June 2026

June 30, 2026

Featured • Ukraine’s Desperate Propaganda Campaign While Russia Advances along the Entire Front, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21, Jun 30, 2026
There's the war in Ukraine, and there's the broader NATO war against Russia. Russia is methodically winning the former, but the latter remains highly combustible as the desperate West takes more and more gambles aiming to destabilize Russia. And finally there's the propaganda war for Western minds and pocketbooks, which is going swimmingly for defense contractors and their partners in governments.

 • Ukraine Interested in Direct Russia-Europe Conflict - Russian Envoy to OSCE, Sputnik International, Jun 30, 2026

Kiev believes it can only survive if it provokes a direct conflict between Russia and Europe, in which Ukraine would be in the background, Dmitry Polyansky, Russia's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), told Sputnik.

"The Kiev regime has no other way to survive. Only by provoking a major conflict, in which Ukraine would be sent to the background, and where Russia and Europe would fight," he said when asked about the risks of escalation.

As Polyansky noted, Vladimir Zelensky makes no secret of his interest in this, and effectively reproaches his allies and sponsors for not pursuing such a scenario.

Latvia has announced confirmation its government has inked a new deal for Ukraine to assist in a Ukrainian drone manufacturing plant on Latvian soil, right near the border with Russia, as well as close to the Belarusian border.

Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said following an emergency cabinet meeting held in Latgale that his country will "accelerate plans to establish a joint drone manufacturing facility with Ukraine and aims to locate it near the country’s eastern border region," regional media reports.

Finland’s parliament voted on June 17 to lift the ban, which allows the country to receive, transport, and facilitate the movement of nuclear weapons on its territory as part of allied operations, a step it took to align itself with NATO, which the country joined in 2023. The parliament approved the government-proposed amendment in a vote of 125 to 61.

“The results of the vote represent both bright and unflattering victory of the blind Russophobia of the past few years over what we have always viewed as pragmatic sanity in Finland,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, according to TASS.

“And let nobody doubt that [response] measures will be taken timely and effectively. In this light, the Finnish people need to think whether this decision made by their elites will actually enhance security in Finland itself,” she added.

June 29, 2026

Featured • Nordic nation allows nukes deployment, RT, Jun 27, 2026

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has signed amendments to the Nuclear Energy Act allowing nuclear weapons to be deployed on the country’s territory. The Nordic nation’s parliament supported lifting the long-standing ban earlier this month.

The removal comes three years after Helsinki renounced its decades-long policy of military neutrality and joined NATO. Finland’s accession into the US-led military bloc has led to serious tensions with Russia, with which it shares a 1,340 km border.

“The president of the republic approved the proposal,” according to the Finnish government website on Friday. It also said the new norms would come into force on July 1. Under the new rules, Finland will be able to import, transit, supply, and store nuclear weapons.

Earlier this month, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Hakkanen argued that the “Cold War-era total ban on nuclear explosives” was incompatible with the nation’s new role as a member of NATO. The amendments “enable the full utilization of NATO’s nuclear deterrence,” he said ahead of the parliamentary vote, while blasting parties opposed to the change as relying on the “erroneous” views “of a few so-called peace defenders.”

Stubb, a known Russia hawk, signed the amendments into law just a day after he stated he was “realistically optimistic” about the outcome of the Ukraine conflict in an interview with Politico, while still talking about the “strategic failure” of Russia.

Moscow cautioned Helsinki earlier this year against repealing the nuclear ban, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov telling reporters that it could “lead to an escalation of tensions on the European continent.” He added that “by deploying nuclear weapons on its territory, Finland is beginning to threaten us. And if Finland threatens us, we [will] take appropriate measures.”

Russia has also described Finland’s decision as “concentrated confrontation,” with Moscow’s embassy in Helsinki warning that even a “theoretical” possibility of nuclear weapons appearing on Finnish soil will be noted by Russian military planners.

On Wednesday, Moscow’s permanent representative at the UN office in Geneva, Gennady Gatilov, warned that Russia would treat nuclear weapons on its borders, whether in Finland or Poland, “as a direct threat warranting compensational countermeasures.”

“Will it increase the security of the relevant [NATO] nations? I really doubt it,” the diplomat told RIA Novosti.

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna believes that Ukrainian drones going off course and falling on NATO member states' territory is an acceptable price for the destruction of Russian oil refineries and military bases.

Source: Tsahkna in an interview with the Financial Times, as reported by European Pravda

Details: As Tsahkna noted, Estonia, which has faced a number of such incidents, is "not happy" about what is happening.

