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Tatiana Tantsyura and her son Efim tell about the results of the shelling of Severodonetsk (LPR) by Ukrainian troops:

— We arrived on the first day, it flew into our garden. The ground and dust rose up and we didn't see anything else. Half of the child's face was torn off. One of ours had his legs torn off. One was killed on the spot. We did it ourselves (buried him). The second one had a blast injury...


Mike
 
American military analyst Scott Ritter gives a talk on Ukraine's demand for weapons:

Look at the list of weapons that Ukrainians need. This is convincing proof that they are getting their asses kicked. If you need a thousand artillery pieces, then you have lost a thousand guns. If you need 500 tanks, then you have already lost 500 tanks. This is a harsh fact! This all is connected with human lives. For every destroyed tank there are three to four dead, for every gun – five to six lives. This means that they have lost these thousands of people. There is also infantry, there are problems with logistics. They admitted that 200 people per day die, but in fact this number is approaching 600-800 deaths per day.


Mike
 
"First Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov @neoficialniybezsonov

Yesterday, simultaneously with the massive shelling of Donetsk, the Ukrainian units of information and psychological operations (IPSO) actively disseminated information on social networks that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were preparing to storm Donetsk. They even indicated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would enter the city in organized columns of military equipment in several places. Information was also thrown in with reference to the American media that Biden ordered the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to storm Donetsk, etc.

All this, as well as the massive chaotic shelling of the city, which does not take place at night, but during the daytime, when most city residents are on the street, is done for several quite logical reasons. The most important of them is the provocation of the withdrawal of our units from the northern front, where they are conducting successful offensive operations, back to Donetsk.

Additional goals are the terror of the local population and the emphasis on the fact that Russia cannot protect these territories from shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This should cause distrust and anger towards Russia among the civilian population and undermine the reputation of Russia as a whole.

I want to express my conviction, as well as the confidence of our fighters and commanders: the storming of Donetsk is impossible!

Where are these places where the Armed Forces of Ukraine can enter the city in organized columns? From the side of the Peskov? Along the Zaporozhye highway? That would be too great for us militarily. The Ukrainian command sent its special forces to break through Severodonetsk, which indicates that they no longer have forces from ordinary motorized rifles for these purposes. Those units that they now have left in the Donbass suffered colossal losses and were heavily diluted with inexperienced and unmotivated Teroboronists, and such units, at best, can only defend themselves, and not storm cities."


Mike
 
US citizens detained by Russia:

• Brittney Griner, WNBA star
• Paul Whelan, former US Marine
• Marc Fogel, former US diplomat
• Andy Huynh, former US Marine
• Alexander Drueke, former US Army

Russia will try to exchange one of them for Viktor Bout who was arrested in Thailand in 2008 and later extradited to the US, he's currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.


Mike
 
Aiden Aslin, Shaun Pinner and John Harding 3 British citizens that surrendered in Mariupol in April-May. Aslin and Pinner were already sentenced to death in Donetsk People's Republic while the investigation is still ongoing when it comes to Harding who surrendered later with Azovstal garrison.


John Harding from the UK surrendered to the Russian forces in Azovstal. He's 1982 Falklands War veteran. Fought in Syria (pictured together with Shaun Pinner in Syria). Shaun Pinner also fought in Mariupol and was recently sentenced to death by DNR.


Shaun Pinner and John Harding are a part of the Happy Days mercenary crew. Aiden Aslin has this same tattoo on his arm as well as many other British citizens fighting in Ukraine.


Mike
 
Donetsk. Today, enemy artillery was not so as actively shelling the residential area, and here's why.

The positions of the enemy in the fortified areas were first hit by "Mr Kalibr" and then at night, around 03:00 Moscow time, aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces began to strike the main and reserve positions of the enemy, strong points, warehouses in the Avdeevka fortified area for over 2 hours.

The Donetsk residents felt the results of this response already on June 19: the shelling of the city did not go beyond the „usual“ of past years

The intensity of enemy fire has drastically decreased.

It‘s too soon to say this will last but it sure is a great step in the right direction.


Mike
 

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