#Bryansk oil/fuel depots explosions APR 24...

1. At RU military depot (fuel tanks)

2. Rail Tanker Car Loading Faility for oil ... this serviced by tap pipeline & pumping station off the main Druhzba Pipeline network that continues to the #Mazryr refinery in #Belarus. The tap pipeline pumping station on the Druzhba "Friendship" network is at 53.105691°, 35.095544° and feeds the facility at Railcar loading facility at 53.226018°, 34.461276°

The RU military facility fuel depot is unrelated to the Druzhba facility.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druzhba_p…

What should a discussion about #energy in context of #Ukraine🇺🇦, #Russia🇷🇺 and #Europe🇪🇺 be?

I can tell you; it should not be a decade's old rhetorical debate on #German 🇩🇪Nuclear Power Plants☢️ and North American 🇺🇸🇨🇦Pipelines.

A thread🧵on that here..

#RussianUkrainianWar There is a dominant narrative on energy in Europe, more than a decade old now, that focuses critically on German nuclear power and their deployment of renewable energy and North American pipelines "hindering" Canada's ability to free Europe from Russian energy.

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🧵Southern #Ukrainian Front & key strategic ports, rail/roadways & bridges...

Overview...

#Odesa in the west, #Mariupol in the east, #Crimea in south (w #Sebastopol & #Kerch) and all roads & rails lead to key crossings of the #Dnieper River near #Kherson...

1/ Occupied Crimea...

Sebastopol in the SW, home to #Russian #BlackSea Fleet (inc. #Ukraine's fleet taken over in 2014) and Krech in the east.

Both have road and rail to Kherson as well as industrial port facilities.

Kerch controls Straight of Kerch, waterway into #AzovSea

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New Thread on #Ukraine's ##Electric #Power #Grid and @NPCUkrenergo request to connect to the European Network @ENTSO_E

No North American RTO, ISO, TSO or Balancing Auth would leave its neighbor "islanded" for 18 days under extraordinary circumstances.

linkedin.com/posts/activity… Update Mar 15th #Ukrainian Power #Grid

Stable 50Hz under Extraordinary Circumstances Day 18

I am trying to envision a natural or manmade regional event within the United States and Canada, specifically their connected power grids, where due to events beyond the control of... 2/