Russia hits rail, fuel facilities in attacks deep in Ukraine

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID KEYTON

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a string of attacks against Ukrainian rail and fuel installations Monday, striking crucial infrastructure far from the front line of its eastern offensive.

Meanwhile, two fires were reported at oil facilities in western Russia, not far from the Ukrainian border. It was not clear what caused the blazes.

As both sides in the 2-month-old war brace for what could be a grinding battle of attrition in the country’s eastern industrial heartland, top U.S. officials pledged more help to ensure Ukraine prevails.

In a bold visit to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday, the American secretaries of state and defense said Washington had approved a $165 million sale of ammunition — non-U.S. ammo, mainly if not entirely to fit Ukraine’s Soviet-era weapons — along with more than $300 million in financing to buy more supplies.



Russian military vehicles move in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatist forces in Mariupol, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)


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[oldsoftie]

1. An actual MILITARY target? Putin will have someones head for that.

Worthless POS. Europe was relatively peaceful until HIM

[Torchlight]

2. I think time is against Putin

The longer this goes on, the more support (military, financial, good-faith-political, etc) Ukraine will receive, while simultaneously, Putin's Russia will have less and less blood to leave on the ground as it becomes more and more financially and politically isolated from the world.

Erdogan's (his best enemy) travel restrictions on his aircraft and China's (his worst friend) Yi Gang has cancelled more than a dozen financial agreement with Putin in the last six weeks. Putin is getting closer and closer to the edge of a gangplank.