The war in Ukraine 2025-09-14

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Russian losses:

  • 880 KWIA
  • 3 Tanks
  • 42 Artillery systems
  • 1 MLRS
  • 261 UAVs
  • 102 Vehicles & Fuel tanks

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41 thoughts on “The war in Ukraine 2025-09-14”

  1. MXT

    💥🔥👍 Here we have another bomb to add to the list!! It’s supposed to be Russia’s second largest, the information is separate, 17 or 20 million tons per year, regardless it’s a lot.

    “🔥🛢️ Second largest Russian oil refinery — the Kinef Oil Refinery in the Leningrad, was targeted tonight. Kinef has a production capacity of more than 20 million tons per year and is located 800 km from the front.”

    https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3lyrikdr46k2w

     

    “According to geolocation, the fire may be at the ELOU-AT-6 facility. POV: 59.48142116992881, 32.05681249936609”
    https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lyrg7zhr3k2u

     

    “⚡️Ukrainian drones strike major Russian oil refinery in Leningrad Oblast, governor says. The Kirishi refinery is one of the largest in Russia and has a processing capacity of over 17 million tons of oil per year. A fire broke out at the site during a drone attack, Governor Alexander Drozdenko said.” https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-strike-major-russian-oil-refinery-in-leningrad-oblast-governor-says/

    1. MXT

      If anyone is wondering why the celebration is a bit different:

      Kirishi is the city where the refinery is located. The official name is Kirishinefteorgsintez abbreviated as KINEF. The name translated is approximately Kirishi Petroleum Organic Synthesis.

  2. MXT

    💥🔥👍 Then we apparently had an explosion yesterday, in the middle of the day, that I managed to miss:

    “🔥🛢️Just now, Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery with the capacity of 7.5 million tons of oil per year was attacked by drones in Ufa, Russia. Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery is located more than 1350km from the frontline.”
    https://bsky.app/profile/specialkhersoncat.bsky.social/post/3lypt2qnssk2y

    “❗️The moment of the attack by a 🇺🇦Ukrainian kamikaze drone on the 🇷🇺Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery ~1,400 km from the Ukrainian border.”
    https://bsky.app/profile/militarynewsua.bsky.social/post/3lyptiv7fws27

  3. MXT

    Johan, this is Igor Sushko’s list of all refineries, does it match yours?

    ”Ukraine has now conducted 17 strikes on 12 Russian oil refineries in 45 days. These refineries represent 42% of total oil refining capacity in Russia.”

    August 2:
    1. Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery
    2. Ryazan Oil Refinery
    August 7:
    3. Afipsky Oil Refinery
    August 10:
    4. Saratov Oil Refinery
    5. Volgograd Oil Refinery
    August 15:
    6. Syzran Oil Refinery
    August 19:
    7. Volgograd Oil Refinery (2nd strike)
    August 21:
    8. Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery
    August 24 (2nd strike)
    9. Syzran Oil Refinery
    August 28:
    10. Kuibyshev Oil Refinery
    11. Afipsky Oil Refinery (2nd strike)
    August 30:
    12. Krasnodar Oil Refinery
    13. Syzran Oil Refinery (3rd strike)
    September 5:
    14. Ryazan Oil refinery (2nd strike)
    September 7:
    15. Ilsky Oil Refinery
    September 13:
    16. Novo-Ufa Oil Refinery
    September 14:
    17. Kirishi/Kinef  Oil Refinery

    https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3lyrfqk3za227

  4. MXT
    AFU reports:
    • 184 combat clashes
    • 89 air strikes
    • 163 KAB
    • 4,785 shellings (137 from MLRS)
    • 6,325 kamikaze drones
    The increase of FPV drones seemed to have leveled off for a while to stabilize around approximately 5,600 on average, but in recent days it has increased again, now we have had two consecutive days with over 6,000 and 6,325 is the highest so far. A bit early to call it a trend so we’ll see how it develops.

    On the other hand, artillery has decreased. It has been around 5,400 – 5,500 for a long time (the average for this year so far is 5,523) but has dropped during September and is now around 4,900.

  5. MXT

    “Russian Drone Over Romania, Air Raid Sirens in Poland, Estonia’s New No Fly Zone Moscow scores geopolitical and hybrid warfare victories after the NATO Alliance fumbles response TL;DR: “In the short term, we expect continued…escalation by Russia, while positioning itself as the victim”

  7. Peter Den Större

    It is completely obvious that Ukraine is aiming for Russian supply while the Russians are shooting Ukrainian aunts, uncles, and children. There is also a saying about warfare that amateurs talk about strategy while professionals focus on logistics. If that is true, then we can look forward to a Russia that soon shrinks and dies in prime time.

