat vehicles, 749 artillery units, 235 multiple launch rocket systems, 98 air defence systems, 216 warplanes, 181 helicopters, 601 drones, 130 cruise missiles, 14 warships, 2,527 motor vehicles and fuel tankers, and 55 units of special equipment.

On the battlefield, Russian forces are trying to take complete control of the eastern Donbas region, parts of which were already held by Russian-backed separatists before the February 24 invasion.

It comes as Ukraine is nervously awaiting a historic decision from the EU on its bid to become a member state, with Volodymyr Zelesnky fearing it could lead to an increase in Russian 'hostile activity' this week.
 
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Russian Ministry of Defense: APU again tried to seize Zmeiny Island

June 20, around 5:00 am, the Kyiv regime made another crazy attempt to seize Serpent Island

Russian air defense systems shot down all enemy weapons:
-13 unmanned aerial vehicles,
-4 Tochka-U missiles and
-21 missiles of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.

None of the Ukrainian weapons reached the target on Zmeiny Island. The failed fire defeat forced the enemy to abandon the landing on the island.

In the airspace in the area of Snake Island, Russian air defense systems detected a strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle of the US Air Force "Global Hawk" RQ-4 at high altitudes

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What happened yesterday at Serpentine. Details.

The plan of the operation of the Kyiv regime provided for the infliction of massive air and artillery strikes on SNAKE Island, followed by a landing and its capture.

More than 15 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in strike and reconnaissance performance were involved in the air raid, which were guided by two unmanned aerial vehicles Bayraktar TB-2.

In addition, in the airspace in the area of ZMEINYIY Island, Russian means detected a strategic reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle of the US Air Force "Global Hawk" RQ-4 at high altitudes.

The anti-aircraft cover of the Ukrainian UAVs was provided by S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from combat positions in the TUZLA and OCHAKOVA areas.

Rocket and artillery strikes on ZMEINYIY Island were carried out by Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles, Uragan multiple launch rocket systems and
155-mm M-777 howitzers from firing positions west of ODESSA and on KUBANSKY island.

Russian air defense systems: the Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun system and the Tor anti-aircraft missile system, destroyed all enemy weapons fired at ZMEINYIY Island.

Shot down in the air: 13 unmanned aerial vehicles, four Tochka-U missiles and 21 Uragan multiple rocket launchers. None of the Ukrainian fire weapons reached the target on Zmeiny Island.

The failed fire defeat forced the enemy to abandon the landing on SNAKE Island.

(c) Ministry of Defense
 
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The retired Russian general urged Vladimir Putin to send nuclear weapons to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad after EU-sanctioned goods were blocked from reaching the territory. Pictured: Russia launches the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile in testing on April 20
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Many Western analysts believe that nuclear weapons have been in Kaliningrad for a number of years now.
 
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Tom McDowell

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…perhaps, you can see how the dangerous mischief of RussiaGate, Hillary Clinton’s spoofish punkery that Russia “interfered” in the 2016 election, mutated into a foreign policy psychosis….

For three decades, since the old Soviet Union ended in a whimper, reincarnated Russia asked “the West” for very little, almost nothing, really, certainly not the kind of “aid” that the USA used like a fungo-bat to beat lesser states around the world into hegemonic submission. All Russia asked, after seventy-five years of mass formation communist insanity, was to be treated once again like a normal European nation. Early on, Russia even floated a possible application to NATO, which NATO laughed off — among many other insults to follow.

But slowly after 1991, and then all at once, Europe and the USA fell under their own mass formation spell, apparently at the instigation of a certain Schwabenklaus and his WEF factotums implanted throughout Western Civ, like poison raisins in a fruitcake, rendering the EU members and the USA insane, which is to say no longer able to entertain normal relations with others.

And so, by February of 2022, you get this coalition of lunatic countries — preoccupied at home with the rankest political degeneracy disguised as virtue — provoking a proxy war in Ukraine with the aim of impoverishing, humiliating, and weakening Russia. And despite the massive funding and training of a 200,000-man Ukrainian military poised against the Donbas, the whole thing collapsed in misadventure as a strategic Russian meat-grinder chewed through the West’s proxy army like so much lunchmeat… bringing us up-to-date.

