(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets Russia's oil refineries [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-03-13 Ukraine continues to send dozens of drones into Russia. Most are being shot down. x ⚡️ A few minutes ago a missile alert was declared in Belgorod and neighboring #Kursk. Dozens of drones were shot down today in the #Belgorod region. The video shows a missile alert siren in Kursk. pic.twitter.com/A9R1JAQbmq — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 13, 2024 The building courageously blocked the path of the drone. x FSB building in Russian Belgorod has successfully destroyed a Ukrainian drone! pic.twitter.com/MplPe1FY69 — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) March 13, 2024 The anti-Putin Russian militias that crossed the border yesterday continue to push into Russia and issued a call for residents of Belgorod and Kursk to evacuate. But don’t expect them to be rolling into any major urban centers in Russia. x ‼️ "We are forced to launch fire strikes on military positions that are located in Belgorod and Kursk," Russian volunteers fighting in the ranks of the AFU urge residents of Belgorod and Kursk regions to evacuate "We are forced to launch a fire attack on military positions that… pic.twitter.com/hp7wr5Hp2i — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 13, 2024 Video captures a drone hit on a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan, a city about 200 km southeast of Moscow. Russian air defense attempts to take down the Ukrainian drone that impacts the refinery. x /7. Longer version of the video from the post number 5. But with more clear view on the oil refinery. Also a view of the local residents who came to watch the spectacle. pic.twitter.com/pNVYrowMcT — Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) March 13, 2024 x I hope you have all had a better day than the people working at the Rostov oil refinery? https://t.co/yOiLhWtL1V — Richard Vereker (@verekerrichard1) March 13, 2024 Ukraine urgently needs to mobilize more soldiers. And it won’t be cheap. x This might seem like a lot but actually accounts for just the minimum. Ukrainian officials are looking at taking unpleasant internal measures to raise the $20.8bn, such as privatisation, tax hikes and worst case scenario, print more hryvnia — Isobel Koshiw (@IKoshiw) March 10, 2024 x For (2), worth bearing in mind how much ammo Ukraine needs to prevent Russian forces from advancing. To take one example, Ukraine’s defense min has said Ukraine needs roughly 110,000 155mm shells per month at a cost of €3,300each. That’s just one type of shell. — Isobel Koshiw (@IKoshiw) March 10, 2024 Coincidence? I wonder if he accidentally fell out of a window. The chairman of the company died in October of heart failure. The chairman before him died in 2022 when he fell out of a window. x Vice President of Lukoil, Vitaly Robertus, 'suddenly' died at the age of 54. The company reported this on their website. All those fires that just pop up at their refineries must have an effect on the health of the people in charge.https://t.co/JBNceHBOGg pic.twitter.com/RT3U2VbsGO — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) March 13, 2024 Nice turret toss. x Have a good night Russophobes ‼️ pic.twitter.com/cqKwfdRXWk — PS01 (@PStyle0ne1) March 12, 2024 Nice bavovna. x Zaporizhia Oblast, a Ukrainian M30A1 GMLRS-AW rocket detonates feet over a Russian Buk TEL, showering it with tens of thousands of preformed tungsten fragments. pic.twitter.com/VPCpu3GN1z — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 13, 2024 Somebody left the door open again. x Kharkiv Oblast, a Ukrainian FPV munition flies into a Russian field ammunition cache, causing an immediate catastrophic detonation. pic.twitter.com/qebnJXAeLl — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 12, 2024 This is terrible news. Ukraine appears to have lost three helicopters in a Russian attack in Novopavlivka, about 45 km from the front lines. x The Russian Ministry of Defense publishes footage of three Ukrainian Mil Mi-8(?) helicopters being targeted. First by cluster munitions after which two were finished off with guided missiles. Date and exact location are unknown but this is a pretty big confirmed loss. pic.twitter.com/lM459UPDCq — NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@NOELreports) March 13, 2024 It’s a shame that the people of Moscow are inconvenienced like that. A damn shame. x ⚡️Ukrainian IT-Army suspends operation of moscow metro, –– Ministry of Digital Transformation. A number of government and local portals, including the "Troika" fare payment system, are under cyber attack. This is one of the largest ticketing systems in russia, serving 38… — FLASH (@Flash_news_ua) March 