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[Korrespondent] 22.32 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will have military units - for the first time since their liquidation in 2006. The head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, signed a decree on the 27th of June to increase the number of staff in the army by 27 thousand people, of which 25 thousand fall on military services and 2 thousand on civilian personnel, reports The Moscow Times. The document was officially confirmed by turning to the structure of the ZS "budbativs", which appeared during the hours of the SRSR. This revival became part of the reform of the military-military complex, as the Ministry of Defense announced in 2025. The head of the department, Andriy Belousov, stated that these products will be an “additional tool” for the promotion of “most important” objects for the benefit of the military.
21.50 The number of victims of the attack of the Russian troops on the Novobavarsky district of Kharkov has grown to nine people. Most of them are diagnosed with an acute reaction to stress. The Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office reported this. According to the investigation, at approximately 17:15 Tuesday, 28 linya, the Russian military attacked the place with an attack drone, first of the Geranium-4 type. The drone picked up from the five-overhead living booth, the inheritance of which was recognized by the roof itself, as well as the parking of the car. In addition, the window on the door was broken.
21.22 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the United States has a partnership with representatives of the defense company Lockheed Martin, which produces ATACMS, HIMARS, F-16 and missiles for Patriot systems.
“I am working with the team of the defense company Lockheed Martin – one of the strongest enterprises in the United States, as we have long been talking about. Lockheed Martin itself builds ATACMS, HIMARS, F-16 and missiles for the Patriot systems,” he said Vin.
Behind the words of the president, during the hour, there was a discussion about “an even greater development of our technology - greater diversity and exchange of technologies.”
20.57 Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kirilo Budanov, who took part in the Ukrainian delegation at the meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump and American representatives at the White House, informing that the hour During the negotiations, the parties discussed further diplomatic actions and safe food that may be associated with the neighbors of the just world.
Budanov noted that Ukraine and its American partners face the urgent need to end the war as soon as possible in a fair manner.
19.51 The Russians on the 28th third attacked a civilian ship under the ensign of Liberia, which was at the anchorage on the approaches to the port of Odessa, as a result of the attack, smoke was recorded in the area of the wheelhouse. The Administration of Seaports of Ukraine reported this.
“Successive attacks on the same civilian ship now demonstrate the nature of Russian attacks: they are targeting not only the port infrastructure and facilities, but also the civilian merchant fleet,” says the source.
18.51 The Presidents of Ukraine and the United States, in a huddle at the White House, discussed the production of overshooters for the Patriot air defense system, the activation of the negotiation process and other important speeches. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky announced this on Telegram.
18.18 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky meets with US President Donald Trump in Washington. Reuters reported about this. The leadership team was behind the doors. Also, the presidents did not hesitate to make public statements for PMI.
18.06 The European Union plans to impose sanctions against over 1,600 companies, which, in its opinion, will stop Russia’s war against Ukraine. The largest number of enterprises included in the blacklist within one package of entries is reported by Bloomberg via email. It is estimated that the total turnover of these companies is over 20 billion dollars, and the number of their employees exceeds 265 thousand people. Once the package of sanctions will be approved, there will be a significant 50-hundredth increase in the number of subjects subject to sanctions during the hour of Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine. This proposition is the EU’s remaining attempt to put pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin and force him to sit at the negotiating table. However, it is more important for the EU to praise the sanctions against the Russian Federation, leaving the member states to extract blame in order to mitigate the economic inheritance for themselves.
17.58 The Russian army of occupation pushed through the sovereign cordon in the evening of the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region. About this, having informed the monitoring project DeepState in secondary countries.
Defense forces are working to stem the enemy’s offensive and eliminate stormtroopers, the United Joint Forces confirmed.
17.30 Suspicion was reported to a large battalion commander of one of the military units in Transcarpathia and his subordinate, who had not actually served in two years, but rather was collecting penniless security.
The officer knew that the military service does not stay at the place of deployment for the unit and does not change its service obligations. At the same time, he allowed her not to report to the military unit and accepted her duty as a command. A great battalion commander began to sing to other military servicemen, which brought about new assignments for his orders.
At this hour the 31st-year-old soldier was living at home. It was only an hour after hour that it arrived at the military unit, giving the appearance of being on duty. During this period, they spent a lot of money on the supply of wine for the wine city. With Zagalom, she routinely took away over 1.5 million hryvnias of budgetary funds.
