ISW: Russia’s “Victory Day ceasefire” reduced combat but didn’t stop it
Day 2 saw Russian attacks reach Ukrainian positions across six oblasts, killing at least two civilians in Kherson.
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Primorsk takes the torch from Tuapse: NASA satellites confirm fresh fires at Russia’s largest Baltic oil export terminal
Monitoring channels reported Liutyi-looking drones over Leningrad Oblast overnight on 2-3 May, with Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg shut down and local authorities claiming 59 drones downed.
“Just stop oil”: Ukraine’s drones return to Tuapse — the Rosneft site where the refinery and the Black Sea export pier are one asset
Fires confirmed by satellite at the pier, tank farm, and power plant represent another round in Ukraine's sustained effort to reduce Russia's oil export revenues.
Russia’s governor said a pipeline was hit in Primorsk. Two hours later he said it wasn’t. NASA showed a fire at the tank farm
Leningrad Oblast governor Drozdenko revised his account of the 5 April drone strike on Primorsk — scrapping the pipeline damage claim and saying shrapnel had hit a fuel tank — while satellite data pointed to fire at the oil depot, not a pipeline at all.
Ukraine struck a refinery 800 km inside Russia — then hit the power plant keeping it running
The Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez facility in the Volga region, one of Russia's largest refineries by volume, processes up to 17 mn tonnes of crude a year and is a key supplier of petrol to Moscow Oblast.
Ust-Luga burning again: Ukraine is now hitting this Russian oil port every other day — the shadow fleet tankers that load here keep waiting offshore
Some drones entered Eatonia but were not intercepted, with a spokesperson noting that Russia's use of electronic warfare to deflect Ukrainian drones was likely behind the crossings.
Ukraine just hit the fuel tank that feeds southern Russia’s pipeline — here’s why this strike hurts more than a refinery fire
The Armavir station isn't a refinery — it's the reservoir buffer for Transneft's whole pipeline section; when it burns, the entire fuel flow along that route stops, not just the station itself.
Ukraine’s Long Neptune missile, drones hit Russian oil terminal and air defenses in Novorossiysk
Observers tracking open-source footage linked some of the strikes to a military unit housing S-300 or S-400 systems. NASA FIRMS confirmed fires across Novorossiysk.
Flames light up Tuapse Bay as Ukrainian drones target Russia’s Black Sea oil terminal again
Photos from the scene show at least three separate fire sites at the facility. Russia confirmed “port infrastructure damage with ignition” after overnight explosions.
Over 700 km from Ukraine, drones strike Russian substation feeding Gazprom and railway
NASA FIRMS data showed a fire in the Lesogorsk area hours after explosions were reported on Telegram. Ukrainian UAVs reportedly disabled two transformers.
ISW: Russia’s Dobropillia push isn’t an operational-level breakthrough — yet
Small tactical moves may lead to a major shift if Ukraine can’t hold the line.