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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 16, 2026
Aurora Slathers Up the Sky
Like salsa verde on your favorite burrito, a green aurora slathers up the sky in this 2017 June 25 snapshot from the International Space Station. About 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth, the orbiting station is itself within the upper realm of the auroral displays. Aurorae have the signature colors of excited molecules and atoms at the low densities found at extreme altitudes. Emission from atomic oxygen dominates this view. The tantalizing glow is green at lower altitudes, but rarer reddish bands extend above the space station's horizon. The orbital scene was captured while passing over a point south and east of Australia, with stars above the horizon at the right belonging to the constellation Canis Major, Orion's big dog. Sirius, alpha star of Canis Major, is the brightest star near the Earth's limb.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vas2xxBnwZE
Pole Shift Biology, Night Lights, Solar Storm| S0 News and frens
May.16.2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlzihxzRa4A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Hgdd5l_zA (EarthMaster: 369 Slow slip events along the Cascadia today. Friday Night Earthquake report)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzJjKrVfhw (On the Pulse with Silki: Strong M6.7 Earthquake jolts 2011 Tohoku region !! TRIGGERS EMERGENCY ALERTS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9Ap7bECx4 (Stefan Burns: The Earthquake Outbreak Has Arrived, the Next 48 Hours are CRITICAL…)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2PF6sqUFIo (Sen4K: 15 Minutes of Beautiful Earth From Space 🚀 | Weekly ISS Livestream Highlights in 4K)
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/tracked-noaas-satellites-remnants-of-typhoon-halong-caused-record-flooding-alaska
https://weather.com/storms/severe/news/2026-05-12-severe-weather-threat-weekend-tornadoes-winds
https://www.aol.com/news/atlantic-hurricane-season-2026-storm-173937881.html
https://meteoagent.com/schumann-resonance-forecast
https://www.tornadohq.com/
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/earthquakes-volcanoes/news/302521/Volcano-earthquake-report-for-Saturday-16-May-2026.html
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://spaceweather.com/
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/searching-for-artificial-light-sources-in-the-solar-system-based-on-the-loeb-turner-test-452722c2ac46
extra space objects
https://www.space.com/astronomy/comets/astronomers-find-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-hiding-in-images-taken-before-its-official-discovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqHsJd05IFg (Ray's Astro: Asteroids Closing In - 11 Hit Earth With ONLY MINUTES of Warning)
Searching for Artificial Light Sources in the Solar System Based on the Loeb-Turner Test
May 16, 2026
In 2010, I attended the official inauguration conference of a new campus of New-York University in Abu Dhabi, along with my Princeton colleague, Ed Turner.
As we were touring Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the tour guide bragged that Dubai’s city lights at night time can be seen all the way from the Moon.
Ed and I were instantly inspired to consider the question: How far away can city lights be observed in the Solar System?
In particular, we Googled Tokyo which had its official luminosity listed online, and calculated during some of the boring talks at the conference that Tokyo would detectable at the distance of Pluto by deep exposures of the Hubble Space Telescope.
In other words, if a city like Tokyo existed on Pluto, then the Hubble Space Telescope could detect its lights!
But detecting a source of light from an unknown object is insufficient. How can we infer that the light originates from an artificial source rather than the reflection of sunlight from a rock or iceberg?
In principle, this can be done by taking a spectrum, namely studying the intensity of the light source as a function of wavelength. Artificial light would typically have a different spectrum than sunlight.
However, it is challenging to obtain a spectrum of a faint source of light. Is there another way?
A self-luminous source behaves like a light bulb. It fades inversely with distance squared. However, an object illuminated by a lamppost fades inversely with distance to the fourth power.
Ed and I reckoned: all we need to do is measure the change in the source brightness as a function of its distance from the Sun in order to infer whether it reflects sunlight or produces its own light.
This was the idea conveyed in a paper that we published in 2012 here.
A few years earlier, I published another original idea here with Ed Turner and Amaya Moro-Martin, where we were first to predict quantitatively that interstellar objects could be detected with survey telescopes, like the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory.
