2025-06-03: Russia Roundup

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presstv.ir (2025-06-03). Concerns mounting over new energy crisis in EU as Russian gas transit via Ukraine ends. presstv.ir As the agreement allowing Russian gas transit through Ukraine to Europe expires on Tuesday, concerns are mounting over new energy crisis in EU.

presstv.ir (2025-06-03). Eyewitness video shows moment of plane crash in Kazakhstan. presstv.ir A passenger plane flying from Azerbaijan to Russia crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

WSWS (2025-06-03). NATO risks nuclear catastrophe with attack on Russian airports. wsws.org The destruction of strategic bombers deep inside Russia by the Ukrainian secret service SBU shows that NATO will stop at nothing to escalate the war with Russia, even if it means provoking a nuclear catastrophe.

Andriy Movchan, Victor Osprey (2025-06-03). 'No one has strengthened the Ukrainian far-right more than Putin'. internationalviewpoint.org "Movchan delves into the current state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the role of the far right in both countries, and the challenges Ukraine's left forces face in building solidarity with their struggles internationally." | – | / |

Dmitri Kovalevich, Orinoco Tribune. (2025-06-03). Six Years Of Dashed Hopes For Peace And Reconciliation In Ukraine. popularresistance.org Six years ago, on May 20, 2019, Ukraine inaugurated a new president who had defeated by a large margin the incumbent Petro Poroshenko, elected in May 2014. That election occurred barely three months following the coup that ousted Ukraine's elected and constitutional president, Viktor Yanukovych, and its national legislature. | Poroshenko is one of the richest men in Ukraine. His five-year presidential term firmly placed Ukraine on the global map as a hostile, 'anti-Russia' at the service of the Western powers. | Following the 2019 election campaign, the candidate who became president, Volodomyr Zelensky, continue…

Gillian Hart (2025-06-03). Trump Tariffs and US Imperialism. socialistproject.ca On April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared a "Day of Liberation" and slapped massive tariffs on most countries — excluding Russia but including a 50% tariff on Lesotho. The standard Left argument is that Trump's tariffs represent capital's warfare against the working class in response to the More immediately, it doesn't explain the f…

____ (2025-06-03). Rachel And Yours Truly… smoothiex12.blogspot.com spoke today about the events of the last 72 hours. Did they change anything in the larger scheme of things? Absolutely nothing. Media circus is a media circus and once the hype (and BS) recedes, which is happening already, things are back to normal ⚪ beating combined West into utter defeat. George Galloway certainly went a bit overboard comparing a loss of two and the damage of three strategic bombers to Pear Harbor because the parallel is invalid. First, the scale of the damage, secondly ⚪ response which doesn't change. Either Russia's way, or highway with all that it entails.

Staff (2025-06-03). RT interview: "'Zelensky won't be around long enough for his opinions to matter' — Professor Gilbert Doctorow" gilbertdoctorow.com Yesterday evening I gave an interview to RT which focused on the outcome of the negotiations in Istanbul earlier in the day between Russian and Ukrainian delegations. Those talks ended in a major achievement with respect to exchange of ailing prisoners of war, to POWs under age 25 and to exchange of the bodies of …

Duncan Chapel (2025-06-03). "Putin's Four Antifascist Myths: How Russia Uses 'Antifascism' to Justify the War in Ukraine" internationalviewpoint.org

Editor (2025-06-03). Russia, Ukraine Agree on Prisoner Swap But No Progress on Ceasefire. scheerpost.com

Andriy Movchan, Victor Osprey (2025-06-03). Russia's war and the national question in Ukraine. greenleft.org.au Green Left's Victor Osprey speaks to left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan about Ukraine's long and complex relationship with Russia, and how this history can help us better understand the nature of the current war. This is part one of a two-part interview.

