Yuri Zoria

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A philologist by education, in 2003-2007 Yuri worked as a journalist in a Luhansk online media. He was born and lived all his life in the peaceful provincial city of Luhansk, where nothing serious happened. Until 2014. Now he is an IDP. Follow Yuri on twitter: @loogunda

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two tankers burn off romania’s sulina bulgaria says lacks proof russia behind black sea ship attacks · post burned superstructure tanker wine trader seen rescue helicopter 15 2026 romanian interior

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Two tankers burn off Romania’s Sulina as Bulgaria says it lacks proof Russia is behind the Black Sea ship attacks

Seven crew members of a San Marino-flagged chemical tanker were still missing hours after it caught fire at anchor off the mouth of the Danube.

russia’s largest drone attack war kirovohrad oblast kills three kropyvnytskyi · post apartment building blown-out windows after russian 15 2026 3d3b1f495b3596d5 (1) ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Russia’s largest drone attack on Kirovohrad Oblast since the full-scale invasion kills three in Kropyvnytskyi

Drones struck critical infrastructure, transport companies, logistics sites, and homes across the central Ukrainian oblast, with its capital taking most of the damage.

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Ukraine’s Navy says it hit six Su-34 bombers at a Russian airbase with Neptune missiles—the jets that drop glide bombs on Ukrainian towns (updated)

Footage from Borisoglebsk showed a large fire at the base after Russian officials declared a missile alert, though the damage has not been independently confirmed.

ukraine goes back hitting russian oil after its trump-forced pause left kyiv without warnings incoming ballistic missiles · post ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy during interview piers morgan london 14 2026

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Ukraine is going back to hitting Russian oil after its Trump-pressured pause, during which Kyiv got no US warnings of incoming ballistic missiles

The pause was meant to seal a US-announced energy truce, but Russia kept hitting power plants while Ukraine lost early warnings and drone connectivity.

“now it’s turn” envoys planned show moscow refinery pause diesel deal ask something back tells · post jared kushner shakes hands russian president vladimir putin special envoy steve witkoff beside

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“Now it’s your turn”: US envoys planned to show Moscow a refinery pause and a diesel deal, then ask for something back, a source tells Reuters

Ukraine’s part of that exchange was to stop striking Russia’s oil plants, a request Kushner repeated at the Miami meeting.

drones burned out more than half tanks russian fuel-export terminal rostov-on-don · post black smoke rises over oil-loading novoshakhtinsk refinery russia after drone strike 10 2026 tme exilenova_plus ukraine news

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The night Trump announced a diesel deal with Putin, drones knocked out more than half the tanks at a Russian fuel-export terminal

The Rostov-on-Don site, which loads oil products onto river and sea tankers, burned for two days and was still smoking on the third.

russian strike collapses kharkiv apartment stairwell killing three · post rescuers clear rubble excavator building hit kharkiv’s kholodnohirskyi district ukraine 13 2026 oda news ukrainian reports

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Russian strike collapses a Kharkiv apartment stairwell and kills three, days after the US waived sanctions on Russia’s diesel

Rescuers dug through the night to reach the people buried in the four-story building, while the White House still wants Kyiv to stop striking Russian refineries.

trade banks energy crypto—the eu keeps its full russia economic sanctions wall standing 2027 · post flags member states headquarters council european union brussels belgium 17 2025 getty images/thierry monasse

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EU blacklists 1,569 Russian arms suppliers and their bosses in its biggest sanctions round ever, as Trump eases up on Moscow

Most of the listed firms feed the supply chain behind the ballistic missiles Russia fires at Ukrainian cities, and EU ministers vowed to keep up the pressure despite the US-Russia fuel arrangement.

peacekeepers riot police drone crews russia’s bloc rehearses operation belarusian oblast bordering two nato states · post bmp-2 infantry fighting vehicles belarus’s 6th separate guards mechanized brigade during combat-readiness check

