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News18
03-08-2025
- Politics
- News18
Ukrainian Drone Hits Oil Depot Near Sochi, Triggers Mega Blast
Last Updated: Russian authorities blame a massive oil depot fire near Sochi on a Ukrainian drone attack. Sochi's airport suspended flights. A Russian missile strike hit Mykolaiv, injuring seven. Russian authorities attribute a massive oil depot fire raging near the Black Sea resort of Sochi to a drone attack allegedly carried out by Ukraine. Sochi's nearby airport has suspended flights. According to Krasnodar Region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, drone debris hit a fuel tank, and 127 firefighters were tackling the blaze. Meanwhile, local officials reported that a Russian missile strike devastated homes and civilian infrastructure in Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine, BBC reported. In Russia's Krasnodar region, Sochi is covered in smoke after a morning strike on an oil depot. Meanwhile, Tuapse and nearby areas are flooded, and a storm is tearing away beaches. — WarTranslated (@wartranslated) August 3, 2025 At least seven civilians were reportedly injured in the city, which has been repeatedly shelled by Russian forces. Ukraine's State Emergency Service said three of the wounded were being treated in the hospital. According to Russian authorities, the drone attack on the Sochi refinery was part of a larger wave of attacks launched by Ukraine over the weekend, with multiple installations targeted in southern Russian cities, including Ryazan, Penza, and Voronezh. The governor of Voronezh reported that four people were injured in one drone strike. Russia's defence ministry said its air defences intercepted 93 Ukrainian drones overnight, 60 of which were over the Black Sea region. Ukraine's air force said that Russia launched a barrage of 83 drones or 76 drones and seven missiles overnight. They managed to shoot down 61 of the aerial threats, but 16 drones and six missiles hit targets in eight locations. This comes after a particularly deadly week for civilians in Ukraine, including an attack on Kyiv on Thursday that killed at least 31 people. The Ukrainian officials said that more than 300 drones and eight cruise missiles were launched in the assault, making the attack one of the deadliest on the capital since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. After the strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for stronger international sanctions on Russia this week, while US President Donald Trump condemned Russia's actions in Ukraine and suggested new sanctions against Moscow were coming. In July, Trump said that Putin had 50 days to end the war, or Russia would face severe tariffs targeting its oil and other exports. Later, on Monday, Trump set a new '10 or 12" day deadline. He further set a new deadline, which would expire on 8 August. view comments First Published: Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
News18
01-08-2025
- News18
Trapped Behind Enemy Lines, Ukrainian Soldier Rides To Freedom On E-Bike Dropped By Drone
Last Updated: Footage released by Ukraine's Rubizh Brigade shows a heavy-lift drone lowering the e-bike directly to Tanker's position An injured Ukrainian soldier who was stranded behind Russian lines made a dramatic escape after a 40kg electric bicycle was delivered to him by drone. The soldier, identified by the call sign 'Tanker," had been holding the line for five days at position 360 near the front line in Siversk, in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Wounded and unable to evacuate on foot, he was completely surrounded by Russian forces. Footage released by Ukraine's Rubizh Brigade shows a heavy-lift drone lowering the e-bike directly to Tanker's position. A soldier who had been holding the line for 5 days at position 360, unable to evacuate on his own, was delivered a 40 kg electric bike directly to his position. — WarTranslated (@wartranslated) July 31, 2025 According to the brigade, traditional rescue attempts were too risky, as enemy troops were positioned on all sides. 'Our drones covered us from above as best as they could," Tanker said. 'Then they threw two gas cylinders straight into our hole and a lighter. We caught fire." Mykola Hrytsenko, the brigade's chief of staff, said the terrain and active fighting in the area made ground rescue impossible. His team then devised an alternative: airlifting a 40kg e-bike to the soldier using a combat drone. Hrytsenko said the first two delivery attempts failed, one drone was shot down, and another overheated due to the weight. On the third attempt, the drone successfully delivered the bike, allowing the soldier to escape at speed. 'The enemy was in front, behind, and on both flanks. Completely surrounded," Hrytsenko said. He added that soldiers in the region often have to walk 6 to 7 kilometres on foot due to lack of proper logistics, making unconventional tactics necessary. The escape came as Russia launched deadly missile attacks on Kyiv, killing at least 16 people, including a six-year-old boy and his mother, in the early hours of Thursday. view comments Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Forbes
02-05-2025
- Forbes
Russia Is Making Explosive Drones Out Of Toy Hoverboards