"But we are not saying to Ukraine to stop it. This is hitting the lifeline of Putin," he added.

The Estonian foreign minister also commented on Russian accusations that the Baltic states were directly involved in the strikes and allowed Ukraine to use their airspace to carry them out.

He said that these claims are "ridiculous" and reflect the Kremlin's desperation.

"We know that the tone around Putin has changed in the last two and a half months . . . It's not so optimistic anymore. The main reason is economic – because of these deep strikes," Tsahkna said.

He expressed admiration for Ukraine's long-range strike campaign against Russian territory.

Tsahkna believes the Kremlin is apparently "deeply concerned" about these strikes and is particularly worried about exports through the Baltic states given their economic importance. Up to 60% of Russia's exported oil passes through the narrow Gulf of Finland.

He also added that it is currently premature to believe that Putin is now ready for negotiations. More likely, the Russian ruler will double down on his strategic mistakes.

NATO fighter jets have already twice shot down "stray" Ukrainian UAVs over Baltic states – the first over Estonia, the second over Latvia.

Dozens of drones have crashed on their own or ultimately flown out of the airspace of "friends of Ukraine" in recent months.

Ukraine announced Saturday that it used its Flamingo cruise missiles overnight to strike Russia’s Titan-Barrikady weapons plant, which reportedly manufactures parts for its powerful Oreshnik missile. The military plant is in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, which is a major industrial city in southwest Russia. Writing on X, President Zelensky described it as a “major industrial complex” where Russia “produces artillery systems and specialized military equipment, including components for missile launch systems.” “Every Russian defense facility involved in the war against Ukraine is a legitimate target for our long-range strikes,” he wrote.

The Associated Press reports, “Volgograd Gov. Andrei Bocharov confirmed an attack on a business in the region’s Krasnooktyabrsky district, saying 10 people had been wounded and taken to a hospital. He said production facilities at the site were damaged but did not identify the company.” Additionally, “Ukraine’s state security service said Saturday morning that Ukrainian forces also struck an oil pumping facility in Russia’s Vladimir region that supplies fuel to Moscow, for the second time this month.” But on the other side of the border, Ukrainian media reports that Russia was also busy with now nightly airstrikes:

Russian forces targeted production facilities belonging to the Naftogaz Group, Ukraine’s largest national oil and gas company, in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions. The barrage of attacks included 129 drones, of which 113 were destroyed or jammed by Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian media reported. The Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine killed two people and injuring more than 20, according to state officials. At a moment much of the globe’s attention remains fixated on Iran and the fate of energy shipping through the largely blocked Strait of Hormuz, the Ukraine war is rapidly escalating.

Politically, the Ukrainian leadership has been trying to provoke the Republic of Belarus into joining the ongoing conflict. However, Minsk has responded asymmetrically, in a way that could be more damaging to Kyiv than open military engagement. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered the opening of three border crossings into Ukraine’s Rivne Oblast, where people can now cross without documents. Officially, this measure is intended to accommodate Ukrainian mushroom pickers who may accidentally cross into Belarusian territory. In practice, however, Lukashenko has effectively rolled out the welcome mat for men of draft age fleeing forced mobilization. This route has become popular among conscription evaders — and for one good reason: the Polesie region is a vast expanse of forests and marshes where sealing the border is nearly impossible.

Nearly six in ten Poles now oppose Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, up from four in ten a year ago, according to two IBRiS opinion polls cited by Polish media. The latest survey, conducted for Radio ZET, found that 59.7% of respondents oppose Ukrainian membership. Last year, an IBRiS poll for Defence24 and the Stand With Ukraine initiative put that figure at 42%. The comparison suggests that public opinion has hardened. While support for Ukraine’s EU membership has remained broadly stable at around 35%, the share of undecided respondents has fallen from roughly one-quarter to just 5%, with most appearing to have shifted into the opposition camp.

Poland has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest political and military backers since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, supplying weapons, hosting millions of refugees, and consistently supporting Kiev’s integration into the EU and NATO. Despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s continued backing for Ukraine’s EU bid, the issue has become increasingly contentious in Poland, fueled by disputes over agriculture and historical grievances. Relations have further deteriorated since last month over the ‘Heroes of the UPA’ controversy, with Warsaw accusing Kiev of glorifying a nationalist movement implicated in wartime massacres of Poles.

