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[mariacallous]

While Ukraine’s surprise combined-arms incursion into the Russian oblast of Kursk gets all the headlines, Kyiv continues to carry out a parallel, deep-strike operation to target Russian vulnerabilities, with continued attacks on oil refineries and fuel depots behind the front lines.

A massive tank farm in Proletarsk, a city in Russia’s Rostov region, has been burning uncontrollably for four days after Ukrainian drones slammed into 70-odd tanks full of diesel and gasoline; by some estimates, the fire could be incinerating as much as $200 million worth of Russian fuel. Overnight on Tuesday, Ukraine launched one of its biggest attacks yet on Moscow, and although most of those drones and missiles were shot down, Ukraine did seem to start another conflagration at an oft-hit refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, also in Rostov.

So far this year, Ukraine says that it has successfully attacked more than 30 Russian oil installations, some deep inside Russia. The latest estimates are that about 17 percent of Russia’s (admittedly ample) oil-refining capacity has been damaged to some extent by the strikes. But more broadly, Russia continues to export huge volumes of oil and even a fair bit of natural gas, ensuring that oil revenues continue to fuel its war machine despite the odd million spent here and there to repair damaged crackers and condensers.

Ukraine’s pinprick assaults on Russia’s oil infrastructure, often answered with counter-battery Russian missiles aimed at vulnerable Ukrainian power plants, are part of the latest tit-for-tat energy battle in the longer-term, less violent energy war that the two countries have waged for years, especially over natural gas supplies and prices. 

In some ways, the energy fight is an adjunct to the fight on the battlefield. Ukraine’s ability to damage (even for short periods of time) Russian refineries and fuel depots is meant, in part, to undermine logistics for the Russian army, which continues to occupy large swaths of southern and eastern Ukraine. Blowing up expensive installations deep inside Russia is also a psychological boon for Ukraine, which has been largely on the back foot since early 2022. Russia’s systematic destruction of the Ukrainian electric power grid, meanwhile, is meant to undermine civilian morale and resilience ahead of winter.

The White House had initially warned Kyiv not to strike Russian oil installations, fearing Russian reprisals as well as an inconvenient spike in oil and gasoline prices ahead of the U.S. election, but Ukraine has plowed ahead regardless (just as it did with the Kursk incursion). 

The big question is: Do all the eye-grabbing explosions at refineries and fuel depots make much of a difference to Russia’s surprisingly resilient oil-based economy?

“The drones can cause economic damage an order of magnitude or higher than the cost of the drones themselves, and so yes, there is some economic damage and net benefit, cost-wise. But the damage done is brief and relatively easy to repair,” said Sergey Vakulenko, an energy expert at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center. “Will it make drastic impacts on Russian oil revenues? Probably not. The drones cannot do what the sanctions were unable to achieve.” 

In some cases, Vakulenko said, the oil installations that Ukraine is targeting, chosen because they are within easy range of drones, may not be the critical marks that Kyiv imagines. Many of the older refineries in western Russia were built to take advantage of export customs loopholes that made it more beneficial to export barely refined oil products, even very low-quality ones, than to export regular crude. These aren’t the crown jewels, but the cracked zircons.

“The benefits of hitting those refineries may not be what the Ukrainians thought,” said Vakulenko, who was previously an oil executive at Russian and international companies. 

Like the Kursk operation, high-profile blows by Ukraine threaten to distort the view of what otherwise remains an unequal battle. If the war has come to the energy patch, it is because Russia—from nearly the beginning of the conflict—has targeted Ukrainian power installations as a deliberate part of its campaign to destroy civilian infrastructure. During the first year of the full-scale invasion, Russia targeted easy-to-hit structures, such as power transformers, that could disrupt electricity across Ukraine, especially in big cities. But that damage was relatively easy to repair, and Ukraine made it through the first winter in fairly good shape. 

At the beginning of this year, once Ukraine had homemade drones and missiles that could strike deep into Russia, thus neatly skirting both U.S. targeting prohibitions and leaky Russian air defenses, Kyiv began systematically hitting oil installations. 