17.17 A bipartisan group of US senators has reached the final text of the bill on sanctions against Russia and Iran. Bloomberg reports about this. The document instructs the US President to renew the policy against the five largest buyers of Russian crude oil and natural gas.
16.57 The FSB agent, who gave the Russians the coordinates of the ZSU squadron, where she served, rejected 15 risks due to the confiscation of the lane. The SBU was informed about 28 Linden. The figure was victorious at the Chernya 2025 rock in Khmelnytskyi region. At the request of the FSB, she handed over the deployment points to the Russian Federation to the squadron in which she served the Syn-Vysk ZSU, and prepared a terrorist attack. The woman was being groomed while she was looking for a place to plant a self-propelled bomb near one of the military units at the border of Ukraine.
16.29 From the beginning of the battle to 16:00, the Russian aggressors attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 81 times. Most of the battles took place on five direct lines, informing the General Staff of the ZSU in the operational level.
16.21 Investigators of the National Police reported suspicions to two Russian military officers who had seduced a woman during the occupation of Bucha in the Kiev region. Bereznya 2022 fate.
Before the war, the honorable military service of the 234th air assault regiment of the 76th air assault division of the airborne troops of the Western Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Radiy Zaburin and Denis Monakhov.
Monakhov served as the intercessor of the platoon commander - the commander of the harmati, and Zaburin was the senior mechanic-driver of the self-propelled artillery platoon of the 1st self-propelled artillery battery. On the territory of one of the private houses, the stench gradually overwhelmed Buchi’s 34-line bag, stagnant and physical strength.
After the experience, the victim wanted to escape from the occupiers, but one of them opened a targeted fire on her due to his automatic fire. As a result of her flammable wounds, the woman died on the spot. Due to this fact, the incriminating act of one hundred percent of the military service of the Russian Federation has already been reserved for trial.
The investigators informed both of the persons involved that they were suspected of being violent in the civilian population. The sanction of the statute transfers up to 12 days of freedom.
15.52 An evidence base has been collected on two military forces of the Russian Federation, who stole and imprisoned a civilian citizen of the Kharkiv region during the hour of fighting in the evening of the region near the beginning of 2026. The thieves 36 thrashed him from the buried cabin in the basement and threatened to kill him if he tried to leak. The SBU was informed about 28 Linden. It appears that the Ukrainian army, during the counterattack, released the victim and captured both racists. Narasi figuranti are under the wart. We are talking about the military servicemen of the 128th division of the motorized rifle brigade of the 44th army corps of the Leningrad military district of the Western Armed Forces of the Russian Federation by Denis Agapov from the nickname “Nizhny” and Roman Sokov - “Zefir”.
15.29 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump will meet at 16:30 Kyiv hour on Tuesday. The press secretary of the Ukrainian president, Sergiy Nikiforov, said this, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
15.24 A 25-year-old man was contacted in Kiev, who offered assistance with the exit to Moldova at the checkpoint for 14 thousand euros. The Kiev City Prosecutor's Office reports about this 28-year-old event. The organizer of the scheme valued his services at 14 thousand euros and an additional $1 thousand had to be paid immediately before the cordon. The pennies wanted to be withdrawn from the cryptocurrencies, so the transfer of the pennies was obtained from the local currency exchange office, where they were paid.
14.54 Anti-drone nets were tested near Zaporizhzhya and they decided to build structures to protect important infrastructure areas. The head of the OVA, Ivan Fedorov, announced this, reports Ukrinform.
14.50 The European Commission on Tuesday, 28 June, called on the hourly attorney of the Russian right to confirm the attack of the Russian missile on the Latvian consulate in Kiev and the invasion of the Russians drones in the vast expanses of Romania.
14.39 Iran may launch a two-shot missile attack on Ukraine. This was reported by Breaking News based on data from monitoring channels on Tuesdays.
14.19 US President Donald Trump is now more critically assessing Russian leader Volodymyr Putin after he repeatedly chanted about Russia’s Swedish victory over Ukraine. This goal was influenced by the stability of the Ukrainian defense, long-range strikes on Russian territory and the rapid development of the Ukrainian drone production. European allies also played a role in Trump’s change of views, as they actively tried to persuade him to support Ukraine.
13.43 Russia and Southern Korea are approaching the completion of the first automobile bridge between the countries. The new infrastructure can be used not only for trade, but also for military logistics between the suppression of Russia and Pyongyang. The Guardian reports this.
