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Rationing of staple items in Crimea, like rice and bread, has begun. Ukraine has hit oil storage facilities across Crimea. Fuel sales in parts of Crimea are being rationed at 20 litres or less per vehicle.

Russia's 15th Naval Arsenal in the Leningrad Region was hit by Ukrainian drones and left almost completely obscured from satellite imagery by burning fires.

Electrical stations in Donetsk Oblast have also been hit.

Ukraine's 3rd Special Operations Unit has declared fire control over the Chonhar-Melitopol resupply route. Chonhar is the crossing point from mainland Ukraine to Crimea.

The Antipinsky Refinery in Tyumen, Russia, 2,000km from Russia, took a very heavy hit.

Ukraine has revealed how it destroyed several Russian jets in hardened military hangers. They waited until someone opened the doors and then flew some drones in. That's it.

Russian drone operators sitting under shelters at Donetsk Airport flying their drones out, hoping the Ukrainians don't nip their drones in through the opening whilst it's vulnerable. This has happened multiple times. Apparently their suggestion they stop using Donetsk Airport as a base has been rejected by the Russian military command as being too sensible.

Ukraine has hit St. Petersburg again, hitting additional targets around the city and on Kronstadt Island.

It is absolutely possible that Russia will militarily lose the war. Starving all the units on the front of food, fuel and ammunition tends to inhibit their fighting effectiveness, especially when Ukraine can use aerial and ground-based robots to actually storm lines instead, as is starting to happen.

Zelensky's letter I think was an attempt to have the war end now with something Putin can sell to the Russian people as vaguely victory and ensure his own survival. Otherwise what happens next could be more dangerous, if Putin sees the Russian position in Ukraine collapse quickly, that could make him panic and do something extremely unwise. The "boiling the frog slowly" tactic has been very successful, suddenly dropping the frog into a flamethrower might can an unwise escalation.

Extraordinary claim that 1,391 Russian supply and refuelling vehicles have been destroyed or disabled in just three days around Chernihivka, the primary supply node for the entire Zaporizhzhia front. This is the final distribution centre for supplies headed to the front, and it's now basically under drone siege.

Controversy as American defence company Red Cat, which had partnered with Ukrainian sea drone company Magura to produce a US copy of the Magura V7, has put its own version (identical in every way) into production. Red Cat now claims their version was built and designed in the US with no input from Ukrainian companies, which is clearly bullcrud.

Citizens in Donetsk city reporting that markets and supermarkets are rapidly running out of food as people panic-buy. Truck drivers, ordinary civilian ones, are too terrified to go out as they fear being hit by drones. Donetsk has a current population of around 870,000.

Resupply trucks are being ordered to disperse and no longer sit in parking lots in groups anywhere in the occupation zone. This may not be practical in all cases, but where trucks bunch together, they invariably get a visit from Ukrainian drones.

A huge hit on the Sea of Azov ports this morning. A huge Ukrainian drone attack destroyed five Russian cargo ships carrying stolen Ukrainian grain out of the ports. Russian air defences were overwhelmed and unable to intercept the drones. Ukraine being able to blockade Russia from exporting its stolen food supplies would be a huge gamechanger as well.

Novoplatonivka has been retaken. The Russians confirmed taking the village after a long and gruelling combat operation. A Ukrainian ground assault robot entered the village and promptly cleaned up half the Russian units, with Ukrainian infantry neutralising the rest and confirming the settlement was back under their control within a few days.

Ukraine has confirmed it is receiving near-realtime battlefield satellite imagery, sometimes hitting targets within 15 minutes of it being identified on satellite.

President Zelensky has sent a letter to Putin. It's very impressive reading.

I suspect Putin will not read it.

Oof, Ukrainian forces are making a counter-attack between Dobropillya and Pokrovsk. 1,000-pound JDAM bombs are pummelling entire Russian positions into nothing. These are being air-launched by Su-27s as well, which should be well within Russian AA range, except all of the Russian AA units anywhere near this front have been destroyed.

Multiple gas stations in Donetsk city now saying they are out of fuel and shutting up shop. Simferopol in Crimea is also increasingly cut off, Ukrainian drones showing a "road of death" of burned-out fuel tankers extending around the city.

Clearer footage showing the Boikiy listing in its berth in Kronstadt, still on fire, with dozens of fire engines and hoses spraying water on it, rather ineffectually from the look of it. Kronstadt is famed in Russian history as playing a key role in both the revolutions of 1917, and later the betrayal of the navy by the Bolsheviks who massacred the sailors there (many of them veterans who'd helped the Bolsheviks come to power) in 1921 for demanding better conditions.

Ukraine’s Spalakh drone operators from the 28th Brigade claim to have brought Horlivka under full fire control. The city, located 40km from Ukrainian positions, behind Pokrovsk, has been surrounded by loitering drone units destroying any supplies trying to enter or leave the city. Horlivka is a major supply node for the main Russian offensive effort in Donetsk Oblast.

Russia has banned the reporting of any and all news about Russian supply truck movements in the entire occupied zone.

Russian tankers and truck drivers in Prymorsk have refused to drive any more fuel trucks, pointing to a tanker Ukrainian drones left ablaze near the town.

Moscow, Leningrad, Ryazan, Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Oryol, Novgorod, Samara and Murmansk regions have all introduced fuel rationing.

A Swedish vessel has boarded and captured Caffa, a Russian shadow fleet tanker, reportedly using intelligence gained by Ukraine.

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems have reported 100,000 Russian casualties inflicted since this time last year, with over 350,000 targets struck and 1.65 million combat missions flown.

Hungary has formally withdrawn its veto on Ukraine's EU accession bid.

One of the Russian patrol boats guarding the Kerch Strait Bridge has been hit by drones.

Ukrainian drones on the Lyman front are targeting key logistics routes over the Zherebets River, destroying Russian resupplies and dropping bridges and pontoons supplying the Lyman front. Some excited claims of a major Russian reversal on this front but nothing confirmed yet.

Russian milblogger Rybar claims that Ukrainian reinforcements have arrived south of Mala Tokmachka and are now pressing hard to recapture more of the N-08 highway. Russian retreats on this front had eased after additional reinforcements arrived, but Ukraine is pressing hard and still hoping to retake at least Kamyansk.

Rubio has confirmed that Ukraine has achieved significant successes and gains in the last few weeks.