Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukraine Tests Tomahawk Style Drone Navigation Module Across 3000 Kilometers of Trial Flights
By Ivan Khomenko | Jun 08, 2026 18:05
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-tests-tomahawk-style-
drone-navigation-module-across-3000-kilometers-of-trial-flights-19617
A European-made navigation module designed to guide drones without relying solely on satellite signals has completed more than 3,000 kilometers of flight testing in Ukraine, including autonomous missions exceeding 50 kilometers.
According to information published by Defense Express on June 8, citing Delian Alliance Industries representative Mark Melhorn, the company’s Osiris navigation module is being developed as a low-cost visual guidance system for drones. https://defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/rozkrito_detali_jak_v_ukrajini_
na_midlstrajk_dronah_testuvali_analog_dsmac_jak_u_tomahawk_chi_storm_shadow-23241.html
The technology is designed to provide capabilities similar to the terrain- and image-matching navigation systems used by long-range weapons such as the US Tomahawk and the Franco-British Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
Melhorn said the company initially conducted 15 test flights in Europe before deploying a team of specialists to Ukraine in March to evaluate the system under operational conditions. According to Defense Express, Ukrainian military personnel provided technical feedback during the trials, helping accelerate development of the navigation module.
The company reported that Osiris-equipped drones carried out dozens of autonomous flights at distances exceeding 50 kilometers. Flight altitudes ranged from 70 to 2,000 meters, while the system demonstrated an average positioning error of less than 20 meters compared with civilian GPS references, according to the report.
According to Defense Express, Delian used the Ukrainian testing campaign to advance the system from a prototype stage toward full operational maturity. The outlet reported that the company has since expanded the Osiris development team, established a Ukrainian subsidiary, and launched cooperation with a local manufacturing partner.
Ukraine has increasingly become a testing ground for next-generation defense technologies. According to Business Insider on May 27, hundreds of international defense companies have applied to evaluate new systems through Ukraine’s state-backed “Test in Ukraine” program, using battlefield conditions to accelerate development of drones, AI software, navigation systems, and other military technologies.
Companies participating in the program receive operational feedback from Ukrainian military personnel, allowing products to be refined at a pace rarely possible in peacetime environments.
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Zelenskyy Urges UK, France, and Germany to Build European Alternative to US Patriot System
By Ivan Khomenko | Jun 09, 2026 11:50
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/zelenskyy-urges-uk-france-and
-germany-to-build-european-alternative-to-us-patriot-system-19639
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the United Kingdom, France, and Germany had agreed to help Ukraine strengthen its defenses against ballistic missile threats following talks in London on June 7 with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Patriot system remains one of the few Western air defense platforms able to intercept ballistic missiles, particularly when equipped with PAC-3 MSE interceptors. According to The Guardian, Zelenskyy said each Patriot interceptor costs approximately $4 million, while Ukrainian stockpiles have come under increasing pressure amid continued Russian missile strikes.
Europe currently fields one air defense system with anti-ballistic missile capability, the Franco-Italian SAMP/T system equipped with Aster 30 interceptors. Ukraine received a SAMP/T battery in 2023 and has used the system operationally, although production volumes remain limited compared with demand.
At the same time, Ukrainian defense companies are pursuing domestic alternatives. Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point recently released footage of tests involving its FP-7.X interceptor missile. Fire Point aims to develop a complete air defense system capable of engaging ballistic targets by 2027.
Fire Point co-founder and chief designer Denis Shtilyerman said the company is targeting a cost below $1 million per interceptor. He noted that defeating a single ballistic missile often requires multiple Patriot interceptors, significantly increasing the cost of each engagement.
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Ukrainians under occupation don't have a real choice whether to stay or to leave
By Dinara Khalilova | June 8, 2026 6:04 PM
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainians-under-occupation-dont-have-a-re
al-choice-whether-to-stay-or-to-leave/
Some names have been changed to protect the identities of those featured in the story
As a war crimes researcher at the Reckoning Project, my job was to listen to Ukrainians who had fled the occupation. What they had to say reshaped how I understand life in Russian-occupied territories.
Simplistic outside judgments about people living under occupation often feel deeply unfair to Ukrainians who escaped it. From a safe distance, it is easy to say, "Why didn't they stay and resist?" or "Why didn't they leave earlier? That must mean they are pro-Russian." But neither one of these options is easy or safe.
Ihor Serdiuk, a 60-something educational worker from occupied Kherson Oblast, refused to switch the college he directed to the Russian curriculum. For that, he spent two weeks in prison.
In the same facility, there was a young man brutally beaten by occupation forces for throwing a grenade at military personnel, though no one was injured, and a woman who had refused to give a haircut to a Russian soldier. Serdiuk was released only after agreeing to apply for Russian citizenship, which he did, and immediately fled abroad.
"If you disagree with them (Russian forces), you'll simply die in prison — that's it… Either you leave, or you'll rot here, or they'll make sure you rot here. Because you can't live like this for long," Serdiuk says when asked if he had a real choice whether to stay or to leave.
Staying often means either openly supporting the occupation authorities or giving up your freedom of speech and expression to increase your chances of survival.
"You mimic the majority because you never know what might trigger an unwanted reaction — when all you're trying to do is live normally, to exist," says Vadym from Crimea, who was 13 when Russia annexed the peninsula.
"My inability to remain silent and my clear position could lead to problems for me personally, for my wife, and for my relatives."
For those who are trying to escape occupation, the journey out is long, complicated, and often dangerous.
Since late 2022, the only viable route has been through Russia. A ticket with a private carrier can cost several hundred dollars, and volunteer evacuation capacity is limited. Travelers pass through multiple checkpoints where Russian forces search, interrogate, and sometimes detain people on fabricated charges.
Crossing from occupied Kherson Oblast to Crimea, Serdiuk recalls 500–800 people standing for hours in the heat waiting for inspection by border officers. The only relief was a nearby bucket of water.
"Right in front of your eyes, they turn someone's suitcase inside out and kick it with their feet. Younger men are taken away — where to, nobody knows. Sometimes soldiers simply come and take people," he says.
Those who make it out and find safety must now deal with the trauma of occupation and start over from nothing.
"If you try to run, we’ll shoot you."
Their homes and former lives are gone. Some lost loved ones, and many lost their communities, which are now scattered across the world. It is almost impossible to plan for the future because of the constant fear of losing everything again. Immigration feels temporary, but at the same time, no one can promise you will ever be able to return home.
"In my 35 years, I've already seen everything. What kind of plans for the future can there even be?" says Maryna from a village in Kharkiv Oblast near the Russian border, occupied within hours of the full-scale invasion.
When Russian soldiers discovered her mother served in the Ukrainian army, they abducted Maryna and held her in captivity for days in a completely dark room with an empty bottle instead of a toilet. During int
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Not so long ago, the American far right celebrated Putin’s macho posturing and his supposed military invincibility.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/far-right-idealized-russian-milit
ary-ukraine-exposes-all-ways-theyre-wrong
For years now, Russian President Vladimir Putin has learned how to court the far right and tap into their shared disdain of democracy and liberalism. To that end, Russia has made common cause with right-wing political movements in the United States and Europe, as well as through “indirect” support to Western extremist groups. Putin is now in search of fault lines to challenge the cohesion and resolve of the international response to his actions in Ukraine.
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
First of all THGR, your article is about long- range STRIKES.
Not surveillance.
So, what is the best vehicle for a long-range STRIKE, given the trade-off between payload and distance?
I'm not arguing for the sake of arguing. The advantage of drones is that they're relatively CHEAP. Once you start configuring them for longer distances and higher payloads, they start approaching cruise missiles and getting $$. In fact, the Flamingo "missile" looks more like a long distance drone. Or maybe drones look like the Flamingo.
