Every primary unit at a Rosneft refinery is burning — 100% of its crude processing capacity
The plant turned 8.5 million tons of oil a year into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel. Analysts say it now turns out nothing.
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Russian who helped Ukraine’s military faces deportation after decade under false identity
Ruslan Puptaiev says he fled persecution in Russia and built a new life in Ukraine under a false identity. After authorities uncovered his real identity, he was detained for deportation, though the European Court of Human Rights has temporarily blocked his return to Russia.
New York Times: Russian spies used Japan to source technology for war
A little-known GRU unit allegedly operated through an Aeroflot office near Japan’s national police headquarters, according to NYT's reporting. They used business and logistics ties to obtain equipment for Russia’s war machine.
Russia halts Don-Azov Channel shipping, closes Kerch Strait after Ukrainian tanker strikes
Russia's border guards, who report to the FSB, gave shipping firms no date for when the Kerch Strait halt would be lifted.
Russia tried to secure Japanese jet fuel amid shortages. Tokyo closed the loophole
Japan said its ban on jet fuel exports to Russia covers shipments through third countries and ship-to-ship transfers after Reuters reported Moscow was seeking a cargo via traders.
No experience required: Russia advertises for drone operators to defend Moscow from Ukrainian attacks
A job listing on Russia's largest employment platform seeks drone operators to help defend Moscow, reflecting the growing impact of Ukraine's expanding long-range drone campaign.
Italy joins Bulgaria in resisting EU sanctions on Patriarch Kirill
Rome's objection traces back to the Vatican's unease at sanctioning a Christian leader
Belgorod loses power and water after Ukrainian strike on gas-turbine plant, one killed
The strike came a day after Russia's deadliest assault on Kyiv this year.
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.
France pivots on visas for Russians, shutting application shortcuts as EU crackdown spreads
Paris reverses course months after posting the EU's steepest rise in Russian visa issuance.
What Moscow does to foreign embassies, Latvia will now do to Russia’s
PM Braže said Russian services routinely screen people entering other countries' diplomatic buildings in the Russian capital.
Russia shuts seven rail crossings on its NATO borders. It won’t say why
Move comes weeks after Moscow doubled freight tariffs to the same neighbors
Russia wants future doctors to study abortion through “Christian worldview”. Its birth rate is reason
The Russian Orthodox Church is pushing to make anti-abortion ideology part of mandatory university education.
Ukraine burned half of Russia’s oil refining, made Moscow’s diesel ban for three days, Ukrainian analyst says
Moscow weighs a diesel export ban next, then backs off
Ukrainian missiles strike Volgograd arms plant making Iskander components
10 wounded, arms factory ablaze: Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missiles hit Volgograd defense plant
Earthquakes are doing what Ukraine’s missiles couldn’t. Seismologist says they’ll finish Crimean Bridge
The structure sits on unstable ground and faces irreversible weakening that could fell it without a single Ukrainian missile, the scientist says.
Ukraine strikes Russia’s only helium plant and largest gas complex 1,200 km from the front
Confirmed strike targets feedstock for Russian missiles, explosives, and gunpowder
Oil storage site burns in Russia’s Rostov Oblast after Ukrainian strike on key fuel logistics hub behind occupied territory
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces say they struck an oil depot and fuel storage base in Gukovo, confirming a strike that OSINT analysts linked to a major fire at a fuel facility in Rostov Oblast.
Russia returns another 522 bodies to Ukraine in latest repatriation
Forensic identification of the war dead now stretches past a year
Russia set to import gasoline by sea as Ukrainian strikes cut refinery output
For one of the world's largest oil exporters, a seaborne gasoline cargo arriving in June marks a significant reversal.