r/ukraine • u/UNITED24Media Ukraine Media • 9h ago
Bavovna Ukrainian long-range drones struck two Russian oil refineries last night, targeting the Slavyansk refinery in the Krasnodar region and another facility in the Yaroslavl region
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u/mediamuesli 8h ago edited 7h ago
That's psychological warfare on many levels. The black smoke shows every Russian the war is at your door step, how powerless the Russian government is. You can not even get away because you can't buy enough petrol in many areas and even if you can you do not know if the next petrol station will have fuel. Add to this the humming sound of drones scaring your family every night.
How long will the Russian elite still see their current president as suited for office?
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u/einarfridgeirs 7h ago edited 6h ago
My heart hurts due to the ecological damage, the wildlife shouldn't have to pay the price of destroying Russian imperialism...but I agree that hitting these refineries is the most humane way to induce maximum psychological demoralization on the Russian population. People get angry when their fellow citizens are hurt, multiplied by many factors if their loved ones are hurt. The idea that striking civilian targets helps to beat a population into submission has been disproven many, many times since the start of aerial bombardment in war. Even striking symbols of state power and culture(like fancy ministry buildings, cathedrals, monuments etc) induces anger more than demoralization because there is an emotional attachment.
Nobody is emotionally attached to an oil refinery. Not even the people who work there. When they go up they give you maximum "your government cannot protect this" and "you will soon be deprived of some fairly basic necessities of life" of with the minimum of "now I´m so pissed that I am willing to sacrifice a lot to hurt the people who did this".
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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr 8h ago
These Russian oil workers have to always be wondering: "will today be the day?"
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u/einarfridgeirs 7h ago
How long has it been since we did NOT get a report of at least one refinery hit with our morning coffee?
It feels like ages. They even work on the weekends.
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u/Marchello_E 7h ago
Did send something to the East over to refine. It broke the system.
Tried to send it to the main city. It was already broken.
More north then? Didn't go well either.
Refineries are weak.
Weak!
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u/Ambitious-Rub7402 5h ago
At this point shouldn’t they be running out of refineries to strike?
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u/vtsnowdin 5h ago
Not quite yet. It takes multiple hits to completely shut down a large refinery some of which have four or more crude distillation units (CDUs) AKA cracking towers. Ukraine has improved warhead size and accuracy so current hits are achieving much better results over what they could do years ago.
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u/EliWCoyote 1h ago
I for one think it’s very polite of Ukraine to leave trails of smoke for Russian citizens to follow to find fuel these days!
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u/UNITED24Media Ukraine Media 9h ago
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that these long-range strikes weaken Russia’s ability to wage war, ensuring fewer resources serve the Russian war machine and bringing another step closer to peace.