In response, Moscow intensified its campaign against Ukraine’s power grid, this time using heavy missiles to go after harder-to-destroy and much-harder-to-repair power plants themselves. More than half of Ukraine’s electricity generation capacity has been blown up or seriously damaged, a huge problem heading into winter given the reliance of Ukraine’s urban heating system (and water supplies) on the power plants.

But that campaign peaked just before summer; since then, there has been a respite in the Russian vendetta against power plants. The aftershocks are still felt, though. This week, in addition to a small-scale Russian attack on power facilities just across the border in Sumy, Ukraine announced a return to rolling blackouts for many parts of the country—mostly due to increased peak power demand during the hot summer months, but clearly exacerbated by the loss of so much generation capacity, which is still a huge concern for Ukrainian officials and Western experts.

“We have not seen wide-scale attacks for six weeks or so. Russia may just be collecting missiles to attack later in the year, in October or so. As of now, there is no sign that weaponization of energy is weakening,” said Andrian Prokip, an energy expert at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute in Kyiv.

Yet the fight over refineries and power plants is just part of an even broader energy war that has aspects both of the absurd and of the absurdly normal. 

Last week, after months of feverish speculation, conspiracy theories, and finger-pointing, reporting (and a German arrest warrant) emerged that seemed to put blame for the high-profile 2023 destruction of Russia’s no-longer-operational Nord Stream gas pipeline on a band of Ukrainian freelancers. 

Meanwhile, Russian natural gas continues to transit in pipes through war-torn Ukraine, headed for customers farther west in Austria, Slovakia, and Italy. Not even Ukraine’s cross-border grab of Sudzha, the pumping station for the last trans-Ukraine pipeline, has interrupted the (limited) flows of gas moving from one belligerent state through another. 

And then there are the nuclear power plants. Since early in the war, Russia has occupied the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, in the south-central part of Ukraine. Since then, the International Atomic Energy Agency has periodically warned of concerns over the safety and security of the plant, which is now in shutdown but still potentially dangerous. Two weeks ago, a mysterious fire broke out at one of the cooling towers; a few days later, a drone explosion threatened the power supply to the facility. For years now, Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of nuclear blackmail and brinkmanship over the plant. 

Once Ukraine leapt across the Russian border, Russian media immediately warned that Ukrainian forces were seeking to capture the Kursk nuclear power plant for an apparent atomic hostage swap; most recently, Russian defenders began digging trenches around the reactors.

“The Russians have used and will continue to use the precarious state of nuclear safety at Zaporizhzhia for their own rhetorical and blackmail purposes. I suspect they may try to do the same in relation to the Kursk NPP,” said Darya Dolzikova, a research fellow of the Royal United Services Institute. 

“I see no indication that Ukraine is looking to attack the nuclear plant and the Ukrainian government has refuted any suggestions to that end,” she added. “So any Russian statements or actions to the contrary I take to be fear-mongering by Moscow.”

[tomorrowusa]

Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts – in its fossil fuel industry.

Ukrainian drones have attacked several oil refineries in Russia, hundreds of kilometres from the frontline in regions including Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Leningrad. The continuing attacks are part of a strategy to hurt Russia’s economy. The Ryazan oil refinery, Rosneft’s biggest refinery, was set ablaze, a regional governor said on Wednesday. It shut down two damaged primary oil refining units. Rosneft did not comment. The plant handles about 5.8% of Russia’s total refined crude, according to industry sources. A fire broke out at Norsi, Russia’s fourth-largest refinery, after a Ukrainian drone attack, Russian officials said on Tuesday. Its main crude distillation unit was damaged, which means that at least half of the refinery’s production is halted, according to industry sources. Norsi handles nearly 6% of Russia’s total refined crude. Before the latest drone attack, one of its two catalytic crackers had already been put out of action. The governor of the Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, said a Ukrainian drone targeted the Kirishi refinery. It is one of the top two refineries in Russia, handling 6.4% of Russia’s capacity, according to industry sources. And the Novoshakhtinsk export oil refinery in Russia’s southern Rostov region had to suspend operations on Wednesday after a drone attack.