This idea is coming to fruition right now, although the first paper to suggest it is forgotten. This appears to be the fate of pioneering ideas ahead of their time. In 1952, the astronomer Otto Struve suggested in a paper published here the practical methods for discovering Jupiter-mass planets in close-proximity to Sun-like stars.
His idea was ignored for 43 years until the first discovery was reported here in 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz who won the Nobel Prize for it.
Their discovery paper does not reference Struve’s paper. Why is science so inefficient?
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The application of the Loeb-Turner test to interstellar objects allows us to distinguish between natural interstellar rocks which reflect sunlight and technological objects which produce their own light.
But a much larger population of objects is known to reside inside the Solar System. Have we actually checked whether all known objects beyond Neptune, the so-called trans-Neptunian objects, only reflect sunlight?
When Mike Brown from Caltech, who pioneered the discovery of trans-Neptunian objects, visited my Harvard office a decade ago, I asked him: Did you check whether their brightness declines as expected for the reflection of sunlight?
Mike replied: “Why should I check? They are obviously just reflecting sunlight.” His response explains why Struve’s idea in 1952 did not translate to the discovery of a hot-Jupiter decades earlier than 1995.
Observers assumed that they understood why Jupiter is far from the Sun and so they chose not to waste observing time searching for Jupiter-mass planets in close proximity to their host star.
This led me to wonder: How many scientific discoveries end up as “unborn babies” because of prejudice?
And so today, my brilliant new postdoc, Omer Eldadi, completed a detailed paper in collaboration with me, studying all existing data on the brightness variation of trans-Neptunian objects with distance from the Sun.
By applying the Loeb-Turner test to all objects, we have found that the current data available in the Minor Planet Center archive is of insufficient quality to conduct the test.
Of all trans-Neptunian data bins, 53 consistent with reflected sunlight, 24 with self-luminous emission, and 109 appear anomalous.
The anomalous bins exhibit slopes outside the expected range, consistent with uncorrected instrument calibration offsets rather than any particular physical mechanism.
However, we find that the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory’s ten-year survey will deliver uniform single-instrument calibration on a tenfold larger sample and resolve the Loeb-Turner test with a statistical confidence better than 10 standard deviations on hundreds of trans-Neptunian objects.
Here’s hoping that thanks to the NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory, we will be able to know within the coming years whether there are any spacecraft with city-scale lights within the Solar System.
In 2001, I also had the idea of detecting light on the night side of the nearest exoplanet, Proxima b, which happens to reside in the habitable zone of its host star, Proxima Centauri.
The calculation I posted here with my student, Elisa Tabor, indicated that this might be possible, as long as there is an alien technological civilization on this planet.
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Archaeologists Unearthing Ancient Lifestyle of Native Americans on Space Force’s Cape Canaveral Station
15 May 2026
Florida archaeology students are uncovering the behavior of indigenous people in the shadow of a location known for modern space exploration.
University of Central Florida students and faculty are currently excavating the DeSoto site at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the location of America’s iconic launch pad into space.
The archaeological site dates back to the Malabar II Period, according to a report by Fox News, that lasted from roughly 900 to 1565 A.D. The site is made up of “black earth midden,” meaning it sits atop layers of ancient refuse.
“Middens ‘contain the garbage that people left behind after undertaking their daily tasks,'” Sarah “Stacy” Barber, an anthropology professor at the University of Central Florida, told the news outlet.
“Obtaining and preparing food” was a primary daily activity for the people who lived there, she said.
“They didn’t farm,” she said, though another researcher has found that “at least some people in the region had access to ground corn, which was being farmed by the Indigenous people of North Florida.”
According to the outlet:
Instead of farming, Native Americans in the area largely relied on local resources, though some people in the region had access to imported foods such as corn and beans.
They also dined on seafood, including shark, fish, clams and other local species — remains of which have turned up in the midden.
“We have found the refuse of many dozens of meals,” the archaeologist said. “We know from our finds this year at DeSoto that turtles, shark, black drum, and coquina clams were on the menu.”
The students and faculty have also found pottery sherds, tools such as conch shell hammers and shark tooth knives used to prepare food, as well as “the remnants of at least one hearth where food was likely cooked.”
