Free NYT link.

Archaeologists, and looters, are scrambling to scour the exposed reservoir floor for artifacts.

> “If it were not for Mr. Kiryeyev, most likely Kyiv would have been taken,” the general said.

He used his Russian connections to save Kyiv. He wanted to negotiate an early end to the war. Then the SBU summarily executed him claiming he was a Russian spy.

I subscribe to four communities:

1. https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine
2. https://kbin.social/m/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
3. https://kbin.social/m/Ukraine\_UA
4. https://kbin.social/m/ukraine@lemmy.ml

There's activity on all of them. It would be helpful to keep all the discussion in one place. Have these communities (and others I am missing) discussed any plans to push the discussion into one community so we can gain economies of scale in sharing/discussing news related to Ukraine and Russia's immoral war against the people of Ukraine?

Zelensky was a low-income actor who overnight began buying property in London, Tel Aviv and Switzerland, and running offshore accounts. How is this possible?

To be replaced with Ukrainian trident

Photos of the new trident symbol being built https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-motherland-statue-shield-trident/32511869.html

Staromaiorske is on the Velyka Novosilka axis of the Southern Front.

But the real prize is 2 towns further south, i.e. the similarly named Staromlynkiva, because that town is a crossroads.

Much Russian artillery and armor destroyed in poorly planned counterattacks.

Another Russian general fired for complaining about lack of resources.

With subtitles on YouTube.

Great video of a well organized counter offensive towards Klishchivka near Bakhmut.

The amount of work and sacrifice to move it took to push forward a little further east...

Slava Ukraini!

All I see here is anti-Ukraine spam posted by the same few accounts. Seems clearly biased.

Any humans in here that can chime in?

• Russia is launching "unusual" numbers of carrier killer missiles, among others, at urban areas in southern Ukraine.
• The Kh-22 missile is inaccurate when used this way and exceptionally dangerous.
• Its reported use in recent attacks on Odesa indicates Russia is continuing to engage in indiscriminate destruction.

A main question for Ukraine since it became an independent state was who or what could potentially guarantee its security.

Absolutely barbaric torture of civil servants who refused to cooperate with the occupiers.

All the work behind the scenes that goes into flying a FPV kamikaze drone to destroy Russian heavy 240mm mortar.

Looks like some drones blew up a few buildings in Moscow

Leader of the Ukrainian State Property Fund says “If we don’t sell them this year, then next year their only value will be real estate, and in the following year, just the land they stand on"

Interesting analysis of the kirch bridge attack from a few days ago. Include some interesting video as well as photographic satellite footage of the drones.

Yes, I know it's Kerch bridge.

Interesting take if the CIA are laying the groundwork to exonerate themselves from a possible impending failure.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/752125

> As listed by The Kyiv Independent

Source: https://mastodon.social/users/Ukrainenews/statuses/110691812091638321

>As rebellious Wagner forces drove north toward Moscow on June 24, a contingent of military vehicles diverted east on a highway in the direction of a fortified Russian army base that holds nuclear weapons, according to videos posted online and interviews with local residents.

>Once the Wagner fighters reach more rural regions, the surveillance trail goes cold – about 100 km from the nuclear base, Voronezh-45. Reuters could not confirm what happened next, and Western officials have repeatedly said that Russia's nuclear stockpile was never in danger during the uprising, which ended quickly and mysteriously later that day.

>But in an exclusive interview, Ukraine's head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the Wagner fighters went far further. He said that they reached the nuclear base and that their intention was to acquire small Soviet-era nuclear devices in order to "raise the stakes" in their mutiny. "Because if you are prepared to fight until the last man standing, this is one of the facilities that significantly raises the stakes," Budanov said.

>The only barrier between the Wagner fighters and nuclear weapons, Budanov said, were the doors to the nuclear storage facility. "The doors of the storage were closed and they didn't get into the technical section," he said.

>Reuters was not able to independently determine if Wagner fighters made it to Voronezh-45. Budanov did not provide evidence for his assertion and he declined to say what discussions, if any, had taken place with the United States and other allies about the incident. He also didn't say why the fighters subsequently withdrew.

>A source close to the Kremlin with military ties corroborated parts of Budanov's account. A Wagner contingent "managed to get into a zone of special interest, as a result of which the Americans got agitated because nuclear munitions are stored there," this person said, without elaborating further.

>Bulgarian President Rumen Radev said there is no military solution to the war in Ukraine and that more weapons will not solve the problem. To which the President of Ukraine replied that his Bulgarian counterpart would not compromise if he were in his place.

>"Would you say: Putin, please take over the territory of Bulgaria? No, you, as a real president, I'm sure you would not compromise your independence. It's your right not to support aid to Ukraine. But I would really like you to understood correctly,” Politico quotes him.

>Zelensky added that military assistance to Kyiv is a better option than allowing "war to come to you." After that, the President of Bulgaria asked to continue the meeting without cameras, saying that he "has a proposal."