Google comes up with something a bit different
That reads like two different scenarios being compared, the initial landing beaches vs the larger area taken after the landings but before the breakout following Caen?
A timely thanks to the contributors to this thread. It’s easily my best source of filtered, credible info on the war without getting into the realms of YT sensationalist bilge.
agreed. Thanks folks
...Russian forces therefore reportedly suffered around 1,298 casualties per square kilometer they seized or infiltrated in June 2026....
in June 2025, an average of 68 casualties per kilometer taken.
That is horrifying. An injured or dead Russian for every space about the size of my kitchen....and that they have not held on to all that land either.
A square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters (1,000 m x 1,000 m). 1,000,000 / 1,298 = 770 square meters per corpse, about the size of three double tennis courts. That is a very impressive kitchen you have there.
...Russian forces therefore reportedly suffered around 1,298 casualties per square kilometer they seized or infiltrated in June 2026....
in June 2025, an average of 68 casualties per kilometer taken.
That is horrifying. An injured or dead Russian for every space about the size of my kitchen....and that they have not held on to all that land either.
A square kilometer is 1,000,000 square meters (1,000 m x 1,000 m). 1,000,000 / 1,298 = 770 square meters per corpse, about the size of three double tennis courts. That is a very impressive kitchen you have there.
If they forget the milk for their cereal it's a 30 minute round trip
tennis courts? Tennis courts?
Thats not a stanard unit. How much is it in football pitches? Or Wales?
🤣 🤣 🤣
Up to this point, I've been happy to believe pretty much everything...
To maintain the facade, "kyxa" is a genuine dialect, similar to the German "küche" 😀
€1mn fines sound a lot, but an Aframax tanker carries $50mn worth of crude; even a 10% profit margin more than covers that. I suspect that prolonged detention of the vessel under investigation is at least as big an issue, hence the Russian flagging ^^
Petroleum product tankers are often the smaller Handymax size, but Russia isn't exporting as much (if any) product and the India–Vladivostok route for imports doesn't go too near to Europe.
India-St.Petersburg is longer and means taking the first right at Portugal.
France sets benchmark €1m price tag for fraudulently flagged ships:
- France appears to have set a €1m benchmark for releasing detained shadow fleet vessels following the case of flagless Tagor
- Europe’s detention-fine-release strategy is expanding, with nine suspected shadow fleet tankers seized across Europe this year and additional vessels still under investigation
- Rising enforcement pressure is reshaping trade routes, with some sanctioned tankers losing flags, diverting voyages and facing growing operational and financial risks
LLOYDSLIST.COM A round-up from Stefan Korshak.
A quick scan and the attack on Belbeck airfield, Crimea, on 26th June seems to have fallen into the gap between two of Korshak's articles. This resulted in the destruction of a MiG-29 aircraft and the airfield power unit that was connected to the MiG (linked).
The Kyiv Post link from the end of June (also within the linked article) adds context to his report on the FP5 Flamingo:
Four links in total
KYIVPOST.COM 
http://stefankorshak.substack.com/p/july-3-2026-day-1591a-wherever-you
http://stefankorshak.substack.com/p/july-3-2026-day-1591b-continued
And the Omsk refinery had been hit
largest in Russia
2500km from Ukraine
7 drones hit the processing units, there appears to have been no air defense, despite this being discussed by multiple comentators last week as the next obvious target & a devastating blow to whats left of the russian oil economy
🔥🛢️Russia’s Omsk Oil Refinery, the country’s largest and arguably its most valuable refinery, was attacked by Ukrainian drones. The plant has a capacity of around 20.5–21 million tons of oil per year, accounting for about 8% of Russia’s total oil refining volume. ❗️2500km from the frontline!
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) 2026-07-06T11:21:39.458Z
Russian media reporting 1/3 of grain and legumes harvested to date compared to the same time last year.
Clearly there may be seasonal variations, late growth, etc and so there's still work to do, but fuel is reportedly not the issue.
I guess we'll see 🤔
Don't worry the Russian government has a plan to tackle the failed harvest - they are going to make any mention of starvation illegal.
Considering that China is a food importer I can't see them being willing to help, India are an exporter but they will charge accordingly, no favours there.
Explains why Russia has doubled down on terror bombing
Don't worry the Russian government has a plan to tackle the failed harvest - they are going to make any mention of starvation illegal.
It's NATO's fault, they've been taking all the food for the Nazi prison camps in Ukraine. Ruzzia needs to stand up to such threats, and it's an excuse to mobilise another 1m citizens this September...
Tomsk refinery has been hit, its Russias largest and roughly 2500km away
If you drop a fact like that you'll hear the echo
they did sorta have air defence
Photographs and video circulating on social media appear to show a Russian Su-57 stealth fighter trying, and failing, to stop Ukrainian strike drones from reaching Russia’s largest oil refinery on July 6, 2026, a claim that, if confirmed, would mark a rare and embarrassing operational failure for one of Russia’s scarcest and most advanced combat aircraft.
