Watch Russian T-80BVM Tank Zapping Ukrainian Militants

The T-80BVM is a modification of a T-80 tank – the first-ever battle tank with reactive armor. Russia's T-80 tank, in turn, is highly appreciated by military and defense experts across the globe.

The crew of the Russian T-80BVM tank destroyed a group of ten Ukrainian militants who looked to reconnoiter the forward positions of the Russian Army in the north of DPR.

"We got the coordinates, the target was enemy manpower, up to 10 people. Literally, in 15 minutes we drove up to a closed firing position, fired eight shells, there was a hit," the tank crew commander nicknamed Khan told Sputnik.

The military specialist alleged that the enemy wanted to conduct reconnaissance by force, to probe Russia's combat ability, but was destroyed.

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the stationing point of the Ukrainian military near Gulyaipole with the Solntsepecom, RIA Novosti was told in the Ministry of Defense

Men from the part of the Kherson region controlled by Kyiv began to be taken into the army right at the time of receiving humanitarian aid, an employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti, citing sources in the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment office

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▪️Zelensky's call for Ukraine to join NATO speaks of Kyiv's unwillingness and unwillingness to solve the problem at the negotiating table, Peskov said;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a group attack at night on air defense systems covering key critical military infrastructure facilities of Ukraine, all designated facilities were hit, the Russian Defense Ministry said;

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the territory of the seaport of Berdyansk. The shelling was carried out, presumably, by British Storm Shadow missiles, as a result there are victims, Rogov said;

▪️The operational headquarters of the Belgorod region called fake information about an alleged new attempt to break through Ukrainian saboteurs into the region;

▪️The losses of Kiev in the Donetsk direction amounted to more than 50 militants, in Zaporozhye and Kherson - more than 30, in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye - up to 150, in Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky - about 130 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;

▪️Two women died as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of several settlements in the Belgorod region, Governor Gladkov said.

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▪️The Minister of Defense of Indonesia, in order to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, proposed the creation of a demilitarized zone similar to that created between South Korea and the DPRK;

▪️A Russian source said that in Indonesian ideas there are elements of the Minsk agreements, which Kyiv sabotaged with the support of the West;

▪️The Indonesian plan was rejected by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine;

▪️Russian aviation hit the command post of the 81st Ukrainian airmobile brigade in the Seversk region, the Ministry of Defense reported;

▪️Special forces units of the Russian "southern" group of troops destroyed a stronghold and four groups of Ukrainian infantry, the ministry said;

The Ministry of Defense also reported that Russian air defense shot down Ukrainian Su-27, Mi-8 and 16 drones;

▪️Up to 145 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions per day, up to 90 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk direction, up to 85 Ukrainian soldiers in the Krasnolymansk direction, more than 220 Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk direction, up to 45 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kherson direction, reported the Russian Ministry of Defense;

▪️The Armed Forces of Ukraine have been shelling the settlements of the Shebekinsky urban district of the Belgorod region all Saturday, 2 people were killed and 2 injured, Gladkov said, in just a day 371 ammunition was fired in the district.

Atraksi Seni Dan Budaya Meriahkan Dalam Helaran Hari Jadi Bogor

Atraksi seni dan budaya memeriahkan helaran yang diselenggarakan oleh Pemerintah Kota Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat, untuk memperingati Hari Jadi Bogor ke-541 pada Minggu.

Kegiatan tahunan yang ditujukan untuk melestarikan seni dan budaya daerah serta menggerakkan usaha pariwisata itu melibatkan 1.201 orang pengisi acara dari berbagai sanggar dan komunitas.

Rombongan aparat pemerintahan yang mengenakan baju pangsi khas Sunda Pakuan Pajajaran berangkat dari Balai Kota Bogor pada pukul 06.00 WIB untuk menghadiri kegiatan tersebut.

Wali Kota Bogor Bima Arya, Menteri Pariwisata dan Ekonomi Kreatif Sandiaga Uno, dan Gubernur Jawa Barat Ridwan Kamil menunggang kuda sampai ke Pusat Pendidikan Zeni di Jalan Sudirman, dekat Air Mancur.

Acara yang berlangsung di sepanjang Jalan Sudirman itu meliputi pertunjukan Tarian Mojang Pajajaran, Tarian Kawanua dari Sulawesi Utara, silat khas Minangkabau, liong, dan barongsai.

