The Ukrainian military struck a Russian 1L119 Nebo-SVU radar station valued at about $100 million, along with several drone control points, as per Ukraine’s General Staff.
According to the General Staff’s Telegram report, the radar was hit near the village of Limarivka in the occupied Luhansk region as part of Kyiv’s efforts to degrade Russia’s air defense.
The 1L119 Nebo-SVU is a radar system used to support ground forces’ air defense, with the General Staff estimating each unit costs around $100 million.
The system has been supplied to the Russian military since 2017 and features fully digital signal processing, strong jamming resistance, and the ability to detect low-visibility aircraft with a radar cross-section of 0.1 m² at ranges up to about 100 km (62 miles).
According to previously published characteristics cited by Defense Express, Russia claims the radar can detect targets at ranges of up to about 360 km (224 miles) when they are flying at an altitude of 20 km (12 miles).
At 10 km (6 miles) altitude, the stated range falls to about 270 km (168 miles), and at roughly 500 m (1,640 feet) altitude to about 60 km (37 miles).
Defense Express also notes that while Russian sources emphasize the meter-band radar’s theoretical ability to detect stealth aircraft, they rarely mention that detection accuracy in this band is relatively low.
Attacks on Russian drone sites, oil facilities
In addition, the General Staff reported strikes on several Russian drone control points around the settlements of Solodke, Rivnopillya, and Novohryhorivka in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Pidstepne in the occupied Kherson region.
An ammunition depot near Vasylivka in the occupied Zaporizhzhia region was also hit. Impacts were recorded, and the extent of Russian losses is still being clarified, the military said.
Drones struck the Russian city of Slavyansk-na-Kubani early on Jan. 26, sparking a fire at an oil refinery and hitting another industrial site.
Later that morning, the Krasnodar Territory’s operational headquarters confirmed that two industrial facilities were hit and fires broke out. Authorities did not name the targeted enterprises.
Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ said one of the burning sites was a storage tank at the Slavyansk oil refinery, owned by Slavyansk EKO. The refinery has a design capacity of 5.2 million tons per year, with recent output around 4.1 million tons.
Ukraine’s General Staff later reported that Ukrainian defense units had struck the Slavyansk EKO refinery, describing it as part of Russia’s energy infrastructure supporting the military.
According to the military, strike drones hit the refinery area, causing explosions and likely damaging elements of a primary oil-processing unit.