Summary
A massive Ukrainian drone strike targeted Russian oil refineries and infrastructure, including Moscow’s largest refinery, which supplies 50% of the city’s fuel.
The attack also hit the Druzhba pipeline control station, halting Russian oil exports to Hungary. With over 337 drones striking multiple regions, the operation exploited gaps in Russia’s air defenses.
Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.
Analysts suggest continued strikes could pressure Russia’s economy and energy dominance, potentially influencing ceasefire negotiations.
Good… because fuck em… that’s why.
PopCopy!
This would be why Pootang is having a talk with his lapdog, Drumph, tomorrow! He usually doesn’t act with such unseemly haste LOL. Hopefully, Ukraine will ignore whatever terms those two shitstains manage to come up with, WITHOUT any Ukrainian input.
Do we really have to do the silly name thing?
You do your thing, I’ll do mine, hey? I just want to show my great disrespect and loathing for the scum that invaded and are murdering Ukrainians. There’s not a lot of ways to do that and remain socially acceptable, apparently.
You could just call them scum then.
Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.
You had fucking 3 years to look for alternatives.
What alternatives do they have? We’re seeing Germanys economy in free fall, VW closing plants for the first time ever, because their only alternative is US LNG, which costs massively more than the energy they had been getting from Russia.
Fossil gas was a minor energy source for germany and the eu. It was costly to replace 2 years ago but at this point the cost has been paid and the energy is sourced from other fuels.
The german car industry was bound to fall ever since they refused to research electric cars decades ago. Even before then they had been outsourcing but now they simply don’t own the profitable part of electric cars - the battery and power-train.
With or without the war in ukraine they would be disappearing.
The overall german economy is fine, there is increasingly unequal distribution of wealth like many western nations in recent decades, but the economy is ok.Ps: I don’t recall the numbers for germany, but pre 2022 the EU generated less than 20% of their energy with fossil gas, and less than 14% of their electricity. Germany had a higher ratio, but definitely less than a third.
The unequal distribution of wealth is what got US where it is right now. I hope Europe don’t let that happen.
If only there was some massive ball of super heated plasma in the sky from which we could draw energy from, that also moved the atmosphere of the planet which would open another avenue of energy capture, which also happened to move vast quantities of heavy things like water uphill which would also be an opportunity for energy, or if the ground beneath us was warm enough to use for energy, or if there were shiny green rocks the ground that could be used for power.
Yup, surely there have been zero alternatives.
Wow you’re right, those are all totally viable as primary generation methods, and totally possible to set up in the 2 years since the war started on the scale needed to replace the pipelines you’ve been relying on for decades.
Redjard already explained this, the situation for Hungary is similar.
2 years? It’s in its fourth year of the full scale invation, otherwise its in its eleventh year.
These strikes help Hungary become more sovereign.
The biggest obstacle to Hungarian sovereignty is Victor Orban.
I don’t think a refinery strike in the Russia has any effect on Hungary. Except by weakening Hungary’s ally.
This strike has no effect on availability of crude oil in the Russia or elsewhere, but it does have an effect on availability of refined oil products within a certain, rather large, radius around the refinery.
It has a huge effect on Hungary. The very pipeline that Hungary used to buy gas is currently non-operational, and gas makes up the majority of Hungary’s power generation.
The Hungarian president is pissed about the attack. He’s already denounced it and said it threatens Hungarian sovereignity.
It is non-operational, but not because of this strike to a refinery. These are two wholly separate attacks.
OP is about an air strike to a refinery.
Keep going Ukraine
Waiting for Putin to claim Ukraine is crossing the line doing this. While he is perfectly OK with bombing Ukrainian Nuclear power plants and dams. Things that are actually clearly war crimes.
It’s so cool that Ukraine has found a way to strike back, and they do it within international law!!
Fuck you Russia and fuck you Putin.
Your days are numbered!Russia’s days are not numbered.
Not with that attitude
Every day is numbered, it’s called a calendar.
Ok then everybody’s days are numbered…
You are accidentally correct! The best kind of corr… Wait a minute!
They had 4 revolutions in the 1900s.
They’re slightly overdue for another humiliating collapse.
Why do you think they aren’t? It’s not like revolution is unheard of there. Do you have any real reason, or just faith. I don’t really think believing in things makes it true, or the world would be a much different place.
Because the revolution is not likely to happen anytime soon. Of course, I can be wrong.
Why do you think that? Again, belief is useless. Do you have actual reasoning?