As the psychologist Mattias Desmet points out in his just-published book, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, the people tragically locked into a mass formation develop, among many other delusions and psychopathologies, the grandiose idea that they have an ethical duty to destroy other nations. Hence, perhaps, you can see how the dangerous mischief of RussiaGate, Hillary Clinton’s spoofish punkery that Russia “interfered” in the 2016 election, mutated into an American foreign policy psychosis.

By “Hillary Clinton” you must understand I refer not just to the Flying Reptile of Chappaqua herself, but the Party of Chaos she helped create out of the diverse-and-inclusive body parts stitched together from the graveyard of Leftist politics — socialists, communists, feminists, anarchists, Maoists, and Gawd-knows whatever other diverse ists this increasingly crazed coalition of Jacobin maniacs could enlist for beating a path straight into World War Three.

Now, having flopped in the Ukraine theater of conflict, and to the tune of their anthem, Get Russia, the Party of Chaos enters into a suicide pact with NATO as its useful idiot. They are using recent NATO draftee Lithuania to block the movement of railroad shipments between Russia proper and the geographically stranded province known as Kaliningrad Oblast shoehorned on the Baltic Coast between Lithuania and Poland. Kaliningrad had been swapped around by the principalities and kingdoms of the region from time immemorial. Its valuable ice-free port was annexed by Russia in 1758, traded variously to Poland and Prussia since then, and landed back in Russia’s possession after the Second World War. Thus, blocking transport from Russia to Kaliningrad Oblast might be construed as an act of war. Smooth move, NATO….

Britain is banging war drums the loudest at the moment. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, having made a suet pudding of his country’s economy, apparently thinks that World War Three will be a welcome diversion from Old Blighty’s nauseating whirl down the drain of broken empires. Germany, led by the empty suit Olaf Scholz, begins to squirm a little as it contemplates its blunder of going along with “Joe Biden’s” anti-Russia sanctions — which comes down to burning the furniture to stay warm this coming Christmas. France’s Macron just got drubbed in the National Assembly elections and is calling weakly for talks with Russia, as if…. Anyway, Mr. Putin is no longer in the mood for that, having been dissed, demonized, without relent for years, and lately demonetized by the West’s banking system. I love my country and all (though not so much the regime currently running it), but can you blame the Russian president? Hillary can, of course, and still does to this day, and where’s her credibility at now, exactly?

“Joe Biden,” meanwhile, acted out the perfect metaphor illustrating where the USA is at when, on Saturday, in perfect weather, and on-vacation (as usual) at the Delaware beach (because there’s so little to do in Washington these days), he cruised his bicycle into a gentle stop for a photo op with the locals and proceeded to flop over on his side like a 99-cent gyroscope that just can’t keep a’spinnin’ on its poorly-machined axis. That’s kind of like how America will fight a land war in Europe with our army of “vaccinated” myocarditis victims hoisting the rainbow battle flag into the fray.

Speaking of war… the “Joe Biden” regime is already at war with its own citizens, you know, so we’re poised on the edge of the worst sort of a two-front war: at home and abroad. Late last week, and surely with the connivance of the FDA, CDC, and the NIH, the American Board of Internal Medicine threatened to yank Dr. Peter McCullough’s medical license for “providing false and inaccurate information to patients.” Dr. McCullough has been at the forefront of the battle to provide early treatment protocols for Covid-19 that were systematically banned by US government public health agencies for the sole purpose of preserving the emergency use authorization that protects pharma companies from liability for “vaccines” that don’t prevent transmission of disease and have produced millions of injuries including thousands of deaths.

They are messing with the wrong doctor. He has the goods on these malevolent idiots. If he brings a case against them in a court of law, Dr. McCullough, the most published, peer-reviewed cardiologist in the world, is going to prove definitively just how the people of the USA were defrauded and injured by Big Pharma and our own government, and eventually a lot of the people involved will go to jail, or worse, and they know it. That is, if anything is left standing in our country after “Joe Biden” starts World War Three.

For those of you interested in the theory of mass formation, I’ve just posted my podcast with Mattias Desmet from Ghent University, Belgium, the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism.

