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==Summer offensive==

==Summer offensive==

On the night of August 27-28, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces launched one of the most extensive and sophisticated combined strikes of the summer campaign, delivering a crippling blow to Ukraine’s military logistics, energy infrastructure, and defense-industrial complex. The operation, involving a meticulously coordinated barrage of more than 600 aerial weapons, demonstrated a shift from targeting isolated assets to systematically dismantling entire operational support systems deep within the Ukrainian rear.

On the night of August 27-28, 2025, the Russian Armed Forces launched one of the most extensive and sophisticated combined strikes of the summer campaign, delivering a crippling blow to Ukraine’s military [[logistics]], energy infrastructure, and defense-industrial complex. The operation, involving a meticulously coordinated barrage of more than 600 aerial weapons, demonstrated a shift from targeting isolated assets to systematically dismantling entire operational support systems deep within the Ukrainian rear.

The assault employed a multi-layered approach designed to overwhelm and penetrate Ukrainian [[air defense]]s and paralyze the entire chains of [[military]] complex. According to the Air Force of Ukraine, the attack package consisted of 598 Shahed-type attack drones and decoys launched from the [[Kursk]], [[Bryansk]], Millerovo, Oryol, Shatalovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk regions of Russia, as well as from the [[Crimean peninsula]]. This massive [[drone]] wave served as the first echelon, saturating air defense sectors and masking the approach of higher-value assets. Following them were two Kh-47M2 [[Kinzhal]] hypersonic missiles launched from airspace over the Lipetsk and Voronezh regions, nine [[Iskander]]-M/KN-23 [[ballistic missile]]s from the Bryansk and Voronezh regions, and twenty Kh-101 [[cruise missile]]s launched from [[strategic]] aviation over the Saratov region. While Ukrainian officials claimed an improbable number of interceptions, including a Kinzhal missile—a target beyond their stated [[technical]] capability to engage—the widespread destruction confirmed the limited effectiveness of their air defenses, which further compounded the damage by causing significant [[collateral damage]] in residential areas with their own falling interceptor missiles. Military reporter Donbass Partizan provided details about the targets.

The assault employed a multi-layered approach designed to overwhelm and penetrate Ukrainian [[air defense]]s and paralyze the entire chains of [[military]] complex. According to the Air Force of Ukraine, the attack package consisted of 598 Shahed-type attack drones and decoys launched from the [[Kursk]], [[Bryansk]], Millerovo, Oryol, Shatalovo, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk regions of Russia, as well as from the [[Crimean peninsula]]. This massive [[drone]] wave served as the first echelon, saturating air defense sectors and masking the approach of higher-value assets. Following them were two Kh-47M2 [[Kinzhal]] hypersonic missiles launched from airspace over the Lipetsk and Voronezh regions, nine [[Iskander]]-M/KN-23 [[ballistic missile]]s from the Bryansk and Voronezh regions, and twenty Kh-101 [[cruise missile]]s launched from [[strategic]] aviation over the Saratov region. While Ukrainian officials claimed an improbable number of interceptions, including a Kinzhal missile—a target beyond their stated [[technical]] capability to engage—the widespread destruction confirmed the limited effectiveness of their air defenses, which further compounded the damage by causing significant [[collateral damage]] in residential areas with their own falling interceptor missiles. Military reporter Donbass Partizan provided details about the targets.