{"id":25792,"date":"2026-07-06T13:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=25792"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:11:58","slug":"s-400-air-defense-system-and-fuel-tankers-hit-in-latest-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=25792","title":{"rendered":"S-400 Air Defense System and Fuel Tankers Hit in Latest Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the night of <strong>July 6<\/strong>, Ukraine&#8217;s <strong>Unmanned Systems Forces<\/strong> struck <strong>47 military targets<\/strong> deep behind Russian lines, targeting air defense assets, fuel infrastructure, and logistical facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Commander <strong>Robert &#8220;Madyar&#8221; Brovdi<\/strong>, Ukrainian drones destroyed <strong>two launchers of the S-400 Triumf air defense system<\/strong>\u2014one in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region and another in occupied Crimea. He said the systems had been used by Russian forces to launch ballistic missiles against ground targets in Ukraine. A <strong>Nebo-U radar system<\/strong> in Crimea was also hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The operation also targeted <strong>two fuel tankers<\/strong> belonging to Russia&#8217;s so-called shadow fleet in the <strong>Sea of Azov<\/strong>. The vessels were transporting fuel from the Taganrog area to occupied Crimea, each carrying approximately <strong>7,000 metric tons<\/strong> of fuel. Another confirmed target was a fuel depot in <strong>Kerch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier reports also indicated widespread power outages across Crimea following strikes on energy infrastructure, while Ukrainian forces had previously hit the <strong>Hvardiiske air base<\/strong>, two road bridges, and three Russian ammunition depots on the peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the night of July 6, Ukraine&#8217;s Unmanned Systems Forces struck 47 military targets deep behind Russian lines, targeting air defense assets, fuel infrastructure, and logistical facilities. According to Commander Robert &#8220;Madyar&#8221; Brovdi, Ukrainian drones destroyed two launchers of the S-400 Triumf air defense system\u2014one in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region and another in occupied Crimea. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25810,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25792\/revisions\/25810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}