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War for Ukraine Day 851: Russia Follows Up On It’s Bombardment of Kharkiv by Bombarding Kharkiv

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Painting by NEIVANMADE. It has a white background an in the center are Soldiers in green doing air defense by firing at incoming Russian missiles in the upper right. The missiles are red and yellow. In the upper left, written in green, is the text: "SAVE THE BRAVEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD!" Below the Soldiers, also written in green, is "SUPPORT FOR KHARKIV"

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A couple of quick housekeeping notes: First, Rosie is still doing fine. Tomorrow will be here fourth and final treatment of round two.

Second, I’m going to try to keep tonight’s update short(ish). I’ve got some stuff to do and a very long day tomorrow.

As I start writing tonight’s update at 6:50 PM EDT the only air raid alerts up over Ukraine are for Kharkiv and Donetsk Oblasts.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

The More We Can Do, the Sooner We Will Succeed in Forcing Russia into a Just Peace – the Address by the President

23 June 2024 – 20:35

Dear Ukrainians!
At the moment, the electricity supply has already been restored in Kharkiv. Today, after the Russian bombs hit, a part of Kharkiv was left without electricity, the subway and electric transport were stopped. I thank all our repair crews, everyone involved in restoring the energy supply, and local and regional authorities. I want to thank them for their quick response and for helping people. Unfortunately, 12 people were wounded, unfortunately, one person was killed today. My condolences to their families, my condolences to all the close ones. Every day Kharkiv suffers from this Russian terror. And every day we repeat: Russian combat aircraft that carry out these strikes, not only on Kharkiv, but on our other cities, on our communities, on our frontline positions – Russian combat aircraft must be destroyed wherever they are, by all effective means available. It is also quite fair to attack the Russian airfields. And we need this joint decision with our partners – a security decision.

The recent authorization of strikes on Russian territory – near the border – has helped to destroy part of Russia’s terrorist capacity. But only a part. We need to fully protect people and lives from Russian terror – we need more long-range capabilities; we need proper weapons for Ukrainians. And we are working on this with our partners – we are doing everything to bring the decision closer. In general, the next weeks of June and the first half of July should be no less productive for Ukraine than May and the first half of June. We have already received a decision on new Patriots for Ukraine, and we are preparing a follow-up, working on the supply of more air defense systems. And long-range capability is now a question not only of what we can achieve on the battlefield, but also of when the war will end. The more we can do, the sooner we will succeed in forcing Russia into a just peace.

An important outcome of the week is the addition of six more participants to the Peace Summit Communiqué. This is a clear message that we have succeeded in convincing the world that peace is possible – and a just peace. There will be even more signatures on the Communiqué – our team is working on it now. And we are also gradually preparing to work in groups – on the points of the Peace Formula. Our task has not changed – it is to find a common, global way to restore security on each of the points of the Peace Formula in the coming months. And it is possible. I thank everyone who is helping!

We are also preparing for a new result in our relations with the European Union. The EU has already approved the negotiating framework for Ukraine, and we expect the actual start of negotiations on June 25 – the Ukrainian Government delegation will be in Brussels for that. It is a truly historic week. Ukraine has been moving towards this for a decade, and this result is the personal result of everyone who chose Ukraine on February 24, who fights for our country, who strengthens Ukraine with everything necessary.

And one more thing.

Today I would like to congratulate our warriors from the Center of Special Operations “A” of the SSU – today is their day, the Center is 30 years old. These are really heroic guys, without whom it is impossible to operate in any hot direction. I am proud of you! I have signed several decrees on conferring ranks and presenting state awards to the warriors of the SSU’s CSO “A”. And this is the very least the state can do to thank you. Once again, I congratulate you on your day. Today is also Public Service Day in Ukraine. I congratulate all those who really work for the state, for the people, and who really give one hundred percent for the sake of Ukraine – for our country to withstand this war and prevail. We absolutely must defeat the Russian evil.

Glory to all who stand with Ukraine!

Glory to Ukraine!

Vitino, Russian occupied Crimea:

Novomykhailivka:

Burchak, Zaporizhzhia front:

Avdiivka front:

It is unclear where in Ukraine this happened:

where do i start???
22 years leading troops in peace and combat…..
i have never seen this,
never thought about this…
never thought i would EVER see this…
this is a picture (there is a vid) of a russian troop asking to be shot… and the other soldier does it!!!!!
this is the end of the russian army
they have no leadership,
no medical evac..
no NCO corps..
and no future..

this is not an army, this is evil!!!!!
it HAS to be stopped and gutted..
it has to be burned down and ripped out of the ground..
and when survivors go home they will do the same to the civilians that they did to there friends..

the rage of the returning troops will wreck russia. not any weapons from the west.

this is evil, and supporters of russia are evil by supporting this.

