“Ukraine’s attacks on Russia refineries is backfiring as a strategy to cripple Russia.”
I don’t see that at all.
A million barrels per day of throughput was taken off line in two nights. Key critical infrastructure was destroyed. The distillation tower in Russia’s largest refinery was burning like an inferno, 12 hours after the strike.
The guy in the video that you linked, waved away the impact, saying that Russia could ship crude to China, and re-import the refined products. That is ridiculously slow and expensive. The reality is that Russia will be logistically stressed just to replace local supplies of refined products from the nearest intact Russian refinery.
Because of its loss of export market share for refined product, Russia has significant slack refining capacity overall, but pipelines to move the bulk of the product cannot be moved when critical nodes are taken offline.
A Chinese fire drill of trucks, trains and ships being thrown together to redistribute products that used to flow through a fixed pipeline network is not free, and has limits on how much load can be redistributed.
Russia instituted a six month ban on gasoline exports, as a result of less destructive recent attacks on refineries, than happened over those two nights this week.
Russia has been forced to suddenly reallocate its Air Defense systems from its combat forces in Ukraine, to its refineries - but there are not enough such systems in existence to protect all the critical nodes in Russia’s oil infrastructure, and Russian Military assets will likely soon suffer additional losses as a result of their loss of protection.
Doesn’t seem like you agree with Eric Foo.
Assuming you watched the video.