War Archive 2022 02/24 Monitoring Russian and Ukraine War.

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Uki drone attack on Russian bomber airfields explained:

 

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We are heading towards a maritime muthbhed with the US navy.

 

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Ukraine says it hit Russian oil facilities, military airfield

Ukraine's military said on Saturday that it had struck oil facilities inside Russia, including a major refinery as well as a military airfield for drones and an electronics factory. In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said they had hit the oil refinery in Ryazan, about 18

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Ukraine says it hit Russian oil facilities, military airfield

REUTERS
Published :
Aug 02, 2025 16:17
Updated :
Aug 02, 2025 16:17

Ukraine's military said on Saturday that it had struck oil facilities inside Russia, including a major refinery as well as a military airfield for drones and an electronics factory.

In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces said they had hit the oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, causing a fire on its premises.

Also hit, the USF said, was the Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in the Voronezh region that borders on northeastern Ukraine.

The statement did not specify how the facilities were hit, but the USF specialises in drone warfare, including long-range strikes.

There was no immediate comment from Russia on the reported attacks on its infrastructure sites.

Separately, Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency said its drones had hit Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine.

The SBU said it also hit a factory in Penza that it said supplies Russia's military-industrial complex with electronics.

At the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine had no response to Moscow's vast long-range strike capacity but it has since built up a fleet of long-range kamikaze drones able to carry explosive warheads for many hundreds of kilometres (miles).

Russia's defence ministry said in its daily report that its defence units had downed a total of 338 Ukrainian drones overnight. Its reports do not say how many Ukrainian drones were launched at any given time.

For its part, Ukraine's air force said it had downed 45 of 53 Russian drones launched towards its territory overnight.

On Ukraine's eastern battlefront, Russia's defence ministry said, Russian forces had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in the Donetsk region on Saturday.

Reuters could not immediately verify the battlefield report.

Russian forces now control almost 20 per cent of Ukraine in its east and south after three-and-a-half years of grinding war.​

 

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Ukraine bets big on interceptor drones as low-cost air shield

When President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the end of last month that Ukraine needs $6 billion to fund the production of interceptor drones, setting a target of 1,000 a day, he had his reasons. Having already reshaped the battlefield by doing work once reserved for long-range missiles, field artil

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Ukraine bets big on interceptor drones as low-cost air shield

REUTERS
Published :
Aug 04, 2025 22:57
Updated :
Aug 04, 2025 22:57

A view shows an interceptor FPV-drone of the 1129th Bilotserkivskyi Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment during its flight, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in an undisclosed location in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine July 8, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

When President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the end of last month that Ukraine needs $6 billion to fund the production of interceptor drones, setting a target of 1,000 a day, he had his reasons.

Having already reshaped the battlefield by doing work once reserved for long-range missiles, field artillery and human intelligence, drones are now fighting Russian drones - a boon for Ukraine's dwindling stock of air defence missile systems.

In the last two months, just one Ukrainian charity supplying aerial interceptor drones says its devices have downed around 1,500 of the drones that Russia has been sending to reconnoitre the battlefield or to bomb Ukraine's towns and cities.

INTERCEPTORS HELP TO SAVE VALUABLE MISSILE STOCK

Most importantly, such interceptors have the potential to be a cheap, plentiful alternative to using Western or Soviet-made air defence missiles, depleted by allies' inability, or reluctance, to replenish them.

Colonel Serhiy Nonka's 1,129th air defence regiment, which started using them a year ago to ram and blow up enemy drones, estimated that they could down a Russian spotter drone at about a fifth of the cost of doing so with a missile.

As a result, the depth to which these enemy reconnaissance drones can fly behind Ukrainian lines has decreased sharply, Nonka said.

Some estimates put the interceptors' speed at over 300 kph (190 mph), although the precise figures are closely guarded.

Other units are using interceptors to hit the long-range Shahed "kamikaze" drones that Russia launches at Kyiv and other cities, sometimes downing dozens a night, according to Zelenskiy.

In the three and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine at scale, drones have gone from an auxiliary tool to one of the primary means of waging war for both sides.

