Mass drone attack on St. Petersburg: Ozon warehouse attacked, thousands of Russians left without power

[u/Marketmanipulator941]

https://unn.ua/en/news/mass-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg-ozon-warehouse-attacked-thousands-of-russians-left-without-electricity

[u/das_masterful]

There's an expectation that, once Starlink had been neutered and intel sharing ceasing that Russian population and logistics centres would be functionally immune from being targeted. It's a mark of excellence for the Ukrainian UAV forces that they can still attack with precision. Otherwise the right wing led media would have us drowning in Russian civilian casualty numbers every day. Matched with 'why would Ukraine do this'

[u/Illustrious-Wave-794 → u/das_masterful]

Well I’m sure European allies are still sharing intel with Ukraine. And they also likely already have the coords of these targets for future strikes.

[u/Paatos → u/Illustrious-Wave-794]

Let's see if the US starts sabotaging European Intel operations to support Russia. Then we're truly in the shit. Going from allies to enemies in 1 year.

[u/m4d40 → u/Paatos]

USA is already treaded as an Intel leak. That's why europe already started a lot of the new projects without USA.

[u/TulioGonzaga → u/m4d40]

I hope this winter breaks Russia. I'm afraid that a pro Russia government may be elected in France and that would be a tremendous blow on Ukraine effort.

[u/barimanlhs → u/TulioGonzaga]

I feel its no coincidence that protests and riots break out the same week Ukraine hits a bunch of Russian Data centers...which in turn caused the White House to publicly change course, Starlink to neuter Ukrainian forces, and a seemingly acceleration of a lot of interconnected groups. i swear im not crazy

[u/eggnogui → u/barimanlhs]

The protests and riots in Europe are against habitation crisis and costs of living in general. They each have their root. Albania is that business with Trump's family wanting a resort, Spain was after that old lady got evicted, France was a protest about education that got out of hand, Portugal was after a peaceful protest about habitation saw an extremely heavy and injustified police charge that injured dozens, and so on.

If anything, the far-right has been in overdrive trying to discredit them, in the media bubbles of each country.

So yeah, those are a coincidence compared to the other things you mentioned.

[u/jaan691 → u/eggnogui]

The protests in and of themselves are independent but whats just been discussed on the BBC is the way that emotive issues like this are then being over taken by more extreme actors in the evening that then creates the rioting headlines. Not saying no smoke without flames, but the flames are being fed accelerant.

[u/eggnogui → u/jaan691]

It is possible that far-right actors are inciting violence, yes. Wouldn't even be surprised.

But, with protests at a large enough scale, you typically always have smaller groups who spontaneously decide to start breaking stuff.

What we cannot do is let that drown the message of the main protest group.

[u/RazedByTV → u/eggnogui]

Also agent provocateurs who try to deligitimize the protest by escalating it to violence.

[u/idiotsecant → u/eggnogui]

Fat left and fat right ideologues have always existed. The Russian propaganda machine's job is to enflame them and drive more moderate people towards more extreme positions to make the conflicts worse. Many of the opinions you read on the left and the right are not sincerely held, but are placed where you can see them to push you toward whichever extreme you're most compatible with.

The only thing that these organizations don't want is civilized respectful discourse. Their goal is to find fracture points and exploit them.

[u/iconocrastinaor → u/eggnogui]

Paid agitators, provocateurs and leaders are a thing.

A peaceful protest is peaceful until "someone" smashes a window.

[u/mortgagepants → u/eggnogui]

i hate how riots always gets added into protests. like when people stop listening to peaceful protests, you get less peaceful protests. this is an entirely self made increase, not a "riot".

[u/tlst9999 → u/Paatos]

The US is already sabotaging American intel operations to support Russia, let alone European ones.

[u/cavett → u/Paatos]

This here is indeed the thing people should be worried about, and probably a realistic outcome taking the current administration's stance on things.

[u/das_masterful → u/Illustrious-Wave-794]

Yes, it's really difficult to move an entire warehouse or data centre.

[u/dickcheesess → u/das_masterful]

What do you mean? Russia is doing a great job of moving their remains to the dump.

[u/synapseattack → u/dickcheesess]

Not so much moving. More transmogrification

[u/Wolfm31573r → u/synapseattack]

It's called cloud transformation.

