Refinery in Russian Bashkortostan has once again been droned by Ukraine – Russian losses

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Ukraine has once again attacked a refinery in Bashkortostan with drones. This time it was the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat refinery that was hit. It has a capacity of about 10MT per year. The facility is located 1400 km from the Ukrainian border and the production includes, among other things

  • gasoline
  • diesel
  • aviation kerosene/jet fuel
  • heating oil
  • liquefied petroleum gas and other light oil products
  • bitumen and various refinery raw materials
  • petrochemical production including ammonia and fertilizers

It is reported that an AVT (simply a primary column) is said to have been hit and if it is destroyed they will have problems with

Read more at Kyiv Independent and see the post here.

Russian losses in Ukraine

Continued high losses for the Russian army even though today’s report is partly somewhat below the current norm.

  • 1120 KWIA
  • 6 Tanks
  • 1 AFV
  • 46 Artillery systems
  • 2 MLRS
  • 2 Air defense systems
  • 1508 UAVs
  • 11 UGVs
  • 330 Vehicles & fuel tanks
  • 4 Special equipment
  • 3 Cruise missiles

Ukrainian General Staff report

  • 244 combat clashes
  • 77 air strikes
  • 249 KAB/CAB
  • 8,673 kamikaze drones
  • 2,903 shells (41 from MLRS)

SLAVA UKRAINI

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48 thoughts on “Refinery in Russian Bashkortostan has once again been droned by Ukraine – Russian losses”

  1. MXT

    ** Here’s the situation at Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat in Russia’s Bashkortostan this morning. It is one of Ru’s largest oil refining complexes, w/ the capacity to process up to 10 ml tons of crude oil/year. The facility combines an oil refinery, a major petrochemical complex, and a gas chemical plant.

    Most importantly, Salavat is one of the most distant Russian oil facilities ever struck by Ukrainian long-range drones. It is located approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

    ** Movie: https://bsky.app/profile/slavaukraini033.bsky.social/post/3mqlhurtyy226

  3. MXT

    According to this post, much more happened during the night and it was not just one but two refineries that were hit.

    ** Chronicles of the night. UAV attack

    💥Donetsk. Ammo warehouse hit

    💥Krasnodar Krai. Afipsky refinery.

    💥Salavat, Bashkortostan. Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat Refinery Hit

    💥Kerch. Kerch Substation Hit (220/110/10 kV Substation)

    💥Berdyansk. Azovkabel plant.

    ⛴ 10 ships hit by SBS in the Sea of ​​Azov

    💥Melitopol. Power infrastructure hit. As a result, a significant part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast is without power

    🔥Kherson Oblast. After a night attack on power infrastructure – a complete blackout

    🔥Sevastopol. After a night attack, power supply went out.

    💥Gelendzhik, Krasnodar Krai. **
    https://bsky.app/profile/maks23.bsky.social/post/3mqlhv2bzm22k

  7. MXT

    ** Russian Missiles Strike Kyiv, Setting Warehouses and Cars Ablaze
    In brief: Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday, striking warehouse facilities at two locations in the Holosiivskyi district. Falling debris also ignited vehicles in Darnytskyi as air defenses operated over the capital. **
    https://www.kyivpost.com/post/80196

  8. MXT

    Off-Topic, the war in Iran

    “The USA’s war against Iran was formally resumed on July 7, after a month-long ceasefire. This was announced by President Donald Trump to Congress in a letter dated July 10, reports several American media outlets. According to Politico, this means that Trump can continue the war for another 60 days without Congress’s approval.

    In the letter, Trump writes that the goal of the resumed attacks is to ‘destroy Iranian military facilities that pose a threat to American forces and commercial shipping.’

    In recent days, the USA has carried out repeated attacks on targets in Iran. Iran has responded with attacks on American bases in the Middle East as well as on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.”
    https://omni.se/trump-till-kongressen-kriget-har-aterupptagits/a/vrxdgw

    One person has been killed in Iranian attacks on two ships in the Strait of Hormuz last night. This is reported by the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense, according to TT. An additional eight people have been injured, two of them seriously.

    The attacks are said to have occurred in Oman’s territorial waters. According to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, the ships ignored “repeated warnings.”

    The Iranian attacks were preceded by new heavy American strikes against Iran for the third night in a row. The US Central Command announces on X that military targets in several Iranian cities have been hit. US President Donald Trump promises that the attacks will continue.

