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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$36 million converted to Rubles, er I mean rubbles
Wonderful photo. Love the colors.
They did a bunch of high dynamic range stuff, but it works great here.
What is your IQ?:) Nobody is going to leave now, until it is all finished and you know it full well.
Maybe. I have my doubts that they can regain the 1994 borders and get their hands on those 2012 oil & gas reserves. Plus, all that damage to their country — How do we get Russia to pay reparations?
If we had 3 nice long emBASEees along the Ukraine/Russia border it might be worth our while to go in. I like Trump’s approach to other nations: “Bomb the shiite out of them and take their oil to pay for it.”
Those Ukrainians never lose, and the Russians never win!
It’s a miracle!
Read the comment #4 I was originally commenting on. If you still will be offended, then replace “Russians” in the comment for yourself. I am not any more a fan of islamists than of Ukronazis.
We already saw Russian missiles in Cuba. We have a minor version of the emBASEee strategee in Guantanamo Bay. But it’s not long enough to support air operations, plus there really isn’t a lot of terrorist activity in the region.
1. Not often enough to suit the Russians.
2. Not often enough to suit the Russians.
Wag the Dog is the Ukrainian SOP.
Okay:)
Every Islamic atrocity since the beginning of their death cult has been claimed to be a "revenge attack".
Still defending your beloved Mother Russia, eh RusViking?
Sure, what is your point?
It comes down to whether the Russians have the capability of conquering Ukraine. It becomes ever more doubtful, and ever more expensive.
Is Putin willing to use nukes to enhance his "should have been" a pleasant little military adventure?
We live in dangerous times.
Only way MAYBE Russia would pay reparations would be a regime change in Russia after putting the country on their knees. I should check if my buddy Soros could help out here LOL! First step would be to sabotage vodka production.
Love the smell of burning Russian oil in the morning....
Global warming in Russia.
In come the fat pasty white armchair General conspiracy nut Feepers..."It's all propaganda, Ukraine is not winning!" Reminds me of the house fraus who sat home in Berlin and Frankfurt in 1943 and believed that army group south had won Stalingrad. Russia has CONFIRMED a massive loss of men and materials. But it's all pro-homo, pro-black, pro-trans, pro-Democrat talking points to acknowledge that Russia has performed badly and will probably need to withdraw sooner or later.
I don't want to hear that you are red-pilled and you see things for what they are. You are actually more clueless and more blue pilled than you know.
What is illegitimate about the referendum? Do they think anyone in Kherson or Mariupol is going to vote to stay in Ukraine?
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