Ukraine launched another wave of long-range drone strikes deep inside Russia, igniting oil depots, refineries, and military-linked facilities while exposing vulnerabilities in Moscow’s air defenses. In this video, we break down the July 9–10 attacks, their impact on Russia’s war industry, fuel infrastructure, and public morale, and what they reveal about Ukraine’s expanding strike capabilities. Watch now for the latest analysis of one of the war’s most significant drone campaigns.
⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ukraine Drone Strikes Russia: 376 UAV Swarm
01:28 - Rostov Drone Strikes Destroy Russian Military Factories
06:22 - Krasnodar Ilsky Oil Refinery Hit for 17th Time
08:38 - Ukraine Drone Strikes Force Moscow Airport Closures
11:41 - Ukraine Drone Strike Hits Siberia 2,500km Away
16:10 - Will the Russian Fuel Crisis Stop Putin's War?
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⏱️ CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Ukraine Drone Strikes Russia: 376 UAV Swarm
01:28 - Rostov Drone Strikes Destroy Russian Military Factories
06:22 - Krasnodar Ilsky Oil Refinery Hit for 17th Time
08:38 - Ukraine Drone Strikes Force Moscow Airport Closures
11:41 - Ukraine Drone Strike Hits Siberia 2,500km Away
16:10 - Will the Russian Fuel Crisis Stop Putin's War?
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00:00Putin has fallen into a Ukrainian ring of fire, and he's going down, down, down as the flames
00:07grow higher. At least that must be what it feels like after Ukraine unleashed yet another firestorm
00:13of drone strikes against Russia. Oil plants, manufacturing facilities, and much more have
00:19been left in flames after Ukraine seemed to strike everything, everywhere, all at once,
00:24inside Russia. This is what Putin has brought to his people. A non-stop drone swarm from which
00:30nothing can escape. Russia may be big, but Ukraine's drones are brutal, and they are crippling Russia as
00:37Putin's reputation as the strongman defender is ripped to pieces. Putin could do nothing but watch
00:43as Ukraine unleashed a massive swarm of drones against Russia on July 9th and into July 10th.
00:48By the end of the attack, Russia's defense ministry claimed that it had intercepted 376
00:54of Ukraine's UAVs. So this isn't the biggest Ukrainian drone strike of the war. Far from it,
01:00but in terms of results, it's among the most effective. Even as Russia claims to have shot
01:05everything down, as it always does, without acknowledging that any of these drones hit
01:10their targets, fires burn, airports have been closed down, and facilities that are key to
01:15Russia's military industry and its ability to export products to other nations have suddenly
01:20developed very big holes that weren't there before. Putin, it looks like Russia's air defenses missed a
01:26few. We start with the ruination of Rostov. The Rostov oblast borders Ukraine, which makes it an
01:32obvious target when Ukraine wants to score some quick wins with its drones, especially now that
01:37those drones pack more firepower and have more flexibility in terms of range than they ever have
01:42before. And Rostov suffered in Ukraine's overnight strikes. In Taganrog, residents reported that
01:48massive fires had broken out in the port region of the city, suggesting a strike against one of
01:53Rostov's export hubs. Exelanova Plus revealed that these reports weren't mere speculation,
01:59as it soon started sharing videos of ominous black clouds rising from the direction of the port.
02:05The KeevPost says that news coming from Russians who are actually willing to report what happened
02:09suggests that Ukraine scored direct hits against the Kurganovta product Oil Depot, which is where
02:15Russian fuel and oil products go to be loaded onto Shadow Fleet ships that then take the products to
02:20whoever is willing to buy them. More videos, and more smoke, soon emerged on the Exelanova Plus
02:26Telegram channel confirming that this particular port is now a flaming mess. But Ukraine was far from
02:32And done with Rostov. It appears that another target was hit in Taganrog, the city's Aviation
02:37College. As you'd expect from the name, the college trains specialists for Russia's aviation and
02:43engineering industries. Those types of specialists are pretty vital for Russia, given that its entire
02:48strategy for Ukraine seems to have boiled down to attacking from a distance using missiles and glide
02:54bombs launched from aircraft. And again, there are videos, this time shared to Telegram by the head of
03:00the Center for the Study of Occupation, Petro Andriushenko. Okay, Rostov's residents must have
03:06thought, that's two big targets hit by Ukraine's drones, surely there won't be any more? Wrong.
