{"id":113520,"date":"2026-04-06T10:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=113520"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T05:25:04","slug":"ukrainian-forces-intensifies-retaliation-against-russian-spring-summer-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mavericknews30.com\/?p=113520","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Forces Intensifies Retaliation Against Russian Spring-Summer Offensive."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kyiv; April 2026<\/strong>: The Ukrainian General Staff reported on April 5 that Ukrainian forces struck the major oil export port of Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast, overnight on April 04 late evening to April 05th early morning starting a fire. This strike is the third Ukrainian strike against Primorsk within the last two weeks (previous strikes were overnight on March 22 to 23 and March 26 to 27).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Leningrad Oblast Governor Alexander Drozdenko acknowledged on April 5 the Ukrainian drone strike on Leningrad Oblast and reported damage to a section of an oil pipeline near Primorsk. The Ukrainian General Staff further reported on April 5 that Ukrainian forces also struck the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (roughly 1,000 kilometers from Primorsk) overnight, starting a fire. Geolocated footage published on April 5 shows Russian air defenses operating near the refinery in Kstovo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) data shows heat anomalies at the refinery in Kstovo at around 02:00 hours (local time) on April 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian milbloggers offered a muted response to recent Ukrainian strikes against Russian oil refineries, noting the damage that the strikes have inflicted on Russia\u2019s oil export capacity and that the damage will be costly and time-consuming to repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Kremlin-affiliated milblogger focused mostly on the alleged Ukrainian strike against a Russian cargo vessel off occupied Kherson Oblast, noting that the Russian shipbuilding industry will struggle to replace losses from such strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second Russian milblogger also speculated that Ukrainian forces are employing daytime drone strikes against Russian border regions to deplete Russian air defense munitions before employing long-range drones at low altitude for overnight strikes. Russian milbloggers may have refrained from direct criticism of the Kremlin\u2019s lack of response to the strikes due to Russian authorities\u2019 increasing censorship of Telegram in recent weeks, against the backdrop of prominent milbloggers\u2019 criticism of the Russian forces\u2019 battlefield situation, however the Russian milbloggers have previously complained about the Russian inability to repair damaged facilities due to parts sanctions and Russian air defense failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. 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 target\u2019s multiple times during this period, but the geographic dispersion and large sizes of the facilities likely hinder Russian air defense efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets reported on April 5 that Ukrainian counterattacks in the Hulyaipole and Oleksandrivka directions have forced Russian forces to divert naval infantry elements, including a significant part of the 120th Naval Infantry Division (Baltic Fleet) and the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade (Pacific Fleet), from the Dobropillya tactical area to the Oleksandrivka direction. Mashovets reported on March 16, that Russian forces redeployed elements of the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade and the 120th Naval Infantry Division to the Oleksandrivka direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As per official sources, there are indications that Russian forces have redeployed elements of the 40th Naval Infantry Brigade and 55th Naval Infantry Division (both Pacific Fleet) from the Dobropillya tactical area to the Hulyaipole direction as of late February 2026 and elements of the 68th Army Corps (AC, Eastern Military District [EMD]) from near Pokrovsk and Dobropillya to the Hulyaipole direction in early March 2026. Mashovets has further noted on April 5 that the heavy losses that Russian forces have suffered in the seizure of Pokrovsk and in the Dobropillya tactical area have forced the Russian Central Grouping of Forces to reduce the intensity of its operations in these areas, and the redeployment of naval infantry and other elements away from the grouping of forces further weakens the Russian effort against Dobropillya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 04th April, Ukrainian General Staff reported that it has documented around 400 instances of Russian forces using ammunition equipped with chemical agents in March 2026 alone and over 13,000 instances since February 2022, in violation of the CWC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian General Staff stated that Russian forces frequently use drone-dropped K-51 and RG-Vo aerosol gas grenades, as well as makeshift containers that disperse chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile (CS) and chloroacetophenone (CN), both of which are types of riot control (RC) agents banned for use in war, to force Ukrainian soldiers out of cover into the line of fire. The Russian forces repeatedly violated the CWC in the past, including an assessment supported by a June 2025 Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons\u2019 (OPCW) report, July 2025 reports from Dutch and German intelligence agencies, and a May 2024 US Department of State (DoS) determination. These reports are consistent with the Russian 810th Naval Infantry Brigade\u2019s (Black Sea Fleet [BSF]) acknowledgement on its Telegram channel of Russia\u2019s deliberate use of K-51 gas grenades in Ukraine in December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team Maverick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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