Russia's economy is about the same size as that of Italy which has maybe 40% as many people as Russia. And much of that economy is centered on fossil fuels. Putin and his oligarch buddies skim off graft to enrich themselves; those superyachts, palaces, and prime real estate properties abroad are all ultimately paid for by countries which import Russian oil and gas. Meanwhile, Russians outside the big cities live in poverty; imagine a 1920s standard of living but with censored internet and state TV.

Ukraine is doing the climate a big favor by indirectly encouraging importers of Russian fossil fuels to look for cleaner replacements.

Some other bits of good news for Ukraine...

EU agrees to €5 billion boost in Ukraine military aid

European Union member states agreed Wednesday to provide Ukraine with an additional  €5 billion ($5.5 billion) in military aid. Belgium, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said ambassadors from the bloc's 27 nations had agreed "in principle" on the plan to support arms supplies to Kyiv in 2024.  The contribution of €5 billion will go on EU-managed fund called the European Peace Facility. The fund operates as a giant cashback scheme, giving EU members refunds for sending munitions to other countries. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called it a "powerful and timely demonstration of European unity."

White House announces $300 million military aid package for Ukraine

With new aid for Ukraine stalled in Congress since December, the White House on Tuesday announced it had cobbled together another $300 million in military assistance to use as a stopgap measure. "The package includes munitions and rounds to help Ukraine hold the line against Russia's brutal attacks for the next couple of weeks,” President Joe Biden said in a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the White House, adding, "we must act before it literally is too late.” National security adviser Jake Sullivan detailed the package at White House briefing, saying that the aid comes as Ukraine "does not have enough ammunition to fire back." "So today, on behalf of President Biden, I'm announcing an emergency package of security assistance of $300 million worth of weapons and equipment to address some of Ukraine's pressing needs," Sullivan said.

French National Assembly approves bilateral security agreement with Ukraine

The 10-year security pact with Ukraine includes commitments by Paris to deliver more arms, train soldiers and send up to 3 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in military aid to Ukraine in 2024. Macron has also adopted a tougher stance towards Russia, urging Ukraine's allies to urgently do more. He also did not rule out the presence of Western troops in Ukraine which has created a backlash among some Ukrainian officials had told Reuters they were worried that a vote not overwhelmingly in favour of Kyiv would be negative symbolically and could hurt President Emmanuel Macron's efforts to ramp up his country's support in the coming months.

AOC says Democrats must take advantage of ‘razor-thin’ House margin after Ken Buck steps down

In an unexpected Tuesday evening announcement, Mr Buck — a Republican from Colorado — said he would leave Congress next Friday, rather than retiring at the end of his term as originally planned. Afterwards, Republicans will hold just 218 seats out of 435 in the House, leaving Democrats one step closer to clinching the majority. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York and member of the progressive Squad, told The Independent her party must take advantage of Mr Buck’s early departure. Ms Ocasio-Cortez said Democrats “have to make sure that that we see that do the best we can to navigate how razor-thin the situation is.”

That last item is rather interesting. Ken Buck, a never-Trump Republican, is stepping down early. His seat in a deep red district will be vacant until late June when a special election is likely to take place. His departure will leave the House GOP (for now) with 218 seats – the bare minimum for a majority. This will make it easier for Democrats to persuade several remaining anti-Putin Republicans to defy Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson's wishes and support President Biden's aid package for Ukraine.

[mokhosz-nafo]

The Ukrainian general staff reports that last night, Ukrainian Naval Forces, in coordination with other Defense Forces, struck a Russian S-300 missile system near Novoshakhtinsk in the Rostov region.

Explosions were observed at targeted locations, with the accuracy of the strikes still being assessed, they report.

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#Breaking: Ukrainian drones #strike the #Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the #Rostov region.