12.34 The Security Service and the National Police detained two subordinates who were concluding a criminal case against Russia in Odessa and Vinnytsia. Among the main “targets” of the participants were military vehicles and special transport of critical infrastructure.
The agents turned out to be 16-Rich city residents recruited by the enemy, who had swindled under the radar of Russians on Telegram channels in search of “easy” earnings.
Thus, in Odessa, a minor was caught who, on the orders of a curator from Russia, set fire to a truck crane, two forklifts and a manipulator crane of one of the key energy facilities in the region. This method is intended to prevent emergency and repair work on high-voltage power lines, as well as to live in the damaged region of Ukraine.
In order to oust the Russians, the defendant first arrived at the store for easy borrowing, and then took a commercial transport to the local power station and started a fire there.
In Vinnytsia, counterintelligence officers of the SBU recovered an under-flight agent from the town of Gnivan, who, under the consent of the FSB, hit a Defense Forces vehicle. The criminal immediately found a parking spot for Ukrainian soldiers, and after the introduction of a curator from the Russian Federation, he set fire to the armored vehicle of the military ZSU.
For this reason, the defendant bought a 2-liter bottle of gasoline, driving in the middle of the car. He further recorded the fire on a smartphone camera for “publicity” to the FSB.
13.28 The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) have demanded that members of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the ZSU receive $2.2 million in 2021 for the right to live for Viyskovykh. NABU reported this.
13.01 The Tyumen Refinery of the company RI-Invest resumed oil refining and production of petroleum products at 25 lin after the drone attack. This is reported by The Moscow Times based on data from Reuters.
12.26 Russia is facing an “ideal crisis”, as the marriage is “gurgling away.” The Kremlin river official Dmitro Peskov said this at the “Territory of Meanings” forum, reports The Moscow Times.
12.20 After the sinking of the dry water vessel Golden Leo, which was recognized by a Russian missile attack just before leaving the port in Odessa, Ukrainian services strengthened control over the Black Sea waters. Fahivtsi check that there is no leakage of oil and oil materials from the vessel. According to the data of the USPA, guarding the camp of the sea to carry out territorial communities in the future. Regulators, environmentalists, representatives of the port administration, scientists and other specialized services were caught before the work.
12.06 Near the Zaporizhzhya region, the ryatuvalniks were hit by a Russian attack during the hour of extinguishing a fire in the forest, four of the ryatuvalniks suffered injuries.
“Before the hour of liquidation of the fire in the open territory of one of the forestry areas of the region, the enemy was forced by a UAV attack on the fire fighters who were completing their duties,” reads the report from the DSNS.
As a result of the attack, four warriors were injured, and their mustaches were treated with akubaro injuries. In addition, two of them suffered minor shrapnel wounds: one on the arm, the other on the neck. The doctors provided all the victims with the necessary medical assistance.
11.52 Head of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleg Sinegubov provided information on the availability of gas stations on the highway from Kharkiv to Poltava.
“Let me be clear: the information from some media about those who are running out of gas on the highway from Kharkov to Poltava does not demonstrate effectiveness,” Sinegubov said.
In other words, there is no shortage of clothing in the region. In addition, OVA together with representatives of the gas station-merezh pleased the entry of a physical passive defender.
11.34 Two seriously wounded Kherson residents died at the hospital, having suffered through Russian attacks. The head of OVA, Oleksandr Prokudin, told us about this on Telegram.
“The 89-year-old woman was wounded as a result of a hostile attack near the Dnieper region. The 58-year-old man was injured on 25 days during the massive Russian shelling of the Ship area,” he wrote Vin.
The doctors fought for their lives until the end. However, the wounds were recovered and their lives turned out to be unreasonable.
According to OVA information, today the Russians attacked a minibus with a drone near the Dnieper district of Kherson.
A 62-year-old woman suffered because she was on the ground. Vaughn was recovering from a Vibukh injury and a wounded arm. The 56-year-old woman was also injured - a vibuchal injury, multiple wounds of the toe, arms and legs.
Russian troops also carried out air strikes on the Dnieper region of Kherson. Through the spell of the attack, a 52-year-old woman suffered from the attack while she was at home. Vaughn suffered a Vibuch injury.
