A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan killed between 12-13 people and wounded 38-39 others on August 10, 2026, targeting the city's major oil refinery. The strike marks the deadliest attack inside Russia in more than two years of the ongoing conflict.
A Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan killed between 12-13 people and wounded 38-39 others on August 10, 2026, targeting the city's major oil refinery. The strike marks the deadliest attack inside Russia in more than two years of the ongoing conflict.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine will seek to generate sufficient diplomatic, economic, and military pressure on Moscow to end the war before winter 2026 begins. The announcement comes amid continued Ukrainian strikes on Russian infrastructure, including oil refineries and warehouses.
Ukraine conducted one of the war's largest drone attacks on Moscow and surrounding areas overnight July 19-20, 2026, deploying approximately 400 drones that wounded at least 10 people including a child, and struck an oil depot and logistics facilities. The attack came amid escalating cross-border strikes, including a Russian strike on a corn-carrying cargo ship near Odesa that killed 10 crew members.
Russian forces conducted an 11-hour drone and missile assault on Kyiv overnight, killing between 18 and 30 people and injuring dozens more in what officials described as one of the worst attacks on the capital since the war began. Moscow claimed the strike was retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil facilities.
Russia conducted an 18-month drone surveillance campaign targeting nuclear facilities in the UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, while simultaneously stepping up jet-powered drone attacks against Ukraine. The escalation comes as Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian oil refineries have created fuel shortages across Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly admitted that Ukrainian long-range strikes are causing fuel supply problems across Russia, with the Siberian region of Irkutsk implementing a 50-litre limit at state-run gas stations. Videos show fights breaking out at Russian fuel stations amid the shortages.
Ukrainian forces launched extensive drone attacks on Russian-occupied Crimea, causing widespread power outages in Sevastopol and other cities. The strikes targeted energy infrastructure, railway bridges, and power plants as part of Ukraine's intensifying campaign to isolate the annexed peninsula.
Ukrainian drones struck multiple locations across Moscow including a major oil refinery in Kyiv's biggest air raid on the Russian capital since the war began, while separately MIT researchers published analysis of Russia's controversial Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile.
