(YAROSLAVL, RUSSIA) – Ukrainian drones have struck the Yaroslavl oil refinery, one of Russia’s five largest, in an attack that Kyiv says targets facilities critical to Russian military logistics.
The facility has an annual processing capacity of around 15 million tonnes of crude oil and produces petrol, diesel, aviation kerosene and jet fuel.
As a security precaution, traffic leaving the region towards Moscow was temporarily blocked.
The refinery has been targeted several times before.
Ukrainian drones also struck the Saratov region, with explosions reported near Engels. The apparent target was the Engels military air base where a Tu-95 strategic missile carrying bomber was reportedly on fire, according to media reports citing local residents.
Overnight into 28th August, Russian forces attacked Ukraine with more than 150 strike drones. The Ukrainian Air Force recorded strikes at 16 locations across the country.
In the Kyiv region, Russian forces struck warehouses belonging to Ukrainian delivery company Nova Poshta. Nearly an hour after the initial strike, while firefighters were working to extinguish the blaze, Russian forces carried out two additional strikes on the same location.
Emergency responders moved to a safer area before the second attack.
In Zaporizhzhia, an Epicentre home improvement supermarket was attacked, wounding four people. The strike sparked a fire covering approximately 2,000 square metres.
The southern Kherson region also came under massive attack. The Kherson combined heat and power plant sustained serious damage. The regional governor said residents can no longer expect the power plant or other critical infrastructure to operate normally this winter.
Over the past two months, Russian forces have dropped more than 170 guided aerial bombs and carried out more than 1,700 drone strikes on the Kherson region. The governor warned that Kherson could be left without electricity and heating for extended periods.
On the front line, chief of the Russian general staff Valery Gerasimov claimed that Russian forces had advanced to within four kilometres of Sloviansk and were assaulting an airfield three kilometres from Kramatorsk, and had approached to within 1.5 kilometres of Druzhnivka.
Gerasimov’s assessment differs significantly from DeepState battlefield maps, which place Russian forces approximately five to six kilometres from Druzhnivka and Kramatorsk and up to eight kilometres from the easternmost outskirts of Sloviansk.
Russia’s defence ministry also claimed the capture of Shevchenko. However, according to DeepState maps, the settlement remains under Ukrainian control and is located more than 11 kilometres from the nearest grey zone.
In the centre of temporarily occupied Donetsk, a high precision missile strike was carried out against an underground command post of the Russian occupation forces. Ukrainian long range Flamingo missiles destroyed the target.
Footage from independent monitoring sources and testimonies from local residents confirmed that the munitions struck the enemy’s underground infrastructure directly. Intelligence data pinpointed the command post, which the occupiers had attempted to conceal beneath civilian structures in the central part of the city.
On the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region, pilots of strike drones from the Ukrainian Revenge Brigade’s Phoenix unit carried out a series of strikes against Russian shelters, firing positions and vehicles.
Footage confirms significant losses among the occupying forces in both heavy armoured and light vehicles. The drone operators’ integrated fire control system allows them to engage Russians even as their craft approaches the front line.
New footage has appeared online showing the so called air fishing tactic, the systematic targeted interception of Russian drones using Ukrainian hunter drones.
The released video shows the result of a combat operation during which a Ukrainian unit destroyed 83 Russian drones of various types in mid air.
This trend in counter drone operations demonstrates a revolution in frontline air defence capabilities, where expensive anti aircraft missiles are being replaced by extremely inexpensive interceptor drones.
The Sapsan crew, part of the Ukrainian 15th Separate Sapsan Unmanned Systems Battalion, carried out a series of high precision strikes against priority Russian targets using FPV drones.
The operators neutralised Russian high tech surveillance equipment, vehicles and infantry. The destruction of radar and night vision systems blinded the occupiers in the sector, making it more difficult for them to conduct reconnaissance and command their units.
Footage was provided by TVP World’s Military Mind programme, with frontline material released by the Ukrainian Revenge Brigade’s Phoenix unit and the Sapsan Unmanned Systems Battalion.
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