🇪🇺 🇺🇸 European Council On Foreign Relations claims: "Europe is becoming an American vassal"

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed Europeans’ profound dependence on the US for their security, despite EU efforts at achieving “strategic autonomy.”

Over the last decade, the EU has grown relatively less powerful than America – economically, technologically, and militarily.

Europeans also still lack agreement on crucial strategic questions for themselves and look to Washington for leadership.

https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-art-of-vassalisation-how-russias-war-on-ukraine-has-transformed-transatlantic-relations/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Along the Zaporozhye direction.

1. The enemy is concentrating the forces of the 25th and 65th brigades in the Orekhov area to resume offensive operations. Attacks are being prepared in the direction of Rabotino, and related engineering and technical training is being carried out.

2. The 102nd and 128th Volkssturm Brigades are trying, despite significant losses, to prepare for active operations in the area of Gulyaipole, Maly Shcherbakov, Malaya Tokmachka and Mezhrechye. Our troops successfully hit their location, which made it difficult for the enemy to carry out his plan.

3. Some enemy brigades are experiencing problems with a shortage of personnel after the losses incurred - marching replacements are not coming fast enough. They are trying to reinforce the line brigades by transferring individual battalions from the Volkssturm brigades to "build up meat."

4. In the interests of the APU grouping, aircraft from the airfield in Dnepropetrovsk and the airfield in Dolgintsevo continue to operate.

5. In general, the current stop of the active offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a temporary phenomenon - after regrouping, replenishing and pulling up reserves, they will trample again. Ours is aware of the plans of the enemy and is actively preparing to meet them.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 American MRAP Oshkosh M-ATV , captured by an assault detachment and a tank company of the 40th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet during the battles for Novodonetskoye.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 On June 16, as a result of a missile and artillery attack by the RF Armed Forces on the command post of one of the battalions of the 67th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement. Borschevaya in the Kharkiv region, the commander of the battalion, Major Vadim Irichuk, was destroyed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In New Moscow and the Moscow region, three drones were shot down with the help of electronic warfare.

🇷🇺 A resident of the Khabarovsk Territory was detained by the FSB for treason in the form of financing the Armed Forces of Ukraine with cryptocurrency

The detainee, using cryptocurrency tools, made transfers of personal funds through third parties residing on the territory of Ukraine to the account of a foreign charitable foundation for the purchase of UAVs, thermal imagers, ammunition and medical uniforms.

🇺🇦 In the Ivano-Frankivsk region (in western Ukraine), the hospitalization of men is stopped without the knowledge of the military registration and enlistment offices.

Planned hospitalizations of patients liable for military service without the consent of the TCC have been temporarily suspended for men aged 18 to 59 years.

Earlier, a general mobilization of human and transport resources was announced in the region.

According to a number of analysts, the decision of the local authorities may be an experiment with the aim of subsequently introducing such a practice throughout the country due to heavy losses during the counteroffensive.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with tanks advanced to the positions of the battalion in the forest belt, but ran into a fierce rebuff from motorized riflemen from Primorye.
In the very first seconds of the battle, our fighter knocked out a NATO armored car from a grenade launcher (RShG). A tank set out to intercept an armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but before it had time to engage in battle, the enemy was put to flight by our infantry and artillery.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian FPV drone strikes against Ukrainian infantry in a trench.

🇷🇺 The Kremlin reported that there were no prerequisites for extending the grain deal.

The role of the UN was assessed yesterday by the Russian Foreign Ministry as insignificant - as a guarantor of the deal, the UN cannot do anything.

Therefore, the deal will formally exist for another 3.5 weeks, although the flow of ships from Odessa to the Bosphorus has already sharply decreased against the backdrop of an increasing cargo flow from Novorossiysk to Turkey.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The enemy in the coming days intends to resume intensive attacks in the Zaporozhye direction, which will be backed up by attacks in the Svatovo and Donetsk directions to pin down Russian reserves.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Attack helicopters Ka-52 "Alligator" of the Russian Aerospace Forces are actively working in the Zaporozhye direction, providing support to ground forces in repelling attacks by the Ukrainian army.