Ukrainian drones strike the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov region. The refinery has been on fire for hours. https://x.com/i/status/1798517821514842509  

[cyberbenb]

Explosions, oil refinery fire reported in Russia's Rostov Oblast

Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and is being updated. A fire broke out at Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery following a series of explosions in Rostov Oblast in the early hours of June 6, Source : kyivindependent.com/explosion…

[delectablywaywardbeard-blog]

Mosca, attaccata con un drone una raffineria a Rostov

Un drone ha provocato un’esplosione questa mattina che ha fatto divampare le fiamme nella raffineria di petrolio di Novoshakhtinsk, nella regione di Rostov. Lo rende noto la Tass citando il governatore della regione Vasily Golubev secondo il quale l’incendio è stato spento e la raffineria ha ripreso a funzionare. In precedenza l’agenzia di stampa statale russa aveva riferito dell’attacco con un…

[coinrehberim]

Rusya'da kimliği belirsiz bir kişi polise ateş açtı, bir kişi yaralandı.

Rusya’da kimliği belirsiz bir kişi polise ateş açtı, bir kişi yaralandı.

Rusya’nın Rostov bölgesinde kamuflaj üniformalı kimliği belirsiz bir kişi polise ateş açarak bir kişiyi yaraladı. APA’nın Rus bürosu, bunun Rusya İçişleri Bakanlığı Ana Dairesi’nin Rostov bölgesi basın servisi tarafından bildirildiğini bildirdi. Raporda, “Suç bugün saat 12.00 sıralarında Novoshakhtinsk civarında işlendi. Kamuflajlı bir kişi polis memurlarına ateş ettikten sonra olay yerinden…

[dendeniel]

In Novoshakhtinsk now like this. There are policemen with machine guns and in armor all over the city.

A criminal with a machine gun, presumably a deserter.

[giao-dich-hang-hoa-vmex]

Tổng hợp: Căng thẳng địa chính trị leo thang, giá đầu bật tăng mạnh mẽ

Kết thúc ngày giao dịch 13/3, giá dầu bật tăng gần 3% khi căng thẳng giữa Nga và Ukraine có dấu hiệu leo thang. Ngoài ra, tồn kho dầu Mỹ giảm mạnh hơn dự kiến cũng góp phần thúc đẩy đà tăng của giá.

Chốt phiên, giá dầu WTI chấm dứt chuỗi giảm hai phiên liên tiếp khi tăng 2,78% lên 79,72 USD/thùng. Dầu Brent tăng 2,58% lên 84,03 USD/thùng.

Làn sóng tấn công quy mô lớn bằng máy bay không người lái của Ukraine nhằm vào các cơ sở hạ tầng năng lượng của Nga đã gây ra nhiều thiệt hại nghiêm trọng tại một số nhà máy lọc dầu. Các quan chức Nga cho biết đám cháy đã bùng phát tại Norsi, nhà máy lọc dầu lớn thứ tư của Nga, với công suất 317.000 thùng/ngày. Hỏa hoạn cũng xảy ra tại nhà máy lọc dầu Ryazan do Rosneft kiểm soát với công suất 350.000 thùng/ngày. Trong khi đó, nhà máy lọc dầu Novoshakhtinsk với công suất 96.000 thùng/ngày ở vùng Rostov phía nam nước Nga đã phải đình chỉ hoạt động trong ngắn hạn sau khi máy bay không người lái bị bắn hạ rơi xuống khu vực này.

Công suất lọc dầu của Nga có thể bị sụt giảm đáng kể do ảnh hưởng của các cuộc tấn công bằng máy bay không người lái từ phía Ukraine, điều này có thể dẫn đến việc Nga xuất khẩu ít nhiên liệu hơn. Tâm lý lo ngại nguồn cung từ Nga thắt chặt đã thúc đẩy lực mua mạnh mẽ trên thị trường dầu.

Ngoài ra, theo báo cáo của Cơ quan Thông tin Năng lượng Mỹ (EIA), tồn kho dầu thương mại của Mỹ trong tuần kết thúc vào ngày 8/3 giảm 1,5 triệu thùng, giảm mạnh hơn so với dự báo giảm 1,3 triệu thùng của Reuters. Tồn kho xăng cũng ghi nhận mức giảm mạnh 5,6 triệu thùng, đánh bại kỳ vọng giảm 1,9 triệu thùng của giới phân tích. Tồn kho tại trung tâm lưu trữ quan trọng Cushing, Oklahoma, giảm về 31,5 triệu thùng, từ 31,7 triệu thùng của một tuần trước.

