🇬🇷🇺🇦Greek media report that the #Greek government is going to transfer to #Ukraine an “incredible amount” of weapons and ammunition:
🔹20,000 machine guns;
🔹122 BMP-1s;
🔹tens of thousands of artillery and anti-tank shells.

📰 Pronewshttps://t.co/A5pIQxwNZU

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 5, 2022

Multiple Russian outlets reporting the death of Russian Major General Roman Kutuzov in Ukraine.

General Kutuzov was reportedly on the main frontlines in the East, leading his soldiers to battle. His coordinates were allegedly leaked before being targeted by precise UA strikes. pic.twitter.com/CdG5G6Fjnl

— CaucasusWarReport (@Caucasuswar) June 5, 2022

BattleGrackle said:

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These generals better stop pissing off their underlings, their positions make keep getting leaked

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Apparently, two Russian generals were killed in Ukraine today:
Lt. Gen. Roman Berdnikov
Maj. Gen. R. V. Kutuzov
Not authoritatively confirmed as yet.
If I have the correct count, the Ukrainians have now killed 14 generals, reflecting Ukrainian military skills & Russian chaos.

— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) June 5, 2022

We cannot stand by while Russian long-range artillery flattens cities and kills innocent civilians. 

The UK will gift the Ukrainian Armed Forces multiple-launch rocket systems so they can effectively repel the continuing Russian onslaught. https://t.co/kuwrwUUPWo

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) June 6, 2022

Waffledynamics said:

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74OA said:

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Casualties continue to mount. ATTRITION

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I know we won't likely know exact numbers until a while later because it's an active, heavy combat zone, but I'm really curious about the losses of men and equipment in that Severodonetsk region. They've got to be high for both sides. I'm sure Oryx and other trackers' heads are spinning if they're getting any information and are trying to keep up.

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74OA said:

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It's a meat grinder in the east for both sides now. The real question being posed by Ukraine pressing the fight in places like Severodonetsk is not how motivated they are to defend their homes, but how long Russians are willing to die invading other Slavs. The only way to find the answer is to keep bleeding them.

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Lots of reports that Russians are using proxy troops as cannon fodder in these urban meatgrinders.

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Guerilla attacks signal rising resistance to the Russian occupation in southern Ukraine
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The Kremlin-backed mayor of the Ukrainian town of Enerhodarwas standing on his mother's porch when a powerful blast struck, leaving him critically wounded. A week later, about 75 miles away, a car packed with explosives rocked the office of another Russian-appointed official in the occupied southern city of Melitopol.

In a rarity, both Ukrainian and Russian officials confirmed the blasts, which struck deep inside Russian-controlled territory. And both explosions appeared to be the work of what analysts say is a growing partisan resistance movement one fueled by increasingly brutal Russian repression and worsening humanitarian conditions.

By their very nature, the clandestine activities of any insurgency are murky and often impossible to verify independently. It is as much in the interest of Ukrainians to play up talk of rebellion as it is for Russians to play it down.

But the explosion that injured the Enerhodar mayor, Andrei Shevchik, is one of more than a dozen high-profile attacks in recent weeks that analysts say indicate increased partisan activity aimed at Russian occupation forces in the Kherson and Zaporizka regions of southern Ukraine.
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Alexander Motyl, a historian and Ukraine expert at Rutgers University, has scoured publicly available statements about possible insurgent activity. He said that the data suggests it is growing.

"It is, of course, possible that Ukrainian special forces may have been involved in some of these actions; it is also likely that the data are incomplete," he wrote for the online journal 1945. "Even so, the number of guerrilla actions is impressive and bespeaks a trend toward ever-greater partisan activity."

The explosion in Enerhodar and the intrigue that has followed illustrate how Russian efforts to combat insurgency might be deepening the resolve of the partisans.

Enerhodar had a population of 50,000 before the war and was home to many of the people who work at the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, Europe's largest. Residents erected wooden barricades on the road leading into the town in the first week of the war but they proved no match for Russian tanks. Russia took control of the town and named Mr. Shevchik mayor.

Then came the blast, which Russia's RIA Novosti news agency reported on May 22, citing an emergency services source in the city. Ukrainian officials confirmed the incident from their own sources and said that it appeared that the mayor was targeted.

Dmytro Orlov, whom Ukraine recognizes as the legitimate mayor of Enerhodar, wrote on Telegram that Russians are trying to tackle the budding insurgency by targeting regular civilians. He said that "the number of abductions of locals has increased significantly" since the explosion involving Mr. Shevchik, and that the humanitarian crisis has worsened.

There is almost no Ukrainian currency left in Enerhodar, Mr. Orlov said, adding that since the occupied forces are trying to make Russia's ruble the only currency, prices for everyday household products have climbed "sky-high." Reports of Russian soldiers looting mostly abandoned homes are on the rise, while communications in and out of the city have been severed, he said.

All this, Mr. Orlov said, will cause the ranks of the partisans to grow. "Even those citizens who had a neutral attitude to the invaders in the beginning are starting to show dissatisfaction with the Russian occupation," he said.

It appears Mr. Orlov is not alone in thinking that partisans will continue to pose a threat to Russia's proxies.

Mr. Shevchik's Russia-appointed replacement, Ruslan Kirpichov erected concrete blast walls outside the hotel where he is living, according to Energoatom, the Ukrainian state enterprise responsible for operating the town's power stations. It posted a photo of the barricades on its Telegram channel.
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From the interview with the head of the German Armed Forces:

Ukrainian troops are done with the theoretical training about the PzH 2000 and are now firing rounds.

But that wasn't the astonishing part!
1/3 pic.twitter.com/Hv2ZSFCzqt

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) June 5, 2022

but also updated to tie into the Ukrainian GIS Arta artillery management system. This should allow Ukrainian PzH 2000 to fire at the russians within seconds of a target being spotted.

This will also make it much easier to deliver additional PzH 2000 to Ukraine in the future.
3/3 pic.twitter.com/iGA8nbJqa0

— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) June 5, 2022

#Ukraine: Far from the front line - in Russian-controlled Brianka, #Luhansk Oblast a cargo truck transporting ammunition for 2S1 122mm self-propelled howitzers blew up for some reason. pic.twitter.com/THMjsg6FTX

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 6, 2022

Britain's M270 rocket launchers will be able to strike Ukrainian targets 80km away and are being sent in coordination with the US, which is exporting M142 HIMARS systems. Ukrainian troops will be trained to use M270s inside Britain pic.twitter.com/UMiUtLgnkv

— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) June 6, 2022

Today one of the most famous Wagner mercenary, nicknamed "Vaha", was killed in Ukraine. He fought in Donbass in 2014-16 (where he executed prisoners of war), but also in Libya & Syria. https://t.co/rmE1Rm9lC9 pic.twitter.com/d7TwmJy7aB

— QalaatM (@QalaatM) June 5, 2022

#Ukraine: Vector Pinzgauer 718 6x6 armored patrol vehicles were delivered from the UK to Ukraine today.

Interestingly, these vehicles were purchased by a Ukrainian soldier from a private company, using his own money and then donated them to the the Territorial Defense Forces. pic.twitter.com/puOcQbSCLT

— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) June 6, 2022