Selain itu, ada penampilan Perempuan Berkebaya Indonesia, Golok Pedang Sepuh Nusantara, dan Ngibing Bersama.

Warga tumpah ruah di Jalan Sudirman untuk menyaksikan atraksi seni dan budaya yang digelar untuk memperingati Hari Jadi Bogor.

India train crash kills over 288, injures 900 in one of nation’s worst rail disasters

At least 288 people have died in India's worst rail crash in over two decades, officials said on Saturday, after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another one in an accident a preliminary report blamed on signal failure.

One train in Friday's accident also hit a freight train parked nearby in the district of Balasore in Odisha state in the east of the country, leaving a tangled mess of smashed rail cars and injuring 803.

The death toll has reached 288, said K. S. Anand, chief public relations officer of the South Eastern Railway.

Dead bodies are still trapped in the mangled coaches and the rescue operation is continuing, a Reuters witness said, while the death toll is expected to rise.

A preliminary report indicates that the accident was the result of signal failure, Anand said.

Source: Approximate locations of train cars based on photographs and video from the scene.Satellite image by Airbus.By Lazaro Gamio, Marco Hernandez, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali and Karan Deep Singh

"The Coromandel Express was supposed to travel on the main line, but a signal was given for the loop line instead, and the train rammed into a goods train already parked over there. Its coaches then fell onto the tracks on either side, also derailing the Howrah Superfast Express," he said.

Surviving passenger Anubha Das said he would never forget the scene. "Families crushed away, limbless bodies and a bloodbath on the tracks," he said.

Video footage showed derailed train coaches and damaged tracks, with rescue teams searching the mangled carriages to pull the survivors out and rush them to hospital.

Dead bodies were lying on the bloodstained floor of a school used as a makeshift morgue, and police helped relatives identify the bodies, covered with white cloths and placed inside chained bags.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the scene, talked to rescue workers and inspected the wreckage. He also met the survivors at hospitals.

"(I) took stock of the situation at the site of the tragedy in Odisha. Words can't capture my deep sorrow. We stand committed to providing all possible assistance to those affected," Modi said.

Rescuers searched for victims at the crash site, where two passenger trains and a freight train were involved in what a government report called a “three-way accident.”CreditCredit...Dibyangshu Sarkar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A witness involved in rescue operations said the screams and cries of the injured and the relatives of those killed were chilling. "It was horrific and heart-wrenching," he said.

Families of the dead will receive 1 million rupees ($12,000), while the seriously injured will get 200,000 rupees, with 50,000 rupees for minor injuries, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Some state governments have also announced compensation.

"It's a big, tragic accident," Vaishnaw told reporters after inspecting the accident site. "Our complete focus is on the rescue and relief operation, and we are trying to ensure that those injured get the best possible treatment."

DISMEMBERED BODIES

"I was asleep," an unidentified male survivor told NDTV news. "I was woken up by the noise of the train derailing. Suddenly I saw 10-15 people dead. I managed to come out of the coach, and then I saw a lot of dismembered bodies."

Video footage from Friday showed rescuers climbing on one of the mangled trains to find survivors, while passengers called for help and sobbed next to the wreckage.

"We rescued at least 30 people, and some of them managed to survive, but three or four of them died," said Sanjeev Rout, an electrician. A few metres away, rescue workers tried to cut their way into a damaged red-coloured coach.

The collision occurred at around 7 p.m. (1330 GMT) on Friday when the Howrah Superfast Express from Bengaluru to Howrah in West Bengal collided with the Coromandel Express from Kolkata to Chennai.

Indian Railways says it transports more than 13 million people every day. But the state-run monopoly has had a patchy safety record because of ageing infrastructure.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik described the crash as "extremely tragic".

Opposition Congress party leader Jairam Ramesh said the accident reinforced why safety should always be the foremost priority of the rail network.

Modi's administration has launched high-speed trains as part of plans to modernise the network, but critics say it has not focused enough on safety and upgrading ageing infrastructure.

A drone view shows derailed coaches after two passenger trains collided in Balasore district in the eastern state of Odisha, India, June 3, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer

Experts said Friday's train accident came as a blow to Modi's makeover plans for railways.

India's deadliest railway accident was in 1981 when a train plunged off a bridge into a river in Bihar state, killing an estimated 800 people.