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Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology and Educational Sciences at the Ghent University, Belgium and a practicing psychotherapist. He is the author ofThe Psychology of Totalitarianism (Chelsea Green Publishing). Since he introduced the concept of “mass formation psychosis” into the arena of public discourse some months ago, his ideas have been discussed widely, especially in relation to the bizarre politics of Covid-19. He is also the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed academic papers and recipient of many prizes in his professional field.


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Russia tells Lithuania: your citizens will feel the pain over Kaliningrad
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LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) - A top ally of President Vladimir Putin told Lithuania on Tuesday that Moscow would respond to its ban on the transit of goods sanctioned by the EU to Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad in such a way that citizens of the Baltic state would feel the pain.
With relations between Moscow and the West at a half-century low over Russia's Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, Lithuania banned the transit of goods sanctioned by the European Union across its territory to and from the exclave, citing EU sanction rules.

Nikolai Patrushev, a former KGB spy who is now the secretary of Russia's Security Council, said Lithuania's "hostile" actions showed that Russia could not trust the West, which he said had broken written agreements over Kaliningrad.
"Russia will certainly respond to such hostile actions," Patrushev was quoted as saying by state news agency RIA.
"Appropriate measures are being worked out in an interdepartmental format and will be taken in the near future," he was quoted as saying. "Their consequences will have a serious negative impact on the population of Lithuania."

Lithuania, a member of NATO and the European Union, said it was simply applying agreed EU sanctions on Russia, adding it was "ironic" to hear Moscow's complaints given its war in Ukraine.
'NO BLOCKADE'
"It's ironic to hear rhetoric about alleged violations of international treaties from a country which has violated possibly every single international treaty," Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte told reporters.
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A view shows railway cars in Kaliningrad

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A view shows freight cars, following Lithuania's ban of the transit of goods under EU sanctions through the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, in Kaliningrad, Russia June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Vitaly Nevar
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"There is no Kaliningrad blockade," Simonyte said. "Lithuania is implementing EU sanctions."

Kaliningrad, formerly the port of Koenigsberg, capital of East Prussia, was captured from Nazi Germany by the Red Army in April 1945 and ceded to the Soviet Union after World War Two. It is sandwiched between NATO members Poland and Lithuania.
After Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies imposed some of the most stringent sanctions in modern history, a step the Kremlin cast as akin to a declaration of economic war.
Russia's foreign ministry summoned the EU's ambassador to Moscow, Markus Ederer, to formally complain. read more
"We demanded the immediate restoration of normal Kaliningrad transit. Otherwise retaliatory measures will follow," it said.
Ederer urged Russia to refrain from "escalatory steps and rhetoric" over the situation, an EU spokesperson said.
"He conveyed our position on Russia's aggression against Ukraine and explained that Lithuania is implementing EU sanctions and there is no blockade, and asked them to refrain from escalatory steps and rhetoric," the spokesperson, Peter Stano, said in Brussels.
Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists. Kyiv and its Western backers say this is a false pretext to wage an unprovoked war of aggression.
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Russia tells Lithuania: your citizens will feel the pain over Kaliningrad

A top ally of President Vladimir Putin told Lithuania on Tuesday that Moscow would respond to its ban on the transit of goods sanctioned by the EU to Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad in such a way that citizens of the Baltic state would feel the pain.
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With US and NATO troops forward deployed in Poland and the Baltic States as they are without the MSM coverage in the US this whole mess truly deserves as opposed to the farce they are saturating the bandwidth does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

As to this latest example of a Russian propagandist sabre rattling nukes in a further attempt to "influence" and "signal" the West, such a deployment this late in the game would be a poor investment in resources when the same results can be achieved either from Russian naval strategic units or their land based comrades in arms deeper within Russia proper.

IMHO we are really deep into "boy cried wolf" territory with two different packs angling out in the dark to grab the flock for themselves. When that happens it will be swift and bloody.
 
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Housecarl said:
With US and NATO troops forward deployed in Poland and the Baltic States as they are without the MSM coverage in the US this whole mess truly deserves as opposed to the farce they are saturating the bandwidth does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

As to this latest example of a Russian propagandist sabre rattling nukes in a further attempt to "influence" and "signal" the West, such a deployment this late in the game would be a poor investment in resources when the same results can be achieved either from Russian naval strategic units or their land based comrades in arms deeper within Russia proper.

