The drones flew 1,000 km. St. Petersburg’s oil terminal, fuel depot, and a nearby data center were waiting at the end
The attack came a week into a US-announced energy truce, during which Russia kept striking Ukraine’s power grid.
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Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too
Lithuania’s prime minister wants more such strikes to protect elections. Researchers say the bot data shows Yandex’s web crawlers, not trolls.
German radar already guarding Ukraine is picked to spot ballistic missiles. Its maker just signed a new deal with Kyiv
Hensoldt and Kyiv will also study jointly operating a bigger radar, the TRL-4D LR, whose naval version reaches beyond 400 km.
Ukraine wants to aim Starlink at Russian targets—and build a version Elon Musk can’t switch off
The reason, Zelenskyy says: China and others will soon share comparable satellite technology with Moscow.
Ukraine fired its first FP-7 ballistic missile in combat. Its maker says next version will do what Ukraine needed since 2022
Zelensky announced the launch on 1 October without naming the target, and wrote that production comes next.
Ukraine shut down this Samara refinery in June—now its drones are back, and both distillation units are burning again
The Kuibyshev plant had barely restarted when FP-1 drones struck its AVT-4 and AVT-5 installations overnight, and by morning smoke covered the oblast.
Ukraine hits key Russia-Iran logistics hub in Caspian Sea, damages three Russian warships
A fire broke out at the Makhachkala port after Ukrainian forces struck its oil infrastructure, while separate attacks damaged Russian vessels in Novorossiysk.
Can’t intercept the missiles? Hit the factories—Ukraine’s other way to stop Russia’s ballistic missiles
Kyiv's US Patriots are all but gone as Russia builds ~100 of its deadliest missiles a month. Ukraine's fix: a $700,000 homemade interceptor.
Ukrainian university and the Flamingo missile-maker opened an engineering course. On the first try, zero of 150 passed
Even students who scored well on the university entrance exam flunked the physics round.
Ukraine says it hit an Iskander launcher near the border—part of a dedicated hunt for Russia’s ballistic launch sites
The tactic gives Kyiv another way to reduce the missile threat when its stocks of anti-ballistic interceptors are low, Zelenskyy says.
Zelenskyy awarded Vikings star, ballistic missile CEO took stage, and strike drone got signed with messages to Russians: Ukraine’s major UNITED24 platform turns four
Ukraine's UNITED24 platform has raised nearly $4 billion in four years of war.
Ukrainian drones hit warehouse belonging to Russian online retailer Ozon for the first time
Ozon suspended operations at the Chapayevsk hub and began redirecting deliveries and orders through other facilities.
Ukraine says its drones hit major Russian refinery amid deepening fuel shortages
Militarnyi describes the target as one of Russia’s 10 largest refineries. Damage or interruption to production remains unconfirmed.
Ukraine’s Flamingo missile maker’s new Danish plant delayed to 2027 as costs could triple
Denmark removed 20-plus legal barriers for Fire Point’s rocket-fuel plant, but safety rules still make a new factory necessary.
New satellite imagery shows a caved-in roof at Russia’s only Soyuz rocket-assembly plant
The imagery pins the damage to the building where crews wire the rockets' controls and electronics.
Seventh time this year: Ukrainian drones torch a top-five Russian refinery in Yaroslavl
The pre-dawn raid sent several columns of black smoke over the Slavneft-YANOS plant, which turns crude into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel for central Russia.
Ukraine’s ousted defense minister took drone contracts away from the generals. Now they may take them back
The suppliers who thrived under the old system are already pushing to bring it back.
A Russian warehouse built to hold 120 million items is burning east of Moscow region
Russia's largest online retailer confirmed the fire, evacuated staff, and reported no casualties, while the regional governor said emergency crews were working at the scene.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces sent FP-1 drones to Ryazan—a refinery and a warehouse burned
Open-source analysts worked through eyewitness frames to place the blaze at the complex the marketplace calls Ryazan: Tyushevskaya. Later in the morning, the drones reached a Perm refinery 1,500 km from Ukraine.
“From Simferopol to St. Petersburg”—Ukraine’s drone commander sums up one night of fire at Russia’s online giant
Same retailer, the fourth assault in a week—Ukraine has a clear new favorite target.
The Russian retailer's logistics network keeps ending up on fire.