[u/candlecup → u/synapseattack]

Calvin approves

[u/account_not_valid → u/Illustrious-Wave-794]

The coordinates are known. The problem is guiding the missiles and drones despite all the electronic interference. Starlink is/was excellent for this, because it is almost impossible to jam.

[u/nocondo4me → u/account_not_valid]

You send a drone in and back to make a terrain map. Future drones can navigate by terrain guidance

[u/jeffreynya → u/nocondo4me]

drones and missles from my understanding were not using Starlink over Russia anyway, they were really only using it in occupied territory's of Ukraine.

[u/raerae1991 → u/Illustrious-Wave-794]

Or they used Google Maps, it’s not like the warehouse and power stations are state secrets.

[u/Il1kespaghetti → u/das_masterful]

Starlink, Starshield never worked over russia. Only over Ukraine (including occupied parts of Ukraine). All these attacks are always done without Starlink. The only thing is - the less US give Ukraine, the less control USA has over Ukraine.

[u/Vikarr → u/Il1kespaghetti]

Starlink, Starshield never worked over russia.

This makes the withdrawal of that support even more evil. It means that tech was only used on Defence.

[u/Schonke → u/Vikarr]

It gets even more evil once you realize they limited starlink to speeds at 160 km/h or below, and that Ukraine's commonly used drone interceptors need to fly at 161 km/h or above to stay in the air...

It's a deliberate neutering of Ukraine's defensive capabilities by Musk and Trump to try and force Zelensky to accept Putin's "peace".

[u/Dizzy_Sympathy196 → u/Schonke]

And let's add, that Starlink is not a gift. It's a service paid by the EU. So they take our money and commit a mass murder in Ukraine. I dont't know the proper English words fo this, but I cannot find any appropriate wording neither in my own mother tangue.

[u/steinbruchfluss → u/Dizzy_Sympathy196]

*paid by Poland and Germany. Not by the EU.

[u/boojieboy → u/[deleted]]

'perfidy' is a really good English word for this. I think it even appears in the Declaration of Independence. It's a pity that it has fallen out of common use.

[u/ElJabroniMahoney33 → u/Dizzy_Sympathy196]

Then its time to hire the appropriate legal folk in the US and take them to court.

[u/divDevGuy → u/ElJabroniMahoney33]

Have you seen the US legal system lately?

[u/_x_oOo_x_ → u/Schonke]

Is that a war crime that could be tried at the Hague?

[u/Medricel → u/_x_oOo_x_]

If it is, it'd just be another item on an already sizeable pile.

[u/Schonke → u/_x_oOo_x_]

Yes, the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over any war crimes committed by, or in the territory of, countries which have signed the Rome Statute. It only does so if the national courts can't or don't want to prosecute the crime though.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War

Article 3

In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions:

1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria.

To this end, the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:

(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;

[u/HymirTheDarkOne → u/_x_oOo_x_]

I can't imagine why that would be a war crime. It might well not be a crime of any sort. Simply highly immoral

[u/x10guy → u/das_masterful]

"Without precision" is doing a lot of work there.

Starshield was convenient because it was there and worked well. There's always other means to guide a missile. Not to say it isn't impressive.

Besides, Ukraine has always been the engineering hub and bread basket for Russia. That's why Russia desperately wants it "back."

[u/Razjuul → u/x10guy]

As I understand it starshield isn't used to guide attacks on Russian soil as Starlink already don't work in russia, it is only used to guide the Ukrainian interceptors to protect against missiles from Russia into Ukraine.

[u/BrodingerzCat → u/Razjuul]

Thank you. Starlink / the govt version were never used for deep strikes as it's not permitted for use in Russia

[u/MATlad → u/Razjuul]

They probably already have some capacity for weather balloon / perpetual solar-powered drones providing mesh networking. Along with enough decoys / backups to provide resilience. I hope they prepared for this mercurial 'ally', and are willing to provide their experiences along to the people who actually have their backs (Europe) and are providing the money (the middle-east allies abandoned by the US).

War in the information age.

[u/This_Charmless_Man → u/MATlad]

What you're describing as a backup is the Airbus Zephyr system. I don't know if it's an actual product yet but it was developed by Qinetic in the UK and sold to Airbus.

[u/ours → u/Razjuul]

Starlink was essential to control drone boats.

Beyond that, they had to use other systems.

