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I am still fried – it has been a very busy, not bad just busy – six weeks or so and I’m still trying to ai my ki. So I’m just going to run through the basics again tonight.
Russia followed on from last night’s attack, hit Kharkiv with glide bombs today:
WARNING!! WARNING!! GRAPHIC IMAGERY!! WARNING!! WARNING!!
The death toll in today’s Russian glide bomb attack on Kharkiv has risen to two. Two more people are in critical condition, and doctors are fighting for their lives.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The woman who was killed was the newly appointed director of the children’s railway. This is terrorism.
Inaction is complicity.
— Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
16 people have been injured in Kharkiv due to Russian glide bomb strikes, including a 14-year-old boy. 1 person was also killed.
The attack damaged a children’s railway building and a private residence.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
ALL CLEAR!!!!
More on this and the butcher’s bill from last night after the jump.
President Zelenskyy addressed Trump’s remarks about Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s genocidal re-invasion being like two kids fighting:
We are not kids who are fighting in the park. Putin is a murderer who came to this park to kill the kids – Zelenskyy 🫳 🎤
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.
Just as Pressure Forced Russia Into the Negotiation Process, Pressure Can Force Russia to Become Realistic in Negotiations – Address by the President
7 June 2025 – 20:33
Dear Ukrainians!
Right now, assistance is being provided in Kharkiv to those wounded by Russian bombs. This was a brutal strike on the city, right in the middle of the day. And they have been shelling our city of Kharkiv for almost 24 hours straight. Last night, Kharkiv suffered a massive drone strike, and now it is aerial bombs. Dozens of people have been injured in just one day. Tragically, there are fatalities. My condolences to the families and loved ones.
And no matter what anyone says, these Russian strikes are not “retaliation” but acts of destruction. The complete destruction of life – that is what they want. And in absolutely every city and village on the occupied territory, it is clearly seen what the arrival of Russia means. The only thing the occupiers care about is military infrastructure and their ability to remove all valuables from Ukraine.
In more than eleven years of Russia’s war against us, against Ukraine, they have brought only one new thing to our land – and it is indeed the most widespread Russian “legacy:” ruins and death. We must continue resisting this.
I thank everyone around the world who is helping, who is doing this. No form of pressure on Russia can be eased – neither the formats that are already in place nor the methods of pressure that are being prepared. The Russians are preparing to continue the war and are ignoring all peace proposals. They must be held accountable for this.
We are working to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense. We urgently need positive signals from the United States – concrete signals regarding air defense systems. We are still waiting for a response to our request to purchase systems that can help — concrete signals, not words.
I would like to thank the European countries for the supplies. We must also achieve results in the joint production of air defense systems and missiles for them – this is absolutely essential for our whole Europe. Only time separates us from that result, and what matters most is shortening that time.
And one more thing. Today, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Umerov and Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi reported primarily on the actions of our guys on the frontline. There is much to be thankful for. This week, our warriors successfully destroyed Russian positions – specifically those from which they launched strikes on Ukraine, our communities, and our people. In recent days, three Iskander missile systems were destroyed – this was the destruction of outright killers. There is also a downing of a Russian Su-35 military aircraft and damage to their military helicopters. There have also been new strikes on Russian military logistics and airfields. This helps our defense – every complication for Russia matters to us.
We are aware that the Russians are now trying to show that they are allegedly immune to any pressure. But it is very important for the world to understand: just as pressure forced Russia into the negotiation process, pressure can force Russia to become realistic in negotiations. This is possible precisely because of the pressure, and above all, sanctions on Russian oil and those who still trade with Russia. Russia must end this war that it started. They must be pushed into this outcome.
I thank every one of our partners, all the leaders, and all the countries that help us specifically with this – with new restrictions on Russia and new sanctions. Please do not remain silent about what is really happening, and let us work together for the real result of diplomacy – not just words, but peace. Upcoming are the summits of Southeast Europe, the Group of Seven, the NATO Summit, and other international events – all of which can help, must help, save lives and bring peace closer. Let it be so.
Glory to Ukraine!
Here’s a but more from ABC News’ interview with President Zelenskyy:
First Lady Zelenska visited a mental health program at a hospital in Dnipro today.
She also participated in the opening of a Superhumans regional center in Dnipro:
Georgia:
None of the usual Georgian accounts I follow have posted anything today.
Back to Ukraine.
Allegedly, russian Su-35 had to lay down to rest a bit
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Statement of the Air Force of Ukraine:
💥 This morning, June 7, 2025, as a result of a successful operation by the Air Force in the Kursk direction, a Russian Su-35 fighter jet was shot down!
