Moscow Tries To Muzzle Strike Footage After Ukrainian Drones Hit Oil Refinery
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Blame Putin: Apocalyptic Scenes in Moscow as Drones Keeping Hitting Oil Refineries and Russian Air Defense Can’t Stop Them
Apocalyptic scenes unfolded in Moscow last week and bore stark testament to the effectiveness of Kyiv’s ongoing strike campaign against Russian energy infrastructure. Russian social media was replete with images of the city burning, and thick clouds of acrid black smoke billowed into the sky from refineries and other energy-related infrastructure within the Russian capital, the result of Ukraine’s expanding campaign of drone strikes against Russ…
The chance that Vladimir Putin opens his bedroom window in the Kremlin in the morning to look out over Moscow is not very great, but if he were to do so, he would be able to smell the still-smoldering Kapotnya refinery. Residents of the Siberian region of Tyumen woke up to the same smell on Monday; their Moscow Oil refinery, more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukraine, is still burning. Kyiv's long arm reaches ever further.
Moscow Tries To Muzzle Strike Footage After Ukrainian Drones Hit Oil Refinery
After recent Ukrainian drone strikes on Moscow’s main oil refinery, Russian media are downplaying the impact of the dramatic attacks. As Current Time's Andrey Cherkasov explains, authorities and pro-Kremlin pundits are calling for a crackdown on people who post videos of burning ruins online.
The deployment of these systems weakens the defenses of other enemy facilities. Russia is massively deploying anti-aircraft systems to the Moscow Oil Refinery following successful strikes by Ukrainian drones, according to RBC-Ukraine, citing Defense Express. To protect the Moscow Oil Refinery from further attacks, the Russian military has deployed several Pantsir anti-aircraft missile and gun systems around it. Videos published online show that …
Five days after hitting a refinery in Moscow, the Ukrainian army continues to target the Russian capital. According to the mayor, Sergei Sobianin, 59 drones flying towards the city have been shot down in recent hours. Faced with these repeated attacks far from the front line, some claim that Russia has launched a new large-scale offensive against Ukraine. This rumor is based on images from their context.
Long-range drone attacks launched by Ukraine against Russian oil refineries are causing fuel shortages, restrictions on the sale of petrol and long lines in service stations located hundreds of kilometres from the combat zones. According to estimates by independent analysts quoted by The Wall Street Journal, the recent wave of attacks left more than 20% of the country's refining capacity inoperable. Last week Ukrainian drones repeatedly hit one …
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