    – We will hit them very hard tonight, and we will hit them hard tomorrow. And there is not a damn thing they can do about it, he says in an interview with the conservative figure Hugh Hewitt, which several media outlets report.
    https://omni.se/usa-vill-sla-ut-uranlager-sag-till-iranierna-att-vara-redo/a/k0dPaQ

    “The USA will attack Mount Kuh-e Kolang in Iran. This is what Donald Trump says in an interview with the conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt according to Reuters.

    Kuh-e Kolang, also known as Pickaxe Mountain, is located near Iran’s heavily damaged nuclear facility Natanz. Inside the mountain are two tunnels that experts say cannot be reached by American bunker-buster bombs.

    According to Trump, the mountain is being monitored, but the USA sees no activity there. Despite this, the USA will attack Kuh-e Kolang ‘relatively soon.’

    – We will hit them very hard tonight and we will hit them very hard tomorrow. And they can’t do anything about it, he says.”
    https://omni.se/trump-ska-sla-mot-berget-kuh-e-kolang-i-iran/a/rr5OJa

  9. MXT

    Off-Topic, Mixed USA

    It seems that the free press in the USA is living under increasing threat.
    All criticism of Trump, the White House, or the American state can basically be turned into a matter of national security. In this case, it was hardly particularly difficult for anyone to find out that he flew home in the old plane and to guess that it could be due to lack of security.

    “The US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, together with the Department of Justice, will create a task force aimed at finding and prosecuting press leaks, reports among others The Guardian.

    – Access to confidential and secret information is a sacred trust, and those who break that trust will face the full force of the law, says Hegseth in a video on X.

    Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is forcing several journalists to testify before a federal grand jury after they wrote about Trump having to travel from Turkey in his old plane due to security reasons. The information came from anonymous sources.”

    https://omni.se/usa-skapar-insatsstyrka-som-ska-riktas-mot-presslackor/a/wrxkG5

    They are thus terrified of letting any outsider scrutinize them..

    “US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the US will ‘dismantle’ the International Criminal Court ICC, reports the New York Times.

    The ICC prosecutes individuals for, among other things, genocide and crimes against humanity.

    Rubio argues that the possibility for the ICC to prosecute American citizens is the reason why the US wants it dismantled. Such a prosecution would mean ‘the end of the US as an independent and sovereign nation,’ he writes in WSJ.

    ‘With all the tools our government has access to, with every ally we share a cause with, we will dismantle the ICC – stone by stone, if necessary,’ he writes.

    The Trump administration has previously been critical of the ICC’s ability to investigate the actions of American soldiers in Afghanistan.”

    https://omni.se/rubio-kommer-montera-ner-icc-sten-for-sten-om-det-behovs/a/d4MaWo

    3. 205

      Flying home with the “old plane” may have been due to reasons such as a declared and well-identified threat from Iran against the president. From a security perspective, predictability is a weakness that can be exploited — the most likely scenario (documented by the media’s attention to the change) would be to fly home with the same plane one arrived with. To then claim security flaws in the “new plane” in this context, which from this perspective may therefore be completely unfounded, might not benefit national security?

    1. maggan

      Could they have received a small allocation of Patriot missiles? Or have they learned to shoot them down on their own, à la Ukraine? Maybe some housewife who put together a countermeasure.

      I hope for the latter option.

  14. Pehr

    Russian bastards!

    **Russian army executed hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war since 2022, says Kyiv**

    Telegram from AFP / Omni
    July 14, 2026, 07:48
    In the latest message Lyudmyla Dubnytska received from her husband, he told her that he would likely be captured by Russian forces. Two days later, she recognized his body in a video on social media of a group of killed Ukrainian troops.

    Her partner, Andriy Dubnytsky, is among hundreds of prisoners of war that Kyiv says the Russian army has executed since the 2022 invasion.

    The exact number is unknown – varying depending on different Ukrainian and international sources – but Kyiv claims the executions reveal an intentional policy from Moscow’s side.

    Dubnytsky was 25 years old when he was killed in February 2024 as Ukrainian troops retreated from Avdiivka, an epicenter of fighting in eastern Ukraine, which was captured by Russia.

    The soldier from the 110th brigade, who was injured during an attempt to withdraw, stayed at his position with five comrades, four of whom were also injured. Despite the difficult situation, they hoped to be evacuated.

    When he called his wife on February 15, “he was extremely nervous and crying,” Dubnytska, 27, told AFP.

    To keep their spirits up, the couple promised they would have a son when reunited, a sibling to their young daughter.

