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Firestorm: Russia’s Largest Airstrike On Ukraine Since The Start Of The Conflict

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Firestorm: Russia’s Largest Airstrike On Ukraine Since The Start Of The Conflict

General map of overnight strikes on Ukraine (June 29, 2025)

Russian drones, aircraft, and naval forces have carried out the largest combined strike on Ukraine’s defense industrial complex and oil refining facilities since the beginning of the Special Military Operation. This time, the highest concentration of hits was recorded in Ukraine’s western regions.

The operation began on the night of June 29 with a massive strike using Geran (Shahed-type) drones. At least 150 such UAVs entered Ukrainian airspace over the Sumy Region, heading towards central and western Ukraine. The number of Geran drones in the sky continuously increased as fresh waves arrived, maintaining relentless pressure on Ukrainian defenses. Strikes were confirmed in Lviv, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Cherkasy regions, as well as in Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Donbass.

Firestorm: Russia’s Largest Airstrike On Ukraine Since The Start Of The Conflict

Airstrikes on military targets in the Lviv Region


A series of strikes on Kremenchug


Chernigiv


Russian aviation augmented the operation with powerful airstrikes. Five strategic Tu-95MS bombers took off from Olenya Air Base, armed with Kh-101/555 cruise missiles. Additionally, Tu-160 missile carriers joined the assault.

Ukrainian sources reported infrastructure damage at several facilities — including a precision strike on the Lviv Armored Vehicle Plant — power outages in Drohobych, and damage to the railway station in Poltava.

Furthermore, Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles hit multiple targets in the city of Stryi, which hosts a large underground gas storage facility and a major air base. Strikes also targeted oil refineries in Kremenchug and Drohobych, the Burshtyn Thermal Power Plant, and Kulbakino Airfield near Mykolaiv, where a fire was subsequently detected by NASA satellites. Near this airfield lies the Mykolaiv Heat Repair Plant.

As drones and aircraft kept Ukrainian defenses under constant pressure, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet fired a salvo of Kalibr cruise missiles. Launched from positions in the Black Sea, these missiles entered Ukrainian airspace via the Kherson Region, striking their targets with surgical precision. Simultaneously, supersonic Oniks missiles were deployed toward Mykolaiv, intensifying the destructive impact of the operation.

Drohobych, Lviv region


Kremenchug


In total, during the night leading into Sunday, Ukrainian air defenses tracked at least 477 kamikaze drones — primarily Geran-2 and Gerbera (an upgraded variant of the Geran) — as well as around 60 missiles, including Kh-101 and Kh-55 air-launched cruise missiles fired from Tu-95MS bombers, sea-launched Kalibr cruise missiles, four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, and several 9M723 ballistic missiles from the Iskander-M system.

The effectiveness of Ukrainian air defense set a new negative record, as Ukrainian anti-aircraft operators admitted shooting down just over 200 aerial targets, while losing radar lock — and thus failing to intercept — another 300. Moreover, Ukrainian air defenses accidentally shot down one of their own F-16 fighter jets during the chaotic response, resulting in the death of the pilot.

Firestorm: Russia’s Largest Airstrike On Ukraine Since The Start Of The Conflict

Deceased Ukrainian pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Maksym Ustymenko, First Class Aviator

Volodymyr Zelensky, who recently returned from his European tour, stated that over the past week alone, Russia had fired more than 114 missiles, deployed over 1,270 drones, and dropped nearly 1,100 glide bombs. Zelensky urged for strengthened sanctions against Russia and requested an upgrade of Ukraine’s air defenses through the delivery of advanced American anti-aircraft systems.

The Financial Times, however, disputed the Ukrainian president’s figures, presenting even more troubling news for Kiev. According to the publication, Moscow has accumulated approximately 13,000 missiles and attack drones and maintains production rates of up to 200 units per month. Western experts estimate that by autumn, Russia may be capable of deploying up to 500 drones per day against Ukraine.

At this point, it’s clear that Russia’s aerial offensive is rapidly intensifying: the previous record for drone and missile usage lasted less than two weeks.