Or you wind up with something like the Reaper drone. The Reaper is $$, it fires missiles, so it's more like an unmanned turboprop.
Anyway, in the end, they're both airborne modes of munitions delivery.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
The Future of Drone Tech: Long-Range Strikes
No, it's not about long range strikes. It's about the future of Drone Technology. Long range Drones are a part of that discussion because technology is advancing. He discusses what that means. How the Middle Eastern countries are putting money into Ukrainian development of Drone tech.
He suggests by mid-summer we should be seeing daily strikes into the hundreds across Russia. I don't recall him speaking about Missile's. Only about how much trouble the Russian energy infrastructure is in. How in order for Russia to stop them from being blown up, Russia will have to shut down much of its oil producing wells and how it will take years to get them functioning again. I'll add to that that Ukrainian Drones are killing anything that moves as Russia tries unsuccessfully to resupply everything to everyone.
You tried to spin it into something else; Drones' vs Missiles. You're still trying to spin it into nothing more than long range strikes and what kind of munition you should use. Obviously, you didn't watch the video, or you did, and are trying to deflect away from its content. How the future looks dim for, and the fact that Russia is getting its ass kicked. How Ukraine has the edge. And that soon, Russia will not be an oil producing country. That's the point made in the video, and the point of my post. I told you a long time ago, Russia's fucked.
The other thing you guys never seem to realize is that you aren't arguing with me. You're arguing with the experts' opinions that I post. And you always lose.
T
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Quote:You know who else is always calling himself a winner, despite being a loser?
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I guess I won this one, huh Second?
What a rarity for you not to either post easily debunked stats and/or quote me and reply with something completely unrelated and/or remind me that I dropped out of college 4 times and/or call me a redneck Nazi who you want to see dead.
I guess we'll consider the topic of EVs forever closed in this forum now.
You were wrong. You were wrong from the beginning.
You know who else claims to NOT be a Nazi, despite using Nazi political techniques?
Hitler had his Lügenpresse; Trump has “Fake News Media.”
"Lying press" (German: Lügenpresse, literally 'press of lies') is a pejorative and disparaging political epithet used to refer to the mass media at large.
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EU’s 21st sanctions package would ban Russia’s soldiers from European soil
Latest package targets banks, oil traders, shadow fleet, third-country evaders.
By Benjamin Murdoch | June 9, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/09/eus-21st-sanctions-package/
Sanctions already cost Russia up to $1.5 trillion, EU says
The same day, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
/ Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas told journalists that existing sanctions continue to intensify pressure on Moscow’s economy. Kallas noted that Western sanctions have already cost Russia an estimated $1.2 to $1.5 trillion, adding that “brick by brick, we are collapsing the foundations of Russia’s war economy.”
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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't care about your numbers dude. Whether or not they're fake, they don't even begin to tell the whole picture.
They sold a bunch of shitty, underperforming cars that cost twice as much to insure as a regular car does. Nobody ever bothered building any new charging stations across the nation even though billions were spent on it. When the battery goes, that'll be $25,000 or more to replace.
And there's soon to be ZERO secondhand market. Zero.
Once the people who are left holding the bag when the car dies and is barely a decade old realize how badly they fucked themselves over, they will tell everyone they know about that. And nobody is going to be buying used EVs again once that starts to happen.
People are stupid. People are trendy. Buying EVs for most of these people wasn't any different than women buying ridiculously large Stanley cups because some dipshit influencers on the internet told them to buy it.
For everybody else NOT getting paid to shill all this shit, there's nothing but a lot of regrets over their vehicle purchase.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
I guess I won this one, huh Second?
What a rarity for you not to either post easily debunked stats and/or quote me and reply with something completely unrelated and/or remind me that I dropped out of college 4 times and/or call me a redneck Nazi who you want to see dead.
I guess we'll consider the topic of EVs forever closed in this forum now.
You were wrong. You were wrong from the beginning.
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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.
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EV's are looking better, now that Trump has the cost of gas going through the roof.
T
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