Less than a week after the Biden administration, with the help of a contingent of Republican congressmen, finally pushed through the latest military aid package worth billions of dollars to Ukraine, Kyiv, ignoring warnings from Washington, launched a series of suicide drone attacks on Russian oil refineries.
Top US officials have warned Kyiv to desist from attacking Russia's energy infrastructure because of fears that turmoil in the oily supply chain would send pump prices in the US higher in the run up the presidential elections in November.
"Our region is again under attack by Ukrainian UAVs," Smolensk Governor Vasily Anokhin wrote in a post on Telegram on Wednesday as Ukrainian Kamikaze drones damaged oil facilities in western Russia. Another drone attack damaged the Lipetsk region further south, where steel production plants and pharmaceutical sites are abundant, Governor Igor Artamonov said.
"The Kyiv criminal regime tried to hit infrastructure in Lipetsk industrial zone," Artamonov said.
The Moscow Times pointed out:
A source in the Ukrainian defense sector confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that drones in the service of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) had carried out the attacks.
The source made no mention of the attack on Lipetsk but claimed two oil depots were destroyed in the Smolensk region.
"Rosneft lost two storage and pumping bases for fuels and lubricants in the towns of Yartsevo and Rozdorovo," the source said, referring to the Russian state-controlled energy giant.
The UK Financial Times reported unnamed US officials recently said long-range drones have hit at least 20 energy facilities deep within Russia so far this year. Kyiv's drone attacks on Russia's energy complex have been frightening for the Biden administration, as Brent prices have risen to the $90/bbl level on higher war risk premiums. Higher energy costs increase inflationary pressure in the economy as stagflation concerns mount in the US. Also, gasoline pump prices in the US are inching closer to the politically sensitive $4 level.
According
to AAA data, the average cost of gas at the pump across the US was
$3.66 as of Thursday, up from $3.10 in mid-January.
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The World Is being Dragged Towards War And Western Weakness Is To Blame
This week's news so far has focused on the worsening situation in the middle east, as western leaders appear to be accepting that there was from day one no way Ukraine could win its war with Russia and that since US and NATO leaders refused to allow Ukraine to negotiate a settlement based on the reasonable terms offered by Russia at the Istanbul in April 2022 there is now no way Ukraine can avoid a crushing defeat or survive as a nation in the aftermath.
The World Is being Dragged Towards War And Western Weakness Is To Blame
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There Is Only One Way Ukraine Can End The War
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After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, when NATO (aka the U.S.A.) mandated that the West impose retaliatory sanctions on Russia, including a ban on importation of Russian gas and oil, Germany found itself in a hole:
Ukraine: Who Is Winning And Losing In The Economic War
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Talk of Sending Fighter Planes to Ukraine Is Madness
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Ukraine End Game: As Bakhmut Falls Real Reporting Vies With Propaganda In Western Media
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Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
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Russia Ukraine Dirty Bomb Claim - Some Reality
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Who Blew Up The Nordstream Pipeline
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An Energy Crisis In Tandem With A Food Crisis On Top Of An Economic Crisis And A War. This Cannot End Well
As politicians in North America and Europe try to deflect from their own failure that have contributed to the current plethora of crises by blaming Russia and Vladmir Putin for all the current problems, while the war in Ukraine is a contributory factor in each, the real blame lies closer to home.
We The Good Guys Versus They The Bad Guys Reporting Does Not Make Sense For The Ukraine Crisis
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