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Drone Wars: Tonight’s situation- 3 groups of UA drones heading NE into fascist Russia, one SE into Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea. Russian/Iranian drones heading west from S and E directions. Missile alert Odesa region.
— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🇫🇷🥖ASSM Hammer air strike by MiG-29 on the positions of Russian FPV drone operators. t.me/soniah_hub/1…
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🎥 More Footage from SBU’s “Spiderweb” Operation
The video shows the full flight of one of the SBU’s FPV drones — from launch on the rooftop of a modular building all the way to its successful strike on a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber at the “Belaya” airbase.
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
💥 The Switchblade 600 delivers a devastating strike, obliterating a high-value Russian Buk-M3 air defense system in a spectacular detonation.х
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Ukraine’s 137th Territorial Defense Battalion uses a homemade rocket launcher on a BMW sedan to target Russian forces.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Video by the 11th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade of Ukraine showcasing the IRIS-T SLM air defense system in action. In the footage, a Ukrainian soldier describes an episode when he successfully intercepted eight incoming Russian cruise missiles within just 30 seconds, achieving a 100% success rate.
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Kharkiv:
WARNING!! WARNING!! GRAPHIC IMAGERY!! WARNING!! WARNING!!
Here’s the butcher’s bill that Putin and Russia ran up last night:
If I could, I would scream it into the world — but instead, I write it with shaking hands: RUSSIA STRUCK KHARKIV with 53 DRONES, 4 BOMBS & a MISSILE. It was the LARGEST & MOST RUTHLESS attack on the city since the war began. Three people were killed, 21 injured. THIS IS TERROR.
— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
3 people have been found dead in Kharkiv following tonight’s Russian attack on our city. 6 more remain trapped under the rubble and are unresponsive.
22 are injured, including a 14-year-old girl and a two-week-old baby.
The search and rescue operation continues.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
And this morning:
Kharkiv this morning
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:55 AM
16 people have been injured in Kharkiv due to Russian glide bomb strikes, including a 14-year-old boy. 1 person was also killed.
The attack damaged a children’s railway building and a private residence.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The harsh reality of russian terror in Kharkiv: as flames rise from a drone strike, sirens scream overhead — and the threat of another attack hangs in the air like smoke.
— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Ukraine attacks aircraft, russia attacks civilians. Feel the difference.
— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
If Kharkiv were Chicago, this would be called what it is — terrorism.
But it’s Ukraine.
So russia burns cities and calls it liberation.— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
ALL CLEAR!!!!!
Somewhere in the southern area of responsibility (AOR):
Southern Defense Forces: A locomotive with a column of enemy equipment was hit, destroying 13 tanks and over 100 units of Russian armored and automotive vehicles in a single strike 👀
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Kakhovka Dam:
Two years ago yesterday, russia blew up the Kakhovka dam — unleashing one of the worst disasters of this war.
The international response? Nothing. No accountability. No consequences.
This is how impunity is built — and why it keeps spreading further.— Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Kyiv:
This shatters my heart into hundreds pieces.
Kyiv first responders paying tribute to their fallen colleagues — murdered by russia while saving lives — at the very site of the war crime.
There are no words strong enough for this pain and grief.
Only justice must speak now.— Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) June 6, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The Pokrovsk front:
Ukrainian Spartan brigade, backed by Black Sky drones and artillery, took out two Russian tanks and a mortar on Pokrovsk front.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Pokrovsk:
Footage shows Pokrovsk’s Svyato-Varvaryns’ka plant, Ukraine’s largest enrichment facility, opened in 2009, employing thousands in Donbas, destroyed by Russian “liberators.”
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Donetsk Oblast:
Ukraine’s 414th “Magyar’s Birds” Brigade stopped two Russian mobile “fortresses” in Donetsk.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Ukraine digs in, building vast trench networks, some far from the front. Kramatorsk’s trenches now stretch to Sloviansk, with new foxhole systems beyond these cities, a Ukrainian analyst reports on Telegram.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Kursk cross border offensive:
A Ukrainian special ops team carried out a raid in Russia’s Kursk region, taking out four Russian soldiers and capturing another alive.
Full video: t.me/wartranslate…— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Moscow:
Errol Musk, Elon Musk’s Father, Arrives in Moscow for “Future 2050 Forum” 😵💫
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Tula Oblast:
At least 5-8 explosions in Novomoskovsk, Tula Oblast, fascist Russia – local Telegram channels say a drone hit Azot chemical plant, fascist Russia’s largest domestic producer of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizers. There is now a fire at the plant.
— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Nizhni Novgorod Oblast, Russia:
More footages from Kstovo
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Moscow Oblast, Russia:
A fire broke out at a warehouse in Pushkino, near Moscow, containing flammable liquids in barrels, gas cylinders, and pallets.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia:
Russia has moved two Tu-160 bombers to Anadyr — 6,600 km from Ukraine but only 660 km from the U.S. The move comes after Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s strategic bombers on June 1.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Open thread!
AlaskaReader
Thanks Adam
Westyny
Thank you, Adam.
Bex
Good bye Su-35. We won’t miss you. OT sort of. Just watched “Good Night and Good Luck” on CNN. Very good. Small jab at Trump, not by name, but the audience loved it.
Adam L Silverman
@AlaskaReader: You’re welcome. Not sure what happened with your first attempt to comment tonight, but I trashed it as I’m sure you don’t want your email address exposed like that. It shouldn’t effect you posting comments, but if you have an issue, shoot me an email.
YY_Sima Qian
A series of articles from the NYT on leaked documents describing the efforts by the Russian FSB to counter PRC espionage efforts (gift links below):
Reading through them, it seems a bit overblown. The activities described – information gathering & obtaining technology/knowhow, & efforts to counter such activities, are par for the course for intelligence/counter-intelligence agencies, & not just PRC/Russian ones. The Sino-Russian entente would not preclude such activities, not even a formal alliance would (see the CIA/NSA versus NATO allies, Israel versus everyone).
The leaked info. also illustrates the imperial/hegemonic attitude that the Russian FSB unsurprisingly still hold, such as viewing Central Asia as an exclusively Russian sphere of influence that the PRC is encroaching upon, even though that ship had sailed long before the current invasion of Ukraine, which has greatly weakened Russia.
At the end of the day, regardless of how Russia’s relations w/ the US or the West evolve, both Russia & the PRC have learned through the Cold War experience that enmity along their long shared borders is decidedly in neither’s interest. That calculation would not change even if regimes in Moscow & Beijing change. Furthermore, one of the more immediate consequences of any Russo-US détente would be a Sino-European rapprochement.
Adam L Silverman
@Westyny: You’re welcome.
Big R
My thoughts every time I review one of Adam’s updates (for which I am very grateful) are always complicated and confused. With the understanding that I’m sort of thinking out loud, I wonder about the following things:
1) Ukraine has all these successes; shooting down and destroying or damaging expensive aircraft, preventing drone and missile attacks from being even worse terrorist attacks than they are, and now more and more being aggressive with their own drone warfare. Are these successes completely disconnected from tactical reality, or are they creating strategic environments for future success at halting and reversing Russian advances?
2) Speaking of Ukrainian air defense, while every strike and every loss is a tragedy, I’m wondering how attacks that cause as much property damage as we see take so few lives. Is it just the magnificence of Ukrainian emergency response? Or are the Russians screwing up their attempts at terrorism? (For the sake of completeness, a third low-probability option: Russian drone operator units are pulling their punches because they see the horror of the orders they’ve been given; drones are flying with little to no explosive.)
3) Earlier in the war these updates often included maps of current front line placements and movement. Have those gone away, or are they not as useful as the war transitions into a more stand-off posture, or is this one of the things that’s been tossed by the wayside because you’re working way too hard?
Again, I read these updates every day – not always every word, but I always skim them because they’re the most concise collection of the minimum to be informed on the war. Thank you so much for every single one of the 1,199 of these that you’ve done.
Jay
Thank you, Adam.
Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
Allegedly Lt. General Sergei Kobylash commander of the Russian Air Force fell out of a window, the day after Operation Spiderweb. This information comes from the SBU and is currently Unconfirmed. (Wouldn’t surprise me though.)
Thank you Adam. Get some sleep.
Jay
@Big R:
1). Ukrainian AD success does not create “much” strategic opportunities on the Ground.
2). The ruZZian Human Safari’s have less success because a population unused to war, is used to war, specifically the air/drone/missile, attacks, and Ukrainian AD had gotten much better at getting alerts and warnings out, often specific. So people are taking shelter, either in a hallway, bathtub, basement or bomb shelter.
3). In many regards, the “maps” don’t matter. ruZZian “advances” have been against villages, treelines, and disconnected trench systems, and they have often lost them a day or two later. It has denigrated into a bunch of small combat fights, rather than sweeping offensives. ruZZia has been attacking Kharhiv for 6 month’s now, trying to surround the city, and has made 4km progress.
Gloria DryGarden
@Jay: thank you for these answers.