It’s one thing when your logistics are messed up, and maybe it’s another when people are freezing to death and civil unrest goes from zero to “burn the Kremlin for heat.”
I’m just eager for my Scadenfreude and wonder what it’s gonna be like.
Honestly, if that guy can knock out a drone with a rock from a sling like that, he’s an unbelievable badass and deserves respect.
Obviously the gas shortage is bad and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel for Russia that isn’t just a drone strike. It’s going to take a long time to fix the refineries and importing enough gasoline to meet demand is unrealistic at best.
My question is, how does Russia heat its homes? In addition to the oil refineries, Ukraine has hit gas pipeline pumping stations and other infrastructure that will also take a while to fix. What happens in Russia when it gets colder?
Russia is taking action to reduce the demand for gasoline, one engine at a time.
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Most of russia is already in range
European Russia is in range (and the majority of the population and industry), but assuming the Omsk attack is about the current outer edge of Ukraine’s strike range, most of Russia is still out of range. The country is like 9000km east to west, just unreasonably huge.
So, they didn’t detect anything until the drones were almost there and scrambled to respond with the only thing around - a shiny new Su-57 being kept safely away from combat?
TBH these kinds of small, relatively slow moving and low flying targets are a terrible match for jet fighters so it’s not a surprise they didn’t stop most of the drones. I think we’d see other modern fighters struggle against them, too, especially without radar support from the AA batteries they’re using to protect Moscow, Kerch, and Valdai.
Ukraine should make this situation fairer by taking out the rest of Russia’s refining capacity.
Nah, it’s been hastily refitted as a gasoline tanker.
According to another article I saw, local governments in rural Russia are already suspending trash collection and other services due to fuel shortages, even to the point where people are being told to find their own transportation to the hospital because there’s no gas for ambulances. For now, it’s the middle of nowhere Siberia being hit with those kinds of problems but I think we’ll see them spread westward unless the fuel shortage gets better soon.
Probably not China, but once all the fuel supplies are depleted and the tanks can’t move, I could see Mongolia sweeping in on horseback to reclaim their historic lands.
He didn’t get invited by his own prime minister to a conference being held in the town where he was born and raised.
Luka probably doesn’t sleep to well these days. On one hand, there might be a cup of polonium tea with his name on it; on the other hand, his people almost certainly have no desire to be involved in that whole clusterfuck. Considering that all of Belarus is easily within Ukraine’s drone/missile range and has nowhere near Russia’s AA protection, he’d be better hope people don’t think to stockpile gasoline for Molotov cocktails before kinetic sanctions begin.
Seize more shadow fleet tankers, all they gonna do is be helplessly mad about it!
Putin claimed this week that “the entire West” was providing Ukraine with “a massive flow of drones” aimed at destabilizing society.
Honestly, the Russian propaganda version of “the entire West” sounds pretty based. If Putin’s gonna act like our hype man, we should our best try to live up to expectations.
They should do catch and release - seize the tanker when it’s full of oil, sell off the contents, then release it back into the wild so it can be caught again later.
Surely nothing bad will happen to those shipments of highly flammable liquid traveling over very predictable land routes that are vulnerable to drone attack.
I think I was most impressed by the guy who jerry rigged an extra gas tank in the back seat of his fucking car.
I don’t see why not, once the tanks roll in to reclaim Muscovy for the new Kievan Rus’