A vessel is on fire near Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast.
A vessel is on fire near Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast.
A vessel is on fire near Novorossiysk on Russia's Black Sea coast.
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Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces confirmed the TANECO refinery strike in Nizhnekamsk. Operators from the 1st Separate Center and 413th Raid Regiment hit the complex with other Defense Forces units, with explosions and fires reported at the site.
Magyar says Russia can currently launch 77 ballistic missiles simultaneously and plans to raise that figure to 200 in a single attack. He says Ukraine has destroyed more than 300 Russian air defense, radar and EW systems in recent months, but funding remains the main limit on expanding long-range strikes against military targets in Crimea.
❗️82% of Ukrainians believe Ukraine will ultimately win the war, according to a KIIS survey conducted July 16-31, while just 3% expect Russia to win. 59% are fully convinced of a Ukrainian victory and another 23% lean toward that outcome. On the current battlefield situation, 39% believe it favors Ukraine, compared with 7% who say Russia has the advantage. Another 32% believe neither side currentl...
Ukraine's General Staff confirmed a strike on the TANECO refinery in Nizhnekamsk, with a fire recorded at the site. It also confirmed damage to the AVT-6 primary oil processing column at the Ilsky refinery from the August 8 strike. At Hvardiiske airfield in occupied Crimea, the August 3 attack destroyed 9 aviation fuel tanks and damaged 2 aircraft hangars. Russian repair, logistics and artillery s...
❗️Ukraine struck Russian ballistic missile launchers in Kursk and Bryansk regions overnight, according to Ukrainian military sources. The targeted sites are used for Iskander and Zircon launches toward Kyiv. HUR and the SBU were reportedly hunting the launch systems.
Russia is fast-tracking Rassvet, its planned counterpart to Starlink, according to Ukraine's HUR. Moscow launched 16 satellites in March 2026 and plans to build a 292-satellite constellation in 2027, expanding it to 924 satellites by 2035. For now, Rassvet can operate only intermittently when a satellite passes over Ukraine. HUR says discussions are already underway on how to counter the system.
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Ukraine's Group 13 turned a modified Magura naval platform into an FPV drone carrier for strikes in occupied Crimea. The platform was used to deploy FPV drones that hit two Russian S-400 air defense launchers and an antenna used to control Orion UAVs, extending Magura's role beyond direct maritime attacks.
❗️Ukraine is preparing the Chornobyl exclusion zone for the possibility of another Russian invasion from Belarus, Der Spiegel reports. Ukrainian forces have built trenches and defensive positions, while tall poles and anti-drone nets are being installed along roads just 15 km from the Belarusian border. Ukraine also destroyed a railway bridge previously used by Chornobyl plant workers to prevent R...
Russia is producing key missile types at 110-120% of monthly targets and is unlikely to pause its attacks, according to Ukrainian military intelligence deputy chief Vadym Skibitskyi. Russia fired a record 198 ballistic and hypersonic missiles in July and plans to manufacture 11,000 strike drones of various types in August. Production is being shifted toward jet-powered Geran-4 and Geran-5 drones, ...
Another blast on Russia's rear logistics route. A powerful explosion was reported on the occupied Mariupol-Dzhankoi highway, where more burned-out fuel tankers are reportedly appearing.
❗️Nizhnekamsk, one of Russia's key oil refining and petrochemical centers, came under drone attack early this morning. The TANECO refinery was targeted. The complex has a design processing capacity of about 15 million tonnes per year, making it one of Russia's largest.
❗️The Atlantic reports Lockheed Martin and Raytheon view licensing Patriot production to Ukraine as potentially disadvantageous. Publicly, the manufacturers cite intellectual property theft and technology-transfer risks. According to the report, their deeper concern is that Ukraine could improve the system and then manufacture Patriots at greater scale, faster and at significantly lower cost than ...
Ukraine's Air Force says 96 Russian targets were stopped overnight: 92 drones and 3 Banderol loitering munitions were downed or suppressed, while a Kh-59/69 missile failed to reach its target. Russia launched 126 drones in total, with 31 impacts recorded at 22 locations.