“Ukrainian vandals in the Russian land”, red alert in Belgorod

Surrender or you die. This is a summary of the content of the video in Russian filmed and released yesterday by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, in which the head of the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence Kirillo Budanov directly addresses Russian soldiers, or at least those who are “lucky enough”. To survive the devastating meat grinder and trenches ». Russia has yet to achieve any of its goals, but given the counterattack, “you can choose whether you live or die,” explains Budanov, who is known to have survived a car bomb in 2019 and a scandal in 2011 linked to his friendship with a deputy minister. Interior Oleksandr Gogelashvili who has fallen from grace in the meantime.

From the “meat grinder” to the cup From the ruins, Bakhmut according to Russian sources will be delivered by the Wagnerians of Prigozhin to the army no longer on Thursday the 25th as announced but “from now until the 1st of June”. Putin congratulated.
But the war is also becoming chronic in its spillover beyond Russia’s borders. Yesterday was a difficult day for the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, who had to sound the alarm about the incursion of a group of “saboteurs” from the Ukrainian army into the territory of the Union, to count the wounded (5 +3) as a result of two separate attacks and to announce the start of the “anti-terrorist” operation “. Kiev denies this and, as indeed happened in previous similar circumstances, speaks of “Russian citizens” who acted in full autonomy.

Putin was informed, and his spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to RIA Novosti that “work is underway to get rid of the saboteurs.” In the evening, Governor Gladkov seemed not at all reassured, and spoke of “extreme tension” and the prospect of evacuating the areas affected by the attacks, in the area of ​​the border town of Grivorun.
But in the Ukrainian territory, the chronicle of the conflict indicates that Russian missiles and cannons broke out in the Dnipro (8 wounded), in the Kharkiv regions (2 women wounded) and Kherson (1 dead).

worry Mostly it is the Zaporizhzhia NPP again, especially after the seventh disconnect from the power grid since the start of the war and given the hotly anticipated Ukrainian counterattack. IAEA Director Rafael Grossi deplores the situation of “extreme vulnerability” and calls again for a five-point safety measure that includes banning military units in the area of ​​the plant and exchanges. of blows to and from the plant.

On the diplomatic front, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry has mocked ongoing initiatives to end the war – the latest of which are those of six African leaders ready to go to Kiev and Moscow – by tweeting works by artist Yevgen Tuniev, with the cockpit and wings of an F-16 superimposed on a symbol of world peace.