132nd day of fighting: the main thing

Explosions of the Ministry of Defense thundered in the border regions of Russia: conscripts will not be sent to a "special operation" Another eight prisoners from Azovstal are threatened with the death penalty The State Duma adopted a law on special measures in the economy during the "special operation" "Schemes": Russia regularly exports grain to Turkey Luhansk People’s Republic appeared in Moscow

• The authorities of the Bryansk and Kursk regions reported shelling from Ukraine. There were no casualties, but houses were destroyed.

In recent days, there have been shelling in the Rostov, Belgorod and Kursk regions. Five people died in Belgorod after rockets hit residential areas.

• The Ministry of Defense said that the draft campaign is ending. Conscripts will not be involved in the "special operation". Retired conscripts will be sent home. More than 89,000 conscripts have already been sent to duty stations. Earlier, RBC reported that at least 600 conscripts were sent to Ukraine from the Western Military District alone.

The ministry added that by the end of the year, the enterprises of the military construction complex "will have completed all the target tasks for creating the infrastructure of forces and means of nuclear deterrence, the airfield network and complex storage arsenals."

• RIA Novosti reported that eight prisoners from the Azovstal plant face the death penalty. The case of Ukrainian militants from the SS Bears group will be sent to court in the coming days.

On June 8, the Supreme Court of the DPR announced the death sentence to three foreigners: British Aiden Eslin and Sean Pinner and Moroccan Saadun Brahim. All three filed appeal an . Western leaders called on Russia to exclude the application of the verdict: the same was asked by the ECtHR. In Britain, they insisted that these were not mercenaries (this was one of the accusatory articles. - NT), but the military, and they have the right to protection under the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War. In Russia, they insisted that all questions should be addressed to the DPR.

• The State Duma adopted in the first reading the law "on special measures in the economy during a special operation." at the Institute for the Study of War reported yesterday that Analysts the need for such a law arose because Russian enterprises refused to repair military equipment: they had not received money for previous repairs. The new law will force them to fulfill the state order.

In addition, the law affirms the need for night shifts and overtime during “special operations”. However, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov, this does not imply the conversion of the capacities of enterprises in the civilian sectors of the economy for the needs of the armed forces.

“The proposed amendments are primarily aimed at more efficient implementation of the state defense order and affect the “historically” formed list of the main executors of the state defense order and their cooperation. In addition, these amendments do not imply the re-profiling of the capacities of enterprises in the civilian sectors of the economy for the needs of the Armed Forces, as well as the termination of contracts between defense industry enterprises to contractors concluded outside the framework of the state defense order, ”RIA Novosti quotes . Borisov

• The journalistic project “Schemes” of “Radio.Svoboda”* discovered the regular transportation of Ukrainian grain to the ports of Turkey. Journalists studied satellite images and accompanying documents for wheat.

Grain is loaded in the Avlita port in the Dock Bay of Sevastopol, then it is exported and unloaded in Turkey. Vessels turn off radar when entering a Crimean port, making them difficult to track with traditional tracking systems. But you can see them on satellite images. Russia denies accusations of exporting Ukrainian grain.

• Near the British Embassy there will be a square of the Luhansk People's Republic. This was announced by the Moscow City Hall. Earlier, the square in front of the US embassy was named after the Donetsk People's Republic - after that, the address disappeared from the embassy website and only latitude and longitude remained.

The Moscow City Hall added that on the Active Citizen platform, residents chose this particular territory (57% voted for it). It was proposed to name the territory between the embassies of Lithuania and Belgium, a site near the German consulate.

• Britain's intelligence has reported that Russia's relatively quick takeover of Lisichansk expands its control over virtually the entire territory of the Lugansk region, allowing it to claim significant progress towards the political goal it presented as the immediate goal of the fighting, namely the "liberation" of the LDNR.

In contrast to the previous phases of the fighting, Russia has probably achieved a fairly effective interaction between at least two groups of troops. Ukrainian forces have mostly withdrawn in good condition in accordance with existing plans. Ukrainian-held areas provided a salient that the Russians could attack from three sides.

There is a real possibility that Ukrainian forces will now be able to retreat to a better-protected front line.

• The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that it is not clear how battle-depleted groups of Russian troops will be able to recuperate. Vladimir Putin spoke about the rest of the military who participated in the attack on the Luhansk region yesterday.

However, even some pro-Russian bloggers say that Russia has paid too high a price for Lisichansk and Severodonetsk. Igor Girkin, an active participant in the movement for Novorossiya and a political figure in the DPR in 2014, wrote about this. Such opinions may indicate that even adherents of the Kremlin's position have become disillusioned with the way Moscow is conducting the operation in Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces are increasingly firing from concealed positions with American HIMARS systems at Russian military infrastructure deep in the occupied territory. Ukrainian forces reportedly attacked Russian ammunition depots in Dibrivne, Kharkiv region, and Snizhne, Donetsk region. There were strikes in Melitopol.

*Radio.Svoboda has been recognized by the Russian Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent.