DEVASTATING RUSSIAN STRIKES ON UKRAINE. More than 1,400 killed. US: “Russia is Planning new Heavy Response to Airports and Bridges Attacks”
by Carlo Domenico Cristofori
UPDATE ON JUNE, 2, 2025 – 6 PM CET
Russia offers Ukraine to cease fire for 2-3 days in certain areas
Russia has offered the Ukrainian side a ceasefire in certain parts of the frontline for 2-3 days, Russian Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky told reporters after the second round of talks with Ukraine in Istanbul.
“We proposed a specific ceasefire for 2-3 days on certain sections of the front,” he stated. “It should allow commanders to pick up their soldiers’ corpses,” Medinsky added, according TASS.
Russia will unilaterally hand over 6,000 frozen bodies of the dead. Ukraine will receive them next week.
Medinsky added that Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a large-scale exchange on an “all for all” basis among the severely wounded and young soldiers (under 25 years old), with no fewer than 1,000 people coming from each side. The parties will set up medical commissions while the exchanges are to become regular.
This ceasefire limited to some areas of the front confirms the possibility that Moscow reserves the right to evaluate whether to launch other harsher retaliation for the Ukrainian terrorist attacks of the last few days.
This could happen with a rain of ORESHNIK missiles on Kyiv as reported by the high warning sent from US Pentagon to the European countries (read below)
The Key-Points of Russian Memorandum for Peace in Ukraine
During the talks with Kiev, Moscow also delivered the long-awaited Russian memorandum, which includes several crucial points for a final peace agreement.
Among these, the most important “knots to be untied” are represented by the international recognition of Crimea, Donbass, and Novorossiya as part of Russia.
And Ukraine’s neutrality, which means its pledge not to join military alliances and coalitions, a ban on any military activity by third countries on the territory of Ukraine.
Conditions that are very difficult to accept for President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is considered a British secret agent of MI 6 , but also of the coalition of countries that supports him to the point of massacring the last Ukrainian to ignobly profit from the international arms market.
UPDATE ON JUNE, 2, 2025 – 12 PM CET
US: “Russia is Planning Heavy Respoonse to Airports Attaks” Rain of Oreshnik missiles on Kiev?
The United States has informed its European allies that Russia is planning a “disproportionate response” to the recent Ukrainian drone attack on its military air bases.
This was reported on June 1, 2025 by several sources on the X platform, citing American officials. The attack conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on five Russian airfields, including the Belaya base in the Irkutsk region, has had serious consequences.
This means that the time may have come for a rain of Oreshnik medium-range ballistic hypersonic missiles on Kiev, which have been in preparation for about two weeks, and which are not interceptable by any anti-missile systems supplied by NATO countries to Ukraine.
The US warning highlights the risk of a sharp escalation ahead of the talks in Istanbul, where Russia and Ukraine are expected to discuss an agreement.
«The attack, carried out as part of Operation Spider Web, hit strategically important targets, including the Olenya base in the Murmansk region and the Dyagilevo base in the Ryazan region. The operation demonstrated Kiev’s ability to strike at ranges of more than 4,000 km, raising alarm, The Washington Post reported» according to military Russian website AviaPro.
ARTICLE POSTED ON JUNE, 2, 2025 – 3 AM CET
Russian envoy sees Ukraine destabilizing situation ahead of talks
«Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the phone on Sunday. The two sides discussed the upcoming Moscow-Kiev talks in Istanbul and recent Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory» RT has reported a few hours ago.
Just a day before the talks scheduled in Türkiye, two bridges collapsed in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk border regions, leading to at least seven deaths and dozens of injuries among civilians. The incidents were caused by sabotage, according to Russia’s Investigative Committee.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Rubio “expressed sincere condolences on the civilian casualties resulting from the bombings of railway infrastructure in the Bryansk and Kursk regions on June 1.”
Kiev is “destabilizing the situation” ahead of talks in Istanbul, which is inadmissible, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large on Kiev’s War Crimes Rodion Miroshnik told Soloviev Live TV show.
“So far, Russia has drafted a memorandum in line with agreements [reached in Istanbul]. <…> And there has been an uproar regarding the timing [in Ukraine] for almost a week. <…> If a side seeks to find a peaceful solution, it refrains from such activity,” the Russian diplomat said.
Two train crashes in the Kursk and Bryansk regions that occurred a day ahead of a second round of Russia-Ukraine talks raise serious concerns,
Miroshnik continued. According to him, the Ukrainian side is making every effort to derail peace talks and “prevent a search for a diplomatic way out of the conflict.”
Alexander Bastrykin, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, issued instructions to investigate the two incidents at the Committee’s Main Investigation Department.
Ukrainian Attacks on Territory of Russia
Furthermore, military airfields in five Russian regions, including in Siberia and the Far East, have been targeted in coordinated drone attacks orchestrated by Kiev, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Ukrainian media has called it a major operation targeting Russian strategic aviation.
Some of the culprits behind the attacks have been detained, the ministry said, without revealing the number of those arrested or their identities. The Russian military also said that the “Kiev regime” was ultimately responsible for the strikes, which they described as “terrorist attacks.”
According to Moscow, most of the strikes were repelled, with some resulting in material damage but no casualties.