IMHO we are really deep into "boy cried wolf" territory with two different packs angling out in the dark to grab the flock for themselves. When that happens it will be swift and bloody.
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Just went to the minimart for milk and tea. The POS system was down and everything was cash, calculator and notebook. Wondered how long before this situation comes from an adversary and the snowflakes grog what consequences mean.
 
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i appreciate them. they provide another prospective and i want to continue to see them.
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Then you should go to their website to read their skewed trash at your leisure without having it hog the server space here with its overly-long, pretentious "expertise" posts.

Institute for the Study of War

The owners of that company were exposed on this site long ago - primary owner is Kimberly Kagan who - to make a long story short - is the sister-in-law of Victoria Nuland, and both their husbands serve in leftist globalist think tanks in DC. They are together a key part of the cabal which encourages Bai-Den to fight to the last Ukrainian.

As an adopted Ukrainian (which I consider you as, it's perfectly understandable and no offense intended at all), if there were a single person at who I'd be focused who created this whole mess, I'd swing the barrels from Putin, Putin, Putin to Victoria Nuland singlehandedly-picking the members of the US-subservient Ukrainian puppet government which was installed by the US-instigated post-Maidan revolution. Not to mention that they continued and even strengthened the Ukrainian USA-Demonrat laundromat facility. Obama's bloody hands are all over it, of course.
 
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Then you should go to their website to read their skewed trash at your leisure without having it hog the server space here with its overly-long, pretentious "expertise" posts.

Institute for the Study of War

The owners of that company were exposed on this site long ago - primary owner is Kimberly Kagan who - to make a long story short - is the sister-in-law of Victoria Nuland, and both their husbands serve in leftist globalist think tanks in DC. They are together a key part of the cabal which encourages Bai-Den to fight to the last Ukrainian.

As an adopted Ukrainian (which I consider you as, it's perfectly understandable and no offense intended at all), if there were a single person at who I'd be focused who created this whole mess, I'd swing the barrels from Putin, Putin, Putin to Victoria Nuland singlehandedly-picking the members of the US-subservient Ukrainian puppet government which was installed by the US-instigated post-Maidan revolution. Not to mention that they continued and even strengthened the Ukrainian USA-Demonrat laundromat facility. Obama's bloody hands are all over it, of course.
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well, all i can say to that is that literally every single Ukrainian person who i have asked about the events of 2014 and the election of Zelinsky, not only in Lviv, but also in Kyiv, Nikoleav and a small city in the center of the country, approves of the Maidan events and says Yanunovich was himself put in place by the Russians themselves in a fraudulent election.

and as for the election of Z
two older professional women did not approve of his election and voted for Poroshenko, but they both think he is a patriot and the legitimate president. and to a person, everyone else, 80%, voted for him in a fair election.

as for me being adopted here. yeah, it is true. within the past two weeks or so i have begun to realize that they way things are going here AND back home, i am probably never going to be able to return. or want to. i could easily end up with several beautiful children i need to stay here to support and protect.
 
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Oreally said:
well, all i can say to that is that literally every single Ukrainian person who i have asked about the events of 2014 and the election of Zelinsky, not only in Lviv, but also in Kyiv, Nikoleav and a small city in the center of the country, approves of the Maidan events and says Yanunovich was himself put in place by the Russians themselves in a fraudulent election.

and as for the election of Z
two older professional women did not approve of his election and voted for Poroshenko, but they both think he is a patriot and the legitimate president. and to a person, everyone else, 80%, voted for him in a fair election.

as for me being adopted here. yeah, it is true. within the past two weeks or so i have begun to realize that they way things are going here AND back home, i am probably never going to be able to return. or want to. i could easily end up with several beautiful children i need to stay here to support and protect.
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As long as they all have the same mother, I fully approve and pray for your success both in having them AND being able to protect them. Back here at home is going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket past the point of no return. Stay where you are, it's probably safer in the long run. Bloom where you're planted and all that.
 
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Well of course you would, no offense but you are clearly a ukie slappy- I want news with as little propaganda as possible
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And so do we all, and it's darn hard to find. Maybe even impossible but anyways...

