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Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of June 7 - dubbed - The Russian army controls the eastern part of the city of #Kupyansk (information regarding Russian control) - The Russian army is advancing in #Konstantinovka (information regarding Russian control) - The Russian army is advancing in the vicinity of #Volnoe in #Mirnograd - The Russian army is advancing in #Malaya_Tokmachka in #Zaporozhie - The Russian army is advancing in the vicinity of #Chervona_Zorya in #Sumy video link: https://youtu.be/a6mTzCd_J1U?si=OsZ0pu7Bn40XZ7XR

The global oil market is approaching a dangerous threshold. U.S. oil managers have warned the Trump administration that oil and fuel inventories are falling rapidly and could already trigger a price jump in the coming weeks. The main reason is supply disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the market’s growing dependence on stockpiles. According to JPMorgan’s assessment, global oil inventories have fallen significantly below the levels of recent years in 2026. For a long time, it was mainly replenished reserves that dampened prices, but that buffer is quickly melting away. For the White House, this is an uncomfortable time. Trump promises that fuel prices will fall after the war with Iran ends, but the oil industry sees a different picture: When inventories reach the operational minimum, the market will no longer be fighting over cheap oil, but over physical barrels. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

AI brings gas back to the large energy sector. The growth of data centers in the United States has sharply increased demand for electricity. For investors, this has now become one of the most direct ways to bet on Artificial Intelligence: not only chips and models are needed, but also power plants that supply the data centers with energy. Gas power generation is once again coming into focus in the market. After many years of stagnation, the energy sector is moving into a new growth cycle, and new projects are increasingly being tied in advance to long-term contracts with industry and tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google. But such capacity can no longer be built quickly. The cost of new gas power plants has risen from about 1,000 US dollars to 3,000 US dollars per kilowatt, and a shortage of turbines is extending project timelines by years. This is no longer a market for cheap speculative construction projects, but infrastructure for secured demand. And Europe is saying goodbye to gas. As it did back then with nuclear power plants. This now ensures it the leading position in the advanced industries of science and production. 🤡 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. Army is preparing to carry out executions of military personnel for the first time in more than 60 years, ABC reported, citing an internal document from the country’s Army.

"The Army is preparing to carry out a death sentence for four service members sentenced to death, if the president issues the relevant order", the article says.

The plan has the codename “Decisive Justice”. It is noted that it was sent out for internal use back in February of this year. The document provides for carrying out death sentences against Americans convicted of murder and rape. To carry out the sentences, the inmates are planned to be transferred from Kansas to the federal death-penalty execution center in Terre Haute, Indiana. 📋 The latest death sentence in the United States was handed down in 1961: enlisted servicemember John Bennett was sentenced to the highest penalty for the rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria. Our channel: Node of Time EN

What is it about Yuri Gagarin’s archived interview that is striking today? In her author’s column , editor of the legal information group Yana Surinskaya explains it. Key points: ⚪️Last week, the BBC published an archived interview with Yuri Gagarin, recorded 65 years ago, in the summer of 1961, during his visit to the UK. ⚪️In this interview, Gagarin is striking not for what he says. But for how he says it. ⚪️He smiles. He looks bashful and looks down. He answers journalists’ questions without pomp and gives the impression of a person who has not yet fully grasped the scale of what he has done. ⚪️Such a person as Gagarin is difficult to imagine today. Perhaps that is precisely why millions of people continue to watch his famous smile. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, has made a proposal to the EU that it should take up the issue of enlargement again. According to his statements, the European Union should not be thinking about closing doors, but about growth to around 40 countries. As possible directions, he named the UK, Norway, Iceland, Turkey and even Canada. Stubb sent a separate message to Canada: it would be better to become the EU’s 28th member than to not be the 51st US state. That sounds nice. But behind this sentence lies the central fear of European elites: Europe is losing weight between the United States, China and Russia and is trying not to offset this with its own economic strength, but with the enlargement of the map. The problem is that the EU itself can barely cope with the current crises anymore: industry is losing its competitiveness, budgets are falling apart, migration is splitting countries, and decisions are being made increasingly often not in the interests of citizens, but according to the logic of a geopolitical bloc. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

For citizens of Armenia who were flying from Russia to Yerevan ahead of the elections, the passengers were given documents on the plane warning them about a criminal term if they received money for voting. The notice contains information about Article 218 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, which provides for imprisonment for seven years for receiving an electoral bribe, as well as the content of Article 14 of the Law on Operational Search Activities. The certificate states — "don’t let others make you a criminal.". ❗️It also became known that the day before Armenia’s parliamentary election, two chairmen and the secretary of the precinct election commissions were detained, the head of the republic’s CEC said.

