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Only One Russian Gas Refinery Had Escaped Ukraine's Drones This Year — Last Night, 930 Miles From the Border, It Burned
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (901+ words) Ukrainian drones set two major Russian refineries ablaze overnight — including Salavat in Bashkortostan, the last gas refinery untouched in 2026 — while Russia struck a refinery in Odesa. Moscow now plans to import 400,000 tons of gasoline a month as Lavrov brands the…...
Russia's Biggest Oil Refinery Just Went Dark After a Ukrainian Drone Struck It Deep in Siberia — and Kilometer-Long Gas Lines Followed
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (723+ words) A single Ukrainian drone forced Russia’s largest refinery, in Omsk, to halt operations, knocking out units that make roughly 75 percent of its output and triggering kilometer-long gas lines. The fallout has crossed borders: Uzbekistan canceled flights over jet fuel shortages,…...
Russia Has Lost at Least 8 of Its Best Fighters Over Ukraine and Built More Than It Started the War With
1+ week, 4+ day ago (207+ words) Russia sends the Su-35 to war more than any other modern fighter, and four years over Ukraine have produced a strange ledger: at least eight destroyed, a production line that never stopped, and a fleet that somehow ended the war’s…...
Russia’s Oil Refinery Capacity Just Hit a 16-Year Low. Ukraine Did That with Drone Strikes
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1267+ words) On the morning of 1 May, residents of the municipality of Tuapse had a distinctly unpleasant beginning to the traditional May Day holiday. Ukrainian forces launched yet another attack on the local oil refinery in this southern Russian region of Krasnodar…...
Russia Made Billions of Dollars in 2 Weeks From the Iran War. It Will Not Win Ukraine
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (944+ words) Russia pocketed several billion dollars in the first two weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed. That figure is worth sitting with — real money, attached to real barrels, flowing into accounts that fund a real war now in its fourth…...
I Have Seen the Ukraine War Up-close: Don’t Declare Russia the Winner Just Yet
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1065+ words) Ukraine’s fortunes have waxed and waned since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24th, 2022. In a truly David-versus-Goliath moment for the ages, Ukraine’s defenders managed against all expectations to defend Kyiv and push back Russian forces from Ukraine’s north. With…...
Ukraine: The World’s First Drone Superpower — and Russia Can’t Stop It
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1744+ words) In retrospect, it is easy to see how drone warfare has become the focal point of the Russia-Ukraine war. Unmanned systems can cost as little as $500 and come in all shapes, sizes, and capabilities. It is no exaggeration to say…...
The Ukraine War Has Cost Russia Everything — and Putin Still Thinks Stopping Would Cost More
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (905+ words) The Russia-Ukraine War is now entering its fifth spring. In February 2022, few (perhaps none) guessed that the war would last longer than the Eastern Front of World War II, but here we are. A quarter million or more Russians have…...
The Ukraine War Has Battle Hardened the Russian Military
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (817+ words) The Roman statesman and historian Sallust wrote that “defeat is the harshest instructor.” After four years of combat in Ukraine, the Russian army has proven him once more correct. T-14 Armata Tank from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons. Tu-160 Bomber…...
Fact or Fiction: Did Ukraine Really ‘Drone Strike’ Putin’s House?
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (478+ words) Key Points and Summary – Russia claims Ukrainian forces launched 91 long-range drones toward a presidential residence near Valdai in the Novgorod region, calling it “state terrorism” and hinting it could harden Moscow’s negotiating posture. -Ukraine rejects the allegation as a politically…...