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As Ukraine’s massive force of one-way attack drones strikes further into the interior of Russia, Moscow finds its already inadequate number of air defense assets even more lacking than before.

In the most recent attack by Ukraine on Russia’s largest refinery in the Siberian city of Omsk, the facility was embarrassingly almost completely undefended.

Putin in 2023. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Putin in 2022. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

As these unmanned attack aircraft were exploding on impact with the refinery facility, there was one huge fireball after another.

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At an emergency meeting this week with his ministers and several governors, Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed an escalating program of Ukrainian drone strikes.

These attacks are reaching progressively deeper into the country, but the former KGB Lt. Col. believes the massive volcanic explosions at Russian refineries and the skies full of black smoke have minimal impact on the situation within the country.

As Ukraine intensifies its strikes deep into Russia, Washington sees a potential opening to revisit stalled peace negotiations, seemingly hopeful that pressure on Moscow will convince the Russian leader to make concessions.

During the recently concluded NATO summit held in Ankara, Turkey, American President Donald Trump sounded optimistic, saying that Ukrainian strikes are “an escalation, but it’s also an escalation that can help lead to an end.”

President Donald J. Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. White House Photo.

Russia’s Oreshnik missile is one of the country’s newest — and has garnered a significant amount of attention thanks to the war in Ukraine, particularly following the missile’s use in 2024 against the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November of that year.

But the Oreshnik is also widely misunderstood.

Russian Mobile ICBM Nuclear Weapons. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

That initial Oreshnik strike generated a great deal of speculation that the Kremlin had, in fact, launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, against Ukraine.

Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz came to a near standstill after the US struck 90 targets in Iran for a second straight day, as it appears that the shaky Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is no longer going to be addressed as a negotiating benchmark.

With fresh fighting and strikes on both sides, ships are wary of attempting to transit the Strait.

President Donald Trump addresses members of the media in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, Tuesday, January 20, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N.

On 5-6 July, Russia launched what has been described as “one of the worst attacks” on the city of Kyiv since the war began. Moscow launched a combined total of 419 drones and missiles overnight, with Ukraine’s Air Defense Forces (PPO) intercepting only 363 of them.

But among those that got through these defenses were 23 Russian ballistic missiles and six anti-ship missiles that had been repurposed to attack land-based targets. The Ukrainian PPO failed to intercept any of these ballistic and high-speed weapons.

Patriot Missile. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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In the last moments of his life, Friedrich Lengfeld only saw a wounded soldier.
A lieutenant fighting for the Germans during World War II, Lengfeld noticed a wounded American service member in distress. The Nazi officer followed his instincts, not regarding the man as the enemy but as someone who desperately required assistance.
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Lengfeld reacted, leading a team of medics to where the American lay. They almost got there until Lengfeld stepped on a land mine. He died shortly after from his injuries.

The Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert Yosypovych “Magyar” Brovdi, announced on 8 July that his forces had struck 21 Russian-flagged vessels in the Sea of Azov over a period of 72 hours. According to Magyar, nine Russian tankers were hit by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overnight on 8 July, adding to 10 attacks reported on 7 July and two reported on 6 July.

The ships were all operating in the Sea of Azov and were taken out as part of Ukraine’s attempts to choke off fuel supplies in Russian-occupied Crimea.