Trong khi đó, tổng sản phẩm cung cấp, một thước đo về nhu cầu, tăng 509.000 thùng lên 20,803 triệu thùng. Mặt khác, sản lượng của Mỹ đã ghi nhận tuần giảm thứ hai liên tiếp khi giảm 100.000 thùng/ngày về 13,1 triệu thùng. Đà tăng của giá dầu được mở rộng ngay sau thời điểm công bố báo cáo.

Thêm vào yếu tố hỗ trợ giá, Bộ Năng lượng Mỹ (DOE) cho biết Mỹ đã mua 3,25 triệu thùng dầu thô sản xuất trong nước, dự kiến giao hàng vào tháng 8/2024 để bổ sung vào Kho Dự trữ Chiến lược (SPR). Theo đó, các công ty ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, Macquarie Commodities Trading US LLC và Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals LP sẽ cung cấp lần lượt 1,05 triệu thùng, 1,2 triệu thùng và 1 triệu thùng cho DOE.

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[argumate]

Reinforced Russian air-defense systems in eastern Ukraine are increasingly limiting the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones, undermining a key Ukrainian capability in the war. Foreign Policy’s Jack Detsch quoted several anonymous Ukrainian officials and military personnel that Ukrainian forces have largely halted the use of Turkish Bayraktar drones, which were used to great effect earlier in the war, due to improvements in Russian air-defense capabilities. Ukrainian officials are reportedly increasingly concerned that US-provided Gray Eagle strike drones will also be shot down by reinforced Russian air defense over the Donbas. Ukrainian forces have reportedly scaled back air operations to 20 to 30 sorties per day and are facing a deficit of available aircraft for active pilots. Russian forces are likely prioritizing deploying air defenses to eastern Ukraine to nullify Ukrainian operations and to protect the artillery systems Russian forces are reliant on to make advances. However, the Ukrainian air force and armed drones remain active elsewhere, inflicting several successful strikes on targets in Kherson Oblast in the last week.

Ukrainian forces conducted a drone strike (likely with a loitering munition, though this cannot be confirmed) on a Russian oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Oblast, on June 22. Russian Telegram channel Voenyi Osvedomitel claimed that the strike, which targeted Russian infrastructure within 15 km of the Ukrainian border, originated from Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian forces have not targeted Russian infrastructure for several weeks, and this strike is likely an attempt to disrupt Russian logistics and fuel supply to Russian operations in eastern Ukraine.

there's a video on youtube of this kamikaze drone attack against a refinery, it's pretty wild!

[usafphantom2]

Ukrainian kamikaze drone attack sets fire to Russian oil refinery

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 06/22/2022 - 19:41 in Military, War Zones

The Russian press showed a video on Wednesday morning of a kamikaze drone attack on a Russian oil refinery that set the site on fire.

The attack would have taken place in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Oblast, about 150 km (90 miles) from the front line. The Russian media is saying that two drones were involved, one of which was shot down. The video shows a drone with a double tail diving towards the facility followed by an explosion; a second video shows firefighters fighting a serious fire at the scene.

The video seems to have been filmed by refinery workers who observe the drone - the acute engine noise is clearly audible on the soundtrack - and ask each other if it can be Ukrainian before colliding with a building and exploding.

While some have suggested that the drone may be a Bayraktar TB2, this seems unlikely. The profile looks very close to the smaller PD-1/PD-2 drone made by Kyiv's UKRSPECSYSTEMS. PD-1 - short for "People's Drone 1" - was one of the successes of Ukraine's crowdfunding effort to develop new drones for the armed forces at the beginning of the conflict with Russia in 2014. With public support, a group of drone enthusiasts and engineers built an aircraft with a wingspan of three meters and a flight autonomy of more than five hours with a cruising speed of about 55 mph.

The latest versions are more advanced and can carry a maximum load of 19 kilograms. However, if the drone was configured specifically for a one-way mission, it may have been able to carry a larger load for a shorter period of time.