June 27, 2026

 • Lukashenko’s Quiet Weapon: How Belarus Is Bleeding Ukraine Without Firing A Shot, South Front, Jun 26, 2026

Politically, the Ukrainian leadership has been trying to provoke the Republic of Belarus into joining the ongoing conflict. However, Minsk has responded asymmetrically, in a way that could be more damaging to Kyiv than open military engagement. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered the opening of three border crossings into Ukraine’s Rivne Oblast, where people can now cross without documents. Officially, this measure is intended to accommodate Ukrainian mushroom pickers who may accidentally cross into Belarusian territory. In practice, however, Lukashenko has effectively rolled out the welcome mat for men of draft age fleeing forced mobilization. This route has become popular among conscription evaders — and for one good reason: the Polesie region is a vast expanse of forests and marshes where sealing the border is nearly impossible.

Nearly six in ten Poles now oppose Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, up from four in ten a year ago, according to two IBRiS opinion polls cited by Polish media. The latest survey, conducted for Radio ZET, found that 59.7% of respondents oppose Ukrainian membership. Last year, an IBRiS poll for Defence24 and the Stand With Ukraine initiative put that figure at 42%. The comparison suggests that public opinion has hardened. While support for Ukraine’s EU membership has remained broadly stable at around 35%, the share of undecided respondents has fallen from roughly one-quarter to just 5%, with most appearing to have shifted into the opposition camp.

Poland has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest political and military backers since the escalation of the conflict with Russia in 2022, supplying weapons, hosting millions of refugees, and consistently supporting Kiev’s integration into the EU and NATO. Despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s continued backing for Ukraine’s EU bid, the issue has become increasingly contentious in Poland, fueled by disputes over agriculture and historical grievances. Relations have further deteriorated since last month over the ‘Heroes of the UPA’ controversy, with Warsaw accusing Kiev of glorifying a nationalist movement implicated in wartime massacres of Poles.

June 26, 2026

Featured • ‘Our War Against Russia’: Germany is re-normalizing the unthinkable, Tarik Cyril Amar, RT, Jun 25, 2026
You have got to be kidding. Evidently not. At Dachau outside Munich one can see the wall against which tens of thousands of Russian POWs were shot and the ditch that was made to contain the resulting blood.

Featured • Russia Hearing the European Clamour for War, Announces it is Ready, Alastair Crooke, Conflicts Forum, Jun 25, 2026

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said:

“We also see Washington’s line moving closer to the most rabid anti-Russian policies pursued by the US’s closest European allies – namely, the UK and France”.

This represents a huge strategic shift. Russia no longer seeks a relationship with Washington, though contact with DC will continue.

The second development stems from President Putin’s address at the St George’s Hall to military cadets on 23 June. Putin, in summary, told the young officers that the West manufactures a Russia threat, then accuses Russia of creating that very threat. This, said Putin, is a historically repeated pattern going back to 1941.

Putin implied that a threshold had now been crossed: He stated that whilst, until recently, NATO countries had limited themselves to supporting the Kyiv regime to wage war on Russia, the West today is openly talking about preparing for a war against Russia, and is building up their military offensive budgets. German Chancellor Mertz has been quite vocal in this regard, Putin said.

Russia’s response, he said, is focused on modernising its nuclear triad and its Army, and strengthening the combat capability of the Aerospace Forces and the Navy. The explicit mention of the nuclear triad in direct proximity to the discussion of Western preparation for war against Russia was certainly a pointed message to Trump and the Europeans.

Russia has heard the European clamour for war. It has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe.

Trump’s decision to sign the “G7 leaders’ joint statement on geopolitical issues” calling for more arms to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia signaled that he’ll now “escalate to de-escalate” (E2DE) through a “war of attrition” waged by Ukraine. The EU will back this campaign to the hilt and Trump 2.0 will seek to obtain control over Russia’s natural resources companies as its top goal via the coercive selling of shares under pain of continued NATO-backed Ukrainian strikes against associated infrastructure if Putin refuses.

The contours of his administration’s E2DE strategy are now starting to take shape. Nearly two weeks before he signed the abovementioned joint statement, the House passed a bill that would “provid[e] more than $1 billion in security and reconstruction aid. It would make another $8 billion available for Ukraine’s defense through loans.” On the sidelines of the G7 Summit, Trump then said that he’ll soon reimpose oil sanctions against Russia, which would disrupt Putin’s Sino-Indo balancing act.

June 24, 2026

Featured • Putin Warns the West: Russia is Ready, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21, Jun 24, 2026

Putin minced no words… He stated that Russia is ready to promptly and appropriately respond to any external and internal threats, and that in accordance with the State Armament Programme, Russia is focused on modernizing its nuclear triad and the Army, and strengthening the combat capability of the Aerospace Forces and the Navy. The explicit mention of the nuclear triad in direct proximity to the discussion of Western preparation for war against Russia was a pointed message to Donald Trump and the rest of NATO.