That's being a little harsh on oreally; it's understandable he should be hoping his country can survive and even win this thing, improbable as it seems right now. But we have to consider his unique point of view as he's right in the middle of what's about ready to explode, even though it's largely been a region of uninterrupted daily living. That POV is useful to me; I don't know about others. I also realize that oreally's news sources are themselves largely hopium-based, but it's good to know what the populace is being told person-to-person.
 
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emiliozapata said:
Well of course you would, no offense but you are clearly a ukie slappy- I want news with as little propaganda as possible
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You arent going to find that. Every media has a spin and a goal. The Russian info is no better than the Ukrainian/Western info. Just slanted differently. Russian media is ruled by Putin. Western media by Biden/Obama and Soros. Personally I like seeing both. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.
 
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mecoastie said:
You arent going to find that. Every media has a spin and a goal. The Russian info is no better than the Ukrainian/Western info. Just slanted differently. Russian media is ruled by Putin. Western media by Biden/Obama and Soros. Personally I like seeing both. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.
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Telegram has been more accurate than Twitter in the Russo-Ukrainian war news, in my opinion.
 
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Putin threatens to deploy new Satan II nuclear missile

The Russian president has also said the country will also continue to boost its military following damage suffered during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine, praising his troops for battling 'like heroes'.
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Putin threatens to deploy new Satan II nuclear missile - which can reach Britain in just three minutes - by the end of 2022
By Jamie Phillips For Mailonline
Published: 20:11 EDT, 21 June 2022 | Updated: 21:14 EDT, 21 June 2022
  • Putin also says Russia will boost military following damage suffered in Ukraine
  • He praised his 'hero' soldiers as he hosted military graduates at the Kremlin
  • President said first Sarmat missiles will be on combat duty by the end of the year
  • The 'Satan II' said to be world's longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile

Vladimir Putin has threatened to deploy Russia's new Satan II nuclear missile, which can reach the UK in just three minutes, by the end of 2022.

The Russian president has also said the country will also continue to boost its military following damage suffered during its ongoing invasion of Ukraine and praised his troops for battling 'like heroes'.

Speaking as he hosted military academy graduates at the Kremlin on Tuesday, Putin said Russia will place the first batch of Sarmat ballistic missiles on combat duty by the end of the year as part of the efforts, The Telegraph reports.

The Sarmat missile, or 'Satan II', is said to be the world's longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of striking a target 11,200 miles away - meaning it could easily strike targets in the US and Europe.

Putin has previously hailed the development of the missile, which was successfully test-fired in April, 'a big, significant event' for Russia's defense industry, saying the Sarmat will 'ensure Russia's security from external threats and make those who try to threaten our country with aggressive rhetoric think twice.'

Western military experts have said the Sarmat is capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads and decoys - easily enough to wipe out territories the size of Britain or France in a single strike.

And commander of Russia’s strategic missile forces Colonel Sergei Karakayev told Kremlin state television last month that they can fly with different trajectories and evade missile defence systems.

He said: 'There is no existing air defence for the Sarmat missile systems, and it will probably not exist in the coming decades.'

Among other new additions referenced by Putin in his speech are S-500 missile defence systems that he has claimed to be 'unmatched in the world'.

It comes after last month saw a state TV broadcast suggest Britain should be bombed back to the Stone Age 'in ten minutes' with an attack by new nuclear-capable Zircon - or Tsirkon - missiles.

Politician Aleksey Zhuravlyov and TV propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov had earlier advocated striking Britain with Satan-2.

And Russian state TV pundit, Yaakov Kedmi, a Moscow-born former Israeli diplomat, said Russia's new hypersonic Zircon missile should be deployed to wipe out 50 or 60 power stations in the UK 'in ten minutes', plunging the country into darkness.

Hosts on Channel One's 60 Minutes programme announced the cities of London, Paris and Berlin could be hit within 200 seconds of nuclear missiles being launched back in April.

On the show, the chairman of the nationalist Rodina party, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, pondered what would happen if Russia launched nuclear weapons against the UK, saying: 'one Sarmat missile and the British Isles will be no more.'

When pulled up on the comment by one of the hosts, he insisted he was 'saying this seriously', while another host added that the UK has nuclear weapons too and that 'no one will survive in this war'.