    Several hours later, he sent her a message saying they would probably be captured. Then he stopped responding.

    A video released by Ukrainian media reveals what likely happened next: comrade-in-arms Ivan Zhytnyk video-called a relative when a Russian soldier ordered him to lay down his weapons.

    Two days later, Lyudmyla saw a video on Russian social media of five bodies lying in a frozen puddle, stained red with blood.

    She recognized the tattoo of a cross on one of the men’s hands: her husband.

    – ‘Sharp increase’ in cases –

    The 110th brigade confirmed that several troops, including Dubnytsky and Zhytnyk, had been killed and accused Russian forces of violating an agreement to evacuate them.

    Ukrainian prosecutors launched an investigation into the “shooting of unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war.”

    The incident is not isolated.

    Several Ukrainian officials told AFP that Russian troops increased the number of “executions” starting from 2023.

    “This stems from a Russian policy that has effectively encouraged and enabled such crimes, where commanders then issued orders for this,” said Andriy Atamantchuk, an official at the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office overseeing the issue of executions of prisoners of war, to AFP.

    The allegations are denied by Moscow.

    A UN report from last month cited 129 verified executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war, with the organization raising alarm last year over a “marked increase” in cases.

    So far, Kyiv has initiated 116 investigations into the murders of 306 Ukrainian soldiers since 2022, said Atamantchuk.

    He emphasized that the total is likely to be significantly higher.

    A Ukrainian intelligence official told AFP that they have tracked “more than 900 soldiers” killed in “more than 340” incidents since 2022.

    They spoke anonymously and added that this may represent “between 25 and 40 percent” of such cases.

    Sources said that a difference in methodology explains the discrepancy in numbers.

    The Prosecutor’s Office said they rely on “documented and proven facts,” while intelligence services receive “information faster” from frontline units and other sources.

    – “Serving justice” –

    Russian authorities did not respond to a request from AFP to comment on the allegations.

    Moscow has systematically denied accusations of war crimes and in turn accuses Kyiv of committing them.

    According to the Geneva Conventions, soldiers are considered prisoners of war – and given such protection – from the moment they clearly surrender.

    According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russian paramilitary group Wagner – which was dissolved after the 2023 uprising – played a role in “setting the tone” for executions with their former prisoners, many convicted of violent crimes.

    Ukraine says the victims are mostly shot to death.

    In 2023, a viral video on social media showed a Russian soldier shooting a Ukrainian soldier after he shouted “Glory to Ukraine.”

    Ukrainian investigators have also claimed cases of extremely brutal murders – including beheadings – of which images have circulated on Russian social media.

    So far, only five Russian soldiers have been convicted in Ukraine – including two in absentia – prosecutor Atamantchuk told AFP.

    The complexity of investigations, due to lack of access to combat zones, complicates legal proceedings.

    He has not lost hope of one day “serving justice” for the families – even if only by giving them “the names of those who killed their loved ones.”

    For Dubnytska, it would be “meaningless” to know who her husband’s murderer is, she said with tears in her eyes.

    “I don’t know how it would give me any relief, even if I one day knew who did it.”

    ant/bur/jc/yad
    https://afp.omni.se/russian-army-executed-hundreds-of-ukrainian-pows-since-2022-kyiv-says/a/7pB1mw

  16. MXT

    As always, there are some who find ways to enrich themselves when crises arise that lead to shortages and high prices.

    ** Russia’s fuel crisis has now reached the stage black market gas stations. In Rostov, police detained a reseller who was buying fuel in bulk despite sales limits and even built an illegal mini gas station with pumps and a fuel dispenser to resell it to locals. Police seized 4.5 tons of fuel during the raid. **
    https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2076927082198659408

    1. MXT

      Checked a bit on the reports regarding ICE.

      I thought it was up to 4 killed now but apparently it is a total of 7 who have been shot dead by ICE in connection with interventions.

      Even worse is that 53 people have died while in ICE custody. Admittedly in some cases due to, for example, illness, but they are still responsible for ensuring that they receive care.

      It was significantly much worse than I thought.

        1. fedtmule

          But… The number of individuals with foreign backgrounds in the USA is decreasing…. The administration is holding firmly to its promise to its red-capped and low-foreheaded base… ICE dutifully fills its quota…. They are sooo professional…. The corpse!! sorry.. John Sebastian, was driving in circles, could have run over a toe or two at least… Maybe some libtard is drowning in their own tears too…. That would be an extra divisive bonus… Sorry, it should naturally say brilliant…
          NOTE!! The post is written with a pinch of irony and two tablespoons of sarcasm.