13, 2024 To underscore how warfare is evolving during this war, here is a drone dropping an anti-tank mine as a bomb on troops in trenches. x Footage of a Ukrainian Baba Yaga drone from the Khorne Group dropping 21 lb (9.5 kg) TM-62 antitank landmines on Russian trenches in southern Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/SyCtaxpgGn — OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) March 13, 2024 There is video now of the crash yesterday of that Russian IL-76 plane into a wooded area. x ⚡️ The Kremlin media published footage of the yesterday's crash of a Russian IL-76 in the Ivanovo region Local media reports that the preliminary cause of the crash was a technical malfunction, in particular, the fire of the fourth engine. Before crashing, the airplane hit… pic.twitter.com/Z4tUpGeCJP — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 13, 2024 Russia shelled apartment buildings in Kryvyi Rih and Sumy. x #krKryvyiRih The family was sleeping in the room when the nearby high-rise building was shelled. A baby, who is only a month old, was lying in this cradle. Now the baby and two-year-old girl are in the hospital. pic.twitter.com/UYRtotaPeK — Oriannalyla 🇺🇦 (@Lyla_lilas) March 13, 2024 x I have no words. Kryvyi Rih tonight pic.twitter.com/dapg6pcfsu — Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) March 12, 2024 x Rescuers found the body of the second dead person while removing the rubble of a five-storey building in Sumy, - State Emergency Service of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/ClH0n84K4I — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 13, 2024 Russia sends another batch of those high-tech T-54 tanks, which were first produced back when Joe Stalin was still above ground. x Еще один эшелон с российскими Т-54(А/Б), снято на станции Узуново. Это как минимум третий эшелон с танками этой серии. В конце июня эшелон с Т-55 был замечен в Лисках Воронежской области и в Крыму, а первый эшелон с российскими Т-54/55 едущими на фронт был зафиксирован в марте pic.twitter.com/tXGaNuVAJJ — D'Mithridates (@Rhaescuporis) July 16, 2023 June? Good grief. x Ukraine may receive the shells purchased at the initiative of the Czechia in June This was stated by the adviser to the Czech Prime Minister on national security Tomáš Pojar. "The promised money should come, and contracts should be concluded. At the time of contract… pic.twitter.com/hK5pUMnZ80 — NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 13, 2024 Is Putin delusional? He says Russia can replace Japan as the world’s fourth largest economy. He says this while also threatening to use nuclear weapons and continuing to press a war that has brought crippling sanctions down on Russia along with hundreds of thousands of casualties, a massive drain on the nation’s reserves and forced many hundreds of thousands more to flee the country. Even if the war ended today does he think the rest of the world would warmly welcome Russia back to the family of nations and forget that anything happened in Ukraine? He also says: “It would be ridiculous for us to start negotiating with Ukraine just because it’s running out of ammunition.” x "We have every chance to take Japan's place and become the world's fourth economy," Putin said in an interview with Russia 1 TV channel and the RIA Novosti news agency. Does he really believe that? pic.twitter.com/6MdKSBxiEE — Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) March 13, 2024 Because interfering with another country’s elections would be wrong. x BREAKING: Vladimir Putin claims that Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian energy facilities are aimed at disrupting Russia's presidential elections — Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) March 13, 2024 This is quite an interesting phone call between Putin and Macron just days before the invasion. x I just gained a lot more respect for France's President Macron. This is the actual telephone call between Macron and Putin 4 days before the Invasion of Ukraine. It's a very tense conversation and shows Putin's extreme delusions about what was happening in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/cxkBezBiEu — той хлопець Крістофер (@spooked75) March 13, 2024 We bless these holy tanks and this sacred ammunition. x During a "patriotic rally" UVZ send a new batch of T-90M MBTs. The message doesn't specify whether this was the first dispatch of the year or not https://t.co/gxfUQ527me pic.twitter.com/9SWrEWpkeG — D'Mithridates (@Rhaescuporis) March 13, 2024 Rescuing even the smallest pets. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/13/2229208/-Russian-stuff-blowing-up-Ukraine-targets-Russia-s-oil-refineries?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/