Ukraine just hit its 159th Russian ship in 12 days—and the campaign has no end date
The drone chief promised the "shipfall" would run indefinitely.
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Ukraine’s spy service and navy team up to strike two Russian crude tankers in the Black Sea
The "Mamai" naval drones destroyed vessels the SBU calls legitimate targets and working parts of Russia's war machine.
A month’s worth of Russia’s oil exports is stuck at sea—135 million barrels loaded but not delivered
Bloomberg's vessel-tracking and price data put the four-week value of Russia's seaborne crude exports back near $1.7 billion, down from a weekly spike near $2.5 billion on the chart earlier this year.
The Azov Sea wasn’t enough—Ukraine’s drones followed Russia’s oil fleet into the Black Sea
Six drone units opened the new phase together, from Magyar's Birds to the Raid regiment that has been burning ships for days.
A plant making 150 products from gasoline to polyethylene caught fire 1,300 km from the war zone—Ukraine hits two refineries overnight
Fires broke out at the Afipsky refinery's tank farm area, the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat complex, and, likely, the Rosneft-Opt depot next door, monitoring channels and Astra report.
Fires at both ends of Russia’s fuel chain: a Lukoil depot in Stavropol Krai and a ferry port facing Kerch
The governor confirmed the blaze in the industrial zone and evacuated a street; satellite data showed the oil transshipment complex at Port Kavkaz alight.
Ukraine’s top missile designer: modern war is won by whoever experiments with weapons faster
Fire Point's Denys Shtilerman says Russia's engineering school still follows the Soviet template of designing for years before testing.
Drones set Russia’s Syzran refinery ablaze 800 km from the war zone — analysts count every primary unit hit
Both crude distillation installations and a gasoline reformer burned at the plant that refines up to 8.9 million tons of oil a year.
Ukraine is turning its long-range strike campaign into a permanent military command
Ukraine is creating a dedicated command for long-range strikes alongside new Joint Rapid Reaction Forces in a restructuring of the Armed Forces aimed at strengthening deep-strike and frontline capabilities.
Anti-drone nets keep failing: Russia’s fuel tanks burn from Azov to Moscow
Fuel facilities burned from Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast to Moscow and Tatarstan as Russia claimed hundreds of drones downed.
Russia wrapped its fuel tanks in protective nets—Ukraine’s drones burned them regardless: two oil depots burned last night
The Tver depot's defenses, visible on satellite imagery, did not survive their first real test. SBU confirmed the strikes.
A $50k Ukrainian drone just hit a refinery 2,500 km inside Russia. The expensive missiles couldn’t
With bigger wings and more fuel, Ukrainian drones can range deeper inside Russia to hit once unreachable targets.
Russia’s refinery in Saratov, two in Tatarstan, a pumping station in Bashkortostan — one night’s oil target list
Fires broke out at the Saratov plant and the Nizhnekamsk refining cluster, while Ukraine's security service struck an oil-products pumping station 1,500 kilometers from the border.
Russia is running out of its best eyes in the sky
Russia's giant radar early warning planes can spot incoming Ukrainian missiles. What happens when there aren't enough planes?
10% of Russia’s refining, half of Siberia’s fuel: the Omsk plant just lost its 2,500-km protection
At least two primary processing units burned with full pressure still in the pipes, monitoring channels reported from footage.
Ukraine hits Russian airbase in Crimea; major strikes target backbone of Moscow’s logistics across occupied Ukraine
Ukraine says overnight strikes targeted key military infrastructure in occupied Crimea and southern Ukraine, aiming to disrupt Russian supply lines, aviation, and rear-area operations.
“No longer a peaceful rear”: Ukraine reports 1,150% increase in deep strikes as drones continue hitting Russia’s war machine far from the front lines
Ukraine says its long-range drone campaign reached a new tempo in June, targeting oil refineries, naval facilities, defense plants, and logistics hubs deep inside Russia.
Ukraine’s ballistic missile may have reached Moscow. The damage wasn’t the point.
Ukrainian developers rush new weapons into combat to gather data, not to inflict damage—the way Fire Point spent a year missing before the Flamingo started landing. The first ballistic shot was doing that job.
Russia’s fourth-largest refinery is on fire again. It just came off a shutdown
Drones struck Russia's NORSI oil refinery near Kstovo on 2 July, days after an earlier strike had already knocked out its main crude unit.
For two years, Ukraine’s strikes barely scratched Russia’s war factories. Something just changed.
The warheads finally got heavy enough to leave damage that lasts—and Ukraine's drones cleared the air defenses that used to stop the missiles short.