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Satellite imagery of the Slavyansk oil refinery after a nighttime UAV attack on 13 September. Part of the refinery is obscured by thick smoke from a fire in the tank farm, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. Photo: Dnipro Osint

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Ukraine says it hit 12 Russian refineries in September. No refinery strikes reported since Trump’s “energy ceasefire”

Zelenskyy said Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities continued after Trump’s announcement, while Moscow had yet to confirm a ceasefire.

byZoriana Katola

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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Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out more than 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity

Production and procurement of Ukraine's long-range strike drones tripled this year, and the Defense Ministry plans to scale them further.

byStanovych Solomiia

Russian Buk-M1 air defense system as seen by Ukrainian drone before strike. Screenshot from video: Robert

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Ukraine destroys record 76 Russian air-defense systems this month, losses analyst says Russia “will never be able to restore”

The 76 systems destroyed this month beat a record from July 2023.

byOlena Mukhina

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Russia’s air defenses can’t protect all its strategic sites once Ukraine’s ballistic missiles are ready, expert says

Russia's best interceptors cluster around the capital.

byOlena Mukhina

Acting Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara at the meeting the new Commander-in-Chief, Major General Mykhailo Drapatyi. Source: The Ukrainian Defense Ministry

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Machines over men: Ukraine’s new military leadership adopted fired minister’s program

Acting Defense Minister Khmara, after meeting new army chief Drapatyi, says Ukraine will scale deep strikes and middle strikes to press Russia and save soldiers.

byOlena Mukhina

Anchorage of small vessels in Balaklava Bay. Photo: RFE/RL

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Russia built Crimea’s power grid on sanctioned Siemens turbines. Ukraine has struck cooling system of one in Balaklava

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces struck Sevastopol's Balaklava power plant, damaging the cooling system of a Siemens turbine that sanctions leave unrepairable.

byOlena Mukhina

AVT-5 and AVT-6 units at the Syzran Oil Refinery, 12 July 2026. Photo: Exilenova+

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Every primary unit at a Rosneft refinery is burning — 100% of its crude processing capacity

The plant turned 8.5 million tons of oil a year into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Analysts say it now turns out nothing.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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Ukraine strikes Russia’s only helium plant and largest gas complex 1,200 km from the front

Confirmed strike targets feedstock for Russian missiles, explosives, and gunpowder

byMaria Tril

moscow's airports shut hours ukrainian drones target russian capital · post smoke raising approaches moscow during drone attack 22 2026 ukraine news reports

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Moscow’s airports shut for hours as Ukrainian drones target the Russian capital

Russia's Defense Ministry claimed 301 drones downed across the country, while the mayor put the count near Moscow at dozens.

byYuri Zoria

Russo-Ukrainian war Romania intends to collaborate with Ukraine on developing R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles. The partnership aims to control Black Sea waters post-war.

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Storm Shadow maker MBDA to help develop new Neptune cruise missile with Ukraine

MBDA and Luch Design Bureau, which make dozens of missile variants, are teaming up

byIgor Kossov

Illustrative render of the DART missile via aerostat. (Rendering: Center of Innovative Technologies Program)

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Ukraine develops blackout missile that plunges onto Russian grids from high-altitude balloons

Missile likely designed to target Russia's electrical grids with graphite filaments

byIgor Kossov

Collage. Left: Russian Ka-52 helicopter at low altitude seen through a Ukrainian FPV drone camera. Right: Major Robert

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Ukraine’s drone commander says his branch killed or wounded 102,000 Russians in 12 months. It started with a grenade taped to drone that filmed weddings

Robert "Madiar" Brovdi, the art-collecting ex-grain trader who runs Ukraine's drone branch, said his units account for every third Russian falling on the battlefield.

byDaniel Thomas

Ukrainian drones struck Russia's Baltic Fleet base at Kronstadt near St. Petersburg overnight, flying nearly 1,000 km. Source: Zelenskiy

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Kronstadt, Russia’s major naval Base after Black Sea Fleet losses, gets hit by Ukrainian drones (VIDEO)

Russia was in the middle of hosting foreign investors.

byOlena Mukhina

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Military tech

Russian corvette stationed near St. Petersburg for repairs now needs more of them after Ukrainian strike

Drones struck the center of the ship, where its expensive and capricious electronic systems are located.

byIgor Kossov

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Military tech

Russians caught putting Pantsirs on rooftops in Moscow in the rain following Ukrainian strikes

Every air defense platform defending Moscow is a platform not defending elsewhere.

byIgor Kossov

The Metafrax Chemicals plant in the town of Gubakha in Russia's Perm Krai. Source: Exilenova_Plus

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Metafrax Chemicals plant, supplying dozens of military facilities, halts operation after Ukraine’s strikes 1,700 km inside Russia

Today's strike was Ukraine's one in the series of attacks on the same Russian chemical plant in eight months.

byOlena Mukhina

drones set moscow region fuel military sites fire russia claims downed more than 1000 · post elma technopark zelenograd part after ukrainian drone strike 17 2026 пожежа на території солнечногорську

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Analysis

Ukraine’s attack on Moscow: Show of force? Yes. Path of revenge? Not quite.

Moscow's air defense "never coped under the pressure of regular UAVs."

byIgor Kossov

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Ukraine has found key through Moscow’s air-defense rings, military analyst says

Moscow is protected by three to four rings of around 100 air-defense positions, with Pantsir systems on the Foreign and Defense Ministry buildings in the city center.

byOlena Mukhina

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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

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Military tech

Weaponizing the Westerlies: Ukrainian balloons sow havoc over Russia

Aerostats grow more instrumental in Ukrainian strikes, intel gathering, and making Russia waste its air defenses.

byIgor Kossov

Deep Strike

Ukraine says it hit 12 Russian refineries in September. No refinery strikes reported since Trump’s “energy ceasefire”

Ukraine says its strikes have knocked out more than 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity

Ukraine destroys record 76 Russian air-defense systems this month, losses analyst says Russia “will never be able to restore”

Russia’s air defenses can’t protect all its strategic sites once Ukraine’s ballistic missiles are ready, expert says

Machines over men: Ukraine’s new military leadership adopted fired minister’s program

Russia built Crimea’s power grid on sanctioned Siemens turbines. Ukraine has struck cooling system of one in Balaklava

Every primary unit at a Rosneft refinery is burning — 100% of its crude processing capacity

Ukraine strikes Russia’s only helium plant and largest gas complex 1,200 km from the front

Moscow’s airports shut for hours as Ukrainian drones target the Russian capital

Storm Shadow maker MBDA to help develop new Neptune cruise missile with Ukraine

Ukraine develops blackout missile that plunges onto Russian grids from high-altitude balloons

Ukraine’s drone commander says his branch killed or wounded 102,000 Russians in 12 months. It started with a grenade taped to drone that filmed weddings

Kronstadt, Russia’s major naval Base after Black Sea Fleet losses, gets hit by Ukrainian drones (VIDEO)

Russian corvette stationed near St. Petersburg for repairs now needs more of them after Ukrainian strike

Russians caught putting Pantsirs on rooftops in Moscow in the rain following Ukrainian strikes

Metafrax Chemicals plant, supplying dozens of military facilities, halts operation after Ukraine’s strikes 1,700 km inside Russia

Ukraine’s attack on Moscow: Show of force? Yes. Path of revenge? Not quite.

Ukraine has found key through Moscow’s air-defense rings, military analyst says

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

Weaponizing the Westerlies: Ukrainian balloons sow havoc over Russia

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