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☆ Russia is getting hundreds of volunteers to protect its vulnerable planes from attacks, likely because it lacks enough trained security teams, intel says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A recent drone attack on a Russian airbase left several military aircraft damaged and destroyed. A satellite image shows the air base in Pskov, after what Kyiv confirmed to have been a Ukrainian drone attack, in Russia, August 31, 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe new measures to protect its bases underscore major deficiencies in Russia's domestic security and air-defense network. TELEGRAM / MIKHAIL VEDERNIKOV/via REUTERSAugust alone saw over two dozen drone attacks on Russian territory. AdvertisementAdvertisementAn Ilyushin Il-76 Strategic airlifter, several of which were damaged in the drone attack.

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☆ A Ukrainian-made missile that could hit targets 930 miles inside Russia is nearly ready, says top security official
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

New Ukrainian-made missiles could reach up to 930 miles into Russia, a top security official said. Oleksiy Danilov said the weapons will be used against Russian military facilities - not civilians. His comments follow President Zelenskyy's statement that weapons could hit Russia more than 430 miles away. Unlike Russia, he said, Ukrainian missiles and drones inside Russia will only target factories and military facilities - not civilian objects. His comments follow those of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who said Ukraine's weapons could hit targets more than 430 miles away.

Persons: Oleksiy Danilov, Zelenskyy's, Danilov, Zelenskyy, Samuel Bendett Organizations: Service, Ukrainian Radio, National Security and Defense, of, New, Russian Federation —, Ukrainian Ministry of, Reuters, Center for Naval, NATO Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine, of Ukraine, Kherson, Pskov

☆ 4 Russian Il-76 transport planes were damaged in a fiery blaze after a Ukrainian drone strike hit a Russian airfield more than 400 miles from the border
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Ukrainian drone strike damaged four Russian transport planes at a Russian airbase in Pskov, per reports. The strike comes as Ukraine ramps up its attacks in Russia to bring to the war home to Putin. Satellite imagery suggests two of the planes were destroyed and two were significantly damaged. One of the Russian Il-76 aircraft destroyed at Pskov Air Base by Ukrainian drones earlier this week. Another damaged IL-76 aircraft has same black spot.

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☆ Ukrainian weapons can now hit targets 430 miles away, Zelenskyy says, threatening to bring the war deeper inside Russia's borders
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He said Ukrainian weapons can hit Russian targets more than 430 miles away. It means Ukraine has extended the range of its attacks and can strike deep within Russia's borders. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn a Facebook post Thursday, he posted a video apparently showing a long-range Ukrainian missile test. Ukrainian Main Military Intelligence Directorate Head Major General Kyrylo Budanov said that Ukraine has the capacity to strike targets anywhere in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula occupied by Russia since 2014. As part of that drive, Ukraine has launched attacks on cities and military targets in Russia apparently aimed at sapping Russian morale.

Persons: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy, Oleksiy Danilov, Kyrylo Budanov Organizations: Service, Ministry of Strategic Industries, Ukraine, Ukrainian National Security and Defense, Main Military Intelligence Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine, Russia's, Wall, Silicon, Pskov, Russia, Washington, DC, Russian, Crimea

☆ Ukraine war live updates: Moscow says Russian warplanes damaged after drone strikes; Kyiv repels multiple attacks overnight
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Residents stand outside their damaged buildings after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine overnight on August 30, 2023. Russia and Ukraine accused each other of launching multiple drone attacks against each other's territory overnight Wednesday. Russian officials accused Ukraine of launching several drone attacks against five regions in central and northwestern Russia, while Kyiv said it had repelled more than 20 drone and missile attacks on the capital. One alleged Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an airfield in Pskov in the northwest of the country, setting two Ilyushin Il-76 military transport aircraft on fire and damaging several other aircraft, Russian news agency Tass reported. The governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov, said on his Telegram channel that the scale of the destruction is being assessed and flights from Pskov's airport were cancelled Wednesday.

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☆ How the Russian officer elite has been decimated in Ukraine — here are the generals and top commanders killed in action
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Alia Shoaib | Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Vitaly GerasimovMaj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov became the second senior Russian commander reported to be killed after Ukrainian military intelligence claimed he was shot dead in Kharkiv. Andrey KolesnikovUkraine's military said in a tweet that they killed Russian Maj. Gen. Andrey Kolesnikov. Ivan GrishinColonel Ivan Grishin, commander of Russia's 49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, died in Ukraine, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Vyacheslav SavinovLieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Savinov, who headed Russian artillery intelligence, was killed in Ukraine, a Russian artillery school confirmed. A damaged Russian military vehicle is seen after Russian Forces withdrawal as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on September 14, 2022.

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☆ Exclusive: Wagner fighters neared Russian nuclear base during revolt
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +20 min

Reuters GraphicsOnce the Wagner fighters reach more rural regions, the surveillance trail goes cold – about 100 km from the nuclear base, Voronezh-45. But in an exclusive interview, Ukraine's head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, said that the Wagner fighters went far further. The only barrier between the Wagner fighters and nuclear weapons, Budanov said, were the doors to the nuclear storage facility. It is one of Russia's 12 "national-level storage facilities" for nuclear weapons, according to a report by U.N. scientists. Another female resident also said Wagner had widespread support in the town, and that many Wagner fighters are from Boguchar.