03:11Ukraine wasn't done with Rostov yet. This oblast is particularly important to Russia,
03:16not just because its location on the border makes it a useful launch pad for strikes, but because its
03:21ports offer Russia access to the Azov Sea. That means Rostov is vital to Putin as he attempts to maintain
03:26control over occupied Crimea, and Ukraine's series of strikes has just struck another blow that further
03:32isolates a peninsula that is already in serious trouble after months of brilliant Ukrainian
03:38middle-range strikes. Ukraine's strikes were numerous enough to put the Rostov oblast governor,
03:44Yuri Slyozhar, into panic mode. An aerial attack on the Rostov region is currently underway. During the
03:50effort to repel the attack, approximately 35 UAVs were destroyed over the cities of Taganrog and Azov,
03:56as well as the Azovsky and Matveyevo-Kurgansky districts. Unfortunately, there have been consequences
04:02on the ground, the governor claimed. We assume that consequences on the ground roughly translates to
04:08our air defenses missed a whole bunch of drones, or more accurately for Russia, our air defenses were so
04:14good that they shot everything down, and it just so happens that the debris struck the exact targets
04:18that Ukraine wanted to hit. And there were plenty more targets beyond the two we've already mentioned.
04:23Slyozhar reports strikes in a village named Kagalnik, where he claims Ukrainian drones hit an
04:28administrative building, causing a fire but leading to no casualties. In the city of Azov itself,
04:34Ukraine's drone attack sparked massive fires at a pair of petroleum storage facilities.
04:39Those fires must have been large, as Russia doesn't tend to like exposing that it's been hit by
04:43Ukraine's drones. The fact that the Rostov governor is reporting all of this at all,
04:48tells us that the flames were too intense to hide. He did stop short of actually identifying the
04:53petroleum facilities that Ukraine struck, but we don't need Slyozhar for that.
04:57X-Elenova Plus once again comes through with the evidence, as its combination of footage and
05:02geolocation capabilities leads it to the conclusion that Ukraine likely struck either the Don Terminal
05:07Oil Depot or the Azov Optical Mechanical Plant. Maybe both. The sheer scale of the fire and black smoke
05:13pouring out in one of the clips the channel shares certainly indicate a strike against an oil storage
05:18unit. You don't get that sort of inferno from an attack against a regular structure.
05:23And if Ukraine also happened to hit the plant in question, then that is another major victory.
05:27The Azov Optical Mechanical Plant makes radars, optical electronic components,
05:32and precision-guided systems that the Kyiv Post says are used in everything from aircraft and warships
05:37to Russia's armored vehicles and missiles. So, pretty much everything that Russia needs to sustain
05:42Putin's invasion, no matter where the attacks come from. That all amounts to a pretty solid
05:47evening of work for Ukraine. But we told you that Ukraine hit everything, everywhere, all at once.
05:52And what that means is that it's not just Rostov that burns following Ukraine's drone swarm.
05:57In another Russian region, Ukraine scored a bullseye against the type of target that it has made its
06:02priority ever since Ukraine developed the long-range capabilities that make strikes like these possible
06:07in the first place. We're about to tell you where Ukraine's drone struck next, but before we do,
06:12this is your reminder that you are watching the military show. If you haven't subscribed yet,
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06:20videos.
06:22Done? Good. Let's move on to the Krasnodar-Krai Crippling.
06:27In its report on Ukraine's insane night of strikes, the Kyiv Independent revealed
06:31that Ukraine's drones once again smashed into the Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region.
06:37Located about 500 kilometers away from Ukrainian-controlled territory,
06:41that refinery is no stranger to Ukraine's drones. If anything, the drones have become regular visitors.
06:47July 10th marked the 17th time that this specific refinery has been hit since the beginning of the
06:53war, and it was last targeted on June 2nd. It almost seems like Ukraine's drone operators have
06:58some sort of grudge. However, what's really happening here is that Ukraine repeatedly strikes
07:03a refinery that is capable of processing up to 6.6 million tons of fuel every year,
07:09because repeated strikes make it impossible for Russia to ever get the refinery fully online.
07:14Whenever whatever Ukraine hit last time is on the verge of being repaired,
07:18here comes these flying sanctions again, ready to take out another target. You might think that
07:23Russia would have figured out after 17 strikes that it may need some air defenses at Ilsky.
07:28Maybe it has, and it just doesn't have the defenses to spare. Regardless,
07:32more fires burn at a refinery that is begging for some sort of relief from Ukraine's drones.
07:38Once again, Xelenova Plus has the footage, as we see a fire burning at Ilsky,
07:43set against the night sky. As for the authorities in the region,
07:47the operational headquarters of Krasnodar Krai said,
07:49a fire broke out at the Ilsky oil refinery in the Saversky district due to falling UAV debris.
