The elimination of the Russian salient north of Lyman comes from ISW's 12 September assessment, citing Russian military bloggers. No independent primary source has confirmed the change on the ground.
The figure of 285 tankers struck comes from Robert Brovdi, who commands the units making the strikes. Neither the total nor the damage caused per strike has been independently verified.
The 800,000-troop request, the recruitment rate and the casualty rate all originate with Ukraine's military intelligence chief in an interview. Russia has made no such request public and officials continue to deny mobilisation plans.
Power restoration on about 8 September comes from an Energoatom statement relayed by a specialist outlet rather than from an IAEA update fetched directly. The 5 September ceasefire and the diesel position are first-party IAEA.
The 11 September release names motor fuel and a temporary reduction in production capacity. It assigns no cause, and the link to the strike campaign is this briefing's inference from the CREA export data.
IRNA, relayed by ABC News, places the strike early on 13 September, while this run's editorial brief placed it on 12 September. No source reached names the vessel, so the timing rests on one Iranian state account.
Vortexa reads early-September Yanbu loadings at 2.9 million barrels a day and Kpler at 3.7 million. Both are commercial tanker-tracking estimates and neither is reconciled against a Saudi figure.
The Saudi Ministry of Energy confirmed multiple attacks and a precautionary shutdown but named no pumping station, segment, damage extent or restart date. Throughput impact therefore cannot be sized.