In discussing the Western threat, Putin indirectly chided the ineffectiveness of Western economic pressure. He stated that all technological and military achievements are being accomplished using Russia’s own domestic scientific and technological capabilities, and that all of it is being supported by steady funding made possible by Russia’s stable and resilient economy. He reminded the cadets that Western efforts to cripple Russia had failed and that Russia met that challenge head on by ramping up production, producing new weapons and modifying existing systems to confront new threats.

I believe that Putin’s speech was a warning to the West that Russia will not make the same mistakes that made Operation Barbarossa possible, and it is ready to confront and defeat NATO if it persists in facilitating attacks against the Russian people.

June 23, 2026

Featured • Russia Struck Weapons-Carrying Cargo Ships, Ukraine Hit Voronezh With Storm Shadow Missiles, South Front, Jun 23, 2026

British analyst Alexander Mercouris, who recently visited Russia, interprets these raids in a broader context. In an episode of the video blog “The Duran,” he stated that the massive drone attacks, including those carried out during working hours, are aimed not so much at military targets as at changing the perception of Russian society. “They are trying to destroy and undermine the feeling of peace in Russia,” Mercouris said. “That is precisely why these drone attacks are needed. They are designed to change people’s perceptions of peaceful life, to instill a sense of anxiety.” In his view, the ultimate goal of the West remains unchanged — to achieve regime change in Russia.

June 21, 2026

Featured • Article by Sergey Lavrov, Ukraine, Europe and Global Security, Jun 19, 2026

Featured • ‘Poles, Russians, and Jews must be exterminated’: The bloody history of Zelensky’s heroes (DISTURBING CONTENT), Jun 3, 2026

June 20, 2026

Featured • Zelensky stripped of Poland’s top honor over Nazi tribute, RT, Jun 19, 2026
Building national identity on a foundation of mass murder. That's our boy Z.

 • Zelensky Gives Belarus 7-Day Ultimatum in Unexpected Threat, Simplicius, Jun 19, 2026

 • The Nord Stream narrative explosion: Why you’ve only read half the story, RT, Jun 19, 2026
Good but still only the tip of the informational iceberg. It was pretty darn clear the U.S. did this long before Hersh published, from open-source intel. See the archives on this page.

June 19, 2026

Featured • UK to send Ukraine 150,000 drones, RT, Jun 19, 2026

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned the attacks and said Moscow would respond by changing its strategy and begin regularly carrying out large-scale strikes against targets that “directly affect the combat capability” of the Ukrainian military.

“I have long been convinced that words are not enough,” Lavrov told reporters.

Moscow has accused Ukraine of using Western-supplied weapons, funding, and intelligence to carry out terrorist attacks on Russian territory and civilian infrastructure.

Russian officials have argued that continued arms deliveries from the UK, EU, and NATO members make Western governments direct participants in the conflict and reduce the chances of a peace deal.

The key point is that meaningful dialogue requires the restoration of trust, shattered by the anti-Russian actions of the West, and Europe as part of it, in the post-Cold War era. Trust can be recovered only through concrete steps that demonstrate a sincere commitment to moving away from using diplomacy as a cover for expansionist ambitions. Trust cannot be restored, nor can dialogue be resumed, through ultimatums such as the one issued to Russia in London on June 7, 2026.

P.S. It is noteworthy that the London ultimatum was unequivocally reaffirmed by the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Germany at the meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 11, 2026 – a meeting they had so insistently requested. That was the sole purpose of their visit to the ministry.

Firefighters extinguishing a car, which caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow Region.

At least 17 people have been wounded after the Ukrainian military launched one of its largest drone raids against Moscow, Russian officials have said.

Air defenses shot down at least 194 UAVs on the approach to the Russian capital overnight, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin wrote in a Telegram post on Thursday morning.

Some drones made it through and caused blazes, with witnesses reporting large plumes of thick black smoke in several areas in and outside the city.

Russian officials said on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone hit a bus carrying a children’s soccer team from Belarus in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, as civilian casualties continue to rise in both Ukraine and Russia.

For its part, the Ukrainian military denied responsibility, claiming that it wasn’t carrying out drone attacks in Bryansk at the time. Yegor Kovalchuk, the acting governor of Bryansk, called the attack a “completely deliberate strike on civilian transport on a busy highway.”

...Russia has recently dramatically ramped up its missile and drone bombardments of Ukraine, which it says is a response to drone attacks on civilians in Russia and Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine, including a May 22 Ukrainian drone attack that hit a college in Starobelsk in the Luhansk Oblast and killed 21 students.