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☆ Explosion damages Russian oil pipeline building near Belarus border, governor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

MOSCOW, May 27 (Reuters) - An explosion in Russia's Pskov region near the border with Belarus left an oil pipeline's administrative building damaged, local Governor Mikhail Vedernikov said on Telegram on Saturday. There were no casualties and operational services were working at the scene, he said. Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Alexander Marrow; Editing by Alison WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

SummarySummary Companies Drones attack Druzhba pipeline infrastructure, Russian media sayDrones strike far inside RussiaOne killed in shelling near Ukraine borderRussian forces intercept British Storm Shadow missilesMOSCOW, May 27 (Reuters) - Ukraine struck oil pipeline installations deep inside Russia on Saturday with a series of drone attacks including on a station serving the Druzhba pipeline, while shelling from Ukraine killed at least two, Russian officials and media said. Ukraine has not publicly acknowledged launching attacks against targets inside Russia. The Telegram channel Baza, which has good sources among Russia's security services, said the drones attacked a station serving the Druzhba pipeline. Russia's oil pipeline operator Transneft (TRNF_p.MM) said earlier this month that a filling point on Druzhba in a Russian region bordering Ukraine had been attacked. Kyiv officials have previously said that Western-supplied weapons would be used exclusively against Russian forces inside Ukraine.

☆ Dramatic video shows a Russian soldier being shot at by his own side as he tries to surrender to a drone, Ukrainian official says
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Dramatic video footage shows a Russian soldier's surrender to a Ukrainian drone, Ukraine said. The "I Want to Live" hotline, which claims to receive thousands of calls a month, is an official project of Ukraine allowing Russian soldiers to pre-arrange to surrender once on Ukrainian territory. In the footage, the soldier can be seen making various signals to the drone indicating he doesn't want to fight, Matvienko said. The drone drops him a package containing a note which, per Matvienko, tells him to surrender and to follow it. The encounter, Matvienko said, is one example of how "Ukrainian soldiers find such creative ways to defeat Russians on the battlefield."

More recently, he has tried to wrap Ukraine into that narrative, falsely depicting it as a Nazi redoubt. Image Smoke rising above a fuel depot in the Russian village of Volna, near the bridge linking Crimea to Russia, last Wednesday. In Russia, various regional governors have cited security concerns in canceling Victory Day events. “No neo-Nazi scum will be able to mar the great Victory Day. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said the march was canceled as a “precautionary measure” against possible attacks.

More recently, he has tried to wrap Ukraine into that narrative, falsely depicting it as a Nazi redoubt. Credit... ReutersUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, staked his nation’s own claim to the holiday, with an address on Monday drawing a parallel between World War II and the current war against Russian invaders. In Russia, various regional governors have cited security concerns in canceling Victory Day events. Igor Artamonov, the governor of the Lipetsk region, which is also near Ukraine, said his decision should not be misinterpreted. “No neo-Nazi scum will be able to mar the great Victory Day.

☆ Wagner’s convicts tell of horrors of Ukraine war
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +11 min

They are identified as pardoned former convicts, returned from the front in Ukraine after joining Wagner from prison. Four of the men said they were personally recruited by Yevgeny Prigozhin as he toured Russia’s prison system to bolster his private army. I wish all real men would join Wagner.”The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s military capacity. One of the convict recruits told Reuters he travelled to a Wagner training camp in the Russian-controlled part of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region. According to the United States, by mid-February Wagner had suffered more than 30,000 casualties in Ukraine, including 9,000 dead, almost all of them convicts.

☆ Ukraine shares video of Russian helicopter getting blasted out of the sky, the latest in a string of takedowns
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ukrainian forces have reported taking out multiple Russian helicopters in recent weeks. A Ukrainian official on Wednesday shared a video he said shows a strike on a Russian helicopter. Ukraine has reported taking out multiple Russian helicopters in recent weeks. "This represents over 25% of the Russian Air Force's in-service fleet of 90 KA-52s and nearly half of Russia's total helicopter losses in Ukraine," the update said. On Monday, Ukrainian forces sabotaged an airbase deep inside Russia, close to the Latvian border, planting explosives inside the military helicopters, CNN reported.

☆ How the Russian officer elite was decimated in Ukraine – 29 generals and commanders who were killed in action
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-01 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

Vitaly GerasimovMaj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov became the second senior Russian commander reported to be killed after Ukrainian military intelligence claimed he was shot dead in Kharkiv. Ivan GrishinColonel Ivan Grishin, commander of Russia's 49th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade, died in Ukraine, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Vyacheslav SavinovLieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Savinov, who headed Russian artillery intelligence, was killed in Ukraine, a Russian artillery school confirmed. A damaged Russian military vehicle is seen after Russian Forces withdrawal as Russia-Ukraine war continues in Izium, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on September 14, 2022. The Ukrainian military said that Botashev was killed when a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft was shot down over the Lugansk region.

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