The Frontline with Jerome Starkey
Oct 15, 2026 · 27 min · 11 segments
Ukraine has smashed Russian air force bases, destroying SEVEN jets in just one week. It came alongside several more devastating long range strikes in Tagnorog, Yaroslavl, Nizhnekamsk, Slavyansk and…
Jerome StarkeyHost
Ukraine's President Zelensky has claimed that strikes at an airfield in Rostov-on-Don have claimed at least six aircraft, including three Antonov transport planes and three Russian helicopters.
The same time, uh, he said there was a strike some 450 miles inside Russian territory on the Slavneft-Yanosh oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl.
This is just the latest in a week, a busy week of r- of Ukraine's long-range strikes.
On Saturday, September 12th, they hit the towns of Taganrog, a fuel depot 100 miles inside, uh, Russian territory, a drone, a Molniya drone storage site.
These are the lightning drones, which Ukraine has described as cheap but dangerous.
The first in Slavyansk, in Krasnodar Krai, about 180 miles inside Russian territory with a capacity of about 4 million tons a year.
The second, much deeper, 700 miles inside Russian territory at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan.
On and on Tuesday the 15th, the Syzran oil refinery was hit some 500 miles inside Russia.
That was the aircraft that brings to seven the toll on Russia's air force this week.
In the close battle, Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps has avowed Operation Vivaldi, which is where they have been fighting north of the town of Lyman, in part to prevent the encirclement of Ukraine's fortress belt from the north.
Open source mapping, uh, trackers have claimed that 420 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory has been liberated over about the last 20 months, but primarily in the last four months.
But Russia continues to press them along this eastern front in the Donbas, and evacuations are continuing.
A compulsory evacuation orders have expanded, particularly in Slavyansk, where Russia appears to be making slow but steady gains.
Ukraine's President Zelensky has claimed that strikes at an airfield in Rostov-on-Don have claimed at least six aircraft, including three Antonov transport planes and three Russian helicopters.
The same time, uh, he said there was a strike some 450 miles inside Russian territory on the Slavneft-Yanosh oil refinery in the city of Yaroslavl.
This is just the latest in a week, a busy week of r- of Ukraine's long-range strikes.
On Saturday, September 12th, they hit the towns of Taganrog, a fuel depot 100 miles inside, uh, Russian territory, a drone, a Molniya drone storage site.
These are the lightning drones, which Ukraine has described as cheap but dangerous.
The first in Slavyansk, in Krasnodar Krai, about 180 miles inside Russian territory with a capacity of about 4 million tons a year.
The second, much deeper, 700 miles inside Russian territory at Nizhnekamsk in Tatarstan.
On and on Tuesday the 15th, the Syzran oil refinery was hit some 500 miles inside Russia.
That was the aircraft that brings to seven the toll on Russia's air force this week.
In the close battle, Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps has avowed Operation Vivaldi, which is where they have been fighting north of the town of Lyman, in part to prevent the encirclement of Ukraine's fortress belt from the north.
Open source mapping, uh, trackers have claimed that 420 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory has been liberated over about the last 20 months, but primarily in the last four months.
But Russia continues to press them along this eastern front in the Donbas, and evacuations are continuing.
A compulsory evacuation orders have expanded, particularly in Slavyansk, where Russia appears to be making slow but steady gains.
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