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The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed the Czech-made RM-70 MLRS in Severodonetsk. In mid-April, it was revealed that the Czech Republic had sent two dozen RM-70 MLRS to Ukraine. The first evidence of the RM-70 MLRS deployment near the combat zone only on May 10. The RM-70 (Raketomet vzor 1970) is a Czechoslovak version of the Soviet MLRS BM-21 “Grad”. The first RM-70 was brought into service in 1971. The Czech Republic has long since decommissioned its RM-70 and has now found a way to get rid of such equipment in storage providing it to the Ukrainian Army.

(UPDATE) THE United States on Thursday backed the Philippines in criticizing a unilateral seasonal ban on fishing declared by Beijing in the dispute-rife South China Sea. The State Department pointed to a 2016 ruling by a court in The Hague that rejected Beijing's claims, as well as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, ratified by China although not by the United States. "The PRC's unilateral fishing moratorium in the South China Sea is inconsistent with the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal ruling and international law," State Department spokesman Ned Price wrote on Twitter, using an acronym for the People's Republic of China. "We call upon the PRC to abide by its obligations under international law." The Philippines, a treaty-bound ally...

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo has yet to consider the possibility of returning to the government as she is currently focused on finishing her term and preparing for the non-government organization she intends to launch on July 1, her spokesperson said. © Joselle Reyes for Philstar.com‘Return to government still out of Robredo’s mind’ “As of now, the focus of VP Leni is to finish her term smoothly and have an orderly transition and closure of the programs of the OVP (Office of the Vice President) under her leadership,” Robredo’s spokesperson Barry Gutierrez said in Filipino during an interview with One PH’s “Sa Totoo Lang” on Wednesday night. “She is also (preparing) to be a private citizen who will work as part of...

Amid the ongoing media campaign aimed at discrediting the Russian military, facts and footage from the war-torn regions confirm that Russian servicemen are acting in accordance with the law of war and that the order to avoid the destruction of civilian infrastructure given by the Russian military command is strictly observed. Another prove of the respect of the norms of humanity by Russian forces in Ukraine are the leaflet distributed among the Russian servicemen:

Events on the battlefields of Ukraine over the last month show that Russia is quite clearly winning the war. Although you would not know this, from any articles or news broadcasts in the Western media. Since late February, the collective Western media has engaged in a quite deliberate misinformation campaign whose central narrative is that Russia has suffered huge casualties in men and materials while suffering numerous defeats at the hands of the Ukrainian forces. That is some defeat when Russia and DPR/LPR forces control over 20% of Ukraine’s territory. This misinformation campaign asserts that Russia failed in its attempt to capture Kiev and Kharkov during the early stages of the current war. Of course, anyone with an elementary...

Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Raigorodok with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Nikolaevka with high-precision missiles; On May 30, 290 AFU members were killed and 23 weapons and military equipment were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Russian MOD; Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Donetsk, Makeevka in the Donetsk region, Popasnaya in the Lugansk region, Liptsy, Bolshie Prokhody in the Kharkiv region.

Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Raigorodok with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Nikolaevka with high-precision missiles; On May 30, 290 AFU members were killed and 23 weapons and military equipment were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Russian MOD; Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Donetsk, Makeevka in the Donetsk region, Popasnaya in the Lugansk region, Liptsy, Bolshie Prokhody in the Kharkiv region.

There are about 8,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war in the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. The numbers were claimed by the LPR Ambassador to Russia on May 26th. Amid the growing number of the deserters in the ranks of the AFU, the Kiev regime is trying its best to threaten its oen military by legal and îllégâl means. On May 24th, a bill has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, according to which officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine would be allowed to kill servicemen who refuse to follow orders and decide to leave their positions without permission. The initiator was the representative of the party of Vladimir Zelensky “Servant of the People” Mariana Bezuglaya. At the moment, the Ukrainian...

Turkey remains committed to its war on Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria despite sustaining some serious losses and facing pressure from Russia. In Iraq, the Turkish military operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region, codenamed Operation Claw-Lock, is still ongoing. The operation, which was launched on April 17, is mainly taking place in the areas of Metina, Zap and Avashin Basyan. On May 25, Turkey received a large blow when five of its soldiers were killed and two others were wounded during clashes with the PKK in the Claw-Lock operation area. On May 28, a Turkish soldier was killed and another was wounded in the Kurdistan Region as a result of an attack with an improvised explosive device that was...

AS Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio celebrates her 44th birthday on Tuesday, her father, President Rodrigo Duterte wished her "good health and success". "The President's wishes for our Vice President-elect are good health and success in her role as second highest official of the land," acting spokesman and Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar during his virtual presser. Duterte conveyed his message for the outgoing Davao City mayor during the Cabinet's last meeting and thanksgiving last Monday, noted the Palace official.