    1. MXT

      Can Ukraine keep this up and even increase the pace should eventually make the Russian economy collapse completely. 

      Jake Broe presented a map in his latest video showing the oil pipelines and pump stations. It’s not just a few individual pump stations but apparently every 10th km (if I remember correctly).

      Ukraine has shown that they can also strike against them. They are of course much easier to repair than refineries, but apparently there are plenty of targets in the vicinity and it is impossible for Russia to protect them all.

      It’s not impossible that they can completely stop the oil deliveries via pipeline to the ports as well, not just to the refineries. If Russia is forced to switch to trains and tanker trucks for transportation, it will become a logistical nightmare.

      If Russia were to face major difficulties in exporting oil (and gas), I believe that the costs could eventually become so high that China would no longer consider it worthwhile to bail them out, unless Putin thinks it’s worth giving away both one thing and another to stay afloat.

      1. Inge N Ahning

        Even though there are pump stations approximately every 10th km, there is also a combination variant that is both pump and distribution stations. They are much more difficult to handle. For example, Unesha is such a combination station on the Druzhba pipeline. Oil is distributed from there to Ust-Luga, Belarus, and Europe if I remember correctly.

        These pump and distribution stations are significantly fewer, and if they are stopped, much more comes to a halt than if only one pump station is knocked out.

        1. MXT

          👍Then they have to start by eliminating the combination stations.

          At the same time, they are probably larger facilities and therefore easier to hit.

  8. 205

    🇺🇦The communication network in Crimea has been affected

    “On the night of September 11, units from the navy struck a communication node belonging to the Russian Navy in the area of the 184th research and experimental base in Sevastopol, in the temporarily occupied Republic of Crimea.
    This communication node ensured the control of Russian Navy units, reports the Ukrainian Navy.

    https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A6mKuvSog/?mibextid=wwXIfr

  10. MXT

    “Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has no time for Russia’s repeated objections to European troops being deployed on Ukrainian soil.”

  11. 205
    • N Slobozhansky-Kursk 3
    • S Slobozhansky 14💥↘️

    • Kupyansk 11💥↗️

    • Lyman 16💥

    • Siverskyi 22💥

    • Kramatorsk 2↘️
    • Toretsk 10💥↘️

    • Pokrovsk 52💥💥💥

    • Novopavlivka 41💥💥↗️

    • Huliaypillia 0
    • Orikhivsk 0
    • Dnipro/Prydniprovsky 3
  13. 205

    In the occupied Chechnya, the first raids in connection with this autumn’s conscription have already begun. Reports are coming from Martan-Chu (Urus-Martan), where personnel from the military commissariat, together with security forces, are going from door to door and patrolling the streets to arrest young men. The Russian authorities fully understand that no one would willingly want to serve in the army, and therefore they resort to such desperate measures.

    https://x.com/niyso_eng/status/1967073175759622166?s=46

    1. MXT

      Interesting considering what someone says in the interviews with 1420 (see my post further down), that they don’t care about the soldiers in this war, because they are participating voluntarily this time.

  14. 205

    Hydropower plant in the Gulf of Finland between Finland and Estonia to take advantage of the environmentally friendly opportunity to exploit the flow of water from the Neva River into the Baltic Sea.

    Neva (Russian: Нева (Reka Neva Neva River), also known as Nyen and Nevan in Swedish) is a river in western Russia. It is 74 kilometers long and flows from Lake Ladoga to St. Petersburg, where it flows into the Gulf of Finland. Neva, which accounts for the single largest inflow of fresh water into the Baltic Sea, has a drainage area of 281,000 km². Despite its modest length, the river is Europe’s third most water-rich after the Volga and the Danube, with an average flow rate of 2,460 m³/s; it drains water from three of Europe’s four largest lakes: Ladoga, Onega, and Saimaa.

    1. MXT

      Fun idea! 😂

      If it’s a dam one is thinking of, it would be almost three times longer than the world’s longest dam, the Hirakud Dam in India, which is 25 km. Additionally, one would need to raise the water level behind the dam by several meters to get a reasonable effect.

      Of course, it would flood huge land areas on the upstream side of the dam.

      I suspect that maybe that’s actually the idea, and not so much the energy aspect?
      Who wouldn’t want to see St. Petersburg become the new sunken city of Atlantis? 😄

      By the way, I would move the dam so that it runs right at the Russian border on both sides. It would make the dam even longer, but then you wouldn’t have to flood land on the Finnish and Estonian side.

  15. MXT

    Off-Topic – Intrusion into environmental data + Chat Control 2.0

    With GDPR, the aim is to prevent the collection and misuse of personal data. Primarily, it’s the big players they’re after, but it also forces all companies, public authorities, municipalities, and regions to make adjustments to their websites, establish new routines, write a lot of documents, and carry out checks.

