"FSB Launches Sweeping Purge of Military Elites With Kremlin’s Approval
The purge of top officers is the result of infighting between the #FSB and the military over the failure to capture Kyiv and competition for defense funds."
"Shoot in the direction of the United States and see what happens" - it's not just the Russian propagandists, almost all the Russian population is like that, after years of propaganda.
Former president Donald #Trump again invoked authoritarian leaders at a rally Thursday, a reminder of a vision he has been outlining for a potential second term.
Trump referenced Russian President Vladimir #Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Chinese leader #Xi Jinping and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban.
Trump said the leaders were “at the top of their game, whether you like it or not.”
Russian President Vladimir #Putin said on Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelenskiy had no legitimacy following the expiry of his five-year term and this would raise a legal obstacle if #Russia and #Ukraine were to hold peace talks.
With Ukraine under martial law in the third year of Russia's full-scale invasion, Zelenskiy has not faced elections despite the expiry of his five-year term this week.
" Zelenskyy calls for NATO nations to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine
A key Finnish lawmaker previously told Breaking Defense that he would "embrace" such an idea. "
Greg Sargent interviews Nichoals Grossman to discuss Trump's claim that Putin will release Evan Gershkovich if Trump is electioned:
"This is yet another way Trump is wrecking the guardrails of democracy, this time by openly sabotaging current US foreign policy expressly to help himself politically while aligning himself with the world's autocrats and dictators – in this case Putin."
But Mr #Putin has already ruled out that he will attend the upcoming #Ukraine#Peace Summit, which is being held in Burgenstock, #Switzerland, from 15-16 June - which Ukraine is keen for Russia's allies to attend.
Declared as yesterday's attack with 5 ATACMS missiles on air defense positions of the Russian Armed Forces in the area of the Mospino airfield in the Donetsk region
Preliminary losses :
▪️2 S-300/400 air defense missile launchers were destroyed.
▪️1 S-300/400 air defense missile launcher was damaged.
▪️Radar “96L6E” was destroyed.
▪️The control point of the S-300/400 air defense system was destroyed. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Putin#EU#NATO
Citing four Russian sources: Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to stop the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire recognizing the current battle lines.
Is this anything new? Putin gets rewarded for his land grab, rebuilds, then tries again in a few years?
Top Russian military officials are being arrested. Why is it happening?
AP says the arrests raise "questions about whether Putin was reasserting control over the Defense Ministry amid the war in Ukraine, whether a turf battle had broken out between the military and the security services, or whether some other scenario was playing out behind the Kremlin’s walls."