Russia's latest drone and missile attacks on Kyiv killed civilians and damaged historic landmarks, but Ukraine answered with a sweeping campaign targeting Russia's war machine. From oil refineries and military factories to airbases, bridges, and logistics hubs, Ukraine's long-range strikes aimed to weaken Moscow's ability to wage war rather than target civilians. In this video, we break down the latest attacks, Ukraine's strategy, and what these escalating strikes could mean for the conflict.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Russia Launches 570 Drones and Missiles at Kyiv
02:37 - Ukraine Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries
05:18 - Russian Crude Oil Refining Collapses by 25 Percent
09:12 - Ukraine Flamingo Missiles Hit Russian Military Factories
11:36 - Ukraine Isolates Crimea by Destroying Russian Bridges
14:33 - Can Putin Stop the Ukraine Drone Campaign?
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Russia Launches 570 Drones and Missiles at Kyiv
02:37 - Ukraine Drone Strikes Target Russian Oil Refineries
05:18 - Russian Crude Oil Refining Collapses by 25 Percent
09:12 - Ukraine Flamingo Missiles Hit Russian Military Factories
11:36 - Ukraine Isolates Crimea by Destroying Russian Bridges
14:33 - Can Putin Stop the Ukraine Drone Campaign?
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00:00Putin thought that he could terrorize Ukraine. A drone strike against Kyiv shattered a cultural
00:05landmark and killed yet more civilians. Sadly, this sort of thing is nothing new for the war
00:10in Ukraine. But Ukraine wasn't about to take any of it lying down. A blitz came in response.
00:16Instant, brutal, and spread over multiple days. Ukraine's drones struck in Russia,
00:22Crimea, and the occupied territories. Putin wants to kill civilians. But Ukraine is focused on
00:29taking out the strategic targets that will win the war, and its blitz set Russia on fire.
00:34Ukraine has been forced to absorb far too many of Russia's drone and missile strikes over the past
00:39few weeks. According to some reports, in the week leading up to July 3 alone, Russia unleashed 1,371
00:46missiles and drones at Ukraine in what was one of the largest weeks of strikes yet. The onslaught came
00:51in the wake of a few weeks where Russia had slightly slowed down, with the rumor being that it was
00:56saving itself for a week in which it would launch a much larger barrage. That week came. The night
01:02of July 1 into 2 saw Russia strike Kyiv hard. 496 long-range drones were launched, along with 74
01:11missiles, and they struck 28 sites in Ukraine's capital. The attack was devastating. At least 30
01:18people were killed, with more than 90 being injured. Prompting Ukraine's President Volodymyr
01:23Zelenskyy to repeat his calls for Ukraine's allies to provide the Patriot missiles that they promised,
01:28so Ukraine can stop Russia's missiles in their tracks. Zelenskyy has a point. This July 1 attack
01:34on Kyiv came in the wake of another half a month before that was devastating to Ukraine. The blitz on
01:40Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine killed at least 11 people, four in Ukraine's capital alone, but it
01:46also destroyed a cultural center, showcasing Putin's callous disregard for the country that he continues to
01:52hit with strikes. The 11th century Dormishan Cathedral, which is part of the Kyiv-Pachersk
01:58Lavra, came under fire. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and a place of worship for many in Kyiv,
02:04the cathedral was left with a massive hole in one side and flames that were visible on its roof,
02:09following a Ukraine-wide strike that included 611 drones and 70 missiles. This is Putin's strategy.
02:17Kill civilians throughout Ukraine in terrifying drone and missile strikes.
02:21Russia doesn't care about precision. Hitting military targets is a bonus. All that Putin wants
02:26to do is wreak havoc against civilians in the war that he started. These two brutal attacks couldn't
02:32go unanswered. Ukraine knew it. And in response, it has unleashed a multi-day blitz as payback for both
02:39of these strikes on Kyiv, as well as for the attacks on the rest of Ukraine that Russia continues to
02:44carry
02:44out. Refineries, military infrastructure, annexed Crimea and the occupied territories all burn,
02:51following days of long-range strikes that saw Ukraine deliver a pointed message to Putin.
02:56You hit civilians, we take out strategic targets. We'll start with the refineries.
03:01That's why Ukraine does some of the most war-changing damage. Just under two weeks following
03:06Russia's brutal strike against Kyiv and its cathedral, Ukraine unleashed drones on the Slavyansk and Yaroslavl oil
03:12refineries. In both cases, Ukraine highlighted its long-range capabilities. The first of those
03:18refineries is 300 kilometers away from Ukraine, with the second being 700 kilometers away.
