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More irony, today ... Russia is now suddenly concerned about the harmful effects to Ukrainian civilians that would be caused by supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine. https://tass.ru/politika/18217343 https://t.me/rybar/49443

Ah ... but in this case, Russia claims it is adhering to International Law while the U.S. is not. (Add your own feeling of irony here.)

I'm not a subscriber to the Washington Post, but this article quotes the post article as saying: https://www.ibtimes.com/biden-send-banned-cluster-weapons-ukraine-new-800-million-aid-package-3703815

This one says "four sources tell us"

In today's Pentagon press conference, the spokesman said that they have nothing to announce with respect to providing DPICMs at this time, but that any DPICMs they would consider sending to Ukraine would be those with recent testing data showing they have dude rates less than 2.35%. So it "sounds like" it's a done deal.

This is a long post on the initial analysis by Russia of such a missile: https://t.me/citizen_opinion/8014

Russian blogger Rybar claims:

Don't forget that Ukraine has already shot down helicopters using their Stugna-P systems: https://mil.in.ua/en/news/the-ukrainian-servicemen-showed-the-second-ka-52-helicopter-being-destroyed-by-the-stugna-p-anti-tank-guided-missile-system/

The Russian telegrammer yurasumy offers another variation, in that it was the heights before the town that the Ukrainians captured, but the Russians subsequently drove them off of it ... maybe. https://t.me/yurasumy/9691 https://t.me/RtrDonetsk/18786

How Russia is becoming increasingly isolated ... or not!

Pretty-funny trolling from the Ukranian MoD:

On the usefulness of mines debate, from Rybar's summary for July 1st: https://t.me/rybar/49231

Not sure this has article has been linked yet, from a few days ago: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/28/world/europe/ukraine-counteroffensive-obstacles.html

Update from Rybar on that bridge:

In a long post, the telegrammer Two Majors defends to his readers why they provide such detailed information on Russia's failures thus far to recapture the Antonovsky bridge. In summary, they feel they are making an important contribution by communicating what needs to be done according to the troops on the ground to some upper-level commander that will listen while those troops are currently suffering. https://t.me/dva_majors/19842

Some twitter debate on the subject of DPICM:

According to Russian telegrammer Two Majors, another attempt by the Russian forces to dislodge the Ukrainians from the Antonivskyi Bridge appears to have failed miserably: https://t.me/dva_majors/19822

Somewhat interesting series of interviews with NCOs and junior officers of a recently-trained brigade in action on the southern front. English subtitles work fine.