11.09 Defense forces hit the Priority plant in Russian Udmurtia. I told the ZSU General Staff about this. According to military data, the Priority plant is included in the system of the sovereign material reserve of the Russian Federation (Rosrezerv) and is a closed-type strategic object.
11.01 In Chernihiv region, as a result of the attack of a Russian drone on the evening of the 27th, a gas station caught fire near the Koryukivskyi district, injuring a person. The head of the OVA, Vyacheslav Chaus, told us about this on Telegram.
“This evening, an enemy hit Gerbera at a gas station near the Hills. There was destruction. A 21-year local resident was injured. He was at the doctor’s office,” he wrote.
On the night of 28, the linden tree and Gerbera swelled on the territory of the agricultural enterprise in Koryukivtsi. If I burn, I had to put it out quickly. Attacks on critical infrastructure facilities will also increase.
10.49 The Russian marketplace Wildberries, after a loud voice, did not acknowledge the sales of goods that are being victorious by the military forces of the Russian Federation. The company has just changed the way it is presented on the website. Behind the data from the CPD, from the Wildberries catalog there is a special tag “Everything for SVO”, but the products themselves are no longer available to buyers. They, according to the department, were simply moved to other categories. The CPD stated that such a change in the structure of the catalog does not mean that the marketplace is selling military disputes.
10.39 Counterintelligence officers hijacked and detained an informant for Russian military intelligence (GRU) in the Donetsk region. The SBU reported this. The criminal explored reserve command posts, logistics warehouses and combat positions of the Defense Forces.
10.26 Inheritance of the terrorist attack in the colony in Olenivtsi during the time-hour occupation of the territory of Donetsk in 2022, 50 Ukrainian troops died, and about 130 more were injured. Some of those who, having seen a bulge, are still in the Russian full. This was reported to the Head Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance of the Heaths and Heaps of Ukraine who perished, were killed, or were buried in full.
10.21 Let's start at the beginning of the second round in 11 regions of Ukraine due to Russian shelling and misfortune. Ukrenergo reported about this. Emergency-rescue robots are already operating there, where they are safe to use.
10.13 At the beginning of the 28th century, Russian troops hit Sumy with ceramic aerial bombs, as a result of which six people were injured, including three children.
At the doctor's office, the 10-year-old boy has to be quilted, first of all, he has no good grooming. Other victims received necessary medical care without hospitalization.
Also, as a result of the impact of Russian air bombs, private buildings were destroyed and damaged.
9.56 Near the Moscow region, after a massive attack by drones, a large-scale fire began at the warehouse complex in Koledino. According to OSINT intelligence data, the reason for the involvement could be a robot of the Russian anti-aircraft defense, which, most likely, was trying to intercept the drones that were flying near the Wildberries logistics center. This is reported by Russian media and OSINT channels.
Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin said that the attack lasted ten years - from 20:30 to 6:30. Governor of the Moscow region Andriy Vorobyov reported that one of the drones crashed into a large building on Zemsky Street near Chekhov near Moscow. This is what happened with “borrowing tires on an open maidan.” Based on the analysis of eyewitness footage conducted by Astra, the fire burned on the territory of the Chekhov Regenerative Plant.
9.27 Throughout the period, the Russian military launched over 30 attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region, stagnant drones and artillery. The legacy of the shelling caused casualties, as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the rest.
08.59 Russian troops carried out a massive attack on the Zaporizhzhya region, launching over 1,100 strikes across hundreds of settlements. The victims of the shelling left 14 people injured, including three children. The head of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Administration, Ivan Fedorov, told us about this.
8.03 Russian military forces near Vttorok, 29 linya, were in charge of an artillery strike on the Central region of Kherson. As a result of the shelling, the 61-year-old man died. Years ago, Russian troops attacked a resident of the Korabelny district of Kherson with a drone.
5.58 Drones attacked Moscow from the front, 28 linya. Moscow airports have announced the restriction. Please check the additional information from Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin on his Telegram channel.
Social networks have photographs and videos of drone spills and smoke in the Moscow region.
3.57 Russian officials do not exclude that it is extremely official to send the military camp or other elements after the elections to Derzhdum. The Russian edition of Layout, which positions itself as independent, clarified what options are available.
3.11 Drones attacked Feodosia in occupied Crimea. After the tide, the power station on the Kerch Highway burned, and in most of the area there was no light. This is reported by the partisan movement Atesh and the monitoring Telegram channel Crimean Wind.