Drones are usually piloted by an operator using a remote control. However, the PD series is capable of flying autonomously and is designed to fly if contact is lost with the operator. Radio control is usually the limiting factor of how far a drone can be controlled, which is why more advanced drones, such as the U.S. MQ-9 Reapers, have satellite communications that offer global range, while Bayraktar TB2 is usually limited to less than 300 km. In this case, the drone may have been pre-programmed with the target's GPS coordinates that can be easily located using services such as Google Earth. (The PD series has inertial navigation that, unlike GPS, cannot be blocked).

The PD-2 supposedly costs about $300,000. Sacrificing one in such an attack is a good exchange for the amount of damage it seems to have done. Add to this the invaluable value of advertising. It is also considerably cheaper than a cruise missile.

The attack is very reminiscent of the similar kamikaze drone attacks carried out by Houthi forces against oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, one of which put the oil processing facility in Abqaiq out of action for some time in 2019 and caused a serious drop in the global price of oil.

More recent Houthi attacks set fire to oil storage tanks in Jeddah and hit a refinery on the outskirts of Riyadh: like Ukraine, Houthi manufacture their own drones. The current series, known as Samad-3, allegedly carried a load of 18-kilogram bombs.

This type of attack is known as 'bringing the detonator': you don't need a large load of bombs, just a detonator to detonate explosive or flammable material already on the spot. Ukrainians learned this lesson the hard way in 2017, when Russian special forces launching quadcopter termite grenades destroyed a series of ammunition depots.

There were also suggestions that the drone seen in the video may be some kind of commercially available product, perhaps the Skyeye 5000mm available on the Chinese Alibaba website, which was then assembled for a 'kamikaze' mission by Ukrainian technicians. In particular, the shape of the fins of the Skyeye drone seems to coincide with those of the drone in the video. The drones are being sold for between $5,000 and $10,000 on the site.

The attack once again raises questions about the effectiveness of Russian air defenses. The slow-flying drone has no stealth ability or electronic defenses to confuse radar: it should have been easy to detect and track, and a simple target for Russian surface-to-air missiles. If they failed, anything that crossed the border should have been intercepted by Russian fighters; although they do not operate much on Ukraine, they can fly freely on Russian soil. The drone should have been an easy target for air-to-air missiles or cannon shots. Possibly, the Russians actually shot down an attack drone, but there is no evidence of this.

A Skyeye 5000mm being sold on Alibaba for $6,500. Credit: Alibaba

Some have suggested that Russian air defenses would destroy the U.S. Gray Eagle attack drones that the White House is considering sending to Ukraine, the success of this attack suggests that once again its capabilities are widely overestimated.

The attack also raises questions about what will happen next. Will Russia be forced to reorganize air defenses to provide better protection for vulnerable locations ?? on national soil? Ukraine, which had already hit oil platforms on the Black Sea - we don't know if missiles or drones were involved - can now also hit other vulnerable facilities.

The range, number and payload of drones available to Ukraine is not yet known. But the success of this attack certainly means that there is more to come.

Source: Forbes

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Она - моя тихая гавань, в бушующем море повседневности❤️ ⠀ «В супружестве надо всем жертвовать и всё терпеть для сохранения взаимной любви; если она утрачена – всё пропало. В том состоит крепость жизни всех нас, чтобы жена была единодушна с мужем; этим поддерживается всё в мире.» Святитель Иоанн Златоуст ⠀ #семья #православие #православныймир #батюшкалайв (at Novoshakhtinsk) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxCRw5WlpwP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o9p2so79lpxl

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Russian oil refinery partially shuts down after drone attack

Certain “technological facilities” of the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Rostov Oblast have shut down after an overnight drone attack, Rostov Oblast Governor Vasiliy Golubyov said on Telegram on March Source : kyivindependent.com/russian-o…

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Ukraine uses drones bought from Alibaba to strike Russia

Ukraine uses drones bought from Alibaba to strike Russia

In their resistance against the Russian aggressor, the Ukrainians show great ingenuity and everything is good to hit Russia. Including drones sold on Alibaba! The Ukrainian army struck a blow this week, attacking the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in southern Russia (5 km from the border with Ukraine). A hard blow also for the Kremlin, since it is one of the most important refineries in the…