Very closeup video of the highly expensive Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashing today.

Fuel shortages are rapidly spreading across Russia. The kilometre-long lines at fuel stations which started in Crimea are now being seen in Novorossiysk. We're not even halfway through June. Peak driving season has barely started. It will keep getting worse. Much, much worse.

We continue to apply Ukrainian long-range sanctions against Russian military facilities and the oil industry. In particular, last night Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingos struck a military plant in Cheboksary that supplies the occupier’s army with components for drones and missiles. I thank the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their precision! The Kuibyshev oil refinery in the Samara region was also hit last night. The distance from the frontline is more than 900 kilometers. I am grateful to the warriors of the Special Operations Forces, the Unmanned Systems Forces, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. The entirely just responses of the Security Service of Ukraine also reached two oil infrastructure facilities in the Vladimir region, at a distance of 700 kilometers. I thank everyone who fights and works for Ukraine!

I’ve been in Finland watching a NATO drill as troops from across the alliance were worked on resisting a Russian invasion. But while there, the struggle of operating a tank in a 21st century battlefield was made very clear. Here’s an extract of my story: Hidden in dense woodland 18 miles from the Russian border, Nato anti-tank teams lie in wait to ambush a Finnish column. The scrape of metal tracks across a dirt road pierces the silent forest as the pack of German-made Leopard 2 tanks charges forward. Without warning, camouflaged soldiers break cover from the treeline and unleash a volley of missiles at the heavily armoured vehicles before the Finnish conscripts have time to react. Within seconds, three tanks are destroyedand their young crews, aged 19 and 20, are killed as the anti-tank teams quietly slip back into the wilderness. Almost 300 miles to the south, in the lake-potted forests near Kouvola, another group of Leopard 2s is immobilised by drones and artillery strikes on the border, having bunched up too closely together on a track through pine trees. Both attacks were simulated by Nato forces as part of a major military exercise called Northern Star involving 5,000 troops from seven nations, including Britain, in Finland’s heavily wooded eastern Kainuu region. But the drills reveal what could be Nato’s reality in a future war against Russia if the alliance doesn’t move away from traditional arms such as tanks and towards modern warfare. Last week Latvia’s military chief warned that Moscow has gained an edge over Nato in drone warfare and could exploit Europe’s slow rearmament drive and invade the Baltics by 2028. Nato commanders now face a looming crisis: learning how to fight on a 21st-century battlefield dominated by AI-assisted drones that can rapidly spot and target tanks and military vehicles from the skies. The alliance must now keep up with the evolution of land warfare to be able to fight Russia, military chiefs told The Telegraph. If it doesn’t, there are fears we could see the fall of the Baltics to Moscow. That will mean speeding up the procurement of drones and the development of factories to build them at scale, while pumping more money into developing the next generation of military vehicles with integrated autonomous systems. Traditionally, the frontlines were ruled by tanks. Acting as armoured juggernauts, they were able to punch through enemy defences with firepower. And while military planners still believe tanks have a place in war, some have questioned whether they are able to hold ground as they did in the past. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/2a31256…

Senaattori Heikki Renvallinkuvaus Suomen mahdollisen itsenäistymisen vaikutuksesta Venäjään ja Ruotsiin on hämmästyttävän ajankohtaunen tänäänkin! Suomen itsenäisyysyhdistyksen julkaisuja 1/1917.

I change my assessment. She’s likely totaled.