You do not need to go and watch the actual video. I’ve seen it and the screen grab in the embedded tweet is more than enough.

David D. is correct. There is no way to negotiate with this.

Belgorod Oblast, Russia:

There was another “Islamic extremist” terrorist attack in Russia today. This time in Dagestan:

Russian Telegram channels report a shooting in Russian Makhachkala – reportedly, unidentified people in black are shooting police cars.

Police reported that a synagogue and a church were shot at.

Two people reported dead already. The shooters managed to get away, police is searching for them.

⚡️ It is reported that two sons of Magomed Omarov, the head of Dagestan’s Sergokalinsky district, Magomed Omarov, were involved in the attack on Makhachkala: Osman and Adil Omarov. Preliminarily, they were killed. Their father is a former policeman, Russian Telegram channels report.

Russian Telegram channels report that the webpage of detained Magomed Omarov has been deleted from the United Russia website (Russia’s ruling party).

Earlier, it was reported that Omarov’s sons were among the shooters and were killed. Russian Interfax agency reports that the third shooter is Omarov’s nephew.

In Makhachkala, unidentified people who attacked a synagogue left writings on the door, one of them is “2:120”.

This is a pointer to the second Surah of the Qur’an: “Never will the Jews be pleased with thee. nor yet the Christians, unless thou follow their own creeds. Say, “God’s guidance is the true guidance”. If you were to follow their desires after what has come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allāh no protector or helper”.

In Makhachkala, locals are hiding inside. Combat in the streets.

Russian law enforcers have blocked shooters who are hiding in a restaurant building in Derbent.

According to one of the versions, the shooters in Russian Derbent and Makhachkala might be related to international terrorist organizations, Russian RBK media reports, citing a source in the law enforcement agencies of Dagestan.

Judging by the actions of the shooters, their shouts and appearance, the terrorists might belong to an Islamist terrorist organization, the source said.

According to the law enforcers, today’s actions were planned in advance – on a major Orthodox holiday. At the same time, several attackers were listed in the Russian Interior Ministry’s databases as having connections in Wahhabi circles. All of them are residents of Dagestan.

As is often the case with these things in Russia, it is hard to figure out what actually happened, what’s real, what’s manufactured. We’ll have to wait for more information to come out, but I’m not sure that it will provide any more clarity. I am sure that Putin, his surrogates, and his supporters will find a way to blame this on Ukraine. And since this was an attack on a synagogue, Bibi and his crowd of weigh in too. And the “connection to Wahhabism” is a nice touch because that’ll be used to further attack the US given the attempt to negotiate a security agreement with Saudi.

That’s enough for tonight.

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  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    My internet is currently down. Had to finish the update using my phone as a hotspot. After this comment, I’m putting the phone down for the night and will be offline.

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    wjca

    @Nukular Biskits: The Russian soldier (?) shooting his colleague does not bode well for Russia post-war, regardless of what happens.

    These men are ticking time bombs.

    The only chance I can see for Russia to avoid disaster here is this:  At the rate Putin is getting his soldiers killed, there may not be as many as we might expect left to run amok.  (How pathetic a silver lining is that?)

    Of course, that loss of hundreds of thousands of young men, in a country that is already shrinking demographically, remains another kind of disaster.  (And that’s not to mention the loss of the horde of young men who fled the country to avoid the draft.  And are likely not coming back.)

  6. 6.

    Jay

    @wjca:

    (And that’s not to mention the loss of the horde of young men who fled the country to avoid the draft. And are likely not coming back.)

    Starting with Thailand, a bunch of countries are starting to kick them out, as they are in general, nothing but trouble, ranging from scammers, illegal buisness to attacking people in public.

  9. 9.

    Jay

    @Chris:

    In Thailand they have been opening up illegal “Whites Only” clubs, hacker stations, casino’s, scam centers, running prostitution rings, drug smuggling and attacking tourists and other refugee’s who arn’t ruZZian. They are their own “crime wave”,

    and most arn’t “refugees”, they came in on tourist visa’s, good for 4 months and never left. A large number of them are Bratva nepo babies.

  10. 10.

    Jay

    @Chris:

    The median ruZZian annual income is $417.42 USD.

    Could you go to Thailand, Europe, etc, all those places the ruZZians fled to to avoid being meat cubes, on $417.42 and survive for 2 years?

    These are the children of the Bratva.

    Canada took in 15,000 on “tourist visas”. Less than 100 have applied for asylum, ( the formal refugee process) , the rest, just “dropped off the grid” when their visa’s ran out.

    Yes, belatedly, we are looking for them, to deport them.

    They are not refugees, they are not political opposition, they are just using their money and connections to avoid being meat cubes. They are fine with ruZZia’s genocide, as long as they arn’t at risk.

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