Russia Invades Ukraine. Again
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Ukraine hit more strategic Russian targets in March than any previous month.
10 refineries, 12 air defense systems, 5 Russian factories, halting missile chip supply for 6 months
By Olena Mukhina | April 2, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/02/march-on-fire-ukraine-hits-10-r
efineries-12-air-defense-systems-5-russian-factories-halting-missile-chip-supply-for-6-months-map/
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Russia's military campaign in Ukraine stalls for the first time in more than two years
Russia’s advance in Ukraine stalled in March, with no territorial gains for the first time in over two years, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Ukrainian forces recaptured small areas, signalling a slowdown in Moscow’s momentum after months of progress, raising new questions about the war’s next phase.
Issued on: April 02, 2026 – 22:33
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260402-russia-military-campaign-i
n-ukraine-stalls-for-first-time-in-more-than-two-years
In 2025, the Russian army made more progress in Ukraine than in the preceding 24 months. But in the first three months of 2026, Russian territorial gains were half those of the same period in 2025.
Four years after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow occupies just over 19 percent of the country, the majority of which was seized during the first weeks of the conflict.
Approximately seven percent, including Crimea and areas in the Donbas region, was already under Russian or pro-Russian separatist control before the invasion.
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MOSCOW, April 3 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's powerful Security Council, said on Friday that Moscow should drop its "tolerant attitude" towards Ukraine's possible EU membership.
"The EU is no longer just an economic union. It can transform, and rather quickly, into a full-blown military alliance, one overtly hostile to Russia, and in some ways worse than NATO," Medvedev said.
"It’s time to drop the tolerant attitude toward our neighbors joining what is now a military-economic European Union."
Medvedev said that he did not believe the United States would leave the NATO military alliance but that Washington could make symbolic moves such as cutting the number of U.S. troops deployed to other NATO members.
Medvedev said, though, that the obvious divisions within NATO could push the EU towards becoming more than simply an economic union.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/medvedev-says-russia-should-drop-
its-tolerant-attitude-towards-ukraines-eu-drive-2026-04-03/
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New Ukrainian Jammer Makes Russia’s Latest Glide Bombs Useless (Temporarily Again)
By David Hambling | Apr 03, 2026, 09:13 am EDT
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2026/04/03/new-ukrainian-ja
mmer-makes-russias-latest-glide-bombs-useless-again/
Guided glide bombs or KABs have been one of Russia’s most dangerous weapons. Launched from jets 30 miles or more behind the lines to avoid air defenses, they inflict massive damage on Ukrainian cities and frontline positions alike, with more than 5,700 dopped in one month.
Countering them is a major challenge. A RAND piece from 2024 notes that jamming might be feasible but that “In warfare, silver bullets are rare.” In 2024 Ukraine could effectively counter the bombs with jammers, causing them to miss their targets, but new Russian receivers nullified the jamming and bombardment resumed. Now Ukraine is deploying an upgraded jammer that overcomes even the best Russian technology.
“The effectiveness of KABs dropped to zero,” a spokesman for the developers of the Lima-Quant system told me. “On a roughly 700 km stretch of the front, the enemy dropped 869 KABs in one of the previous months. The consequences of these strikes were minor injuries to eight servicemen.”
These are the same developers responsible for the earlier Lima system claimed to be responsible for diverting Kinzhal missiles into empty fields. Like Lima, the upgraded Lima Quant was developed with the Night Watch unit rather than central government or military organization. But the challenges involved in fielding it have been as much political as technical.
The Guided Bomb Threat
The KAB (“Korrektiruyemaya Aviatsionnaya Bomba “ or "Adjustable Aircraft Bomb") series is the direct Russian equivalent of the U.S. JDAM (“Joint Direct Attack Munition”) series. It upgrades a dumb, unguided bomb with steering fins and satellite guidance enabling it to hit a pre-programmed location on the map. Under good conditions accuracy is better than 20 meters, enough to hit a specific building.
Folding wings give the bombs an extended range. Some advanced versions have a claimed range of 120 miles, though most are more like 40 miles. This is much less than the 1,000+ mile range of the Shahed, but while Shaheds have a warhead of 100 or 200 pounds, KABs span a range from 500 and 1,000 pounds all the way up to block-busting 3,000-pound KAB-1500 which leaves a crater 50 feet across. They are used as super-heavy artillery to destroy Ukrainian bunkers and fighting positions, and to attack civilian infrastructure.