Human Rights Watch (2025-06-03). Ukraine: Russia Using Drones to Attack Civilians. hrw.org Click to expand Image | © 2025 John Holmes for Human Rights Watch | In 2024, Russian drone strikes killed dozens of civilians and injured hundreds more in the city of Kherson, in apparently deliberate or reckless attacks that constitute war crimes.The attacks have the apparent purpose of instilling terror in the civilian population in Kherson, part of a widespread attack against that population.These attacks underscore the urgency of identifying effective ways to enforce respect for international humanitarian law, including through prosecutions of serious crimes in Ukraine.(Kyiv, June 3, 2025) — Rus…

The Independent (2025-06-03). Ukraine, Russia peace talks in Istanbul complex but positive. independent.co.ug ISTANBUL | Xinhua | The latest round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, held in Istanbul on Monday under Turkish mediation, concluded with what officials described as some positive developments, particularly on humanitarian matters. Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Oncu Keceli confirmed that the talks, held behind closed doors, "did not end negatively." Following the …

newarab (2025-06-03). Trump 'open' to meeting Ukraine, Russia leaders for truce push. newarab.com Delegations from both sides did, however, agree another large-scale prisoner exchange

Anatol Lieven (2025-06-03). Fresh Ukraine, Russia demands show no interest for actual peace. responsiblestatecraft.org The memos presented by Ukraine and Russia at their direct talks in Istanbul on Monday make it absolutely clear that, absent a strong U.S. intervention based on a detailed U.S. peace plan, there will be no peace settlement in Ukraine.It is not just that several of the positions on both sides are completely mutually incompatible; they suggest that at present neither side is in fact interested in an early peace. The Ukrainian

albawaba (2025-06-03). Video: Ukraine blows up Kerch bridge in Crimea. albawaba.com ALBAWABA – Ukraine has blown up the Kerch bridge in the Crimea region, a video released by Ukraine's Security Service was shared on social media on Tuesday. Kyiv used underwater explosives to carry out the attack.According to the Euro News website, the Kerch bridge was "illegally" constructed by Russia following the unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula.Media reports revealed that the Kerch bridge in Crimea is considered a main bridge made by Russia after its unilateral annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula back in 2014.pic.twitter.com/TvNjHWZZs3— Saint Javelin (@saintjavelin) tvbrics (2025-06-03). Regional trade between Russia and China discussed in Harbin. tvbrics.com Governor of Heilongjiang Province Liang Huiling and Head of the Amur Region Vasily Orlov spoke at the event…

yalensis (2025-06-03). Ukraine War Day Russia's Pearl Harbor? Part II. awfulavalanche.wordpress.com Dear Readers: | Concluding my review of As we saw, the attacks all happened at the same time and followed the same pattern: A freight-carrying truck would drive up to an aerodrome carrying a load of FPV drones in containers. At a certain moment, the containers would burst open, and the kamikaze drones would fly out and do their thing, targetin…

A a (2025-06-03). Regime de Kiev ataca a Rússia para boicotar processo de paz. strategic-culture.su

A A (2025-06-03). Kiev regime attacks Russia to boycott peace process. strategic-culture.su

A A (2025-06-03). Is Russia's Pearl Harbor approaching? strategic-culture.su

geo.tv (2025-06-03). Ukraine says it hit Russia's bridge to Crimea with underwater explosives. geo.tv This handout image released by the Ukrainian Security Service on June 3, 2025, allegedly shows people inspecting damage to the Kerch Bridge connecting Crimea with Russia following a special operation carried out by the Ukrainian Security Service, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict….

Howard Altman (2025-06-03). Ukraine Strikes At The Heart Of Russia's Highly Defended Kerch Bridge. twz.com This is the third time Russia's prized span connecting its mainland with Crimea has been successfully struck, although the extent of the damage is unclear.

Joseph Trevithick (2025-06-03). Latest On Russian Aircraft Loss Assessments From Ukrainian Drone Strikes. twz.com Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery that TWZ has obtained from U.S.-based

A A (2025-06-03). Waiting for the Oreshniks, while the Istanbul kabuki proceeds "not negatively" strategic-culture.su Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | This was the mood in informed Moscow — only a few hours before the renewed Istanbul kabuki o…

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