russian invasion of Ukraine. Chronicle for July 2-3

Category: Summary, PEGI 16
4 July 2023

In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russia launched rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct full-scale invasion. APU repulse the enemy


- Poland sends 5,000 border guards, 2,000 military and 500 police officers to the border with Belarus because of the Wagner threat.


- German Chancellor Scholz on the supply of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine:

Germany does not want to supply Kyiv with weapons that can be used to attack the Russian Federation.


- The Russian air base Primorsko-Akhtarsk is one of the bases where Iranian kamikaze UAVs are delivered.

Primorsko-Akhtarsk airbase is also used to launch Iranian-made kamikaze UAVs in Ukraine.


- Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Volodin:

The USSR would not have collapsed if it had been led by people like Putin.


- Der Spiegel:

Germany and Poland cannot agree on the repair of Leopard tanks transferred to Ukraine.

The repair plant in Poland was supposed to open a month ago, but negotiations between the countries are still ongoing.

One of the reasons is the difference in the assessment of the cost of work.

Polish PGZ wants to charge more than 100,000 euros for the so-called "initial diagnosis" tanks.

In Germany, it usually costs only about 12,000 euros.

PGZ also does not want to take any guarantees.


- List of downed Ukrainian air defense systems "Patriot" includes 2 Russian fighter jets and 3 helicopters shot down in the Bryansk region on 13 May.


- Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar:

Ukrainian forces liberated 9 km² territory of Ukraine in the east and 28.4 km² in the south of the country.


- Medvedev:

For us Finland — a hostile country, once created out of thoughtlessness by Lenin, and today joined NATO.


- Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Vitaliy Deinega:

Ukraine cannot buy Chinese Mavic drones so as not to spoil relations with the United States.

Russia now has an advantage in various inventions in the field of drones.


- The New York Times:

FSB has learned to track correspondence in encrypted messengers — Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal.

The secret service can track the location of phones, identify anonymous users and hack accounts. Messenger developers are weakly protected from this.


- Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Ka-52 helicopter in the southern direction


- Shoigu for the first time comments on the Wagner rebellion in Russia on June 23-25:

These plans failed primarily because the personnel of the Armed Forces showed fidelity to their oath and military duty.

Russian Armed Forces Destroyed Practically All Leopard Tanks Delivered to Ukraine by Poland and Portugal — 16 pieces.


- Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Podolyak:

The front line may collapse in a week, a month or a half. Next will be the rapid advance of Ukraine.


- President of Ukraine Zelensky:

We cannot imagine Ukraine without Crimea. And as long as Crimea remains occupied by Russia, this means one thing – the war is not over yet.


- President of Ukraine Zelensky:

We have no secrets from the CIA because we have a good relationship. Our intelligence agencies communicate with each other.


- Telegram channels spread information that the commander of the special forces detachment "Akhmat" was killed in Ukraine Evgeny Pisarenko.


- Head of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer:

Counteroffensive is hard... People shouldn't think it's a cakewalk. This will never happen... This is an extremely complex operation of this type and I think the way they handle it is commendable.


- Press Secretary of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel Serhiy Cherevaty:

The number of Russian troops on the eastern front is more than 180,000 people.


- A new model of the kamikaze UAV Geran-2 (Shahed-136) is in service with the Russian Army with the serial number «Y002».

This may be part of an experimental batch of UAVs, the production of which is allegedly being carried out in the city of Yelabuga in Tatarstan.


- Acting method


- Now is a very opportune moment to put the Russian Federation and Ukraine at the negotiating table, as the rebellion weakened Putin, — Trump

"Ukrainians could (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-longtime-admirer-putin-says-aborted-mutiny-somewhat-weakened-russian-2023-06-29/) own a significant part of the conquered lands and Russia would agree to this", — said the former president of the United States.


- Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, a large-scale offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will begin, — Serbian President

"The counteroffensive will be on exactly two directions - one towards Bakhmut, and a much more significant one towards Energodar and Melitopol. I think that they have gathered more than a dozen brigades and are going to break through the Russian defensive lines in this region", — Vucic said.


- The course "How to be a Russian person" in the schools of the DPR

Why was Kadyrov portrayed as a pig?


- Mikheil Saakashvili before he was detained in Georgia and now


- The staff of the destroyed pizzeria in Kramatorsk came to say goodbye to their dead colleagues


- Original and pathetic parody


- Today, the Center for the Investigation of Russian Crimes against Ukraine began its work in The Hague. This is the first stage on the way to the creation of a military tribunal over the aggressors


- Yevgeny Prigozhin's key media outlets, including the troll factories, have stopped working. D.W. caricature


- Time to get diplomas in Russia


- The Moscow Times: there is a shortage of gasoline in the Russian Federation. And on TV they will easily explain this: the Russians began to buy more cars!


- The newest Russian aircraft MS-21 outperformed Airbus and Boeing

The State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) has offered a number of airlines to lease the latest Russian MC-21 aircraft with a delivery of 4.3-4.6 billion rubles ($50-54 million), Kommersant reports. It is reported that it was about deliveries in 2028-2030, while the price took into account the receipt of subsidies from the National Wealth Fund for the purchase of aircraft. For Aeroflot set a different price, writes "Kommersant". At the same time, according to Kommersant’s information, at the end of 2021, STLC set an even higher cost for the MS-21 — in 4.71 & ndash; 4.99 billion rubles. ($58–68 million at that rate). However, the agreements were not signed then. According to the publication's experts, Russia has built perhaps the most expensive aircraft in this class. Now the price of the Russian board may be even higher, they note. "b" clarifies that the cost of analogues MS-21 — Airbus A320/A321, Boeing 737–800 and MAX — according to the catalog is $100 & ndash; 105 million, however, their market price — about $50 million and below.

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