Russian defense industry Archives

Smoke over Salavat following an attack on the night of October 8.

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Drone attack forces Yandex to shut down its data center on the grounds of a sanctioned Russian machine-tool plant

In Bashkortostan, Ukraine's General Staff says its forces hit a Gazprom refinery. Salavat's mayor says an unnamed enterprise there keeps working.

byTaisiia Vivdych

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It was built to shield Russian crops from hail. Now it’s being pitched as a drone interceptor

In farm service, the Alazan flies about 10 km and climbs up to 8 km. Russian state TV showed a guided version at a training range Putin toured.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Russian soldiers stand beside a field artillery gun in a snow-covered position.

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Kalashnikov, Russia’s biggest small-arms maker, says it fills its entire 2026 arms contract on time with batch of 7.62mm Dragunov sniper rifle

Ukraine's Defense Intelligence said in February that nearly half of Kalashnikov's plants faced no sanctions from any coalition country.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukraine says it struck plant making parts for Russian military aircraft engines—a Snizhne factory Russia has used since 2014

Ukraine's 413th Raid Regiment has released footage showing the strike on a facility that produces components for gas-turbine engines used in attack aircraft and combat helicopters.

byZoriana Katola

satellites caught russia expanding its shahed drone plant moscow already holds 6000 drones reserve · post satellite southern part alabuga special economic zone tatarstan newly built production halls published 14

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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.

byYuri Zoria

Video still from Bureau 1440's recent launch of 16 Rassvet satellites into low earth orbit

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Russia’s answer to Starlink was written off as a failure—its satellites are still climbing

Forty-six days after their 19 July launch, the new craft sit at a median 365 km—higher than Russia's already-working first batch was at the same age.

byTaisiia Vivdych

Modified UBB-M drone adapted for interceptor missions.

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Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints

Leaked documents describe a swept-wing drone built to hunt other drones at up to 300 km/h. Russian firm NIK allegedly cooperated with Boeing.

byTaisiia Vivdych

ukraine mapped russia's su-35 down individual control units—and found 22 firms nobody has sanctioned · post interactive 3d model su-35s multirole fighter published ukraine's war&sanctions portal l-150-35 radar warning station

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Ukraine mapped Russia’s Su-35 down to individual control units—and found 22 firms nobody has sanctioned

The names cover engines, guidance, jamming gear, and the air-to-air missiles the aircraft fires.

byYuri Zoria

gunshot note official word—russia reports ex-fsb general dead moscow · post igor laptev ігор лаптєв фото укрінформ ukraine news ukrainian

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Ex-FSB general who wired Russia’s spies and army found dead in Moscow—a gunshot, no note, no official report

The 83-year-old chaired a long-time supplier of encrypted communications for the country's security and military structures.

byYuri Zoria

ukraine has knocked out seven russia's 10 biggest warehouses its air defenses fall short isw says · post ukrainian strikes targeting russian wildberries between 17 16 2026 ukrainian-strikes-targeting-russian-wildberries-warehouses-between-july-17-and-august-16-2026 news reports

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Ukraine has knocked out seven of Russia’s 10 biggest warehouses as its air defenses fall short, ISW says

The drones keep reaching depots that help supply Moscow's military, faster than Russia can shield them. The latest strike occurred yesterday.

byYuri Zoria

two children pulled rubble alive three did survive—one village near kryvyi rih after russian missile attack · post site where cruise came down lublin voivodeship poland 30 2026 місце падіння

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The Russian missile that hit Poland was made only months earlier, prosecutors found

It came off a production line in Moscow Oblast in the second quarter, according to the Lublin prosecutor's office.

byYuri Zoria

whatever came down lipetsk overnight started missile warning ended flames steel mill · post dense smoke column towers over lipetsk's outskirts morning after blasts russia 21 2026 ukraine news ukrainian

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Whatever came down on Lipetsk overnight, it started with a missile warning and ended in flames by the steel mill (updated)

Local Telegram channels had spread the missile-danger announcement hours before residents began filming blasts over the city.

byYuri Zoria

The image shows the Atesh latest sabotage operation in Russia. Source: Atesh

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Ukraine’s underground war reached one of Russia’s most important chemical plants

ATESH agents destroyed power and railway relay equipment near the Novomoskovsk Azot plant.

byOlena Mukhina

russia's service blurred 119 military sites nordic baltic—and showed exactly where · post area yantar shipbuilding plant kaliningrad oblast yandex maps zablyurena-v-yandex-terytoriya-sudnobudivelnogo-zavodu-yantar-v-kaliningradskij-oblastiskrinshot-yandex-karty ukraine news ukrainian reports

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Russian maps blurred 119 of Russia’s own military sites in the Nordics and Baltics—and gave away their locations

