“We don’t need to hit the entire plant”—Ukraine’s drones go for refinery parts sanctions make hard to repair
Of 54 strikes The Washington Post examined, more than half appear to have damaged the units that start turning crude into fuel.
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Fewer targets, more waves: jet-powered Gerans partly free Russia to concentrate missiles, ISW says
The faster drones break through Ukraine's air defenses more reliably, and ISW expects the same strike pattern in Russia's winter campaign against Ukraine's energy.
Iran armed Russia with Shaheds. Now it wants the jet-powered Geran-5 remake back to fight Israel and the US
Russia turned Iran's imported Shahed into a jet that flies at up to 600 km/h, with a new airframe closer to a cruise missile than to the propeller drone Tehran sent it.
Russia built five more halls for the drones it assembles using Chinese parts to hit Ukrainian cities
The nightly waves that reach Kyiv and the western border regions mostly begin on the assembly lines inside this zone.
From Russian classrooms to Iran’s defense industry: how Moscow trains Iranian specialists
Almost 10,000 Iranians studied at Russian universities in 2025, 42% more than two years earlier, by the Russian science ministry's count, with medicine still the most popular field.
US struck 5 Iranian tankers – 3 were also linked to Russia’s shadow fleet
The vessels had carried Russian oil, called at Russian ports, or operated through networks used to evade sanctions, according to Ukraine.
Russia builds 3,000 jet drones monthly to counter Ukrainian interceptors, HUR says
Moscow has ended production of the Geran-3 while expanding production of faster jet-powered models built to strain Ukraine’s air defenses, HUR says.
New Iranian loitering munition has started reaching Ukraine, analyst says. It’s built to hit deep behind front
Iran is improving its Shahed-107 kamikaze drones based on the Ukraine war, adding shrapnel elements.
Iran was prepared to strike three Ukrainian sites over sunken ship but paused after Kyiv’s explanation, Tehran claims
A senior adviser to Iran's supreme leader said Tehran still intends to make Ukraine "pay" for the attack despite suspending its immediate response. Ukraine has maintained the vessel was carrying Iranian drone and missile components for Russia.
After Ukraine’s Caspian strike, Iran warns of retaliation. Ukraine faces that threat without defenses its allies gave Israel
Monitoring channels raised the prospect of a ballistic strike, but Ukrainian officials say no such intent is confirmed.
US sanctions 13 Iran-Belarus-China entities supplying Iran’s IRGC. That’s three of four “Axis of Upheaval” states
The same Iran-Belarus-China network is the operational ecosystem supplying Russia's drone war on Ukraine.
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it
Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.
Ukrainian intelligence: Russia’s new jet-powered Geran-4 attack drone runs on Chinese turbojets
The Geran-4 has a brand-new reinforced airframe and can pull high-G maneuvers at 300-400 km/h, per Ukraine's military intelligence. It carries up to 90 kg of thermobaric explosives.
Xi pledged to stop arming Iran—US intelligence warns the weapons still flow
Xi pledged to stop arming Iran, but US intelligence says covert Chinese weapons shipments continue via third countries—no deal, no monitors signed.
Washington lets the Russian oil loophole expire, ending months of seaborne sanctions relief
Senators from both parties had pressed the administration to drop the carve-out that critics said funneled billions into Moscow's war chest.
Senate Democrats challenge Russian oil waiver—Moscow revenues hit two-year high
A Delaware senator walked the Treasury Secretary through the loop. The March oil numbers closed it.
One US team, two wars. Zelenskyy says Ukraine can’t wait for Iran to close
Volodymyr Zelenskyy tells CNN it would be a "big risk" to pause Ukraine peace talks until the US war with Iran ends, and calls the EU's €90 bn loan "life and surviving."
Oil jumped 8% as Trump’s Hormuz blockade undid the ceasefire crash
Talks collapsed in Pakistan. A naval blockade replaced a truce. For Russia’s war revenues, the brief window of relief is over.
Ukraine just X-rayed Russia’s $100,000 drone — and found components from China, Taiwan, and Switzerland
Only the EU is sanctioning the factory behind this drone. That's the problem.
Satellites alone don’t explain Iran’s nine-fold jump in strike accuracy — InformNapalm says Russian SOF doctrine does
Iran's missile hit rate rose from 3% to 27% in weeks. The data transfer was real, but without Russian SOF closing the loop between reconnaissance and fires, those numbers don't move that fast.