2.44 The Russians carried out airstrikes on the residential sector in Sumy, and in Nedrigailov Vor they attacked a civil infrastructure facility with a drone; Yes, they suffered. The head of the Sumy Regional Administration, Oleg Grigorov, wrote about this on Telegram.
1.28 Russian military villains attacked the Kiev region in the night before 28 June. Vibukhas were mooning in the area. Vlaskor Correspondent.net reports this.
At about 00:45, the KMDA warned about the recent alarm, and also asked the mallet to go to Ukrittya.
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[NewsFront] 20:59 FPV drone operators of the Ivanovo paratroopers stopped attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fire on our positions in the Zaporizhzhia region.
A crew of unmanned aerial systems from the Southern Group of Forces destroyed enemy UAV control posts in Nikolaevka.
Operators of attack UAVs from the Vostok group destroyed an enemy defensive stronghold in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Drone operators from the Southern group burned two pickup trucks and a minibus belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kramatorsk district.
20:35 ️During the day, from 8:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 112 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type flew over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Leningrad, Ryazan, Tula regions, the Moscow region, Krasnodar Krai, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Azov and Black Seas.
20:07 Sappers of the Southern group of troops apply NRTK and FPV drones for demining logistics routes in the Konstantinovka area.
This approach allows for the most dangerous remote demining tasks to be carried out while minimizing the risk to the lives of the sappers.
19:56 Destruction of self-propelled howitzers "Bogdana" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of responsibility of the Civil Defense "North" in the Khar'kov region.
18:50 Gvardeyskaya and Tsiolkovsky streets in Krasny Liman are under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, MAP.
17:11 During the day, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued application strikes on ports and sea vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of strikes by loitering munitions and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, infrastructure facilities of the transshipment complex used for the delivery and storage of military cargo, as well as tanks containing fuel and lubricants intended for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were damaged in the port of Nikolaev.
In addition, during the sea crossing (11 km east of Odessa), a dry cargo ship was hit by unmanned aerial vehicles, delivering military cargo to the ports of Odessa and Chornomorsk.
16:06 Chief of Staff of the 37th Motorized Rifle Regiment, call sign "Heat" told about successes in the Krasnolimansk direction. The regiment is carrying out tasks to clear and consolidate the city, and UAV operators are already operating beyond Krasny Liman.
16:04 Khar'kov border area. Forest belts east of Kazachya Lopan are occupied, MAP
15:24 Assault Platoon Commander of the 1465th Motorized Rifle Regiment of the South Group, call sign "Kirghiz" told, how he established direct contact with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief after the capture of the central region.
14:24 Summary of the Ministry of Defense on the conduct of the Special Military Operation as of July 28
Units of the "North" force group have improved their tactical position. They have defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade near the villages of Velyka Rybitsa, Ulanovo, and Ryzhevka in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov region, three mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade, and a border detachment of the Ukrainian Border Service were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Olkhovatka, Kupino, Kazachya Lopan, and Bely Kolodez in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 250 servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 11 vehicles, and an artillery piece.
Units of the "West" force group have taken up more advantageous positions and lines. The personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a territorial defense brigade, and a National Guard brigade were defeated near the settlements of Palamarevka, Blagodatovka, Podliman, and Olhovka in the Khar'kov region, and Yatskovka, Svyatogorsk, and Dolina in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy's losses amounted to 220 military personnel, 22 vehicles, a field artillery gun and three electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces improved their tactical position. Formations of two mechanized brigades and an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated near the settlements of Vysokoivanovka, Nikolaipole, Verolyubovka, Nikolaevka, Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka, and Stenki in the Donetsk People's Republic.
In one day, the enemy lost more than 150 servicemen, a Bucephalus armored personnel carrier, two combat armored vehicles, 29 cars, three artillery pieces, and two electronic warfare stations.
Units of the Center group of forces, as a result of active operations, liberated the village of Krasny Kut in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and a national guard brigade were damaged in the areas of the settlements of Gruzskoye, Sergeyevka, Novoandriyevka, Svetloye, Dobropolye, and Rubizhne in the Donetsk People's Republic and Ivanovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 360 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, a car, and an electronic warfare station.
