๐ฅRussian oil refineries have been partially or completely shut down after successful ๐บ๐ฆ strikes for just a month. Attacks also target the infrastructure of oil pipelines, oil depots, railways.
Many refineries are being attacked repeatedly, which indicates a strategy.
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๐ฅA massive UAV attack paralyzed the largest plant in Samara: the Kuibyshev oil refinery has completely stopped operations.
๐ฅGas stations are emptying en masse across the country: the crisis in Russia is becoming nationwide. The lack of gasoline is increasingly being recorded.
The Far East, Transbaikalia and temporarily annexed Crimea have suffered the most from fuel shortages.
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๐ฅ50% drop in oil exports from the Ust-Luga port on the Baltic Sea, - Reuters
"Russia's Ust-Luga oil export terminal will operate at around 350,000 barrels per day in September... following damage to pipeline infrastructure from Ukrainian drone attacks," the article reads.
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๐ฅPanic! Prices are exploding, the sale of gasoline in some regions has been temporarily suspended and in some regions there is simply no gasoline at all. Russian authorities were forced to summon the management of oil companies to an emergency meeting in the government.
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๐ฅThose lucky enough to find gasoline have to pay for it at new prices, which in some places are as much as 21% higher than they were at the beginning of the year. They continue to rise as fast as prices for everything in the country. Officials do nothing...
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๐ฅRussian oil lukoil lost half of its profits in six months in Russia. The worst forecasts of analysts have come true: the leading corporations of the gas station country are submitting depressing financial reports.
Net profit fell by half & amounted to 287 billion rubles
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๐ฅThe consequences of Ukraine's strikes on the Druzhba oil pipeline will be catastrophic for Moscow. The Russian budget will lose about 100 bln rubles monthly, which is about 20% of the country's oil & gas revenues according to the Russian economist Vyacheslav Shiryaev.
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๐ฅThis ia getting more and more Ironic : Russia has started urgently buying gasoline from Belarus
Demand for Belarusian petroleum products in the RF increased in the second half of August, but Belarusian refineries have limited capacity.
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๐ฅโAs anger simmers among the population the Kremlin's largest state bank has officially acknowledged for the first time that Russia's economy has entered recession.
"After 2 yrs of artificial growth fueled by military spending, the ๐ท๐บ economy is in decline," - A. Klepach
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๐ฅThe latest data confirm that the so-called "military boom" was short-lived. Putin's bet on war has become a trap: the continuation of military actions have resulted not only in military failures, but also in serious problems within the country.
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๐ฅRussian metallurgy collapsed.
The Kremlin-controlled Rosstat reported a sharp decline in the volume of metallurgical production in Russia - the basis of Russia's military machine. It signals that resources for mass production of weapons are becoming increasingly limited.
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๐ฅThe financial crisis is gradually engulfing all sectors of Russian industry.
The key Roscosmos enterprise that developed all of the USSR's rockets is preparing to close due to its catastrophic financial situation.
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๐ฅSanctions are finishing off the Russian auto industry: one of the main "import substitution products", the new Lada Vesta, has proven to be life-threatening. While driving, the car's steering wheel suddenly locks, causing it to become uncontrollable and dangerous.
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๐ฅThe SochiโYerevan flight cannot take off due to engine malfunctions on two aircrafts.
The engine of the Rossiya Airlines plane was faulty. The flight was then delayed, & a backup plane was supposed to operate it. However, it also failed to take off due to engine failure
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Dissatisfaction w/ Putin grows rapidly in Russia
Z-Bloggers say Putin must stop the 'SVO' very soon: The economic crisis Russia is in threatens the collapse of Putin's regime and the disintegration of the country, explains blogger Maxim Kalashnikov.
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๐ฅFor the first time the share of war spending in revenues in the first quarter of 2025 was 50.1%.
The Moscow Times notes that these figures are absolute records in modern Russian history and even exceed the levels of the last years of the USSR.
20/25
๐ฅ"Record low losses of Russian armored vehicles conceal problems of the army and the military-industrial complex. The Russian occupation army is losing less and less armored vehicles on the battlefield, but this is evidence of weakness, not strength." - Yigal Levin
21/25
๐ฅRussia has admitted that it has become a vassal of China, which could have ended the war against Ukraine long ago.