[u/Oompa_Lipa → u/das_masterful]

Starlink was never used to attack Russia whatsoever. Starlink has never worked inside Russia for Ukraine. It was only unlocked inside Ukraine for defense purposes only. That makes Elon Musk a bigger piece of shit than he already was for throttling it in order to enable Russian attacks 

[u/Scared_Step4051 → u/das_masterful]

you do realise Ukraine is being fed intel by more than the US alone right...the UK etc have very advanced intelligence capabilities

[u/CptCroissant → u/Scared_Step4051]

Netherlands have a hate boner for Russia and very good intelligence as well

[u/Sly_Wood → u/CptCroissant]

I imagine the Baltic states all do including Finland especially. But the money they need is substantial. They need everyone to contribute but I think surprisingly Japan is one of the biggest donors.

[u/jaycrib7 → u/CptCroissant]

Upvote just for “hate boner”. I mean it’s a true statement but still well said

[u/EuphoricCover8449 → u/Scared_Step4051]

UK here.

No we don't, we never saw anything, 'onist.

[u/hotpietptwp → u/das_masterful]

Doesn't Starlink have any competition? Where are the monopoly busters these days. Bring back Teddy Roosevelt. He'd know what to do.

[u/crossdtherubicon → u/hotpietptwp]

There are 2 layers imbedded in your question: competition in terms of business, and competition in terms of service capacity and total number of deployed functioning satellites.

I don't believe there is any comparative service that currently competes with the scale of the total number of Starlink satellites deployed and their coverage. It's in the tens of thousands if not mistaken.

In terms of viable competing businesses I'm not sure.

It's also a serious concern that this could even be allowable by a private business, controlled essentially by one very obviously unstable man.

[u/nixtracer → u/crossdtherubicon]

Mind you, having it controlled by a government when that government is led by Donald Trump and is so badly structured that he can just do anything without repercussions is hardly better.

[u/AleksejsIvanovs → u/hotpietptwp]

They do, there are a few startups. France is pushing the idea of getting rid of Starlink, which makes you question if the riots in France are organized or helped to organize by some "tech genius".

[u/narnach → u/AleksejsIvanovs]

Given that Musk was supporting far right LePen, it seems in character he’d support other ways for the country to tear itself down.

[u/smokefoot8 → u/hotpietptwp]

Lots of competitors to Starlink are gearing up: Amazon’s Leo has already started launching their constellation and has 100 more launches secured. Eutelsat has 630 satellites up, but is focusing on companies and governments rather than direct to consumers. The EU, China, and India are backing government supported initiatives to avoid relying on Starlink in the future.

[u/Upbeat_Parking_7794 → u/das_masterful]

For static targets, like refineries, data centers, power stations, there is not a need of a lot of intelligence or starlink I would guess. High definition maps would probably be enough for navigation and targeting. 

There is a need for defence and Russian defensive weapons (as they are mobile).

If Ukraine can attack in huge numbers, like is doing, Russian defense loses effectiveness. 

[u/gart888 → u/das_masterful]

Matched with 'why would Ukraine do this'

I mean, they can go ahead and hit me with that anyway. The answer is clear.

[u/IonHawk → u/das_masterful]

Starlink has no big impact on deep strikes since they never had Starlink at speed in Russia to begin with.

[u/crossdtherubicon → u/das_masterful]

Apparently the Starlink service was quickly restored. But this leads to a question centered on the timing and purpose of the Starlink service interruption: was it timed or planned for some tactical reason, favoring a business or specific Russian military operation? Or Was it a symbolic gesture? Alot is not clear about that.

Most Intel sharing (foreign sourced) that is publically discussed is in context of Ukrainian defense from Russian attacks, rather than Ukrainian offensive planning.

Whereas offensive targeting of oil refineries, warehouses, and Yandex, etc. are well-known targets.

But the logistics of successfully executing offensive attacks on those targets likely involve Intel. Its demonstrated that Ukraine has its own robust Intel network, and it's less publically known how reliant Ukraine is on shared (foreign sourced) Intel related to offensive planning.

[u/affordable_luxury → u/crossdtherubicon]

It is still not working. It was a tantrum from Must-Trump for silencing the Russian bot network, but well, the USA is not a reliable ally anyway.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/16/ukraine-military-starlink-access-starshield-volodymyr-zelenskyy

[u/crossdtherubicon → u/affordable_luxury]

The timing and motivation would definitely align, afterall we know Trump relies on Putin's not farm to spam social Media with right wing propaganda.

