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Russia-installed Sevastopol official claims more than 20 drones shot down in overnight attack

Russian occupation authorities temporarily closed the Kerch Bridge to traffic as air defenses engaged drones over Sevastopol and Simferopol early on 4 June.

byMaria Tril

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Russia’s gasoline crisis spreads to St. Petersburg, Belgorod, Kursk, and occupied Luhansk — 40% of refining capacity is offline after Ukrainian strikes

Drone hits to 8 of the country's 10 largest plants in May alone have triggered coupon rationing, 20-litre caps, and 3-kilometre queues.

byMaria Tril

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Russian radar didn’t see Ukrainian drones coming. It became the 28th Russian air-defense asset wrecked this May

In addition to the ST-68 air-surveillance radar, Ukraine struck another Panrsir anti-air system, a fuel train, and multiple military trucks in the land corridor to occupied Crimea.

byYuri Zoria

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Ukraine targets a Su-34 base, aircraft repair plant, and Black Sea Fleet Air Force HQ in one night

The strikes hit the Taganrog 325 Aircraft Repair Plant, the Voronezh Baltimor airbase, and reportedly the Black Sea Fleet Air Force HQ in occupied Sevastopol.

byYuri Zoria

The Kerch bridge, also known as the Crimean bridge

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Russia is holding at least 100 people in occupied Crimea with no contact with outside world and no lawyer — and no trials

For the same charges that brought 7–10 years before 2022, courts now hand down 10–20, a Ukrainian rights monitor says.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 26 April 2026. Photo: Zelenskyy on Telegram

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Ukraine says it has Russia’s hidden war-damage assessment — one Moscow won’t show its own population

A single mid-sized Russian oil company has been forced to shut down around 400 wells.

byOlena Mukhina

The entire population of Crimean Tatars who survived the German occupation of the peninsula (up to 200 000) were deported by Stalin just in two days to remote rural locations in Central Asia and Siberia. A year later, after the end of the WW2, when the Soviet Army was demobilizing, Crimean Tatar soldiers were sent into exile too.

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Take food for three days. Then you’ll come back. The Crimean Tatars never did

The people who finally came home in the 1990s and their descendants are Russia's political prisoners again.

byAlexander Moisseenko

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Russian air-defense crews are now the hunted as Ukraine bolts rocket pods to its long-range drones

Ukrainian dorne forces' operators of the 1st Separate Center hit a protected node near Myrnyi, occupied Crimea, and released thermal video of the attack.

byYuri Zoria

ukraine hit its fourth russian ship month caspian sea time fsb border patrol boat · post project 10410 svetlyak sights ukrainian drone before strike near kaspiysk dagestan 17 2026 video

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Ukraine hits its fourth Russian ship of the mounth in the Caspian Sea, this time an FSB border patrol boat

The Project 10410 Svetlyak was struck near Kaspiysk in Russia's Republic of Dagestan, far from any front line.

byYuri Zoria

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Drones set Moscow Oblast fuel and military sites on fire as Russia claims it downed more than 1,000

A fuel terminal near the village of Durykino burned into the morning of 17 May 2026 while a Zelenograd technopark caught fire.

byYuri Zoria

two more russian air defense systems gone along naval plane helicopter · post be-200 amphibious aircraft moments before ukrainian drone strike yeysk airbase krasnodar krai 15 2026 ukraine news reports

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Two more Russian air defense systems gone, along with a naval plane and helicopter

Drone forces destroyed a Tor-M2 in Luhansk Oblast and a Pantsir-S1 in Crimea, struck a ship in Berdyansk, destroyed the Be-200 amphibious aircraft and Ka-27 chopper in Russia's Yeysk.

byYuri Zoria

Screenshot of the Russian “Española” brigade’s video statement on Telegram announcing the group’s disbandment, 2 October 2025.