Western weapons used in Ukrainian raid inside Russia – Washington Post

Fighters with an armored vehicle during a meeting near the Ukraine-Russia border May 24. (Sergey Kozlov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Military equipment and small arms provided by several NATO nations, including the US, ended up in the hands of militants who launched a cross-border raid into Russia's Belgorod region in May, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing sources linked to US intelligence.

At least four tactical vehicles initially supplied to the Ukrainian military by the US and Poland were employed in the May raid, raising concerns about Kiev's commitment to fulfilling the demands of its Western supporters, the sources told WaPo.

The US and its Western allies have consistently expressed opposition to the use of Western arms by Ukraine in attacks on Russian territory. They also urged Kiev to "carefully track the billions of dollars’ worth of weapons that have flowed into the country," Waashington Post reported.

The attack in question occurred in late May, and in response, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that "over 70 Ukrainian terrorists, four armored combat vehicles, and five pickup trucks" had been destroyed in the clash in Belgorod. The remaining militants were subsequently forced back into Ukraine and targeted by Russian artillery. The incursion resulted in one civilian death and 12 injuries, according to Russian authorities.

The Russian military shared a series of photographs showing what appeared to be destroyed Western equipment abandoned by the militants. Some of the images depicted two M1151A1 Humvee armored cars stuck in bomb craters, while others displayed two M1224 MaxxPro armored vehicles. An AMZ Dzik-2 armored car, manufactured in Poland, was also visible in the images.

Kiev attempted to distance itself from the raid by claiming it was carried out by the "Freedom of Russia Legion" and the "Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK)," the neo-Nazi units responsible for a similar attack in the Bryansk Region in March. The Pentagon and the US State Department expressed doubts regarding the authenticity of the images.

The State Department also said that the US "does not encourage or enable attacks inside of Russia." Washington also does not "support the use of US-made equipment … for attacks inside of Russia," it added.

According to the Washington Post, videos published by the "Freedom of Russia Legion" and the RDK militants themselves showed fighters using the Czech-made CZ Bren and Belgium's FN SCAR assault rifles. Both types of weapons were provided to Ukraine by the respective nations, the paper said, adding that "Bren and SCAR rifles are commonly distributed to Ukraine’s soldiers" and foreign fighters who travel to Ukraine to combat Russian forces.

A spokesperson from the Belgian Defense Ministry informed the Washington Post that they only provided weapons to "official authorities and the regular army" in Ukraine, placing responsibility on Kiev for their usage. Poland and the Czech Republic declined to comment on the findings presented by the Washington Post.

The use of Western military supplies in an attack on Russian territory raises the issue of Kiev’s accountability, Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think-tank, told WaPo. The Ukrainians "are clearly complicit here," Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps officer, added.

Kremlin Says France Cannot Mediate in Ukraine Conflict

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Russia does not see France as a neutral party in the Ukrainian conflict and will not accept its mediation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday.

The US business newspaper reported earlier this week that French President Emmanuel Macron had offered his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to host a Ukraine peace summit in Paris. France and its NATO partners have been providing Kiev with military assistance for over a year.

"In this respect, France can hardly be considered a neutral state that can claim the role of a moderator, like Brazil, China, African countries or the Vatican did. France cannot do it anymore because France is a de facto active participant in the conflict and has sided with Ukraine," Peskov told a Russian broadcaster.

Peskov said Russian President Vladimir Putin remained open to contacts on the Ukrainian conflict that would allow Russia to achieve its goals by non-military means.

Russian President Vladimir Putin remains open to any contact that would allow meeting the goals of the special military operation through peaceful means, but the West does not provide such a chance, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in the ‘Moscow. The Kremlin. Putin’ program on the Rossiya-1 TV channel.

An excerpt from the TV program was posted by journalist Pavel Zarubin on his Telegram channel.

"President Putin has been, is, and will be open to any contact in order to attain our objectives by other means than the special military operation. If it is possible, it would be preferable," Peskov said, adding that "both Mr. [French President Emmanuel] Macron and other European leaders should be aware of it."

