Russia modernizing military bases along entire NATO border - from Norway to Kaliningrad An NRK article, published as part of a joint investigative report with Swedish SVT, Danish DR, and Estonian Delfi, reveals that Russia is rapidly expanding and modernizing its military infrastructure along its western border with NATO countries - with a particular focus on the area right next to Norway. Russia is building new barracks, housing for soldiers and their families, storage halls, vehicle repair facilities, and other infrastructure at multiple sites. This is happening even while Russia is heavily engaged in the war in Ukraine. Western intelligence agencies (including Norway’s) are described as having been surprised by the scale and speed of the work. The most prominent example is in the Pechenga Valley on the Kola Peninsula in Russia’s Murmansk region - only about 11 km from the Norwegian border near Kirkenes. Satellite images show: 🔹New apartment buildings (e.g., five buildings with ~180 apartments); 🔹Barracks and other housing; 🔹Storage and maintenance facilities; 🔹Large areas of forest cleared for construction. Analysts say this single complex could eventually house up to 17,000 soldiers (significantly more than before). Similar construction activity is documented at many other sites along Russia’s 2,424 km border with Northern Europe (from the Arctic down to Kaliningrad). Experts estimate that once the war in Ukraine ends, Russia could station around 115,000 additional troops near its borders with NATO’s northern members. The article frames this as Russia preparing for a possible future confrontation with NATO - not an immediate attack, but laying the groundwork for a stronger posture in the coming years (estimates range from 2–5 years after the Ukraine war ends). Reactions from Norway and NATO: 🔹Norway’s Chief of Defense, Eirik Kristoffersen, warned that if Russia completes this buildup, "the military threat to Norway will increase." 🔹Norwegian intelligence had previously assessed that Russia would not be able to build up forces while fighting in Ukraine - a view that has now changed. 🔹NATO officials and Nordic military leaders describe it as a significant escalation and "huge upscaling" though they note Russia is still primarily focused on Ukraine for now. Russia’s official position is that all these measures are defensive and that it has no intention of attacking NATO. Source: NRK

A former chief editor of a major Russian news program, Vesti, says that Putin has been shown censored versions of news broadcasts since 2011. According to him, war news are also heavily censored for Putin. He was not told that Moskva flagship has sunk for about a week.

Lately, Russian propagandists started openly mocking President Trump. The shift has been rather abrupt, as Russian television had not allowed itself such rhetoric before. Clearly, the Kremlin gave the order to start criticizing Trump. At first, Russian propagandists referred to him as "our guy." Now they describe him as a "Bidenized loser," a destroyer of the American empire, and a helpless manager. It is not Trump who has changed, but the tasks of the Russian propaganda machine. So, by taking his figure as a case study, we can see how propaganda works. ▪️ The first law: the object is not evaluated - it is used. On Russian television, Trump can be both a hero and a fool, a genius and a weakling on the very same day. One day, Solovyev praises the man who "destroyed the world order," and the next day he mocks his inability to reach a deal on Iran. Not because propagandists are confused, but because propaganda and lies do not require consistency. The more confusing and absurd, the better. ▪️ The second law: Russian television says only what the Kremlin allows it to say, and only when it allows it. Once the command was given, the hosts immediately began tearing Trump apart. ▪️ The third law: every audience gets its own dish. The domestic audience hears contempt. Foreign audiences hear doubt. Russian-language broadcasts feed viewers mockery, while RT in English carefully cultivates skepticism and asks questions. ▪️ The fourth law: ridicule is a political weapon. In reality, propaganda attacks not the individual but the institution through the individual. Trump is merely a convenient conduit. If he appears weak, manipulable, or incompetent, then American leadership itself begins to look the same. ▪️ The fifth law: propaganda hates inventing anything new. It prefers clichés. Need to explain Trump? Bring out "Biden." Need to explain Ukraine? Bring out "Afghanistan." Need to discredit future evidence? Bring out "Powell's vial." New events are simply stretched over old templates. ▪️ The sixth law is one of the most sophisticated. The most effective Russian propaganda does not sound Russian. It speaks with an American voice. If the desired message can be put into the mouth of an American journalist, blogger, or politician, its impact multiplies. People are more willing to trust their own. And finally, the most important thing. The ultimate goal of the machine is not to convince you that it is right. That is too difficult. It is much easier to convince you that truth itself does not exist. That everyone lies. That everyone manipulates. That everyone is equally ridiculous and equally absurd. Once people stop searching for the truth, they become much easier to control. The key question is why Russian propaganda has changed its rhetoric toward Trump precisely now.

Russian Z-bloggers post footage of Ukrainian drones freely flying over Russian-occupied Crimea, attacking fuel trucks and military targets. They predict that soon this will lead to "panic and total collapse of all main roads."

