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Also, it looks like Farage's possibly sole opposition will be a man who wears a bin on his head.

Nigel Farage has resigned!

Crowd goes wild, cheering, sobs of joy.

He'll stand again in the Clacton by-election!

Screams of frustration.

If he stands and wins it changes nothing and he can still be fired, suspended and arrested for misconduct!

Confused ostrich noises.

The Russian oil refinery at Omsk, 2500km from Ukraine and the last major refinery not to be hit before today, has taken a major drone hit. Huge explosions and vast amounts of smoke pouring into the sky. Both Russian and Ukrainian commentators have said this is major step forwards and "nowhere is safe." Russia even deployed an Su-57 to intercept incoming ordinance, but it was unable to engage the drones.

A rather wild claim but it appears one Russian unit on the front became combat-incapable after literally starving. Ukraine interdicted all drone resupplies, including food, for weeks on end and the Russian unit ceased to be capable of fighting before being neutralised, having refused to surrender.

Eight Russian shadow fleet tankers were hit overnight in a flurry of hits on the Sea of Azov ports and on the Black Sea.

Ukraine has revealed it conducted "Operation Ashan" in 2025, using surveillance to pinpoint the locations of Russian artillery pieces which Russia had positioned in hidden locations and outside counter-battery range. Over 800 artillery pieces, ammunition dumps and support vehicles were destroyed in two days. A later follow-up operation destroyed another 300 pieces of equipment.

Ukraine has hit the 26th Missile Brigade forward positioning base in Luga, possibly destroyed Iskander ballistic missiles and launch systems.

Ukraine is working with foreign allies to field systems capable of neutralising Russian airfields permanently.

Ukraine has begun hitting road bridges and rail bridges in Belgorod Oblast. Previously they'd hit bridges on areas that were heavily used by the military but now they're going after others to strangle economic movement in the oblast. Most targeting is happening at night to avoid civilian casualties.

Omsk Refinery has gone offline fully. The hit to their systems seems to have reduced output by 75% and they're scrambling to repair. Omsk is Russia's largest refinery so this would be a massive hit to Russian oil output.

Nice, Ukraine has crippled two Tu-142 strategic bombers at Taganrog, including blowing one of the aircraft's wings off.

Ukraine has also hit the St. Petersburg oil terminal again, causing significant damage and, once again, black smoke in the sky over the city. Ukraine assesses that up to 42% of Russia's total oil output was degraded at one moment in the last month, though Russia has since managed to repair some capacity. But the scale of Ukraine's attacks is now immense, with at least over 100 drone launches simultaneously for around a month in a row, some nights more than 300. Russia has amass forces for larger strikes, but Ukraine is apparently now targeting eclipsing Russia's drone strike capacity in total, not even per capita.

An absolute massacre of electrical substations in Crimea. Ukrainian drones blitzing dozens of the things in a relatively short space of time, shutting down electricity supplies to significant chunks of territory. Nine substations hit overnight alone. Crimea can only cope by introducing rolling blackouts and ordering restrictions on the use of washing machines and televisions.

Ukraine has also hit multiple electricity substations across Belgorod Oblast, including using HIMARS to blow on up (which might constitute overkill, but still).

Hvardiiske Airfield in Crimea, used to base large recon drones, has suffered significant damage to its drone shelters.

Russia has started selling types of gasoline infused with higher quantities of sulphur, meaning a significant risk of damaging engines.

Insider info claiming that the Ukraine-Poland spat started because Ukrainian engineers inspected Poland's MiG-29s and found most of them unflyable, requiring new landing gear and significant technology upgrades. Poland refused to fund the costs for this. Ukraine seems to have felt that Poland promised the aircraft were in a better state than is the case. The basic airframes seem to still be viable, so hopefully they can come to some arrangement.

A Danish company has unveiled Blue Dragon, a sea-based autonomous launch system designed to loiter off the coast and launch an array of smaller aerial and sea drones. Ukraine is considering purchasing the system to intercept Shahed drones over the Black Sea, specifically for the defence of Odesa.

Dubna, Moscow Oblast apparently has multiple queues, with hundreds of vehicles in each, trying to buy fuel. The Crimean Bridge queue has reached 7.5 km as of earlier today. Novorossiysk has sent out an alert saying it is out of gasoline, and only has small amounts of diesel available.

Ukraine has indicted Gerasimov for war crimes, accusing him of orchestrating Russia's terror attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.

Ukraine and Germany are working together to encourage Ukrainian emigrants of fighting age to return to Ukraine. Apparently Ukraine is seeking to recruit to its drone forces, located at a greater distance from the front line, to encourage voluntary returns.

Several intelligence agencies claiming that Russia may be preparing a false flag operation on the Polish border to test NATO resolve.