On Tuesday night, Ukrainian officials said that Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine killed at least four people and set homes and a shopping center on fire. Earlier this week, a heavy Russian bombardment in Kyiv and other cities killed at least 11 civilians.

Ukraine is known to use intelligence from the US and NATO for its long-range drone attacks inside Russia, and the US has helped build up Ukraine’s drone industry, meaning that such attacks always risk a potential escalation between Russia and NATO.

A Hague-based arbitration tribunal has rejected Ukrainian maritime claims against Russia, including attempts to challenge Moscow’s sovereignty over Crimea and surrounding waters. Ukraine launched the case in 2016 before the Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Kiev argued that Crimea remained Ukrainian territory and claimed that the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait should be treated as international waters subject to UNCLOS rules. Crimea joined Russia following a 2014 referendum held after the Western-backed Maidan coup in Kiev.

In a statement on Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry described the tribunal’s final ruling, adopted unanimously by a panel of five arbitrators, as a “convincing victory” for Moscow. It said the tribunal rejected Ukraine’s demands for compensation and reparations related to natural resources around Crimea. According to the ministry, the tribunal also dismissed Kiev’s attempt to classify the Kerch Strait as an international waterway open to vessels of all states, including warships. Moscow said the ruling formally recognized the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov as Russia’s historic domestic waters.

The tribunal likewise rejected claims that Russia violated international law by asserting sovereignty over the Sea of Azov following the accession of the Donbass republics and the regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye. The largely Russian-speaking Donetsk and Lugansk republics, along with Kherson and Zaporozhye, joined Russia after referendums held in autumn 2022 amid the escalating Ukraine conflict. The ruling also dismissed Ukraine’s demand that the Crimean Bridge be dismantled. Kiev had argued that the crossing, built between 2016 and 2018 to link Crimea with mainland Russia, was illegal and hindered navigation through the Kerch Strait.

Moscow called the claim “absurd,” while the tribunal found Ukraine’s arguments unsubstantiated, according to the ministry.=The bridge has repeatedly been targeted by Kiev using naval drones, explosives and Western-supplied long-range missiles, causing damage and civilian casualties. The ruling represents a significant “defeat” for Ukraine and its Western backers in the decade-long “legal war” against Russia, according to the ministry.

June 15, 2026

Featured • Post-Iran war: The end of an era, not to decline, but as a trigger to abrupt change, Alastair Crooke, Strategic Culture Foundation, Jun 15, 2026

In his speech — which Laura Ru has summarised — Bezrukov argued that Russia has entered a new, prolonged global confrontation with the West. According to him, this conflict represents a fundamental shift in the nature of warfare that will define Russian policy and society for the foreseeable future.

‘Bezrukov emphasized that the current (military) struggle is not primarily about capturing territory, which he described as having lost much of its traditional value. Instead, it is a war of attrition focused on undermining critical systems, including infrastructure, command networks, technology, space assets, biological security, and the information domain … “The West’s strategy in this war is very simple: avoid nuclear collision with us, from which they will emerge as losers. Therefore, they boil the frog on a slow fire”’.

‘He warned that Russia should expect to remain in a state of war for many years, possibly 20 to 30 years. During this period, Russia must learn to coexist with the reality of war, whilst continuing its economic development’.

‘A central theme of his speech was sharp criticism of Russia’s current approach. Bezrukov argued that the country has been too lenient toward its adversaries — “We are slow. We allow [our enemies] too much. They don’t fear us … because many, many red lines that we talked about remained only on paper”’.

‘To adapt to this new reality, Bezrukov called for a fundamental restructuring of the state and economy. He urged the creation of a dual-purpose system capable of pursuing both development and long-term defence. Critical infrastructure — such as data centres, oil storage facilities, and communication hubs — must be buried underground, or protected to the same standards as nuclear power plants. He also stressed the need to close the gap between the military and civilian society, and to adopt more assertive policies. Russia cannot expect a quick return to peacetime conditions and must therefore reorganise society, economy, and strategy accordingly’.

Bezrukov’s speech has drawn much attention for its tone, and for its call for Russia to psychologically and structurally adapt to a generational-long era of confrontation — a theme already addressed at length by Professor Sergei Karaganov.

...It is this moral, civilisational way-of-being versus the radical Trumpian-U.S. materialist void that likely will come to define our era’s civil and global wars.

DNI Press Release: WASHINGTON D.C. — After months of searching through Intelligence Community holdings and files, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is revealing new evidence of longstanding United States government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries. These biolabs include labs in Ukraine, which may be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. For example, the Intelligence Community previously warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.

