Two thousand panties and one hundred kilograms of cookies

Good morning!

In the 92nd year of life, one of the greatest French actors Jean-Louis Trentinyan died . Here is the necrologist Andrei Plakhov, and in life things are like this:

• There are no significant changes on the fronts of the Donbass: battles in Severodonetsk, shelling of Lisichansk and adjacent villages continue.
• The Ukrainian Navy sank the Russian tugboat “Vasily Beh”, which delivered cargo and people to the island of Zmein.
• The second time from the beginning of the war, Kyiv was visited by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
• The European Commission recommended that Ukraine and Moldova provide an EU candidate status.
• Ukraine introduces a visa regime for Russians from July 1.
• In his speech, Putin called Russia a powerful sovereign country, which will fulfill all the tasks of “special operations” in Ukraine.

Military reports

The situation on the fronts of the Donbass does not change, despite the heavy battles: they are still underway in Severodonetsk ( this is the story of how the supply of military and civilians that hide at the Azot factory), and the settlements adjacent to the Severodonetsk, including Lisichansk, are subjected to intensive fire. The head of the Luhansk region, Sergei Gaidai, says that eight civilians were victims of blows to both cities. The evacuation from the Azov plant, where there are 568 civilians, including 38 children, he said , is now impossible. The New York Times published a photograph of an open mass grave under Lisichansky-in it, as the Ukrainian military say, there are bodies of about 300 civilians who died in Lisichansk, Severodonetsk and Rubezhnaya since April.

The Russian army, according to Western intelligence, continues to prepare an attack on Slavyansk, tries to go to Lisichansk from the south and attacks the village along the Lisichansk-Bakhmut highway (so far unsuccessfully). There are battles in the area of raisins, but there are no significant changes and there is no.

As a result of the shelling of Nikolaev on Friday morning, two people were killed and twenty were wounded; Four multi -storey buildings were injured, people had to be evacuated from them. The American Institute for the Study of War warns of possible Russian attacks near Kherson under a foreign flag - to intimidate the local population, but where such information is not known.

The naval forces of Ukraine announced the sinking of the Russian tugboat “Vasily Beh”, which delivered reinforcements and weapons to the island of Zmein. The Pentagon confirmed this message by clarifying that the tugboat was sunk by the U.S. Garpun rocket provided by one of the US allies. Russia did not comment on the incident; There were about 30 people on board.

In the Belgorod region, it is not known why the Russian Su-25 crashed , the pilot catapulted.

What next?

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov said in an interview with CNN that Ukraine intends to conquer its entire territory, including Crimea. Putin, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, said that Russia will fulfill all the tasks of “special operations” in Ukraine. Since no one, besides himself, knows what these tasks consist of, you can perform them for a long time - especially since at what price this is done, no one also knows. It is only known that on June 17, Mediazona confirmed the death of 3,798 Russian military in Ukraine in open sources. It is also known that the Russian army is poorly supplied: acting Colonel Oleg Korotkevich, the commander of the 41st Army, asked the mayor of Novosibirsk Anatoly Lokta to “rende” the military personnel in Ukraine, and specifically to send five thousand socks, two thousand panties, one and a half thousand packages of toilet paper, a hundred kilograms of cookies and a thousand packs of filter cigarettes.

The Ukrainian army, for its part, first revealed losses in technology: about half of the weapons that had at the beginning of the war was lost. According to the commander of the material and technical support of the Ground Forces of Ukraine, General Vladimir Karpenko, only 10-15% of its needs supplied to Ukraine covers the weapon. But the situation will probably change: after a visit to Kiev, the German Chancellor Olaf Sholts assured German journalists that weapons for Ukraine would arrive on time. Commenting on the visit of four European leaders to Kiev, Ukrainian military expert Mikhail Zhirokhov and political analyst Nikolai Davydyuk are also inclined to optimistic estimates and note that the press is not reported about all the supply of weapons. Finally, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who again visited Kiev on Friday, announced new supply of weapons and launching the training program for the Ukrainian military.

Captivity, “foreign mercenaries”, occupation

The paramedic Julia Paevskaya (Tyra) was released from Russian captivity - Vladimir Zelensky told about this in the evening handling. Paevskaya was captured in mid -March in Mariupol. She was the founder of the volunteer detachment of military doctors.