  18. 205

    Seven-day averages show that the Russians have recently increased their pressure along the front. The pressure is still below the level they had during the same period a year ago. At the same time, Ukraine remains at the plateau it reached with its offensive increases since the turn of the year and not least the crescendo around the turn of April/May.

    No major changes on the battlefield regarding general pressure from either side, except for a decrease in Lyman from the Russian side.

    N Slobozhansky 1 S Slobozhansky 15💥 Kupyansk 3 Lyman 6↘️ Slovyansk 25💥💥 Kramatorsk 3 Kostjantynivka 20💥↘️ Pokrovsk 37💥💥 Oleksandrivskij 4 Huliaipole 16💥 Orikhivsk 5↗️ Prydniprovskij 0

    Localized 135↘️ Unlocalized 109 Total 244↘️ Ratio unloc/loc 0.8↗️.

  20. Pehr

    Tens of thousands of people are expected today to defy the heat and take to the streets of Paris to celebrate France’s national day, writes AFP.
    The French traditionally celebrate with a large parade through the capital. This year, 6,700 soldiers are participating, including 500 soldiers from the “coalition of the willing,” which is Emmanuel Macron’s initiative to support Ukraine.
    From Sweden’s side, 21 soldiers from the Southern Scanian Regiment P7 are participating. A Swedish Gripen aircraft will also fly over Paris.
    The parade, which will be Macron’s last as president, is described by France 24 as a show of support for Ukraine and a demonstration of Europe’s military strength.
    https://omni.se/a/8pOLdw

  21. Pehr

    Liza Alexandrova-Zorina:
    Sport becomes a weapon in Putin’s war
    Liza Alexandrova-Zorina
    Vladimir Putin applauds during the Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014.
    Vladimir Putin applauds during the Paralympic Games in Sochi 2014. Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
    Despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian athletes are once again welcomed to the Olympics. But in Putin’s Russia, it is no longer possible to separate sport and politics.
    Liza Alexandrova-Zorina
    Published 06:00
    Updated 07:24
    This is a commentary. Any opinions expressed are those of the author.
    Hardly had the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended easing sanctions against Russian athletes before the International Volleyball Federation and the International Modern Pentathlon Union followed suit.

    Of course, not all international sports federations will do so, but for Russia, this small opening is already enough: Russian media were immediately filled with headlines such as “A new victory for Russian sport” and “Celebrate, Russia! The whole country has waited for this day for four years.”

    At the same time, several Ukrainian cities were subjected to some of the most extensive Russian attacks in a long time. In the news feed, there is a picture of three bodies – a woman, a man, and their child – pressed together under concrete blocks in a destroyed residential building.

    In another picture, a mother is bent over her son, buried under the rubble, with her hand resting on his head. In between: “Sport should stand above politics” and “Celebrate, Russia!”.

    The IOC’s actions are undoubtedly a great gift to Putin’s Russia, where the principle that sport should stand above politics has never been applied – on the contrary, sport and politics have always been very closely intertwined. Fundamentally, it is not about individual athletes’ opportunity to compete, but about giving international legitimacy to the entire system they are part of.

    In Putin’s party “United Russia” there are hundreds of well-known athletes and Olympic champions. Some of them sit in the Duma and vote for laws that have, among other things, enabled the Russian invasion of Ukraine and made it possible to confiscate property from people convicted of criticizing the war.

    The few Russian athletes who have openly condemned the war have been subjected to extensive harassment. Several have been forced to leave the country and change their sporting nationality. The result is that most who remain within official Russian sport have either adapted to the political and military realities or openly supported the war.

    How can one in all this separate sport from politics?
    Since February 2022, Russian sport has increasingly been woven together with war propaganda and state ideology. Since the full-scale invasion began, many athletes have participated in public events supporting Putin and the war, taken part in various kinds of “patriotic forums” and roundtable discussions, collected supplies for the Russian military, and under media coverage visited military hospitals to show their support for wounded Russian soldiers.

    One of the clearest examples of how closely sport and state propaganda are intertwined can be seen in who leads some of the regime’s most important youth projects. The head of Junarmiya (“Young Army”) – the youth movement created by the Ministry of Defense, often compared to the Hitler Youth – is an Olympic gymnastics champion.

    At the same time, the state organization Znanije (“Knowledge”) – a central tool in Kremlin youth policy and ideological work – is led by a former Russian ice hockey goalkeeper.

