US EditionAs Ukraine Batters Russia with Daring Assaults, Firebrand Pro-Kremlin Pundits Rattle Nuclear Sabers
- On June 1, 2025, Ukraine conducted drone attacks against several Russian airfields located deep within Russian territory, resulting in damage to strategic bombers that play a key role in Russia's nuclear deterrent capabilities.
- These attacks followed a background of sustained Ukrainian drone operations, gradually enabled by Western arms support, which have repeatedly hit Russian infrastructure including the Kerch bridge and Kursk region.
- Russian media and pro-Kremlin pundits openly expressed anger and called for retribution, with some, including Vladimir Solovyov and the Two Majors bloggers, asserting that the strikes justify nuclear retaliation.
- The Kremlin, however, has remained publicly silent while awaiting investigation results, and official analysts warn that nuclear use would provoke international isolation and widespread condemnation.
- Despite the provocative environment, experts note that constraints on personnel and the high nuclear threshold make an actual nuclear attack unlikely, but Moscow faces intense pressure to restore deterrence amid escalating Ukrainian successes.
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Only the beginning – Russia exacts retribution with ‘Iskanders’ and ‘Kinzhals’
After the Neo-Nazi junta's drone strikes on Russian strategic aviation, the mainstream propaganda machine launched a massive campaign to capitalize on what is one of its largest PR "victories". Mass media across the world were flooded with information on "brilliant" Kiev regime operatives who "humiliated" Russia by supposedly "destroying 34% of its strategic aviation". However, the satellite imagery released in
Analysis by Matthew Chance, CNN How will Moscow respond to the shocking Ukrainian drone attacks on its fleet of strategic aircraft? So far, the Kremlin has remained silent, saying only that it awaits the results of a formal investigation into the attacks, which hit air bases thousands of miles from the Ukrainian border. But fury is being openly vented in the Russian media, with pro-Kremlin commentators and bloggers outraged by demands for retali…
The network showed the consequences of the destruction by Ukrainian drones of the Russian airbase “Belaya” in the Irkutsk region of the Russian Federation within the framework of the special operation of the SBU “Pavutina”. There are destroyed strategic bombers.
A warning from Vzgliad, a pro-government media with a broad political spectrum (here, the journalist is rather a right-wing man) but telling truths that we should not neglect (note and translation by Marianne Dunlop for History and Society) https://vz.ru/opinions/2025/6/4/1336406.
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