To chase them down, interceptor drones need to be faster and more powerful than those that have already revolutionised long-range precision strikes and aerial reconnaissance.

INTERCEPTOR DRONES TO BECOME UBIQUITOUS

Like the First-Person View drones that now dominate the battlefield, interceptor drones are flown by a pilot on the ground through the video feed from an onboard camera.

“When we started to work (with these drones), the enemy would fly at 800 or a thousand metres," the officer who spearheaded their adoption by the 1,129th regiment, Oleksiy Barsuk. "Now it's three, four or five thousand – but their (camera) zoom is not infinite.”

Most of the regiment’s interceptor drones are provided by military charities that crowdfund weapons and equipment through donations from civilians.

Taras Tymochko, from the largest of these, Come Back Alive, said it now supplies interceptors to 90 units.

Since the project began a year ago, the organisation says over 3,000 drones have been downed by equipment it provided, nearly half of them in the last two months.

However, such interceptors are still no match for incoming missiles or the fast jet-powered attack drones that Moscow has recently started deploying.

The organisation reports the value of the downed Russian craft at $195 million, over a dozen times the cost of the drones and equipment handed over under the project.

Sam Bendett, adjunct senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security, said Russian forces were complaining about the effectiveness of large Ukrainian interceptors, but were also developing their own.

“We're starting to see more and more videos of various types of interceptions by both sides ... I think this is going to accelerate and it's going to become more and more ubiquitous in the coming weeks."​

 

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Russia hit key Ukraine gas interconnector to undermine preparation for winter, Kyiv says

Russia has struck a gas pumping station in Ukraine's southern Odesa region used in a scheme to import LNG from the US and Azerbaijan, undermining preparations for winter, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the gas infrastructure had been attacked in the villa

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Russia hit key Ukraine gas interconnector to undermine preparation for winter, Kyiv says

REUTERS
Published :
Aug 06, 2025 17:37
Updated :
Aug 06, 2025 17:37

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy gestures during a press conference on the first day of the two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference, on plans for the reconstruction of Ukraine, in Rome, Italy, July 10, 2025. Photo : REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane//Files

Russia has struck a gas pumping station in Ukraine's southern Odesa region used in a scheme to import LNG from the US and Azerbaijan, undermining preparations for winter, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the gas infrastructure had been attacked in the village of Novosilske on the border with Romania, where the Orlovka interconnector, through which Ukraine receives gas via the Transbalkan route, is located.

"This was a deliberate blow to our preparations for the heating season, absolutely cynical, like every Russian blow to the energy sector," Zelenskiy said on Telegram.

Reuters could not independently confirm details of the attack.

Russia's TASS news agency quoted the Russian defence ministry as confirming the attack on Ukraine's gas transport system.

Ukraine has faced a serious gas shortage since a series of devastating Russian missile strikes this year, which significantly reduced domestic production.

Ukraine's energy ministry said in a statement that the attacked station was used as part of a route connecting Greek LNG terminals with Ukrainian gas storage facilities via the Transbalkan gas pipeline.

It noted that it had already been used to deliver LNG from the United States and test volumes of Azerbaijani gas.

"This is a Russian strike purely against civilian infrastructure, deliberately targeting the energy sector and, at the same time, relations with Azerbaijan, the United States and partners in Europe, as well as the normal lives of Ukrainians and all Europeans," the ministry said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will meet US President Donald Trump in Washington this week.

Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago, but says infrastructure such as energy systems are legitimate targets because they help Ukraine's war effort.

Earlier on Wednesday, the governor of the southern Odesa region reported an attack on the main gas pipeline.

Ukrainian energy officials did not say whether gas would continue to be pumped via the interconnector.

Kyiv says 0.4 million cubic metres of gas was scheduled to be pumped through Orlovka on Wednesday.

Last month, Ukraine pumped a small test volume of Azerbaijani gas through the Transbalkan route for the first time and announced plans to significantly increase gas imports from Azerbaijan's SOCAR energy firm.

Kyiv has called the route "extremely important", as it provides access to liquefied gas from Greek and Turkish LNG terminals, Azerbaijani and Romanian pipeline gas and, potentially, to Bulgarian offshore gas.​