The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to maintain the initiative in certain areas of the front and deliver effective strikes against the enemy in it’s operational and strategic depth. This was stated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrsky, reporting on the results of the fighting in May. According to him, since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian troops have liberated more than 600 sq. km of Ukrainian land.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has launched the “Logistical Lockdown” program. It’s goal is to scale up strikes on Russian troops and logistics in rear areas at an operational depth of 50 to 160 kilometers. The Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov noted that Ukraine is gradually seizing the initiative at the front, and the price of advancement for the russians is constantly growing. If in October last year the enemy lost 67 soldiers per 1 km² of advancement, then in April it was already 179. There is a noticeable pattern: the more russian logistics are destroyed in the near rear, the less their assault actions at the front.

Therefore, now the Ukrainian troops intend to scale up the middle strike as much as possible and create a complete logistical lockdown for the enemy. As part of the program, the Ministry of Defense has additionally allocated about 115 million dollars for the purchase of modern middle strike means.

Meanwhile, drone pilots of the Azov National Guard Corps are taking control of the roads along the coast of the Sea of Azov, important logistical arteries for russians in the occupied territories. Even russian propagandists are forced to admit that Ukrainian drones are reaching places where no significant threat was previously expected, and the russian command cannot influence the situation.

Recently, when asked by the host of one of the official russian TV channels about the situation on the front line, a military propagandist replied: “The situation is such that the russian troops have 17 drones per kilometer, and the enemy has 10 drones per one of our attack aircraft that goes on the offensive.”

Economy "with smoke"

Ukrainian long-range drones visited the outskirts of St. Petersburg (the second largest and most important russian city), where the International Economic Forum was held under the auspices of russian ruler putin. They hit an oil terminal just 16 km from the forum site, bombed a naval base, where they hit a warship and an ammunition depot. The smoke from the fires really impressed the forum participants. No less impressed were the forum guests and residents of the city by the weakness of russian air defense.

According to the British Telegraph, the Afghan Taliban delegation even recognized St. Petersburg as more dangerous than Kabul. And although the russian ruler assured those present that russian troops were succeeding, against this background his words sounded very unconvincing.

The collapse of russian oil refining

Ukrainian strikes on russian oil refining and oil transportation infrastructure are having an increasingly greater effect. In many regions of russia and in temporarily occupied territories, there is a shortage of gasoline and other fuels.

In occupied Crimea, the sale of gasoline has been completely stopped for an indefinite period. But fuel problems have arisen not only in the occupied Ukrainian territories and in the front-line regions of russia. In the russian capital, moscow, after strikes by Ukrainian drones on oil refining and oil transportation infrastructure, the sale of gasoline has also been restricted. In total, fuel sales have been significantly restricted in 15 regions of russia and the occupied territories! And this despite the fact that the russian authorities have banned the export of gasoline from April 2 to July 30, as well as the export of aviation fuel from June 1 to November 30, 2026.

Before the start of full-scale aggression against Ukraine, russia was one of the largest exporters of refined petroleum products. It was even jokingly called a gas station country. Now, after the strikes by Ukrainian drones, russia cannot provide gasoline even to its own citizens!

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