Ukrainian Defense Forces

Ukraine's Defense Forces strike 12 Russian tankers, tugboat and cargo ship in Sea of Azov

Ukraine's Defense Forces struck 12 tankers from Russia's shadow fleet, along with a tugboat and a dry cargo ship, in the Sea of Azov overnight into July 9, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.

9 July, 12:50 PM

Ukraine's Defense Forces down Russian aircraft

Ukraine's Air Force shot down a Russian aircraft, without identifying the specific type, according to its Telegram update on July 8.

8 July, 02:40 PM

Ukrainian forces strike major Russian oil refineries from Yaroslavl to Leningrad - video

Ukrainian forces struck Slavneft-YANOS oil refinery in Yaroslavl and the Novatek-Ust-Luga refinery in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, AFU General Staff reported on July 6.

6 July, 02:45 PM

Ukraine hits two bridges in Crimea and Zaporizhzhya Oblast, General Staff says

Ukrainian Defense Forces struck two bridges in occupied parts of Ukraine on June 29 and overnight into June 30, along with other Russian military targets, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

30 June, 04:50 PM

Inside Ukrainian UJ-26 Bober drone used to target Moscow

Ukraine uses long-range drones - Bober (Beaver), Liutyi, Palianytsia, and Morok as part of its campaign of medium- and long-range strikes against Russian territory, former tennis player and SBU Special Operations Center "A" commando Serhii Stakhovskyi told Ukrinform in June.

26 June, 09:00 AM

New mass drone attack damages vital Russian supply routes to Crimea

A new mass drone attack damaged bridges in Kherson Oblast, particularly near Chongar, Vladimir Saldo, the collaborator and head of the Russian occupation administration on Oblast's left bank, announced on June 15.

15 June, 01:34 PM

Ukraine outpaces Russian land grabs as Syrskyi charts May battlefield gains

Ukraine’s Armed Forces liberated nearly 100 square kilometers more territory than they lost in May, while Ukraine’s Defense Forces have freed more than 600 square kilometers since the start of the year, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said on June 8.

8 June, 02:16 PM

General Staff confirms successful strikes on key Russian oil facilities

Ukrainian forces successfully struck Grushova transshipment oil depot in Krasnodar Krai and Krasny Yar linear production and dispatch station in Russia's Volgograd Oblast on June 7 and overnight on June 8, AFU General Staff reported on June 8.

8 June, 01:15 PM

Russia’s battlefield edge weakens as Ukraine retakes more territory, ISW finds

Multiple sources point to declining Russian combat effectiveness on the battlefield, even though they use different mapping methods to assess territorial gains and losses, the Institute for the Study of War said in its June 6 report.

7 June, 03:22 PM

General Staff reports strikes on Russian command posts, oil facilities, troop clusters

Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a number of Russian military targets overnight into June 5 and on June 4, including command posts, drone control points and troop clusters, according to the General Staff.

5 June, 06:50 PM

Defenders use ground robot in operation to clear village of Russian infiltrators

Soldiers from Ukraine’s 115th Separate Mechanized Brigade cleared the settlement of Novoplatonivka in Kharkiv Oblast of Russian troops who had entered it, using an unmanned ground vehicle to provide fire cover during the operation, according to a video shared on the brigade’s Facebook page on June 1.

1 June, 06:55 PM

Ukraine's General Staff confirms hits on Rosneft-linked refinery and multiple military targets in Russia

Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck the Saratov oil refinery and several Russian command and drone control positions overnight into May 31, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said, adding that a large fire at the refinery had been confirmed.

31 May, 12:35 PM

Russia declares missile alerts 1,200 miles from Ukraine as drones strike deep

Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and Tyumen Oblast, both located more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) from the Ukrainian border, declared missile danger alerts for the first time since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian Telegram channels reported on May 29.

29 May, 06:43 PM

Ukraine's General Staff confirms drone strikes on Volgograd refinery and Yaroslavl pipeline station

Ukraine's Armed Forces General Staff confirmed overnight drone strikes on the Volgograd oil refinery and the Yaroslavl-3 pipeline pumping station in Russia on May 29, setting both facilities ablaze.

29 May, 04:27 PM

Ukrainian forces strike Iskander tactical group in occupied Crimea, General Staff says

Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted a series of successful strikes on Russian military targets overnight into May 2, hitting a tactical group of Iskander short-range ballistic missile systems in temporarily occupied Crimea, the General Staff reported.

2 May, 05:50 PM

Ukraine builds northern defense line to block Russian push toward Sumy

Ukraine is building a continuous defense line from Sumy to the Kyiv Reservoir to block Russian operations and prevent Moscow from creating a so-called “buffer zone,” Brig. Gen. Vasyl Syrotenko, head of the engineering troops of the Support Forces Command of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, said in a video comment to Ukrinform.

28 April, 02:32 PM

Ukraine strikes over 151,000 Russian targets in March

Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck more than 151,000 Russian targets in March, the Defense Ministry said on April 5.

5 April, 02:35 PM

Moscow's advance stalls while Ukrainian counterattacks reclaim dozens of settlements

The offensive of the Russian occupying forces has slowed down as the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to repel their attacks across various sectors of the front, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote on March 31.

1 April, 10:00 AM

Ukrainian military denies DeepState reports of Vasiukivka fall

Ukrainian Defense Forces maintain control over Vasiukivka in the Bakhmut district of Donetsk Oblast, information regarding the settlement's occupation is false, Eastern Troop Grouping reported on March 31.

31 March, 01:49 PM

Russian troops attempt breakthrough near Chuhunivka in Kharkiv Oblast

Russian invasion forces attempted to breach defenses on the Velykyi Burluk sector toward Chuhunivka in Kharkiv Oblast, the Joint Forces Grouping reported on March 29.

29 March, 06:28 PM

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