03:24At Slavyansk, a massive fire broke out of the refinery and drone debris also caused damage to
03:29some buildings. In Yaroslavl, roads in and out of the city were closed down as Ukraine's drones made
03:35their mark. More was coming. On July 1, Ukraine's drones targeted the Ufa oil refinery for the second
03:42time in a week. This refinery is some 1,300 kilometers from Ukraine, Zelensky reported in an
03:49ex-post, and the strike did what Ukraine's drones do best, cause a large fire at a facility filled with
03:55flammable materials. With this attack, Ukraine took out one of Russia's largest producers of
04:00lubricants, which are used in many of the weapons and vehicles that Putin sends to the front lines.
04:05Still, Ukraine wasn't done. Russia's second Kyiv strike came on the same day that Ufa was targeted
04:11for the second time, and revenge was in order. The Kostovo oil refinery in Nizhny Novgorod was chosen
04:18as the target. July 2 saw Ukraine hit the refinery so hard that it damaged the main AVT-6 primary
04:24crude
04:25distillation unit at the plant. This single unit accounts for 53% of the processing capacity of a
04:32refinery that processes 15 million tons of crude oil. It's now down, along with the AVT-5 unit that
04:38was responsible for another 25% of the Kostovo plant's processing capacity. Kostovo has been shut
04:45down. It may be weeks before Russia can get it back online. And that's the precise problem that Putin
04:51absolutely doesn't need right now. His cruel targeting of Ukraine's civilians and the attacks
04:56on Kyiv is tragic and a clear war crime. But Ukraine responds by keeping its eyes on the prize.
05:02By taking out Russian oil, Ukraine knows that it can wear out the Russian war machine,
05:07restrict cash flow into the Kremlin's coffers, and deliver constant reminders to the Russian people
05:12that the war their president started is far from over, all without directly targeting those people.
05:17Russian oil refining is a field of destruction. The trio of attacks we reported on so far is just
05:24the beginning. In a July 6 report, News Sky delivered some interesting numbers. It reports
05:29that Ukraine has launched 194 strikes against Russian oil refineries during the first six months
05:35of 2026, which is 11 times more than the number of similar attacks that Ukraine launched during the
05:40same period in 2025. For context, this is an average of a little over 32 refinery strikes every single
05:47month of 2026, which tells us that Ukraine hasn't just ramped up its targeting of Russian oil. It has
05:53made fires in the refineries a daily occurrence in Russia. The Ufa and Kostovo strikes only add to the
05:59numbers as Ukraine follows a course of repeatedly hitting the same refineries to ensure that Russia
06:04isn't able to get anything running at full capacity again. And sometimes, as we saw at Kostovo, Ukraine
06:11strikes with such deadly precision that an entire refinery needs to suspend operations. May alone was a
06:17record month for Ukraine. News Sky reports that 16 successful hits on Russian refineries were recorded
06:23during that month, which it claims is more than we saw in the entire year of 2025. That's a somewhat
06:29spurious claims. Ukraine ramped up its refinery campaign during the latter half of the year.
06:34However, it's the hits that matter here. Russian air defenses are being overworked and overwhelmed by
06:40Ukraine's drones. And again, we see it in the numbers. Russia's defense ministry claims that the
06:45country's air defenses shot down 14,195 Ukrainian drones in May, followed by 17,832 in June. These numbers
06:55are insane. They're more than twice, and in June's case, close to triple the number of drones that
07:00Ukraine unleashed in January and February. And of course, we know that Russia likes to fudge its
07:05interception numbers. So many of Ukraine's strikes are credited to drone debris, as Russia tries to
07:10act as though its air defenses deal with everything. They don't. The fires at the refineries prove it.
07:17Russia's people are starting to feel the pain. Mass fuel shortages caused by refinery shutdowns and a
07:22Ukrainian middle strike campaign against Russian fuel trucks are wreaking havoc on Russia.
07:28The shortage runs deep. United24 media reports that restrictions on gasoline sales are already
07:34in place in more than 40 Russian regions. And that number is only going to grow as Ukraine keeps up
07:40its refinery campaign. Russian crude oil refining collapsed by 25% in June compared to the same month
07:46in 2025, reaching a low point that hasn't been seen in two decades. Gasoline production dropped
07:53by 17%. A third of Russia's refining now sits idle due to Ukraine's drones, and prices at the pumps in
08:00June rose by 20% year on year. This is Ukraine's revenge for Putin's strikes against civilians.
08:07Russia's people feel the pain without being struck by missiles and drones. Every refusal at the pumps,
08:13every time they have to scrape together a few more rubles that they don't have, and every time
08:17they're told to stay in their homes as Ukraine's drones fly to yet another refinery is a reminder
08:22of the war. Ukraine's revenge blitzes for what Russia has been doing in Kyiv were brutal in the
08:27military sense. They destroy strategic targets and are starving Russia of the entire lifeblood of
08:32Putin's war. The more oil burns, the less money the Kremlin can make from taxing the revenue made on a
08:37product that no longer exists. But if you think that Ukraine's revenge for Russia's Kyiv strikes ended
08:43with the continuation of an existing campaign, you're sorely mistaken. At least 15 civilians in
08:48Ukraine are dead due to Russia's attacks. Dozens more are injured, and Ukraine made Russia pay by
08:54not only targeting oil, but striking everything else that makes it possible for Putin to wage his war.
