Monday, April 25, 2022

Слава Україні!

 Ukraine has been attacking inside Russia?

That's in Russia. Two oil depots. NYT:

Large fires tore through oil depots on Monday in Bryansk, a Russian city less than 100 miles from the Ukrainian border that is a key logistical hub in Russia’s war effort.

Russian officials said they were investigating the cause. The fires took place on the same day that Russian forces targeted critical infrastructure across Ukraine.

Russian state television reported two separate explosions. One was at a civilian oil storage facility — part of a pipeline that links Russian oil fields with Europe — and the other was at a military oil depot. 

Russia has accused Ukraine of conducting several attacks on border crossing points and other facilities inside the country.

In early April two Ukrainian helicopters struck an oil depot in Belgorod

I didn't know that. Have I not been calling for this! (I have. A 9/11-style attack on the Kremlin. Cross-border attacks on Rostov-on-Don.)

less than 20 miles from the Ukrainian border, the first such strike in Russian territory to be made public since the start of the war more than two months ago. ...Ukraine’s defense ministry, which has generally declined to discuss reports of attacks on Russian soil, had no immediate comment on Monday.

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In addition to the blazes that tore through the Russian oil depots near the Ukrainian border, several fires have been reported further inside Russia. Seventeen people died after a fire on Thursday at a key aerospace defense research institute in the town of Tver, north of Moscow, local authorities said. Russian officials also reported another fire on Thursday at a major chemical factory in the Ivanovo region, 200 miles northeast of Moscow.

Oh, how I have longed for this. Oh!