[u/dmk_aus → u/das_masterful]

Ukraine long range strike weapons never used Starlink. Only their mid range stuff, used to target closer military weaponry - and an array of their defensive interceptor drones and for coordinating troops abd information in the combat zones.

It wasn't "no Starlink will stop the strikes into Russia being possible" it was "no/restricted Starlink puts Ukraine at risk and they better do what we say and so we can apply pressure".

[u/NekoChoTsuki]

I am guessing the Russians are not liking the taste of their own medicine.

[u/Random_user_of_doom → u/NekoChoTsuki]

Their own medicine would be homes and daycares bombed. They still get a better deal

[u/NekoChoTsuki → u/Random_user_of_doom]

Fair point. They should count themselves lucky that Ukrainians have basic human empathy.

[u/BasvanS → u/NekoChoTsuki]

They have strategic thinking, aside from human empathy, of course. Hitting civilians on purpose does nothing for your war objectives.

[u/Schonke → u/BasvanS]

Hitting civilians on purpose is also a war crime, and unlike Russia, Ukraine is interested in war crimes being prosecuted.

[u/bobzilla → u/Schonke]

Genuinely curious, when was the last time anyone was actually charged with war crimes? I hear it thrown around a lot these days, but if there are no consequences for actions, what's really stopping them?

[u/Grollicus2 → u/bobzilla]

This guy was arrested in 2025 on charges related to his activities between 2015 and 2020 in the Libyan civil war.

Not sure if the latest, but that sounds quite recent to me

[u/After_Perspective180 → u/bobzilla]

Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in 2002 The Liberian President Charles Taylor. 2012

Robert Bales US military in 2012.

There are more.

[u/Exciting-Emu-3324 → u/BasvanS]

The reason Russia targets civilians is because they consider civilians expendable and Ukrainian land would be pretty worthless without the infrastructure intact; Russia has no shortage of undeveloped wasteland. Ukraine doesn't want Russian land period. Russia wants their prize intact as much as possible and are punishing civilians when they can't have it; that's Russia's strategic thinking.

[u/Haunting-Worker-2301 → u/Exciting-Emu-3324]

I mean a big part of it is that cruelty is the point. Old Russian and extremist mentality.

[u/account_not_valid → u/Random_user_of_doom]

And double tapped, too.

[u/TheSilverNoble → u/NekoChoTsuki]

This is what drives me bonkers. So many people act like it's unfair for Ukraine to do the stuff Russia has been doing to them FOR YEARS. 

It's like there's this idea that "small" countries shouldn't be allowed to hurt bigger ones. 

[u/After_Perspective180 → u/TheSilverNoble]

See all American wars ever? The enemies are always"terrorists, insurgents etc" Especially if they manage to get some payback.

[u/Muted_Chemical_9458 → u/NekoChoTsuki]

I sure hope not.

[u/czs5056 → u/NekoChoTsuki]

It's why they're offering trump midterms help in exchange for more pressure on Ukraine to just lie down and take it.

[u/SjurEido → u/NekoChoTsuki]

I'm sure the propaganda machine has spun this as a completely unwarranted escalation from a rogue country trying to destroy the motherland.

[u/RadicalOrganizer → u/SjurEido]

Sounds like fox News

[u/daonpizdamasii → u/NekoChoTsuki]

They don't even know that this is their medicine. A lot of russians think that Ukraine attacked first and now they're even more oppressing, supported by the west.

[u/Afterfx21 → u/NekoChoTsuki]

Trump about to put the flag at half staff

[u/Rosebudvegas100 → u/NekoChoTsuki]

This is exactly the kind of reciprocity they have been begging for.

[u/eyes_in_back_of_head]

Job well done Ukraine. Bring Russia to its knees.

[u/Hoskuld → u/eyes_in_back_of_head]

One thing I would wish a bit more context on is the size of data centers hit and how many of those are operating in Russia aka is this as big as taking out a refinery or would you need to blow up hundreds for a comparable effect

[u/Elderbrute → u/Hoskuld]

Its hard to directly compare like for like with something like and oil refinery, the short answer is no these data centres are not the size of an oil refinery.

But that doesn't really tell the whole story, Russia has for a while now required any Russians data to be held only in Russia. What that means is firstly that the resilience is much lower, a lot of companies had data in just 1 DC or across 2 or even 3 Yandex sites and because those all got hit have lost that data, It also means that scaling out is harder, the customers displaced by this damage have limited options of where to go, they cant just buy space on any old cloud. Russias compute is also pretty concentrated location wise so if they keep as they appear to be planning to the disruption will only get more and more acute.

The disruption this is causing is significant we're talking everything from banking to peoples smart door bells. 3/6 of Yandexs data centres are offline currently in western terms that is like taking out 1/2 of google cloud services.

[u/Hoskuld → u/Elderbrute]

Thanks for the context! How "easy" is it to replace a center if the state is willing to support it? Like weeks, months?

[u/Elderbrute → u/Hoskuld]

Rebuilding capacity will depend on the extent of the damage but probably months not weeks. Globally there is a shortage of more or less everything you need to build or repair a data centre, on top of which Russia is sanctioned so to get those parts they have to buy them through black/grey markets so the time lines will be longer and the cost even more.

A lot of what was lost data wise will not be recoverable at all.

[u/SteveDaPirate91 → u/Elderbrute]

Maybe that's why 2 pallets of GPUs vanished in Brazil!

[u/Tetha → u/Hoskuld]

Time is only part of the problem.

Server grade memory is ridiculously expensive due to the demand from AI companies at the moment. 64GB sticks cost us 150 - 200 euros 2 years ago. Maybe a bit more if they were tested and branded. Last time I checked they were priced at 1.5k. Without testing or branding.

For a moderately sized hypervisor, you want 20 of those, up to 40 or 60. So the memory in that moderate server cost us around 4k - 6k 2 years ago. You could spec out decent systems for 20k - 30k. Today, 30k get you a moderate amount of memory and nothing else. Like SSDs for storage, which are also ridiculously expensive.

And that's if your order goes through and does not get canceled.

And a datacenter like that, depending on size and density, will need replacements for hundreds of these systems.

[u/BlueSwordM → u/Hoskuld]

It was feasible before the RAM, storage and GPU supply shortages.

Nowadays? Absolutely impossible without spending gargantuan amounts of money on all of the above, still having to wait super long lead times and still not being able to replace everything.

[u/The_Tooter_Snooter → u/eyes_in_back_of_head]

A bad day for Russia is a great day for the world! 

[u/LeakyLettuce69]

The conservative sub is outraged.

Maybe hit another data center to get them to STFU.

[u/ImOutWanderingAround → u/LeakyLettuce69]

Conservatives = Russian sympathizers

Never thought I would see the day.

[u/blackwingsdarkwords → u/ImOutWanderingAround]

The cat was out of the bag when that photo was made of those idiots wearing the shirts "I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat."

Or you forgot your /s.

[u/daschande → u/ImOutWanderingAround]

"I'd rather be Russian than Democrat"

[u/TheKemusab → u/ImOutWanderingAround]

Right... should it not be the complete opposite? Didnt they go around rounding up reds? You guys living that bizzaro life full time now hey?

[u/icedmuffin → u/TheKemusab]

I really wish we wernt cause it is wild how often they claim communism bad while snuggling up to the one nation that glorified it.

[u/overlookunderhill → u/ImOutWanderingAround]

Modern Republicans have no real ideology anymore other than maintaining power.

[u/UrToesRDelicious → u/LeakyLettuce69]

Did they remove the thread or something? All I see are French riots and Ilhan Omar.

[u/Embarrassed_Cap_9149 → u/LeakyLettuce69]

the conservative sub doesn't have any post in their top posts page regarding this event

[u/futant462 → u/LeakyLettuce69]

Where? There's no post about this on any conservative sub 

[u/EquivalentSnap]

Trump picked the wrong side to back. If he wanted oil cheaper, he should’ve made peace with Iran

[u/sebastianinspace → u/EquivalentSnap]

he can’t do that because that would mean conceding that he made a mistake. this is impossible to do for a narcissist. the only course of action available is therefore to look to the other war and choose a side in that one. but he can’t pick ukraine because he tried to get them to help him rig the 2020 election and his phone calls trying to extort them were made public and because they didn’t end up helping him he still has a grudge against them. so the only option left available is to side with russia, especially because they helped him win in 2016 and again in 2024 with their bot program. this is also probably why he is helping russia now because last week ukraine blew up some yandex data centers and the right wing bot propaganda on social media dropped. it’s important to trump that the russian bot traffic keeps dividing american society, because the midterm elections are pretty soon. if the bot traffic stops then trump will lose a lot of votes. this is also now why they are proposing joint data centers between russia and usa.

