Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed overnight strikes on Russia’s Volgograd oil refinery, halting production processes at the 15m-ton-per-year plant. The facility sits 500 km from the front and functions as a fuel hub between enemy frontline and rear units. AVT-1, AVT-3, AVT-5, AVT-6 and secondary processing units were hit.
A Russian soldier filmed the moment two kamikaze drones attacked his truck near Berdyansk, capturing one drone being shot down as the second continued the strike sequence.
❗️According to DeepState, Ukrainian forces retook territory near Novoselivka on the Oleksandrivka axis and are clearing Russian forces from areas near Vorone, Sichneve, Piddubne, Tovste, Novokhatske and Zelenyi Hai. Russians reportedly lost at least 46 sq km of territory already.
Russian channels are complaining that Ukraine has begun active remote mining of rear roads in occupied territory.
An M113 armored personnel carrier from Ukraine’s Lyut National Police Assault Brigade pushed into Kostiantynivka through Russian drone strikes to evacuate wounded fighters. The vehicle pressed through impacts to reach troops under fire.
An explosion was reported in Russia’s Chuvashia amid a missile alert. Details on the target, damage and possible casualties are not yet available.
Burning Russian equipment on the Mariupol-Melitopol highway.
Zelensky said Ukrainian intelligence has information that Russia is preparing another mass strike. He said partners must know Moscow still relies on missiles and war, not diplomacy, making faster air defense delivery and stronger sanctions essential.
Ukraine’s HUR, SBU and Navy shut down a Russian arms smuggling route across the Black Sea. For more than a year, services tracked a scheme moving contraband, weapons and Russian UAVs from occupied Abkhazia through civilian boats near Zmiinyi Island. In the final stage, participants were detained and 1,800 boxes of cigarettes, weapons, communications gear and a combat drone were seized.
Ukraine’s drones hit Russian targets across operational depth, including an ST-68 radar under a radome in Feodosia and a Pantsir-S1 near Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea. Other strikes hit fuel rail tanks in Makiivka, a logistics depot in Mariupol, an ammo depot in Rubizhne, a mobile fire group in Khriashchuvate and logistics across Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk.
❗️Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said the EU needs a special envoy to represent its interests in any Ukraine-Russia peace talks, but not as a neutral mediator. He said Europe backs Ukraine and has interests that overlap with Kyiv’s but go beyond them.
❗️Romania found another drone in the north of the country near Băsești commune, TVR reports. The UAV had no explosive device, while the local mayor said it was large, with a wingspan of about 3 meters.
Ukraine’s Border Guard says Belarus is not increasing troops near the border, but provocations remain possible as Russia presses Minsk to join the war more actively. Spokesman Andrii Demchenko said a future invasion cannot be ruled out.
Russian analyst Rybar says Ukraine is systematically disrupting Russian supply across the southern occupied regions, not just Crimea. He says Hornet drones are most active on the Mariupol-Melitopol route, long-range FPVs are hitting Donetsk and its ring road, while Hornet and Bulava drones strike routes in occupied Luhansk. Rybar warns the impact goes far beyond fuel and goods shortages.
Ukraine’s HUR says its operators have placed sections of the Berdyansk-Melitopol-Dzhankoi route under fire control, blocking Russia’s Crimea-Donetsk logistics corridor. The affected stretch runs through occupied territory between Sokolohirne in Kherson region and Yakymivka in Zaporizhzhia region. Footage shows Russian fuel tankers, trucks and a heavy equipment transporter burning after RAM-2X and ...