    Together, they have invested millions. Then one might wonder how beneficial it is when around a million pieces of personal data still leak out through a single intrusion. Admittedly, it seems to be only pure personal data, but it’s not impossible that they have also obtained other information.

    This should be an eye-opener when it comes to Chat Control 2.0.
    It’s simply not possible to ensure that information doesn’t end up in the wrong hands.

    Regarding Chat Control 2.0, the idea is to protect children, which in itself one cannot be against, but once the tools are in place, there is nothing to prevent them from suddenly expanding and starting to collect other data.
    This has happened before and will likely be the same here.

    Drug trafficking, must be okay to map out? Economic crimes? Black money?
    Then we start reaching the level of “those who seem to have extreme political views and might commit terrorist acts?” and then, of course, you inadvertently get a picture of everyone’s political views and eventually end up with severely privacy-invasive records. Some countries will likely abuse it from the start, but then there is the risk that it simply leaks out.

    A great risk that we are opening Pandora’s box.

    Moreover, there will likely be solutions where Chat Control will not have any oversight.

    On the other hand, it will be able to stop a lot of crap aimed at children who spend their time on social media platforms where Chat Control will have oversight.

    “After the leak from Environmental Data: Over a million Swedes’ data out on the darknet

    Personal data of over a million Swedes has been published on the darknet after the intrusion into the company Environmental Data. This was reported by cybersecurity expert Karl Emil Nikka to SVT News.

    The stolen data includes, among other things, personal identification numbers, addresses, and phone numbers.

    – The major risk is that the attacker will now start contacting individuals and try to trick them into providing more information,” says Nikka.

    On Saturday, the hacker group Datacarry, which claimed responsibility for the attack, threatened to release the data on Sunday – which they have now done.”
    https://omni.se/en-miljon-svenskars-uppgifter-publicerade-pa-darknet/a/Avempj

    1. MXT

      A bit funny when I was about to post this entry. The site’s firewall kicked in and blocked it, and I had to confirm that there were no issues. I guess it’s because the Darknet was mentioned in the link to Omni.

  16. MXT

    1420 by Daniil Orain: Interviewing Russians and asking the question: “Do you care that we have war going on for 3.5 years with a lot of deaths?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvCpI2ED7Kg

    Most people don’t care as long as they are not affected themselves. It also doesn’t seem like there is much sympathy for the soldiers, as it is believed that everyone participating does so voluntarily.

    1. MXT

      👍

      I uploaded it late yesterday, should maybe have posted about it today, probably not many people are reading the blog just before twelve on Saturday night.. Well, except for me of course! 😄

  18. MXT

    I also posted this late yesterday, reposting for those who may have missed it:

    “💥After the track explosion in the Oryol region and the death of two sappers, trains were finally routed through alternative tracks/routes. This is the first time in the history of our sabotage on Russian railways that Russian Railways (RZD) had to resort to backup tracks.

    A wonderful story. Simply”

    https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lyqpksimns2z

  19. Proxima

    Interesting. During the Soviet era, large parts of the fishing fleet were used as spy ships. The boats were usually equipped with a forest of masts and antennas. It was more the rule than the exception to pass through the Falsterbo Canal instead of rounding the Falsterbo Reef. This was to track and eavesdrop. Everyone knew about this – not least the navy. Therefore, frogmen/attack divers often lay at the bottom of the canal and chalked “F*CK OFF” on the lower part of the hull. They combined utility with pleasure, so to speak.
    Unfortunately, they never got to see the expressions on the faces of the shipyard workers and crews when the boats docked. But as a diver said to me: “You can’t have everything in life.”

  20. 205

    https://romania.europalibera.org/a/romania-drone-militare-explozibili-munitie-/33362697.html

    🧵1-9/9 https://x.com/coxoxoffoxoffic/status/1967149241983496370?s=46

    1/

    Romania is quietly becoming Europe’s defense powerhouse

    Romania is reviving its defense industry with US and German partners, building drone and gunpowder plants in Brașov while expanding production of tanks and vehicles.

    Romania is accelerating the revival of its defense industry with American and German support, prioritizing the domestic production of drones, explosives, and gunpowder, Radio Free Europe Romania reports. romania.europalibera.org/a/romania-dron…

    The move comes as the country consolidates its role as a key NATO hub on the Alliance’s eastern flank and a critical logistics lifeline for Ukraine amid the ongoing russo-Ukrainian war.

    2/

    Brașov to become drone and explosives hub

    In spring, Romania’s Ministry of Economy announced that the Transylvanian city of Brașov would host new facilities for the production of drones, explosives, and ammunition.