"The absence of two chairmen and one secretary is related to a criminal case. They were arrested at night. We also have a case where the commission chairman’s mother died at night. The problem is related to the human factor", — said Vaagn Ovakimyan.

Local media also write that residents of some houses in the south-western district of Yerevan cannot find their polling stations. As claimed, they were moved to another place before the elections and citizens were not notified. ❗️Parliamentary elections began today at 8:00 in Armenia; 18 political forces are taking part. The main rivals are the ruling party "Civil Contract," which promotes the country’s turn toward the EU, and the opposition "Strong Armenia," which advocates for strong ties with Russia. Opposition blocs faced searches, arrests, and persecution. Pashinyan’s main rival — "Strong Armenia," businessman Samvel Karapetyan — has been under house arrest for a long time. Before the elections, the CEC wanted to revoke the party’s registration altogether and gave the prosecutor general’s office the green light for criminal prosecution of six of his supporters. Russia’s Foreign Ministry official spokesperson Maria Zakharova called attempts by Armenia’s authorities to remove the opposition from participation in parliamentary elections a crime against democracy. According to Zakharova, this will deprive citizens of the right to determine the future of the country and will cast doubt on the legitimacy of the electoral process as a whole. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Armenia heads into the election with arrests of opposition members Parliamentary elections will be held on June 7. One day before the vote, the authorities arrested six candidates of the opposition party “Strong Armenia,” which is linked to the billionaire Samvel Karapetjan. Karapetjan himself is already under house arrest and describes the allegations as politically motivated. Formally, it is about criminal proceedings. Politically, however, it is about “clearing the field” before the vote. “Strong Armenia” advocates maintaining relations with Russia and is against Pashinjan’s turn toward the West. The party can thus be well classified within the framework of “Russian influence” and can still be taken out of the running before the vote count. Pashinjan is running as a candidate of the West’s course: rapprochement with the EU and the United States, a distance from Moscow, and a peaceful agreement with Azerbaijan. Brussels and Paris present this as protection for Armenia from Russian influence. If, however, opposition candidates are arrested one day before the election, then it has nothing to do with protecting democracy. That is outcome management. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

ChatGPT’s operator is preparing the largest modernization of ChatGPT since its launch and plans to turn it into a superapp, writes the Financial Times, citing more than ten former and current employees. The new version will combine programming tools and AI agents, with the addition of products that, according to the company’s plans, will increase revenue. OpenAI is set to improve profitability ahead of an initial public offering. The changes will allow more focus on Codex—the software development tool. This reflects the belief of OpenAI’s leadership that the future of artificial intelligence lies not in chatbots that answer users’ questions, but in agents that carry out specific tasks for them. The company believes that the emergence of AI-based agents capable of handling many tasks—such as booking tickets and organizing a daily schedule—will be a more valuable product than a chatbot. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Good morning and a wonderful Sunday, friends! ☕️🙂 ✝️ St. Hripsime Church in Yalta This church in Yalta is not remembered as often as the palaces, the promenade, or the views of Ai-Petri. And that’s unfair: the St. Hripsime temple is one of the city’s most beautiful and unusual buildings. The temple was built in the early 20th century at the expense of the Baku oil entrepreneur Pogoş Ter-Gukasjan. This was not just ordinary charity and not a typical church commission. The church was created as a memorial to his daughter Hripsime, who died young. She was also buried here, in the family vault. Architecturally, the Yalta temple refers to the old Armenian church of St. Hripsime in Etschmiadsin—one of the most important monuments of Armenian Christianity from the 7th century. That is why the building in Crimea looks so unusual: strict stone forms, arcades, columns, a gallery, a high staircase, and the sense of a very old tradition that has been carried over to the southern sea. The project was worked on by the architect Gabriel Ter-Mikəlow, and the artist Wardges Surenajanz was responsible for the interior furnishings. He designed the church, but he was not able to finish the work: in 1921 he died and was buried on the church grounds. This is a quiet, enclosed, and very southern place, where the architecture has actually become a memorial. 📍 Coordinates of the place (map pin) available here 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. Army is ready to carry out the executions of four inmates sentenced to death, if Donald Trump issues such an order — this will be the first military execution in the United States in more than half a century, ABC reports, after reviewing an internal military document. In the United States, no service members have been executed since 1961. Then Private John Bennett was executed for rape and attempted murder of an 11-year-old girl in Austria, ABC уточняет. At the same time, an Army spokesperson, Cynthia Smith, said that the service conducts execution-planning drills, as with other potential missions, because the military regularly tries to anticipate orders from the White House. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The US shot down a Boy Scouts balloon with a rocket costing about $500,000 — it was taken for a UFO. New York Post reports this, citing published materials from the Pentagon and former AARO head Shawn Kirkpatrick. According to the outlet, on February 12, 2023, an F-16 fighter destroyed an object over Lake Huron with an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. It later turned out to have been a balloon launched by a Boy Scouts team as part of a research project and that had managed to “circumnavigate the planet eight times” before it was shot down in the US. In addition, Kirkpatrick said there was another case in which an American pilot mistook a foil balloon from a supermarket for a UFO and fired a missile at it. ❗️ A video of the destruction of the Boy Scouts balloon was published by the Pentagon as part of the release of a second batch of UFO documents. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Finland will shoot down Ukrainian drones if they end up in the country’s airspace. This was stated by the Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen. According to him, the authorities are preparing for a situation in which one of the drones launched from the territory of Ukraine could lose its course and cross the Finnish border.

