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.

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    Schrödingers Russia is on the verge of collaps and about to conquer Europe for three years now

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    Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.

    You had fucking 3 years to look for alternatives.

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      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.

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        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.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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      No, they don’t. Ukraine is about to get kicked out from Kursk and lose the little leverage they had in the negotiations.

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        Good job russia, they finally achieved something… like 6 months later… and with the ukrainians leaving on their own… but we have to give them something, right?

        Fuck russia

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        Do you think invading a sovereign country is ok? What are your thoughts on bombing childrens’ hospitals?

        • alkbch@lemmy.ml
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          No, of course not, but I’m not the one making the rules.

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            Sure. Ukraine is retreating from the Kursk region, with minimal losses. Holding dirt doesn’t win wars. Meanwhile they’re making huge wins in east (not a ton of dirt, but destroying assets and soldiers), and these strikes into Russia on very strategically important assets.

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              Thank you for confronting Ukrainian soldiers are getting kicked out from Kursk.

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                I don’t know if you buy this, but Ukraine says it’s part of the plan. That sounds like what Russia says. If you don’t believe them, why do you believe what Russia says?

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                  I don’t believe that withdrawing from Kursk because the Russians are gaining ground day after day is part of some sort of grand plan.

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              Sure, do you have a source from this past week claiming Ukraine is not losing ground in Kursk?

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                I don’t think he can have. He knows Ukraine has been losing ground in Kursk. But he also understands that this is not really relevant at this point. The Russia has not been advancing in any noticeable manner since early 2022. (Okay, in 2024 they did gain 0.7 % percent of Ukraine’s total territory in just one year, but I would not call gaining under one percent of a country’s territory advancing, really)

                It would be useful for Ukraine to remain in the Kursk area, but what can you do when all your warehouses’ and military bases’ locations in the area are suddenly known by your enemy? It’s a huge task building new ones in different places, and one cannot do so in just a couple of days.

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        What part of the US did the Taliban conquer to exchange it for the US to leave the country?

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          This is not at comparable with the US invasion of Afghanistan.

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              Because many people in Crimea and in the eastern regions actually want to be under Russian influence.

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                Anybody in Crimea knows that if you say Crimea is Ukraine, you will quite soon get beaten up seriously badly. A person cannot know whether you will rat him out or not, so It does not matter what he thinks – he will absolutely say that he supports the Russia. Practically everybody in Crimea will say that they do, no matter what they think.

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                That would be the Russians sent there to cause trouble as “separatists” right?

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                And there are ways for them to get that. For instance, about 200,000 Afghans resided or immigrated to America between 2000 and 2021. What was stopping those in Crimea from doing the same? And we haven’t even addressed if that “many” is actually a majority.

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                  The opposite is happening, people who want to remain under Ukrainian influence are moving to the regions still under Ukrainian control.

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    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!

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      So many of Moscow’s ‘Red Lines’ have been crossed it’s starting to look like a red carpet.

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        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.

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          Because the revolution is not likely to happen anytime soon. Of course, I can be wrong.

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            Why do you think that? Again, belief is useless. Do you have actual reasoning?

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              Why do you believe it’s happening? Are you willing to bet the revolution will happen before the end of the year?