American journalist John Dugan told RIA Novosti that he received an anonymous letter from a participant in the Baltops-22 exercise, during which explosives could have been planted near the Nord Stream pipelines.

The letter (RIA Novosti has it) says that on June 15, a helicopter brought a group of Americans in civilian clothes, who were met by the vice admiral of the 6th US Navy and people in civilian clothes.

The men arrived with professional equipment for deep-sea diving, which the ordinary military does not use.

After talking to the vice admiral, they took some crates on a rubber boat out to sea and dove for more than six hours. They came back without the crates, and then a helicopter took them away.

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The losses of the Ukrainian troops defending Soledar were 6-7 times higher than the losses of the attacking side, Hero of Russia Elizarov, with the call sign Lotos, who commanded the Wagner PMC assault, said.

Lotos :The ratio of casualties was about one to six or one to seven. On the enemy side, seven to one of ours (Ukrainian(7) : Russian(1))

Journalist: They say that in an assault, the ratio of losses is one to three in favor of the defending side. 

Lotos : No,that's a slight misconception about the losses in an assault. It's a ratio of forces that should be a minimum to begin an assault on a city. If you open the tactics textbook of any army in the world, it says that the ratio of the offensive side should be three to one, and in a city, five to one. Only then can you begin the offensive operation. Otherwise, the offensive will fail, and the mission will be doomed to failure.

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❗️ NATO must be ready for a confrontation with Russia that will last "many, many, many, many years" — NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg

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🇵🇱The Polish Legion will start operating in Ukraine, which will include veterans of the special forces.

Poland has become the latest country to form its own legion of volunteers fighting for Ukraine. "The unit will be used for reconnaissance and sabotage tasks," the newspaper writes.
The base of the mercenaries will be located in an unknown place in the Kyiv region. The makeshift headquarters is already working secretly. A number of militants are already preparing for combat operations.

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❗️101 Russian fighters returned home today, Russian Defense Ministry announced

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Russian Heroes Return Home

❗️101 Russian fighters returned home today from Ukrainian captivity, Russian Defense Ministry announced

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Slovakia has not allowed German-made weapons from Ukraine to enter its country for several weeks now. These weapons were to be sent there for maintenance and repair.

The German edition of Business Insider writes about this, citing government sources in Berlin.

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The AFU will not be able to break through the 🇷🇺defenses to cut the Russian land corridor to Crimea - CNN

There are also doubts whether Ukrainian forces have the capacity to sever entrenched Russian defenses in the east and southern areas in a way that could threaten Putin's land bridges to Crimea. And Stoltenberg said Wednesday at a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels that the conflict was becoming a "grinding war of attrition" as he called on the allies to rush ammunition to Ukraine, writes CNN

The outside world knows Putin is not contemplating defeat or an exit from the war because of the complete lack of any diplomatic framework for ceasefire talks.

The other thing is that Putin also feels that he has a lot of support from the rest of the world, including from China ... it may very well take countries like China, pushing Russia, for there to be any break in Putin's resolve."

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Another goods train derailed in the USA, this time in Detroit. There was one wagon loaded with dangerous goods

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⚡️ US does not encourage Ukraine to strike deep into the territory of the Russian Federation, Washington reported this publicly and in private contacts — White House

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Sinel'nikovsky Rayon (District) in the heart of the Dnepropetrovsk—Zaporozhye—Pavlograd triangle appears to be one massive staging area for the offensive south toward Melitopol that Ukraine is planning for the April-May period. It is swarming with Ukrainian troops. This is one of the key areas that the Russian Army has been targeting with missile strikes over the past week.

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From Artyomovsk they report that the whole day and to this very second, intense hostilities continue with the use of the entire spectrum of weapons.

Our aviation is actively working - rocket and bomb strikes are constantly carried out, and our artillery practically without stopping covers the positions, locations, and supply roads of the AFU throughout the Artyomovsk agglomeration.

There are close shooting battles directly on the outskirts and in the city itself.

Today a decisive assault on Artemovsk began, which is very close to returning home to Russia!

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