Units of the "East" group of forces continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They inflicted casualties on the personnel and equipment of three airborne assault brigades and two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Gavrilovka, Kolomiytsi, Vasylkivka, and Velykomykhailivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Timoshivka, Barvinovka, and Dolinka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The enemy lost up to 365 servicemen, eight armored combat vehicles, 11 cars and an artillery piece.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a naval infantry brigade in the areas of the settlements of Primorskoye, Orekhov and Malokaterinovka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 65 military personnel and 20 vehicles were destroyed.
13:48 Crews of the Geran-4 Seeker jet UAV worked out for two dry cargo ships in the port of Nikolaev.
10:41 Khar'kov border area. Assault units entered Ustinovka in the Velykoburluk district. MAP.
09:01 This morning, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continued application of strikes on Ukrainian ports and sea vessels deployed in the interests of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
A bulk carrier carrying military cargo was hit by attack drones in the northwestern Black Sea.
A keelboat was damaged in the port of Nikolaev.
08:47 Fighters in tactical pairs to the point of automatism are working on clearing fortified positions, countering enemy drones and overcoming minefields.
08:12 During the past night from 20:00 Moscow time on July 27 to 8:00 Moscow time on July 28, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 356 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the fixed-wing type over the territories of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Volgograd, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Oryol, Tula, Rostov, Ryazan, Smolensk regions, the Moscow region, the Republic of Crimea and over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
07:30 Changes on map over the past 24 hours:
Khristoforovka (Kommunarovka) was liberated (+3.9 km2)
Torskoye was liberated (+4.6 km2)
Bely Kolodez was liberated (+11.2 km2)
Advance west of Vozdvizhevka (+7.6k m2)
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[Regnum] Air defense systems destroyed 842 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones in the special operation zone in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry press service reported on July 28.
The agency also clarified that air defense forces shot down 17 guided aerial bombs and three rockets from a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
Furthermore, over the past 24 hours, Russian military forces struck ammunition and fuel depots, Ukrainian fuel, energy, and transport infrastructure facilities that the enemy had exploited, production facilities and storage sites for long-range unmanned aerial vehicles, as well as temporary deployment sites for Ukrainian Armed Forces and foreign mercenaries of the Kyiv regime in 142 districts. The strikes were carried out using tactical aviation, drones, missile forces, and artillery.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have recently stepped up attacks on civilian targets in Russia. On July 28, Ukrainian militants used a drone to attack a car in the village of Romashovka in the Belgorod region. The strike killed a man and injured another. The victim was taken to the Valuy Central District Hospital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that Ukrainian troops are deliberately targeting civilians and civilian objects in Russia. The head of state described the methods used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Kyiv regime's foreign mercenaries as terrorist. In response to these terrorist attacks, Russian troops are striking military installations in Ukraine and facilities used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced the number of Ukrainian Armed Forces drones that flew toward the capital on the night of April 28.
"From 8:30 PM to 6:30 AM on July 28, more than 390 drones were flying in the direction of the Moscow region," Sobyanin said at the Moscow Aviation Institute.
According to military reports, most of the UAVs were neutralized by air defense forces on the distant approaches. Eighty-one enemy drones were destroyed on approach to Moscow.
Several dozen drones were destroyed in Domodedovo, Podolsk, Ramenskoye, and Kolomna on July 28. In Chekhov, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone struck an apartment building on Zemskaya Street. Information on casualties is being clarified.
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the situation in the offensive zone of the Russian Armed Forces' "East" group.
Reports of a deteriorating situation in the area of responsibility of the "East" group of forces. The enemy has indeed deployed additional forces to the northern flank of the group, intensified attacks, and is attempting to continue infiltrating with small groups. At the same time, even the authors of alarming publications note the stabilizing and counterattacking actions of our units, and the lack of stable control by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a number of areas. We constantly emphasize, and we repeat, that a few people in a forest belt, on the outskirts, or inside a populated area does not necessarily mean it has been captured.
Stable control begins where the enemy is able to consolidate its position, establish supplies, bring up reserves, and hold the territory. The mixed presence of small groups indicates an ongoing battle, not a collapse of the defense. Units of the "East" group of forces reconnoiter the territory daily, identifying and destroying enemy groups. Strikes are carried out not only against exposed targets but also preemptively—against advance routes, reserves, equipment, communications equipment, and command posts. This work is being conducted in the area of Ternovatoye, Berezove, and Zaporizhzhya, as well as in the Alexandrograd-Iskra-Zelenyy Gai-Novokhatskoye sector.