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From “defending Crimea” to defendants: Russia jails its own Española naval unit fighters in occupied Sevastopol

The unit was set up by Stanislav Orlov in late 2024 to hunt Ukrainian sea drones with FPV drones. Six months after Orlov's death, his men are facing prison.

byYuri Zoria

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy writing

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Ukraine’s new heavy drones reportedly penetrate Soviet-era Iskander shelters in Crimea

The target had been known for a long time. Russia felt safe inside bunkers built to survive Cold War ballistic missiles.

byOlena Mukhina

russia just got its crimea looter back — he's even pretending lay low · post russia's alexander butyagin archaeological site alexander-butyagin-hermitage-archaeologist-crimea ukraine news ukrainian reports

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The Hermitage archaeologist Ukraine wanted to try is back in Russia—Kyiv calls it a propaganda gift to Moscow

Five for five at the Belarusian-Polish border. As part of a prisoner swap, a Russian defendant was released six weeks before he was due in Kyiv.

byAlexander Moisseenko

A Russian Iskander missile storage site in occupied Crimea, seen from a Ukrainian drone amid strikes. Screenshot from video: SOF

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Ukrainian drones penetrated reinforced missile bunkers holding Russian Iskander systems in occupied Crimea

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces say the night strike caused fires at a concealed Russian missile storage site in occupied Crimea, with signs of damage later detected by satellite monitoring

byBenjamin Murdoch

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Russia is killing journalists and jailing them as “terrorists,” Ukraine tells UN

At least 26 Ukrainian media workers are in Russian captivity and 147 have been killed since the full-scale invasion, the country's UN delegation said.

byYuri Zoria

The main building of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia (Image: A.Savin via Wikimedia Commons)

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Mikhail Piotrovsky runs Russia’s Hermitage Museum. EU just sanctioned him for legitimizing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine

Russia steals children. Russia steals history.

byOlena Mukhina

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) carried out a coordinated overnight strike on Russian military assets in occupied Crimea

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What’s left of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea comes under fire as Ukraine hits three warships in Sevastopol strike

The SBU also reported strikes on Belbek airfield, including a MiG-31 and airfield infrastructure, as part of the same operation.

byBenjamin MurdochandbySerhii Omelchenko

Crimean political prisoners in court in 2019: the front from left - Muslim Aliev, Vadim Siruk, Emir-Usein Kuku, Refat Alimov, at the back, from left - Envir Bekirov, Arsen Dzhepparov. All of them (except for Dzhepparov and Alimov) are still in custody as of today. Photo: Crimean Solidarity

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Russia keeps arresting Crimeans. The count just hit 520

The number of Crimean political prisoners has more than doubled since the full-scale invasion. A welder, a human rights defender, a father of four: three faces of the political repressions.

byAlexander Moisseenko

The Project 775 landing ship Yamal. Screenshot

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HUR’s “Ghosts” hit two Russia’s landing ships, $5 million radar, and fuel depot in one overnight peration

Russia is losing amphibious capacity it has had since the late Soviet period and cannot replace at similar scale or speed.

byOlena Mukhina

Crimea

Russia-installed Sevastopol official claims more than 20 drones shot down in overnight attack

Russia’s gasoline crisis spreads to St. Petersburg, Belgorod, Kursk, and occupied Luhansk — 40% of refining capacity is offline after Ukrainian strikes

Russian radar didn’t see Ukrainian drones coming. It became the 28th Russian air-defense asset wrecked this May

Ukraine targets a Su-34 base, aircraft repair plant, and Black Sea Fleet Air Force HQ in one night

Russia is holding at least 100 people in occupied Crimea with no contact with outside world and no lawyer — and no trials

Ukraine says it has Russia’s hidden war-damage assessment — one Moscow won’t show its own population

Take food for three days. Then you’ll come back. The Crimean Tatars never did

Russian air-defense crews are now the hunted as Ukraine bolts rocket pods to its long-range drones

Ukraine hits its fourth Russian ship of the mounth in the Caspian Sea, this time an FSB border patrol boat

Drones set Moscow Oblast fuel and military sites on fire as Russia claims it downed more than 1,000

Two more Russian air defense systems gone, along with a naval plane and helicopter

From “defending Crimea” to defendants: Russia jails its own Española naval unit fighters in occupied Sevastopol

Ukraine’s new heavy drones reportedly penetrate Soviet-era Iskander shelters in Crimea

The Hermitage archaeologist Ukraine wanted to try is back in Russia—Kyiv calls it a propaganda gift to Moscow

Ukrainian drones penetrated reinforced missile bunkers holding Russian Iskander systems in occupied Crimea

Russia is killing journalists and jailing them as “terrorists,” Ukraine tells UN

Mikhail Piotrovsky runs Russia’s Hermitage Museum. EU just sanctioned him for legitimizing Russia’s occupation of Ukraine

What’s left of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Crimea comes under fire as Ukraine hits three warships in Sevastopol strike

Russia keeps arresting Crimeans. The count just hit 520

HUR’s “Ghosts” hit two Russia’s landing ships, $5 million radar, and fuel depot in one overnight peration

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