In today's summary:
- Only 500 civilians remained in Bakhmut, "liberated" by Russian forces;
- The head of Chechnya, Kadyrov, announced the offensive of Chechen units on Maryinka;
- Putin commented on the drone attack on Moscow, but focused on the story of "anti-Russia" and NATO;
- The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announces the destruction of the last large Ukrainian ship "Yuri Olefirenko";
- The Russian Defense Ministry is also talking about a strike on the Ukrainian military intelligence building (GUR MO) in Kyiv;
- A road was blown up on the border of Ukraine, Belarus and the Russian Federation next to the symbolic monument "Three Sisters";
- Belgorod volunteers produce "jihad carts" for the needs of the Russian army;
- Ballerina Anastasia Volochkova unwittingly "works" as a fire spotter.
The situation at the front
The Ukrainian mayor of Bakhmut, Aleksey Reva, said that 500 residents remained in the city. Before the war, 70 thousand people lived in it. Reva claims 204 civilians killed and 505 wounded, although he warns that the actual figure is likely to be much higher than official figures.
Meanwhile, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced an offensive by Chechen forces in the so-called. "DNR". According to him, they must "go over to active hostilities and liberate a number of settlements." Kadyrov informs about the meeting of "dear BROTHER" Adam Delimkhanov with the commanders responsible for the Maryinsky direction , as well as about the transfer of forces of the Akhmat special forces and the Sever-Akhmat regiment to him. Another "dear BROTHER", Major General Apty Alaudinov, will command these military formations. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirms the information in its summary, noting the “successful assault actions” of the 5th motorized rifle brigade and the Akhmat special forces detachment near Maryinka (a suburb of Donetsk ) ..
Mutual shelling and sabotage
The head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional military administration, Sergei Lysak, reports that the Russians fired at a transport enterprise in the Mezhiritsky community . An 8-year-old child is slightly injured.
In Kiev , according to the mayor of the city Vitaliy Klitschko, the Gavansky bridge will soon be opened as soon as the newly laid asphalt hardens. The bridge was closed due to damage to the hard surface during yesterday's attack on the city.
Satellite images of an object in the Zhytomyr region that came under fire are published . Judging by open sources, military unit A1912 – 433, a storage base for weapons and equipment of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, built in 1960, was previously located there. Thus, it can be assumed that the Russians again struck a warehouse with Soviet-era bombs. This is allegorically confirmed by the Rybar channel associated with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, noting the possible storage of “ammunition for tactical aircraft” there.
A blow was struck at a poultry farm and a construction camp in the Karpaty settlement in the vicinity of Alchevsk in the "LPR" . 5 people died, 19 were injured. According to the JCCC, the attack was carried out using three M30A1 and one M31 missiles from the HIMARS MLRS. It is reported about the destruction of the boiler house, damage to other buildings, as well as 13 cars of the poultry farm. 69 vehicles were damaged at the Northern Non-metallic Company.
The Kalininsky district of Donetsk was subjected to shelling.
On the night of May 31, a Ukrainian drone attacked the Afipsky Oil Refinery , located in the Seversky District of the Krasnodar Territory . There was a fire at the oil distillation plant. In addition, for the third time in a month, a drone tried to hit the Ilsky Oil Refinery . The UAV fell on the territory of the plant and exploded, but there was no fire.
In the Kursk region, the border village of Tetkino was shelled . There were no casualties.
In the Bryansk region, a massive UAV raid took place in the Klimovsky district . It is reported that about 10 drones were shot down or intercepted by electronic warfare systems.
The governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov announced the beginning of the evacuation of children from the Shebekinsky and Graivoronsky districts : 300 people will be sent to Voronezh . At the same time, he noted that 30% of the entire population of the region, that is, about 500 thousand people, live along the border with Ukraine, of which 36 have died and 140 have been injured since the beginning of the war.
On the eve of Shebekino once again came under fire. According to Gladkov, no one died, but four people were injured. The shelling, as the governor writes, was carried out with the help of Grad MLRS installations. As a result, a school, administrative buildings, as well as private and apartment buildings were damaged. One store burned down completely.
The mood of the inhabitants of Shebekino is illustrated by a note in "We can explain." The publication quotes one of the local residents, who assures that the siren does not sound in the city during the shelling, and you have to evacuate on your own. Local publics write that Moscow does not care about the Belgorod region, and you can hide during the shelling “only behind a tree.” At the same time, the evacuees live in a sanatorium just 6.4 kilometers from the border – local residents joke gloomily about the evacuation "from Shebekino to Shebekino ".
In social networks, a symbolic video with the destruction of the road leading from the Chernihiv region to the Bryansk region near the Three Sisters monument at the junction of the borders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine diverges. "Military correspondents" write that this was done to impede the passage of Ukrainian troops if they are going to attack in this direction.
Russia is summing up the results of yesterday's drone attack on Moscow and the Moscow region . Meduza was able to confirm from open sources that it involved at least 5 and a maximum of 7 drones. The publication emphasizes that there could have been more drones, but no one just recorded them on video.
