“Tatarstan was attacked by drones for the first time”
“a converted Cessna or similar small plane. How in the world does something like that make it 1200 km into Russia?”
Holes in the Air Defense opening?
In WWII, Tatarstan was sanctuary for Russia’s industrial base, so far from the front, that factories could be safely built.
It resulted in investment in, and a build out of Kazan, that before the war was viewed as more of an area of sub-Russian, lesser race, subject people. (still was/is, but at least they built it up some)
With their local refinery (Taneco) also just knocked offline, that area may begin suffering fuel shortages more than higher priority areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The latest round of Russian air raids have brought Ukraine’s energy grid to the brink, with officials admitting, and then denying, the severity of the problem.
The head of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, said that five of its six plants had been damaged or destroyed.
80% of the company’s generating capacity is lost, and repairs could take up as much as an year and a half!
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia was carrying out ‘vile strikes’ to ‘bleed’ the Ukrainian energy systems.
DTEK supplies about a quarter of the country’s energy, and has seen its thermal power stations and other facilities repeatedly hit by Russian missiles, drones and artillery.
[“Tatarstan was attacked by drones for the first time”
“a converted Cessna or similar small plane. How in the world does something like that make it 1200 km into Russia?”
Holes in the Air Defense opening?
In WWII, Tatarstan was sanctuary for Russia’s industrial base, so far from the front, that factories could be safely built.
It resulted in investment in, and a build out of Kazan, that before the war was viewed as more of an area of sub-Russian, lesser race, subject people. (still was/is, but at least they built it up some)
With their local refinery (Taneco) also just knocked offline, that area may begin suffering fuel shortages more than higher priority areas like Moscow and St. Petersburg.]