09:00But before we get to all of that, this is a reminder that you're watching The Military Show.
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09:08The fires raging in yet more refineries aren't the only blazes that Russia is being forced to put
09:14out. During the days of the refinery revenge that Ukraine unleashed against Russia, it also struck
09:19military manufacturing facilities all over the country. June 7th saw Ukraine rain devastating
09:25Flamingo FP5 missiles on the Teton Berikday plant, which is in the Russian city of Volgograd.
09:31These missiles, which can travel around 3,000 km and pack a 1,150 kg warhead, have been a destructive
09:39addition to Ukraine's long-range arsenal. Late June proved why, as the Flamingos tore through a plant
09:45that is responsible for building artillery systems and other special military equipment.
09:49Again, we see the genius in Ukraine's response to Putin's brutality. If Russia is going to kill
09:55civilians in Kyiv, Ukraine is going to make it so that Russian soldiers on the ground die faster,
10:00because they don't have the weapons they need. Three days later, Ukraine was at it again.
10:05Still furious about Russia's cathedral attack, Ukraine sent drones to a missile plant in Penza,
10:10which is responsible for producing the components used in Russian missile launchers.
10:14Take out the components and Russia can't fire missiles. At least that's the logic,
10:18and it's something that Ukraine could bring to bear with repeated attacks on this plant and others
10:22like it. July 3rd saw a more direct revenge attack for Russia's July 1st and 2nd attacks on Kyiv,
10:28as Ukraine's drones rained down on an energy facility in Belgorod, which builds equipment
10:33that is used in Russian power stations. And as all of this was happening, The Sun reports that
10:38Ukraine's drones also struck around a dozen power substations in the illegally annexed Crimean
10:44Peninsula. Those types of attacks aren't stopping. A July 5th report in the Kyiv Independent says that
10:49Ukraine followed up with another wave of power substation attacks, taking out 16 and causing blackouts
10:55all across the peninsula in 48 hours of attacks that also destroyed ammunition depots, bridges,
11:00and targeted a Crimean airfield. It just doesn't stop. As Putin cowers away in one of his bunkers,
11:07terrified that the next Ukrainian drone could target him instead of a refinery or military facility,
11:12Ukraine just unleashes more and more. This is true revenge. No attacks in isolation. Just a constant
11:18stream of drones and missiles taking out targets all over Russia and the occupied territories.
11:23Putin the terrorizer is now the man that is living in terror, and every blackout or fuel restriction
11:28that Ukraine causes is one step closer to Russia's people turning against their leader.
11:33Let's come back to Crimea for a moment. So much of what we've discussed in this video served as a
11:38powerful prelude to what was to come in Crimea. As Russia burned in revenge for the Kyiv strikes,
11:44Ukraine was preparing to send a message that it has not forgotten about the isolation strategy
11:48that is slowly loosening Russia's grip on the annexed peninsula. We've already covered a handful
11:53of the Crimea strikes that followed Russia's second Kyiv attack, but we haven't done those strikes
11:58justice. Ukraine unleashed a Crimean slaughter. That air base we mentioned was Hvardytska,
12:04and Euromiden Press reveals more details about why it matters. The base is used to provide logistics
12:09and maintenance for Russia's various aviation units, the outlet says. In other words,
12:14Russia's combat sorties from Crimea don't happen if bases like this aren't functioning the way they're
12:19supposed to. Oh, and Hvardytska isn't the only airfield that Ukraine struck in its flurry of
12:23revenge attacks. The Belbek base was also targeted in a June 25th raid, and Ukraine achieved something
12:29special there. The Ukrainian drone scored a direct hit on a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet at the base,
12:35with Ukraine only publishing the footage in the wake of its July strikes on the Crimean peninsula.