Thailand Open 2023 - Bagas/Fikri Ke Final

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Indonesia menempatkan satu wakilnya di partai Final Toyota Gacoo Racing Thailand Open 2023, yaitu dinomor Ganda putra Indonesia, pasangan Bagas Maulana/Muhammad Shohibul Fikri ke final setelah menyingkirkan Choi Sul Gyu/Kim Won Ho (Korea Selatan) dalam duel sengit di Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, hari Sabtu petang WIB, 03/06/2023.

Bagas/Fikri lolos setelah menang dalam pertandingan sengit rubber set. Bagas Fikri menang 22-20, 13-21, 21-16 dengan durasi 56 menit.

Set pertama, Fikri/Bagas lebih banyak menekan pada awal pertandingan pertama mereka dengan Choi/Kim. Bagas/Fikri mampu unggul 3-1 atas Choi/Kim. Setelah itu, Choi/Kim bisa menyamakan skor jadi 6-6. Kemudian BaKri membuka jarak empat poin menjadi 10-6.

Tertinggal poin, Choi/Kim meningkatkan permaianan dengan bermain lebih agresif. Hasilnya, mereka hampir menyamakan skor di 10-9 tetapi placing yang keluar dari Choi membuat wakil Indonesia masih unggul 11-9 saat interval.

Fase berikutnya, Choi/Kim dapat menyamakan kedudukan menjadi 15-15. Poin 15 diperoleh juara German Open ini diraih berkat pengamatan ragu-ragu dari Bagas.

Choi/Kim pun kemudian berbalik unggul di 18-17 setelah netting dari Choi ke area kosong tidak dapat diantisipasi dengan baik oleh Fikri.

Namun Fikri/Bagas berhasil membalikkan kembali kedudukan lagi menjadi 19-18. Sayangnya, pada situasi kritis ini mereka malah kurang tenang.

Sebuah servis yang keluar dari Bagas membantu lawan menyamakan angka. Choi/Kim menekan di reli berikutnya untuk merebut game point duluan.

Beruntung, Fikri/Bagas dapat menemukan kembali fokus mereka, dan berhasil menciptakan kesempatan untuk menyerang, dengan membombardir pertahanan Choi/Kim untuk mencetak tiga poin beruntun. Akhirnya set pertama menjadi milik Fikri/Bagas dengan skor 22-20

Awal set kedua sejumlah kesalahan sendiri dari Choi/Kim membantu Bagas/Fikri untuk memimpin pada awal gim kedua dengan skor 4-2. Namun, kesempatan pindah servis bagi Choi/Kim karena smes Fikri yang mengenai bibir net mengubah keadaan.

Choi/Kim mulai mampu mengatur serangan, dengan menekan Bagas/Fikri hingga berbalik unggul pada 5-4 dan melebarkannya hingga 7-4.

Bagas/Fikri belum dapat benar-benar merespons hingga tertinggal skor saat paruh set pertama menjadi 7-11.

Poin Bagas/Fikri masih belum bertambah lagi sampai Choi/Kim mencetak tiga poin lagi setelah break interval. Skor sementara 7-14.

Bagas/Fikri akhirnya dipaksa bermain hingga tiga set setelah lawan merebut gim kedua dengan skor meyakinkan 21-13.

Set ketiga tidak dimulai dengan ideal bagi Bagas/Fikri setelah serangan yang terburu-buru membuat mereka tertinggal 0-3.

Bagas/Fikri kemudian mampu merespons dengan baik untuk menyamakan angka. Permainan mereka terlihat lebih solid, termasuk ketika Bagas dipaksa bertahan sendiri karena Fikri harus mengganti raket.

Benteng pertahanan Bakri tak ditembus dan justru lawan yang membuat kesalahan sendiri sehingga skor menjadi sama kuat 3-3.

Dicecar lawan membuat Bagas/Fikri kembali tertinggal. Akan tetapi, mereka dapat menyamakan sampai akhirnya berbalik unggul di 7-6.

Pertandingan kian berjalan sengit. Kedua pasangan bergantian mencetak angka. Reli panjang yang seru pun terjadi saat skor 9-9.

Sayangnya, sambaran Kim Won-ho menyengat Bagas hingga bola keluar. Kehilangan poin di reli berikutnya, BaKri tertinggal 9-11 saat interval.

Bagas/Fikri langsung menyamakan kedudukan lagi pada 11-11. Dua kesalahan lawan dalam pengembalian servis membuat mereka berbalik unggul 13-11.

