Tiny for a refinery but they’re still a massive piece of infrastructure and it’s a blow to lose one. Though I’m assuming it was just an easy target, I’m not seeing any signs of AA defending this place so one $25,000 drone to do who-even-knows how much damage to the russian economy seems like a damn easy exchange.
It’s also the disruption of supply lines and impact to the local Russians, it will make the war feel more real and not far away. Putin will not stop until his hand is forced
It is 4,000 bbl/d there are a lot of refineries in Russia over 100,000 bbl/d. There are also a lot of other intressting targets, which are not refineries such as power plants. So the fact that Ukraine attacks this refinery shows that they really have a lot of drones.
This refinery is nearly 1000km from the front line. So any drone, which can hit it, could also hit St Petersburg, Samara, Moscow and so forth. It is also a pretty small refinery. The one in Yaroslavl has 300,000 bbl/d, Nizhny Novgorod has 341,000 bbl/d, Samara has two one with 140,000 bbl/d and one with 164,000 bbl/d and there are lot more of that sort of size, which could all be hit by a drone like the one used here. Remember this one has 4,000 bbl/d, so much much less capacity.
Ukraine only has to take out the really large ones to cause a fuel crisis in Russia, which every Russian will feel. At least the ones living roughly in range of the drones. This however is a small refinery, so hitting it is not needed to cause a fuel crisis. This is what you hit, when you have the drones to hit it and want to cause some extra problems.
In other words. Ukraine has drones to spare, so they will very likely start to attack other targets such as the electricity grid in a massive way soon. That is a harder target, but they seem to have enough drones.
Intressting that they go for such a tiny refinery.
Tiny for a refinery but they’re still a massive piece of infrastructure and it’s a blow to lose one. Though I’m assuming it was just an easy target, I’m not seeing any signs of AA defending this place so one $25,000 drone to do who-even-knows how much damage to the russian economy seems like a damn easy exchange.
It’s also the disruption of supply lines and impact to the local Russians, it will make the war feel more real and not far away. Putin will not stop until his hand is forced
It is 4,000 bbl/d there are a lot of refineries in Russia over 100,000 bbl/d. There are also a lot of other intressting targets, which are not refineries such as power plants. So the fact that Ukraine attacks this refinery shows that they really have a lot of drones.
I have read that there have already been delays caused by reduced capacity
This war will only change when people in Russia are significantly personally affected, so every barrel not produced will count
This refinery is nearly 1000km from the front line. So any drone, which can hit it, could also hit St Petersburg, Samara, Moscow and so forth. It is also a pretty small refinery. The one in Yaroslavl has 300,000 bbl/d, Nizhny Novgorod has 341,000 bbl/d, Samara has two one with 140,000 bbl/d and one with 164,000 bbl/d and there are lot more of that sort of size, which could all be hit by a drone like the one used here. Remember this one has 4,000 bbl/d, so much much less capacity.
Ukraine only has to take out the really large ones to cause a fuel crisis in Russia, which every Russian will feel. At least the ones living roughly in range of the drones. This however is a small refinery, so hitting it is not needed to cause a fuel crisis. This is what you hit, when you have the drones to hit it and want to cause some extra problems.
In other words. Ukraine has drones to spare, so they will very likely start to attack other targets such as the electricity grid in a massive way soon. That is a harder target, but they seem to have enough drones.
@MrMakabar @LaFinlandia
A tiny refinery might have less resources for fixing the damage?