The Izvestia website published a video with Andy Hun, who went missing near Kharkov after June 8. Earlier, short videos appeared on other pro -Kremlin resources, which also have another American veteran, Aleksander Dryuk. The Americans on these videos say that they are against the war, talk about the “incompetence” of the Ukrainian army and call the Russians “completely human guys”. Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the deaths of almost two thousand foreigners who fought on the side of Ukraine (out of almost seven thousand) - where Russia got such information from Russia. One of these “foreigners” in the eyes of Russia may be a former FSB officer Ilya Bogdanov, who came to fight in Ukraine back in 2014, then received Ukrainian citizenship and is now fighting again .

The European Court of Human Rights issued a temporary decision on the basis of Rules 39 in the case of Moroccan Brahim Saadun, sentenced to the death penalty in the so -called "DPR": the Russian authorities must ensure that "the death penalty carried out by the applicant is not executed." The Russian authorities will not fulfill this decision on the basis of the law recently adopted by the State Duma, although according to international rules they are still obliged to do this.

More than 350 citizens of Ukraine are stuck in Moscow pre -trial detention centers and special workers. About 60 of them were detained at the request of Ukraine and expected to expel to their homeland, another 180 are accused of committing crimes in Russia (in pre-war reality they would be sentenced and sent to serve their homeland), they are still sitting in a special receiver in Sakharov, being detained for violating the migration regime, and it is impossible to deport them due to the lack of a message between the two countries.

Journalists of the “important stories” identified the eight Pskov paratroopers who were in Buch on the day of the shooting there were participants in Terborne - they all called from the phone selected from Ivan Skiba, who survived the execution of March 4. However, it was precisely they who shot the Ukrainians, there are no grounds. The Russian BBC service has collected new evidence of the “charms” of Russian filtration: they beat to unconsciousness, torture and force them to speak on the camera “Glory of the Russian Army!”.

International Echo of War

• The European Commission recommended that Ukraine and Moldova provide the status of candidates for EU members. The final decision will be made by the leaders of the 27 EU countries at the Summit in Brussels on June 23–24, and most likely it will be positive . What gives and does not give the status of a candidate is explained here .
• On the same day, Ukraine announced the introduction of a visa regime for Russian citizens from July 1. Vladimir Zelensky in the evening appeal called this coincidence symbolic: Ukraine tears communications with Russia and establishes ties with Europe.
• Lithuania stopped railway transit by almost half of the goods delivered from Russia to the Kaliningrad region (those that fall under the sanctions of the European Union). Commenting on this decision, the regional governor said that, having forbidden transit, Lithuania grossly violated the rules for its entry into the EU. Maybe he will still complain to Brussels.
• The organizers of Eurovision, for security reasons, decided not to hold a 2023 competition in Ukraine and started negotiations with the UK.
• Putin, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, rested on the sovereignty: in the war, sanctions and crisis in the world economy, they are guilty, of course, Europe and the USA, and Russia, having broken the “sanctions blitzkrieg”, came out of the alteration of a “powerful sovereign country” ( here the economist Igor Lipsits disassemble this “power”). Putin again accused Ukraine of creating a global food crisis. Ukraine does not answer him directly, but continues to insist that Russia steals grain, captured in the occupied territories. The American company Maxar publishes satellite pictures confirming the correctness of Kiev: on them, ships under the Russian flag transport grain from Ukraine to Syria.
• In his speech, Putin said that Russia will never follow the path of self -isolation: “We will expand interaction with everyone who wants to work with us. There are many of them, most people on Earth, but I will not list.” And rightly that he did not list: the president of friendly Kazakhstan, who was sitting next to Putin , called “DPR” and “LPR” quasi -state territories that his country does not recognize. Yes, it is no longer necessary: the so -called “DPR” at the forum was represented by its recently appointed prime minister, and in the past the official of the Russian government Vitaly Hotsenko - he expects “more than two trillion rubles” from Russia in the next two years and is quite pleased.
• But no one canceled ruthlessness to enemies. The court in Moscow sentenced the former US Embassy in Russia Mark Vogel to 14 years in prison in a maximum security colony on charges of drug smuggling: he found 17 grams of marijuana, which he used for medical indications, which is confirmed by medical documents.

