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Ukrainian drones struck oil depots in Russia’s Tver Oblast and Stavropol Krai overnight on 9 July, setting fuel tanks ablaze at both, regional officials and OSINT analysts reported. Ukraine’s SBU security service confirmed the strikes, and monitors separately reported a hit on one of Russia’s three largest refineries. Ukrainian President VolodymyrContinue Reading

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Ukraine’s Defense Forces destroyed two road bridges in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast that fed a Russian army supply route toward the Kupiansk front, the Ukrainian military news outlet Militarnyi reported. Both crossings spanned the Urayeva River in the Valuysky district near the border. Russian authorities responded by closing a section of the roadContinue Reading

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Ukraine’s drone forces struck nine more Russian “shadow fleet” tankers in the Azov Sea overnight on 8 July, Unmanned Systems Forces (SBS) commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi said. The strikes extend a three-day maritime operation against fuel shipments bound for occupied Crimea, running alongside attacks on the peninsula’s power grid. A RussianContinue Reading

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Russia has again accused the Baltic states of enabling Ukrainian drone attacks on its territory, this time claiming to hold “verified data,” the Moscow Times reported. The accusation came right after Ukrainian drones struck Russian port infrastructure on the Baltic coast. It repeats a pattern of evidence-free Russian claims againstContinue Reading

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Russia’s most-used map service has quietly painted over scores of sensitive sites near its northwestern border, and in doing so showed where they sit, according to Militarnyi. A joint Nordic-Baltic team of reporters counted the blurred spots and traced most of them to Russia’s military and arms industry. The cover-up onlyContinue Reading

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Ukraine has unveiled a bust of 17th-to-18th-century Cossack leader Ivan Mazepa and floated a far bigger tribute to follow, according to RBC-Ukraine. The Ukrainian President proposed building a full monument to the hetman on a central Kyiv boulevard, on the spot where a Soviet statue once stood. He framed both steps as restoring historical justice toContinue Reading

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Last night and this morning, Ukraine continued its middle-strike campaign to isolate the occupied Crimean peninsula in the south of the country. Ukrainian drones struck two Russian military-support ships, a near-finished ferry, and air defenses guarding the Kerch Strait in occupied Crimea on 26 June, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said. AContinue Reading

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Belarus’s exiled opposition has handed Ukraine a detailed report arguing that Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime is systematically preparing the country to enter Russia’s war, according to the United Transition Cabinet of Belarus. The 30-page analysis went to Ukraine’s foreign minister and sets out the legal, military, economic, and social changes the authorsContinue Reading