12:40That footage mirrors so much of what we've seen before. We get the view from the drone as it
12:44approaches. The Russian fighter jet, uncovered and unprotected, comes into view. Then everything
12:50goes blank. That's our sign that Ukraine's drone scored a direct hit and exploded as it contacted
12:55the MiG-29. Well, Russia, that's one more platform you use to launch missiles and glide bombs that has
13:01gone down the tubes. As for the bridges, Ukraine's drone scored direct hits on a pair of bridges
13:06in the Donetsk Oblast. One span the Hruzky-Yelanchik River near Husonikova, with the other taking out a
13:13bridge crossing the Kalmyos River near Staromarivka. Both are used by the Russian military to transport
13:18soldiers, ammo, weapons, and military supplies. What does it have to do with Crimea when the
13:23strikes happen so far away? It's all about Ukraine's logistics lockdown program. Ukraine is isolating
13:29Crimea by taking out the logistical arteries that run through the occupied territories. These bridges
13:35would have been used by trucks on the way toward Crimea or away from it and into the other regions
13:40of occupied Ukraine. Now they're gone, just like so many other bridges before. Add the 16 Crimean
13:47substations that we mentioned into the mix, which themselves were just 16 of 37 energy facilities that
13:52Ukraine struck in the occupied regions between July 1st and 5th, and the revenge for Kiev was almost
13:58complete. Ukraine just added the destruction of a trio of ammunition depots in Donetsk, Luhansk,
14:03and Kherson as the explosive cherry on the top of a strike sundae that shoved it right down Putin's
14:08throat. What we see here is the expansion of the Crimean isolation campaign. Ukraine is still
14:14focusing on the peninsula, of course, but it's now cutting off logistical arteries deeper into the
14:19southern and eastern occupied territories, making it even harder for Putin to keep his soldiers
14:23supplied on the front lines. Again, this is Ukraine's form of revenge. Russia hits civilians. Ukraine
14:30destroys the Russian war machine. We would like to tell you that the sheer scale of Ukraine's
14:34revenge strikes is enough to make Russia's leader think twice about unleashing more attacks against
14:39Kiev. But Putin is desperate, which makes him dangerous. As his troops fail to make real progress
14:45on the ground, the only effective weapon that Russia has left in its arsenal is its long-range
14:49stockpile. Sadly, July 6th saw Russia respond to Ukraine's revenge with yet another attack on Kiev.
14:55The second strike in just four days has killed at least 15 people, the Kiev Independent reports.
15:01Five of the 15 were children, and they died due to a Russian hellstorm of 68 missiles and 351 drones.
15:08Zelensky has repeated his call. Ukraine needs more Patriot missile interceptors.
15:13But for Putin, this isn't the showcase of Russian strength that he thinks it is.
15:17This is desperation. Putin knows that Ukraine is going to strike back. It's already proven that it
15:23will with its revenge attacks throughout late June and into early July. By the way, those June attacks
15:28were part of a month-long onslaught that saw Ukraine destroy or damage 172 Russian defense
15:33industry targets and fuel facilities, along with almost 3,000 other military targets.
15:39So, Putin knows what Russia's attacks on Kiev cost his military. But he can't stop. He has no other
15:45choice. As tragic as these attacks are, they are as much a provocation for Ukrainian revenge as they
15:50are a way to terrorize Ukraine in 2026. Ukraine has already warned Putin. On June 26, Euronews
15:57reported that Zelensky has approved a 40-day operation to be conducted by the State Security
16:02Service, which is designed to pressure Putin into ending his war. An operation will include both
16:07long- and middle-range sanctions, as Zelensky calls them. And it has already led Russian puppet
16:12authorities in Crimea to declare a state of emergency on the peninsula. What this 40-day campaign
16:17means for Russia is simple. So much more is coming. The drone and missile strikes we reported on in
16:23this video are part of Ukraine's campaign. Through to the end of July, we're going to see a lot more
16:28where they came from. Russia can't do anything about them. Putin knows it, which is why all he
16:33has left is to terrorize in the hope that they will stop. But now Russia's leader has been reduced to
16:38such a pitiful state that he has accepted that these strikes are going to happen, and all he can do
16:42now is try to manipulate the narrative. As the Institute for the Study of War points out, Putin
16:47is now trying to use Ukraine's long-range strikes as the justification for Russia's frontline
16:51offensives and spiraling costs of the war he started. These excuses aren't being made to the
16:56West. Putin is using them to try to convince Russia's own people that what he is doing is
17:01necessary. The hypocrisy leaks from every one of Putin's porks. But the manipulation won't work.
17:08All that Russia's people will see is Ukraine's revenge. Refineries will burn, fuel will disappear,
17:14military facilities will be shattered, and Russia will continue to struggle on the ground.
17:19Ukraine's flurry of strikes between the end of June and the beginning of July was revenge for
17:23what Russia did in Kyiv. But the true revenge will be the victory that this non-stop destruction
17:27of the Russian war machine delivers. Ukraine's long-range campaign is impressive enough. But when you
17:33add FPV and middle-range drone strikes into the mix, it becomes clear how much of a problem
17:38Putin has on his hands. We'll give you the headline, 800,000 verified targets struck in the
17:44first six months of 2026. If you want to find out how Ukraine did it, why this matters, and what
17:50comes next, then check our video. And if you enjoyed this video, make sure you subscribe to the military
17:55show and ring the notifications bell to see more of our coverage of Ukraine's devastating long-range
18:00campaign. And thank you as always for watching.
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