Russia has claimed its most potent nuclear missile, the 16,000mph hypersonic 'Satan-2', can destroy the UK

Russia has claimed its most potent nuclear missile, the 16,000mph hypersonic 'Satan-2', can destroy the UK

Producers on the show then showed viewers a map seeming to suggest missiles could be launched from Kaliningrad, the Russian enclave between Poland, Lithuania and the Baltic Sea.

It suggested these could reach Berlin in 106 seconds, Paris in 200 seconds and London in 202 seconds.
 
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Institute for the Study of War

The Kremlin recently replaced the commander of the Russian Airborne (VDV) forces and may be in the process of radically reshuffling the command structure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, indicating a possible purge of senior officers blamed for
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE CAMPAIGN ASSESSMENT, JUNE 21
Jun 21, 2022 - Press ISW
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Mason Clark, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, and Grace Mappes
June 21, 7:45 pm ET​
Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.
The Kremlin recently replaced the commander of the Russian Airborne (VDV) forces and may be in the process of radically reshuffling the command structure of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, indicating a possible purge of senior officers blamed for failures in Ukraine. Several Russian outlets confirmed that the current Chief of Staff of the Central Military District, Colonel-General Mikhail Teplinsky, will replace the current Commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel-General Andrey Serdyukov.[1] Ukrainian sources previously reported on June 17 that the Kremlin fired Serdyukov for poor performance during the invasion and high casualties among paratroopers, but ISW could not confirm this reporting at the time.[2] Several sources are additionally reporting contradictory claims about replacements for the current Southern Military District Commander—and overall commander of the Russian invasion of Ukraine–Army General Alexander Dvornikov:
  • Russian reserve officer Oleg Marzoev claimed on June 21 that Russian military officials will soon appoint General of the Army Sergey Surovikin, the current commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, as commander of the Southern Military District (SMD), effectively replacing current SMD Commander Alexander Dvornikov.[3]
  • Investigative journalism group Bellingcat previously reported on June 17 that Russian President Vladimir Putin planned to replace Dvornikov as the commander of the invasion of Ukraine following Dvornikov’s excessive drinking and lack of trust among Russian forces.[4]
  • Ukraine’s Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) reported on June 19 that Putin replaced Dvornikov as the commander of the Ukrainian operation with Colonel-General Gennady Zhidko, the head of the Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces.[5]
  • An unofficial but widely followed Russian Airborne Troops social media page claimed that Dvornikov has been promoted and that Serdyukov will take his position within the SMD. This claim is highly unlikely to be true given that pro-Kremlin sources announced Serdyukov’s retirement.[6]
ISW cannot independently verify these reports and will continue to monitor the situation for corroboration. However, if these varied reports are all accurate, former Aerospace Forces Commander Surovikin has replaced Dvornikov (who may have been forced to retire) as commander of the Southern Military District, but Zhidko has been appointed commander of Russian operations in Ukraine, despite not directly commanding Russian combat troops in his permanent role. Zhidko currently directs the body of the Russian Ministry of Defense responsible for maintaining morale and ideological control within the Russian military, rather than commanding a military district. As ISW previously reported, Southern Military District Commander Dvornikov was the natural choice to command Russia’s operations in Ukraine following Russia’s loss in the Battle of Kyiv, as the majority of Russian offensive operations are occurring within the Southern Military District’s area of responsibility. The appointment of a separate commander over the Southern Military District, and the replacement of the commander of the SMD in the middle of major combat operations, is a drastic step that would speak to severe crises within the Russian high command, and possibly a purge by the Kremlin. Such drastic rotations within the Russian military, if true, are not actions taken by a force on the verge of a major success and indicate ongoing dysfunction in the Kremlin’s conduct of the war.
Russian forces are successfully advancing toward Lysychansk from the south rather than making an opposed river crossing from Severodonetsk, threatening Ukrainian defenses in the area. ISW previously forecasted that Russian forces would seek to attack toward Lysychansk from the south to negate the defensive advantage that the Siverskyi Donets River would grant Ukrainian defenders opposing a direct assault from Severodonetsk. Russian forces appear to be securing such an advance and will likely attack the outskirts of Lysychansk within the coming week. This Russian advance is a clear setback for Ukrainian defenses in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area, but Russian forces will likely require further protracted battles with Ukrainian forces similar to the block-by-block fighting seen in Mariupol and Severodonetsk in order to capture Lysychansk.
The Kremlin is failing to deter the family members of sailors that survived the sinking of the Moskva from issuing an appeal against the deployment of surviving conscripts to the war in Ukraine as of June 20.[7] Russian opposition outlet Novaya Gazeta published an appeal from the parents of the surviving 49 conscript crewmembers of the Moskva, demanding that the Military Prosecutor’s Office in Sevastopol, the Committee of Soldier’s Mothers, and the Human Rights Commissioner immediately terminate the crewmembers’ deployment. The appeal states that Russian commanders did not send the surviving conscripts home from their deployment following the sinking of Moskva and that they will be recommitted to hostilities on June 30. The appeal noted that the survivors refuse to participate in further assignments due to psychological distress and are currently stationed on the old ship Ladnyi, which the appeal claims is unfit for combat. The Ukrainian Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) previously reported that Russian forces have threatened the families of Moskva sailors with criminal prosecution and nullification of any financial benefits to prevent them from speaking out against Russian operations.[8]
Russian forces continue to face force generation challenges and are committing unprepared contract servicemen to the invasion of Ukraine. The BBC’s Russian service reported on June 20 that new Russian recruits receive only 3 to 7 days of training before being sent to “the most active sectors of the front.”[9] The BBC also reported that volunteers within the conventional Russian military, Rosgvardia units, and Wagner Group mercenaries have become Russia’s main assault force, as opposed to full conventional military units. ISW has previously assessed that Russian units in eastern Ukraine are suffering from poor complements of infantry, slowing their ability to seize urban terrain. The Russian military is offering substantial financial incentives to secure additional recruits with increasing disregard for their age, health, criminal records, and other established service qualifications. The Ukrainian General Staff reported on June 21 that Russian Airborne (VDV) units are forced to recruit reserve officers for short-term three-month contracts due to significant officer losses, and the BBC reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense is offering to pay off the loans and debts of volunteers to entice recruits.[10]
Key Takeaways
  • The Kremlin recently replaced the commander of the Russian Airborne (VDV) forces and may have fired the commander of the Southern Military District and appointed a new overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, indicating ongoing dysfunction in the Kremlin’s conduct of the war.
  • Russian forces conducted several successful advances in settlements southeast of Severodonetsk on June 21 and may be able to threaten Lysychansk in the coming days while avoiding a difficult opposed crossing of the Siverskyi Donets River.
  • Russian forces continued to launch assaults on settlements along the T1302 Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway to interdict Ukrainian ground lines of communications (GLOCs).
  • Russian operations along the Izyum-Slovyansk axis are increasingly stalled as Russian forces prioritize operations around Severodonetsk.
  • Russian forces likely recaptured the eastern bank of the Inhulets River from the Ukrainian bridgehead situated near the Kherson-Mykolaiv Oblast border.
  • Ukrainian forces reportedly struck Russian positions on Snake Island in the Black Sea, likely to destroy Russian fortifications and equipment on the island, but ISW cannot confirm competing Ukrainian and Russian claims of the results of the attack.
  • Russian occupation authorities are continuing to face challenges recruiting local collaborators and are likely relying on Russian government personnel to consolidate their societal control of occupied Ukrainian territories.

