30 August 2025 - Ukraine Special Weapons News

Ukraine Strikes Russian Refineries As Moscow Launches Massive Drone Assault RFE/RL 30 Aug 2025 -- Ukrainian drone forces struck two major Russian oil refineries - Krasnodar in southern Russia and Syzran in the Samara region - overnight on August 30, igniting fires and causing explosions in facilities key to supplying fuel for Russian military units.

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's answer to a media question regarding reports of biological laboratories in Ukraine Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 30 Aug 2025
Russian Naval Drones Send Strong Message to Ukraine and NATO Sputnik 30 Aug 2025 -- Russia used unmanned surface vessels (USVs) to destroy the Ukrainian surveillance ship Simferopol in the Danube delta. Why were USVs chosen for the task, rather than missiles?
Russia's Recent Battlefield Gains Revealed Sputnik 30 Aug 2025 -- Chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Gerasimov summarized the results of the spring-summer 2025 campaign and outlined further objectives for troop deployments.
Russian Forces Take Control of Kamyshevakha Village in Donbass Sputnik 30 Aug 2025 -- Russia's Battlegroup Vostok have taken control of the village of Kamyshevakha in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

Former Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy Shot Dead In Lviv RFE/RL 30 Aug 2025 -- Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on August 30, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed.
Ex-Ukrainian National Security Council Head Parubiy Shot Dead in Lvov Sputnik 30 Aug 2025 -- Former head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council and a former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in the western city of Lvov.

Baiba Braže at the EU Foreign Ministers' meeting in Copenhagen: Russia continues on its path of terror and aggression. Transatlantic unity, full support to Ukraine, weakening Russia is the course to lasting peace in Ukraine Latvia MFA 30 Aug 2025 -- On 29 and 30 August 2025, in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Baiba Braže, and the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Artjoms Uršuļskis, took part in an informal meeting of the European Union (EU) foreign affairs ministers in the Gymnich format.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Meets Bereaved Families of Martyrs Who Performed Distinguished Feats in Overseas Military Operations KCNA 30 Aug 2025 -- The brave soldiers who participated in the overseas military operations created the tales about great heroes unprecedented in history out of their desire for the immortality of the sacred national flag of the DPRK and the rosy future of the prosperous motherland and emerged as heroes of the legendary feats who devoted their precious lives without regret, regarding their death as honor in the course of carrying out the orders of the country.
Ceremony of Awarding State Commendations to Soldiers of KPA Overseas Military Operations Units Takes Place KCNA 30 Aug 2025 -- All the people of the DPRK pay high praise and noble tribute to the officers and men of the overseas military operations units of the Korean People's Army who demonstrated the might of the elite revolutionary army before the world by displaying the matchless fighting spirit, bravery and indomitable self-sacrificing spirit for the honor of the glorious Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's Talk to Bereaved Families of Martyrs Participated in Overseas Military Operations KCNA 30 Aug 2025 -- Kim Jong Un talked to the bereaved families of the martyrs who participated in the overseas military operations.

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