Posted on 09/05/2025 7:00:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The attack comes as Russia suffers fuel shortages following Ukrainian attacks that have cut 20 percent of Russia's oil refining capacity.
Ukraine struck several Russian oil facilities overnight Friday, including one if its largest refineries and an oil depot, worsening the country’s crippling fuel shortages.
Ukrainian drones targeted facilities including Russia's largest Rosneft refinery in Ryazan and an oil depot in occupied Luhansk Oblast, according to Ukraine's chief drone warfare commander Robert Brovdi.
Images of the attack on social media that appeared to show a massive fireball erupting immediately after the strike.
(Excerpt) Read more at the-express.com ...
Are these refinery and oil depot attacks merely small annoyances to Russia or do they significantly impact their economy?
Instead of saying ‘Ukraine strikes’ the reality is this is a NATO strike. The larger NATO countries (UK France Germany) are still determined to get at Russia’s natural resources. Personally I think it’s insane to go to war with Russia because nukes will most likely be used. But Europe with it’s collapsing economies sees no other way out.
French hospitals told to prepare for war in Europe by next year in leaked Government letter
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-hospitals-war-europe-letter-russia-ukraine-b2819143.html
No question they are hurting Russia.
They have gone to rationing.
Russia has won several wars due to the severe winter harming its enemies. Ukraine is turning that against Russia, creating shortages in fuel as they go into winter.
Maybe Europe needs to draft the immigrants and send them to war. Two problems solved.
Why are all headlines sensationalized these days?
Perhaps the Ukes can use their homegrown and obtained arms such as drones to balance their disadvantage in manpower demographics long enough for Russia to be unwilling to carry on further with the invasion?
Eyes on pages.
Usually accompanied by some sort of messaging and often ads or, my favorites, "subscribe" and "donate."
As to strikes by any warring belligerent against another warring belligerent, surely all's "fair game". On this we might agree. Boom, boom, boom and last man standing, whether in a barroom or an entire continent. We'll see how it all turns out, to be sure.
What is not advised is to call the game in the second or third quarter. Surprises and disappointments and all happen.
The gasoline shortages have finally hit Moscow this week.
Putin is lucky that the vast majority of Russians are too poor to own a car.
Oh, please stop with this nonsense. Ukraine is fighting for its life, not as pawns for NATO. All those NATO countries thought that Russia would win in a matter of weeks if not days. By what logic can you say that NATO started a war that they thought they would loose even before they got engaged.
Remember, until recently Ukraine has been shackled and not allowed to use our weapons in Russia.
Two things have happened:
We no longer restrict the range on our weapons
Ukraine has developed and are manufacturing their own long range weapons.
I think that Ukraine taking the war to Russia can have many potential outcomes.
This may turn the Russian people against Putin. Or, it may force Putin into a corner where he uses nukes.
Time to buy popcorn and watch it unfold.
“not as pawns for NATO”
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Of course Ukraine is being used as a pawn for NATO. Only a retarded Ukrainian would try and pretend otherwise.
Trump has begun backsliding on his campaign promise to end this war and I’m not happy about that. And I would imagine much of MAGA i not going to be happy about it either. This is no longer just Biden’s war it’s become Trump’s war now.
How Much Aid Is the U.S. Still Giving Ukraine?
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/04/ukraine-aid-us-trump-military-financing-weapons-russia-war/
Your comments always amuse, as they also spark curiosity. In this case:
Russia -- 364 per 1,000 vehiclesIf you'd been a clever Маркус, you'd have led with North Korea, at 1.1 per 1,000 vehicles.
Ukraine -- 237 per 1,000 vehicles
Source: List of countries and territories by motor vehicles per capita
It's an interesting metric, as rather prosperous Singapore weighs in at 172, while automobile ownership in the US is bested by -- wait for it -- a few nations. San Marino, Guernsey (UK), Gibraltar (UK), Jersey (UK), Andorra, Liechtenstein, Brunei, Taiwan and New Zealand. Those countries must be really "stronk." With exclamation points.
Poor us on this sea island, We've only got two.
Yay, Ukraine is winning again! All they need is another $Trillion or so, half the people in Europe to be incinerated in a nuclear holocaust and every economy everywhere to be obliterated by WWIII.
You spelled “prawn” incorrectly. (Shrimp)
The Ryazan refinery has capacity of 250K barrels/day.
Russian refinery capacity is about 5.6 million barrels/day so this refinery is 4.5% of the total.
An AI query of how long does it take Russia to repair drone damage to a refinery yields a reply of approximately 1 month on average.
These numbers suggest the main purpose of the strikes is to generate imagery of big fires for media consumption.
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