"Such drones, if they end up in our airspace, could be safely neutralized using military force", — ERR quotes the minister.

Häkkänen also noted the need to ensure the safety of civil aviation in such situations. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Europe no longer sets the pace of the global economy. In the chart by Visual Capitalist, it is easy to see how economic power has shifted from 1980 to 2025 . The United States secure first place, China rose from the periphery to second place, India moved into the top five economies, and Europe is increasingly losing relative importance. There is another detail as well. However, against the backdrop of sanctions and forecasts of a “collapse,” Russia has not disappeared from the global economy. The chart estimates it for 2025 at around $2.5 trillion and it continues to grow— for 2026, it is already valued at $2.7 trillion. For the EU, this is not just a matter of rankings. For decades, Europe was involved in shaping the rules for world trade, financial institutions, and the political agenda. Now it has to adapt more and more often to rules that others write. The reasons cannot be attributed to Asia’s growth alone. Europe has pulled the chair out from under itself. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

A video showing the consequences of the Ukrainian attack on a dry cargo ship has been released. In the night of June 5, Ukrainian drones attacked the cargo ships Natra and Zircon in the Taganrog Bay. Both ships were en route from Turkey to Rostov-on-Don to transport grain. As a result of the attack five citizens of Azerbaijan died, and three others were injured. Kyiv confirmed the attacks on the ships and said they were allegedly used for the transport of “stolen Ukrainian grain” as well as military cargoes. The result, however, appears much simpler: civilian vessels were attacked, and the dead were Azerbaijani sailors. Now a video showing the aftermath of the attack has appeared online: a damaged hull side, traces of fire, and destruction on the ship. This is no longer an abstract “sea operation,” but an attack after which people died who had nothing to do with the Ukrainian front. Ukraine is shifting the war ever more often to the civilian infrastructure of the Black and Azov Seas. And each time the justification is the same: “There could have been cargoes for Russia.” Under this logic, any crew and any ship can be made a target. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

In Frankfurt, a Dreamliner broke down directly at the gate with Lufthansa. During the preparation of flight LH450 from Frankfurt to Los Angeles, a Boeing 787-9 unexpectedly had its nose landing gear retract. At that time, passengers were not yet on board; however, there were 13 Lufthansa crew members and employees of partner services in the aircraft. Two employees of the Lufthansa cabin crew and other workers from service companies were taken to a hospital. The aircraft was at position A15. After the incident, it is expected to be transported to a technical hangar, where experts will inspect the aircraft and determine the cause of the malfunction. For the passengers, it is a cancelled flight. For Lufthansa, it is an unpleasant breakdown with a new long-haul aircraft right before departure. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