The finds also indicate the Native Americans relied on local resources for centuries, while also having contact with other tribes.
“Our sites show an abundance and diversity of food, time to produce pottery when needed, and the opportunity to either travel or interact with people in distant regions,” Barber said.
She added, “It was probably a comfortable, beachfront lifestyle.”
Cape Canaveral became the U.S.’s premiere rocket launch site when its first rocket Bumper 8 lifted off there in 1950.
It was renamed Cape Kennedy from 1963 for a ten-year period in tribute to slain president John F. Kennedy, one of space exploration’s strongest advocates.
The archaeologist was struck by the location in the way the distant past is also the location of the present and future of American exploration.
“There are few places in the world highlighting the role of the past in the present than somewhere like Cape Canaveral, where the future of space flight literally sits atop and among Native American landscapes,” she said.
https://www.breitbart.com/science/2026/05/15/archaeologists-unearthing-ancient-lifestyle-of-native-americans-on-space-forces-cape-canaveral/
https://www.gbnews.com/science/archaeology-breakthrough-ancient-civilisation-nasa-cape-canaveral-florida
https://twitter.com/FoxNewsLife/status/2055316638145364079
extra NASA
https://www.technology.org/2026/05/16/ucla-researcher-teams-up-with-nasa-to-map-the-earth-in-unprecedented-3d-detail/
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/l3harris-nuclear-space-generator
https://www.space.com/entertainment/the-devil-may-wear-prada-on-earth-but-nasa-artemis-astronauts-will-on-the-moon-heres-why
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-captures-volatile-changes-in-earths-artificial-light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkrpD49Q5s (US Marines: Beyond Tripoli Episode 2: Marines in NASA)
NASA’s Psyche Probe Zooms Past Mars At 12,333 MPH Today
May 15, 2026 at 11:15
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making a historic close approach to Mars today, skimming within roughly 2,800 miles of the Red Planet.
This flyby is a critical step in the mission’s six-year journey to the 16 Psyche asteroid, a rare metal-rich object in the main asteroid belt, according to NASA.
The maneuver will accelerate the spacecraft and give scientists a unique opportunity to test its instruments on a planetary target before reaching its final destination in 2029.
Gravity Assist: Boosting Psyche’s Trajectory
The flyby leverages Mars’ gravity to propel Psyche faster toward its namesake asteroid. Already traveling at 12,333 miles per hour, the spacecraft will gain additional speed, conserving its xenon propellant for the long journey ahead.
This maneuver, known as a gravity assist, is a cornerstone of interplanetary travel, allowing missions to reach distant targets with minimal fuel consumption.
The spacecraft launched in October 2023 with a mission to explore 16 Psyche, thought to be the exposed core of an ancient planetesimal.
“We are now exactly on target for the flyby, and we’ve programmed the flight computer with everything that the spacecraft will do throughout May,” Sarah Bairstow, Psyche’s mission planning lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, said in a NASA statement.
“This is our first opportunity in flight to calibrate Psyche’s imager with something bigger than a few pixels, and we’ll also make observations with the mission’s other science instruments.”
Observing Mars And Its Surroundings
During the close approach, Psyche’s multispectral imager will capture thousands of detailed observations of Mars. These images will not only calibrate the instruments for later asteroid observations but also help scientists study subtle features surrounding the Red Planet.
The mission team hopes to detect a faint dusty ring or torus around Mars, thought to form when micrometeorites strike its moons, Phobos and Deimos, ejecting tiny particles into space. Sunlight scattering through this dust could make it visible to Psyche’s instruments.
The flyby also allows the team to search for small satellites around Mars, refining techniques that will later be used to identify tiny moonlets near the asteroid.
“If all our instruments are powered up, and we can do important testing and calibration of the science instruments, that would be the icing on the cake,” Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator for Psyche at the University of California, Berkeley, said.
Preparing For A Rare Asteroid Encounter
16 Psyche is unique because it is likely the exposed nickel-iron core of a planetesimal, providing a rare glimpse into the internal structure of a body similar to the cores of terrestrial planets. Studying it could answer fundamental questions about planetary formation and the early solar system.
