{"id":1598,"date":"2026-06-07T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:59:41","slug":"satellite-images-contradict-putins-coal-storage-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/video\/satellite-images-contradict-putins-coal-storage-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Images Contradict Putin\u2019s Coal Storage Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"\">(ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA) &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"\"> Ukraine has executed one of its most far reaching drone campaigns of the war, striking targets from St Petersburg to locations more than 2,000 kilometres from its border beyond the Ural Mountains. The attacks have prompted open accusations from Russian commentators that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, is misleading the public about the scale of the destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Among the targets hit overnight was a massive fuel storage facility in Krasnodar Krai, one of the largest in southern Russia. Russian military bloggers warn that growing attacks on fuel infrastructure and logistics routes are beginning to threaten supplies needed to sustain frontline operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The fuel crisis in occupied Crimea continues to deepen. Residents are reportedly leaving the peninsula in search of petrol, only to find shortages spreading into neighbouring Russian regions. Some shops have introduced purchase limits as shelves empty, while occupation authorities have established a hotline for people seeking assistance to leave Crimea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Russia\u2019s oil refining sector is facing mounting pressure as repeated Ukrainian strikes disrupt production, storage and transportation networks. At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, however, Putin attempted to downplay the recent attacks. He claimed Ukrainian forces had struck little more than a coal storage area. Videos and satellite imagery tell a starkly different story, showing significant damage to oil facilities and Baltic Fleet infrastructure near St Petersburg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Meanwhile, prominent Russian military bloggers acknowledge that Russian forces are losing ground in several sectors of the front. Despite the deteriorating situation, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov continues to insist that Moscow&#8217;s objectives remain unchanged, repeating Kremlin claims about &#8220;protecting Russian speakers&#8221; in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">On the battlefield, Ukrainian forces are expanding their ability to interdict Russian logistics in the south. Reports indicate growing Ukrainian fire control over routes stretching from Melitopol toward Chonhar, further complicating the movement of supplies and reinforcements between occupied Crimea and Russian forces operating in southern Kherson Oblast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Putin Faces Catastrophe As Ukraine Launches Strikes Deep Into Russia\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wWTbIijo4FI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA) &#8211; Ukraine has executed one of its most far reaching drone campaigns of the war, striking targets from St Petersburg to locations more than 2,000 kilometres from its border beyond the Ural Mountains. The attacks have prompted open accusations from Russian commentators that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, is misleading the public about the scale of the destruction. Among the targets hit overnight was a massive fuel storage facility in Krasnodar Krai, one of the largest in southern Russia. Russian military bloggers warn that growing attacks on fuel infrastructure and logistics routes are beginning to threaten supplies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","iawp_total_views":94,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","category-video","entry","rows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1571,"url":"https:\/\/jakony.com\/frontpage\/video\/drones-humiliate-russia-at-flagship-st-petersburg-summit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1598,"position":0},"title":"Drones Humiliate Russia at Flagship St Petersburg Summit","author":"Beatrix Montgomery","date":"June 5, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"(ST PETERSBURG, RUSSIA) \u2013 A Ukrainian drone strike has set a Russian naval corvette ablaze in a St Petersburg dry dock, just 17 kilometres from the Kremlin\u2019s flagship International Economic Forum, according to footage verified on 4 June. 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