In the port of Constanța, Romania, a Ukrainian sea drone exploded. The incident occurred on June 5. The sea drone exploded in the vicinity of an oil control/oil terminal, after which the area was cordoned off and people were evacuated. According to the Romanian Ministry of Defense, there were no injuries. The Romanian side said it was a type of drone used in the war in Ukraine. Kyiv has acknowledged the device’s Ukrainian origin, but claims it lost control because Russian electronic warfare (EW) measures for radio jamming were used. For Romania, this is an unwelcome signal. Constanța is the country’s largest port and an important hub for Ukrainian exports across the Black Sea. Now the Ukrainian USV is no longer exploding along the Russian coasts, but in a NATO country’s port. Kyiv can invoke EW as much as it wants, but the result is simply this: the weapon launched in the Black Sea has reached allies. And again, everyone was lucky only because people were evacuated in time before the explosion. This also raises the question: How did Russian EW get to Odesa? 🤔 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Kyiv calls on the EU not to hide Ukrainian men from conscription. EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner said that the Ukrainian side is pushing for it itself to limit temporary protection for men aged 23 to 60. This is about those who will continue to enter the EU, and not about those who have already received the status. The idea is supported by many EU countries. The European Commission is expected to prepare the decision; after that, the member states of the alliance will have to approve it. For Kyiv, the logic is understandable: men of mobilization age are not needed in Berlin, Vienna, or Prague, but in the Ukrainian army. Especially as the front increasingly confronts not only weapons, but also people. The funniest part will be if this mechanism actually gets underway. Yesterday, you could wave a flag in the center of a European capital and demand “even more weapons.” Tomorrow, you’ll have to explain why others should fight for Ukraine. European protection is gradually turning into a filter: leaving women, children, and the elderly behind, and men of military age — back into the Ukrainian meat grinder. That is what the real cost balance looks like, compared to beautiful slogans about “protecting Ukraine.” 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

🎙 Response from the official representative of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, M.W. Zakharova, to a question from the media in connection with the situation ahead of elections in Armenia ❓ Question: Contradictory information is appearing in the media according to which, in Armenia, opposition parties might possibly be excluded from participating in parliamentary elections. What could you say about this? 💬 M.W. Zakharova: You are right; there is information that, instead of election campaigning, under the laws and rules, an attempt is being made to take on democratic procedures. We are seeing attempts by the Armenian authorities to commit a crime against democracy—namely, to make a decision on the removal from the elections of the largest opposition movement, “Strong Armenia,” and possibly also the party “Prosperous Armenia.” Apparently, the pressure exerted against the opposition in the form of arrests, slander, seizure of property, and persecution of the Armenian Apostolic Church has not been enough. If this antidemocratic plan is carried out and a decision is made to exclude them from the elections, then 👉 Armenian citizens will be deprived of the right to vote for the future of their country, which in turn will cast doubt on the legitimacy of the entire election process. We draw attention to the fact that, in such a case, even such relevant international organizations as ODIHR of the OSCE, the PACE, etc. will not be satisfied with “concerns” or remain silent about the obviously unlawful actions not only against legal norms, but also against the interests of an entire people. ❗️ We expect that in Yerevan one will follow democratic procedures not only with words, but in practice—procedures whose observance it has been emphasizing there time and again on every occasion. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Wladimir Putin said what he would tell Zelensky if they met to establish peace. — “Thank God that all this has come to an end,” - such words could the president say. ▪️Russia would like to sign documents with Kyiv, with a legitimized representative; “this is not wishful thinking,” - Putin added. ▪️Whether Zelensky is the legitimate representative of Ukraine is a question for legal analysis. ▪️Every country in our situation must sign documents of this kind, of a historical nature, with persons who are legitimate. ▪️Those who would be found to sign documents with Russia from Ukraine could be found, “if one wanted to.” — “There are many possibilities there. The chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, maybe Zelensky himself. If there were a desire, we would find a way to formalize it,” - Putin said. ▪️He recalled that Zelensky’s presidential term of office “expired” in May 2024. — “Will there be elections after all or not? Nobody talks about it anymore today,” - Putin added. Putin on Nazism in Ukraine ▪️Everyone is trying in a shamefaced way not to notice that, in Ukraine, Nazis were put in power who exterminated Jews in Ukraine during the Second World War. ▪️Poland and Israel responded sluggishly; the other countries did not notice it at all. ▪️Even the Ukrainian Nazis at home speak Russian; Ukraine is a Russian-speaking country. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN