Russia gripped by gas shortages after Ukraine strikes

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1. By Ellie Cook — Senior Defense Reporter |

   Several Russian regions, plus parts of Moscow-controlled Ukraine, are experiencing gas shortages and rationing after persistent Ukrainian attacks on the country’s oil facilities, according to new reports.

   Kyiv has homed in on Russia’s oil industry, seeking to slice at the Kremlin’s ability to fund its war effort more than three and a half years into Russia’s full-scale invasion and hammer home the reverberations of the conflict for ordinary Russians.

   In August, Ukraine has targeted several major Russian oil refineries, while its attacks on an oil pumping station in Russia’s Bryansk region also stopped oil flowing through the Druzhba pipeline. Crude oil deliveries via the major pipeline from Russia still have not resumed.

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2. 17% is a good start. Now if they could knock out the major gas supplies to Moscow, that would be outstanding. It’s time for the Russian economy to break.

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4. The beast bleeds black

5. It makes me think of the first year of the war, when Russia has TV adverts showing the EU freeing through winter and eating rats.

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