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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Your orcs have deported nearly a million Ukrainians to Siberia, so who is there to vote for the referendum?
Since this war was about oil & gas reserves, we could impose a future excise tax/asset seizure of all Russian gas pipelines into Europe, plus the right to seize any oil tankers carrying Russian oil. That’ll make the Russians take notice.
The first of many such votes is my guess.
In the war the facility wasa logistically utilized
oh,blow do you rationalize all the other destructive estate if fires within Russia and Moscow?
Orcs? LOL. Some weak media-infused brains can’t think anymore. “Deported to Siberia” is a doublespeak for genuine refugees escaping to Russia from the warzone, as contrary to economic migrants who fled to the West to abuse the social benefits from the the unaffected parts of Ukraine even though they didn’t see war.
The sequestered Russian assets can not be ruled attached as that money is outside Russia reparations
I'm not the one sprouting RT/Intel Slava drivel as 'Truth', or fantasizing about nuclear war like Russian media broadcasters. Everything you've posted here has been drivel that mirrors exactly what is being broadcasted on Russian media. The same Russian media narratives that have been consistently disproven.
Grandpa, tell us again about how the Moskva fires are out and is on it's way to port under it's own power.
The very language and myths you are operating on is a firm indicator that the intellectual capacity is not enough for sensible discussion. You need to turn back to CNN.
” Did you feel America deserved it on 9/11? “
??? WTF ???
You might want to think about this a little bit...
Total neo-con drivel. Your post reads like a white paper from PNAC.
Read posts #4 and 26.
I’m not neocon I’m paleocon with an emBASEee strategee bent towards foreign affairs. I think Trump is as well. You calling Trump a neocon?
Your post reads like... simple garbage. Argue the points. You don’t do that because you can’t — because you know that I’m right.
Considering the cost in lives, and the truly massive amounts of money we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last 20 years, the cost to the U.S. of opposing Russian expansionism in Ukraine is one of the biggest bargains in history.
“You know that I am right”. 😂😂 you sound like my 8 year old.
You want constant foreign entanglements, bases all over the world and a trillion dollar military budget with the end result being extreme corruption, hardcore globalism and lots of dead Americans. Terrible idea, peddle your archaic BS elsewhere.
I'd say you're joking, except you're not because you're a Russian expansionist yourself.
Your embaseees would be incredibly vulnerable unless they were located within a truly friendly country, in which case they would be unnecessary. You simply cannot cede all the territory outside your walls to potential enemies. You need ground troops, not just an airbase.
How do you know what the people on the ground want?
Notice how you skipped over the other part of that sentence: Your post reads like... simple garbage. Argue the points. You don’t do that because you can’t
It’s because you know I’m right.
Levy: You want constant foreign entanglements, bases all over the world and a trillion dollar military budget with the end result being extreme corruption, hardcore globalism and lots of dead Americans. Terrible idea, peddle your archaic BS elsewhere.
***You want isolationism, pansy pantywaist appeasement, inviting tyranny by projecting weakness. Terrible ideas, peddle your Sudetenland-ignoring BS elsewhere.
You need ENOUGH ground troops to serve as a tripwire. And wide enough territory to be able to defend. There are scatterings of where this approach has worked, like in the Philippines, Guantanamo, Panama Canal when we kept it, Bagram AirBase until Biden came along...
It only works for as long as we have the ability to defend such emBASEees. In 1979 when our Iranian embassy was breached, if we had more military presence and a real emBASEeee, we’d still be operating out of there. We’d still have emBASEees in Afghanistan, let those ragheads run their own country. Our embassy in Libya would never have been overrun.
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