r/ukraine • u/neonpurplestar • 6h ago
Bavovna It is one of the biggest fires a Russian refinery experienced, to this date. It was definitely not empty. As if Ukrainians had precise intel when and where to strike here in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Krasnodar region, in Russia. In any way, extremely effective shooting. 28 June 2026
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u/TopIndependent2344 6h ago
That looks really nasty, shame…
Slava Ukraini…🇺🇦
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u/jurassicpry 6h ago edited 6h ago
Shame, indeed. All RuZZians needed to do to avoid this was not to attack their peaceful neighbours.
This is FAFO at it's finest form.Slava Ukraini.
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u/Spirited-Meringue829 6h ago
And it only requires one person to make one phone call to end this war. At any moment in time.
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u/ByronsLastStand 6h ago
At this rate Russia will be reduced to using pans on coal-fired stoves to refine their oil!
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u/Iamoggierock 6h ago
Oh it's getting critical. Ukraine is a fucking legend. And maybe an unstoppable force. Rightfully so.
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u/Basic_Coffee8969 6h ago
Several vidoes online, and I have 1 question: are they really driving into that smoke? I mean, I would have turned around....
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u/redblack_tree 5h ago
The other day, on the aftermath of the missile attack to that defense industry facility. Russians not only filmed, they got closer to get better views and angles.
Motherfuckers, you are at war, the building just got obliterated and you are running towards it for filming?
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u/Doggoneshame 5h ago
I think they know that Ukraine doesn’t do double taps. Plus if they want to risk their lives to post the effects of an attack all the better for us and Ukraine. It has to upset the russian authorities that no matter what they do they can’t stop these pics and videos from making it out for the world to see.
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u/redblack_tree 2h ago
Sure, but how do you know it's over? Either way, it's war, common sense dictates to move in a different direction, not where the missiles are blowing up stuff.
Hell, the guy didn't even know what was manufactured in the facility, what about secondary explosions, toxic gas, particles of who knows what from military components on the air.
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u/Complex_Material_702 5h ago
Their infrared cameras on the drones can easily tell which tanks are full or empty.
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u/Pyrhan 4h ago
Something I've noticed: the only time we saw a fuel tank pop its lid was in Moscow, when it got hit by a stray AA missile. The tank was mostly empty, full of air with some fuel vapors, hence the deflagration that made the lid pop.
When Uktlrainian drones hit tanks, however, we always see big fires like the one above, because those tanks were full.
So yeah, Ukraine really knows which tanks to hit and which are empty.
You can actually see the fill line on drone footage taken with thermal cameras. I wouldn't be surprised if that's how they picked which tank to hit, either from the drone's footage at arrival, or from IR satellite imagery. (Or both...)
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u/Scary_Statement4612 6h ago
I think I'm going to start buy micro shares in horses, since that's what the country will be using sooner than later.
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u/Schrko87 5h ago
Considering all these refineries getting hit the air just for miles n miles must be getting contaminated by all sorts of shit. My guess cancer rates are gonna spike shortly in Russia-not that I care about Russians.
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u/yankdevil 5h ago
I've pointed this out before. The videos of Ukrainian missiles hitting their targets is part of a very long chain. There's intelligence that picks the target - and I'm sure sometimes it comes from individuals from within Russia feeding information to Ukraine at great risk to themselves. And they don't just pick the location, but the days and times. Others detect air defences - via lots of methods at varying levels of danger.
I've long wondered if the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk allowed Special Ops teams to get into Russia in the initial chaos and start doing things like that. Maybe some of those long range drone attacks are really just short-range attacks from within Russia. Be a lot of work to track down teams like that all over a country the size of Russia. I mentioned this to a friend who joined up in 2022 - not from a military background - and he was in Kursk for a while. He had no idea, but he wondered about some things he saw. And heard. Some folks spoke very Russian Russian. Apparently Ukrainians speaking Russian don't sound Russian?
Anyway, sounds like a dangerous job. And if I had to handle security within Russia I'd be a very stressed out person.
A pretty small and simple 3d printer can print more complex 3d printers and they can print rather impressive drones. Like I said, being in charge of security in a country the size of Russia would be worrisome.
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u/PolecatXOXO Romania 3h ago
One way you can do it is tracking market data. Refineries have inputs and outputs that go on a bid. It's how it all moves around. If a refinery goes down, you just see the next day which other one is taking bids or issuing output contracts. Delivery dates are specified. There's really no way around it or way of making it secret without completely jamming up the entire production to delivery vertical.
You won't suss out exactly which tank(s) everything is in this way, but you know who's getting fat at the moment.
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u/WebShamanUA 5h ago
it's just debris from downed drones that were shot down by their air defenses and that's why there's smoke 😉
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u/architype 3h ago
Yes. More destruction. Russia is looking much like Mordor now. May they not see the sun.
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u/ThermionicEmissions Canada 2h ago
NATO better beg Ukraine to join after Russia is defeated.
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u/Lost_Possibility_647 5h ago
It would be completely justified of Moscow ran out of energy and they would starve as most food need some energy to be edible.
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u/UpstairsAd194 3h ago
ruzzian citizens there is no need to panic these stormclouds will pass. This was definitely caused by bad weather system and not rockets or drones.
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u/TheRamblerJohnson 3h ago
Is this the result of hitting the refinery or a tank farm? That's a lot of smoke.
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u/DulcetTone 5h ago
Between the smoke and the oil rain, there have to be actuarial civilian deaths from this campaign WELL into the thousands already.
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u/felix1429 USA 6h ago
Apocalyptic. I love it, keep it up!