These glide bombs fly at hundreds of miles per hour and are extremely difficult to shoot down. But they do have an Achilles Heel, and in 2024 many were being jammed causing the navigation to fail so they missed their targets.
“The effectiveness of KABs depends directly on their guidance system,” says the spokesman. “Previously they used the Kometa-4 CRPA, and later—after Ukraine expanded its Electronic-Warfare (EW) system—Kometa-8.”
The CRPA or Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna or CRPA, pronounced “serper,” is also called an adaptive antenna, null-steering antenna or beamforming antenna. It uses multiple antenna elements and combines their signals in smart ways. One is addition: adding two signals together to boost the amplification. But it can also be used for subtraction. By shifting the phase of a signal when it is combined, a CRPA selectively removes that signal from the output, effectively tuning it out. This is similar to how noise-cancelling headphones selectively block out sounds.
This technique requires an additional antenna element to generate each null. The Kometa-4 had four elements, meaning it could generate three nulls and so cancel out three jammers. Kometa-8 with 8 elements could work against up to 7 jammers.
The same Kometa guidance systems are found in Shahed drones and other Russian weapons including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. All are vulnerable to a sufficient volume of jamming. But the Russians kept increasing the number of elements to 12 and even 16.
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Quote:Russia drops record number of deadly glide bombs on Ukraine, steps up aerial attacks
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New Ukrainian Jammer Makes Russia’s Latest Glide Bombs Useless (Temporarily Again)
By David Hambling | Apr 03, 2026, 09:13 am EDT
by Dominic Culverwell | April 4, 2026 11:41 am
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-drops-record-number-of-deadly-glide
-bombs-on-ukraine-steps-up-aerial-attacks/
In March, Russia dropped the largest number of aerial guided bombs (or glide bombs) on Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry reported on April 3.
Russian forces launched 7,987 glide bombs last month — over 1,500 more than the previous record in February. Russian forces also carried out 115,000 artillery attacks, including 2,834 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).
"Having failed to achieve the desired successes at the front, the Russian army is trying to apply pressure by increasing the number of airstrikes," the Defense Ministry said.
Guided aerial bombs, while having a shorter range than missiles, are cheaper to produce. They are launched from aircraft behind the front lines within Russian territory or Russian-occupied territories — beyond the reach of Ukrainian air defense.
They are nearly impossible to shoot down due to their heavy iron construction and their tendency to approach at extremely fast speeds, and from high altitudes, unlike cruise missiles or drones, according to experts.
But Ukraine has been able to deploy jammers that divert the bombs away from their targets. In the war’s typical cat-and-mouse game, Russia upgraded the weapon to overcome jammers last year, pushing Ukraine to develop a new jammer this year.
But it's not just glide bomb attacks that have increased. Russia also launched a record 1,000 drones over a 24-hour period on March 23-24, including a rare mass attack during daytime, killing 7 and injuring around 50.
In total, Russia launched nearly 6,500 drones in March. And there are no signs that Moscow intends to slow down, particularly as U.S.-brokered peace negotiations take a backseat following the outbreak of the American-Israeli war on Iran.
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Ukraine confirms strikes on Russian oil infrastructure, defying calls to ease attacks amid soaring fuel prices
(Updated: April 5, 2026 2:26 pm)
https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-reportedly-strike-lukoil-
oil-refinery-in-russias-novgorod-oblast/
Ukraine regularly strikes military and industrial targets in Russia with long-range drones, with oil refineries serving as frequent targets. Kyiv considers these facilities to be valid military targets, as they provide fuel and funding for the Kremlin's war machine.
The U.S. sanctioned Lukoil and another Russian energy company, Rosneft, in October 2025, freezing Lukoil's U.S.-based assets and threatening secondary penalties for foreign entities engaging with them. The sanctions, the first such measures imposed by the second Trump administration, were designed to pressure Moscow into peace talks in Ukraine, as fossil fuel revenues play a key role in sustaining Russia's war efforts.
Despite the sanctions, following the start of its war in Iran, the U.S. Treasury Department issued a temporary license on March 12 to allow countries to purchase Russian oil currently stranded at sea, in an effort to stabilize global energy prices.