We do not report in detail on Russian war crimes because those activities are well-covered in Western media and do not directly affect the military operations we are assessing and forecasting. We will continue to evaluate and report on the effects of these criminal activities on the Ukrainian military and population and specifically on combat in Ukrainian urban areas. We utterly condemn these Russian violations of the laws of armed conflict, Geneva Conventions, and humanity even though we do not describe them in these reports.
  • Main Effort—Eastern Ukraine (comprised of one subordinate and three supporting efforts);
  • Subordinate Main Effort—Encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the cauldron between Izyum and Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts
  • Supporting Effort 1—Kharkiv City;
  • Supporting Effort 2—Southern Axis;
  • Activities in Russian-occupied Areas
Main Effort—Eastern Ukraine
Subordinate Main Effort—Southern Kharkiv, Donetsk, Luhansk Oblasts (Russian objective: Encircle Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine and capture the entirety of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the claimed territory of Russia’s proxies in Donbas)
Russian forces conducted several successful advances in settlements southeast of Severodonetsk on June 21 and may be able to threaten Lysychansk in the coming days while avoiding a difficult opposed crossing of the Siverskyi Donets River. The Ukrainian General Staff confirmed that Russian forces seized Pidlisne, Myrna Dolyna, and Ustynivka and stated they captured portions of Bila Hora, all towns situated on the western Siverskyi Donets Riverbank within 10 km of the southern outskirts of Lysychansk.[11] Geolocated footage from June 20 indicates Russian forces captured terrain in contested Toshkivka, just east of the T1303 Lysychansk-Hirske highway.[12] Russian forces also conducted a partially successful attack against Hirske, and will likely attempt to carry out a shallow encirclement around Zolote.[13] The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian assaults on Severodonetsk’s southeastern outskirts of Syrotyne and Voronove, likely to interdict Russian advances to the eastern bank of Siverskyi Donets River.[14] Ukrainian and Russian sources reported that fighting is still ongoing at the Azot Chemical Plant in Severodonetsk as of June 21.[15]

