News Digest After Ceasefire: Mass Attack Was Predictable

May 13, 2026May 13, 2026

Putin’s annual circus — the Victory Mania parade — is over. This news digest after ceasefire covers the days that followed: packed with events that never made the top of the news feed, yet very much worth paying attention to. Nobody was shocked that the Kremlin dictator turned out to be a liar again: the prisoner exchange he personally promised — 1,000 for 1,000 — never happened. As of Wednesday, May 13, not a single prisoner from that list has been released. There is no timeline, no confirmation, and frankly, no sign it will happen at all.

The Orcs¹ using those 72 hours not for a real ceasefire, but for regrouping and preparing new attacks, surprised nobody. You don’t need intelligence assets or think tanks to predict something like that. You just need to understand what Russians are, and never forget their defining quality — treachery. This time, however, Ukraine did not just show its claws. It used them.

AI Drones Over the Mariupol Highway?

A bit earlier, the 1st Corps of the National Guard Azov reported that our mid-range strike drones had been working the highway stretching from temporarily occupied Mariupol westward. The orcs-yewitnesses started suspecting the drones are running on full AI control. According to the enemy, the Good Birds² maneuvered calmly even in areas covered by powerful Russian EW, then continued toward their targets and struck them anyway.

The Orcs reasoned that if a human operator guided the drones, Russian EW would eventually kill the signal — especially against moving targets that require constant guidance. Sure, they know about Starlink, and that could explain why jamming failed. But then came another detail that really unsettled them. One day the drones swept through traffic and picked out only fuel tankers. The next day — only military trucks. Everything else got ignored. So the Orcs concluded that the AI receives a specific target signature for the day and works only against that category.

Whether that is actually true — nobody knows, because our military is saying nothing. But the orcs believe it, and that alone is worth something.

On May 11, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed strikes on enemy ammunition depots near Makedonivka and Donetsk in the Donetsk region, and near Osypenko in the Zaporizhzhia region. Ukrainian forces also hit drone command posts near Konovalove in the Zaporizhzhia region and Hola Prystan in Kherson region.

Parades Are Over — Fire.

The Commander of Ukraine’s USF³ Robert “Madyar” Brovdi announced the resumption of deep strikes on enemy military plants and refineries. His message, verbatim:

The parades are over. – FIRE!

🔥🔥The ‘Taman Neftegaz’ terminal and the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant got a massive, fiery taste of the Freedom-Loving Ukrainian Bird last night, May 13.

🔥The Astrakhan GPP is one of the world’s largest gas chemical complexes. It is the primary producer of sulfur for explosives, fueling over 2/3 of the russian military-industrial complex production. The plant’s annual capacity stands at 12 billion cubic meters of gas.

🔥The “Tamanneftegaz” oil terminal (Volna settlement, Krasnodar Krai, rf) is a transshipment hub for LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) and oil, with a total capacity of 19.9 million tons per year.

Astrakhan ISTAR: burning gas condensate distillate tanks, lump sulfur warehouses, an oil products warehouse along with loading racks, and at least one processing unit successfully hit.

🔥The Birds of the 1st Detachment of the SBS, along with another deep-strike unit of the DFU, politely lit up the GPP in Astrakhan.

Taman ISTAR: a section of the tank farm is burning, two terminals, one of the berths, and a rack of vacuum gas oil and oil products tanks.Rumor has it, a couple of sanctioned tankers parked poorly and were playing with matches on deck, among other things…

🔥The Taman terminal was a joint operation by the SBS Birds, along with colleagues from the SOF, HUR⁴, and other deep-strike units of the DFU.

To be continued, harder & tighter…

What’s Happening Right Now

A news digest after ceasefire would be incomplete without mentioning the massive Shahed attack. What we are watching now was not just predictable — it was inevitable. What is unfolding in front of us is not even a massive attack by previous standards. It is a sustained, large-scale aerial assault the enemy has been running since yesterday evening, almost without pause. HUR warns this is only the first phase of a far larger operation — cruise and ballistic missile strikes are expected to follow.

Worth clarifying: we have seen plenty of massive combined attacks before. But an assault this prolonged, this continuous — the enemy has never managed to pull this off until now. The orcs know how dangerous it is to stockpile explosives when the Good Birds are running mid-range strikes. So they are using through everything they managed to accumulate during those 72 hours of “ceasefire” all at once.

As for the Shaheds — they have been launching them in waves since yesterday evening, and there is no sign the supply is running dry. By 11 a.m., reports confirmed 260+ enemy drones in Ukrainian airspace.

Shahed Attack Continues

That was just the morning wave, and as far as we can tell, they are still launching. All of this was stockpiled and is now being fired off precisely because of that Red Square “ceasefire.” What happens with the missile strikes — we’ll see. But it looks like they were given the time to load everything they had.

On top of that, as visible from the photo, the enemy is now openly launching drones along the Belarusian border. That is exactly what you do when you have more drones than you know what to do with — use them carelessly, test the routes, find out which corridors are worth using next time. And, as everyone understands, those drones are being controlled from Bulboreikh territory. Never forget that detail. In short: the enemy got a rare chance to go all in. And that is exactly what he is doing right now.

We are watching how this develops — and we will be back with a full summary once the picture is clearer. For now, this is the full news digest after ceasefire, but more information will follow.

¹Orcs – a common term for Russians who support or participate in the armed aggression against Ukraine. Dehumanizing? Yes. Accurate? Also yes.

²Good Birds – slang for strike drones. Why “good”? Because they bring “warmth and light” to enemy military factories, ammunition depots, and oil refineries. Sarcastic? Of course. Effective? Even more so.

³USF – Unmanned Systems Forces, Ukraine’s newly established branch of the Armed Forces. No, not the U.S. Navy — in Ukraine USF means those who destroy Russian bombers, not those who park aircraft carriers.

⁴HUR (Ukrainian: ГУР, Головне Управління Розвідки, Holovne Upravlinnya Rozvidky) – the military intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.