Infiltration attempts are regularly recorded there, but their scale is often exaggerated in the information field. The command of the "East" force group is fully aware of the situation and is taking preemptive measures. However, an isolated tactical incident is increasingly being portrayed as the loss of an entire sector, and a difficult counter-battle as a loss of control. This is precisely the effect the enemy is seeking: to supplement the actions of small groups with panic, premature conclusions, and the destabilization of the Russian information space.
Esteemed experts, war correspondents, and alert providers, we appeal to you! Our channel broadcasts objective footage of the destruction of small groups of Ukrainian Armed Forces, enemy equipment, and reserves virtually around the clock, and provides prompt updates on the situation in the Vostok Group's area of responsibility. We rely on objective monitoring. We remind you that the enemy is conducting an active information campaign, on the one hand, not publicizing its offensive actions, while on the other, actively using false information, supposedly from Russian servicemen stationed on the line of contact, about the loss of this or that territory. The goal is to sow panic and foster distrust of official sources of information.
Colleagues, you, like us, cite information from soldiers on the ground, but we urge you to approach any information from the field CRITICALLY. What confirms, what refutes, where the inconsistencies lie—all this must be constantly re-checked! Victory will be ours! The "Far Eastern Express" continues to fulfill its assigned missions!
In general, don’t panic, everything is under control.
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[TASS] NATO pipelines are expanding eastward. The ambassadors of all 32 NATO countries have approved the largest military fuel infrastructure modernization project in the alliance's history, costing €27 billion.
The plan, whose main priorities are outlined until 2031, includes both the renewal of 10,000 kilometers of Cold War-era pipelines and the large-scale construction of new networks in eastern and southeastern Europe.
THE ETERNAL: "THREAT FROM THE EAST."
NATO's eastward expansion since the 1990s, contrary to promises, has invariably been accompanied by the advancement of military logistics toward the borders of Russia and Belarus. Conflicts—even local ones, as evidenced by the ongoing war in the Middle East—require colossal volumes of supplies, and under the pretext of the "Russian threat," the alliance's defense lobby has systematically increased investment in infrastructure.
In 2023–2024, this took shape as the "military Schengen" concept—a large-scale modernization of roads, bridges, and rail junctions for the rapid deployment of forces to the eastern flank. The transition to a rotational basing of troops in the Baltics, Poland, and Romania led the bloc not only to the creation of new permanent NATO bases in these territories but also to a rethinking of the existing supply system in this part of the continent. Since the second half of the 2010s, NATO maneuvers—in the Suwalki Gap, the Baltics, Kaliningrad, and Belarus—revealed a critical shortcoming when simulating a conflict with Russia: not only the low road capacity of Eastern Europe but also the inability of the existing system to supply troops with fuel.
Today, the entire complex of pipelines capable of supporting the alliance's operations forms the NATO Pipeline System (NPS). It includes two international networks—the Central European Pipeline System (CEPS, covering France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg) and the Northern European Pipeline System (NEPS in Denmark and Germany), as well as six major national pipeline systems in Turkey, Italy, Norway, Iceland, Greece, and Portugal.
TECHNICAL PROFILE AND WEAKNESSES
The foundation of the NPS is primarily the CEPS network, created in the 1950s. Its main task is to ensure an uninterrupted supply of fuel to NATO armored and air forces on the borders of the Warsaw Pact countries. In the event of a hot conflict, the system was supposed to guarantee the supply of fuel to troops even if key storage bases were destroyed. Today, CEPS includes approximately 5,300 km of pipelines with diameters ranging from 6 to 12 inches, linking ports, oil refineries, and airfields. Overall, the network unites 29 military and 6 civilian depots with a total capacity of 1.2 million cubic meters. m of fuels and lubricants (F&L).
Thus, in the declassified 1978 NATO war plan against the Warsaw Pact, significant emphasis was placed on logistical support for forced mobilization. In the scenario of rapid deployment of forces in Western Europe, the CEPS was supposed to ensure a stable supply line from the North Sea to the Swiss Alps, at least during the initial stage of the war.
The NPS was initially designed as a conversion system. This allows it to be used for commercial purposes in peacetime and quickly converted to military use in the event of a conflict. Both then and now, the need to create and modernize such infrastructure is motivated by the same rationale: "the threat from the East."