Oil prices have skyrocketed amid the escalating war in Iran, which is in its sixth week. Energy facilities in the Middle East have been targeted throughout the conflict, while Iran has also shut down the Strait of Hormuz — a key waterway through which roughly one-fifth of the world's oil supply transits.
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Ukraine struck a refinery 800 km inside Russia — then hit the power plant keeping it running
The Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez facility in the Volga region, one of Russia’s largest refineries by volume, processes up to 17 mn tonnes of crude a year and is a key supplier of petrol to Moscow Oblast.
By Yuri Zoria | April 05, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/05/ukraine-struck-a-refinery-800-k
m-inside-russia-then-hit-the-power-plant-keeping-it-running/
The refinery has been targeted repeatedly: drone strikes hit it in March 2024, July 2024, September 2025, and November 2025, causing fires and prompting the facility to halt production for the time of repair works.
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The limitations of available Russian air defenses and the challenges inherent in protecting large infrastructure facilities across thousands of kilometers of distance are hindering the Kremlin’s efforts to defend against Ukrainian long-range strikes. The Ukrainian strikes overnight on April 4 to 5 are part of a series of Ukrainian long-range strikes against eight separate Russian oil and defense industrial infrastructure targets in the previous 13 days (since the night of March 22 to 23), including oil terminals at Ust-Luga and Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast, oil refineries in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Kirishi, Leningrad Oblast, Yaroslavl, Yaroslavl Oblast, Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, and defense plants in Tolyatti and Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast.[13] The targets that Ukrainian forces have struck span over 1,700 kilometers from Primorsk and Ust-Luga in Leningrad Oblast to Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Ukrainian forces have struck some of these targets multiple times during this period, but the geographic dispersion and large sizes of the facilities likely hinder Russian air defense efforts.
https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive
-campaign-assessment-april-5-2026/
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Ukraine faces surge in draft dodgers as conscription struggles deepen
The situation needs an urgent, comprehensive solution that will prevent Ukraine’s defense capabilities from deteriorating
By Oleksandra Bashchenko | Mon, April 06, 2026 - 10:29
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukraine-faces-surge-in-draft-dodgers-a
s-conscription-1775460591.html
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov reported serious problems with mobilization, noting that there are about 2 million draft dodgers in the country, as well as hundreds of thousands of cases of unauthorized abandonment of units, reports The Independent.
Ukraine has faced serious difficulties in conscription amid the ongoing war.
According to data shared by Fedorov, about 2 million citizens are evading mobilization. And since 2022, about 290,000 cases of unauthorized abandonment of service have been recorded.
Impact of the international situation
Against the backdrop of escalating conflict in the Middle East, the attention of the administration of US President Donald Trump has partially shifted away from Ukraine.
At the same time, the negotiation process has reached a deadlock, and Russia has intensified offensive actions.
War of attrition
The nature of hostilities has changed and moved into a prolonged phase. Ukraine states that its troops are inflicting greater losses on the enemy than Russia manages to replenish. At the same time, soldiers on the front line report fatigue and a high workload.
Reasons for evasion
Many citizens perceive service as prolonged participation without clear rotation timelines.
One of the media's interlocutors noted that at the beginning of the war, he voluntarily went to the military enlistment office, but later changed his attitude due to the problems he saw, including cases of unequal approaches to mobilization.
Position of the authorities and resources
Member of parliament Oleksandr Merezhko stated that the country has sufficient human resources to continue the war for a long time. However, the key issue remains managing them and creating motivation.
The authorities emphasize the need to preserve the youth, while programs to attract new fighters have not yet produced the expected effect.
The Armed Forces are considering options for introducing a demobilization mechanism, taking into account different categories of servicemen, while the Ministry of Defense is simultaneously developing separate service conditions and payments for assault units and infantry.
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How Ukraine Turned the War Back on Russian Soil: A Timeline
Russia is routinely hit by deep strikes; Ukraine is now capable of mass-launching drones, creating its own long-range missiles, and firing them at Russian military and oil infrastructure. Four years ago, this would have been unthinkable.
Apr 04, 2026 16:55
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/how-ukraine-turned-the-war-ba
ck-on-russian-soil-a-timeline-17571
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