07:55There it is. We were waiting for the D-word to pop up and Krasnodar Krai's authorities didn't
08:00disappoint. The world's most accurate drone debris appears to have struck again,
08:05for the 17th time in total and the fifth time in 2026 alone. We don't even think we have it
08:11in us
08:11to be sarcastic anymore. This debris excuse is getting old, especially when that debris never seems
08:17to fall harmlessly kilometers away from Ukraine's target. So the Ilsky oil refinery burned once more,
08:23which really isn't going to do Russia any favors when it comes to dealing with the fuel crisis that
08:27is roaring through the entire country right now. Plus, burning fuel and oil means fewer exports,
08:33which means money out of the Kremlin's war chest. There's one more location that came under attack
08:38from Ukraine's drones to round out the night of strikes, and it's no less than Russia's capital city,
08:43Moscow. We would love to tell you that Ukraine's drones scored strike after strike against key
08:48military targets. A Moscow mutilation, to stick with our alliterative theme. However,
08:53that isn't the case. Ukraine sent drones, but Russia claims to have intercepted them all,
08:58and there are no reports that contradict Russia's claims. However, what Ukraine did manage to do with
09:03an attack that Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said amounted to 16 drones was force the temporary suspension
09:09of the Domendidevo airport. And just for good measure, the Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg
09:14ended up dealing with the same types of restrictions, suggesting that a few of Ukraine's drones
09:19made the trip to Putin's hometown. Is this as impressive as what Ukraine pulled off in Rostov and
09:25Krasnodar Krai? Perhaps not. But there are two things that Ukraine has achieved by sending its drones
09:30over to Moscow. First, the airport closure feeds into one of the main reasons why Ukraine conducts deep
09:36strikes, which is to bring the war that Putin started back to Russia's people. We will be
09:41digging deeper into that concept in a moment. But the point here is that an airport that suspends
09:45flights due to a drone attack is an airport that winds up being filled with angry people who have
09:50spent a lot of money only to be confronted with the war that they are trying to avoid.
09:55Ukraine has even made it a point to note that airport closures are part of the pressure
09:58campaign that Ukraine is using against Russia. Back in May 2025, the Kyiv Independent reported
10:04that Ukraine's drones had caused 217 airport closures between January 1 and May 22.
10:10The spokesperson for the Ukraine Defense Army's Southern Division, Serhii Brachuk, said at the time,
10:16these disruptions are not accidental. They are part of a pressure campaign against logistics,
10:21air defense systems, and public morale. The Russian population has to pay for this war.
10:26Sleeping in tents at the airport is not the highest price, but it does affect morale.
10:30It's a unique way to make the Russian people pay. But being forced to sleep on a cold airport floor
10:36or battle it out with other people for the few chairs available is a good way to send a reminder
10:41to Moscow's people that their president started a war that he can't finish. And speaking of reminders,
10:46that brings us to the second thing that Ukraine's strikes in Moscow achieved. They forced Putin to
10:51remember that Ukraine can strike Russia's capital. It's done so several times in 2026 already.
10:58The end of June saw Ukraine strike a satellite center in the Russian capital. Before that,
11:03in the middle of the same month, Ukraine launched one of its largest aerial assaults yet hitting the
11:07main Moscow oil refinery, leading to residents moaning about the black rain that resulted from
11:12the burning oil. Putin is now very aware that Ukraine has drones that can not only reach Moscow,
11:18but can blow important energy and military infrastructure to bits.
11:22Russia's leader will be counting his lucky stars after the July 10th strike that just led to an
11:27airport closure. But he shouldn't. What we've likely just seen from Ukraine is a prelude,
11:33an appetizer, before another main course, where fire comes to a Russian capital city that is far
11:38more vulnerable now than it has ever been under Putin's reign. Let's pull back and look at July 10th
11:44through a wider lens. As a day of strikes, it was immense. Oil depots, refineries,
11:49and military facilities were all struck. And there was that nice little Moscow reminder to boot.
11:54But what Ukraine really showed Russia as it created yet another ring of fire across all of Russia is,
12:00well, just that. Ukraine's drones can now reach almost any target of military importance inside Russia,
12:06and there's nothing that Russia can do about it. If anything, the July 10th strike was small fry,
12:11at least when it comes to the expanding range of Ukraine's strike potential. It sounds crazy to
12:17say that, given that many of Ukraine's drones traveled 1,000 kilometers to reach their targets,
12:21which would have been an unthinkable achievement when Putin launched his invasion. But it's the truth.
12:26Ukraine can strike a lot deeper than July 10th indicates, and that will have Putin leaving wet
12:31patches in his pants. We saw the most remarkable evidence for this just a couple of days before the
12:36most recent flurry, as the news broke that Ukraine has scored direct hits at the Omsk refinery in
12:42Siberia. We'll say that again. Siberia. That's more than two and a half thousand kilometers away from
12:48Ukraine. And it appears that Ukraine used the new version of the FP1 drone that can travel that far
12:53to do the deed. That's a new distance record for Ukraine's drones, and by some margin. And what it
12:59tells Putin and his people is a simple message that Ukraine wants to have ringing out from the
13:03halls of the Kremlin to the Russian Far East. Nothing is safe anymore. And Russia knows it.
