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🇷🇺🛢️🔥 𝗨𝗞𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗨𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗨𝗘𝗟 𝗕𝗟𝗨𝗙: Ukraine's 27 July strike on the Prioritet plant in Udmurtia, 1,300 km from the border, is the deepest hit yet in a campaign against deep-rear Rosrezerv oil depots underway since early 2025 and escalating in recent weeks. Rosrezerv is the state reserve system holding the fuel Russia needs for mobilization and a prolonged war. Unlike refinery strikes, these attacks carry little immediate impact on fuel supplies. Instead, they degrade the strategic stockpiles underpinning Russia's mid- to long-term military plans. 27 July 2026: Ukraine struck the Prioritet plant near the village of Borok in Russia's Udmurt Republic, more than 1,300 km from the Ukrainian border. NASA FIRMS (attached) thermal data confirms the fire. A VIIRS satellite detection registered on the depot's tank farm footprint at 03:41 local time on 27 July. It, like other Rosrezerv depots, is a closed federal state facility under paramilitary guard designed for long-term storage of fuel and lubricants for military needs and national emergencies. Since early 2025, Ukraine has repeatedly struck Rosrezerv's deep-storage tier: Kristall in Engels at least four times, disabling roughly a quarter of the storage feeding Russia's strategic bomber force, and Kombinat Temp in Rybinsk twice, with up to 15 tanks destroyed in June. One key difference is that refineries can be repaired but strategic reserves must be refilled from the same production Ukraine is burning at the other end placing more strain on the system. One further note: Rosrezerv depots are precisely the target category NATO planners would prioritize in any threat contingency. The same reserves Russia holds for a prolonged war in Ukraine are the reserves that would fuel hostilities on the Finnish and Baltic frontiers. #OSINT #Ukraine

Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of the Odyssey Christopher Nolan drew on for his new film, has brought Homer back from antiquity. One of the most celebrated translators in the world, she is reviving a fading academic discipline and shining with a harsh and brilliant light in the humanities’ gathering gloom. “The ancient Greeks teach one to be modern,” the poet and classicist A. E. Stallings observed. “They taught that to me and to Emily. It was time to strip away all the mannered layers—the tarnish of centuries—and she does that. Her translations have the freshness of the sky after a storm. Read Judith Thurman’s 2023 profile of the translator: https://t.co/4c9tma8Cdq