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Ukrainian Drone Campaign Knocks Out Six Major Russian Oil Refineries in May Alone (united24media.com)

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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

The combined refining capacity now sidelined or curtailed amounts to roughly a quarter of Russia's national total, more than 30 percent of its gasoline production, and around 25 percent of its diesel output.

Damn, that's going to have an impact. If they keep hitting them at this rate, gas a diesel shortages will grind the Russian economy to a standstill.

Russia will be rushing to repair these facilities and get them online as quickly as possible. So repeated, strikes will be needed to make Russia suffer this summer.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago

Hopefully historians will look back on this as the beginning of how russia became an economy built on decentralized alternative energy sources supplied in bulk by China as China foots the bill for rebuilding russia in exchange for basically owning it.

Not that I am saying I think it is "good" China will essentially control russia (though I don't think it can really be worse), but I do think that it is good russia is being effectively forced off of fossil fuels.