A Russian hoverboard drone explodes. Via WarTranslated It suddenly makes sense why Russian troops in Ukraine were observed with a substantial number of toy hoverboards. A video montage that circulated online on Friday depicts the explosive ground robots—a pair of the two-wheeled hoverboards attached to an anti-tank mine—blowing up purported Ukrainian fortifications presumably somewhere along the 700-mile front line of Russia's 39-month wider war on Ukraine. Last summer, the Dva Mayora volunteer organization in Russia developed the hoverboard unmanned ground vehicles and began distributing copies to Russian units. Half a year later in February, Russians were seen loading a bunch of the $100 hoverboards into a truck somewhere at or near the front. It's possible they'd received them as donations from supporters back home—or stolen them from Ukrainian homes in the occupied zone. Regardless, it should be apparent now that most of the hoverboards along the front line aren't for riding—they're for making one-way explosive drones. Flying robots already dominate the battleground in Ukraine. The hundreds of thousands of tiny first-person-view drones Russian and Ukrainian forces deploy every month account for the majority of battlefield casualties—70 percent, according to The New York Times. By comparison, ground robots are less ubiquitous, and for obvious reasons. It's easier for a remote-controlled vehicle to fly unobstructed through the air than it is to crawl over rough terrain. Thanks to their internal gyroscopes, hoverboards are extremely stable compared to traditional wheeled vehicles. A hoverboard UGV can speed across the front-line terrain faster than other ground robots. And the low cost of the toys mean the mine-laden 'bots are expendable. No need for a regiment to save them for only the most valuable targets. That the Russians appear to be using their hoverboards to build exploding robots doesn't mean they won't eventually ride them into battle. It's worth noting the growing prevalence of surplus civilian electric scooters in the inventories of Russian regiments. After losing 17,000 armored vehicles and other heavy equipment in Ukraine, the Kremlin is growing truly desperate for battlefield transportation—and has sent troops on assaults on e-scooters, Lada compact cars, aging GAZ-69 trucks and at least one bus. If and when toy hoverboards become more valuable as assault vehicles than drone components, they too might join the war-scooters and compact cars. At least as an assault vehicle, a hoverboard stands some chance of surviving a battle. As an explosive drone, a hoverboard heads out exactly once.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New Russian footage shows North Korean troops training with modern rifles, grenade launchers, and anti-drone tactics
Moscow released a new video on Monday of North Korean troops training with Russian small arms. The clips show them drilling and clearing trenches with newer weapons such as the AK-12. Washington and Seoul have been voicing concern about what North Korea may learn from the war and Russia. Russia's defense ministry released a new video on Monday of North Korean troops training with modern small arms used in the Ukraine war. The 77-second montage, published by state media outlet TASS, showed the soldiers drilling fire movements, shooting from cover, clearing trenches, and being taught how to use Russian standard service hand grenades. Some troops can be spotted with the AK-12, a fifth-generation modular assault rifle that entered service in Russia around 2020. Several of the rifles can be seen equipped with reflex sights and foregrips. Back home, North Korean troops are primarily known to train and fight with the Type-88, a localized version of the Soviet-era AK-74 rifle. Additionally, the clips feature soldiers training with the SVD sniper rifle, also known as the "Dragunov," and the belt-fed PK machine gun. Another clip showed a soldier handling an RPG-7, the rocket-propelled grenade launcher that Russia uses in service now. He fires a high-explosive anti-tank round from the weapon. Notably, all of these small arms fall under the list of guns and equipment that Ukraine's military intelligence said Russia was providing to North Korean troops in November 2024. On a Russian propaganda channel, they showed how North Korean soldiers were being trained to fight against Ukraine. — WarTranslated (@wartranslated) April 28, 2025 The footage also showed a soldier firing into the air with a semiautomatic 12-gauge shotgun known as the Vepr-12, which can be seen equipped with an extended choke. This muzzle attachment is typically used to turn the shotgun into an anti-drone weapon because it reduces pellet spread and extends the gun's range. Both Ukrainian and Russian troops have been known to rely on shotguns to take down drones at close range. TASS wrote that North Korean troops were training with the 12-gauge shotguns for this purpose. The state media outlet also wrote that the soldiers in the clip had been part of North Korea's force in Kursk, where Pyongyang had sent thousands of troops to reinforce Russia. Business Insider could not independently verify the authenticity of that claim. The new clip comes after Russia and North Korea both openly acknowledged last weekend that North Korean troops had been fighting against Ukrainian forces, after months of staying silent on the matter despite mounting evidence of Pyongyang's involvement. Their partnership has sparked alarm in the West and South Korea, who fear that North Korean troops may be gaining vital