    How can one in all this separate sport from politics? Can young athletes really be considered politically neutral when they train at sports schools and join sports federations led by propagandists and Putin-loyal leaders who openly support the war?

    Vladimir Putin lights the Olympic flame on Red Square in Moscow 2013, ahead of the following year’s Olympics in Sochi.
    Vladimir Putin lights the Olympic flame on Red Square in Moscow 2013, ahead of the following year’s Olympics in Sochi. Photo: Ivan Sekretarev/AP
    And I haven’t even mentioned that the chairman of Russia’s Olympic Committee, who is also the country’s sports minister, Mikhail Degtyaryov, has no sports background at all but is simply a Putin-loyal politician. Among other things, he has proposed legislation to reinstate the old Russian national anthem “God Save the Tsar!” – a proposal in line with the Kremlin’s project to build a monarchical cult of personality around Vladimir Putin.

    As sports minister, he also actively pushed the work to integrate sports organizations in the occupied Ukrainian territories into the Russian sports system.

    It is this person who today leads the negotiations on Russia’s return to international sport.

    In spring 2025, Degtyaryov decided to abolish Russia’s network of regional Olympic organizations – to dissolve the organizations that had been established in the occupied Ukrainian territories. It was precisely their existence that formed the basis for the IOC’s old decision from 2023 to suspend Russia’s Olympic Committee.

    In a comment to the state news agency TASS in connection with the reorganization, Mikhail Degtyaryov said: “We have not given up a single territory. Crimea is ours. Novorossiya is ours.” By “Novorossiya” is meant parts of eastern Ukraine – both areas already occupied and areas Russia is still trying to occupy.

    The organization can hardly be unaware of the central role elite sport plays in Putin’s ideology.
    His statement thus made the government’s intention clear: the dissolution of sports organizations in the occupied territories was a purely formal measure that neither changed Russia’s territorial claims nor the actual situation. The purpose was instead to remove obstacles for a return to international competitions and signal a sham normalization.

    I have no doubt that the IOC fully understands what is going on. The organization can hardly be unaware of the central role elite sport plays in Putin’s ideology. Nor of the significance returning Russian athletes will have as part of Russia’s so-called “soft power.”

    They have simply made the assessment that this should no longer stand in the way of a return to business as usual.

    https://www.svd.se/a/ExvEoo/att-ryssland-valkomnas-tillbaka-till-os-ar-en-gava-till-putin

    1. MXT

      I don’t believe it’s just business as usual but also quite a few bribes (and possibly extortion) behind it. Nothing has happened in the war that could lead to suddenly wanting to let them back into the fold. On the contrary, the number of killed and injured civilians in Ukraine is increasing every day, so the resistance against Russia should be the same if not higher.

  22. Pehr

    As we discussed yesterday and as 205 reported.
    I sincerely hope that it is true.
    The article in brief
    – Trump has completely reversed and is now opening up for new sanctions against Putin.
    – The game behind the decision is linked to close ally Lindsey Graham – who died just days after a meeting with Zelensky.
    – The proposal could hit hard against countries that buy Russian oil and gas.
    https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/varlden/slaget-mot-putin-trump-vill-infora-nya-sanktioner/

    1. 205

      India and China, not least. India is dependent on Russian military equipment as well as Russian oil. It would be good if alternatives could be provided. India is also concerned that Russia will come under China’s direct influence and sees its own partnership as a threshold. India sends many guest workers to Russia. It is quite a close relationship. The EU has recently strengthened its relationship with India. In connection with increased sanctions, Europe and the USA should make joint efforts to lift India out of Russian dependence. If India can be connected as an ally, the pressure on China can increase.

  24. SneakyPete

    Pehr was the fastest to report already last night. …..
    I just want to once again repeat my drunken dream/prediction that Trump/GOP might make politics out of messing with the “loser” Putin.

    All that’s missing is finding some poison in Lindsey AND going public with it … many IFs there but oh well

    https://omni.se/kalla-trump-ska-stotta-grahams-sanktioner-mot-ryssland/a/9p8eJr

    Trump is going to support one of the recently deceased Senator Lindsey Graham’s pet issues – namely a sanctions package against Russia. This is according to a source within the White House to Bloomberg.

    The package is intended to put pressure on the Kremlin by punishing countries that trade with Russia or buy Russian oil.

    Previously, the White House has opposed sanctions against Russia, citing that they would undermine efforts to mediate peace through diplomacy.

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