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Beyond causing problems for international trade, the attacks probably mess up a major Crimean supply route.

I think it’s a piefed/federation bug, the posts have titles if you look at them on the original lemmy instance.

I think I’ve seen videos of this guy in his car looking for/complaining about gasoline. I guess he wasn’t successful since he’s walking around now.

Cyberboroshno’s analysis of satellite imagery tracked the shadow fleet’s collapse in numbers. Around 1 July, about 100 vessels sat north of the Crimean Bridge in the Azov Sea, with roughly 100 more to the south near the Taman port. By 6 July, the northern group had thinned to about 40. By 8 July, some 20 remained in the north, one of them burning, with massed movement toward the bridge.

The northern vessels are mostly small river-class tankers, the analysts found. They shuttle fuel south, where cargo is transshipped onto much larger ships for direct Black Sea runs to importer countries. The vessels belong to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, used to circumvent sanctions.

I hadn’t seen this detail elsewhere, but it seems like disabling these smaller tankers would have a wider effect on Russia’s oil exports than just taking down ocean-going tankers. They hit a bunch of oil depots in that supply the tankers, too.

A military convoy carrying over 200 fighters from the Russian paramilitary Africa Corps and more than 100 Malian soldiers came under attack in northern Mali on July 9.

Reusing the name is an interesting choice.

Huh

Now I’m curious what they’ll be using the sunflower oil for in 3 months.

ok but have a look at the rest of the user’s posts here and see if you detect a theme

Thanks for the fascinating information that is obviously not part of a (half-assedly) coordinated effort to undermine western support.

I don’t see why not, once the tanks roll in to reclaim Muscovy for the new Kievan Rus’

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.

🔥 no 🔥 need 🔥 to 🔥 worry 🔥 everything 🔥 is 🔥 under 🔥 control 🔥

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.

ok, but the Russians feel that way about other Russians, too

Nah, it’s been hastily refitted as a gasoline tanker.