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.
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116 Russian ships in nine days: One big export tanker needs 12–15 small ones to fill it. Ukraine is burning the small ones
Three drone units carried out the latest overnight strikes under operation MoLoChKa, whose name reads like Ukrainian slang for dairy products.
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.
Azov drones destroy a hidden Russian fuel base in Novoamvrosiivka sitting deep in occupied Donetsk Oblast
Operation Hell wrecked the reservoirs and blocked the supply railway at the concealed logistics hub in Novoamvrosiivka.
Ukraine’s deep and mid-range strikes converge on Crimea and Russia’s Azov coast
Drones hit tankers, both loading ports of the targeted tanker run, five oil depots, and the peninsula's power grid in one night of the isolation campaign.
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.
ISW: Ukraine has opened a new phase of Crimea’s isolation by hunting seaborne fuel tankers
The think tank says strikes on Russian gasoline shipping show Kyiv rapidly adapting after land routes to the peninsula were degraded.
35 ships in four days: Ukraine’s campaign against Russia’s Azov Sea fuel run keeps widening
12 more shadow fleet riverine tankers, a cargo ship, and a tug among the latest targets.
The Penza institute builds sensors for the missiles that hit Ukraine. Now it’s smoking.
Its parts go into Iskanders, Kh-101 cruise missiles, and Russia's newest Su-57 fighter.
Ukraine’s drone force wrecked almost 200 Russian air defense assets since year-start—31 in June alone
A late-June sweep added a Pantsir gun-missile system and two radars in occupied Crimea.
IAEA documents military activity near all Ukraine’s nuclear sites
"This should not be happening," IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi said.
A Russian munitions cargo ship hit at the same Berdiansk berth two nights running
A second Ukrainian unit struck a vessel at the dock in the same occupied port a night after the first, both targeting Russia's sea-supply route.
Ukraine’s “Logistics Lockdown” sets all-time daily record since full-scale war began
Each of the past three months has set a fresh record.
“Fire-show goes on”: Ukrainian Intelligence drones strike Russian fuel tankers on supply corridor between occupied Berdiansk, Melitopol, and Crimea
HUR's Department of Active Actions used loitering munitions and Shark-M reconnaissance wings funded through the Prytula Foundation's "Jaws" project.
Ukrainian intelligence called it “the last Russian railway ferry in the Kerch Strait still afloat” — now it’s out of action too
The Slavyanin carried fuel, weapons, military equipment, and ammunition to Russian forces in occupied Crimea. HUR says it destroyed its ability to operate with a drone strike on the night of 5-6 April.
Ukraine hit Crimea’s key fuel hub and struck deep into Luhansk Oblast — while clearing more air defenses across the occupied south
The Feodosiia Marine Oil Terminal fire was visible over 20 km away and confirmed by NASA FIRMS; in separate strikes that week, Ukrainian forces also destroyed a Buk-M3, Tor-M2, and a Zoopark-1M radar Brovdi called "a fierce enemy" of Ukrainian artillery.
Ukraine hits Ust-Luga and Primorsk for the third time in five days — the pace suggests Kyiv is trying to destroy Russia’s Baltic oil export ports beyond repair
NASA satellite data confirmed new fires at both ports; together they handle 2 million barrels of Russian crude exports daily. A drone also struck Severstal's blast furnace in Cherepovets in the same night.
Rosneft’s classified document recommended smoke screens against GPS-guided drones — and the same document explains why that’s useless
Every barrier in the document also uses shallow foundations to dodge permit requirements — a structural choice the presentation explicitly flags as its own kill switch. Putin's simultaneous PMC-arming law is Moscow's admission the engineering fixes aren't enough.
Russia orders shell casings from a steel plant in occupied Alchevsk. Ukraine’s drones struck it again overnight
The facility in Luhansk Oblast was previously targeted in December 2025. The extent of the damage from last night's attack is currently unknown.
Ukraine hits occupied Luhansk oil depot for the second time in five days, sparking massive fire
Defense forces also struck fuel warehouses near Mariupol, Novotoretske, and Koptieve and a Russian drone control point in Kherson Oblast the same night, the Ukrainian General Staff reported.