The newly declassified evidence can be found HERE.

Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America.

Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight.

June 12, 2026

Featured • Senate Adds $750 Million in Ukraine Military Aid into NDAA, Kyle Anzalone, The Libertarian Institute, Jun 11, 2026

The addition of aid for Ukraine to the NDAA may irk Trump. After taking office, Trump terminated US military aid to Kiev. However, Trump has continued to support Ukraine with intelligence sharing and selling weapons to NATO members that are then transferred to Kiev.

June 11, 2026

 • John Mearsheimer says Ukraine Is Doomed To Lose the War, John Mearsheimer, Antiwar.com, Jun 10, 2026
For those whom the analysis already posted is not enough. Ukraine needs too much of what it can't get: soldiers, for one. Political stability and willingness to fight and die, for another. Drones, sure. They are not enough.

June 10, 2026

Featured • No Need To Waste Europe – by English Outsider, Moon of Alabama, Jun 9, 2026
Good debate. Put Simplicius on the side of Mearsheimer. The fundamental issue is manpower, which Ukraine lacks. The pro-war forces in the West, including Team Zelensky -- are killing and crippling Ukraine's men, just as much as the Russian are, who actually drop the bombs. But will Russia stand by and continue to absorb long-range strikes? I doubt it.

Featured • ‘Burn for us’: The real message of US-EU ‘nuclear sharing’, Tarik Cyril Amar, RT, Jun 8, 2026

Featured • Ukraine is running out of heroes, so it’s digging up dead Nazis, Dmitry Plotnikov, RT, Jun 8, 2026

June 8, 2026

 • Ukraine Conducts Large-Scale Attack on St. Petersburg, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com, Jun 7, 2026

Ukraine fired hundreds of drones at Russia on Saturday, including at Moscow and St. Petersburg. The mass drone salvo was launched as a major international event was wrapping up in St. Petersburg.

The St. Petersburg government ordered residents to shelter in place on Saturday amid a Ukraine drone attack. The city’s mayor reported that three people sustained minor injuries. Aleksandr Drozdenko, the governor of the Leningrad region, reported that a total of 86 Ukrainian drones were downed.

The attack occurred at the conclusion of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Ukraine also attacked the city on Wednesday, just before the opening of the event.

During the forum, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov argued that Washington’s policy under President Donald Trump is largely unchanged from that under President Joe Biden. “Biden’s policy continues. But with certain nuances, I would say,” he explained. (emphasis added)

June 7, 2026

 • Putin’s Message to Ukraine: “Keep on working, Brothers”, Larry C. Johnson, SONAR21, Jun 6, 2026

 • Putin Rejects Open Letter By Zelensky Urging Meet: 'Pointless', ZeroHedge, Jun 5, 2026

Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded dismissively to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s open letter issued the day prior, which urged that the two leaders meet in order to finally forge a peace deal and bring an end to the war, now it its fifth year. Putin made clear Friday that he sees no point in holding a personal meeting with Zelensky. He was asked directly about the letter while attending the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). In response the Russian leader addressed not the “authors of the epistolary genre,” but to Russian soldiers on the frontline: “The whole country is proud of you and is counting on you. Keep up the good work, brothers!” And then, per TASS:

“Asked to clarify if this response means that he doesn’t plan to meet with the letter’s author, Putin said, “So far, I see no point in this.” He went on to reject the idea of “meeting just for the sake of meeting” – but did reveal for the first time that only last month he sent an informal envoy to Ukraine at Kiev’s request. Apparently that was the opening of a serious diplomatic overture. But then, he noted, Ukrainian forces bombed a college dormitory in Lugansk merely soon after the Russian envoy arrived. The brutal attack killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls – and injured many dozens more. The Kremlin was outraged at the ‘terrorist act’ and the following week heavily bombed various Ukrainian cities, especially the capital.

June 5, 2026

Featured • Can Russia Refrain From Hitting Back? – by English Outsider, Moon of Alabama, Jun 4,2026

If someone were sending missiles and mounting sabotage and assassination attacks into England we in the general public wouldn’t be doing cost benefit analyses. We’d be jumping up and down and insisting our politicians did something about it. Turn that obvious truth around. We in the West are sending missiles and mounting sabotage and assassination attacks into Russia and we can be dead sure the Russian general public is jumping up and down about that right now.

So that’s the question they’ll be pondering in the Russian Security Council. How much more rope can we give the West, they’ll be saying, before the Russian public gets fed up with just passively taking the knocks. You and I, “bored”, have no way of guessing what they’ll decide on that. And it’s not as if you and I were players ourselves. We’ll just have to wait and see what their decision is.

