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A view of the Belaya air base from the ground

Oh man the commentary here makes you want to learn Russian.

A Ukrainian official says the Trump administration wasn't notified in advance of the massive drone strike on Russian bases

Russia’s VKS and the General Staff have been studying drone threats to bases for a few years and have implemented various air defense, EW and reconnaissance modifications, assuming launches from Ukraine . Today’s operation moved trucks to launch drones underneath all of that.

Another typical Rus TG comment about today's attack: "The most embarrassing thing for me personally is that we have both tech and highly qualified specialists who can carry out equally cool special ops and missions... but everything comes down to a conditional colonel with

"following over 18 months of preparation." pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/…

Also a good example of difference between declaratory policy and employment policy — there have been other instances from this war that arguably met the thresholds in declaratory policy (mostly pre-2024 updates).

Today, Ukrainian intelligence reportedly launched 117 attack drones from trucks that had been placed near Russian air bases. I tasked several collects this morning via Umbra and my first images have already started processing. What a remarkable success in a well-executed

Important points raised by Dmitry Stefanovich on Russia’s perspective

One more thought: there will be more arguments for proper GLCMs now, and to get rid of any remaining Post-INF self-restraint.

If US is halting new sanctions on Iran, stands to reason that Iran has done something (or is about to do something) to earn that reprieve. Neither side is in the mood to offer unilateral concessions. Stay tuned.

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BBC Russian Service journalist Ilya Abishev speculates (at 12:39) that the weekend’s Bryansk and Kursk bridge collapses (still unclear if caused by explosions) might have been orchestrated by Kyiv to distract Russia’s security apparatus ahead of Operation Spiderweb.

SCOOP: U.S. nuclear deal offer allows Iran to enrich uranium, Barak Ravid reports axios.com/2025/06/02/ira…

Outstanding reporting by Barak Ravid on the first formal U.S. proposal tabled since the negotiations began in April. It is a strong opening gambit. It also has enough areas of contention to test the patience of the technical teams over granularities that will ultimately determine

Satellite images made by Maxar Technologies before Ukraine's big drone strike operation show Russian airfields in Belaya, Ivanovo, Ukrainka, Olenya & Ryazan Dyagilevo, as well as close-up views of bomber, transport and airborne warning aircraft. Maxar writes: "At each of the five airbases,

If you're just joining us, the U.S. and Iran are close or possibly very far apart on the terms of a nuclear deal that may allow some but also no uranium enrichment leading to a regional consortium where enrichment is conducted inside Iran in the sense of outside it.