Psyche’s Mars flyby is the mission’s first major planetary encounter and a critical rehearsal for its future work in the asteroid belt. Every observation taken during this pass, from planetary features to faint dust and potential satellites, enhances the mission’s readiness and the quality of data scientists hope to gather at 16 Psyche.
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/nasas-psyche-probe-mars-at-12333-mph-today/
extra extra NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/05/15/spacex-dragon-lifts-off-to-resupply-expedition-74-crew/
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/05/15/dragon-nears-launch-as-crew-works-biomedical-science-and-spacewalk-preps/
https://science.nasa.gov/helio-and-you-seasons-on-earth-mars-and-beyond/
https://science.nasa.gov/researchers/solicitations/roses-2025/amendment-57-d-3-agigo-ixpe-and-nicer-general-observer-second-opportunity-in-roses-25/
China's 17th manned space mission to depart imminently
2:14, May 16, 2026
China's next crewed space mission, the Shenzhou XXIII, is scheduled to be launched in the coming days to transport three astronauts to the Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The Shenzhou XXIII spacecraft and its carrier — a Long March 2F rocket — were moved to the service tower at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert on Saturday morning, the agency said in a brief news release, adding that launch equipment at the spaceport "are in good condition".
The release noted that the Shenzhou XXIII crew vessel and the rocket will undergo final functional checks in the next few days, adding that the launch will take place in due course in the near future.
The Shenzhou XXIII crew will carry out China's 17th manned spaceflight and will become the 11th group of inhabitants of the Tiangong, which is currently the only operating space station independently run by a single nation.
The Tiangong is now manned by the Shenzhou XXI astronauts — mission commander Senior Colonel Zhang Lu, spaceflight engineer Major Wu Fei, and payload specialist Zhang Hongzhang — who arrived on Nov 1 and are scheduled to return around the end of this month.
The Shenzhou XXII spaceship was used in an emergency response task in late November in the wake of a window damage incident on the Shenzhou XX vessel, becoming an unmanned mission.
https://www.chinadailyasia.com/hk/article/633566
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-05-16/China-to-launch-Shenzhou-23-crewed-mission-to-space-station-1NbELlzHy7e/p.html
DAF updates religious accommodation process, eliminates Religious Resolution Teams
May 15, 2026
The Department of the Air Force released a guidance memorandum updating DAFI 52-201, Religious Freedom in the Department of the Air Force, overhauling the religious accommodation request process for Airmen and Guardians.
The updated policy implements recent Secretary of War directives regarding facial hair and religious liberty, expanding the rigorous review requirements to all categories of religious accommodations across the force.
"This updated guidance ensures a critical balance between accommodating the sincerely held religious beliefs of our Airmen and Guardians and maintaining the rigorous safety and readiness standards required for operational superiority," said Richard Anderson, assistant secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
"By streamlining this process and empowering unit commanders to conduct these assessments, we are ensuring equitable application of standards across the force without compromising our warfighting capabilities."
The most significant change to the process is the elimination of Religious Resolution Teams. Under the previous regulation, RRTs were used to process, review and adjudicate religious accommodation requests.
Now, unit commanders will directly obtain chaplain, legal and subject-matter input to build their assessments without convening a formalized board.
For Airmen and Guardians, the application process now requires a sworn written attestation affirming their belief is sincerely held and religious in nature.
Members must also provide a specific description of the religious belief, an explanation of how it conflicts with prescribed military duties or standards, and supporting evidence, such as personal testimony or corroborating statements from religious leaders.
The update also shifts the responsibilities of military chaplains. Chaplains will no longer assess the sincerity of a member's belief or comment on operational impacts. Under the new guidance, chaplains advise the chain of command exclusively on the religious nature of the belief.
Unit commanders are now required to submit comprehensive written assessments detailing both the sincerity of the request and its operational impact.
This includes specific evaluations of the members’ current and anticipated work environments, upcoming deployments, and the expected use of personal protective equipment, such as helmets and respirators.
Commanders must also document the number of similar non-religious exemptions, such as medical waivers, granted within the unit to ensure equitable application of standards.
