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Ukraine has (several days ago) destroyed a significant drone factory owned by Kronstadt JSC at Dubna, 115km from Moscow. The factory took nine direct hits, with no air defence in evidence. It appears most of the drones flew straight in through skylights and directly detonated over or on the production lines. This was a production line for Orion drones carrying X-UAV anti-vehicle missiles. Kronstadt JSC is very close to bankruptcy. Ukraine has also damaged an electronics factory in Cheboksary, over 1,000km from the front line.

A Russian fuel train has in Donetsk Oblast has been destroyed. Eleven fuel tanks are burning, and the railway track has been severed, possibly in several places. 

Lukashenko has met Kellogg in Minsk and discussed how to end the war in Ukraine, Belarus's ties to China, and improving US-Belarus relations. Lukashenko also agreed to release 14 political prisoners (several of them are already free and have already left Belarus).

A Russian training ground in L'gov, Kursk has been hit by drones, with casualties reported.

Uzbek and Tajik citizens have been drafted into the Russian military whilst working as contractors in Russia.

Russian forces attacked Kremenchuk, Poltava with cluster munitions. An emergency cleanup operation is underway.

A flight of six B-2 bombers has left Missouri loaded for bear. There's a military aerial exclusion zone in operation east of Hawaii, where B-2 bombers transiting to Guam will engage in midair refuelling.

From Guam the B-2s can hit Iran easily and return. They'd prefer to use Diego Garcia, but that would open Britain to reprisal attacks as well as the United States, and would require the United States to notify both Britain and Mauritius of their intent to use the island for offensive action. Britain is more strongly pursuing the diplomatic option.

This might not mean a US strike is imminent, as they may simply be flying the bombers to Guam and hold them in combat readiness there for a couple of weeks, but generally speaking, the B-2s do not fly unless they are ready to attack. And the US is wary of holding irreplaceable strike assets on Guam as, in the advent of a conflict with China over Taiwan, a Chinese missile strike on Guam is likely.

First Russian case of front-line cannibalism reported. A starving Russian soldier shot his comrade and ate his remains over two weeks. He listed his comrade as missing in an attack before the truth was uncovered.

The head of the Duma's Budget Committee Andrey Makarov has sounded an alarm bell at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, stating that the Russian Federation is following the same path as the USSR. The economic requirements of working-class Russians are increasing at a rate that the economy cannot meet, as it is focused on war production and the underlying foundations are not strong enough to support it. The Ministry of Finance also confirmed that Russia's National Welfare Fund is less than a third of what it was when the war started, and could be depleted this year. Russia's debt crisis is now growing, with 15% of all Russian businesses now in default, or about to get there because they cannot cover their interest payments. Andrey Kostin, head of VSB (Russia's second-largest bank), and Alexander Shokhin, head of the RSPP, both backed up the assessment of an impending crisis.

This seemed to annoy Putin, who simply said that a recession "can't be allowed to happen." He also made comments suggesting that he wants to see all of Ukraine surrender, rather than just the annexed regions so far.

Ukrainian fighters from the 65th Mechanised Brigade carried out a tactical strike using drones, destroying a Russian Garmon radar system on the Zaporizhzhia front.

22 Russian soldiers on the Pokrovsk front apparently just gave up and surrendered, in a pattern we've seen previously on the Lyman front. Some Telegram comments about Russian soldiers recently released from Ukrainian captivity looking very fit and healthy (unlike some Ukrainian POWs looking like they've just stepped out of a Jewish internment camp in 1945) may have convinced serving soldiers that surrender is preferable to get blown to pieces on the front.

Current analysis is that Pokrovsk is making up the majority of Russian combat operations, roughly a third in January-June. Kursk was the second-heaviest area of fighting, following by Novopavlivka, Lyman and Toretsk.

Ukraine appears to have taken more territory in Kursk Oblast, south of Tyotkino.

Unconfirmed and wild report that a Ukrainian sabotage group has crossed the border from Kazakhstan into Orenberg Oblast, using drones to launch a surprise short-range attack on a Russian Strategic Missile Forces base (probably not an actual nuke silo).

Russia has proposed new talks with Ukraine in Istanbul after June 22nd. Presumably this date is related to the start of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Heavy fighting near Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. A Ukrainian defensive position eliminated 18 Russian armoured vehicles and 13 motorcycles.

Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov has reiterated that Russia is now on the edge of a recession.

Tiste Simeon, on 19 June 2025 - 03:31 PM, said:

They have. They claim Israel has a military outpost right next to the hospital, and they have pointed out the hypocrisy of Israel doing what they claim Hamas do in Gaza.