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Ukraine war latest: Ukraine continues strikes on Russia's oil industry as Moscow races to expand missile production
Key developments on Aug. 10: * Ukraine's military intelligence reveals Russian missile production figures 'exceeding monthly targets' * Ukraine strikes Russian petrochemical plant more than 2,000 kilometers from border, General Staff says * Russian oil refinery in Tatarstan targeted as Russia claims Ukrainian 456 drones intercepted overnight * Russia's version of Starlink deploying quicker than planned, Ukraine's military intelligence says * Russia rules out freezing war in Ukraine ahead o
Ukraine's military intelligence reveals Russian missile production figures 'exceeding monthly targets'
Russia had already fulfilled its annual production targets for the Zircon and Oniks missiles, with 33 and 60 units manufactured in the first seven months, respectively, Vadym Skibitskyi said.
No escape from the Russian terror playbook
In the early 1950s, a group of prominent, mostly Jewish doctors from Moscow was accused of plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders on orders from the West. The accused were fired from their jobs, arrested, and tortured. But after Joseph Stalin died in 1953, Lavrenty Beria — one of Stalin's longest-serving secret police chiefs, who oversaw the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) in 1938–45 and spent decades filling the Gulags — called off the investigation. As it turned out, the sec
How Russia's shadow fleet forced Europe back to sea
Europe's campaign to choke off Russia's ability to finance its war in Ukraine through oil revenues began with sanctions, legislation, and price caps. But as hundreds of ships helped Moscow evade those restrictions, Western governments increasingly backed those measures with aggressive maritime enforcement — deploying naval power and pirate-like tactics to disrupt the shadow fleet. As of May 2026, a Ukrainian government register has identified 1,404 vessels belonging to Russia's so-called shadow
Russia's Supreme Court bars only 'pro-peace' party from parliamentary elections
The case was brought by the nationalist, pro-Kremlin Rodina party, which is also running in the election.
Ukraine strikes Russian petrochemical plant more than 2,000 kilometers from border, General Staff says
The attack struck the plant's central gas fractionation unit, according to the General Staff.
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A Belgian factory continues to operate in Russia's special economic zone known as a key defense production site despite EU requirements to leave the zone by late January 2026.