Russian forces continued to launch assaults on settlements along the T1302 Lysychansk-Bakhmut highway to interdict Ukrainian ground lines of communications (GLOCs). Russian forces attacked Mykolaivka and seized Vrubivka, both adjacent to the T1302 highway.[16] Russian forces also launched ground assaults against Vershina and Semyhirya, approximately 12 km and 17 km south of Bakhmut. Russian forces will still need to seize the T1302 to cut off Ukrainian GLOCs running through Siversk to disrupt Ukrainian GLOCs to Lysychansk. The Ukrainian General Staff also reported that Russian forces consolidated battalion tactical groups (BTGs) from the 5th Combined Arms Army and withdrew units of the 1st Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 1st Army Corps (the armed forces of the Donetsk People‘s Republic) to restore their combat capabilities, indicating that Russian forces are experiencing significant losses in ongoing operations in Luhansk Oblast.[17]

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Russian operations along the Izyum-Slovyansk axis are increasingly stalled as Russian forces prioritize operations around Severodonetsk. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russian forces launched unsuccessful ground assaults against Bohorodychne and Dolyna (north of Slovyansk) and did not attempt to conduct offensive operations in the Lyman area.[18] Ukraine’s Strategic Communications Directorate reported that Russian forces are redeploying several army-level headquarters units from frontlines in the Izyum and Lyman areas to Svatove and Horoshe, just 30-40 km east of Severodonetsk and Popasna.[19] The redeployment of these headquarters units may further complicate Russian logistics routes and troop management in Izyum and Lyman and indicates that these units may be further shifting to the Severodonetsk axis. Satellite imagery from June 19 also showed that Russian forces constructed a pontoon bridge in Kupyansk, likely to improve supply routes to Svatove.[20] ISW previously reported on June 17 that Russian forces are deploying additional equipment via GLOCs in Svatove to support offensive operations in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area.[21]

Supporting Effort #1—Kharkiv City (Russian objective: Withdraw forces to the north and defend ground lines of communication (GLOCs) to Izyum)
Russian forces continued to focus on hindering Ukrainian counteroffensives southeast and northeast of Kharkiv City. Russian forces reportedly continued to shell settlements around Kharkiv City to impede Ukrainian advances toward the Russian forces operating in Izyum and the international border.[22] Geolocated combat footage showed local fighting near Yuchenkove, approximately 61 km southeast of Kharkiv City, though neither Russian nor Ukrainian forces conducted any major attacks.[23]

Supporting Effort #2—Southern Axis (Objective: Defend Kherson and Zaporizhia Oblasts against Ukrainian counterattacks)
Russian forces likely recaptured the eastern bank of the Inhulets River from the Ukrainian bridgehead situated near the Kherson-Mykolaiv Oblast border. The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Russian forces fired on Ukrainian positions on the western bank of the Inhulets River, likely indicating that Ukrainian forces lost access to the bridgehead on the eastern riverbank, which they had occupied since May 28.[24] Geolocated footage of Ukrainian forces striking Russian forces in Andriivka (situated east of the Inhulets River) also indicates that Russian forces pushed Ukrainian forces west of the river.[25] Russian forces continued to build long-term firing positions, conduct air reconnaissance, and shell settlements on the Kherson-Mykolaiv and Kherson-Dnipropetrovsk Oblast borders on June 21.[26]

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