Everyone in this picture is either dead, missing, or in the case of the 2 Americans, captured.

First mistake was fighting with the Fr*nch stupid.

Weekly review by well-known war columnist Yuri Podolyaka

As I promised last Monday, now on Sunday evenings instead of the usual daily summary of the past 24 hours, we will talk about the past week. We will observe what happened on the fronts of the Ukrainian war.

❗️Gazprom will suspend gas supply indefinitely though the “Turkish Stream” from June 21 - company statement

They added that this will be done due to “planned maintenance”.

Turks and Bulgarians on suicide watch

Network of Ukrainian fraud call-centers targeting Russians has been discovered in Berdyansk. Telephone fraud is a big issue in Russia, which often makes headlines. Fraudsters use a variety of algorithms and excuses to get control of unsophisticated people's bank accounts.

It has now been discovered that a network of specialized call-centers used to operate in a number of cities in Southern Ukraine. Stanislav Kuznetsov, Deputy CEO of Sberbank, told journalists about the Berdyansk "branch" of this organization. The fraudsters there possessed personal data of 20 million Russians. According to Kuznetsov, data retrieved from the Berdyansk branch's servers shows that the organization was supported by the Ukrainian authorities and enjoyed technical and methodological support from the Netherlands, Germany, US and Estonia.

It is no coincidence that the number of fraudulent phone calls has reduced dramatically since the Russian army took over Melitopol, Mariupol and Berdyansk.

2 minutes in Donetsk under shelling today -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1frHu3dcC38

As we have already written, gas prices have increased many times over as a result of thoughtless sanctions by the EU and US against Russia.

In the last few days alone, the price increased by more than 50%. The other day Gazprom and the lCNPC signed an agreement on gas supplies.
The document fixes the technical parameters of the gas pipeline, including the crossing of the Ussuri River. The agreement provides for an annual increase in gas supplies to China by 10 billion m³. Now the volume is 38 billion m³.For reference: a total of 48 billion m³ equals one-third of exports to the EU, or 87% of all Nord Stream's.

The thoughtless policy of sanctions resulted in Siemens not returning one of the four turbines of the gas pipeline from overhaul, and later on the fault of the same Siemens another one also stopped working, which led to drop of supplies from 167 mcm to 100 mcm per day, and then to 67 mcm. The drop amounted to 40%.

In anticipation of the winter period, the states are accumulating gas in special gas storages. Now the EU reserves are 51% of the required volume.
However, instead of continuing to stockpile gas the EU began to consume it.

In two days the reserves are down 1%. Falling below 45% after July 1 will mean the point of no return. It will signify that Europe will run out of gas before the end of winter. And European governments will be forced to make a choice between the comfort of their residents and supply of businesses.

Against the background of such statements in the press: "In Germany the minimum allowable temperature in housing should be temporarily lowered, which must be provided by management companies in the cold season, to help save energy in conditions of rising gas prices." The choice, I think, is obvious. The common citizens will suffer again.

Meanwhile, Russia has every opportunity to continue supplying gas to those countries that have a friendly, balanced policy.

Splits between doves pushing for a quick diplomatic exit from war in Ukraine and hawks calling for Putin to be defeated threaten to tear the European Union apart this summer, a study finds today.

Most Europeans are ready to concede territorial losses for Ukraine in return for an end to the war as soon as possible, according to new opinion polling that reflects deep political divisions across Europe.

The coming days and weeks are critical for Ukraine’s future as Russia makes military gains in the Donbas and key EU countries are seeking a diplomatic end to the fighting without humiliating Moscow.

Minsk Agreements ‘Meant Nothing,’ Were Used to Buy Time – Ukraine's Fmr Pres

Petro Poroshenko admitted the 2015 ceasefire in Donbass, which he negotiated with Russia, France and Germany as president of Ukraine, was merely a distraction intended to buy time for Kiev to rebuild its military.

He made the comments in interviews with several news outlets this week, including Germany’s Deutsche Welle television and the Ukrainian branch of the US state-run Radio Free Europe.

“We had achieved everything we wanted,” he said of the peace deal. “Our goal was to, first, stop the threat, or at least to delay the war – to secure eight years to restore economic growth and create powerful armed forces.”

