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rocket systems, and ballistic missiles. The active participation of North Korean combat units increases the risk of conflict escalation, particularly because the situation for the North Korean sappers on the battlefield will not be good. Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said that North Korean troops are, in fact, on their way to slaughter and questioned the feasibility of their deployment. He added that the US is monitoring the deepening of military ties between Russia and China. Moscow also stated that North Korea has become an essential bridge between the Kremlin and China. Beijing can indirectly transfer military equipment to Moscow via Pyongyang, avoiding sanctions.
Ukraine has eliminated 15 air defence systems in Crimea and destroyed $2B worth of tanks. Over the past two months, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have destroyed about 15 Russian air defence systems in the temporarily occupied Crimean Peninsula. The Strategic Communications Center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces specified that Ukrainian forces damaged multiple divisions of S-300, S-350, and S-400 anti-aircraft systems. More than 15 Russian radar stations, dozens of launchers, and more than 10 military control points were also destroyed. In this way, Ukraine is preparing a bridgehead for attacks on Crimea after receiving F-16 fighter jets. According to political scientists, during the war, the SBU has destroyed 1,006 Russian tanks worth more than $2B. In addition to tanks, SBU forces also destroyed a third Russian long-range radar station, each of which is worth $100M. President Zelenskiy stated that permission from Western countries to use their weapons in strikes on Russian border territory has slowed the advance of Russian troops in the northern Kharkiv region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Ukraine to withdraw from four eastern regions partially occupied by his forces as a condition of peace talks, ahead of a Kyiv- backed conference on the war to which Moscow hasn’t been invited. Putin said Ukrainian forces should pull out from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of the country in return for a cease-fire by Russian troops. He also demanded Ukraine give up its bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in a televised speech before Foreign Ministry officials on the eve of a Swiss-hosted peace conference aimed at promoting Ukrainian demands for a Russian withdrawal from its territory.
In the past month, Russian forces have gained 167 square miles of Ukrainian territory, while Ukrainian forces have re-gained 1 square mile, according to the June 11, 2024, issue of the Russia-Ukraine War Report Card. Russian forces in Ukraine “have run a small offensive operation ... [with] limited penetrations,” but they “don't have the military capability to overrun Ukraine,” according to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and “it is not likely that the Ukrainian military can militarily eject” the Russians. “From a military—purely military standpoint, you're at a military stand--a stalemate,” he said at the Futurist Summit on June 13. Milley is not alone in his assessment. Nearly half of Ukrainians believe the war with Russia is at a stalemate, according to a recent poll conducted by Rating for CEIP and reported by WP.
Russian troops capture 752 square kms since year start – ISW Since the beginning of the year, Russian troops have captured 752 square kilometers, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), based on their own data, said.
SBU drones destroyed Russia's long-range radar in Crimea, sources say. Sources from Ukrainian intelligence services told the Kyiv Independent that the system was worth around $100 million.
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