Russians guard Madagascar’s parliament speaker as Moscow builds Indian Ocean foothold – RFE/RL
Russia also trains Madagascar’s troops and may recruit workers for drones used against Ukraine.
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Russia built five more halls for the drones it assembles using Chinese parts to hit Ukrainian cities
The nightly waves that reach Kyiv and the western border regions mostly begin on the assembly lines inside this zone.
Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints
Leaked documents describe a swept-wing drone built to hunt other drones at up to 300 km/h. Russian firm NIK allegedly cooperated with Boeing.
Russia builds 3,000 jet drones monthly to counter Ukrainian interceptors, HUR says
Moscow has ended production of the Geran-3 while expanding production of faster jet-powered models built to strain Ukraine’s air defenses, HUR says.
Ukraine says Russia’s Alabuga workers, including minors, are now inside Zaporizhzhia’s reactor complex, turned into military base
Ukrainian intelligence says Russia has placed armor in ZNPP turbine halls, machine-gun nests on reactor roofs, and drone control points staffed by Alabuga workers.
New robotics center opens at university in occupied Donetsk. Ukrainian monitor says it’s drone-industry pipeline
The new robotics center copies the Alabuga playbook, where students assemble the drones Russia fires at Ukrainian cities, a monitor says.
Shahed program killing Ukrainians is recruiting teenagers through sponsored influencer video — Russia calls it promising career
The career is assembling the weapon that hits Ukrainian maternity wards.
Russia uses European SIM cards to upgrade Shahed fleet, investigation finds
Russia has tested drones in European countries, Kazakhstan, Turkey
WSJ: How Chinese engines power Russia’s deadly drone raids on Ukrainian cities
Covert exports from China provide Russia with drone engines, navigation gear, and batteries, WSJ says.
Russia uses three distinct turboprop Shahed drone variants — all packed with foreign parts
Ukraine’s sanctions envoy said that Moscow’s drone assembly plants in Tatarstan and Izhevsk can’t operate without imported microcontrollers and digital converters.
Atesh partisans hit deep in Russia — railway nearly 1,000 km from Ukraine burns
Drones meant for Ukrainian cities lie stranded on scorched tracks.
Frontline report: Russian drone factories now staffed by teenagers as adult workforce collapses
Students recruited from technical schools now live in guarded dormitories at the Alabuga complex, working under surveillance with punishments for errors and reports of forced overtime.
Ukraine must build “anti-Rubicon” hunter units to target elite Russian drone crews, says expert
Mariia Berlinska says offensive counter-strategy is urgently needed against 5,000-strong force.
Hudson Institute lists Russia’s eight most fragile military arteries Ukraine could sever next to break the stalemate
A new report highlights targets ranging from Crimean bridges to drone factories that sustain Moscow’s war effort. Analysts argue that striking these weak points could paralyze Russia’s logistics and increase the cost of occupation.
Syrskyi: Ukrainian “Deep Strike” drone missions in June reached 115 missions
Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign continues to put pressure on Russia’s war infrastructure.
Czech firms secretly shipped machine tools to Russia — even during war, investigation finds
Tools from top manufacturers entered Russia even in 2024, data shows, according to The Insider.
In Russia’s Alabuga and Kupol factories workers glue together death for daily attacks
These aren’t just loitering munitions anymore. They’re evolving into a weapon of strategic paralysis.
Drones hit Russia’s Shahed drone factory 1,200 km from Ukraine again
The facility in Tatarstan's Yelabuga was previously targeted in April.
CNN: Russia plans to use 10,000 Chinese tech-based decoy drones to exhaust Ukrainian air defense
Russia accelerates drone production at expanded Tatarstan factory, planning 10,000 Chinese-based decoy drones alongside Shaheds, using low-cost strategy to exhaust Ukrainian air defense.
Russian Shahed drone parts warehouse destroyed in Tatarstan, per Ukrainian intelligence
HUR says vital components for 400 Iranian-designed attack drones worth $16 million were destroyed by a fire at Russia's Alabuga facility.