A modem from a Russian drone led reporters to its Chinese maker—which invoiced 500 for Russia’s drone plant
Posing as a Russian military supplier, journalists got a $2.87 million invoice, three bank accounts, and no pushback on military use.
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Russia’s secret drone math: one Tatarstan plant could yield 28,000 more drone bodies a year
Leaked Rosatom documents describe a Tatarstan carbon fiber plant that could lift Russia's Shahed-type drone output 78% by 2029.
Modern war that the US is not ready for: For the price of one American cruise missile, Russia builds 20 “poor-man” drones and missiles
Russia is fielding cheap jet drones and missiles built with Chinese parts—slipping past defenses Ukraine and the West spent years building.
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.
China calls itself neutral—but its fiber ends up in the drones that hit Ukraine
The papers, reviewed by Western governments, trace drone-grade material straight from a Chinese state firm to a sanctioned Russian plant.
Ukraine hits major Russian refinery and Black Sea oil terminal as drones strike substation powering occupied Crimea
Fires broke out at all three targets as occupied Crimea suffered a widespread blackout that halted electric transport in several cities.
The drones hit Volgograd, then kept flying 1,100 km to Tatarstan
Wildrebbies retailer confirmed its logistics center caught fire in Volgograd, while local reports put a Lukoil refinery ablaze in the city's south.
Russia’s refinery in Saratov, two in Tatarstan, a pumping station in Bashkortostan — one night’s oil target list
Fires broke out at the Saratov plant and the Nizhnekamsk refining cluster, while Ukraine's security service struck an oil-products pumping station 1,500 kilometers from the border.
Ukraine confirms strikes on two Tatarstan refineries and rocket-fuel rubber plant in Tolyatti
Ukraine's GenStaff reported fires at all three plants, while monitoring channels reported a fourth hit — on one of Europe's largest petrochemical complexes in the same Tatarstan city.
Kremlin enacts law to grab homes and bank accounts of its exiled critics
A formal charge alone can now trigger seizure of property worth many times the underlying fine, with no judge required to approve it.
Russia tells its regions to raise taxes on residents and businesses to plug a record budget hole
The combined regional gap grew fivefold from 2024 and almost eightfold from 2023, with the tax service now pressing governors to find more revenue.
Thick smoke rises over Nizhnekamsk as one of Russia’s key petrochemical war-linked plants burns (VIDEO)
The war’s cost spreads far beyond the battlefield, hitting Russia’s technological potential and industrial capacity.
Russia uses three distinct turboprop Shahed drone variants — all packed with foreign parts
Ukraine’s sanctions envoy said that Moscow’s drone assembly plants in Tatarstan and Izhevsk can’t operate without imported microcontrollers and digital converters.
Kremlin agents used EU territory as covert highway to arm kamikaze drones for attacks on Ukrainians
The SBU raids Kyiv and surrounding regions, seizing evidence of a sophisticated operation to improve drone strikes.
Not just deported: Moscow turns Ukrainian children into soldiers, laborers, and Russians, studies show
From grenade drills to drone assembly, many kids are pressed into the Russian war machine, according to two recent studies.
Hudson Institute lists Russia’s eight most fragile military arteries Ukraine could sever next to break the stalemate
A new report highlights targets ranging from Crimean bridges to drone factories that sustain Moscow’s war effort. Analysts argue that striking these weak points could paralyze Russia’s logistics and increase the cost of occupation.
Ukraine hits core of Moscow’s drone war machine for second time in single week
Ukrainian forces target Russia's expanding Shahed production network with precision strikes 1,300 km from the border.
Moscow recruits African women to produce drones in horrific conditions — investigation exposes large-scale fraud
Russia is expanding the production of drones in Tatarstan, using African and Asian women who are deceived into taking dangerous jobs in the Alabuga special economic zone.
Ukrainian drones just hit Russian factory making Shahed UAVs—1,000+ km from the front line
Ukraine struck a drone factory in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, tied to the Shahed UAVs used in near-daily attacks on Ukrainian cities.
Ukrainian drones target drone-producing Tatarstan in Russia
Meanwhile, Russia imposes new fines and censorship policies, aiming to prevent public access to evidence contradicting official interception claims.