[Werthead]

The Russian government ordered Yandex to blur 119 locations on their mapping service which are militarily sensitive. Yandex complied, and by simple comparing cached images from last week with today, everyone was able to immediately identify the 119 locations. Some of these were not previously known to be military sites. The Ukrainians are very grateful for this information. Plus people can just cross-reference with Google or Bing Maps and immediately see the sites anyway.

Russia attempted a border breach at Kozacha Lopan, Kharkiv Oblast, but this was defeated by Ukrainian forces 

Nine out of Russia's big ten refineries have taken major hits recently. The last, Omsk, is 3000km from Ukraine which has so far protected it, but I doubt that can continue. Ukraine has hit targets around Kurgan, which is 2000km from Ukraine.

Some intelligence services confirming that Putin pressed Lukashenko on joining the war against Ukraine and Lukashenko said Belarus simply lacked the troops, terrain or weaponry to do so, and was also negative on allowing Russian troops to transit Belarus to do so. This resulted in his trip to Beijing to get Xi to offer support.

Ukraine destroyed an Su-30SM in its hardened shelter during an attack on a Crimea airfield. Four other hardened shelters were hit, but their aircraft seem to have survived.

Ukraine confirmed over 675 square kilometres of territory has been liberated since the start of 2026, and Ukraine is now carrying out between 45% and 50% of all daily offensive actions by both sides.

Ukraine is stepping up attacks on infrastructure. A bridge on the Mariupol-Donetsk highway over the Malyi Kal'chyk River near Hranitne has been destroyed, with the whole deck dropped into the river.

Russia has started importing gasoline from India. Maybe some of the same fuel they sold them previously.

[Mentalist]

Werthead, on 01 July 2026 - 09:56 PM, said:

Russia has started importing gasoline from India. Maybe some of the same fuel they sold them previously.

they sell oil to India at a discount, and then buy back the fuel refined from it with a markup.

brilliant! oh, wait.....

This post has been edited by Mentalist: Yesterday, 11:11 PM

[Werthead]

Mentalist, on 01 July 2026 - 11:11 PM, said:

they sell oil to India at a discount, and then buy back the fuel refined from it with a markup.

brilliant! oh, wait.....

Putin playing six-dimensional Connect 4 over here.