June 4, 2026

 • House Defies Trump By Advancing $8BN New Ukraine Aid Package, ZeroHedge, Jun 4, 2026

June 3, 2026

 • US reviewing nuclear deployments to additional European countries, report says, John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes, Jun 2, 2026

June 2, 2026

 • Blackouts hit Kiev as Russia targets Ukrainian war infrastructure (VIDEOS), RT, Jun 2, 2026

Multiple videos have been published on social media showing explosions rocking Kiev and other Ukrainian cities amid Russian airstrikes. The Defense Ministry in Moscow confirmed carrying out a major raid on military-related targets across Ukraine in response to terror attacks by Vladimir Zelensky’s government.

The first wave of blasts in the Ukrainian capital was heard at around 1:30 AM local time, followed by more explosions in early morning hours, according to Ukrainian officials and media.

In one clip, a powerful blast is followed by the lights going out, plunging much of Kiev into darkness.

Other footage captured the sounds of repeated secondary explosions. The exact locations and types of facilities hit are difficult to verify as Ukrainian authorities tightly restrict information about strike sites and penalize those who share footage of impacts, except when civilian infrastructure is affected.

Multiple blasts were also reported in parts of Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye still under Ukrainian control, as well as in Sumy and Kharkov regions.

Moscow previously pledged to conduct “systematic and consistent strikes” on Kiev’s military installations, drone manufacturing sites, command posts, and “decision-making centers” in retaliation for the deadly “terrorist attack” in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) on May 22.

The attack on the Starobelsk college dormitory, conducted in several waves late at night while students were sleeping inside, left 21 people dead, mainly teenage girls.

With the Starobelsk massacre, “the Kiev leadership has decided to open a new chapter in its crime spree, to add a new dimension to the conflict as a whole,” President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, adding that the perpetrators will suffer a “well-deserved and inevitable punishment.”

June 1, 2026

 • European Wargames Bolster West's Delusions While Conveniently Stoking Fears, Simplicius, May 31, 2026
I am not as sanguine about Russia's situation as Simplicius. Among the three groupings of Russian opinion described by one Russian commentator he quotes -- hawks, those who want to freeze the conflict along present lines (a very small group, apparently), and those hoping for a rapprochement along Anchorage lines (whatever those really were) -- it is the hawks who are most solid grounding in reality, alas. In other words, the situation is more dangerous than the sub-statesmen in the West realize. Hurt the bear too much and it will fight back, and your country will be hurt, maybe badly. The whole world will be hurt, and is being hurt right now. But do the current crop of embattled German, French, and UK leaders even care that much about their countries? That is not evident, and their citizens don't think so.

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 • ‘The Real Purpose In Making The Bomb Was To Subdue The Soviets.’ Now It’s Happening Again, On A Vast Scale. Why? – July 22 At Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos Reporter, Jul 19, 2023

 • Bulletin 330: "'The real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets.'* Now it's happening again, on a vast scale. WHY?" A conversation with acclaimed historian Peter Kuznick and Greg Mello in Los Alamos, July 22, Jul 7, 2023

 • Ukraine War Makes it Harder to be a Nuclear ‘Dove’ | Our Land, Laura Paskus, New Mexico in Focus, Jun 30, 2023

 • Bulletin 329: Russia rules out nuclear disarmament negotiations; second week of Ukrainian offenses fail; what will US and NATO do? Build 60 projects in LANL's Pajarito Corridor?, Jun 17, 2023

 • Ukraine; Biden's Manicheism; the U.S. cannot even conduct a nuclear arms race, let alone win one, LASG friends ltr, Mar 16, 2023

 • Ukraine protest and updates, pit production delays and cost increases in NNSA's new budget, LASG friends ltr, Mar 14, 2023

 • Antiwar rally 2 pm Saturday in Albuquerque; LANL pits delayed, endorse the "Call for Sanity"; Ukraine update; the Nordstream investigation (and likely impeachment) "imperative" LASG friends ltr, Mar 11, 2023
 • Ukraine losses mount toward critical point; ANSWER rally against the war is now 2 pm (not 1 pm), March 18, Albuquerque; nearly half U.S. citizens believe WWIII is near, LASG friends ltr, Mar 7, 2023

 • Ukraine news and views; antiwar rally March 18; pending guest editorial; pit production precis, LASG friends ltr, Mar 3, 2023

 • Bulletin 325: Understanding the Nordstream sabotage and punishing those responsible, Feb 18, 2023

 • Ukraine news with comments and excerpts; bookmark for future reference if desired,LASG friends ltr, Feb 8, 2023

