Summary

A massive Ukrainian drone strike targeted Russian oil refineries and infrastructure, including Moscow’s largest refinery, which supplies 50% of the city’s fuel.

The attack also hit the Druzhba pipeline control station, halting Russian oil exports to Hungary. With over 337 drones striking multiple regions, the operation exploited gaps in Russia’s air defenses.

Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.

Analysts suggest continued strikes could pressure Russia’s economy and energy dominance, potentially influencing ceasefire negotiations.

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    17 hours ago

    No, they don’t. Ukraine is about to get kicked out from Kursk and lose the little leverage they had in the negotiations.

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      4 hours ago

      Good job russia, they finally achieved something… like 6 months later… and with the ukrainians leaving on their own… but we have to give them something, right?

      Fuck russia

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        4 hours ago

        The Ukrainians are leaving on their own? Why are they leaving?

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          34 minutes ago

          The loss of American support and intelligence sharing, exposed their soldiers to greater risks, so they performed a tactical withdrawal. Had it been ruzzia in that situation, they’d have just let their soldiers die, and sent more in to die also.

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            27 minutes ago

            American support and intelligence has only been paused for one week and has resumed since.

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      Do you think invading a sovereign country is ok? What are your thoughts on bombing childrens’ hospitals?

      • alkbch@lemmy.ml
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        5 hours ago

        No, of course not, but I’m not the one making the rules.

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          Sure. Ukraine is retreating from the Kursk region, with minimal losses. Holding dirt doesn’t win wars. Meanwhile they’re making huge wins in east (not a ton of dirt, but destroying assets and soldiers), and these strikes into Russia on very strategically important assets.

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            27 minutes ago

            Thank you for confirming Ukrainian soldiers are getting kicked out from Kursk.

            • drhodl@lemmy.world
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              Ukrainians are withdrawing gracefully, probably due to Drumph ceasing all intelligence sharing. Had the ruzzians been in that situation, they’d have just let their soldiers die. Why aren’t YOU at the front, comrade?

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                26 minutes ago

                American support and intelligence has only been paused for one week and has resumed since.

                Same question back to you, comrade.

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              2 hours ago

              I don’t know if you buy this, but Ukraine says it’s part of the plan. That sounds like what Russia says. If you don’t believe them, why do you believe what Russia says?

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                1 hour ago

                I don’t believe that withdrawing from Kursk because the Russians are gaining ground day after day is part of some sort of grand plan.

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                  51 minutes ago

                  The Russia has not been gaining ground after early 2022. During the year 2024 they gained more ground than anybody in the west expected, because USA stopped its weapon deliveries for 6 months in the end of June 2024.

                  When the Russia gained ground exceptionally fast, it gained 0.7 % of Ukraine’s total territory in that one year. Less than a percent. Okay, technically that is indeed gaining ground, but in the big picture of the war that’s an irrelevant amount. If the Russia manages to gain 5 % of Ukraine’s territory in 12 months, it’s okay to say they are gaining ground. But with the speed they are “advancing” now… Heh.

                  The Russia gaining ground at a speed of 0.7 % of Ukraine’s territory and losing 400 000 soldiers as dead and wounded per year in the process is indeed part of some grand plan of Ukraine’s. The Russia won’t run out of people with that pace for another 250 years or so, but it will run out of soldiers, because it is losing them faster than it’s able to recruit new ones.

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                    You see, we agree Ukraine will run out of soldiers soon.

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            5 hours ago

            Sure, do you have a source from this past week claiming Ukraine is not losing ground in Kursk?

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              I don’t think he can have. He knows Ukraine has been losing ground in Kursk. But he also understands that this is not really relevant at this point. The Russia has not been advancing in any noticeable manner since early 2022. (Okay, in 2024 they did gain 0.7 % percent of Ukraine’s total territory in just one year, but I would not call gaining under one percent of a country’s territory advancing, really)

              It would be useful for Ukraine to remain in the Kursk area, but what can you do when all your warehouses’ and military bases’ locations in the area are suddenly known by your enemy? It’s a huge task building new ones in different places, and one cannot do so in just a couple of days.

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                Russia has been gaining ground steadily.

                Ukraine is about to be kicked out of Kursk.

                I have no satisfaction nor happiness while wearing this, it is just the unfortunate truth.

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                  And the Russia will remain gaining ground at the same steady speed of 0.7 percent per year. In just 7 years, by 2032, they will already have conquered another one twentieth of Ukraine! Ura!

                  If the Russia keeps its ground gaining steady and does not increase its speed tenfold, then that means the Russia is doing seriously badly. Losing 400 000 soldiers in a year (as dead and wounded, not only dead!) and not managing to unsteady that rate of advance means things are seriously going badly!

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      What part of the US did the Taliban conquer to exchange it for the US to leave the country?

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        This is not at comparable with the US invasion of Afghanistan.

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          How about the soviet ruzzian invasion of Afghanistan, before that? You ruzzians sure are great at losing. Maybe that’s why Drumph loves Pootang the Tiny so much :) You should stick to things you’re good at, like consuming anti-freeze vodka and wife beating, hey?

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            That’s not comparable either.

            As for the rest, your comment is useless and classless, I’m not Russian.

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            5 hours ago

            Because many people in Crimea and in the eastern regions actually want to be under Russian influence.

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              Anybody in Crimea knows that if you say Crimea is Ukraine, you will quite soon get beaten up seriously badly. A person cannot know whether you will rat him out or not, so It does not matter what he thinks – he will absolutely say that he supports the Russia. Practically everybody in Crimea will say that they do, no matter what they think.

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              That would be the Russians sent there to cause trouble as “separatists” right?

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              And there are ways for them to get that. For instance, about 200,000 Afghans resided or immigrated to America between 2000 and 2021. What was stopping those in Crimea from doing the same? And we haven’t even addressed if that “many” is actually a majority.

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                The opposite is happening, people who want to remain under Ukrainian influence are moving to the regions still under Ukrainian control.

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                  What I heard was, “The people who don’t want to be under Russian influence or live under wartime conditions are moving to the regions that aren’t engaged in military occupation.”