Tomsk refinery hit 7 times then 👍
I expect the terrorist state will hit back by murdering civilians with a ballistic missile into a block of flats.
I had a few lined up this morning, but STW was like wading through treacle, so...
Re: Omsk
It's notable that drone strikes have improved to allow the accuracy to hit the most strategic parts of a refinery. Ukraine has struck huge storage tanks, but now they have the ability to hit the ELOU-AVT-11 primary oil refining unit. Like it says on the tin, without the primary unit, nothing else works and these sorts of damages could take months to repair.
The Moscow refinery strike at the end of June damaged the ELOU-AVT-6 primary oil refining unit (and a stack of storage tanks)
Anything involving hydrogen or vacuum processes on secondary refining units needs specialist parts rather than simple repairs and could take years to sort with sanctions.
Patriot interceptor shortages are becoming particularly difficult now for Ukraine. All of the ballistic and anti-ship missiles launched overnight 5-6th struck Ukraine, mainly in areas that are unarguably civilian. The anti-ship missiles are designed to fly low and fast, which is a different problem to the ballistic missiles (BM).
Germany has held a licence to manufacture the earlier PAC2 Patriot interceptor at MBDA Germany since 2024. These aren't as good as the PAC3 MSE in Ukraine's context and manufacturing wasn't anticipated to begin for another few months until the plant is ready.
Germany is currently in negotiation to licence-build PAC3s and Tomahawk TLAMs.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched a total of 419 missiles and drones overnight on July 5 to 6, including six Zirkon/Onyx anti-ship missiles from Kursk Oblast; 23 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles...
...Twenty-nine ballistic missiles, including anti-ship missiles...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky previously warned on July 5 that Russia was preparing another massive strike against Ukraine before the July 7 to 8 NATO summit in Turkey.Zelensky called on Europe and the United States to use the upcoming NATO summit to support Ukraine’s air defense capabilities. Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov reported that Ukraine has already contracted Patriot missile deliveries with its partners but that deliveries will not start until 2027
There is a suggestion that BM use by Russia has declined. This may be to strike Ukraine with cheaper, easier to produce missile and drone types while rebuilding Russia's BM reserves for another, future conflict.
Russian forces have likely been decreasing their use of ballistic missiles in recent weeks, suggesting that the military command has calculated that previous strikes already heavily depleted Ukraine’s interceptor stocks, such that Ukraine would be unable to repel most if not all of the ballistic missiles in later packages.
UNDERSTANDINGWAR.ORG 
MILITARNYI.COM Ukraine is targetting coastal fuel logistics hubs and shipping. This doesn't bode well for gasoline imports,
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) said on Monday that they struck a Russian oil tanker in the Sea of Azov and an oil terminal in the occupied Crimean city of Kerch during an overnight drone operation targeting Russia’s fuel logistics.
Suggestion it is multiple tankers and a ferry in Sea of Azov.
Eight sanctioned tankers in the Sea of Azov,Strike one down, and film it all around, Now there are seven sanctioned tankers in the Sea of Azov!Seven sanctioned tankers in the Sea of Azov,Strike one down, and film it all around, Now there are six sanctioned tankers in the Sea of Azov!
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) 2026-07-07T09:41:09.940Z
It does seem that the Russians have worked out or been told that Ukraine does no have enough of the right things to intercept ballistic missiles - and that they may be building up a stock to unleash on whatever nursery, old folks home or random apartment block they can...
We have to hope that Nato meeting and the Trump / Zelensky meeting is actually productive. Surely Zelensky now is portraying that to join in on the Ukraine side will be the winning side...?
We have to hope that Nato meeting and the Trump / Zelensky meeting is actually productive. Surely Zelensky now is portraying that to join in on the Ukraine side will be the winning side...?
Sadly, when the demented orange idiot was asked to comment on Russia bombing/killing 50 Ukrainian civilians shortly after Putin and he had talked. The orange idiot just started talking about one of the imaginary wars he'd stopped and an equally bizarre 40 million people he had saved ...
Geopolitics.. two bits of news today. Russia back at the olympics in La, 2028..
THEGUARDIAN.COM Also news about le penn in France standing for election as president…farage up for re election… what’s the long game here?
Putin grimly clinging on until National Rally, Reform and the AFD get elected in a couple of years, trump damages nato and Ukraine assistance is cut off handing it to Russia on a plate?
Double post…
what’s the long game here?
I don't think it's about Europe.
It's about Russia, the people of Russia and PooTin maintaining his power over them.
maintaining his power over them.
But he didn't need to invade / attack Ukraine for that, Shirley....
maintaining his power over them.
But he didn't need to invade / attack Ukraine for that, Shirley....
You are the wrong audience.
They did not attack Ukraine - they sought to restore mother Russia, to fight against the nazi's and 'rescue' the Russians in Ukraine who were suffering. Plus, Ukraine was / is a huge source of wealth and food.
Re: Omsk. To understand some of the media reports it helps to have a bit of knowledge of oil processing.
