Summary
A massive Ukrainian drone strike targeted Russian oil refineries and infrastructure, including Moscow’s largest refinery, which supplies 50% of the city’s fuel.
The attack also hit the Druzhba pipeline control station, halting Russian oil exports to Hungary. With over 337 drones striking multiple regions, the operation exploited gaps in Russia’s air defenses.
Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.
Analysts suggest continued strikes could pressure Russia’s economy and energy dominance, potentially influencing ceasefire negotiations.
What do you mean it has not advanced since February 2022? That’s quite a wild statement. Just look at how many regions have been captured by Russia last year and this year alone.
During the year 2024 the Russia managed to conquer 0.7 % of Ukraine’s total land area. Less than a percent.
The areas conquered are indeed many, but that’s just because they count places like Niu York and Progress. Those have such weird names because they are old kolkhozes – very big farms. Soviet farms had a lot of workers, and therefore houses, but it is still about conquering a kolkhoz.
Conquering 0.7 % of country’s territory is not “advancing”. The Russia keeps advertising its 100 metre successes as advancing, and for some weird reason the western media reports about those as advances.
But it is still 0.7 %. A negligible area.
That’s advancing and is not negligible.
It’s quite a big claim that capturing 0.7 percent of a country is in any way significant.
I am not aware of any mechanic that would cause such a small change of territory control to have any noteworthy effect on a war’s result. If the 0.7 % are indeed significant, how?