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St. Petersburg Drone Attack: The 1,000 Drone Night That Answered Trump's Waiver
Ukraine's biggest drone night of the war reached St. Petersburg, setting the Petersburg Oil Terminal ablaze days after Trump's sanctions waiver. What the St. Petersburg drone attack hit, and what it means for the energy ceasefire.
chris Naganuma
1 day ago6 min read
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Russia Attacks Western Ukraine: One of the War's Largest Grid Barrages, and Trucks Burning on the Road to Poland
Russia attacks western Ukraine with one of the largest energy barrages of the war: 647 drones in 24 hours, more than 15 grid facilities targeted, and a customs terminal burning in Kovel on the road to Poland.
chris Naganuma
2 days ago6 min read
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Yandex Data Center Attacks: Three Strikes in Four Days Took Russia's Cloud Offline
Drones hit three Yandex data centers in four days: Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir. The Yandex data center attacks knocked more than 80 cloud services offline and opened a new front in the long-range war.
chris Naganuma
Oct 116 min read
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Germany Ukraine Aid Package: Merz Brings Kyiv $1.46 Billion and a Bet on Interceptor Drones
The new Germany Ukraine aid package lands with Merz in Kyiv: 1.3 billion euros for the fifth war winter, thousands of IRIS-T missiles, and tens of thousands of STRILA interceptor drones built in Ukraine with German money. The same morning, Berlin's spy chief told parliament Russia is already waging a shadow war.
chris Naganuma
Oct 55 min read
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Kyiv Bridge Strikes: Three Days on the Dnipro Crossings, and What 50 Kilograms Can Actually Break
Kyiv bridge strikes, day by day: Russia hit the Southern Bridge four times in two days and the Northern Bridge on Saturday, the first deliberate attacks on the capital's Dnipro crossings of the war. What Moscow is actually trying to break, and how five of its weapons ended up exploding in Moldova.
chris Naganuma
Oct 36 min read
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Operation Vivaldi Phase Three: The Bluff at Lyman That Took Back 51 Square Kilometers and 250 Prisoners
Operation Vivaldi phase three is complete: Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps says 51 square kilometers retaken near Lyman, Nove, Ridkodub and Katerynivka liberated, around 2,000 Russian losses and more than 250 prisoners, all set up by a deception that pointed Russia at the wrong axis.
chris Naganuma
Sep 285 min read
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The Perm Refinery Drone Strike: 592 Drones, a Urals Giant Burning, and the Plant That Feeds the Kh-59
Russia says it intercepted 592 drones in one night. The Perm refinery drone strike still reached 1,500 kilometers out, set a 13 million ton Urals refinery burning, and hit the Almaz-Antey plant that feeds the Kh-59 and the Pantsir.
chris Naganuma
Sep 255 min read
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The Ukraine US Drone Deal Is Ready: Kyiv's Interceptors Already Defended American Bases From Iran
The Ukraine US drone deal is written and waiting for a signature. CBS News reveals Ukrainian interceptors and pilots quietly defended American bases in the Iran war, and the Pentagon wants 200,000 drones by 2027.
chris Naganuma
Sep 245 min read
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Fifteen Kilometers From the Kremlin: The Moscow Oil Refinery Burns in the Largest Drone Attack on the Capital
Ukraine hit the Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya with drones and Flamingo class missiles on the final day of Russia's Duma vote, in what Sobyanin called the largest drone attack on the capital ever. The numbers, the units that burned, and what comes next.
chris Naganuma
Sep 205 min read
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The Rubicon Drone Unit Pulls Back: Operation Vivaldi Beat Russia's Drone Elite at Its Own Game
Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps says the Rubicon drone unit, Russia's most feared unmanned formation, has been pulled off the Lyman front after Operation Vivaldi wrecked its logistics, launch sites, and operators. Inside the 36,000 sorties and the EW dome that did it.
chris Naganuma
Sep 195 min read
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629 Drones for Election Day: The Biggest Drone Attack on Moscow Opens Russia's Duma Vote
Russia opened its first wartime Duma election under the biggest drone attack on Moscow of the war: 629 drones claimed across 14 regions, more than 350 aimed at the capital region by the mayor's own count, one night after Ukraine burned six aircraft at Rostov.
chris Naganuma
Sep 185 min read
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Anton Grunis Killed: Ukraine's Drones Reach the General Who Told Putin Kostiantynivka Fell
Anton Grunis killed: Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces confirm the 427th Rarog regiment eliminated the general who told Putin Kostiantynivka had fallen, 16 days after his Hero of Russia Gold Star.
chris Naganuma
Sep 165 min read
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Shot Down Over Lithuania: The First Drone Kill in Lithuanian Airspace Came Out of Belarus
The first drone shot down over Lithuania came out of Belarus: Italian Typhoons killed it after 30 minutes in allied airspace, a Gerbera washed up on a Polish beach, and Kyiv says Shaheds are flying on Belarusian LTE networks. The Baltic drone file just turned kinetic.
chris Naganuma
Sep 155 min read
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The Yahodyn Drone Strike: Fifteen Minutes Behind the Train Carrying Boris Johnson and Europe's Envoys
A Russian drone hit the Kyiv-Warsaw locomotive two kilometers from Poland, minutes after a diplomatic train carrying Boris Johnson and EU security advisers pulled out early. ISW's read of the Yahodyn drone strike: it was aimed at wounding or killing European officials.
chris Naganuma
Sep 145 min read
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The First Naval Drone Battle: Ukraine's Sargan Sinks a Russian Drone Boat in the Black Sea
The first naval drone battle in history: Ukraine's Sargan 3000 hunted down a Russian Orcan-type drone boat in the Black Sea and sank it with a 12.7 mm turret. How the fight went, and why the next one will not be this easy.
chris Naganuma
Sep 135 min read
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Jilin Chemical Fiber: The Chinese State Firm in Russia's Shahed Supply Chain, and the Night the Truce Ended
Two containers from Jilin Chemical Fiber, 46 tonnes of carbon fiber precursor, enough for a reported 1,300 Shahed-type drones. The documents landed the same weekend the Kyiv truce died at 3:30 in the morning. Here is the supply chain behind the barrage.
chris Naganuma
Sep 85 min read
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The Sochi Drone Attack: Ukraine's Sea Drones Just Reached Putin's Riviera
A Ukrainian naval drone slipped into Sochi's port on September 3 and blew up the Nefrit, a 90 meter supply ship with a strange resume. The Sochi drone attack extends the sea drone war to the deepest corner of Russia's Black Sea coast.
chris Naganuma
Sep 35 min read
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Closing the Sky: Zelensky Puts Russian Aviation on Notice, and the Numbers Say He Can
Zelensky warned every airline and insurer still using Russian airspace that the safe moments are over. The 2026 aviation ledger, 527 flights hit in one June night and cancellations up fourfold, says the drone campaign can deliver. Putin calls it state terrorism. Here is the doctrine behind the warning.
chris Naganuma
Sep 25 min read
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The Long Alarm: Four Days Over Kyiv, and Russia's New Exhaustion Math
Kyiv is in its fourth straight day of near-constant drone attack. Nearly 2,000 drones in a week, a record 13 air raid alerts in one day, and a tactic built to exhaust the defenses before winter: the morning deep read.
chris Naganuma
Aug 315 min read
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The Myla Detonations: One Drone, an Ammunition Warehouse, and 37 Dead Outside Kyiv
A single Russian jet drone hit a warehouse in Myla, west of Kyiv, at 20:10 on August 28. The munitions inside kept exploding for hours. At least 37 people are dead, and Ukraine has opened a criminal negligence case over why that ammunition sat beside people's homes.
chris Naganuma
Aug 315 min read
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