Ukraine hit Russia’s port at Novorossiysk again.
Among the reported targets were warships, oil terminal infrastructure, radars and air-defense systems.
A Russian refinery in Ukhta is burning. Ukhta is northeast of Moscow.
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Ukraine has struck the Lukoil oil refinery in Ukhta, Russia, 1,700km from the front line, triggering a fire at a processing unit. The Ukhta refinery has a processing capacity of 4.2 million tons per year. #Ukraine
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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) March 2, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Resistance is futile.
More radars are taken out.
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Ukraine struck two S-300 radar stations, ammunition depots, fuel stores, and drone command posts across three oblasts overnight.
Ukraine keeps chipping away at the infrastructure Russia needs to hold occupied territory.
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— Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) March 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
A Buk air-defense system is destroyed.
Shahed bavovna
A Ukrainian with call sign Positive tells a harrowing tale of being seriously wounded and captured. His Russian captors are impressed by his better-equipped dugout and decide to move in. Their Russian comrades bomb them, thinking they are Ukrainian. Positive tells them no one is coming to help and convinces them to surrender. Ukrainian troops sent a ground drone to evacuate them.
“We got out, somehow hobbled to the robot, climbed onto it—and off we went,” says Positive. “We could barely hold on. The road was terrible, hills and craters, nothing visible under the snow. We went about 700 meters and could already hear our guys who had come out to cover us. Then something flew overhead. I looked up—a Molniya.”
Molniya is a cheap Russian suicide drone made of plywood, plastic, and cardboard, but it can carry 3–5 kilograms of explosives and fly up to 40 kilometers.
“It flew over us, made a turn, and headed straight back at us. The Russian, who could still walk, jumped off and hid in the trees. The badly wounded one and I stayed on the platform. I was staring straight at that Molniya when I realized there was also an FPV drone on a fiber optic cable coming at us. The FPV chased the other Russian, while the winged drone came straight toward us. For some reason, it detonated midair about 20 to 30 meters away. The FPV hovered in front of the Russian behind the tree, turned, and then came for our vehicle. I don’t know where I found the strength, but I swung my useless leg over the side and fell off. The drone exploded. I was behind the vehicle, so I was only concussed. The Russian on the platform was decapitated.”
Positive shouted for the Russian who had run off to return and help. Nearby stood an abandoned house, and they crawled inside. Russian air attacks resumed. One drone struck a tree near the building. Another blew out the windows and metal bars. The blast knocked aside an armchair in the corner, revealing a hatch beneath it—the entrance to a basement. They took shelter there. The next explosion destroyed the walls and collapsed the roof, burying them under rubble.
Positive contacted his comrades and reported that they were alive under the ruins near the destroyed robotic vehicle. He was told to wait for another opportunity to evacuate.
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Positive recalls the moment he was wounded, when one Russian stood over him and said, “Let me finish him off.” As it turned out, the one who objected was the same soldier who ultimately survived and saved his own life thanks to evacuation to the Ukrainian side.
Another 960 Russians plus 1,810 drones.
The Russian defense industry takes another hit to its reputation.
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Iran relied on Russian-made air defense systems.
The main Russian air defense systems in service with Iran included:
▪️ S-300PMU-2 Favorit - delivered in 2016.
▪️ Tor-M1 - short-range systems acquired earlier and designed to counter precision-guided aerial threats.
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— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) March 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
▪️ S-400 Triumf - reportedly supplied to Iran in 2024-2025 to build a layered defense against potential Western strikes.
Those expectations placed on Russian weapons ultimately proved unjustified.
Most Russian air defense units have been disabled or suppressed by electronic warfare capabilities.
The experts at shooting down Shahed drones are being brought in to help the Gulf States.
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⚡️Update: UK bringing in Ukrainian experts for help shooting down Iranian drones, Starmer says.
The U.K. will allow the U.S. to use British bases to target Iran's missile sites, Starmer said. "And we will also bring experts from Ukraine...to help Gulf partners shoot down Iranian drones."
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) March 1, 2026 at 3:50 PM
German-made drones are making on impact on the Russian rear.
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❗️🇷🇺Russian military personnel have started complaining that 🇺🇦Ukrainian forces are increasingly using 🇩🇪German HX-2 kamikaze drones produced by the company Helsing.
It is reported that the HX-2 is being employed for strikes deep in the Russian rear.
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— 🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 (@militarynewsua.bsky.social) March 2, 2026 at 6:22 AM
2/“They are hitting repair crews and road network installation teams in the relative rear,” the occupiers stated.
Russia is reported to be using a new cruise missile in Ukraine.
Specifications: range - approximately 1,500 km, warhead - up to 800 kg, speed - 600-800 km/h. It is reported that the missile is less vulnerable to electronic warfare and is considered a more cost-effective alternative to the Kh-101 for Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers.
The war against Iran will have serious long-term implications for Ukraines air defense since so many missiles from American stockpiles are being used up.
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THE AMMUNITION BURN RATE WILL AFFECT UKRAINE
The number and variety of bombs, HARM, and especially Patriot missiles used by so many countries and the US in just a couple of days - estimates suggest 400+ have been fired- likely two years worth of production within a few days at this rate.They will
— The Analyst (@militaryanalyst.bsky.social) March 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
They will need replacing and the US will not supply Ukraine over its own needs. It will have serious implications for Ukraine’s long term air defences.With no missiles to acquire nobody is going to send themfrom the stocks they have if they can’t replace them.
Here we are again over reliant on American weapons and systems that even by 2030 will only reach 2,000 missiles a year with a huge backlog to fill. At the moment they’re barely making 750 a year.
We also know that US space assets are heavily concentrated over Iran and it’s unlikely Americais supplying much to Ukraine in terms of intel.
The speed and detail of satellite imagery coming out has been possible only because of concentration of effort. It’s effectively US complete disengagement from Ukraine for its own needs.
Russian war bloggers are worried about the latest low-cost American drone — LUCAS.
But that supposes that Trump would give it to Ukraine.
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1/ Russian commentators are sounding the alarm over America's use of a new kamikaze drone against Iran, the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS). They note that it appears to have an integrated Starlink terminal and warn that it's a serious threat to Russia. ⬇️
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— ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) March 1, 2026 at 2:38 PM
3/ 'Obsessed with war' writes:
"The Americans are showing a photo of their Geran-like LUCAS drones launching at targets in Iran."
4/ "And what do we see? A Starlink receiving antenna, which will allow the drone to be guided precisely to its target, if it's not shot down, remaining in contact until the last split second."
5/ "And if we don't find a solution to this satellite constellation within a year, things will be ugly for us."
'Russian Engineer' calls it "a very serious wake-up call. You could even say it's a warning bell."
6/ "The fact is that the latest Starlink modification, in addition to the communication channel, provides alternative navigation, which, unlike conventional GNSS, has very high interference immunity.
7/ "It also has an extremely narrow communication beam, which is difficult to detect and virtually impossible to jam with conventional electronic warfare systems.
Protests continue every day in Georgia.
That prediction didn’t age well.
She doesn’t want daddy to leave.
A wartime love story.
And finally ….