The guidance memorandum mandates that all previously approved religious accommodations for facial hair must be re-evaluated under the criteria outlined in the Secretary of War’s March 11 memo. Members who opt out of the re-evaluation process will have their accommodation rescinded.
The decision authorities for facial hair accommodation requests now falls under the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower, and Personnel and Services and Space Force Deputy Chief of Space Operations for Personnel, ensuring centralized oversight and consistency across the DAF. Decision authorities for all other religious accommodation types are in the updated guidance.
https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4493798/daf-updates-religious-accommodation-process-eliminates-religious-resolution-tea/
extra 'Merica Space Force
https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4494071/vandenberg-hosts-national-police-week-events-2026/
https://www.rt.com/russia/640057-us-biolabs-affair-timeline/
extra RT
https://www.rt.com/business/640053-russia-islamic-banking-push/
A decade of lies: The US-funded biolab denial saga
15 May, 2026 21:21 | Updated 15 May, 2026 22:51
Washington for years rejected Russian allegations of the existence of the secret program, before finally admitting it
Russia’s allegations that the US-funded clandestine biological laboratories near its borders – claims denied until recently by Washington – have remained a persistent flashpoint in the steadily deteriorating relationship between Russia and the West for nearly a decade.
The biolabs affair was revealed in a 2017 exposé by RT that questioned a shady US military tender seeking the genetic material of living Russians.
Over the years, Moscow has raised allegations against Washington of conducting clandestine bio-research, including potential WMD development and illicit human testing, in a network of labs located across multiple nations, the bulk of which operated in Ukraine.
The claims were met with a blanket denial in the West, which repeatedly dismissed them as “Russian propaganda.”
This abruptly changed the past week when US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said that her department had identified more than 120 US-funded biological laboratories in 30 countries, with over a third of them located in Ukraine.
The agency is now working to “identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what ‘research’ is being conducted to end dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and the world,” according to Gabbard.
RT looks back at the timeline of the biolabs saga and the US denial of its existence until now.
2017 RT report
The US-funded bio research made international headlines in July 2017, when RT published an investigative report revolving around a tender issued by the US Air Education and Training Command (AETC).
The command was seeking to procure genetic material samples that “shall be collected from Russia and must be Caucasian.” The Air Force explicitly said that it did not want samples from Ukraine, for reasons not explained.
The harvesting of genetic samples in the country did not escape the attention of the Russian leadership.
President Vladimir Putin stated later that year “that biological material is being collected all over the country, from different ethnic groups and people living in different geographical regions.”
“The question is – why is it being done? It’s being done purposefully and professionally. We are a kind of object of great interest,” the president said. “Let them do what they want, and we must do what we must,” he added.
The attention this garnered from the Russian leadership prompted a vague explanation from AETC, which claimed the samples were needed for research on the musculoskeletal system and Russia had been picked as the source of the samples for no particular reason.
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Georgia revelations
Another bombshell on the clandestine US-funded biolabs was dropped by a former Georgian minister for state security, Igor Giorgadze, in late 2018.
He claimed he had obtained some 100,000 pages of data pointing to questionable practices at the US-funded Richard Lugar Center for Public Health Research near the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
The documents published by Giorgadze were examined by the Russian Defense Ministry, which suggested the laboratory in Georgia may have conducted bioweapons research under the guise of a drug test.
The research resulted in the deaths of at least 73 subjects over a short period of time, the Russian military’s investigation indicated.
The tests appeared to involve “a highly toxic chemical or biological agent with a high lethality rate,” the commander of Russia’s Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces (RKhBZ), Igor Kirillov, said at the time.
Kirillov, who had spearheaded the Russian military’s probe into the US-funded biolabs in Ukraine and beyond, was assassinated in late 2024 in a bombing staged by Kiev’s intelligence.
The Pentagon flatly denied the allegations, with then-spokesman Eric Pahon dismissing the Russian ministry’s statements as a part of “a Russian disinformation campaign directed against the West.”
The US and Georgian governments also dismissed the claims made by Giorgadze, describing them as “absurd.”
Ukraine conflict
The escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022 marked a new turn in the biolabs saga.