    The local Carfil military plant is expected to produce drones using components supplied by American defense company Periscope Aviation

    3/ Mr. Ivan also confirmed that drone production is scheduled to begin this summer, with an annual target of approximately 3,500 units.

    “We are beneficiaries of the European SAFE Mechanism, financed by the European Commission with up to €150 billion.

    We have submitted Romania’s production capacities for the next ten years, along with proposals on how we can evolve, what we can build, and where we can be competitive,” Ivan said in an interview with Digi24.

    https://www.digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/cand-incepe-productia-de-drone-militare-la-brasov-anuntul-ministrului-economiei-3-500-de-bucati-produse-anual-spune-bogdan-ivan-3282437

    4/ Rheinmetall invests €400 million in gunpowder

    At the same time, Germany’s Rheinmetall defense conglomerate is building in Brașov what will be the largest military gunpowder factory in Europe, with an investment of €400 million.

    Romania’s leadership has emphasized that domestic production of gunpowder is a top priority, as the country currently imports it from Serbia, where much of the supply originates in russia.

    https://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/romania-revitalizeaza-industria-militara-orasul-din-tara-in-care-va-fi-construita-cea-mai-mare-fabrica-de-pulberi-din-europa.html

    5/ “This is essential for Romania’s security and independence,” said former Economy Minister Radu Oprea, underlining the need to reduce reliance on foreign sources.

    Last year, Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu also declared that Romania would soon host the “most modern gunpowder plant in Europe.”

    https://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/ciolacu-pe-teritoriul-romaniei-va-fi-cea-mai-moderna-fabrica-de-pulberi-pentru-munitie.html

    6/ Broader industrial revival

    The new projects in #Brașov are part of a broader national strategy to revitalize #Romania’s defense industry.

    German investments are also reinforcing the Mediaș plant, which is set to expand production of military vehicles.

    In #SatuMare, plans are underway to launch production of Leopard tanks, further strengthening Romania’s heavy weapons capabilities.

    https://stirileprotv.ro/stiri/actualitate/romania-revitalizeaza-industria-militara-orasul-din-tara-in-care-va-fi-construita-cea-mai-mare-fabrica-de-pulberi-din-europa.html

    These initiatives align with NATO’s push to ramp up production capacities across Europe in response to russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

    Romania’s geographical position and existing infrastructure make it a frontline state in both logistics and industrial support for Kyiv.

    7/ Continuing tradition

    Since the 1990s, Romania has cultivated increasingly close ties with major foreign defense companies.

    https://www.gmfus.org/news/how-can-romania-revitalize-its-defense-industry

    Israel’s Elbit Systems was the first, establishing a joint venture with Aerostar Bacău in 1997 to modernize the Romanian MiG-21 fleet to the LanceR standard. The company also operates a local branch, Elmet International SRL, which produces avionics and drone technology.

    Partnerships with US companies such as @generaldynamics, @LockheedMartin and @Raytheon Technologies have resulted in:

    • creating an F-16 maintenance center

    • the production of Patriot system components

    • an assembly and production line for Piranha V armored personnel carriers in Romania.

    Meanwhile, France’s Airbus, Naval Group, and Thales have supplied military communication systems, taken over and modernized the Ghimbav aircraft components factory, and entered into partnerships with the Constanța Naval Shipyard.

    In addition, Poland’s PGZ has signalled interest in competing with its Borsuk model in the upcoming tender for Romania’s new infantry fighting vehicles.

    8/

    Bayraktar drones stand lined up at a production facility in Brasov, which received massive investments from Airbus in 2024. Photo: Profimedia Images, Hotnews

    https://hotnews.ro/serge-durand-seful-fabricii-airbus-helicopters-de-la-ghimbav-la-un-an-de-la-inaugurarea-fabricii-nu-am-primit-nicio-oferta-concreta-din-partea-romaniei-durand-spera-intr-o-licitatie-transpare-411669

    9/9 Strategic significance for NATO and Ukraine

    Romania is boosting its defense sector under the new 2024–2030 National Defense Industry Strategy, raising military spending above 2% of GDP and prioritizing advanced technologies such as AI, cybersecurity, and drones.

    The plan focuses on:

    • joint UAV production with Ukraine

    • potential submarine manufacturing

    • modernization of naval forces,

    • fostering research and development, NATO–EU cooperation, and public–private partnerships to strengthen national security and position Romania as a competitive global defense producer.

    Since russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Romania has re-examined its security posture as a direct neighbor of the war zone.

    Hosting vital #NATO facilities and serving as a transit hub for military aid, #Romanian has become indispensable to both Ukraine’s defense and NATO’s deterrence strategy.

    By securing domestic production of drones, explosives, and heavy armor, Romania not only strengthens its own security but also contributes to the Alliance’s resilience against russian aggression.

     

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