Posted on 04/24/2022 10:31:32 PM PDT by dennisw
A second unconfirmed blaze was reported at a military base in the area where a military unit of the 120th arsenal of the Main Rocket is located The giant fire at the Druzhba oil depot in Bryansk was seen from the entire city
The oil storage depot is likely to be vital for supplying Russia's troops in their surge to take control of the Donbas Bryansk region borders Ukraine and the city is some 240 miles from Moscow.
Residents were being evacuated from homes in the vicinity of the burning oil depot
Russia was hit today by a major fire following huge explosions at an oil storage depot in Bryansk city in a suspected strike by Ukraine.
A second unconfirmed blaze was reported at a military base in the area where a military unit of the 120th arsenal of the Main Rocket and Artillery Directorate is located.
A Russian report said oil storage tanks at the facility caught fire around 2 a.m. local time.
The giant fire at the Druzhba oil depot in Bryansk was seen from the entire city.
The oil storage depot is likely to be vital for supplying Russia's troops in their surge to take control of the Donbas.
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Good movie!
The Russians have been playing this game for a long time. They are active right now, see the recent string of asassinations all over the place. As for Ukraine, they dont need to risk agents. They can blow up what they want to in Ukraine with missiles.
On my part I see this as sabotage activity by Ukraine.
It didn’t need NATO to do this. Just Ukrainians.
You mean like fires at food production facilities? With a few airplane crashes thrown in for luck?
No worries for Russia they have the Ukrainians surrounded /s.
I'm guessing US Black Ops. Teams run by off the books CIA black budgets. I encountered a few of these teams in my time (introduced as retired military guys now called advisers and "State Department people" who don't say much, but have SF Tats). Serious folks.
FR Putin supporters going nuts!
Many freepers oblivious of the infiltration.
Most freepers long gone — only dregs left.
Just like the Moskva sinking, this was all planned by Putin. All planned, 5d chess with checkers
Exactly, this was a planned explosion. To entertain the masses before May 9th.
All planned by dear leader.
Rea “Crimea” by Orlando Figes. It talks about the 1850s Crimean war. What is amazing is that the Russians then had the same problems, same errors etc.
It’s like they never learnt in 150 years
There is a lot of opposition in Belarus to the leadership there that also favors Ukraine. A small group could easily pass into Russia, site tight for a while and then pop something off.
Yes, a lot of those borders seem to be very uncertain and permeable these days. At some point Russia may firm up its police state, but it will have to first shut down its very corrupt society where everything is for sale.
I have huge admiration for Orlando Figes.
You sound so intelligent and not at all like a crazy fool.
Fun to have seen some of the FSB boys show up here on Free Republic under orders for the 12th Directorate and play with the FR keywords a little bit, one of them being “terrorism” LoL.
Heavy use of GPS with American top line technology that the Ukrainians would dream of having themselves… They don’t know what they’re hitting but with the US involved here they’re able to precision this baby down and they’ll be more of this coming probably even before the day is out in other parts of Russia....
this seems the most reasonable conclusion.
I don’t think Ukraine has any real logistic capability left on their own.
Let’s hope a lot of the really good stuff gets into the hands of the best Ukrainian military units. They have shown that they can put it to good use.
Let’s hope a lot of the really good stuff gets into the hands of the best Ukrainian military units. They have shown that they can put it to good use.
Ah yes from the novel Goldfinger...
Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.
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