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Euromaidan Press

Oct 4

🔥 Another Ukrainian drone strike on Russia's Kinef oil refinery near St. Petersburg.

Multiple explosions reported overnight in Kirishi, Leningrad Oblast, 800 km from Ukraine. The target: one of Russia’s largest oil processing plants.
📹Exilenova+, Supernova+

Ukrainian channel Exilenova+ suggests the attack targeted the ELOU AVT-6 unit, which is part of Kinef’s primary oil distillation setup.

📹Exilenova+, Supernova+

Exilenova+ geolocated footage from the scene, concluding that the recording was taken from a home facing the refinery (google.com/maps/place/59%…).

Russian officials confirmed a fire and said air defenses responded to incoming drones. Leningrad Oblast Governor Drozdenko: “There was a fire in the industrial area. Emergency services are working on site.”
📷Supernova+

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Euromaidan Press

@EuromaidanPress

Aug 21

Last night, Russia conducted a massive missile and drone attack

Ukraine's Air Force says the Russians launched 40 missiles and 574 long-range drones. Air defenses downed 31 missiles and 546 drones.

Map: TG/mon1tor_ua

Several Russian missiles reached as far as the Hungarian border, hitting a factory in Mukachevo, Zakarpattia Oblast.

The strike attack injured at least 15, according to local authorities.

📹TG/Myroslav Biletskyi, Zakarpatska OVA

Currently, a few Russian drones are still in the Ukrainian airspace.

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May 10

Ukraine is running out of air defense interceptors. But they've found a solution: destroy Russia's missiles before they launch. 🧵
euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/10/dro…

Ukrainian drones just flew 240km into Russia and struck Shaykovka airbase—for the second time in 6 weeks. The target? Storage facilities for the Kh-22, a 1960s-era missile filled with 3,000 liters of extremely toxic fuel (heptyl + concentrated nitric acid). 👇

These ancient missiles are uniquely vulnerable to shrapnel damage. As aviation expert Bill Sweetman noted: "Nothing says fun like flying around with an ancient missile containing ~4 tons of hypergolic fuel." 👇

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Euromaidan Press

@EuromaidanPress

May 3

Europe thought it had escaped Russian energy dependence by ditching Gazprom's pipeline gas. But there's a less visible flow still pumping billions into Putin's war chest: Novatek's LNG tankers sailing freely to European ports.

Novatek isn't just a "private" Russian company. Its CEO Mikhelson transferred shares to Putin's inner circle in exchange for Arctic gas fields and tax breaks. The company supplies gas to ammunition factories & funds Russian troops through the Kremlin-aligned Courage Foundation

While pipeline gas exports plummeted, Novatek's business is booming. In 2024 alone, 287 LNG tankers left Yamal terminals, each carrying 74,000 tonnes of Russian gas. Major volumes flow to France, Spain and Belgium – with EU imports actually increasing since the invasion.

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Jan 18

#OTD in 1654, Ukrainian leaders signed the Pereiaslav Agreements with Muscovy (Russia).

What they saw as a temporary military alliance became Russia's favorite colonial narrative - and one of the key drivers behind Putin's war. A 🧵 1/10

2/10 Let's unpack this crucial moment in history. In 1648, Ukraine's Cossacks had just won independence from Poland. Their new state - the Hetmanate - needed allies to survive. After several failed diplomatic attempts with other nations...

3/10 ...Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi turned to Muscovy as a last resort. The deal seemed straightforward: military protection in exchange for pledging allegiance to the Tsar, while maintaining Ukraine's autonomy.

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Dec 15, 2024

https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1867865471162462312

A short thread on several other Ukrainian attacks in Russia and occupied territories

Following the strike yesterday morning, the fire spread at an oil facility in Russia's Orel and towards evening, an additional fuel tank exploded, producing much darker smoke (📹via @hochu_dodomu)

https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1867865471162462312

https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1866090055095501291

A video emerged of a car bomb attack in occupied Donetsk on 9 December () that killed the Olenivka prison chief, who was involved in a terror attack on Ukrainian POWs in his facility.

📹TG/Exilenova_plus

https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1866090055095501291

Last night, air defenses were active in Russia's Sochi on the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

It is unknown yet what was targeted and how (un)successfully.
📹TG/Supernova Plus