combat experience and learning to fight with and against modern weapons and drones. Many of these soldiers were sent on ground infantry assaults that often resulted in death or heavy injury. This tactic has become a hallmark of Russia's strategy to exhaust Ukraine's resources. Initial reports from the front lines described Pyongyang's troops as unprepared, not knowing how to deal with exploding drones and taking heavy losses. But there are signs they've been adapting, such as a drawing that Ukraine said it obtained from a captured North Korean fighter detailing how to bait out a drone using a fellow soldier. North Korean troops are likely also getting their first chance to observe Ukraine's use of advanced weapons such as HIMARS and the Abrams tank. On the battlefield, they've proved far more tenacious than their Russian counterparts, charging in frontal "human wave" assaults and advancing without armor support. Ukrainian troops have said they struggled to capture North Koreans because the latter would often try to kill themselves rather than surrender. A US State Department spokesperson told media outlets earlier this week that Washington was still concerned by Pyongyang's troop deployment, saying that third countries like North Korea "perpetuated the Russia-Ukraine war" and bear responsibility. Read the original article on Business Insider
Business Insider
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Business Insider
New Russian footage shows North Korean troops training with modern rifles, grenade launchers, and anti-drone tactics
Russia's defense ministry released a new video on Monday of North Korean troops training with modern small arms used in the Ukraine war. The 77-second montage, published by state media outlet TASS, showed the soldiers drilling fire movements, shooting from cover, clearing trenches, and being taught how to use Russian standard service hand grenades. Some troops can be spotted with the AK-12, a fifth-generation modular assault rifle that entered service in Russia around 2020. Several of the rifles can be seen equipped with reflex sights and foregrips. Back home, North Korean troops are primarily known to train and fight with the Type-88, a localized version of the Soviet-era AK-74 rifle. Additionally, the clips feature soldiers training with the SVD sniper rifle, also known as the "Dragunov," and the belt-fed PK machine gun. Another clip showed a soldier handling an RPG-7, the rocket-propelled grenade launcher that Russia uses in service now. He fires a high-explosive anti-tank round from the weapon. Notably, all of these small arms fall under the list of guns and equipment that Ukraine's military intelligence said Russia was providing to North Korean troops in November 2024. On a Russian propaganda channel, they showed how North Korean soldiers were being trained to fight against Ukraine. — WarTranslated (@wartranslated) April 28, 2025 The footage also showed a soldier firing into the air with a semiautomatic 12-gauge shotgun known as the Vepr-12, which can be seen equipped with an extended choke. This muzzle attachment is typically used to turn the shotgun into an anti-drone weapon because it reduces pellet spread and extends the gun's range. Both Ukrainian and Russian troops have been known to rely on shotguns to take down drones at close range. TASS wrote that North Korean troops were training with the 12-gauge shotguns for this purpose. The state media outlet also wrote that the soldiers in the clip had been part of North Korea's force in Kursk, where Pyongyang had sent thousands of troops to reinforce Russia. Business Insider could not independently verify the authenticity of that claim. Russia and North Korea's alliance poses concerns for the West The new clip comes after Russia and North Korea both openly acknowledged last weekend that North Korean troops had been fighting against Ukrainian forces, after months of staying silent on the matter despite mounting evidence of Pyongyang's involvement. Their partnership has sparked alarm in the West and South Korea, who fear that North Korean troops may be gaining vital combat experience and learning to fight with and against modern weapons and drones. Many of these soldiers were sent on ground infantry assaults that often resulted in death or heavy injury. This tactic has become a hallmark of Russia's strategy to exhaust Ukraine's resources. Initial reports from the front lines described Pyongyang's troops as unprepared, not knowing how to deal with exploding drones and taking heavy losses. But there are signs they've been adapting, such as a drawing that Ukraine said it obtained from a captured North Korean fighter detailing how to bait out a drone using a fellow soldier. North Korean troops are likely also getting their first chance to observe Ukraine's use of advanced weapons such as HIMARS and the Abrams tank. On the battlefield, they've proved far more tenacious than their Russian counterparts, charging in frontal "human wave" assaults and advancing without armor support. Ukrainian troops have said they struggled to capture North Koreans because the latter would often try to kill themselves rather than surrender. A US State Department spokesperson told media outlets earlier this week that Washington was still concerned by Pyongyang's troop deployment, saying that third countries like North Korea "perpetuated the Russia-Ukraine war" and bear responsibility.