Why do you believe it’s happening? Are you willing to bet the revolution will happen before the end of the year?
I don’t think I stated an opinion. You did. Do you actually have a reason for what you said?
For future reference, I think it’s quite possible Russia sees a revolution or regime change. They’re losing a large portion of their young male population, their economy is in turmoil, and their oil refineries, which is by far their most important export, are being destroyed. They saved up money for a while before the war to pay families who lose soldiers and temporarily keep their economy afloat and keep people from getting too riled up, but that money is largely gone now. Payments to families are being delayed or not happening at all, and the economy is in a risky position.
Will it happen? I don’t think anyone can make this prediction. May it happen? Certainly. I don’t think any reasonable person looks at the situation and thinks it’s on stable ground. Only the people with their heads in the sand can sit back and say Russia is in a great position internally or externally right now. Sure, Russian media says it’s great, but they benefit from selling that image to the people. Don’t wholy trust anyone who benefits from you believing what they’re saying.
Sure, I’m not saying it can’t happen, I’m saying it’s not likely to happen in the near term. If you are confident it will happen by a given date in the near future, let’s bet.
There have been indeed damages to Russian energy facilities but enough remain functional to keep the economy going. The irony is European countries have contributed nearly as much to the Russian war efforts as they have towards the Ukrainian war efforts over the past three years.
It’s the only thing ruzzian peons do well :)
Ruzzia will be a third world shithole country forever. Everyone outside of Moscow and St Petersburg squats over latrine pits, your food is the worst in the world, your men are all addicted to anti-freeze vodka and smoking, which explains why the greatest cause of death in ruzzia is self immolation. Even your women hate you because they are all trying to marry westerners. When you finish losing this war, you will never get your overseas assets back, or your petroleum customers, and you will be paying reparations forever. Pootangs legacy is that you will remain peasants forever. Well deserved, I say :)
You can stop using “your”, I’m not Russian lol.
Yes you are. You are regurgitating Pootangs talking points which makes you a ruzzian orc. or even worse, a traitorous collaborator. I’m choosing to be generous naming you an orc, Yuri.
In that statement “Your” can refer to either or both.
Only if you are a ruzzian orc with rudimentary understanding of the English language. At least you tried, hey Yuri? :)
So many of Moscow’s ‘Red Lines’ have been crossed it’s starting to look like a red carpet.
I think given the current state of the Russian military, implementing Red Storm Rising is off the table.
I mean, that’s literally what this invasion was supposed to be, and failed before they even left the old ussr.
It was supposed to be Russian dominance “from Vladivostok to Lisbon” as Putin’s grand political philosopher put it and various Russian Politicians very publicly stated, and here we are 2 years after the “3 day Special Military Operation started” and Russia is still stuck in Donbas with almost 1 million casualties, their massive stocks of Soviet Unions weapons severely depleted and their enemy has developed their own advanced weapons and is increasingly destroying the Oil and Gas infrastructure they rely on to pay for the War and dominating the airspace near the front lines using drones.
Putin’s Russia is like the obese guy who loudly claims “I’m in perfect shape”, goes out “to run a marathon” and after about about 500m is already totally out of breath and barely moving.
* 3 years
And then buys one of those marathon bumper stickers and tells everybody he won.
This whole thing proved Russia’s hard power was the emperor who had no clothes.
Otoh, the last decade has also proven their soft power is basically a world beater.
And their soft power is as great as it is because they know how to appeal to the absolute worst vile filth in every society, from their centuries of experience managing Russian culture.
I think soft power only goes do far once you start achieving your goals. Propaganda got Trump elected twice, but now that the rest of the world sees him driving America off the cliff to toe Putin’s line other countries are being hardened.
Its kind of like an immune response: look at the whiplash in conservative polling numbers in Canada or the mounting regulation/push back on captured social media platforms.
No, I thought that way too, then I realized how many people there are waiting for the Russian message.
I think people who consider themselves unheard for so long are waking up, much like they did before the American Civil War and Ww2, and the same struggle begins, trying to reason with people who cannot be reasoned with, because they already know their answer in their angry hearts.
And Zelensky just announced they have flown a 1000km range missile this week. Kremlin is big mad.
Oh no. Darn. /s 🇺🇦
Oh no! Anyway……… 🚙
We are close to Russia having oil rationing
Hell yeah
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/SojJP
that’s the only language russia understands
Oh no… anyways.
Good shot Janson!