13:10As far back as March, Russian officials have been delivering this warning. Sergei Shoigu,
13:15who is the Secretary of Russia's Security Council, as well as the country's former Defense Minister,
13:19said as much during a meeting in the Urals, where he discussed not only Ukraine's long-range drones,
13:25but a spate of sabotage attacks that had taken place around that time.
13:28The pace of development of weapons systems, primarily unmanned drone systems, and the sophistication
13:33of the methods used to deploy them are such that no region of Russia can feel safe, Shoigu declared.
13:39That's at least one Russian official who is willing to point out the truth.
13:42That truth is that Russia's backline has disappeared. Its rear is now vulnerable. And it's not just Shoigu
13:49who says it. Russia's military bloggers, who for so long have trumpeted Moscow's supposed military
13:54dominance as they advocate for a no-holds-barred beatdown of Ukraine, have come to the realization
14:00that Ukraine is getting the upper hand on Russia. What Russia is dealing with now is the upending
14:05of a whole bunch of assumptions that were made before Putin launched his invasion. Ukraine wasn't
14:10supposed to be able to do any of this. But now, deep strikes are an almost daily occurrence in Russia.
14:17Psychologically, that fact is having an impact on Russia's people, and it's causing Putin's hold
14:22over them to loosen. Remember, Putin is a man who has built his reputation out of appearing strong to
14:28his people, even when it's been evident to others that he is far weaker than he claims to be.
14:33The great defender is being exposed as a foolish pretender, as he can no longer shield ordinary
14:38Russians from the consequences of the war. Strikes like those we saw on July 10th are forcing a change
14:44in public discourse that is as evident on social media as it is in the halls of Russia's Security Council.
14:50As the Atlantic Council put it in the wake of a June strike against St. Petersburg,
14:54the changing tone in Russia's public discourse owes much to Ukraine's increasingly effective
14:59strategic bombing campaign, which is becoming far more difficult to downplay or ignore.
15:05Footage of explosions now floods Russian social media daily, with recent attacks on the Moscow region
15:10striking a particularly raw nerve. We couldn't have said it any better ourselves. Every time that
15:15Ukraine jams another drone into that nerve by taking out a refinery or destroying a depot,
15:19it sends a reminder to Russia's people that none of this had to happen. Ukraine didn't want this war,
15:25Putin did. And that makes Putin the reason why they are feeling so much pain. This is just Ukraine
15:31turning Russia's own tactics against it, albeit in a way that hurts Russia's people without directly
15:36targeting them. Russia's own aerial campaign is based on terror. Putin is as happy to strike Ukraine's
15:43cities and kill civilians as he is to hit a military target because everything that Russia does against
15:48Ukraine is coercive. An attempt by Putin to convince Ukraine's people to give up their resistance
15:53and let Russia have its way. All that Ukraine is now doing is using its own version of that type
15:59of
15:59coercive campaign to inflict the same type of psychological pressure on the Russian people
16:03without resorting to the war crimes that Putin commits. And finally, we just spoke about pressure.
16:09Don't forget one of the targets that Ukraine hit on July 10th, the Ilsky oil refinery. When we talk
16:14about pressure, we can't ignore Russia's fuel crisis. If the fires on the horizon are a reminder that
16:19Putin's war has come home, the massive queues at the poorly stocked fuel pumps in Russia are a far
16:24more tangible pain being delivered to the Russian people. A fuel crisis that started in Crimea has now
16:30spread all across Russia, and it gets worse every time a refinery that is responsible for making fuel
16:35burns. DW reports on one Russian woman in the Gelenzyk region who claims to have spent three
16:41days trying to fill up her car. She spends nights sleeping in the vehicle and arrives at gas stations
16:46as early as 5am only to find the pumps are still empty. That isn't a one-off. It's a reality
16:52for many
16:53in Russia as they spend hours waiting in queues for the one product that is supposed to be plentiful
16:58in their country because Russia makes the stuff. Ukraine has transformed what was once a fight
17:03for its own survival into a nightmare for Russia. July 10th means that Russia's dreadful dream will
17:09last even longer. The many in Russia, the queues at the pumps are simply too much. Fights are breaking
17:14out. There is a s**t storm breaking out. Literally. If you're wondering what we mean by that less than
17:19savory teaser, then you need to check out our video, where we analyze the chaos in the gas station queues
17:24throughout Russia. And if you enjoyed this video, remember to subscribe to The Military Show and
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17:33developments in the Ukraine war. And thank you, as always, for watching.
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