No, they get gas via pipeline.
France accounted for 41% of Europe’s imports of Russian LNG in H1 2025, followed by Belgium (28%), Spain (20%), the Netherlands (9%) and Portugal (2%).
Source(and also original source of the article): https://ieefa.org/european-lng-tracker#section9
There is an oil glut so prices are mostly falling. So the US has every reason to cut off foreign oil exports, to increase the global oil price.
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.
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.
It might not even matter. The towers are 50m apart and it is a tiny plant. This could well have hit both.
Intressting that they go for such a tiny refinery.
There are currently billions of frozen assets in the West and also oil and gas pipelines to Europe. With a peace deal, it would be possible to restart the sale of oil and gas and maybe even get the money. Even if they have to give it to Ukraine, that would be less of a problem, as they do not control it anyway. Especially if Putin gets couped, this might well leave Russia as part of the EU sphere of influence, which would give them the option to move soldiers 1000km from Bejing.
I would honestly not be surprised. Invading a collapsing Russia might well be easier, then invading Taiwan and China has claims of the Russian Far East.
Casulties are not deaths, but soldiers which can no longer fight. So when somebody gets badly wounded, they are also a casulty.
Still really horrible though.
Reached 1,111,111 casulties.
Russian deaths in WW1 were 1.7-2.25million. Obviously that is deaths and not casualties, but Meduza is at 132k deaths by name and 219k deaths by probate count. That was the Russian Empire, so a much larger country then modern day Russia, with a larger population and a much younger one as well.
Seems like the Russians pushed in the south around Orikhiv. That part of the front was very calm for months. Also the Ukrainians seem to close the northern most cauldron
Windows are certainly worse quality for oligarchs, given how many fall out of them.
He does not need to. He just does as his handlers command and they are from the US oil and gas industry.
He wants Europe to buy American instead. Given the situation that is indeed reasonable, but the real solution is to go green. That he hates though.
Russia seized a lot of Western assets and is activly suing companies with long term gas delivery contracts, which do not buy Russian gas, because the Russians cut it off.
These are refineries not oil fields. They turn oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and much much more.
No, that is exactly what is going to happen. The Russians leave them out their tied up, so the Ukrainians can kill them.
The US is not part of the ICC.
It did not just happen. The last winter happened to be cold and most gas is used for heating. So more LNG was needed to fill up storage. Some of that came from Russia, but most from the US.
The good news is that the 19th sanctions package includes an LNG ban. So this is going to end in a bit over a year.