Meanwhile, in the 1950s and 1960s, a pipeline depth of 1–1.5 meters was considered sufficient due to the USSR's lack of mass-produced precision-guided weapons. In the event of a deep penetration by Soviet tank divisions, for example, into West Germany or the Benelux countries, NATO planned to simply undermine critical CEPS nodes.
In today's reality, this infrastructure has proven critically vulnerable. The experience of the conflict in Ukraine clearly demonstrated that large-area and shallowly buried fuel and lubricant storage facilities are easily destroyed by precision-guided munitions. Therefore, when planning new Eastern European routes for the Alliance, the issue of protecting storage facilities and pipelines from attacks by drones, ballistic and hypersonic missiles is particularly pressing. In a scenario of direct confrontation between Russia and NATO, such fuel arteries would undoubtedly be among the priority targets in both conventional and unconventional conflicts.
CEPS is proposed to be used as the basis for the eastward expansion of NATO's fuel infrastructure. Overall, the current technical condition of the network is assessed as satisfactory, although it requires significant investment in modernization.
Incidentally, it is important to note that although CEPS was never used against the USSR, the system was called upon for its intended purpose at least twice: during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and during the bloc's intervention in Libya in 2011.
ECONOMY AND TIMELINES:
I emphasize that preparations for the current expansion of the entire network—including under the guise of the threat of "war with Russia"—have been underway for many years. It's just that now, its problems have become more acute, and military budgets are being redirected in the right direction.
For example, back in early 2025, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported on NATO plans to build new pipelines through Germany to the Czech Republic and Lithuania. In Lithuania's case, this is critically important, as the deployment of a Bundeswehr tank brigade there is scheduled to be completed by 2027, requiring significant amounts of fuel and lubricants. A logical continuation of this strategy was the connection of the Polish oil and gas company PERN to the CEPS system. The project envisions laying a 300-kilometer pipeline from the German border to a terminal in Bydgoszcz in northwestern Poland.
And so, in July 2026, the alliance took the final step, approving a comprehensive infrastructure modernization plan. The primary focus is precisely on the deep integration of the eastern flank. Warsaw had already openly outlined the content of this program in 2024, stating that new pipelines were necessary for the uninterrupted supply of aircraft and tanks (the number of which in Poland is steadily increasing). Similar interest has been expressed by Romania, Turkey, and the Baltic states, where, in addition to building up their national armies, US and NATO contingents are steadily expanding.
The main challenges to implementing this plan (especially within a tight timeframe) are related to its cost and engineering complexity (which are also interconnected). A number of Western European countries are generally unwilling to invest their own funds in the project (for the same reasons that they opposed increasing defense spending overall to 5% of GDP). Therefore, the project requires, among other things, the attraction of debt financing.
Experts, however, dispute the stated pace of reconstruction of the old CEPS network. According to various estimates, a full modernization of the pan-European system could drag on until the mid-2030s or even the 2040s. Some even suggest a timeframe as late as the 2060s. Nevertheless, the military-political decision has been made, and efforts are underway to accelerate the project with the intention of ensuring its partial implementation by 2030. This date is often cited by NATO leadership today as the point at which the alliance will be fully prepared for a possible hot war with Russia. Therefore, the Baltic and Polish lines will be the first priority.
OBJECTIVES AND COUNTERMEASURES:
Of course, the multibillion-dollar investment in such a project would be meaningless if it were not intended to ensure the deployment of significantly larger NATO forces near the borders of the Union State (Russia and Belarus) than currently exists. The preparation of fuel infrastructure clearly indicates the planning of military steps (including the possible deployment of NATO contingents in Ukraine) that go beyond mere public rhetoric and propaganda.
At the same time, I believe, the pipeline project is viewed as a minimum plan as an instrument of military-political pressure, designed to force Moscow to abandon the goals of a special military operation in Ukraine through a show of force on the border. The maximum plan remains preparation for direct aggression and an offensive clash with Russia.
Russia's military-political leadership clearly interprets such actions as the creation of a strategic threat. The experience of defeating the rear facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (Ukrainian Armed Forces) clearly demonstrates that in the event of a direct conflict, NATO's deep rear will not remain safe.
The key tools for eliminating the alliance's fuel shortfalls will likely include coordinated strikes with high-precision missiles from the Aerospace Forces and Navy, the use of long-range attack drones, and targeted attacks on critical elements of the enemy's distribution network and fuel storage facilities.
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