Repeated Ukrainian Drone Strikes Setting Tuapse Refinery Ablaze Rattle Russian Propagandists

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Source: Kyiv Post

Repeated Ukrainian strikes against a critical Russian energy export node in the Krasnodar region city of Tuapse, and unchecked fires and massive pollution, have forced Kremlin propagandists to acknowledge national air defenses are struggling to prevent Ukrainian attacks, most recently on Wednesday during a broadcast of Russia’s probably single most popular news program, Solovyev LIVE.

“For us, here, there is a war going on. Just now, they [Ukraine] hit Tuapse, and not a little. We are being hit everywhere,” Solovyev erupted during a conversation with a Russian female beauty influencer named Viktoria Bonya. “The thing is, there is a part of our society for which there is no war. Which doesn’t want to accept the war. Which doesn’t want to see it.”

Hours before Solovyev’s broadcast, in the pre-dawn hours, workhorse Ukrainian An-196 long-range pusher drones had appeared over Tuapse and attacked. Locals reported 10-20 explosions. The strike package set at least four oil reservoirs at the site on fire and expanded a blaze in progress since an earlier attack on April 20. Practically all crude oil or crude oil derivatives exported by Russia via Black Sea ports pass through the Tuapse facility.

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There is a simple answer to your problem, Russia. Stop your bloody, genocidal, terroristic (3 day?) war against Ukraine. Withdraw all your troops from Ukrainian territory.

[maxsolomon]

1. Tuapse is a major Black Sea oil exporting port

A trip to Google Earth is quite enlightening.

Ukraine should keep hitting those facilities.

86 Tuapse!

[blue-wave]

10. Yes!

They should keep the momentum going.

[republianmushroom]

2. Suck it up, puppet master Putin.

[LiberalLovinLug]

7. "How can I be losing?.....I have the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth backing me"

[republianmushroom]

8. True, he's but not the brightest bulb in the string.

[Wonder Why]

9. But TACO changes direction every day so nobody trusts him.

[orangecrush]

3. K&R

[ananda]

4. The real leader of the free world knows what to do and when.

Slava Ukraine!

[Mysterian]

5. Well done, Ukranian fighters!

Burn it to the ground.

[Torchlight]

6. All Putin has to do is withdraw and it's over

But I've got a sneaking suspicion he's abandoned reason, and relies on the political idiots in his staff telling him "it's still winnable!"

What Putin is doing to Russia's to military what trump is doing to our government-- trying to slowly choke the life out of it while simultaneously jib-jabbering on about being the only one who can save it.

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. Failure is not an option for Putin.

He will push for more war spending, from any source possible. More recruiting.
If that doesn't work I think he'll even think about the nuclear option. With those smaller n bombs first.
He will take the world to the brink....and only stop when he is stopped by other oligarchs who see their fortunes at stake and the planet as well.

If some folks would 86 both Trump and Putin, the world would be so much better off

[Queso Delicioso]

12. Nope. It comes standard.

He's got nothing left in the tank, and I suspect his nukes wouldn't fly even if he wanted them to. His only remaining choice is whether he goes out like Hitler, or like Mussolini.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. My point is that he literally has to keep going. Its victory or assasination.

It is only when Ukraine, with Europe, finally piss off his wealthy elite peers enough, because they are losing money, that he will be forced out......kicking and screaming

[somsai]

14. Russia has mostly been hitting civilians with it's drones. Ukraine is hitting military and economic infrastructure

I'd guess much of Ukraines infrastructure is in Poland except things that can't be imported like electricity. Russia has no place to hide it's stuff, and needs tremendous amounts of money to fund it's war fighting. Eventually Russia is going to have problems supplying itself.