The objects blurred on Yandex run from air bases and shipyards to nuclear-weapons facilities, reporters from four countries found.

byYuri Zoria

Foreign chips microelectronics Russian army

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Russia runs out of T-72Bs to refurbish and is now cannibalizing T-72As from 1970s, says expert

Russia s losing 100 tanks a month.

byOlena Mukhina

Bloomberg: Putin’s strength in Ukraine may be an illusion as Russia’s corporate debt hits $ 446 billion

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Russia’s “medical equipment” holding makes photodiodes for Iskander missiles. Most of it is still outside sanctions

The eighth Rostec holding has been exposed.

byOlena Mukhina

russia spent $130 billion extra sanctioned goods since 2022 — still couldn't find replacements some latvia says · post russian major tank producer uralvagonzavod plant's production line tass ukraine news

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Russian Aggression

From Kalashnikov’s engineers to Kamov’s designers — 1.2 million Russian arms workers just lost their anonymity

An interactive map of 6,088 defense factories, released by hacktivists on the invasion's anniversary, exposes the personal data behind Russia's war machine.

byYuri Zoria

ka-52 alligators flew kyiv's hostomel four years ago companies build fix still aren't sanctioned · post russian helicopter shot down early 2022 full-scale invasion later captured ukrainian forces kyiv oblast

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Ka-52 Alligators flew to Kyiv’s Hostomel four years ago. The companies that build and fix them still aren’t sanctioned

The HUR intelligence agency published data on 34 Russian Helicopters enterprises under Rostec — 14 of which face no restrictions from any coalition country despite directly supporting Russia's helicopter fleet.

byYuri Zoria

plant makes ammonia ammonium nitrate russian army turns tnt rdx ukraine just set fire — again · post dorogobuzh chemical smolensk oblast russia after overnight strike 25 2026 pozhezha-na-himzavodi-dorogobuzh- news

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The plant makes ammonia and ammonium nitrate. The Russian army turns them into TNT and RDX. Ukraine just set it on fire — again

Dorogobuzh chemical plant in Smolensk Oblast was hit overnight on 25 February, the second strike in three months on a facility directly feeding Russia's munitions chain.

byYuri Zoria

isw russia laying groundwork rolling involuntary call-ups its recruitment system runs dry · post russian soldiers killed during failed motorcycle assault biker- on-road-to-hell ukraine news ukrainian reports

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ISW: Russia is laying the groundwork for rolling involuntary call-ups as its recruitment system runs dry

A new Duma bill adopted on 18 February would criminalize criticism of reserve call-ups, while Bloomberg reports Russia lost 9,000 more troops than it replaced in January 2026 — the first time recruitment has visibly fallen behind losses.

byYuri Zoria

Russian defense industry

Drone attack forces Yandex to shut down its data center on the grounds of a sanctioned Russian machine-tool plant

It was built to shield Russian crops from hail. Now it’s being pitched as a drone interceptor

Kalashnikov, Russia’s biggest small-arms maker, says it fills its entire 2026 arms contract on time with batch of 7.62mm Dragunov sniper rifle

Ukraine says it struck plant making parts for Russian military aircraft engines—a Snizhne factory Russia has used since 2014

Russia built five more halls for the drones it assembles using Chinese parts to hit Ukrainian cities

Russia’s answer to Starlink was written off as a failure—its satellites are still climbing

Russia is secretly building a mortar-launched drone-killer—and a resistance group just leaked the blueprints

Ukraine mapped Russia’s Su-35 down to individual control units—and found 22 firms nobody has sanctioned

Ex-FSB general who wired Russia’s spies and army found dead in Moscow—a gunshot, no note, no official report

Ukraine has knocked out seven of Russia’s 10 biggest warehouses as its air defenses fall short, ISW says

The Russian missile that hit Poland was made only months earlier, prosecutors found

Whatever came down on Lipetsk overnight, it started with a missile warning and ended in flames by the steel mill (updated)

Ukraine’s underground war reached one of Russia’s most important chemical plants

Russian maps blurred 119 of Russia’s own military sites in the Nordics and Baltics—and gave away their locations

Russia runs out of T-72Bs to refurbish and is now cannibalizing T-72As from 1970s, says expert

Russia’s “medical equipment” holding makes photodiodes for Iskander missiles. Most of it is still outside sanctions

From Kalashnikov’s engineers to Kamov’s designers — 1.2 million Russian arms workers just lost their anonymity

Ka-52 Alligators flew to Kyiv’s Hostomel four years ago. The companies that build and fix them still aren’t sanctioned

The plant makes ammonia and ammonium nitrate. The Russian army turns them into TNT and RDX. Ukraine just set it on fire — again

ISW: Russia is laying the groundwork for rolling involuntary call-ups as its recruitment system runs dry

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