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Peacekeepers, riot police, and drone crews: Russia’s bloc rehearses an operation in a Belarusian oblast bordering two NATO states

Police and national guard units train alongside soldiers from five former Soviet states, under priorities Russia set as the bloc’s chair this year.

germany stays russia’s sabotage crosshairs its industry now braces long haul · post entrance rheinmetall company 30 2025 javalí viejo murcia spain ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Germany stays in Russia’s sabotage crosshairs, and its industry now braces for the long haul

Companies are no random targets, the country’s main industry lobby warns, a week after the foreign intelligence chief said Germany had become a main obstacle to Russian power in Europe.

russia’s old staging base occupied luhansk oblast burned overnight—nasa’s fire caught · post area khrustalnyi ukraine overnight 12 2026 exilenova news ukrainian reports

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Russia’s supply base in occupied Luhansk Oblast burned overnight—NASA’s fire map caught it

The fires broke out together and grew within the hour, satellite data show, and Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ reported heavy Ukrainian strikes in the area.

russia's arctic bases sit near-naked air defenses vanish guard moscow refineries burning inland · post s-400 defense missile launcher vehicles 2018 file sergei malgavko/tass rferl ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Short on interceptors, Ukraine goes after the launchers: eight Russian ballistic systems hit, three destroyed since September, a minister says

Ukraine's Defense Minister says the hits made Moscow rework planned barrages, as he presses partners for anti-ballistic missiles in bulk instead of one-off deliveries.

ukraine uses up europe’s yearly supply thermal sensors about five months so two ukrainian firms build own plants west · post imaging camera made company odd systems mounted drone manufactured

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Ukraine uses up Europe’s yearly supply of thermal sensors in about five months, so two Ukrainian firms will build their own plants in the West

Their new venture wants to give Western armies their own supply of the chip that lets thermal cameras see body heat in the dark.

ukraine says its strikes have knocked out 51% russia's oil refining capacity · post flames saratov refinery after reported ukrainian drone strike 2 2026 image_2026-08-02_14-32-39 news reports

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Russia sells cheaper fuel abroad and pays to keep its own pumps running amid Ukraine’s refinery strikes, but crude money still flows

After Ukraine’s drone strikes on refineries, Russia’s diesel exports, once its biggest fuel export, fell to a decade low.

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Two tankers burn off Romania’s Sulina as Bulgaria says it lacks proof Russia is behind the Black Sea ship attacks

Russia’s largest drone attack on Kirovohrad Oblast since the full-scale invasion kills three in Kropyvnytskyi

Ukraine’s Navy says it hit six Su-34 bombers at a Russian airbase with Neptune missiles—the jets that drop glide bombs on Ukrainian towns (updated)

Ukraine is going back to hitting Russian oil after its Trump-pressured pause, during which Kyiv got no US warnings of incoming ballistic missiles

“Now it’s your turn”: US envoys planned to show Moscow a refinery pause and a diesel deal, then ask for something back, a source tells Reuters

The night Trump announced a diesel deal with Putin, drones knocked out more than half the tanks at a Russian fuel-export terminal

Russian strike collapses a Kharkiv apartment stairwell and kills three, days after the US waived sanctions on Russia’s diesel

EU blacklists 1,569 Russian arms suppliers and their bosses in its biggest sanctions round ever, as Trump eases up on Moscow

Peacekeepers, riot police, and drone crews: Russia’s bloc rehearses an operation in a Belarusian oblast bordering two NATO states

Germany stays in Russia’s sabotage crosshairs, and its industry now braces for the long haul

Russia’s supply base in occupied Luhansk Oblast burned overnight—NASA’s fire map caught it

Short on interceptors, Ukraine goes after the launchers: eight Russian ballistic systems hit, three destroyed since September, a minister says

Ukraine uses up Europe’s yearly supply of thermal sensors in about five months, so two Ukrainian firms will build their own plants in the West

Russia sells cheaper fuel abroad and pays to keep its own pumps running amid Ukraine’s refinery strikes, but crude money still flows

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