The governor of the Sumy region posted a video of a school that has been smashed by a Russian strike. And everything would have been fine, if the ammunition depot hadn't popped up (at 0:14). That's how Armed Forces of Ukraine are fighting against Russia: arranging military objects in schools, hospitals, kindergartens... meanly and cowardly.

Germans deluding themselves circa 1944.

Sounds familiar?

On June 12, as part of the International «Unconquered» campaign, the project participants unfurled the world's largest Victory Banner near the Victory museum on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow. The banner is more than 60 meters long and more than 30 meters wide, its areas is 2022 square meters. By June 22 it will be delivered to the Brest Hero Fortress (Belarus).

🇷🇺10 highlights from Vladimir Putin's speech at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum:

✔️ The era of a unipolar world order has come to an end.

✔️The United States proclaimed itself to be God’s messenger on Earth.

✔️These are objective processes and genuinely revolutionary tectonic shifts in geopolitics, the global economy and technology. It would be a mistake to assume that everything will get back on track and become what it was before. It will not.

✔️Our colleagues in the Western states are trying to reverse the course of history. They seem to think in terms of the past century and harbour illusions. They refuse to notice obvious changes, stubbornly clinging to the shadows of the past.

✔️Countries of the so-called “golden billion” still treat all the other countries like colonies, and the people living there, like second-class people.

✔️The predictions of the dollar at 200 rubles and the collapse of the Russian economy have always been, and remain, just an instrument in an information struggle

✔️The economic blitzkrieg against Russia was doomed to fail from the beginning.

✔️The EU’s direct, calculable losses from the sanctions fever could exceed $400 billion this year.

✔️The root cause of the EU and US economic problems is their erroneous economic policies, and the Russian operation launched in Donbass is a lifeline they are grabbing at to be able to blame their own miscalculations on others, in this case, on Russia.

✔️The European Union has lost its political sovereignty

Andrey Kostin, the CEO of VTB Bank (#2 in Russia) admitted that Russia may completely abandon the dollar and the euro in international settlements, given that the country's largest financial institutions can no longer transact in these currencies

Thousands of people have gathered in London to protest against the government’s lack of action in tackling the cost of living crisis. Demonstrators carried banners reading “cut war not welfare” and “end fuel poverty, insulate homes now”.

Protesters marched from Portland Place to Parliament Square for a rally with speakers including Frances O’Grady, the general secretary of the TUC, which organised the event. "Boris Johnson was 'cynically abandoning' his commitment to a high-wage economy", she claimed. “He and other ministers are treating workers like Oliver Twist by telling them not to dare ask for a decent pay rise,” she said. “The last thing we need right now is for wages to be held down".

Workers have lost an average of almost £20,000 in cumulative earnings since 2008 because pay has not kept pace with inflation. It's the biggest loss of “real wages” since the 1830s.

Estonia Faces ‘Concerning’ Winter With Energy Crisis

Estonian PM Kaja Kallas warned her country to expect “tough times ahead” with rocketing inflation and a deepening energy crunch ahead of winter.

Tallinn has cut all purchases of Russian gas after household energy costs shot up 50% in the second half of 2021 - the sharpest rise in the EU.

State borrowing is set to rise from 20% of GDP to 30% over the next 4 years as Kallas battles to hold a fragile coalition together, with other factions demanding more domestic spending in contrast to her austerity policy.

Over 50 Ukrainian generals and officers killed in missile strike – Russia

The Russian Defense Ministry said Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy Western-supplied M777 howitzers and armored vehicles

Russian warships have destroyed a command center with Kalibr cruise missiles, killing dozens of Ukrainian officers, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

“More than 50 generals and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed,” the statement said.

According to the ministry, the strike took place near the village of Shirokaya Dacha in Dnepropetrovsk Region, Ukraine.

The missiles hit the compound where commanders of several Ukrainian units had gathered for a meeting, the ministry said.

The ministry added that Kalibr missiles were also used to destroy 10 M777 howitzers and up to 20 armored vehicles that were recently delivered from the West, and had been stored inside a factory building in the southern city of Nikolayev.

🇷🇺☦️ The fighters of the "🅾️" group help the residents of the DPR to restore an Orthodox church

The church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was damaged due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the dome and belfry were destroyed, the refectory was burned, icons were broken, many of which cannot be restored.