The Kyiv Independent
9 audits on the record
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“Monitoring channels have described the reported attack as a "resumption of strikes," as it appears to be the first such attack following an unofficial pause in Ukraine's campaign against Russian oil refineries that began in mid-October.”
October 31, 2026 · see it in context →“Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Ukraine had attacked three Russian oil refineries and a gas-chemical complex on Oct. 30, Russian state news agency TASS reported.”
October 31, 2026 · see it in context →“Ukrainian defense company Fire Point said Ukrainian forces used its FP-1 drones to strike the Novokuybyshevsk refinery, with multiple hits reported across the facility, including its diesel hydrotreating unit.”
October 31, 2026 · see it in context →“Kyiv had not commented on the reported strike at the time of publication.”
October 31, 2026 · see it in context →“President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists at a closed-door briefing on Oct. 27 that Ukraine halted attacks on Russian oil refineries for three days, while Russia continued striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure during the energy truce.”
October 31, 2026 · see it in context →“Russian Telegram channels claimed that the commander was Maj. Gen. Nikolay Varpakhovich, of Russia's 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division.”
September 4, 2026 · see it in context →“Russian commander shot just days after being linked to strike on Kyiv children's hospital”
September 4, 2026 · see it in context →“A Russian military commander was shot by an unknown person near Engels in Russia's Saratov Oblast on the morning of Sept. 3, Russian media reported”
September 4, 2026 · see it in context →“The decision removes Russia's only remaining liberal political group from an election in which Yabloko had campaigned on a platform calling for an end to the war against Ukraine.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →“Russia struck the facility during an attack in Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, on Aug. 7.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →“Ukraine regularly strikes military infrastructure deep within Russia and the occupied territories in an effort to diminish Moscow's ability to continue waging its war.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →“The reports could not be immediately verified by the Kyiv Independent.”
August 10, 2026 · see it in context →Audits citing The Kyiv Independent
- Ukraine's Refinery Strike Ends a Pause Reported Only Off the RecordOctober 31, 2026
- Zelensky's Starlink Claim and the Denial That FollowedOctober 19, 2026
- One Desk Hedged Patel's Russia Trip. The Hedge Came Off in Transit.October 9, 2026
- The Engels Shooting: One Serviceman, One General, and the Name the Investigators Did Not GiveSeptember 4, 2026
- The Only Party of Its Kind, Five Ways: Russia bars Yabloko from September's ballotAugust 10, 2026
- Whose Warehouse, Whose Missile: the WHO depot in Dnipro, and the file built not to sayAugust 10, 2026
- Two Tolls in One Dispatch: Ukraine's drones reach a refinery, and the wires disagree by 400kmAugust 10, 2026
- Unidentified, Then Russian: a drone at the Trans-Balkan pipeline, described three ways by noonAugust 10, 2026
- Zelensky Sacks Syrskyi: six days of Kyiv protests, and the fired reformer rehiredJuly 22, 2026
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