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On May 30, the Defence Staff of the Donetsk People’s Republic confirmed that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR People’s militia took control over the villages of Dibrova and Stary Caravan. After the town of Krasny Liman came under the DPR control, Russian-led forces continued their advance to the west towards the city of Slavyansk, which is one of the main strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the region. By now, DPR and Russian troops have approached the city of Raygorodok, which is located 12 kilometers from Slavyansk. The Ukrainian positions in the area have been shelled by the artillery. Clashes continue on the northern bank of the Seversky Donets River, and Russian-led forces have are yet to cross...

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A Spike LR II ATGM made by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. (Courtesy of Rafael) Israel had refused a US request to allow Germany to supply Ukraine with Israeli-developed Spike anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM), US and Israeli officials told Axios on May 25. The request was made by US Undersecretary of Defense for policy, Colin Kahl, during a meeting with Amir Eshel, director-general of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, in Washington early on in May. According to Axios, Eshel denied the request. The senior officer explained that due to concerns that there would be Russian casualties from Israeli-made weapons, Israel will only supply Ukraine with non-lethal military equipment. Recently, Israel became more critical of the...

Russian forces took full control of Lyman town; Russian forces took control of Mir hotel in the north Severodonetsk city; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue on the outskirts of Severodonetsk; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue near Dovgenke; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue in the Zolote area.

In recent days, the main military development on the Donbass front lines was the storming of the town of Liman in the north of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Krasny Liman is one of the first cities that were captured by the Ukrainian Army with heavy fighting in June 2014. The clashes in the area resumed weeks ago, when the Russian military approached the nearby villages and took control of Yampol. Amid fierce resistance of the Ukrainian units, Russian-led forces entered Liman from the north on May 23rd. During the fighting, two bridges across the Seversky Donets River were destroyed. As a result, Ukrainian servicemen left their positions. On May 26th, the Russian military claimed control over Liman. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)...

FILE IMAGE: Russian Military Police service members are in Syria On May 28, the Russian military deployed reinforcements at al-Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria in what appears to be a response to Turkey’s recent threats to the region. According to Russian and Syrian sources, the reinforcements included a number of Su-34 fighter bombers and Ka-52 attack helicopters. Last year, the Russian military stepped up its presence at al-Qamishli Airport turning it into its main base in northeastern Syria. The deployment came amid reports of ongoing preparations by Turkish military and its proxies to launch a new large-scale operation against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern and northeastern Syria. In what...

The U.S. is on the verge of a resource crisis, forcing the White House to actively take action to stabilize the oil market. Crazy gasoline prices in the U.S. have made the American public extremely angry, and large companies are losing huge amounts of money due to unpredictable spikes in the oil market. The U.S. is experiencing a huge oil shortage. The last time such a shortage was observed back in 1987 and 2001. Currently, the U.S. has 532 million barrels of strategic oil reserves. Every week the number of million barrels is decreasing by 5.3 million. At best the U.S. oil reserves have two years left. But from February 25 to May 20, reserves fell by another 50 million as the manufacturing sector intensified. However, these are...

Turkish authorities detained ISIS’s new leader during a recent raid in Istanbul city, Bloomberg reported on May 26, citing senior Turkish officials. Turkish news website OdaTV identified the detained man as Abu al-Hassan al-Qurayshi. The terrorist became the “caliph” of ISIS on March 10, replacing Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi who died during a US raid that targeted his hideout in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib on February 3. The terrorist leader was reportedly captured following lengthy police surveillance of a house where he was staying in Istanbul. Turkish forces didn’t open fire during the raid. Abu al-Hassan comes from a close circle of battle-hardened Iraqi terrorists who emerged in the aftermath of the...

The ports of Ukraine are of geopolitical and strategic importance, at least because they are a large transport hub in Europe. 70 foreign ships have been blocked at six Ukrainian ports (Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odesa, and Yuzhny). The corridors for the civilian vessels willing to leave the Ukrainian ports are secured by the Russian Navy on a daily basis from 8:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. At the same time, the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) granted no security for civilian ships, so there is still a danger of entering the Black Sea. Moreover, not all mines in the Black Sea have been defused and some are still drifting in the waters. On May 25, the Russian Defense Ministry managed to open the first humanitarian corridor for...

