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FPV drone of the Armed Forces destroys the 152-mm self-propelled gun 2S19 "Msta-S"

The aftermath of the overnight Russian attack on Kharkiv, which, according to the latest data, left 3 people dead and 16 injured

There may still be people under the rubble of residences, local authorities said.

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⚡⚡Ukraine got back 75 defenders from Russian captivity.

The President said that these were soldiers of the Armed Forces and the National Guard, border guards, and four civilians - all of them were already on their native land.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the exchange took place in a 75-for-75 format.

All of these survivors of the horrors of Russian Torture Camps will need help putting both mind and body back together.

Maryana Chechelyuk, a police officer from Mariupol, is among 75 POWs freed from Russian captivity today.

She was captured from the Azovstal Steelworks, where she was during the siege with her family.

According to her mother, she was tortured, beaten and starved regularly.

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Good morning Resisters. That was a pretty big storm last night . Arrived pretty late considering the weather lady said 3PM and it got here around 10PM

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The US officials explained that the authorization to strike with US weapons was given in relation to the entire Russian border area, not just the Kharkiv region.

This statement was made by Michael Carpenter, spokesman for the US National Security Council.

“This includes enabling Ukrainians to defend themselves. Yes, across the border against Russian attacks coming from there,” Carpenter emphasized.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has officially confirmed that Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American weapons to strike military targets in Russia.

“Over the last few weeks, Ukraine has come to us and asked for permission to use the weapons we are providing to defend against this aggression, including against Russian forces that are concentrating on the Russian side of the border and then attacking Ukraine. This is a right to the president, and as you heard, he approved the use of our weapons for this purpose,” Blinken said during the press conference.

According to a declassified Pentagon report, North Korean missile debris has been found throughout Ukraine. The report reveals that Russia is extensively using North Korean missiles to attack Ukraine, targeting not only front-line cities, Reuters writes.

The report details various aspects of North Korea's short-range solid-fuel ballistic missiles and includes comparisons of the wreckage found in Ukraine with images of missiles displayed by North Korean state media.

A radical Islamist terrorist attack in Mannheim, Germany.

An Islamist man stabbed people who criticized the Islamization of Europe and attacked police until he shot.

The first minutes in freedom, on native land. Exciting moments of our Defenders returning home from Russian captivity.

We do not stop working to free all our people from slavery!

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During the exchange, Maryana Checheliuk - an investigator from Mariupol, who was in captivity for 2 years, returned home.

Together with her sister, she escaped from shelling in the Azovstal bunkers.

Representatives of the UN and CH promised to take Maryana and Alina to Zaporizhzhia, but they took them to the village of Bezimenne for filtering. The sister was freed, but Maryana was captured.

❗️In her letters to her mother, the girl wrote that she was starved, beaten and abused.

Now she is at home 😌

‼️After a long break, another exchange of prisoners took place: 75 defenders and civilians were released from enemy captivity.

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Good morning Resisters. Rain around 9 and Tstorms at 3.

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🔥 Moscow is on fire! The former "Toros" machine-building plant is burning violently.

The fire has already covered 4,000 m². There is a threat of the fire spreading to neighboring buildings (fingers crossed!) The cause of the fire is unknown, but locals wrote about "kabooms". No casualties.

Pentagon opens ammunition factory in Texas to keep arms supply to Ukraine, — New York Times.

The factory under construction in Mesquite, Texas, will soon produce 30,000 155-mm artillery shells per month, roughly double the current US production capacity. In particular, they should cover Ukraine's need to counter Russian forces.

To keep Ukraine’s artillery crews supplied, the Pentagon set a production target last year of 100,000 shells per month by the end of 2025. 

However, the launch of a single new factory may not be enough to change the outcome of the fighting in Ukraine's favor.

“The steady increase of artillery ammunition production is significant for long-term U.S. and Ukrainian needs,” said Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “but even in the best case scenario, I would say those late-2025 output targets will arrive late in this war, and it is likely that Russian artillery output will still be higher than the US and Europe combined at that point.”

Macron intends to create a European coalition of military instructors in Ukraine, — Le Monde, citing its own sources.

According to the publication, several hundred specialists from several countries may be involved to train sappers or even help form a new motorized infantry brigade.

It is noted that consultations on this issue are planned to be accelerated in the coming days in order to make a statement during the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Emmanuel Macron in France on June 6-7.