Доступно на русском The Kremlin-linked bot network Matryoshka has launched a new disinformation campaign targeting Volodymyr Zelensky. Dozens of videos are spreading on the social network X (formerly Twitter) styled as reports by well-known Western media outlets and organizations including The Economist , Bloomberg , Euronews , Bellingcat , USA Today , The Wall Street Journal , Spiegel TV, and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).

In the Belgorod district, residents of the village of Belovskoye are being evacuated after an explosion at a military ammunition depot, Pepel reports . The authorities ordered approximately half of the village’s residents—those living on 18 streets and Lesnoy Lane—to leave their homes “until further notice.” A cultural center in the village of Razumnoye has been allocated for temporary accommodation.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) estimates that in 2025, German airports were completely or partially closed 116 times due to overflights of unknown drones, and in just one year there were at least 226 UAV sightings. The estimated loss to air traffic was around €60 million, rising to €160 million when associated costs were taken into account. For comparison: in 2024 there were 118 such incidents, and only 9 of them led to a complete stop of flights.

About 30 billion 360-degree recordings made by hundreds of millions of Pokemon Go users since 2021 for in-game bonuses ended up being the basis of a navigation system for military drones. This was reported by the Dutch newspaper Trouw. The recordings belong to Niantic Spatial, a spin-off company from the developer of Pokemon Go. Based on them, she created a visual positioning system (VPS) - an analogue of GPS that works without a satellite signal.

The number of hotel bookings from May 24 to June 6 decreased by 31% year-on-year, in Sevastopol the reduction rate was even higher - 40%, according to data from the Travelline reservation management system. At the same time, the national figures remained virtually unchanged. Over the same period, tourists canceled 79% of bookings in Crimea and 71% in Sevastopol. The annexed peninsula has left the list of the ten most popular tourist destinations among Russians: it now accounts for 1.5% of sales.

Russia struck the site of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant with a drone in the early hours of June 7, as announced by Ukrainian company Energoatom, the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy, and President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to Energoatom’s data, the strike partially destroyed the container reception building, where no spent nuclear fuel was stored. The radiation background remains within normal limits, and no casualties were reported.

France and Germany have abandoned a joint project to produce FCAS fighters, the German publication Die Zeit reports , citing sources. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron came to the conclusion that Dassault and Airbus would not be able to reach an agreement on the creation of a fighter jet.

An Iranian court has upheld the sentence of director Jafar Panahi - a year in prison and a two-year ban on leaving the country, The Hollywood Reporter reports . Panahi's lawyer, Mustafa Nili, said the Tehran Revolutionary Court rejected all his objections and fully confirmed the earlier verdict.

Shipilov was born in Orenburg. As local media wrote , his father is Azerbaijani crime boss Bayram Talibov, whom the press also calls the bodyguard of thief in law Ikmet Mukhtarov. In April 2006, they were both shot in Moscow when they got into a Mercedes near a house on Leningradsky Prospekt. Kommersant then wrote that Mukhtarov died on the spot, and Talibov died on the way to the hospital.

In today's summary: In the Liman direction, it is reported that Russian attack aircraft have begun to “infiltrate” the eastern part of the Liman In the Konstantinovka direction, the position of the Ukrainian garrison of Konstantinovka is deteriorating In the Pokrovsk direction, the final end of the presence of the Ukrainian military in Pokrovsk is announced In the Zaporozhye direction, Russian troops advanced to the “legendary” Malaya Tokmachka A drone hit the Centralized Storage Facility for

The drone hit the diesel locomotive of passenger train No. 68 Moscow - Simferopol, says the Russian-appointed head of the annexed Crimea, Sergei Aksenov. According to him, the driver was injured, his assistant was killed, and the passengers were not injured. The railway carrier Grand Service Express announced the suspension of scheduled train services. Passengers of all trains located on the peninsula have been evacuated.

The number of confirmed cases of Ebola infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo has exceeded 500, Bloombeg reports . The authorities are recording mass escapes of patients from isolation wards and are failing to trace the contacts of the sick. According to the National Institute of Public Health of the DRC, by June 6, the country had reported 515 confirmed cases of infection and 91 deaths.

The Insider has examined NASA FIRMS data and found several thermal anomalies near a site by the village of Bolshaya Izhora, which open sources link to the Russian Navy’s 15th Arsenal. The anomalies were recorded after a large-scale drone attack on St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on June 6. During the day on June 6, the VIIRS instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite detected a point with fire radiative power of 6.31 megawatts.

The Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) proposed to involve schoolchildren and students in recording the memories of participants in the war in Ukraine and front-line volunteers. The Ministry of Education and Science has already approved the initiative - Mikhail Myagkov, scientific director of the Russian Historical Institute, announced this at a conference of history teachers and in the Public Chamber, Kommersant writes .

Now, however, Democrats are looking to retake the seat from Republicans in the November election by nominating former Gov. Roy Cooper as their candidate. The former head of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, who was appointed to this post at the suggestion of Trump, will run for election from the Republicans. However, according to polls, Cooper is comfortably ahead of Whatley, so as a result of Trumpist machinations, the Republicans may well lose this seat.