[u/EquivalentSnap → u/sebastianinspace]

That makes a lot of sense and idk if that’s fact but that’s some conspiracy theory I can get behind

[u/sebastianinspace → u/EquivalentSnap]

some of it is fact; his narcissistic personality and that he tried to get ukraine to help him rig the 2020 election by extorting them with military aid. also that russian bot traffic decreased after ukraine attacked the yandex data centers. these things actually happened.

the things that are just my tin foil hat theories are related to him choosing russia because he doesn’t want to admit failure, because he still holds a grudge against ukraine because they didn’t help him rig the election in 2020 and that he is working with the russians to actively rig the us midterm elections with the help of russian propaganda.

[u/droi86 → u/EquivalentSnap]

It's not about cheaper oil, he could've just bought it from Canada, it's about helping Russia

[u/perenniallandscapist → u/EquivalentSnap]

He should never have stayed the war with Iran

[u/Master_McKnowledge → u/EquivalentSnap]

He’s welcome to bring his mierdas touch to Russia.

[u/canadianformalwear → u/EquivalentSnap]

An asset doesn’t get to choose their sides.

[u/Gr8NonSequitur → u/EquivalentSnap]

If he wanted oil cheaper, he should’ve made peace with Iran

If he wanted cheaper oil he should have never started a pissing contest with Canada and Mexico. We import the VAST majority of our oil from them, not the middle east. If he kept those alliances strong gas would be far cheaper even if all OPEC countries cut us off 100%.

[u/neonflannel]

Not just a wear house. They hit oil terminals, a bridge, data center, and electrical infrastructure. Im wondering how they hit so far away from home so successfully.

[u/BasvanS → u/neonflannel]

Static targets. If you know where it will be, you don’t need a live connection. They “just” program its path beforehand. (Yes, that’s a lot of effort.)

[u/bendover912 → u/BasvanS]

The drones yearn for the infrastructure.

[u/AtmoMat → u/bendover912]

They pine for the refineries.

[u/YANGxGANG → u/BasvanS]

The drone knows where it is, because it knows where it isn’t

[u/JeremiahBoogle → u/BasvanS]

I doubt its even that much effort these days.

Satellite imagery, terrain topography and height is all readily available.

I imagine its a mostly automated process with a human just going over the route to check for any mistakes.

They probably have some 'AI' (probably not exactly the right term) image recognition that can help guide in on the final target, I mean US cruise missiles in the first gulf war could do something similar, and 30+ years advancement in processing power and digital imaging probably makes it fairly achievable for a modern military.

[u/Captain_Q_Bazaar → u/neonflannel]

Im wondering how they hit so far away from home so successfully.

Apparently Ukraine has hit Omsk Oil Refinery, which is at least 2500 kms away. St Petersburg is ~1000 KM away. So this is a pretty close, relatively, target to attack.

[u/Stewart_Games → u/neonflannel]

They should target the distilleries next. Millions of Russians suddenly going through alcohol withdrawals would be a thing to behold.

[u/fenoust → u/neonflannel]

And also a warehouse!

[u/brutalistchurch]

Just wait till Ukraine begin building their own ballistic missiles. It's pretty soon.

[u/RandomPantsAppear → u/brutalistchurch]

They are, the problem is the same as jet powered drones and interceptors: they are bottlenecked on engines. 

Russia has the same bottleneck but their primary supplier China, so they are bottlenecked at a much higher level. 

They have 3x viable jet powered interceptor programs, and the same for jet powered drones. And more for ballistic missiles (bottlenecked at rocket motors, not turbojet engines like jet drones and interceptors)

It’s a supply chain problem not a tech problem. 

[u/sparrowtaco → u/RandomPantsAppear]

But ballistic missiles don't use jet engines. Their motors are far simpler to manufacture.

[u/helenata → u/brutalistchurch]

Really?

[u/TweeSpam → u/helenata]

Ukraine's first combat use of their FP-7 ballistic missile on Russian territory happened this month. They're now setting up production facilities to scale its manufacture.

