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.
Sounds great; anything that hinders Russia is cause for celebration.
Ain’t that the truth
Good… because fuck em… that’s why.
PopCopy!
Schrödingers Russia is on the verge of collaps and about to conquer Europe for three years now
When you gear an entire economy to war, you simultaneously run the risk of economic collapse and conquering. It’s what happened to the Soviet Union in '89, the economy was in shambles but militarily they were still a powerhouse.
If years of RTS taught me anything, this is a very possible situation to be in
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!So many of Moscow’s ‘Red Lines’ have been crossed it’s starting to look like a red carpet.
Russia’s days are not numbered.
Every day is numbered, it’s called a calendar.
They had 4 revolutions in the 1900s.
They’re slightly overdue for another humiliating collapse.
Ok then everybody’s days are numbered…
You are accidentally correct! The best kind of corr… Wait a minute!
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.
They said Putin, not Russia.
He’s just a russian .ml troll, nothing can change his mind
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 :)
Not with that attitude
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? :)
Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.
You had fucking 3 years to look for alternatives.
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.
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.
2 years? It’s in its fourth year of the full scale invation, otherwise its in its eleventh year.
Redjard already explained this, the situation for Hungary is similar.
Man, a fuel shortage in Moscow is something Putin would struggle to downplay.
“Extreme climate control measures. The decadent West is not taking responsibility for the climate change, so we must act radically to save the Earth.”
I think Russians are so used to their government lying that no-one would even really care.
The fuel rations have been increased to two litres!
“See, I told you they are attacking us!” /s
And Zelensky just announced they have flown a 1000km range missile this week. Kremlin is big mad.
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.
The bald midget must be so mad right now.
Keep going Ukraine
Fuck Russia, fuck trump.
Oh no. Darn. /s 🇺🇦
Oh no! Anyway……… 🚙
big W for Ukraine
And surprise surprise Trump helps out Putin by negotiating a ceasefire for energy infrastructure.
womp womp.