Ukrainian monitoring channels are already preparing their audience for daily strikes of 700 or even 1,000 units by this autumn,” — Yuriy Podolyaka, a well-known Ukrainian journalist.


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TomSawyer

ruzzian piggies, how is the three days special operation going? 🇷🇺=🤡 😆😆😆

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MacZ

the buffoons still repeating their false narrative can’t stop ukraine being crushed by russia.

lots of black knight from monty python and the holy grail vibes.

Clyde

insane. the ukrainian state has been absolutely devastated since the 2014 us coup. there is no other way to characterize the loss of 25% of the territory, a similar portion of the population, tens of thousands of dead military personnel, a population living under aerial asssault for three years, devastated infrastructure etc. and yet day after day you’re on this site babbling about the russians. it’s batshit crazy.

dead mercs

hey it’s winning…. or as the village gimp here puts it “hehehehe”

Fgtgnn

he don’t live in ukraine and want the with es fighting each other. it’s a jewish troll trying to put diesel on flames.

Clyde

this fixation on the jews is as absurd as ukretardism. some jews have power because people have been conditioned to accept plutocracy. commerce is king. if you’re interested in regurgitating sentiment rather than seeking an understanding about how power dynamics have developed in our world, best of luck with that.

xythras

zelenskyke backers just dropped 0.10 shekels into your jidf account.

Aragorn

yes, especially since they are not jews. what we have are khazars, and white people which behave as nazi germanys caricatyr of jews, what they themselves also did. white people get jewished 1000 years ago, ruled by psychopaths, and later by technocrats, often germans. they do not like newton 😂

dead mercs

ask a million and a half dead nazi rump ukroppers.

Knuckles

swimmingly.. it’s going swimmingly… here’s an indicator… 1991: ukraina population 52 million people. … 2025: ukraina population 27 million people left. …. -47% losses within a generation. slava just slava..

Clyde

the ukrainian situation is catastrophic. but their derpish identitarian cheerleaders in the us, canada and uk continue to peddle kooky russophobia and fairy tales. even the red-baiting derpsters posting here who babble about the wickedness of commahnism while advocating some pan-slavic, or pro-russian or pro-nationalist perspective are playing the identitarian game.

Aragorn

ukraine are like stalingrad, and the western cheerleaders are like adolf hitler rothschild, foaming at the mouth, and chewing on the carpet. in sweden, we are forcibly einschluss to the genocide organization nato. its for to defend the “democracy” 😂 they used a really bad actor, reagan, for to hide what communism are, after german nazis had played a “nuclear” clown 🤡 play. they simple expanded the witch burnings. kill the zero. the parasites live from the zero.

rasputin

excellent, and thank you for this live training ground next to rf so the yankees will never dare to attack themselves💯

Max

l’ucraina stà vincendo,tom… non preoccuparti e continua a dormire.

Moshe Dayan

go eat some free mason shit at the lodge with zeken sky you pos liar

Boss

neonazis and their propaganda, a cancer for russian people

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MacZ

pretty much. and that is why russia is busy removing the nazi collaborators loving neonazis from ukraine.

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Clyde

ukrainian nationalism absolutely has a one hundred year nazi impetus, but this conflict is about who will rule on the eurasian landmass. if the ukretards got their way, they would end up with the same kind of controls on their ethnonationalist compulsions as the rest of europe. the nazis are a means to an end in the ukraine, but hardly a real threat to the russians.

Tony Villos

heeheeheee! ukro nato piggies getting their assholes aggressively and repeatedly penetrated and then set on fire by superior russian penus.

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rasputin

another f16 downed by friendly fire because it happened near odessa before. together with all the pilots and technical crews that were wiped out by missiles at airbases this can better be called operation ‘lost cause’🤡💯🤡

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V for victory

those dumb stupids maybe shot down 20 drones, not 200. ridiculous zionist regime.

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Moshe Dayan

remove the fugly dwarf thief and it all stops. send the fugly thing to hell where it belongs.

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Rising Lion

let me guess: “afu on verge of total collapse”?

you dumb shitfront lying sacks of shite!

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