Insane scenes of massive fires… Ukrainian attacks grow more intense

Ukraine’s deep-strike drone campaign against major Russian refineries—including Omsk, Kirishi, Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, and Volgograd—systematically degrades a 150-million-ton annual refining network. Prioritizing critical bottlenecks like primary processing units, catalytic reformers, cooling-water systems, and pipelines over storage tanks exploits the technical fragility of interconnected petrochemical facilities. This sustained targeting reverses Russia’s 25 percent post-ceasefire refining rebound and jeopardizes 21 to 31 billion US dollars in annual export sales at 700 dollars per ton. Because restoring damaged distillation and reforming hardware demands specialized components and extensive testing, repeated strikes trap Moscow in a costly cycle of prolonged downtime. Simultaneously, persistent penetrations across vast geographic depth—from Krasnodar and the Volga region to Bashkortostan and Siberia—expose severe air-defense saturation limits. These failures force Russia to divert scarce interception systems away from active combat zones toward rear-area industrial infrastructure. Over the long term, compounding deficits in gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel strain dual-use logistics, eroding both domestic economic stability and frontline military sustainment.

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