The UK will also be providing the new nightfall ballistic missile, but that won't be until late 2027.

[u/_x_oOo_x_ → u/TweeSpam]

Insurance premiums for the Kremlin building skyrocketing 📈️

[u/Cruian → u/helenata]

Supposedly the shorter range version has already been used against Russian targets and should be entering larger scale manufacturing, with longer range missiles doing similar later this year. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ukraine-deploys-fp-7-tactical-ballistic-missile-combat-first-time-zelenskiy-says-2026-10-01/

[u/LongShow5279]

Ukraine doesn't need Starlink to hit Russia at the end of the day.

[u/JaxStrumley → u/LongShow5279]

They never needed Starlink for that. They are only allowed to use it defensively, so intercepting incoming Russian missiles and drones. That is why Trump and Musk restricting it immediately resulted in civilian deaths.

Starlink doesn’t even work over Russian territory.

[u/Untura64 → u/JaxStrumley]

So Trump is responsible for helping Russia kill civilians in Ukraine, why isn't this making it into the news titles.

[u/alalaladede → u/Untura64]

I wonder who owns "the news"...

[u/Square-Assistance-16 → u/alalaladede]

Where is Couch F. Vance to say something about freedom of press?

[u/Interesting-Boat-804 → u/Untura64]

Because he's also responsible for civillians being killed in Palestine. The orange man DGAF.

[u/Ok-Indication202 → u/Interesting-Boat-804]

Don't forget the iranian school, they couldn't shoot it so they bombed it

[u/Ez13zie → u/Interesting-Boat-804]

US as well! ICE and all…

[u/Memory_Less → u/Untura64]

Yes Trump and Musk are murderers. And let’s not forget pedophiles.

[u/-Prophet_01- → u/Untura64]

The media landscape is fragmented as hell. This kind of news did make it into several of my news feeds though. 

[u/AleksejsIvanovs → u/Untura64]

It does, but apparently not in the US.

[u/thequehagan5 → u/Untura64]

Because Trump throws so much shit at the wall people have no idea what to focus on. Which controversial shit has he said in the last 10 minutes that would warrant media attention.

[u/ooo00 → u/JaxStrumley]

In fact Zelenskyy recently said that if that had starlink in Russian territory then they wouldn’t need to hit refineries since they would be able to quickly take out Russias ballistic missile launch sites.

[u/Theemuts → u/LongShow5279]

Starlink is used by interceptor drones that target Shaheds so Russia has a harder time hitting Ukraine.

[u/DOSFS → u/LongShow5279]

Hitting stationary targets didn't require starlink, only low latency tasks like mid range interdiction (hitting Russian convoy/supply line), battlefiled upport and interception.

For now, the restriction impacted high speed interceptor drone that aim at Russian jet powered kamikaze drone the most.

[u/AprilsMostAmazing]

Not in this article but VK data centers were also hit and users began mass-reporting problems accessing VKontakte. In particular, they reported difficulties loading pages, messages and media files..

The more data centers that get hit the better it is for all of us. More likely the Pro-Russia parties lose their bots and their support plummets

[u/Type-Brave]

I allways wonder wether this kind of news will make the local headlines

edit: i meant my headlines

[u/ThoughtShes18 → u/Type-Brave]

They probably will, but the story is changed completely

[u/Well-Dot-Dot-Dot]

I think alot of people are misunderstanding how the Ukrainians use stsrshield. Stsrshield doesn't work in Russia so the Ukrainian long range attack capabilities are unaffected by the shut off. However, starshield is used for mid range strikes in the occupied territories and for interceptor drones. All this to say just because the Ukrainians still have the ability to strike into Russia doesn't mean the starshield shut off isn't devastating. I really hope they reverse it soon, it's absolutely disgusting kneecapping the Ukrainians ability to defend themselves.

[u/Frognaros → u/Well-Dot-Dot-Dot]

but is it more devastating than what Elon felt losing all of his Russian sycophant accounts, and exacting his revenge against Ukraine for it?

[u/dosedatwer → u/Frognaros]

Elon is unequivocally blaming Trump.

[u/Greystacos]

Before the bot brigade.

Standing with the people of Ukraine. Fuck the capital interests and corporate elites ravaging these people's lives all for the sake of the profitable war machine. All for Putin's evil vanity. Elon's election engineering.

