This evening, multiple Ukrainian attack drones successfully hit Russia's Yeysk Airbase, home to the 859th Naval Aviation Training Center and multiple Russian strike aircraft, starting a large fire.

Multiple secondary explosions could be seen emerging from the blaze at the base. Footage of a Ukrainian attack drone headed towards the base

Breaking- A Hunterbrook Media investigation found that a major global lithium supplier is draining water from the Argentinian Andes, forensic accountant finds red flags in financials.

Hunterbrook journeyed to the high Andes to investigate Arcadium Lithium $ALTM. Responding to an “old claim” from the community, the company began an irrigation and revegetation project in 2020, which remains ongoing.

But satellite imagery we analyzed shows the area the company has targeted to restore accounts for less than 1% of the total damage.

Breaking: American food giant ADM lied about its major stake in two factories in Xinjiang — a Chinese region notorious for state-imposed forced labor.

Follow @hntrbrkmedia for more investigations like this one, which used sat imagery, trade data, light pollution data, and more. In a document posted to the sustainability section of its website earlier this year, the company claimed there was “no identifiable direct or indirect connection between ADM and the region.”

BREAKING: Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), an American agricultural giant, has a close partnership in Russia with Aston Foods, a major Russian agribusiness a new @hntrbrkmedia investigation revealed may be complicit in the theft of grain from occupied Ukrainian territories. During the early months of the invasion of Ukraine, a peculiar scene unfolded in the heart of Ryazan Oblast. The Governor, Pavel Malkov, wearing gleaming silver aviators, strode through the corridors of the Ibred corn processing facility.

Yesterday, Ukrainian forces conducted a trio of successful attacks in the Russian-occupied rear area, successfully targeting a Russian base outside of Luhansk city, an ammunition/fuel dump in Dovzhansk, and a third unknown target in Mariupol. This morning, a Ukrainian SCALP ALCM hit a known LPR base at the former Luhansk Institute for Internal Affairs.

At least two adjacent apartment buildings suffered minor damage (broken/damaged windows)

Location (48.558409, 39.186161)

Widespread Ukrainian missile attack on Russian occupied Crimea tonight, with numerous explosions reported already.

Explosions reported in Simferopol, Sevastopol, Dzhankoy, and Gvardeyskoye.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has been fired.

Shoigu, a close partner to Putin, led the Russian MOD for over 11 years. t.me/rian_ru/245175

Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian forces just struck a Russian fuel depot with at least one M39 ATACMS tactical ballistic missile.

The fuel depot suffered a catastrophic fire.

Earlier today, Russian forces reportedly started a new offensive in the Kharkiv area.

Russian units pushed through the border settlement of Pyl'na, but took heavy Ukrainian fire just north of the town, losing at least 3 BMPs and an MT-LB in Russian territory. The aftermath:

In the Black Sea, Russian forces spotted a Ukrainian USV armed with a twin rail launcher for R-73 all-aspect IR homing air-to-air missiles.

Based on the footage, some Ukrainian USVs now possess a nascent SAM capability, likely able to target low and slow Russian helicopters. Russian Milblogger Fighterbomber addressed the situation earlier today.

"the Ukrainians were able to somehow connect the rocket with the USV telecontrol systems and are trying to work with them... At the moment, the most effective means against USVs are helicopters.

Luhansk Oblast, Ukrainian forces conducted a strike on a Russian training ground with a trio of US-supplied M39 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles.

At least one ATACMS directly hit a group of over 100 Russian soldiers, showering them with hundreds of M74 APAM bomblets. The target area, a training ground

Overnight, Ukrainian forces successfully struck Russia's Kushchyovskaya airbase in Krasnodar Krai.

At least one drone hit the vicinity of the flight line. Russian aircraft have reportedly been damaged, and footage shows a number of destroyed glide bomb kits.

What’s going on with Vinfast?

Our wide-ranging investigation into the Vietnamese EV manufacturer relied on satellite imagery, AIS data, trade records, and on-the-ground reporting in multiple U.S. states and continents.





Vinfast, launched in 2017, is a Vietnam-based EV manufacturer. In the US, it sells the VF8, an electric SUV built outside of Haiphong.

The company went public in the US in 2023, initially soaring to a $200 billion market capitalization, but its value has since fallen 95%.

Ukrainian forces launched a drone attack on Kardymovo, Smolensk Oblast tonight, successfully hitting a pair of Russian oil depots.

Both of the complexes are heavily burning.

Earlier tonight, Ukrainian drones successfully hit the Russian Novo Bryanskaya 750kv substation in Vygonichi, Bryansk Oblast.

The substation is currently ablaze. "After a UAV attack, a substation in Vygonichi, Bryansk region, caught fire. According to the testimony of local residents (they share videos on social networks), before the fire, 5-6 explosions were heard, and air defense was operating in the air."

The House is planning to vote on the Ukraine, Israel, and Indo-Pacific aid bills on Saturday.

Big elements of the Ukraine aid bill as it stands today:

$13.7 billion in USAI money, $633 million for DOD-led research and development, and $34 billion for DOD expenses/procurement.





$7.9 billion for economic support

$300 million for the Ukrainian State Border Guard and National Police

$100 million for ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining, and Related Programs’’

$9.6 billion for the Foreign Military Financing Program

Kherson Oblast, a Ukrainian Backfire K1 fixed wing bomber drone from the Angry Birds unit drops a pair of bomblets on a Russian Pantsir-S1, scoring a hit and setting fire to the SAM system. Strike location (46.579437, 33.188713)

Norway just released its new massive long term defense spending plan:

Effective doubling in spending by 2036

4,600 more conscripts, 13,700 more reservists and 4,600 more employees

Five new frigates, at least five new submarines, and new class of 10/18 smaller vessels





Doubling existing NASAMS systems

Upgrading NASAMS

Additional purchases of long range systems with anti-ballistic missile capabilities

Some breaking news on my end: three months ago, I joined Hunterbrook Media, a publication doing investigations in a new way, combining OSINT with on-the-ground reporting.

Massive thread below. (1/15)

https://twitter.com/hntrbrkmedia/status/1775199165296853174

Hunterbrook Media publishes investigative and global reporting—with no ads or paywalls.

Our mission is to bring visibility to under-covered regions and accountability to under-scrutinized sectors. (2/15)

Early this morning, Ukrainian forces successfully conducted one of the deepest drone attacks of the war, striking multiple targets, including a reported Russian Shahed-136 factory complex in Tatarstan, over 1100km from Ukrainian territory.

Appears that at least three Ukrainian Storm Shadow cruise missiles just slammed into a major Russian Black Sea Fleet communications center.

https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1771645130266563034

The site is absolutely festooned with SATCOM antennas.

Wikimapia lists it as the "Information and Computing Center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (Sevastopol)"

Location 44.584605, 33.509971