Posted on 04/25/2022 4:54:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Flames lit up the sky over Russia in the early hours after suspected Ukrainian missile strikes blew up two oil storage facilities supplying Putin's troops fighting for control of Donbas.
The Transneft-Druzhba Oil Depot, located in the city of Bryansk around 70 miles from the Ukrainian border, caught fire at 2am local time before a second fire broke out at a nearby military facility around 15 minutes later, Russian state media said this morning.
Video of the moment one of the fires broke out appeared to capture the sound of an incoming missile before a large explosion and fireball. Bryansk is a logistical hub for Russian forces battling Ukraine in Donbas, while the Druzhba pipeline is one of the main routes for Russian oil to reach Europe.
The blasts came as British intelligence said Russia had 'yet to achieve a significant breakthrough' of defensive lines in Donbas despite Ukraine imposing a 'significant cost' on Putin's forces. Britain's Ministry of Defence said poor logistical and combat support were hampering Russia's advances, as they did in the failed effort to take Kyiv.
Ukrainian defenders holed up in the Azovstal steel works in the southern city of Mariupol - which is still under siege - were also pinning down 'many Russian units' and preventing them from redeploying to the Donbas front, while also exhausting Putin's troops and reducing their combat effectiveness, the MoD added.
Russia's war on Ukraine - which was intended to take just days and end with the toppling of its pro-Western government - is now into its third month, with Kyiv claiming to have killed almost 22,000 Russian soldiers while destroying military equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the process.
In that time, Putin's army has suffered a number of embarrassing losses - most notably the Moskva
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Also:
Ukrainians just shot down ANOTHER Russian SU-34 fighter-bomber over Kharkiv today
Videos:
In an uncontrolled flatspin before impact
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1518551080510103552
Impact
https://twitter.com/TWMCLtd/status/1518552970211823617
The average Russian probably thinks sumthin along the lines of “how dare they” attack within Russian borders. What an arrogant culture.
Did you feel America deserved it on 9/11?
The oil depot has nothing to do with “supplying troops”. It is an export facility for raw oil.
What a moronic attempt at a comparison.
Nope. Do you?
If we send in American boots on the ground, we damned well better be negotiating American Land as the thing to fight for. Big, sweeping American EmBASEees along the border between Russia and Ukraine. A Lend Lease project. Americans fighting for American land. For generations we could use that land to build airports and fight terrorism in that region. I would call it the BBudapest AAgreement LLend LLease program because it would take BALLs.
from my home page
I have been advocating for several years a policy I call ‘embaseees’. Embassy + AirBase —> EmBASEeees. We go into a terrorist country, clear out their taliban equivalent, then withdraw to very large Embassies, perhaps 3 of them. Have them big enough to encompass a military airbase where we can use it for decades on end to conduct anti-terrorism operations. As long as the ‘host’ country aint killing Americans then we let them have self-sovereignty. Kind of like how we operated in the Phillipines for decades. We could even have an intermediate zone that we patrol but it would be autonomous. Let them have their taste of freedom. A referendum every 10 years to see how large the boundaries of the intermediate autonomous zone should be.
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Right, cause the Russian military gets their fuel from magic beans.
Should have hit the grain silos while they were at it.
Sure, whatever you say. Islam was an ROP before 911. /sarc
LOL. I think we’ll see the Russian missiles on Cuba before that.
“If we send in American boots on the ground, we damned well better be negotiating American Land as the thing to fight for.”
No need to put Americans in Ukraine. The Ukrainians are killing the invaders just fine.
At least I am not a wanker who can’t maintain a civic discussion.
You attacked them, asshole.
Go home and your troops stop dying.
So simple a Russian can understand it.
Well, not you obviously. But any Russian with an IQ over 70 can. So that leaves you out.
L
If you call islamic terrorism sympathy as ‘civic’, not much more left to say.
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