"Without them, we would not be able to make a single missile, let alone a drone, & the entire economy would have collapsed long ago,"- ๐ท๐บ official, Reuters
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๐ฅAfter 11 years of Russian occupation, the once developed and rich region of Ukraine has turned into a humanitarian disaster under Russian rule. Donbass has turned into a city where old men drag canisters up and down the floors and neighbors fight over a bucket of water.
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About 220,000 Russians between the ages of 18 and 55 died since Putin lunched it's special military operation.
In three years of war, Putin has destroyed Russia's economy and all the efforts made over the past decade to redress the country's demographic situation.
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๐ฅToday, Ukrainian strikes are not only undermining Russia's war finance, but also destabilizing the very functioning of the Russian Federation.
You can help Ukraine save lives and bring Russia to its knees๐
Putin struts in India like a man who knows Trump wonโt stop Russiaโs war on Ukraine.
TIME says it: the dictator โno longer fears Trump.โ
Hereโs what he really said today โ and none of it is peace. ๐งต 1/9
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While Trump questions Ukraineโs resistance to concessions & portrays Putin as eager for peace, this rhetoric only emboldens Moscow โ as seen in Putinโs India remarks.
Trump: He would like to end the war & get back to a more normal life.
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๐จ As Putin threatens Europe & stalls โpeace,โ Trumpโs Treasury quietly extends a sanctions waiver letting Lukoilโs foreign gas stations operate until April 2026.
Lukoil is the Kremlinโs biggest hard-currency pumps abroad.
In 2014, Marco Rubio raged that America begged Ukraine to give up 1,900 nukes โ and swore the U.S. would protect them โforever.โ
Now heโs pushing them to surrender.
Europe โ your biggestย threatย just settled into theย White House๐
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Putin didn't just break the Memoโhe invaded full force in 2022, demanding fake elections & land grabs. Ukraine picked Zelenskyy in 2019 & fought back hard. But US now plays Russia's helper, w/ Witkoff & Kushner cutting secret deals.
Here is Putin a few days ago in Bishkek, smirking straight into the camera.
He no longer even pretends.
โWe are ready for talksโฆ but our goals will be achieved anyway.โ
Translation: we fight until the last Ukrainian breathes.
France has delivered 40 Colossus robots to Ukraine โ the same machines that helped save Notre-Dame.
Now they protect Ukrainian firefighters from Russian double-tap strikes.
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These robots work where humans would die: fires, collapses, extreme heat, CBRN risks, missile-hit sites.
Funded via the ๐ซ๐ทโ๐บ๐ฆ Fund this is concrete, life-saving support.
๐บ๐ฆโs rescue service says the robots have โalready helped save more than one rescuerโs life.โ
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Colossus units are now deployed daily across Ukraine, often right after air-strikes.
And this is only phase one.
Shark Robotics plans to set up a production base in Ukraine to support up to 160 robots โ anchoring long-term ๐ซ๐ทโ๐บ๐ฆ industrial cooperation.
๐ฅRussia's war machine is melting down: Ukraine's precision hits gut air defenses, shadow fleet, and industrial heartlands in a 72-hour barrage. From Crimea to Tatarstan, the flames expose Moscow's fragility. No mercy for aggressors. Here's the inferno unfolding.
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๐ฅUkraine's SBS, GUR "Kabul-9," and 412th Nemesis Brigade obliterated 3 key Russian air-defense batteriesโBuk-M1, Buk-M2, and Tor-M2โtotaling $60 million in losses. These shielded logistics hubs; now gaps yawn wide as Ukraine ramps deep strikes on refineries and power grids.
Russia attacked 19 countries. None attacked Russia.
Kaja Kallas: โTime to curb their army and their budget.โ
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Kaja Kallas reminds: in a century, Russia attacked 19 countries โ not one attacked Russia, underscoring the urgent need for measures to constrain Moscow's military expansion and fiscal resources that fuel such aggressions.
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Kallas asserted: โSanctions work. They limit Russiaโs ability to wage war. We must keep tightening the pressure,โ making clear that these measures inflict targeted strain on Moscow's war machine while safeguarding European stability and prosperity.
๐ฅWhile Trumpโs envoys haggle over โpeaceโ, Ukraine pushes the war deep into Russiaโs grid: the Shatura power plant near Moscow set ablaze, transformers knocked out, & occupied Donetsk and Crimea hit by coordinated strikes on substations.