While Moscow seized additional evidence of questionable research activities conducted in secretive facilities dotting Ukraine, the West entered a full-denial mode, bluntly dismissing any Russian statement on the matter as “propaganda.”
Early in the conflict, Russian troops seized thousands of pages of documents from labs in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kherson regions.
The Russian military has been releasing the materials in batches while continuing an internal investigation and ultimately concluding in 2023 that “the US, under the guise of ensuring global biosecurity, conducted dual-use research, including the creation of biological weapons components, in close proximity to Russian borders.”
“The credibility of information provided by the Kremlin is in general very doubtful and low,” EU foreign affairs spokesman Peter Stano said at the time. “Russian disinformation has a track record of promoting manipulative narratives about biological weapons and alleged ‘secret labs.’”
The Biden administration took a similar defensive stance, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki calling the allegations “preposterous” and accusing Moscow of plotting to use “chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine or to create a false flag operation using them.”
John Kirby, then-Pentagon spokesman, also branded the Russian allegations “absurd,” “laughable,” and a “bunch of malarkey.” “There’s nothing to it. It’s classic Russian propaganda,” Kirby told reporters at the time.
Gabbard’s remarks this past week have reignited scrutiny of a program Washington spent years denying existed.
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Drones Hit One of Russia’s Largest Chemical Plants Overnight in Stavropol Region
May 16, 2026 11:26
Long-range drones reportedly targeted the Nevinnomyssk Azot chemical plant in Russia’s Stavropol region overnight on May 16, causing a fire at one of the country’s largest nitrogen fertilizer producers.
According to the Russian Telegram channel Astra on May 16, footage and photographs circulating online showed a fire burning on the territory of the Nevinnomyssk Azot facility in the city of Nevinnomyssk following a series of explosions reported around 2:30 a.m. local time.
Stavropol region governor Vladimir Vladimirov confirmed that drones had targeted the region overnight but claimed Russian air defenses repelled the attack and that there was “no destruction on the ground.”
Russian state agency TASS, citing the Russian Defense Ministry, reported that Russian forces allegedly intercepted 138 Ukrainian drones overnight across multiple regions.
According to Astra, analysis of publicly available videos and images indicated that the fire originated within the industrial zone of the Nevinnomyssk Azot plant.
Local residents cited by Russian monitoring channels reported hearing explosions during the attack and claimed they did not hear air defense systems operating during the strike.
Nevinnomyssk Azot, part of the EuroChem group, is considered one of Russia’s largest chemical enterprises and a major producer of ammonia, nitrogen fertilizers, nitric acid, and acetic acid. The facility is located roughly 400 kilometers from Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Between 2022 and 2024 the Nevinnomyssk Azot and Novomoskovsk Azot plants supplied at least 38,000 tons of acetic acid and nearly 5,000 tons of nitric acid to the Sverdlov Plant in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region.
The chemicals were used in the production of military explosives, including HMX and RDX, for artillery ammunition.
The strike would mark at least the sixth reported drone attack on the facility, according to Astra. Previous attacks targeting the plant were reported in March and January 2026, as well as in August and December 2025.
Earlier, Ukrainian drones struck infrastructure at Russia’s “Tamanneftegaz” oil terminal in Krasnodar region, damaging a connecting overpass between berths at the port of Taman, according to Ukraine’s General Staff and OSINT group CyberBoroshno.
The terminal is one of Russia’s major Black Sea export hubs for crude oil and fuel products.
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/drones-hit-one-of-russias-largest-chemical-plants-overnight-in-stavropol-region-18874
https://tvpworld.com/93286412/russian-nevinnomyssk-chemical-plant-on-fire-after-drone-attack
https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-reported-at-russian-chemical-facility-in-stavropol-krai-local-media-reports/
other Russia and Ukraine
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/39028346/ukraine-drone-unit-putin-battlefield/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/76252
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/16/ukraine-drone-attack-kills-1-in-belgorod-region-a92771
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-did-ukrainian-sea-drone-wind-up-in-western-greece-sa-051526
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4124002-three-people-injured-in-kharkiv-after-russian-drone-strike.html
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4123963-kyiv-provides-soldiers-with-over-50000-drones.html