Author: Steven Sahiounie

A checkpoint in Russia’s Kursk Region has been targeted, according to the regional governor A border checkpoint in Russia’s Kursk Region was attacked by Ukraine on Wednesday morning, according to local governor Roman Starovoyt. The Krupets crossing was targeted at around 7.30am local time, he wrote on Telegram. “There were no casualties or destruction” as a result of the incident, the governor said. The attack was suppressed by return fire from Russian border guards, he added. On Tuesday, six people were reportedly wounded and some 50 houses damaged when Ukraine shelled the village of Zaymishche in neighboring Bryansk Region. Kiev’s forces…

Two US states have filed legal motions against President Joe Biden for allegedly colluding with giant social media corporations to suppress free speech, the Missouri Attorney General’s Office said in a press release. “Today, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry filed a motion for preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against President Biden and other top-ranking government officials for allegedly colluding with social media giants such as Meta, Twitter, and YouTube to censor and suppress free speech,” the release said on Tuesday, Sputnik reported. The motion argues that the US government-led online censorship affects enormous segments…

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, his NATO counterparts, and other partners will convene in Brussels Wednesday and Thursday to discuss additional security assistance to send to Ukraine and the military alliance’s force posture in Eastern Europe in light of the ongoing conflict. The meeting is taking place weeks after the US Congress approved $40 billion in assistance for Ukraine and as Russia reinforces its efforts to secure the Donbas region. The Ukrainian Defence Contact Group meeting will be held on Wednesday and will include representatives of nearly 50 countries that are all currently providing some type of assistance to Ukraine.…

Moscow says it will allow civilians to leave the besieged chemical plant, but will block Ukrainian soldiers seeking to escape The Russian military opened a humanitarian corridor for trapped civilians to leave the besieged Azot chemical plant in the city of Severodonetsk on Wednesday morning. On Tuesday, Moscow said Kiev had asked it to provide safe passage for civilians wishing to leave the plant. It requested that non-combatants would be allowed to flee to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Lisichansk on the other side of the Seversky Donets River, the Russian military said. However, this plan was rejected on the basis…

Ukrainian forces are suffering painful losses in fighting Russian troops in both the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and the Kharkiv region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday. In a late night address, he also said Ukraine needed modern anti-missile weapons now, adding there could be no justification for partner countries to delay delivery. Some Russian rockets are evading defences and causing casualties, he said. Ukraine said its forces were still trying to evacuate civilians from Sievierodonetsk after Russia destroyed the last bridge to the city, the latest stage in a weeks-long battle in the Donbas region that Moscow seeks to…

Fuel prices in the UK reach new highs and the US average price per gallon jumps to $5.  The national average price for regular unleaded gas in the United States rose to $5.016 per gallon on Tuesday, according to data from the American Automobile Association (AAA), which tracks prices at more than 60,000 gas stations across the country. Historically, the highest prices have been recorded in California, up to $6.44 per gallon, and the lowest in Georgia, at $4.49 per gallon. The AAA stated that the rising prices are having no effect on demand during the traditionally busy summer driving season. “Based…

Pentagon policy chief Colin Kahl revealed the payload for HIMARS launchers The US is sending Ukraine heavy guided missiles with a range of 70km for use with the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl revealed on Tuesday. The White House previously said that HIMARS launchers would be provided with “battlefield munitions,” widely understood to be unguided rockets with a shorter range. The high-mobility artillery rocket system will come with GMLRS guided rockets, Kahl said on Tuesday, speaking at a conference hosted by the Center for New American Security (CNAS), a Democrat-linked think tank for which he used…

The Russian Defense Ministry announced the opening of a humanitarian corridor from the industrial zone of Severodonetsk to the city of Svatovo, which is under control of the in the Luhansk People’s Republic, on June 15. The strategy of the Ukrainian military in the city of Severodonetsk is very similar to the one used at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the decision was made in response to the request of the Ukrainian side to organize a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the territory of the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk. Kiev’s…

The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that Russia will continue work on expanding the stop-list of UK citizens over the anti-Russian actions of the UK government Moscow bars from entering Russia 49 employees of the UK’s largest media outlets, as well as UK military commanders and defense officials over London’s anti-Russian actions, according to a statement published by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday. “Due to anti-Russian actions by the UK government on introducing personal sanctions against our country’s leading journalists and the heads of companies of the domestic defense complex, a decision was made to include in the Russian stop-list…

On June 14, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian army continues to suffer significant losses, especially since in recent weeks cases have become more frequent when units of Ukrainian nationalists shot surrendering Ukrainian servicemen in the back. The report of the Russian Ministry of Defence reads: “So, after conducting firepower preparation to the offensive of Russian troops in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, more than 30 servicemen of the 25th battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to lay down their arms and surrender.…