Posted on 03/13/2024 8:29:52 AM PDT by MeganC
(Story was posted only two hours ago)
One of Russia’s biggest oil refineries has been blown up by Ukrainian drones in one of the most brazen attacks of the war to date. Footage shows unmanned aircraft raiding the refinery in broad daylight, easily bypassing air defences to crash into the distillation towers.
These towers are the most crucial part of the plant and are expensive and difficult to replace. Each of the towers at Ryazan was hit multiple times during the onslaught on March 13. The refinery produces oil both for Russian consumption and as valuable exports to fuel Putin’s war machine.
Destroying them hurts the Russian war effort and Putin’s personal reputation as protector of the nation. And it is no coincidence that the attack has been timed to coincide with the Russian election which takes place later this week. There is little doubt that Putin will win another term in power, but Kyiv is hoping to make that extra term as difficult as possible for the Russian despot.
@PeterSedesse 1 hour ago Putin already had to ban exports of diesel and gasoline because Russia cannot refine enough for their own use. The thing to remember is that Russia has a lot of crude oil production, but all of their refineries were run and maintained by western countries. Even before all these attacks, russia was having a hard time keeping the refineries running. Russia is going to end up with a ton of crude oil that is completely useless for cars and military equipment.
@philliptemple9841 38 minutes ago Muscovy claimed that all attempts to hit the refinery failed, and that the 3 drones that got past air defence were downed by electronic warfare systems based in the plant. Then a bunch of truckers start posting videos on social media that clearly show the drones circling around and hitting the plant wherever they wanted to. You can believe whichever version of events you want but I'm thinking the refinery got hit.
@boossersgarage3239 1 hour ago the Fractioning towers are the most complicated and expensive parts of the refinery. It will take years to repair just one of them. No Gasoline, No Diesel. no kerosene. sad, not....
@Ukraine_827 1 hour ago welldone Ukraini🤩🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
@RomanesEuntDomus. 2 hours ago Blyat!! 😂 🇺🇦🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦🇺🇦
@D.Frasure 1 hour ago Who's protecting that nation???? better get a new man in charge you see the little guy has failed.
@ruuuuudooooolph 1 hour ago Yes, let all Patriotic Russians continue to live with the lies.
@DomDom-tw5jk 1 hour ago The boomerang special operation
@Stormshadow11114 1 hour ago ruZZia.... It's still all going according to plan, yeah??? 😂😂😂😂
@MrPetermc199 1 hour ago What is karma?
@mindaugasbarkauskas9894 16 minutes ago Thats the air defense that is somehow supposed to destroy NATO F-35's, in case you're wondering
Get ready for missiles to hit western targets worldwide then.
I am certain that the Russians know how to run a refinery by now, pure propaganda coming from a country that had to beg rides to space from RuZZZZia for over a decade after the shuttle program ended.
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Who benefits the most from this? Iran?
We should borrow some of Zelenskyyyy’s drones to shoot up the illegal alien invader encampments on “the path to free sh*t”. That would slow ‘em down.
Dang! How many times are the zeepers going to post this story?
Climate change chicken littles.
If history is any guide, they will repost this story every time it appears in another news outlet, youtube channel, or other social media outlet...
Good.
Additional details with new video.
This is a sort of BDA - bomb damage assessment.
Diesel it seems, not blood.
“Who benefits the most from this? Iran?”
I’d say Ukraine does.
The damage done to these refineries cannot be repaired without access to Western machinery and parts. The fuel production from these plants is then ended for the time being.
This will have an impact on the Russian military in about 15-30 days as fuel supplies close to the front start to draw down.
Looking around the net I can see this will have a major impact on Russian fuel production.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/ryazan-refinery-modernisation/
“”The Ryazan refinery, which has a processing capacity of 17.1 million tonnes of oil a year (Mtpa), is one of the biggest oil refineries in Russia.”
Dream on. Russia is not going to hit western targets. If it were, a world of hurt would come down upon them with NATO entering in the war, and the Russians know it. Russian cannot defeat Ukraine, much less a full NATO participation.
Like I said, you’re the best! (-:
Thank Putin, he started this war by illegally invading a sovereign country without any provocation
You’re “against bloodshed”, but you can never, ever manage to criticize him, do you?
Why is that?
Whoever has underutilized refineries.
Europe or Turkey possibly. IIRC Iran had limited refinery capacity beyond domestic use.
Russia will need to import some diesel and gasoline and kerosene (jet fuel).
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Yep. The Ukronkies are determined to take over this site.
It’s why they get so hilariously nasty and angry when we prevent that. 😄
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