A Ukrainian Drone Attack has reportedly taken place against a Fuel Depot in the Russian Port City of Taman which is roughly 5 Miles from the the Kerch Strait Bridge into Crimea. pic.twitter.com/kQ4Or8vhP4

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) May 3, 2023

UA hit other tank farms south of Sevastopol a few days ago. What's interesting here is that this comes quickly on the heels of the previous strike, and the range appears to be similar. But, they now have what appears to be consistent 300 km reach w/ a small warhead. 1/n https://t.co/F5U4xvyJLL pic.twitter.com/cKOlSbedVW

— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2023

I don't know that UA can starve RU for oil and gas resources at the front in even the medium term. But, this could cause localized supply issues in the short run. Signals to me that shaping operations are happening now. 3/n

— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2023

The apology video (includes a personal apology to Putin). Proof of nothing more than the fact that Russia’s police officers hunt down youths for harmless free speech (and that they collaborate with shithead z-bloggers to shame their victims). https://t.co/64nevbqp0K pic.twitter.com/oWyeDPvQmh

— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) May 3, 2023

Last evening and during the night, Ukrainian air defense managed to shoot down 21 Shahed drones out of 26 launched. In Dnipro and Zaporizhzia there are known hits. pic.twitter.com/KMO3fyX6Y1

— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 3, 2023

Russian media report that this night five UAVs attacked a military airfield in the Bryansk region. They confirm that an AN-124 transport aircraft was damaged after the attack. pic.twitter.com/BOq5fVEPW5

— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 3, 2023

"Not a good morning": Girkin shares a list of unexplained incidents happening across Russia and temporarily occupied territories on the morning of 3 May 2023. pic.twitter.com/jsc3ul0nV1

— Dmitri (@wartranslated) May 3, 2023

Astonishing footage of last night's drone attack on the Kremlin pic.twitter.com/3rghCHdIed

— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) May 3, 2023

Another threat from the Kremlin. At the beginning of the war, it made several attempts to assassinate Volodymyr Zelenskyy and kept silent about this. How much trust do we have in Russian information about alleged Ukrainian drone attacks on the Kremlin? After years of lies and…

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) May 3, 2023

Local neighbourhood groups on Telegram were discussing the alleged strike at 2 am last night. Apparently the Kremlin went dark shortly after pic.twitter.com/cYw6cfRI2o

— Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) May 3, 2023

Information appeared that the drone on the Kremlin was launched by Russian partisans from Moscow region.

Questions:

1. How was a drone able to get through all the air defense placed in Moscow?

Oh, and how are head of Russian air defense, Shoigu and Gerasimov feeling today?… pic.twitter.com/xNEcsfBvGH

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 3, 2023

Moscow is introducing a ban on the launch of drones- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin

— Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) May 3, 2023

The press secretary of the President of Ukraine Serhii Nykyforov denied statements about Ukraine's involvement in the attack on the Kremlin.

"Separately surprised by the wording of the terrorist state. A terrorist attack is the houses destroyed in Dnipro and Uman, or the missile… pic.twitter.com/8czMmKCaum

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 3, 2023

As for the drones over the Kremlin. It’s all predictable... Russia is clearly preparing a large-scale terrorist attack. That's why it first detains a large allegedly subversive group in Crimea. And then it demonstrates "drones over the Kremlin". First of all, Ukraine wages an…

— Михайло Подоляк (@Podolyak_M) May 3, 2023

The Red Square in Moscow has been closed off but the downtown remains open to the public.

Residents noticed special services employees with anti-drone guns on the roofs of administrative buildings. pic.twitter.com/vgDq3EA5il

— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) May 3, 2023

Wow, Russia is finally going to really take off its gloves, and try something incredibly dramatic it's never done before, like maybe to take Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kherson. https://t.co/9hKoqi7ACx

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) May 3, 2023

This also implies that the attack can be replicated: it was not a one-off. In some ways it resembles the Doolittle raid: low impact in terms of the actual damage done, but potentially significant based on Kremlin reaction. It also signals a significant capacity. 4/n

— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2023

It would be extremely embarrassing for this to happen a second time, and make Putin look impotent to stop Ukrainian attacks. Therefore, he's almost certainly going to pull scarce Short Range Air defenses (like the Pantsir) back to Moscow. 6/n

— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2023

This also shows that UA can (probably) reach out to at least 450km with their drones, unless the launch took place from somewhere inside Russia (which would induce an even bigger Russian freak out and paranoia). Either possibility is bad for RU. 8/n pic.twitter.com/ae2bkEI5gL

— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2023

Russian controlled Mospyne, Donetsk region about 25 km southeast of Donetsk city. Reportedly an ammunition depot was targeted. pic.twitter.com/zTjIRiRdd8

— NOËL 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) May 3, 2023

A friendly reminder from Captain HIMARS...
To whom it may concern.

P.S. There hasn't been a single HIMARS system destroyed so far. Want to know why? pic.twitter.com/5hPz9Xu35d

— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) May 3, 2023

Air raid siren in Kyiv now. Comes shortly after Russia accused Ukraine of attacking the Kremlin with drones.

— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) May 3, 2023

A senior Ukrainian official told me last week "there is a competition in our services for waging operations inside Russia." A HUR source earlier confirmed that HUR can and has launched drones at Russian targets from inside Russian territory, relying on "partisans." So let's…

— Michael D. Weiss (@michaeldweiss) May 3, 2023

I wrote that thread before I saw the two guys climbing up the dome at 3 am, and compared their size with the wingspan of the drone (which only appears to be 6-7 feet). I'm coming around.

"I can be convinced"

"The truth has changed again" - LTC Dominic Baragona

— Brynn Tannehill (@BrynnTannehill) May 3, 2023

He notoriously rarely goes to the Kremlin, let alone stays there overnight, and there were no scheduled early morning meetings or the like there which might make one assume he might be in his (palatial) flat there 2/

— Mark Galeotti (@MarkGaleotti) May 3, 2023

So instead, if we presume it was a Ukrainian attack, consider it a performative strike, a demonstration of capability and a declaration of intent: "don't think Moscow is safe." 4/

— Mark Galeotti (@MarkGaleotti) May 3, 2023