The United Nations Security Council meets on May 19. United Nations (CNN)- Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a US-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution to strengthen sanctions on North Korea in a vote the US ambassador to the UN called dangerous, disappointing and likely to fuel Pyongyang's program to develop nuclear-capable missile systems. The move comes after more than a dozen North Korean ballistic missile tests this year, all of which violated previous UN resolutions and which US officials argued necessitated another international response. A resolution needs nine "yes" votes and no vetoes by the permanent members of Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom or the United States to be adopted by the UN Security...

Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst The United States and the “purely defensive” NATO alliance sending advanced weapons to the Kiev regime is hardly breaking news. And these deliveries haven’t only been happening since late February this year, after Ukraine’s actions in Donbass prompted Russia to respond with an all-out counteroffensive. Ukraine has been getting advanced Western weapons for nearly 2 decades now. The first such occurrence happened after the then president Viktor Yushchenko decided to join the îllégâl US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a country which, even if it wanted to, could threaten neither Ukraine nor the US or any of its allies (including neighboring Turkey) in any conceivable way...

St. Inigoes, Md. (June 27, 2005) – A “Skylark” drone on display at the 2005 Naval UAV Air Demo held at the Webster Field Annex of Naval Air Station Patuxent River. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain. On May 26, an Israeli Skylark drone crashed in Lebanon’s South Governorate, the heartland of Hezbollah, according to the al-Manar TV. Al-Manar reporter in the South Governorate, Ali Shoeib, said that the drone crashed between the towns of Rmaych and Ayta ash Shab, just a few kilometers away from the separation line with Israel. According to Shoeib, the drone was captured by the Lebanese military. Despite this, Israeli forces made an attempt to retrieve it. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have not commented...

Israel and Turkey have recently escalated against Syria in what appears to be an attempt to take advantage of the Ukrainian conflict which moved international attention away from the Middle East. On May 20, an Israeli attack with ground-launched missiles targeted the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. The attack was launched from the direction of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. It left five people dead, including one civilian. The target was reportedly an Iranian weapons shipment that was on its way from Damascus International Airport to Hezbollah in Lebanon. This was Israel third confirmed attack on Syria in May. And it will not likely be the last one this month. Israel appears to be determined to escalate its...

Syrian Air Force’s Su-22 fighter jet © Valeriy Sharifulin/TASS On May 26, warplanes of the Syrian Arab Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out airstrikes on ISIS’s areas of influence in Syria’s central region. Syrian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on hideouts of ISIS cells in the outskirts of the town of Uqayribat in the eastern Hama countryside, while Russian warplanes targeted caves and dens where terrorists of the group had been taking shelter near the town of al-Resafa in the southern countryside of Raqqa. While losses in the ranks of ISIS cells were reported, the exact results of the Syrian and Russian airstrikes are yet to be revealed. Uqayribat Uqayribat · Syria Resafa Resafa · Syria The...

Russian forces took control of most of Lyman town. Clashes continue in the southern parts of the town; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue on the outskirts of Severodonetsk; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue near Avdiivka; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue in the Zolote.

"imbes 92years old, Naging 29 Dahil Sa Pagkapanalo ni BongBong Marcos" Ninety-two-year-old former first lady Imelda Marcos seemed to have all of her ailments disappear as she felt “extra excited” and “so happy” over the victory of her son, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., in the May 9 presidential polls. This was according to her daughter, Senator Imee Marcos, who also E×ρréššed her gratitude for the second chance given to her family to return to Malacañang. “Siyempre ‘yung nanay ko sobrang excited. Tuwang-tuwa siya sa mga pangyayari,” the lady senator told reporters at the Batasang Pambansa Complex where Bongbong is expected to be proclaimed as the 17th President of the country. “She’s suddenly able to hear, to walk, lahat ng...

Illustrative Image Written by Lucas Leiroz, researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant. As the Russian special military operation in Ukraine moves forward, it becomes harder for Western analysts to deny the evident failure of the NATO’s project for post-Maidan Kiev. Given the current scenario, one of the greatest geopolitical thinkers in the western world, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, gave realistic advice so that a solution to the conflict is found as quickly as possible, with little damage to the parties involved. Henry Kissinger argues that Europe must stop insisting on a defeat of Russian forces in Ukraine, claiming that the effects of such insistence...

Russia attacked production facilities of Motor Sich plant in Zaporozhye with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked Pokrovskoe railway station with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Bakhmut with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Dneprovskoe with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Soledar with high-precision missiles; On May 24, 300 AFU members were killed and 46 armored vehicles were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Russian MOD; Russian air defense systems shot down 11 Ukrainian drones near Snake Island, Glubokoe, Pershotravnevoe, Bolshie Prokhody in the Kharkiv region, and Verhnetoretskoe, Stavki...