Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Main oil pipeline "Kuibyshev-Lysychansk", which supplied the army of the aggressor country with oil products. The capacity of the affected facility is 82 million tons per year.
https://x.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1965369533528768889
This is what FR has become?????
huh?
At least ones a week the New York Times produces a piece about this or that ghastly thing the Russians are allegedly doing in Ukraine.
Today's fairy tale is about the treat from attacks on nuclear facilities in Ukraine:
Nuclear Sites Dotted Across Ukraine Pose Threat of Radiation Disaster (archived) - NY Times
Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front has been hit dozens of times.
The piece includes a picture of the weather protection shield around the wreaked No. 4 Chernobyl reactor.
The picture heading says:
In February of this year, a Russian exploding drone blew a hole in the stainless-steel confinement structure over the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor.
Another picture shows the Zaporizhia nuclear plant.
The heading.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in 2023. The structure has been struck repeatedly since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but each time disaster was averted.
The text of the piece also mentions both incidents.
In February 2025, a Russian drone blew a hole in the stainless-steel confinement structure over the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor. While no radiation escaped, the strike broke the hermetic seal around the structure.
...
Ukrainian officials have accused Russia of intentionally endangering nuclear sites and raising the specter of a nuclear catastrophe that could contaminate a wide swath of the continent. The drone strike on Chernobyl came the night before the Munich Security Conference opened in Germany, timing that some Ukrainian and Western officials interpreted as a message from Moscow.
There is of course no evidence that a Russian drone hit the cover above the reactor and nobody has ever believed the Ukrainian story of a Russian strike.
Just yesterday Alexey Arestovich, a former advisor to President Zelenski, mentioned it in an interview.
He was asked about Sunday's alleged Russian Iskander strike against the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Pictures of that incident showed a small fire at the top floor of the building:
Cont. reading: NYT Pushes Another Scare Report About Nuclear Sites In Ukraine
OCD confirmed
As always, the russians are filming videos of something burning. This time, it was an ammunition-filled dugout, which the russian soldiers abandoned and ran away cheerfully while recording it.
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lyg43pyd5c2g
33s video
🔥 The occupying air defense in Crimea suffered losses.
The GUR special forces destroyed two important radars:
— 48Y6-K1 “Podlyot”
— RLM-M from the 55Zh6M “Nebo-M” complex
One of the “Nebo-M” modules was hit during relocation — the russian crews were leaving the position.
The destruction of enemy forces continues.
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lyfr6sezyk26
In the 1920s, the Bolshevik economic theorist and Communist Party darling Nikolai Bukharin was one of Stalin's closest allies. But as Stalin became entrenched in power, Bukharin found that he was no less vulnerable to the dictator's wrath than anyone else. Accused of conspiracy in 1937, Bukharin was executed the following year. Bukharin is credited with a grim joke: “We may have two parties—one in power, the other in prison.” He might have added, “or dead.” By the time of Bukharin's arrest, Stalin was systematically replacing the people who had secured his ascent to power with a new generation of young and ambitious politicians and officials for whom total loyalty to the leader would be everything.
Among elites in Russia today, something like Bukharin's story is happening once again. On July 7, Roman Starovoit, the minister of transport, killed himself with a firearm a few hours after being sacked by Russian President Vladimir Putin. A few days earlier, Andrei Badalov, the vice president of the oil transportation company Transneft, fell from the window of an apartment building. Badalov was only the latest of a series of top officials in the oil and gas sector who have been purged or died mysteriously since Putin's “special military operation” in Ukraine began in 2022. According to Novaya Gazeta, the independent Russian newspaper, there have been 56 deaths of successful businesspeople and officials under strange circumstances since February 2022. Many of them have fallen out of windows. More and more, people who have loyally served Putin's system are being persecuted, mainly on the grounds of corruption.
After more than three and a half years of war and mounting economic challenges, Putin's aim is not to fight corruption. His goal is to avoid internal threats. And to do that, he needs to turn the elites into a frightened and therefore controllable class. With the demise of Starovoit, a trusted Putin official, a feeling has emerged among Russian elites that no one is protected and that loyalty alone is not always enough to survive in the system. As in the Stalin era, it is not clear who might be next.
read the article https://www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/russias-new-fear-factor
It doesn't surprise me you'd bring a link from BlueSky here to support the globalist side. After all, it's the Ds, disguised as Neocons, who push America into constant war
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lyg43pyd5c2g
https://bsky.app/profile/babayagafella.bsky.social/post/3lyg43pyd5c2g
British Defense Minister John Healy confirmed the new plan at today's meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, as Ukraine steps up its strike campaign on Russia.
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1965491916818317807
...Britain will build and deliver...
Worth repeating!
“Over the next 12 months, Britain will build and deliver thousands of long-range strike drones to Ukraine”
This is the way.
Three Russian pipelines struck yesterday.
OilPrice.com (9 Sep):
“Russia’s energy infrastructure has taken a hammering after a string of explosions knocked out three major oil and gas pipelines within a 24-hour period. Ukrainian military intelligence sources confirmed that the Kuibyshev-Lysychansk pipeline in Saratov Oblast—capable of moving 82 million tons of oil annually—was crippled in the early hours of September 8.
The line had been supplying petroleum products directly to Russian military units.
The Saratov strike followed blasts in Penza Oblast just hours earlier, where at least four explosions ripped through the Zheleznodorozhny district. Those attacks disabled two main gas pipeline tubes with a combined capacity of 2 million bpd, along with two regional lines, according to HUR, Ukraine’s intelligence directorate. Both sets of pipelines were reportedly tied to Russian military operations.
Moscow has downplayed the disruption, with state media describing the incidents as “planned exercises” by Transneft Druzhba in coordination with emergency services. Locals were urged to stay calm.
This marks the third time in a single day that Russia’s oil and gas arteries have come under fire—an escalation in Ukraine’s campaign to disrupt Moscow’s war machine by targeting energy flows.”
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