In a powerful sovereign country

• In Russia, they began to show the gray “Batman” - the premiere of the White Warner Bros. She canceled the day before the scheduled date because of the war in Ukraine. Hollywood giant cinemas owners do not sincerely understand , because there is no war in Russia.
• The Petushinsky District Court of the Vladimir Region granted the claim of the owner of the Sony PlayStation 5 Digital Edition to Sony Electronics. The reason for the lawsuit was the disconnection of the PlayStation Store online store in early March: without this, the gaming prefix cannot be used. The plaintiff demanded to replace the device, as the existing stopped working, and the court ordered the company to replace the non -working device to employees within a week.
• The Russian structure of Google has submitted a bankruptcy statement.
• Supporters of the Memorial human rights center, which was declared a “foreign agent” in Russia and was liquidated by court decision, created the Memorial Protection Center, which will do the same as the “memorial” (and, we must think, will also be declared an “agent” and liquidated). Here, representatives of the NPO - “foreign agents” comment on the decision of the ECHR in their favor (they mainly complain that it was taken too late).
• The Rokoskomnazdor blocked in Russia the website of the Belarusian Radio Liberty service (in Belarus it has long been blocked) and the Vesna Movement Movement website “Impich 2.0” , through which it was possible to quickly send appeals to the State Duma deputies demanding to initiate Putin's impeachment and stop the war with Ukraine.
• The Moscow House of the book "Young Guard" on his own initiative withdrew Boris Akunin from the sale of the book.

“Discreditors” and distributors of “fakes”:

• In Cheboksary, two local residents were detained who damaged the installation in the form of the letter Z in the city center, and made protocols on them on the “discredit” of the Russian army. At the end of April, another Cheboksaryz was fined under the same article for 30 thousand rubles for kicked this letter Z.
• A resident of Sochi Joseph GELASTANOVA was fined under an article on “discredit” for 50 thousand rubles for writing “Putin, it is necessary to detain Art. 359 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation by the unleashing of an aggressive war”.
• The Volgograd artist Philippenzo raised 80 thousand rubles over the night to pay for two fines for “discrediting” - by May 9, he placed the graffiti “ours!” In his city, depicting a series of coffins with the letter Z on one of them. Here is an interview with him .
• The cases of “fakes” about the Russian army are always criminal, but they start them according to the report of different departments - the story of the journalist and researcher of the Russian special services Andrei Soldatov, who is persecuted by the FSB Office, in comparison with the stories of other victims of this article, is told here .

For entertainment - a survey of residents of different cities in Russia on the topic “who is Putin for you” and “when he already leaves” (you can not watch everything, but most importantly - see the last speaker).

Everything else

• The Belarusian lawyer Alexander Danilievich, who works mainly in the international commercial arbitration, was accused of calls to actions aimed at causing harmful national security (up to 12 years). After Russian invasion of Ukraine, he signed anti -war circulation.
• The Belarusian activist Elena Gnauke was sentenced to 3.5 years in a maximum security colony in the case of slander on Lukashenko and the country's discredit: she told Instagram about the situation of migrants and Kurdish families in Belarus.
• The head of the British Ministry of Internal Affairs, Patel, approved the extradition of the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange in the USA, where he threatens until 175 years in prison.

Reading links

• Anti -war. The story of how the Dadaists who overthrow European culture became the sworn enemies of Nazism and militarism. Or the preface of Igor Ebanoidze to the Russian publication of the article by Thomas Mann “This War!” (goes to Cheapcherrybooks).
• Early Soviet poetry. The fate of Leonid Cannegiser, poet, terrorist and friend Yesenin. Or a few comments on Mayakovsky’s poem “Talk to the Finin Inspector of Poetry”-a book containing a huge block of materials dedicated to this textbook text of Mayakovsky, published in the Publishing House of the EU of St. Petersburg.
• Erich Auerbach. The two -part conversation with Dmitry Kolchigin, the translator of the “historical topology” by Erich Auerbach - in the collection published by the “languages of Slavic culture”, included the last book of Auerbach “Literary Language and the Public in Latin Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages”, as well as his most important articles: part one , part two .
• Leningrad Sidelski. Philologist and translator Mikhail Meilay talks about his life. Vladimir Gaenko, convicted in 1965 for the publication of the underground magazine “Bell”, which published an article with the critic of Soviet power, recalls the “Bells of the Bells”.
• History of homophobia. A short course to combat LGBT from Russia to the present day. Or a fragment from the book by Dan Hilie’s historian “Another story. Sexual and gender dissidentism in revolutionary Russia” (Garage Museum).
• What is not. An excerpt from Oleg Ivik’s new book “Mythozois: History and Biology of Mythical Animals” (Publishing House of Alpina Non-Fixes)-about dragons and flying snakes. Or a story about seven utopian city projects.

Sincerely yours,
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