Babel: June 7— Armenian parliamentary elections. First since Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh in 2023 while Russian peacekeepers did nothing.
Pashinyan runs on: no CSTO, EU visa-free, peace deal with Azerbaijan and Turkey. 1/
Pashinyan shifted positions multiple times. In 2021 he called Russia a strategic ally.
Now he wears a pin shaped like Armenia’s map — without Karabakh. He says Karabakh was never Armenian land. He once said: “Artsakh is Armenia, period.” 2/
Polls give Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party an absolute majority — possibly two-thirds of parliament seats. 3/
Ukraine's military intelligence says its strike drones now fly 3,500 km, far enough to reach every target in Russia up to the Urals and nearly to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia.
The previous record was 1,750 km, set in Feb 2026. The reach has doubled — 24 Channel. 1/
That record came in Feb 2026, when Ukraine's SBU drones hit the Lukoil refinery in Komi, then the deepest strike of the war.
The new reach opens Siberian industry to the same drones already hitting Russia's western refineries. 2/
The Liutyi drone started this campaign. It was the first to fly past 1,000 km consistently, and it now reaches 1,500 to 1,700 km with a 50 to 70 kg warhead.
The newer Peklo flies like a missile, up to 1,000 km per hour. Moscow sits 800 km away, well inside its range. 3/
Zelenskyy: Russia is preparing another big attack with drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
People must be very careful and use shelters. The last massive strike had more than 600 Iranian Shaheds and around 90 missiles. 1/
Zelenskyy: Russia uses drone incidents toward Romania, Poland,
Moldova and the Baltics as political and military pressure on NATO. Putin is watching the reaction and testing the air defense of countries bordering Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. 2/
Zelenskyy: Anti-ballistic missiles are Ukraine’s biggest deficit.
Russia is increasing ballistic missile production, while U.S. production is not enough. Producing 60–65 missiles per month is nothing for today’s challenges and Russia knows it. 3/
Ukraine and Iran expose the same illusion: technology delivers a quick victory
The Economist: bridges and power plants are now standard targets in war planning. In 2022 US put 50-50 odds on Russia going nuclear if Ukraine broke through to Crimea. The red lines exist,but where?1/
The Uppsala Conflict Data Programme counted 65 active state-based conflicts in 2025—the highest number since records began in 1946.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo calls the past four years the most violent period since the Cold War. 2/
Every day, Ukraine and Russia build thousands of FPV drones designed to hunt a single soldier, vehicle, or position.
The Economist estimates the war has killed or wounded 1.1–1.4 million Russian troops—about one in 25 Russian men under 50. 3/