Kepercayaan diri Bagas/Fikri meningkat. Serangan mereka kian intens sementara Choi/Kim hanya bisa mengikuti tempo wakil Indonesia ini.

Selisih skor terus melebar. Match point didapat Bagas/Fikri pertama kali di 20-15 setelah bola silang Kim Won-ho gagal menyeberang.

Disela satu poin, Bagas/Fikri memastikan kemenangan setelah sambaran Fikri dari depan net tak dapat dikembalikan

Bagas/Fikri melakukan selebrasi dengan melakukan sujud syukur. Mereka kembali ke final setelah Orleans Masters 2023 pada Mei lalu.

Kemenangan Bagas/Fikri juga menyelamatkan kans juara Indonesia karena mereka satu-satunya wakil Tanah Air yang melaju ke final di Thailand Open 2023.

Rekap Hasil Toyota Gacoo Racing Thailand Open 2023 Semifinal

President of Eritrea: Ukraine Conflict is Part of US' 30-Year-Long War on Russia

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The Russo-Ukrainian conflict is in reality a war declared by NATO and waged by Washington against Moscow over the past 30 years, President of Eritrea Isaias Afwerki told Sputnik.

Eritrea, a Horn of Africa nation located on the Red Sea coast, became one of five states to vote against the Western-sponsored anti-Russia resolution in the UN General Assembly in March 2022, after the beginning of Moscow's special operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine.

Later, the African state resolutely condemned the West's unprecedented sanctions regime weaponized against Russia. So what's behind Eritrea's firm stance?

"This is not because we are doing any favors to the Russian Federation," President Afwerki told Sputnik Africa. "This idea of 'war in Ukraine' or 'war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine' is not true at all. This is a war declared by NATO and Washington against the Russian Federation for the last 30 years. And Russia has a right to defend itself. You can't force or even use force, all sorts of coercion, to subdue nations. This is not acceptable. This is the law of the jungle. We need to get out of this law of the jungle and people will have to be free to live like human beings. Our position was very clear. We are against containment. We are against the domination or hegemony of one nation. We can't accept it. And our support for the Russian Federation against these hegemonic policies was a natural phenomenon or outcome of what we did also."

Eritrea knows well what Western sanctions mean: it has withstood their pressure for over ten years. Most recently, in November 2021, the US slapped unilateral economic restrictions on the nation's ruling party, armed forces, businesses, institutions and individuals. The Horn of Africa nation was also excluded from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions) system.

Nonetheless, it did not bow down to the West and signaled its support to Russia when the latter was subjected to maximum pressure. Afwerki underscored that Russia's case is part of the West's broader strategy aimed at coercing other nations into submission. Not only big and powerful countries like Russia or China have been subjected to this strategy: virtually every nation that refuses to kneel down to the US "ideology of hegemony" is punished.

Eritrea knows well what Western sanctions mean: it has withstood their pressure for over ten years. Most recently, in November 2021, the US slapped unilateral economic restrictions on the nation's ruling party, armed forces, businesses, institutions and individuals. The Horn of Africa nation was also excluded from the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transactions) system.

Nonetheless, it did not bow down to the West and signaled its support to Russia when the latter was subjected to maximum pressure. Afwerki underscored that Russia's case is part of the West's broader strategy aimed at coercing other nations into submission. Not only big and powerful countries like Russia or China have been subjected to this strategy: virtually every nation that refuses to kneel down to the US "ideology of hegemony" is punished.

"We need a new world order," said President Afwerki. "The need for a new world order is obvious. It's a demand for every people, every nation in the world. We need to get out of this cycle of containment, containment now, containment of Russia, containment of China, containment of Eritrea. Then punishment for this and that. Sanction here, sanction there. It's not a question limited to facing the challenge. Facing the challenge is one thing, but what about beyond the challenge? Beyond facing the challenge? We have to be clear on where we are going. We have to prepare the ground for creating a new environment. That new environment will have to be there for everybody. Justice to prevail. Nations and people should be allowed to progress. (…) I think it's a transitional issue. It's a transition from the last 30 years of a hegemonistic attempt, which has failed, practically, to go to a new order. That new order will have to be an order that comes as a result of consultations. Consultations – bilateral, multilateral, continental. Ultimately, we will arrive at an understanding, and the fundamentals are very clear."