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Posted on 08/15/2024 7:42:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine’s surprise invasion of the Russian Kursk region has not left the latter’s rail untouched. The attack led to rail congestion in the area, and now Kursk and surrounding areas are no longer accepting freight trains coming in from Belarus.
The Ukrainian incursion into the Kursk region has prompted Russia to move soldiers from all over the country to contain the Ukrainian advance, says the Belarusian Railway Workers Association (BelZhD). The inflow of soldiers to the new front by train has overcrowded stations in the region. For that reason, Russian Railways (RZD) says it can no longer accept freight trains coming in from Belarus in the direction of the Smolensk and Kursk regions.
RZD notified its Belarusian counterparts about the infrastructure overload, according to BelZhD. Russian Railways put the measure in place on 12 August with no end date mentioned, which likely means Moscow itself does not mean when it can resolve the issues.
BelZhD says that Russia used a significant part of the Moscow Railway locomotive fleet to move its military to Kursk, as soldiers are even taken from the country’s most remote regions. However, there are now many abandoned trains waiting to be taken elsewhere. A shortage of locomotives and drivers hampers RZD’s ability to do so.
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All Russian rail traffic to and from Gomel, Belarus has been blocked for the past two days.
A good friend of mine worked for the Strategic Air Command in Omaha. His job was to select targets in Russia that would inflict the most economic damage. I don’t know if it’s still true today, but Russia always built one huge production facility for the entire country. Most production facilities (e.g., petroleum) were located deep in the interior of the country, making it more difficult for planes at the time to get bombers to the targets.
I wonder if that’s still true today and what would happen if they sent an armed drone (or whatever) to hit Russia’s diesel-producing facility.
We have a huge chess board with lots of pieces moving now. This could be Putin's undoing, war weariness in Moscow and St Petersburg?? The Russian youth now is not the peasant insects of Stalin's Russia. I am not calling this a brilliant move yet, but Ukraine definitely took back the momentum and got Russia on their back foot.
The problem with Russian Rail is poor maintenance.
The rail system was divided a few years ago. Oligarchs friendly with the regime got the profitable routes. Routes that were not profitable were packaged together. The owners of these “bad” routes started cutting costs and maintenance to make mo ey for themselves.
Then the war started. They don’t have the infrastructure to keep loads moving. Bad rails and a lack of locomotives have been taking their tolls. And because of the extra stress on the system, now more stuff is breaking outright.
Any impact from Kursk is a “last straw” situation as a result of the normal manner of Russian life: Steal as much as you can carry. And run the rest of it into the ground.
Or better, a swarm or series of such drones that would overload any defences.
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Your information is in error. No idea how that got imagined.
Russia’s oil refining capacity
Achinsk Refinery (Rosneft), 129,000 bbl/d (20,500 m3/d)
Angarsk Petrochemical Refinery (Rosneft), 194,000 bbl/d (30,800 m3/d)
Antipinsky Refinery (RI-Invest), 114,000 bbl/d (18,100 m3/d)
Khabarovsk Refinery (АО “ННК-Хабаровский НПЗ”::Главная Archived 2017-03-28 at the Wayback Machine), 86,000 bbl/d (13,700 m3/d)
Komsomolsk Refinery (Rosneft), 143,000 bbl/d (22,700 m3/d)
Nizhnevartovsk Refinery (Rosneft), 27,000 bbl/d (4,300 m3/d)
Kstovo Refinery (Lukoil)., in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[62]
Omsk Refinery (Gazprom Neft), 362,000 bbl/d (57,600 m3/d)
Perm Refinery (Lukoil), 9 km away from Perm.[63]
Tobolsk Petrochemical Refinery (Sibur), 138,000 bbl/d (21,900 m3/d)
Ukhta Refinery (Lukoil), in the central part of the Komi Republic.[64]
Volgograd Refinery (Lukoil), southern Russia.[65]
Yaya Refinery (NefteKhimService), 57,000 bbl/d (9,100 m3/d)
Notice the Lukoil refineries don’t quote capacity. You have to look them up individually. My recall is they add to about 1.5 mbpd.
Total Russian oil consumption is 3.6 million b/d, ranking 6th in the world behind US, China, India, Saudi Arabia (!!) and Japan.
All the armor from Belarus will now sit in some marshaling yard, while UKR operators watch Russian rail movement from the central yard in real time.
Russian logistics will have to detour across Russia and enter directly into the Donbas region, or through Crimea ... as UKR operators watch and plan HIMARS strikes to obliterate the supplies and troops.
Like I said, I don’t know if it’s still the same, as this was in the late ‘60’s.
Eggs are still getting through...
Putin MIA for 2 days and counting…
Where’s Putin?
Who cares?
Understood.
They are very spread out because their oil and gas fields are.
Just about everything everywhere can be traced to oil as critical. Europe’s (Hitler and his allies) invasion of Russia was about Stalingrad (now called Volgograd). About half of Russia’s oil flow moves north on the Volga River with Volgograd as a chokepoint. That’s why the German High Command pointed at it.
The New York Times writes that victory for Putin is now "definitely within reach."
"His [Putin's] latest peace proposal, under which Russia retains the occupied territories and Ukraine is banned from joining NATO, has been rejected by many Western leaders. However, in fact, this is the most realistic scenario for how this war will end," the newspaper writes.
That’s not to mention the grudgingly rosy picture it paints of Russia’s economic outlook:
Nor has the West managed to cut off the sources of Russia’s economic might, despite rounds of sanctions. The economy is growing healthily, and the assets of Russian oligarchs remain safe in the West, even if frozen. Most important, Russian oil is being bought and sold with minimal difficulty around the world as Western leaders can’t seem to decide what they want more: to meaningfully punish Russia or keep things as they are. Tellingly, the U.S. Treasury’s proposal to impose penalties on tankers that help Russian oil evade sanctions has stalled over the White House’s fear that higher gasoline prices won’t play well at the polls in November.
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