Russia’s refinery feeding occupied Crimea is burning after an overnight Ukrainian strike
The Slavyansk-na-Kubani plant sits about 300 kilometers from the front and has been hit repeatedly this year.
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Russia’s former soldiers may face a locked EU border—if France and Italy stop balking
The two governments worry the measure could open the door to keeping every Russian out, sources told Bloomberg.
The UK may turn a captured Russian tanker’s cargo into cash for Ukraine’s troops
The crude came off a shadow-fleet tanker that Royal Marines boarded in the English Channel.
Drones flew 1,300 km to Russia’s Ufa—then struck Bashneft refineries
Bashkortostan’s head claimed air defenses had shot down the drones and that the damage was caused only by falling debris.
A “fiery” night over occupied Crimea: Ukraine’s drone forces logged a 60-target sweep
Among other targets, the Unmanned Systems Forces now count 23 Russian air-defense assets destroyed this month, with two launchers, a radar, and an AA-gun added overnight.
EU leaders agree to renew Russia sanctions for a full year for the first time as Bulgaria’s pro-Russian leader vows to veto the next batch
Rumen Radev wants the Russian oil company that runs his country's only refinery struck from the list, and he objects to sanctions on a Russian Orthodox bishop.
Ukraine’s special forces sabotaged an oil pumping station in Russia with help from a local partisan group, SOF reports
The Special Operations Forces reported an operation a station in Yaroslavl Oblast, part of the pipeline carrying Siberian crude to Russia's Baltic.
Ukrainian drones torch Russia’s strategic wartime fuel reserves in Rybinsk and explosives-linked chemical plant in Tula Oblast
Kombinat Temp in Rybinsk belongs to Rosrezerv, the state agency hoarding untouchable fuel reserves for crises.
UK forces board the Russian shadow-fleet’s oil tanker in the English Channel for the first time
Royal Marines and crime-agency officers spent six hours seizing the Smyrtos, which now sits anchored off England's southern coast, the UK government said.
Russia’s oil production falls for sixth straight month as Ukrainian drone strikes hit storage and transport
Companies redirected crude to restored Baltic and Black Sea ports, lifting exports from 3.17 to 3.64 million barrels a day, while the extraction tax base underneath kept contracting.
All three Rosneft Samara refineries now offline or reduced as drones halt Kuibyshevsky operations yesterday
All three plants in Rosneft's Samara refining hub are now affected by Ukrainian strikes, with Kuibyshev's two primary units damaged on 10 June.
Russia’s fuel crisis jumps from 15 to 25 regions in five days—plus six occupied Ukrainian areas
The Russian Energy Ministry created a task force on 8 June to handle the gasoline shortage amid "growing enemy air attacks," but the crisis continued spreading anyway.
Russian crude reaches the sea through tunnels under a mountain ridge—and Ukraine hit the storage end near Novorossiysk
Pipelines link the Grushovaya depot to Novorossiysk's loading berths about 12 km away. Locals counted about 50 blasts before a huge fire lit the mountains above Russia's main Black Sea oil port.
More than half shadow fleet’s oil tankers are corroding toward disaster, top recycler warns
Anil Sharma, who runs the world's biggest ship-recycling firm, told the FT that "luck was running out" to avoid a major oil spill.
France’s navy boards a sanctioned Russian shadow fleet’s oil tanker in the Atlantic
The Tagor was hauling crude from a Russian Arctic port toward West Africa when commandos stopped it on the high seas, with British help.
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.
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.
US sanctions relief for Russian oil shipments appears to end with no renewal issued
The waiver was introduced during global energy disruptions linked to the Iran conflict, allowing Russian oil to be delivered as part of a temporary effort to stabilize supply.
BBC: 184 sanctioned Russian tankers made 238 journeys through UK waters since the PM’s March intercept threat
94 instances saw vessels enter actual UK territorial waters, and a Russian frigate escorted one tanker through the Channel — with zero publicly confirmed boardings.
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.