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“Using satellite imagery from Planet Labs, journalists compiled an interactive map detailing the scope of Ukrainian strikes on Russian strategic facilities, including oil refineries, gas processing plants, fuel terminals, and military-industrial sites.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukraine’s Armed Forces struck more than 50 fuel and military-industrial infrastructure sites in Russia over the course of this autumn, marking an unprecedented rate of successful attacks, according to Ukraine’s General Staff and experts cited by Schemes, an investigative project by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Using satellite imagery from Planet Labs, journalists compiled an interactive map detailing the scope of Ukrainian strikes on Russian strategic facilities, including oil refineries, gas processing plants, fuel terminals, and military-industrial sites.

Damage was confirmed at 13 locations. Military and economic analysts told Schemes that these attacks have already forced Russia to increase spending on facility protection and have led to fuel shortages in some regions.

Read today’s full report at the link in bio.

Photo: Crimean Wind / Telegram

“Unconfirmed figures circulating on Ukrainian social media indicate that the strike may have destroyed up to 1,000 Shahed-type drones and over 1,500 warheads for them.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukraine’s armed forces have struck a hub for Russian drone logistics in occupied Donetsk, the General Staff confirmed on Nov. 6.

Late in the evening of Nov. 5 videos emerged on Telegram of explosions rocking the area around the Donetsk airport. Commentators called it a strike on a warehouse that housed long-range Shahed-type drones.

On Nov. 6 the General Staff confirmed the strikes on “a base of storage, assembly and launch of Shahed-type UAVs.”

They further noted explosions and “a powerful secondary detonation” as well as the involvement of missile and artillery units and the Unmanned Systems Forces.

Videos posted to social media appear to support the claims.

Unmanned Systems Forces leader Madyar described the strike as the result of a “painstaking months-long reconnaissance operation” in a post on Telegram.

The “killboard” for the unit, also known as the 414, or “Madyar’s Birds,” does now include one warehouse.

The airport was one of Ukraine’s premier development projects before falling under Russian occupation in 2015. Russia has in recent months turned it into a staging ground for drone logistics.

Unconfirmed figures circulating on Ukrainian social media indicate that the strike may have destroyed up to 1,000 Shahed-type drones and over 1,500 warheads for them.

Elsewhere overnight, Ukraine’s military struck and damaged Russia’s Volgograd oil refinery overnight as explosions rocked several Russian energy sites.

Photo: Planet Labs Videos: exilenova_plus/Telegram

“The Bryansk Chemical Plant [— a ‘key facility’ in Russia’s military-industrial complex — was hit in the attack. It] produces gunpowder, explosives and rocket fuel components [used by Russia] in ammunition and missiles launched against Ukraine.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukrainian forces carried out a large-scale attack against Russia on Oct. 21, striking the Bryansk Chemical plant, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported.

The strike was a combined attack involving air-launched Storm Shadow missiles, the military said. It was carried out by Ukraine’s Air Force in coordination with the Navy, Land Forces, and other military units.

The attack hit the Bryansk Chemical Plant in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, the General Staff said. The consequences of the strike are still being assessed.

The Kyiv Independent could not independently verify these claims at the time of publication.

The Bryansk Chemical Plant produces gunpowder, explosives, and rocket fuel components, which Russia uses in ammunition and missiles launched against Ukraine. The General Staff described the plant as a “key facility” in Russia’s military-industrial complex.

Photo: John Keeble/Getty Images

Swipe left on the image for @kyivindependent_official’s Ukraine War Latest update for October 14, 2025, to see news about two other developments in addition to this news about Pokrovsk. 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Russia’s largest oil depot in occupied Crimea is still burning a day after being struck by Ukrainian drones, with a huge column of smoke visible from more than 25 kilometers away, local media reported on Oct. 14.

Meanwhile, Assault units with Ukraine’s Armed Forces advanced up to 1.6 kilometers (about 1 mile) in parts of the Pokrovsk sector of the front line, according to Ukraine’s top general.

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Photo: Telegram/Crimean Wind

A post from earlier this week about the impact of Ukraine’s sustained campaign of strikes on oil refineries in Russia. 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Over the past week, Ukraine’s Armed Forces carried out new strikes on Russian oil refineries, forcing Russian authorities to extend a ban on gasoline exports and announce the introduction of a partial ban on diesel exports.

Ukraine’s sustained campaign of strikes on refineries is now causing mild havoc at gas stations in Russia and occupied Crimea, with prices skyrocketing and short-term shortages widely reported.

While, for now, these strikes are unlikely to cause massive disruptions to global supply chains, market experts who spoke to the Kyiv Independent say Russia’s highly profitable diesel and gasoline exports are still taking an unprecedented hit.

A domestic energy crisis is also at play.

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The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported they’ve regained control of and raised the Ukrainian flag in Udachne, a village in Donetsk Oblast six miles west of Pokrovsk. 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukrainian forces cleared Russian troops from the Donetsk Oblast village of Udachne and raised the Ukrainian flag in the settlement, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces reported on Sept. 2.

Udachne lies around 10 kilometers (6 miles) west of Pokrovsk, a strategic town that has become one of the fiercest front-line areas in Ukraine’s east.

The announcement comes only a day after the Ukrainian military reported the liberation of the nearby village of Novoekonomichne.

Soldiers of Ukraine’s 425th Skelia Regiment destroyed all Russian positions in the settlement, the General Staff said, sharing a video of a pair of Ukrainian soldiers raising the flag on top of a damaged building.

“For two weeks, assault units gradually cleared house after house and raised the Ukrainian flag over the village,” a military spokesperson said in the video.

The Ukrainian monitoring group DeepState showed that Russian forces were still holding the southern part of Udachne as of Sept. 1, with the northern part marked as a contested “gray” area.

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Russian troop losses from the war in Ukraine are not likely to be less than 1 million for much longer. #cannonfodder 🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of June 8, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.