[Werthead]

Two drones flew into the same 15th floor apartment of a building in Kazan, possible a targeted assassination of a military figure. Unclear if it was successful. I did see one suggestion that a jamming field was in operation and it caused two drones in succession to go off-course in exactly the same way to hit an unrelated target, which I'm pretty sure is not a thing. A third drone was also in the area and was shot down, but the wreckage hit a different apartment building and damaged several flats.

Some bonkers stuff going on in Russia. Russian citizens burned down a post office in Leningrad Oblast and ddetonated fireworks in St. Petersburg itself and Moscow. Apparently the attackers were pensioners, motivated by "Ukrainian call centres."

The beaches at Anapa, Krasnodar, have been closed due to fuel washing up on the beach from two Russian oil tankers which sank in the Black Sea, and third which was leaking heavily. Unclear how three tankers developed problems simultaneously, but no sign of a Ukrainian attack. Possibly sabotage.

Ukraine has undertaken a 100% autonomous advance using both airborne and ground-based drones. The force attacked on the Kharkiv front, near Liptsi, driving Russians back and regaining a small amount of territory, which they have so far been holding, all without the need for Ukrainian troops. Impressive, though of course likely impractical at high scale.

The renewed Russian offensive on Kupyansk, after losing a ton of territory near the town a few weeks ago, is being undertaken on a large scale. But Ukraine has moved in reinforcements, with the National Guard Buerviy Brigade, the UAV Achielles unit of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade, the 105th Border Detachment (aka "Wings of Omega") and the Luhansk Border Guard Unit taking part in heavy combat. The Russians have failed to advance and have lost 300 killed and wounded in just a few days, along with a substantial mount of combat. Renewed Russian complaints about this offensive being severely under-resourced and Ukrainian defences in the region have been reinforced from a few months ago, when it was looking a bit dicey.

Unconfirmed reports that Ukrainian AA defence operators who had run out of ammunition may have been redeployed as ground infantry in a particularly undermanned part of the line, confirming that Ukraine's manpower issues continue to bite.

[Mentalist]

The tankers were built int he 60s, way past expiration date, and designed for rivers and coastal waters only.

Instead, they were being used in deep sea water during strong storm weather. Insane, criminal negligence (the ecological impact is incalculable), but not directly war related (except for the whole sanctions bit)

According to Yuri Butusov, the target of the missile strike in Ryl'sk was the HQ of the 155th Marine Infantry brigade. UAF has a particular grudge against it, since it's been implicated in war crimes in Bucha, as well as posting a severed head of a UAF serviceman on a pike. Naturally, that's the exact same unit whose standard was waved around during VVH's presser. So our artillery brigades took exception to that.