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Ukraine hits Crimean airfield twice in one week, strikes jets again
Seven Russian warplanes sat inside hardened aircraft shelters on occupied Crimean soil this week, and Ukraine’s security service says it turned most of them into wreckage before dawn. Ukraine’s Security Service, known by its Ukrainian initials SBU, said its drones struck seven hangars at the Saky military airfield in western Crimea, destroying or damaging at []
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Washington Examiner
· Jul 1, 2026
Zelensky calls for peace after Ukraine strikes Russian oil refinery and military complex
Ukraine launched two long-range military strikes against Russia on Wednesday, hitting another oil refinery and a military facility, continuing the trend of its recent military success with such weapons. Russia’s Ufa oil refinery and an aerospace and defense facility where missile components are built were hit by Ukrainian forces. Both targets are hundreds of miles []
Off The Press
· Jul 1, 2026
Zelensky calls for peace after Ukraine hits Russian oil refinery, military complex
Ukraine launched two long-range military strikes against Russia on Wednesday, hitting another oil refinery and a military facility, continuing the trend of its recent military success with such weapons. Russia’s Ufa oil refinery and an aerospace and defense facility where missile components are built were hit by Ukrainian forces. Both targets are hundreds of miles []...Click to read more
EUobserver
· Jul 10, 2026
Without Patriots, Ukraine turns to drones and jamming against Russian Iskanders (Ukraine battlefield update, Day 1,598)
Ukrainian drones are quietly mauling Russia’s Azov fleet and missile industry even as a single mis‑sited ammunition depot in Vyshneve shows how one strike can turn a Kyiv neighbourhood into a toxic war zone within minutes.
Meduza.io
· Jul 8, 2026
A night in photos: Kyiv takes another Russian strike while Ukraine hunts Russia’s refineries, an airfield, and its ‘shadow fleet’
Russian forces hit Kyiv again overnight into July 8, even as Ukraine’s military launched a fresh wave of attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure. Ukrainian drones struck so-called shadow fleet tankers in the Sea of Azov, an industrial zone in Nizhnekamsk that’s home to two oil refineries, refineries in Saratov and Ufa, and a military airfield in Borisoglebsk, in the Voronezh region. One person was killed and at least eight were wounded. Meduza has put together footage of the night’s strikes on Russian cities.
Intel Slava
· Jul 10, 2026
[Video] 🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out multiple FAB-500 glide bomb strikes [...]
— Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out multiple FAB-500 glide bomb strikes against Ukrainian positions. Five FAB-500 UMPK bombs struck a raised river crossing used by Ukrainian forces near Mayaky in the Donetsk People's Republic. Four FAB-500 UMPK bombs destroyed a personnel shelter belonging to the 159th Separate Motorized Brigade near Zakharovka, Kharkiv Oblast. A separate airstrike destroyed a Ukrainian drone command post near Rublene, Kharkiv Oblast.@IntelSlava
Sputnik
· Jul 1, 2026
Russia Keeps Hammering Ukraine’s Energy Grid
In retaliation, Russian forces are launching high-precision strikes on Ukrainian fuel depots, supply stations, and railway hubs, crippling the enemy’s logistics, one link at a time.
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Related coverage for "Ukraine hits Crimean airfield twice in one week, strikes jets again": Washington Examiner — Zelensky calls for peace after Ukraine strikes Russian oil refinery and military complex. Off The Press — Zelensky calls for peace after Ukraine hits Russian oil refinery, military complex. EUobserver — Without Patriots, Ukraine turns to drones and jamming against Russian Iskanders (Ukraine battlefield update, Day 1,598). Meduza.io — A night in photos: Kyiv takes another Russian strike while Ukraine hunts Russia’s refineries, an airfield, and its ‘shadow fleet’. Intel Slava — [Video] 🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Aerospace Forces have carried out multiple FAB-500 glide bomb strikes [...]. Sputnik — Russia Keeps Hammering Ukraine’s Energy Grid