Ukraine…Russia Day 1,564….Putin…No Face to Face Meeting with Zelensky….

Things are NOT going well for Russia…

Putin won’t meet with the Ukraine leader…..

His people are still saying the want something they ain’t gonna get….

The “Whole’ of the Ukraine..

Ukraine drone’s and missiles are attacking deep into Russia….

Russian has mounting energy issue’s

The former Ukraine territories in the Donbas region are taking steady Ukraine attacks…

The Ukraine IS due to get more aid from America if Trump follows Congress’s actions….

 

ISW…Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 6, 2026

1. Different sources continue to conclude that the Russian military’s performance is declining, despite utilizing differing mapping methodologies to visualize the battlefield situation.
2. Ukrainian forces conducted a second series of strikes against St. Petersburg as the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) closed on June 6, demonstrating again that Russia cannot reliably defend its major cities from Ukrainian strikes even during prominent international events.
3. Ukrainian strikes against St. Petersburg undermine Kremlin efforts to use SPIEF to project stability within Russia domestically and to international audiences.
4. Ongoing gasoline shortages in occupied Ukraine are creating long lines on the Kerch Bridge and at gas stations in nearby Russian territories.
5. Fuel shortages continue to spread throughout Russia as well and will likely worsen as high summertime demand continues.
6. Ukraine’s mid-range strike campaign against major Russian ground lines of communication (GLOCs) in occupied Ukraine continues to disrupt vehicle movement.
7. Kremlin officials continue to reject any negotiated settlement that fails to address its fabricated “root causes” of the war in Ukraine.
8. Ukrainian forces recently advanced in the Kostyantynivka direction. Russian forces recently advanced in the Slovyansk and Pokrovsk directions.
9. Ukrainian forces struck Russian oil infrastructure in Krasnodar Krai and Russian military assets in Russian border regions on June 6. Russian forces launched 272 drones against Ukraine overnight.

The Guardian (6/5/2026)

• Vladimir Putin has rejected an offer from Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyyto hold a face-to-face meeting, insisting instead that Russia will achieve its war goals in Ukraine, including seizing all of the eastern Donbas region. Speaking at a St Petersburg economic forum, the Russian president described an open letter from his Ukrainian counterpart containing the offer as rude. He refused to use Zelenskyy’s name, referring to him only as its author, and said he saw “no point” in meeting Zelenskyy.

• Zelenskyy’s letter, which was published on Thursday, proposed a meeting in a third country such as Switzerland or Turkey. It said diplomacy should start from the current frontline and that Ukraine was ready for a full ceasefire while negotiations took place.

• Russian forces intercepted 25 drones near St Petersburg early on Saturday, where Moscow is hosting its flagship economic forum, the regional governor said on Telegram. “Combat operations are continuing,” the region’s governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said. Putin had earlier shrugged off embarrassing drone strikes by Ukraine on his home city of St Petersburg during the economic forum, and said his territorial demands on Ukraine were unchanged. He said Russia controlled all of the Luhansk region – a claim Kyiv denies – and more than 85% of Donetsk region. He repeated his demand that Ukraine also give up all of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.

• Zelenskyy said Putin’s rejection showed the Kremlin had no wish to end the conflict. “Unfortunately, the Russian side is once again choosing war. Everyone heard the response. A weak response,” he said in his nightly video address. “I think this response will have disappointed many in the world.”

• Russian attacks killed five people in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region in three separate incidents on Friday, the regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin, said on Telegram. Kherson is one of four regions that were annexed by Russia six months after Russia’s 2022 invasion.

• Meanwhile, a sea drone self-destructed near an oil terminal in Romania’s Black Sea port of Constanta on Friday, without causing casualties, as Ukraine said Russia jammed the vessel causing it to drift off course. The explosion was the second major incident in a populated area in Romania on Nato’s eastern flank within a week, as the spillover threat from the war in Ukraine increases.

• A week after Moscow accused Ukraine of a drone attack on the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – Europe’s largest – Russia’s nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has said a Ukrainian drone deliberately struck engineers on Friday who were demining an area around the station, injuring at least three people. Rosatom said the incident occurred at the start of a ceasefire around the plant, brokered by the UN’s nuclear watchdog.

• The Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest with six reactors, was seized by Russian troops in the early weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Each side has since accused the other of undertaking military actions to compromise nuclear safety.

• Putin has held a one-on-one meeting with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, which was “good and friendly,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov was quoted as saying on Friday by Russian news agencies. Schroeder, who was German Chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has subsequently worked for Russian state companies and cultivated a close relationship with Putin. Putin last month suggested that he would be willing to negotiate new security arrangements for Europe, with Schroeder as his preferred partner. But European Union foreign ministers at a meeting in Brussels rejected any role for Schroeder….

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Russia IS having Ukraine issues and some Russian war bloggers are reporting things on social media…