Russian air defense watching closely how Ukrainian strike drones destroy Russian logistics. It is a fascinating sight, indeed!

Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces launched a strike on Krymskyi Tytan plant in Armiansk. This chemical plant produces titanium dioxide and sulfuric acid, used in production of ammo, missile fuel and combat explosives. It is important for the Russian military production.

Lines to get fuel in Russian-occupied Donetsk. Putin said today that the goal is to make the level of life in "Novorossiya" the same as in Russian regions. Looks like the goal is to lower the level of life, not raise it.

The attack on Russian plants in Tatarstan and the Samara region on June 12 deserves special attention. According to military expert Serhii Misura, this was not a strike on three separate enterprises, but a targeted and carefully planned attack on a single production hub that supplies Russia’s war economy with fuel, petrochemicals, and components for the defense industry. The TANECO and TAIF-NK oil refining complexes in Nizhnekamsk, as well as the Tolyattikauchuk chemical plant in the Samara region form an interconnected technological chain together. The refineries process tens of millions of tons of oil per year, producing fuel and petrochemical feedstock, while “Tolyattikauchuk” produces important chemical components required both for the fuel industry and for specialized manufacturing. The impact of such strikes goes far beyond a temporary reduction in gasoline output. Disruption of oil refining and petrochemical facilities creates problems across the entire production cycle: from fuel production to the supply of raw materials for enterprises serving the military-industrial complex. It is especially important that the Nizhnekamsk industrial hub plays a significant role in producing chemical products used in the defense sector. At the same time, enterprises such as “Tolyattikauchuk” produce specialized polymer materials without which a number of technological processes in the missile and explosives industries would not be possible. That is why the significance of this attack should not be assessed by the number of damaged tanks or individual installations. Th3 strikes were carefully planned to disrupt an entire production chain, where each element depends on the others. A strike on such hubs creates a cumulative effect: logistics costs increase, recovery becomes more difficult, and supply disruptions emerge for raw materials and components for related enterprises. This is an example of a systemic approach by the Ukrainian Defense Forces, where the target is not individual factories, but the critical connections between them. Such operations are capable of inflicting significantly greater damage on Russia’s military-industrial complex than localized strikes on isolated facilities. Source: Serhii Misiura/Facebook

Attention, Finland and Sweden! Putin said you joined NATO to "get a piece of the pie" (meaning Russia).

Putin: NATO started the war. It wasn't Russia who started the special military operation. His lies are getting more and more delusional. "Russia is standing alone against the entire collective West, represented by the well-known North Atlantic bloc - NATO. All NATO countries are intensifying their efforts and doing everything possible to organize these hostile actions against Russia and, as they believe, bring the war they unleashed against Russia to a victorious conclusion. It was they who started this war. It wasn't us who launched the hostilities at the beginning of the 'special military operation'."

Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kazan - more and more Russian cities are introducing restrictions on gas purchases. In most places, no more than 20 liters of gas can be purchased at a time.

"How do you even keep your mental health together?" "I don't. I lost it a long time ago. Ever since three of my closest friends and my boyfriend were killed. I was the one who recovered his body from the evacuation point." Ukrainian Defender "Kit" ("Cat") from the Magura Brigade joined the military at the age of 24. Over four years of service, she has fought in some of the war's hottest sectors, including the defense of Donetsk region, the counteroffensive in Zaporizhzhia region, and the Kursk operation. Kit's boyfriend died defending Ukraine in Donetsk region while carrying out a combat mission. "One evening, he brought me the wounded and the fallen from the positions, and the very next evening, he was the one being recovered..." Today, Kit is defending the Sumy region. 📹: Hromadske Radio

More details of last night's strike at Chonhar crossing. The bridge strikes themselves were conducted using Fire Point systems. Various other assets were used, including Behemoth, Darts, and Flash Tag systems, which directly strike enemy equipment and conduct reconnaissance flights, providing better situational awareness and giving us a broader understanding of the enemy's activities.

Ukrainian attack on Chonhar last night. CODE 9.2 and Falanga multi-domain operations center are blocking Russian attempts to restore crossings to and from Russian-occupied Crimea. The Chonhar bridge is closed after previous Ukrainian attacks. Russian troops are using pontoon bridges but their capacity is low, so trucks have to accumulate in lines. This makes them great targets for Ukrainian Defenders! There will be more, CODE 9.2 promises. We can't wait.

I'm starting to think that when aliens arrive, it will turn out that Ukrainians created them, in those famous biolabs.

Russia launched 12 KAB bombs on Vasylkivka, Dnipropetrovsk region. One person killed, 13 more injured. A residential building and a market severely damaged. Russian horror on Ukrainian civilians.

President @realDonaldTrump in the Oval Office with the Heavyweight Champion of the World @usykaa 🇺🇸