- On May 31, an explosion at the Vygonichi-Pilshino railroad crossing in Bryansk caused a road bridge to collapse, with debris falling onto a passing passenger train, resulting in casualties;
- On June 1, an explosion destroyed a railway bridge in Zheleznogorsky District, Kursk Region, injuring the train’s driver and two assistants;
- Ukrainian drones attacked the Olenya strategic aviation base in the Murmansk region;
- Ukrainian drones attacked the Belaya airfield in the town of Usolye-Sibirskoye in the Irkutsk region;
- Ukrainian drones attacked the Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan region;
- Ukrainian drones attacked the Ivanovo airfield in Ivanovo Region.
Russian envoy to UN: “Zelensky receives orders to continue fighting until last Ukrainian”
Kiev’s European sponsors are ordering Zelensky to fight until the last Ukrainian, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a Security Council meeting on Ukraine.
“Ukraine has lost millions of its citizens and is on the verge of complete defeat. Its European sponsors are ordering Zelensky and his clique to continue fighting until the last Ukrainian. This is forcing the Kiev regime to round up Ukrainian men on the streets <…>,” the diplomat stressed.
The Devasting Answers by Russian Army against Ukraine
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Kiev region;
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Zaporizhzhya region;
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Poltava region;
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Zhytomyr region;
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Cherkassy region;
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Chernigiv region;
- Russian strikes destroyed targets in Rivne region;
- Russian UAVs struck Oleksandrivka-Agro LLC in Donetsk, repurposed for military supplies;
- UAVs hit Balakleya Repair Plant in Kharkiv, where tank and BMP engines were restored;
- An Iskander-M missile targeted an airfield near Chuguev, Kharkiv;
- UAVs struck Villa Astoria in Odessa, used by territorial defense and NATO instructors, as Russian Army did one year ago…
- An Iskander-M strike hit a former airfield in Krolevets, Sumy, used for UAV launches
Moscow has successfully hit a Ukrainian long-range drone launch site in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkov Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. It also published a video of the strike.
Around 1,400 Ukrainian Servicemen Eliminated in the other Russian Attacks
- Russian forces advanced in Gorlovka direction;
- Russian forces advanced in Sumy direction;
- Russian forces eliminated about 200 servicemen, one personnel carrier, six motor vehicles, five artillery guns, one EW station in the Kharkiv area;
- Russian forces eliminated about 210 servicemen, three armoured vehicles, nine motor vehicles, five artillery guns in the Svatove area;
- Russian forces eliminated about 280 servicemen, three motor vehicles, three artillery guns, one M113, one HMMWV vehicle in the Chasov Yar area;
- Russian forces eliminated about 510 servicemen, five personnel carriers, three Sisu Pasi XA-185, two M113, one HMMWV, seven motor vehicles in Donetsk region;
- Russian forces eliminated about 155 servicemen, two armoured vehicles, six motor vehicles, five artillery guns, one EW station, four ammo depots in the Southern Donetsk area;
- Russian forces eliminated about 85 servicemen, six motor vehicles, two howitzers, one M777, one TRF1 howitzers in the Kherson region;
- Russian air defense forces shot down seven JDAM guided aerial bombs and 100 UAVs over the past day.
- Russian forces took control of Dyleevka;
- Russian forces advanced north of Dachnoye;
- Fighting is ongoing in Petrovka;
- Fighting is ongoing west of Toretsk.
- Russian forces gained a foothold in Alexandria;
- Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are operating near Varachino;
- Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups are operating near Andreevka.
A missile strike on a training center in Dnipropetrovsk killed 12 soldiers, injured over 60
In a rare statement, the Ukrainian military acknowledged that a Russian missile strike on a military training center killed at least 12 soldiers and wounded more than 60 others on June 1. T
his happened after many other devasting attacks in the latest weeks which wiped also strategic military basis where operated also NATO instructors.
The military did not disclose where the strike occurred, but both Ukrainian and Russian media reported that the 239th Training Center in the Dnipropetrovsk region was the target.
“At the time the air raid alert was announced, all personnel were in shelters, except for those who may not have had time to reach it,” Vitalii Sarantsev, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Ground Forces, said in an interview with Ukrainian media according SouthFront.
The Ukrainian military does not typically disclose official casualty figures. Human losses are treated as a state secret and are a highly sensitive topic in the country.
Following the deadly strike, Ukrainian Ground Forces commander Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi resigned from his post. The commander cited his inability to ensure the execution of his orders as the reason.
“I have decided to submit a report on my resignation from the post of Commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is a conscious step dictated by my personal sense of responsibility for the tragedy at the 239th Training Center, as a result of which our soldiers died,” Drapatyi said in a statement.
“12 dead. They are wounded. These are young guys from a training battalion. Most of them were in shelters. They were supposed to learn, live, fight, not die. My deepest condolences to the families of the dead and all those who suffered,” he added.
Russian Lawmaker: “Ukraine risks losing Sumy, Kharkov, Odessa, other cities”
The conditions for Ukraine are deteriorating every day, and if it refuses a peaceful settlement, it will be left without Odessa, Sumy, Kharkov, and a number of other territories, Andrey Kartapolov, head of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense, told TASS.
Russian Army Wiped Odessa Ukrainian military HQ. Western hardware Trophy Show in Moscow
Commenting on American economist Jeffrey Sachs’s forecast, the lawmaker said: “As for Jeffrey Sachs’ statement about Odessa, he is a very experienced and knowledgeable person who can correctly predict certain events. But we have said from the beginning that each day a diplomatic solution to this conflict is delayed worsens the situation for Ukraine.”
According to Kartapolov, this will continue as long as “the hysterical regime of [Vladimir] Zelensky behaves like a spoiled girl.” “They will be left without Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy, Kharkov, Odessa and Nikolayev,” the lawmaker concluded.
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