Posted on 09/18/2025 5:00:08 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine has carried out a drone attack on a Gazprom-owned oil refinery in Bashkortostan, APA reports, citing Unian.
The strike targeted the ELOU-AVT-4 unit of the facility
No further details have been provided regarding the incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at en.apa.az ...
The main goals and functions of the ELOU-AVT include:
- Desalting: ELOU-AVT removes salts and other oil waste from oil, which improves the quality and purity of oil products.
- Distillation: the unit distills desalted oil in two stages - atmospheric and vacuum, in order to separate the oil into different fractions. This includes the process of separating gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, fuel oil and other petroleum products.
[2026]
Why is the price of gasoline so high, I thought they put rings of concrete anchored I-beams around critical parts of oil refineries, sort of like barrage balloons.
It is the new way of financing the war.
The Ukrainians force the price of gasoline high. The government keeps the price high and then constantly blames the Ukrainians.
AZERBAIJAN NEWS on FR.
Really?
You hit a new low.
Propaganda queen you are. You must still be cashing those Obama checks to get leads like this one.
I thought you BRICS pimps loved Putin’s craphole satellite “nations”. Why the hate?
Could Ukraine cripple Russias war effort with these continued drone strikes on Russias refinery and petroleum distillation facilities? Can Russia continue to absorb the damages?
That’s very far!
No
There are already gasoline shortages in several cities and military units
Look at the source the anti-Ukraine Freepers use, Russian State news, Scott Ritter, Moon of Alabama, bloggers and youtubers posters do not want to name.
The anti-Ukraine sources often have sketchy backgrounds or just repeat what comes out of Moscow.
Recently, Russia has curtailed somewhat its policy of sacrificing shockingly high casualties in futile attempts to break through. Now, it is attempting to penetrate with small units but these operate largely without support and without effective combined arms.
In the absence of any realistic likelihood of Russia breaking through strategically, it appears that Pugin has shifted emphasis to bombings deep within Ukraine including civilian targets.
It is here that the war of countermeasures proceeds. The countermeasures are an attempt to nullify the effect of drones that have enabled Ukrainians to wage asymmetrical warfare against a theoretically superior foe with astonishing success. Defensively, Ukrainians have been less successful in preventing drone penetration into its interior.
However, it is clear that the Russians have been equally unsuccessful in preventing Ukrainian drone strikes deep within Russian territory. It is here that relatively tiny Ukraine is waging asymmetrical warfare by attacking Russian oil refineries and pipeline staging facilities.
Colonel McGregor, Professor Meersheimer, including President Trump, have all maintained that Ukraine is doomed to lose this war because they apparently analyze the odds according to the old conventional war game model without reference to the asymmetrical reality on the ground. So, when Donald Trump humiliated President Zelinski on international television in the oval office and told him that Zelinski "had no cards," events have proven President Trump wrong.
Since then, the Ukrainians have stopped the much vaunted Russian summer offense cold while extracting great losses. The idea, advanced by those noted above, holds that Russia's manpower resources are inexhaustible while Ukraine's are limited and near exhaustion. But explosions of refineries deep in Russia suggests that the parties are not necessarily in a race to exhaust the others manpower limits but in a race to bankrupt the foe, a race that in many respects favors Ukraine.
Russia's heavy dependence on oil exports to fund its war have been clearly affected by both sanctions and by Ukrainian missile attacks. The degree of damage to the Russian economy has been difficult to assess but the effects are clearly cumulative: the country is suffering from double-digit inflation, banks are failing, shelves are emptying, businesses are failing, gasoline shortages are appearing in the hinterlands and now, evidently, in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The chances of Ukraine breaking through on the countermeasures war front are bright. It is recently demonstrated the effectiveness of its new 1 ton payload 1800 mile drone that threatens, if it can evade detection at its slow speed, to annihilate the Russian oil industry. Just today, Israel is announced a new miracle anti-drone weapon that if deployed by Ukraine could effectively stop Russian drone warfare against civilians and military targets in the interior of Ukraine.
The idea that the war is lost, or inevitably will be lost, is rank propaganda by those who have seized upon a misshapen analysis of history to concoct a perverse policy that, in effect, undermines Ukraine.
Are the Gazans cracking?
Is most of Moscow rubble?
Is the bread supply of Russia erratic?
Are most Russians of working age out of work?
In WW2, Americans put up with rationing. Germans did without coffee for over five years. By 1945, German cities ressembled Gazan cities.
Russian Forces Advance Across Entire Eastern Front | Final Defensive Lines
The facts on the ground now favor the Russians and have since the summer of 2023.
The Ukrainians are putting up a magnificent fight, but the Russians have plenty of natural gas they can’t sell to Europe, so they can make plenty of nitric acid and explosives.
Donetsk by October! Bring your parade uniform!
Russian leader Vladimir Putin reportedly told President Trump his forces could conquer the long-sought-after Donetsk region by October
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