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Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed strikes on the Rostov-on-Don military airfield and Slavneft-YANOS refinery overnight.

Ukraine’s General Staff confirmed strikes on the Rostov-on-Don military airfield and Slavneft-YANOS refinery overnight. Two An-26 transport aircraft, an An-12 and three helicopters were hit at the airfield, where a fire and subsequent detonations were recorded. At the Yaroslavl refinery, the AVT-3 primary oil processing unit was hit and caught fire. The refinery has capacity of around 15 million t...

Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

Ukraine’s 237th Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 7th Air Assault Corps destroyed two Russian BM-21 Grad launchers on the Huliaipole-Pology route.

Ukraine’s 237th Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 7th Air Assault Corps destroyed two Russian BM-21 Grad launchers on the Huliaipole-Pology route. One was hit near Huliaipole after operating almost directly from the road, while the second was struck while moving toward the city. Russian forces have been using the route, around 15 km from the line of contact, to move personnel and military equipmen...

Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

Trump again predicted that the Russia-Ukraine war will “end very soon,” calling it the toughest of the eight wars he says he has ended.

Trump again predicted that the Russia-Ukraine war will “end very soon,” calling it the toughest of the eight wars he says he has ended. In July, he said a resolution was “getting closer than people realize.” His timelines for ending the war have shifted over time, while US-mediated peace efforts remain stalled and Moscow and Kyiv are only considering a possible resumption of talks.

Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

❗️Ukrainian drones struck the Yaroslavl oil refinery overnight, sparking a fire and damaging the facility, according to the regional governor.

❗️Ukrainian drones struck the Yaroslavl oil refinery overnight, sparking a fire and damaging the facility, according to the regional governor. Slavneft-YANOS is one of Russia’s five largest refineries, with annual capacity of around 15 million tons of crude, or 300,000 barrels per day. The plant produces gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene, fuel oil and lubricants.

Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

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Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

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Noel Reports · World · before 7 days

❗️The US House passed the Graham Russia-Iran sanctions bill by 262-159, sending it to President Trump for his signature.

❗️The US House passed the Graham Russia-Iran sanctions bill by 262-159, sending it to President Trump for his signature. The legislation targets senior Russian officials, oligarchs and their families, banking and energy companies and Russia's shadow fleet. It also gives the president authority to impose tariffs of up to 100% on goods from countries among the five largest buyers of Russian oil and ...

Leak Live · World · before 7 days

🛸🇺🇦Russia's new drones (Geran-5) are changing the air war - FTWhat Western media say about Geran dronesStrikes on logistics hubs, rail junctions and border crossings have done something that earlier waves of attacks failed to do: they rattled Kiev and its Western backers at the same time. The panic is audible in the reporting itself, where the tone has shifted from confidence in Ukrainian ingenuity to open admissions that the defence has been outpaced.The Financial Times set the frame: the new Gerans fly at speeds and altitudes that have effectively blurred the line between a drone and a cruise missile, and that has changed the air war. The same paper put a number on the consequence, quoting Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yurii Ihnat: "The effectiveness of our air defense against jet drones is around 60 percent, whereas for other types it is 90 to 95 percent." The Wall Street Journal drew the industrial conclusion, quoting Kateryna Bondar of CSIS: "The West tends to underestimate Russia, yet it should be learning from its ability to close the loop from concept to serial production."Then came Reuters with the part nobody in Kiev wanted printed. At July trials of a new generation of Ukrainian interceptors, many of the aircraft lost control at speeds above 400 km/h, and some simply crashed into fields and forest. The programme that was supposed to be the answer to the Geran-5 failed its own demonstration.Maksym Zhorin, deputy commander of Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps, wrote it plainly on September 12: "We have once again completely lost the initiative with jet-powered drones, and we don't even know what to do about them."The arithmetic is unforgiving. Interceptor drones remain unready, Western air-defence missiles are in short supply, and jet Geran output keeps climbing. A defence that stops six of every ten incoming aircraft leaves the rest to choose their targets. With autumn arriving and the interceptor gap still open, the energy grid is the obvious next address.#Russia #Ukraine #UAV #AirDefense🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🛸🇺🇦Russia's new drones (Geran-5) are changing the air war - FTWhat Western media say about Geran dronesStrikes on logistics hubs, rail junctions and border crossings have done something that earlier waves of attacks failed to do: they rattled Kiev and its Western backers at the same time. The panic is audible in the reporting itself, where the tone has shifted from confidence in Ukrainian ingenuit...

Noel Reports · World · before 8 days

Zelensky says Ukraine is preparing a meeting with partners in the US covering peace negotiations, energy, food security and weapons, with new support packages including air defense expected. Ukraine is also expanding its anti-ballistic coalition. Zelensky said Europe's strongest companies capable of contributing to anti-ballistic defense are already participating in the FREYJA program, with Ukraine aiming to have a system ready for testing this year and eventually produce it at scale.

Zelensky says Ukraine is preparing a meeting with partners in the US covering peace negotiations, energy, food security and weapons, with new support packages including air defense expected. Ukraine is also expanding its anti-ballistic coalition. Zelensky said Europe's strongest companies capable of contributing to anti-ballistic defense are already participating in the FREYJA program, with Ukrain...

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Noel Reports · World · before 8 days

Ukraine's Third Army Corps has released first-person footage from the first phase of its large-scale offensive Operation Vivaldi.

Ukraine's Third Army Corps has released first-person footage from the first phase of its large-scale offensive Operation Vivaldi. The Corps says Ukrainian forces cleared 75 km2 of territory from Russian infiltration and retook another 10 km2. The operation involved the 60th, 66th and 125th Brigades, units of the Third Assault Brigade and Third Army Corps, HUR's Artan special unit, the 8th SOF Regi...

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Noel Reports · World · before 8 days

❗️Around 10% of Russian troops in Ukraine are reportedly addicted to drugs, with another 10% using them occasionally or depending on circumstances, Mark Galeotti writes in Der Pragmaticus. He says synthetic cathinones known as "salts", with effects resembling amphetamines, cocaine and ecstasy, are increasingly used by small Russian assault groups to suppress fatigue and fear. Galeotti says drugs are readily available through organized criminal networks supplying troops near the front.

❗️Around 10% of Russian troops in Ukraine are reportedly addicted to drugs, with another 10% using them occasionally or depending on circumstances, Mark Galeotti writes in Der Pragmaticus. He says synthetic cathinones known as "salts", with effects resembling amphetamines, cocaine and ecstasy, are increasingly used by small Russian assault groups to suppress fatigue and fear. Galeotti says drugs a...