Reaching an area 800 miles from the border with Russia, on Sunday, 31 May, Ukrainian drones struck a Russian fuel depot, oil pumping station, and a refinery.
These attacks are another in what is becoming a regular practice of Ukraine taking out strategic sites that are hundreds of miles inside of Russia and well east of Moscow.
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What is driving this Ukrainian air campaign is the desire to inflict maximum damage on Russian energy infrastructure.
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Engineers at Boeing are advancing design work to repurpose decomissioned weapons stations for the US Air Force’s (USAF’s) B-1B Lancer supersonic bombers.
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One of the most effective counter-drone systems in the largest drone war in history between Ukraine and Russia is a German anti-aircraft gun designed during the Cold War. The Gepard — a self-propelled 35 mm cannon that first entered service in 1976 — has earned recognition from Ukrainian military experts as the most effective weapon against Shahed-type drones, at a cost of a few thousand dollars per engagement.
What would happen if you woke up one morning and the internet was gone — not from a software glitch, but because someone had simply cut the wire?Threats to critical undersea infrastructure are rapidly escalating. In 2023, the Balticonnector pipeline and several Baltic data cables were damaged. A year later, four Red Sea cables were cut, disrupting a quarter of data traffic between Asia and Europe, with further incidents across the Baltic. In total, between January 2024 and July 2025, roughly 44 incidents of cable damage were recorded.
India and Vietnam have signed $629 million a contract for the export of BrahMos cruise missiles, which are expected to be used to re-equip Vietnamese Su-30MK2 fighter aircraft to enhance their long range strike capabilities. Although the BrahMos is a Russian designed missile type, its production in India has allowed it to be marketed to countries that for political reasons have sought to avoid making direct procurements from Russia, such as the Philippines which signed a $375 million procurement contract in 2022.