My knowledge of oil processing runs out very quickly at secondary school level, but the letters in a unit designation are its process, e.g. "ELOU-AVT-11" ^^
ELOU is a desalting process unit, removing brine from the crude oil before all that salty water causes problems in the expensive plant.
AVT is Atmospheric-Vacuum Tubular, a combined atmospheric distillation (first distillation) and vacuum distillation, which is the next process
The number is designed throughput in million tonnes pa. The actual throughput is determined by those managing the process, but the Omsk AVT-11 is bigger than Moscow's AVT-6.
"CDU" is a Crude oil Distillation Unit and seems to cover combined units that desalt and then distill crude oil.
Without the ELOU-AVT-11, aka CDU-11, the downstream processes all stop because there isn't any distilled crude oil to refine into gas and fuels. The involvement of vacuum makes repairs more complex.
I'm guessing from % (see below) that a third CDU escaped the strikes.
According to the outlet's sources, the drone strikes damaged the CDU-10 crude oil distillation unit. This facility accounts for about 38% of the refinery's total production capacity
Reuters sources added that the attack also forced the shutdown of another key unit, CDU-11, which provides 37% of the plant's capacity.
Suggestion it is multiple tankers and a ferry in Sea of Azov.
A few more than that now... I couldn't quite decide if the Bluesky post implied that all eight were struck
Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) Commander Major Robert “Magyar” Brovdi reported on July 7 that Ukrainian forces struck eight Russian shadow fleet tankers, including the Venera-3, Sanar-1, Sanar-17, Klimena, Teti, Alexei Savrasov, Ivan Cheremisinov, and Penelopa tankers; one dry cargo ship; and one ferry in the Sea of Azov transporting gasoline to occupied Crimea on the night of July 6 to 7.
Ukraine has struck oil infrastructure, microelectronics and chemical plants in Bryansk and Belgorod.
They also struck a chemical plant and two specialised machine building plants in the Moscow Oblast; these are probably 200 miles from Moscow City, but the airport delays will be very clear to the City's population
The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Kremniy El plant is a leading Russian manufacturer of microelectronics, including for Russian military equipment, and that the Bryansky chemical plant produces gunpowder, explosives, and rocket fuel components for ammunition and missiles.
Russian state aviation regulator Rosaviatsia stated on July 7 that it restricted flights at Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky airports in Moscow Oblast on the night of July 6 to 7.
This is interesting because a Russian-developed artificial intelligence Molniya drone was shot down in late June. Fibre optics are a step backwards because of the fragility of the cable and the reduction in payload caused by carrying 50+km of cable, although it is still effective against electronic warfare.
I wonder if the AI version is difficult to source?
Russian forces are purportedly using new long-range fiber optic drones in the Lyman area. Two Russian milbloggers claimed on July 6 and 7 that Russian forces operating near Lyman are using modified fiber optic Molniya fixed-wing first-person view (FPV) drones that are resistant to electronic warfare (EW) and do not rely on Starlink connection. The milbloggers claimed the drones have a range of 50 to even 100 kilometers.
Russian troops are still pressurising, infiltrating and coalescing in Kostyantynivka. Ukraine's forces seem to be maintaining their positions, which is a long way from Russian claims last week that they'd seized the city.
Ukrainian forces recently advanced or maintained positions in Kostyantynivka. Geolocated footage published on July 6 shows Russian forces striking a Ukrainian position in western Kostyantynivka, indicating that Ukrainian forces recently advanced or maintained positions in the area.
A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces still need to clear Ukrainian groups from Kostyantynivka despite official Russian claims that Russian forces seized the city.
I'm baffled how a 50km fibre optic drone works. I can't seem to have a 3m usb lead that gets tangled on anything, including itself.
This is interesting because a Russian-developed artificial intelligence Molniya drone was shot down in late June. Fibre optics are a step backwards because of the fragility of the cable and the reduction in payload caused by carrying 50+km of cable, although it is still effective against electronic warfare.
I wonder if the AI version is difficult to source?
I spoke to someone whos been to teh front lines (defense correspondant for Economist) and said that in some places the front is matted with fibre optics and getting about is difficult because youre contantly getting tangled
and that both sides are in a battle to source as much fibre optic cable as possible as possible
City of Lyman in Ukraine covered in a web of fiber optic cables left behind by Ukrainian and Russian drone operators.
byu/MilesLongthe3rd ininterestingas****
This is interesting because a Russian-developed artificial intelligence Molniya drone was shot down in late June. Fibre optics are a step backwards because of the fragility of the cable and the reduction in payload caused by carrying 50+km of cable, although it is still effective against electronic warfare.
I wonder if the AI version is difficult to source?I spoke to someone whos been to teh front lines (defense correspondant for Economist) and said that in some places the front is matted with fibre optics and getting about is difficult because youre contantly getting tangled
and that both sides are in a battle to source as much fibre optic cable as possible as possible
City of Lyman in Ukraine covered in a web of fiber optic cables left behind by Ukrainian and Russian drone operators.
byu/MilesLongthe3rd ininterestingas****
**** me, that's eerie.
Modern warfare quickly turning into sci-fi horror.