 • Bulletin 324: Opposition to Ukraine war gains visibility in New Mexico and via our web site, more broadly, Feb 6, 2023

 • Anti-nuclear activist opposes helping Ukraine, encourages peace, Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb 5, 2023

 • Bulletin 323: "Nuclear Hotseat" interview / Ukraine war updates, Feb 4, 2023

 • Bulletin 322: Right and Left To Join in D.C. Protest: ‘Not One More Penny for War in Ukraine’ / Bulletin of Atomic Scientists resets clock, blames Russia, Jan 25, 2023

 • $10 Trillion for Nuclear War: Racing to the Nuclear Cliff, The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, Jan 10, 2023

 • Bulletin 321: Last day for 2022 donations! / A few quick updates, Dec 31, 2022

 • Bulletin 320: Neocon humiliation -- or nuclear exchange / The centrality of war resistance in moral politics / 3 days left for 1:1 donation match!, Dec 29, 2022

 • Bulletin 319: Ukraine; NDAA: omnibus appropriations bill; fundraising --thank you; some matching funds still available, Dec 21, 2022

 • Stop the war now, Jean Nichols, The Taos News, Dec 19, 2022

 • Bulletin 318: Speak out now against further U.S. escalation in Ukraine; daily updates for your use, Dec 14, 2022

 • Agenda for tonight's emergency Ukraine meeting in Albuquerque, and by Zoom, Nov 15, 2022

 • Bulletin 314: Reminder re next week's antiwar, disarmament, & nuclear safety events: come if you can or tune in, outreach needed; pit interview on KNME tonight 7 pm; fundraising drive continues; erratum, Nov 11, 2022

 • Bulletin 313: Important meeting about Ukraine next week; DNFSB hearing in Santa Fe; more, Nov 7, 2022

 • Biden Administration releases aggressive nuclear strategy envisioning "first use" of nuclear weapons in wars like Ukraine, press release, Oct 27, 2022

 • Bulletin 310: Speak up! We urge you to take up the call for peace in Ukraine, Sep 25, 2022

 • Pope Francis: "World War III has been declared." We agree. Stop LANL's pit factory; Stop the U.S. war against Russia, presentation, Jun 15, 2022

 • Bulletin 301: Oppose the war! Demand and create accountability for lawmakers who fund and promote more war in Ukraine, May 16, 2022

 • Grave dangers loom in Ukraine war votes and escalations; opportunities open for journalists and citizens; We urge news media to widen debate, pose questions, create accountability, press release, May 16, 2022

 • LASG friends ltr: Thursday evening public discussion in Albuquerque: Ukraine, propaganda, progressives supporting Nazis and war, May 10, 2022

 • Escalation in Ukraine: The Nuclear War Danger is Real, Brian Becker & Greg Mello discuss the U.S. policy of waging proxy war on Russia, BreakThrough News, May 4, 2022

 • Bulletin 299: Emergency call to action: stop Biden's proposed $33 billion war escalation, Apr 28, 2022

 • Bulletin 298: Talk on pits & renewed U.S. nuclear weapons production Tuesday evening 4/26/22; antiwar billboard; what you can do, Apr 25, 2022

 • The core debate, Searchlight New Mexico, Mar 23, 2022

 • Bulletin 294: Please consider forwarding this fine statement from UNAC re Ukraine, Mar 23, 2022

 • Nuclear expert speaks on the dangers of war between the US and Russia, World Socialist Website, Mar 15, 2022

 • A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War, Consortium News, Greg Mello, Mar 7, 2022

 • Bulletin 293: Ukraine conflict: If you want a ceasefire (as we do), stop firing, Mar 5, 2022

 • Bulletin 292: Statement on the Ukraine conflict and war with Russia, Mar 1, 2022

 • "What can we in New Mexico do?," LASG letter, Feb 23, 2022

 • Bulletin 288: US nuclear weapons since 2020: continuity and change, Dec 7, 2021 (see discussion of US, NATO, and Russia)

 • Nuclear experts speak on the dangers of war between the US and Russia, World Socialist Web Site, Apr 15, 2017

 • US Leaders Reject “Nuclear Winter” Studies, Ignore Existential Danger of Nuclear War. Turn a Blind Eye towards Armageddon, Steven Starr, Global Research, Nov 1, 2016

 • The Ukraine Conflict: What's Behind It? Why Is It Important?, Sep 26, 2015

 • Bulletin 200: Warhead budget bloat; U.S.-caused Ukraine catastrophe at the brink; hello peak oil, Feb 8, 2015