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.

A Neptune missile strike on Borisoglebsk air base hit six Su-34M glide bomb carriers overnight on October 15, Ukraine's Navy says, with Zelensky counting four destroyed and two hit. The same morning, he declared the block on refinery strikes out: Ukraine is done holding fire.

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.

Ukrainian intelligence says it has seen documents in which Putin orders broader strikes on civilian targets before winter. Inside Putin's new strike doctrine: a week of 1,900 drones, four days of bridge hits, a nuclear plant losing its lifelines, and Zelensky's promise to answer on Russian refineries.

Putin's army expansion hit its fourth decree of the year while Reuters surfaced a 27 percent rise in Russia's 2027 war budget and Zelensky warned that 10,000 more North Korean troops are preparing to deploy. What the three documents say about how long Moscow plans to fight.

Part two of our Russian airpower assessment moves past the bombers: the tactical fighters that fly every day, a helicopter force that is actually bigger than it was in 2022, an airlift fleet 24 new planes into a 108-plane promise, and a navy flying its carrier jets from dry land.

An OSINT assessment of the Russian Air Force in late 2026: the losses we can prove airframe by airframe, the bases the bombers still fly from, what provably remains, and the arithmetic of a factory system that delivered 14 fighters in eight months while the war ate ten.

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.

A gunman on a motorcycle put two bullets into the commander of Russia's Engels bomber division on September 3. The Russian general shot near Engels is the man Ukraine charged over the Okhmatdyt children's hospital strike three days earlier.

HUR just published the most detailed public teardown of Russia's 3M22 Zircon: slower than claimed, solid-fuel instead of a scramjet, a 120 kg warhead, and a supply chain of 70 companies with American chips inside. Here is what the file changes.

HUR tears down Russia's new 9M723-2, a 550 kilometer Iskander already fired at Kyiv, while Ukraine's air defense puts seven ballistic missiles into the dirt in one night.

HUR confirms North Korea's KN-30 has reached Russia for the first time, with roughly 50 KN-23-series missiles in-country by July and six DPRK launchers plus 90 personnel based at Voronezh under the 112th Guards Missile Brigade. The catch-up sitrep for August 21: this is no longer an arms sale, it is a joint program with a live test range.

Russia's August drone plan hits 11,000 airframes, the Kremlin orders 409,000 contract troops while eyeing mobilization after the September vote, and Putin threatens to seize ships in kind. The morning deep brief for August 13.

Zelensky says North Korean ballistic missiles hit Zaporizhzhia alongside Zircons on August 11, seven reported killed at Metinvest's works. Six days after HUR flagged 40 KN-23s delivered with crews to Voronezh, the deployment we covered is firing. Here is the ledger, the launch geography, and why the interceptor math just got worse.

Austria's DSN dismantled a Vienna-run network that fed European machine tools into Rostec's missile and jet engine plants through eight countries on forged end-user certificates. The same day, HUR tabled 5,816 foreign components pulled from 202 Russian weapons. The factories running at 120 percent run on imported machines.

Ukraine's Defence Intelligence says Russian missile plants are overfulfilling monthly plans by 110 to 120 percent, with July setting a 2026 record of 351 missiles launched. Here is the production ledger, and why no pause is coming.

Pyongyang isn't just shipping missiles to Russia anymore, it's sending the crews. What HUR's August 5 report actually means, and what to watch in September.