A FIRMS thermal signature has been detected at the Portovaya LNG production, storage and loading complex near Bolshoy Bor in Russia’s Leningrad region. It is unclear whether the activity is connected to today’s drone attacks.
A fire is reported near Russia’s Kaporskoye radar company in the Leningrad region. Military unit 17646-F belongs to the 333rd Radio-Technical Regiment and supports radar surveillance, target tracking and early warning for the air-defense network protecting St. Petersburg and northwestern Russia.
Moment of attack caught on video. One of Ukraine's long-range drone strikes the oil depot at the Oil Terminal in St. Petersburg.
Marco Rubio says Ukraine currently has no access to Starshield and has requested access so it can conduct deep strikes inside Russia. Ukrainian sources dispute that, saying Starshield had already supported middle-strike and interceptor drones operating inside Ukraine. They say Starlink remains blocked inside Russia and that the recent restrictions instead affected Ukrainian operations on Ukrainian...
Last but not least. Ukrainian attack drones struck an Ozon warehouse in St. Petersburg this morning, triggering a large fire at the logistics facility. Ozon is Russia’s second-largest online marketplace and operates a nationwide network of fulfillment centers for storage, sorting and deliveries.
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One more target of the overnight attack on St. Petersburg was the bridge over the Korabelny Fairway, which carries a key access route linking the city’s oil port districts with the Ring Road and Russia’s federal highway network.
Ukraine struck the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal, with a large fire reported at the major Russian fuel storage and export facility. The terminal can handle 12.5 million tons of petroleum products annually and has around 441,000 cubic meters of storage capacity.
Ukraine says air defenses downed or suppressed 152 of 180 Russian drones overnight, including 16 jet-powered UAVs. Russia also launched an Iskander-M ballistic missile. Strikes were recorded at 20 locations, with debris falling at four more.
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Ukraine may have shown its Bars jet-powered interceptor drone for the first time. The system is based on the Bars jet-powered strike drone and is being used by the 1021st Air Defense Missile and Artillery Brigade. Five Bars interceptors reportedly destroyed five aerial targets in one engagement.
❗️The Trump administration is proposing that Europe resume buying more Russian gas as part of a potential Ukraine peace settlement, according to the NYT. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have raised restarting pipelines that carried Russian gas through Ukraine in talks with Ukrainian and European officials. The proposal would generate revenue for Moscow and Ukraine, while European officials have pu...
Ukraine’s 60th Mechanized Brigade says it used KARA ground robots during Operation Vivaldi to deliver food, weapons and ammunition and evacuate civilians and wounded troops. The unit also used armed ground drones to strike Russian positions for the first time.
Destroyed Russian logistics in southern occupied Ukraine.