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.
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The tanks that fuel Moscow’s airliners are reported burning after Ukraine’s latest drone raid on the capital region
Footage geolocated by OSINT analysts placed the blaze at the Volodarskaya station, part of Russia's state pipeline network.
Moscow trains its military pilots at Khanskaya. Locals report a fire there after drones attacked overnight
NASA fire data confirmed a blaze in the airfield's area, though the damage is still unknown.
Drones hit Rostov-on-Don for the second straight night—OSINT monitors say the military airbase was likely the target again
The local authorities confirmed more than 50 drones downed overnight but said nothing about the airfield where Ukraine reportedly destroyed three aircraft and three helicopters the previous night.
Russian e-commerce will lose $4.8 billion to the drone campaign against its warehouses, analysts estimate
Analysts cut a whole year's growth forecast for Russian online retail by a fifth, and blamed the strikes alone.
A fifth of Russian refining sits idle, and the sector’s earnings still grew
The money is being made on prices and state compensation rather than on the volumes the front line actually needs.
Ukraine’s drone campaign is changing where Putin goes – now his flagship forum is being moved out of Sochi
Ukraine has sharply intensified its deep-strike drone campaign since Putin last visited Sochi, and now his security service is moving his flagship forum out of the resort.
Ukrainian drones took Ryazan’s blending unit after knocking out two of its four crude units
Satellite imagery in August showed half the plant's primary distillation capacity already out of action.
Ukraine takes Zelenskyy’s Russian airspace warning to UN aviation body
Kyiv's letter asks the UN aviation body to recommend that member states stop flying over Russia.
Kazakh refinery deal could ease Russia’s front-line fuel pressure—but it covers just 0.3% of demand
Central Asia lacks capacity to solve Moscow’s shortage, while potential suppliers risk Western sanctions.
“Russian airspace will effectively be closing”: Zelenskyy warns airlines Russian skies are no longer safe
Ukraine says civilian aviation is not a target, but warns airlines can no longer assume Russian skies are safe.
Drone attack damages Russia’s Baltic oil port as drone crosses Latvia into Estonia
Finland separately restricted air and maritime traffic in the eastern Gulf of Finland. No drones entered Finnish territory.
Ukraine says it hit an Iskander launcher near the border—part of a dedicated hunt for Russia’s ballistic launch sites
The tactic gives Kyiv another way to reduce the missile threat when its stocks of anti-ballistic interceptors are low, Zelenskyy says.
Ukraine planned 1,000 AI-guided drones a night to shut Moscow airports, Atlantic reports
Two anonymous sources said the drones could identify targets despite jamming. A Ukrainian presidential official denied the project existed.
Russia warns UK of “consequences” over British-made drones in Ukraine’s deep strikes. London vows to continue supporting Kyiv
Moscow accused London of deliberately escalating the war after reports that Ukrainian forces used UK-built drones to strike targets inside Russia, including oil refineries.
Russia’s most-used map app is erasing a Baltic missile site that Western maps still show
The concealment appears only on Yandex, leaving Google, Apple, and Microsoft to reveal exactly what Moscow wanted buried.
“One of the most massive” Ukrainian drone attacks hits Moscow Oblast: two major warehouses ablaze
Footage showed fires at Koledino and Severnoye Domodedovo. Moscow’s mayor claimed 201 drones were intercepted.
This Russian refinery makes the jet fuel for Moscow’s warplanes—and Ukraine keeps setting it on fire
Syzran supplies airfields and units of two Russian military districts, and it sits over 800 km from Ukraine. Also, Wildberries confirmed a fire at the Krasny Bor complex, the third of its Leningrad Oblast hubs struck in under two weeks.
A Russian warehouse built to hold 120 million items is burning east of Moscow region
Russia's largest online retailer confirmed the fire, evacuated staff, and reported no casualties, while the regional governor said emergency crews were working at the scene.
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.