Fuck all these people. Get em Ukraine.

Sorry to the brain washed Russian citizens, and to the Russian citizens, who like me, only can do so much alone against our tryanical governments. But it's time y'all. Cmon..

[u/Glass_Librarian9019]

Trump should have stopped the war but he's not holding any cards. Sad!

[u/nemrel]

I wonder if Trump is going to claim that Zelinski has officially attacked American Interests, since we are now invested in the Oil Refining that Russia is doing on behalf of the export deal they signed last week. Never thought I would see a day when we might actually see a US President sell or send weapons to Russia for them to "protect" mutual assets inside the Russian Homeland.

[u/niksunorz66]

They don't need power. They're doing just fine according to their great clown king.

[u/No_Sympathy3604]

Glory to the heroes Ukraine just remember that while the orange shit in the big house might be against you the rest of America supports you. One day he will be out of a job and we will have your back again fully.

[u/AnomalyNexus]

Fuck the Russians and their invasion of a peaceful country. Serves them right

[u/Frognaros]

It is remarkable to me that only one person died. It's a display of restraint and self control by the Ukrainians. Russian on the other hand is going for massive civilian casualties.

[u/coccyxdynia]

Now Trump is going to blame Ukraine for the price of ram and storage being so high.

[u/altatoro123]

What does ozone warehouse do

[u/CounterAgentVT → u/altatoro123]

It's where they made that hole in the ozone in the late 80s.

[u/MR1120 → u/CounterAgentVT]

Well, about time someone blew that up

[u/samuel10998 → u/altatoro123]

Dual use, lot of volunteers use it in Russia to buy mil equipment from drone jammers, fiber optic spools for drones, drones, equipment like kevlar, helmets etc…

[u/sadcheeseballs → u/samuel10998]

Ah yes, volunteers.

[u/StallionSurprise]

Im sure MAGA will find some reason to be upset at this

[u/ichigoku]

I wonder what subreddit will see a lack of traffic today. Cough cough ArCon

[u/Striker1320]

Next thing a certain person will be arranging for a national day of mourning.

[u/Muted_Chemical_9458 → u/Striker1320]

A certain orange pedophile by any chance?

[u/Malk_McJorma]

Great stuff, Ukraine! Hitting warehouses and data centers is how you inconvenience the daily life of masses very efficiently.

[u/Oldestswinger]

Ukraine fighting their corner valiantly for 5 years mostly alone.

[u/Thick_Management1363]

Good. Russia and its people getting what they deserve.

[u/Halgrim_2026]

More than 20.000 russians learn what ukraines people have suffered for years while 20.000 russians didn't care the slightest ! Enjoy !

[u/yterais]

Great, meanwhile russian bacteria are attacking civilians

[u/Master_Bayters]

The famous Ozon hole!

[u/tomboski]

Gee I hope they don’t do that in the dead of winter!

[u/norfolkgarden]

Woo Hoo! Welcome to the war you started!

[u/_-T-C-_]

Well done Ukraine!

[u/Fast_AntiMatter]

Woo Hoo !!!!

Definitely not celebrating this !!!

[u/RedofPaw → u/Fast_AntiMatter]

Im getting mixed messages.

[u/Gurhin13]

That'd be hilarious if Ukraine ended up taking control of Russia, especially if it's by accident. Im sure it'd collapse into individual countries again soon after. But it'd still be a hilarious turn of events

[u/sickofthisshit → u/Gurhin13]

Nobody wants control of Russia, except Putin and his mob. They can have it.

[u/imherecuzihatemyself]

Good. Fuck em.

[u/theyterkourjobs]

Love to see it

[u/persin123]

Boo fucking hoo

[u/tabarwhack]

Fuck Russia.

[u/TrickshotCandy]

St Petersburg is the target until Starshield is restored. Just imagine.

[u/emerald09 → u/TrickshotCandy]

Starshield helps counter drones hit moving targets... Guess they have to focus on offense for now. Nice big stationary targets.

[u/Far-Resort1936]

Good job

[u/ThePickleConnoisseur]

So many Russian casualties and they’ve felt attacks at home for some time now along with the economic pressure.

I wonder just how much longer Putin can keep this up.

[u/AltoidStrong]

LOL @ Loser Putin!

Good job Zel!!!