Analyst Samuel Bendett of the US Center for Naval Research (CNA) writes that Ukrainian Beaver drones participated in the raid on Moscow . They were developed as part of a personal project of a blogger with the nickname "Lachen" and were first shown two weeks ago. Bendett admits that the project was intercepted by the state, after which mass production of these drones began.
Kommersant, citing experts who examined the wreckage of the drones, reports that the explosives did not detonate in them, because they did not reach their targets. Thus, their entry into residential buildings cannot be considered intentional.
The Ukrainian OSINT project InformNapalm thanked the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova, who published a post that she heard drone explosions near her house, and also reported the existence of a military unit nearby. InformNapalm called her a "fire spotter". Using her example, they demonstrated why it is impossible to film and report arrivals on Ukrainian territory.
Retired aviation colonel Viktor Alksnis believes that the target of the drones could be the headquarters of the Strategic Missile Forces and the central command post of the ground strategic forces of the RF Armed Forces, which are located in the village of Vlasikha . According to Alksnis, this is a sufficient reason for a nuclear strike on Ukraine.
At the same time, the German government believes that international law allows the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike at enemy territory with weapons of their own production.
President Vladimir Putin commented in an extremely peculiar way on the drone raid. Instead of directly answering the question posed, he decided to make a long digression into the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations, as always blaming the West, NATO and the “anti-Russia” project for starting the war. He then stated that the Russian armed forces attacked the "decision-making center" – the building of the military intelligence of Ukraine (GUR MO), and the drone raid was allegedly the Ukrainian side's response to this and constituted "terror of the civilian population." At the same time, according to him, "the air defense system in the capital worked properly." However, Putin did not stop there and for some reason started talking about the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and some “dirty devices of this kind related to the nuclear industry”, with which Ukraine allegedly threatens Russia.
An anonymous source close to the Kremlin for The Moscow Times says that at the time of the attack, Putin could be at his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo , which is several kilometers from some of the drone crash sites.
As for the building of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on Rybalsky Island in Kiev , then, judging by the available photos, it really suffered . However, it is not known exactly when the building was damaged – the head of the GUR, Kirill Budanov, spoke about the blow in an interview with journalist Dmitry Komarov for the Rik project, which was published on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2023.
Also published is a video of a rocket falling into the water next to the Havana Bridge , located nearby, the repair of which was reported by Klitschko. It is noted that it is not yet clear what caused the burn marks on the military intelligence building – a hit or fall of rocket fragments. It is worth noting that the rocket in the freeze-frame looks like a fragment of the PAC-3 CRI anti-aircraft missile of the Patriot complex, which fell on the same day near the Pochaina metro station .
On the left – a freeze frame of the moment an unknown missile fell into the water near the Gavansky Bridge, on the right – a freeze frame of the moment the PAC-3 CRI anti-aircraft missile fell onto the roadway
Losses
Telegram-channel "Rybar" claims that as a result of a missile attack on the port infrastructure of Odessa , the medium landing ship "Yuri Olefirenko" was hit. Later, the Ministry of Defense itself also reported on the strike, specifying that the ship was hit by "high-precision weapons" at the parking lot of warships in the port of Odessa .
The Telegram channel "Mitchman's Notes" notes that the ship managed to avoid shelling in Ochakovo a year ago, after which it was relocated to Odessa . Thus, it remained the only large ship of the Ukrainian Navy in the immediate conflict zone. The post states that there is no visual confirmation of the defeat of "Yuri Olefirenko" yet.
Earlier, Ukrainian sources reported that the ship fired at ground targets in the summer of 2022, and in the fall it participated in a landing operation on the Kinburn Spit.
There were photos of the affected command post 55K6E of the S-400 complex with the help of HIMARS in the Kherson region. The Spy Dossier Telegram channel claims that this is the first 55K6E hit that has been photographed. According to the channel, this happened as a result of the shelling of warehouses for temporary storage of weapons in the occupied part of the Kherson region in the 20th of May with the help of HIMARS MLRS missiles.
Armaments and military equipment
Photos of a curious model of the destroyed "Kamaz" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are published . Parts of the MT-LB were welded onto it as armor.
In the area of the Belgorod region, a Malloy Aeronautics T150 small drone was shot down , which carried 82-mm mines. Ukraine receives such drones from the UK.
Belgorod volunteers began to make "jihad carts" for the Russian army. The Russians have already actively used them in the direction of Donetsk . This is a home-made radio-controlled platform, onto which several tens of kilograms of explosives are loaded, after which it is sent towards enemy positions, where it is detonated. It is noted that previously it was only known that volunteers weave camouflage nets and sew panties for soldiers.
On one of the roads, a Ukrainian-made Bogdan 2S22 wheeled self-propelled howitzer was photographed on a new chassis. It is noted that it was in such a cabin, as in the photo, that the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov was sitting when he announced the launch of the 2S22 into mass production.
About the main events of the war on May 30 – in the previous report: “Drone raids on Moscow and Kiev, rotation is taking place in Bakhmut, the United States is thinking about the supply of ATACMS missiles. What is happening on the front line.