In the occupied Crimea, in Feodosia, Ukrainian long-range drones hit an oil depot.



by Volter318

45 comments
  1. Seems lit, the floor is lava and everyone is having a smashing good time, even the kremlin kremlin feels a burning sensation it its bunker in underground Moscow.

    The orcish air defense (*tracer rounds visible in center of footage at 00:02*) seems a little late for the party though…

  2. Looks like multiple hits with a good portion of the tank farm on fire! Gas is about to get even more scarce

  3. that hissing noise makes me feel warm inside. Slava Ukraini

  4. Wasn’t Russia only just begging to get this under control from the strike a week ago?

    Don’t let them rest, make Crimea unlivable.

    Slava Ukraini 🇬🇧🇺🇦

  5. When it gets cold in my house I come to this page and suddenly I feel a lot warmer

  6. I do feel sorry for the Ukrainians in occupied Crimea, when I see posts about things like this happening there.

    But I hope that this is the kind of thing that will get the Russians out of there as well as the rest of Ukraine.

    The size of that fire is astonishing. I can only wonder how many days it’s going to take for that to burn out.

  7. So maybe I don’t know much about oil depots but I don’t think they’re supposed to be so on fire.

  8. Congratulations to Russia for opening a new warming center 🔥 👏 😆 🤣

  9. The only thing wrong with this clip is that it’s only five seconds long.

  10. Hmm, lookslike the columns for fuel will be even longer tomorow mornning.

    But there will be one new problem – they will not move at all ! 😁

  11. “we have tactically defended another of our oil facilities, reducing potential damage from what could have been much worse”

    (Putin briefing)

  12. Dawg what kinda video this is?? Circle video?? Wit dancing words??

  13. Is it gonna be ok? That looks serious! They really need to be more careful not to invade other countries.

  14. That’s correct. It’s occupied. It’s not Russian. F Russia in the A, Slava Ukraini!

  15. Ooh, that’s a doozy.

    Death by a thousand cuts to your energy infrastructure.

  16. Even less fuel that close to the front! Sucks to be them

  17. That looks more like damage from the flamingo.

  18. That smells like a burning tank farm. Well done.

    Tank farms are an excellent target, because, they are entirely destroyed by such a fire. Technically, they are easier to build than things like distillation towers, but they are far easier to destroy, and will still take months to rebuild.

    Such tank farms are critical to the logistics of moving oil. Any refineries upstream of this place will have trouble operating without anywhere for their products to go.

    A common procedure is to put products into a pipeline one after another. 16 hours of gasoline, 20 hours of diesel, 17 hours of jetfuel, etc. Then, these products go into their specific tanks.

    These products are then distributed, or taken as needed. They might go into trucks, trains, boats, etc.

    When you switch products in the pipeline, you often pump the “better” product into the lesser one. A bit of gasoine can go into diesel, but not diesel into gasoline.

    Even if they try to put products directly from the pipeline into whereever, this doesn’t work. If you are loading trains or trucks, they draw far slower than a pipeline can provide. Even a ship can be loaded slower than a pipeline.

    To try to directly go from pipeline into the next stage would be a nightmare. Also, what to do with the mixed crap as you go from product to product.

    Destroying such tanks might seem like the “cheaper” target than things like distilation towers, but they are almost always the better target. Plus cooler to see them burn.

    One other thing about refineries is that they are fairly tough, and easy to repair. Not repair well, but some hacked repairs which will get the place up and running.

    I would argue a hacked together refinery is going to provide more useful product, than a perfect refinery which has no storage.

    That said, hitting them both is even better.

    One bonus of the half dead refineries is that they are putting out crap. I can’t imagine what this would be doing to jets, trucks, tanks, cars, etc.

    In the longer term, hitting refineries might do more damage to russia overall. Their customers won’t trust their products, and the damage to all of russia might end them for long long time as a viable country.

    One other cool place to hit are the storage tanks which take crude from the oil fields. Many heavy crude oil fields really don’t like to stop being pumped. You can think of them as silting up a canal. In that you can think of the process of restoring them like having to dredge that canal. This means that after the downstream tanks or refineries are repaired, there are unimaginable costs and time to restore them. If crude were remain around 50USD/bbl, then it might not be econmically viable to restore them.

    This is the best route to turn them into the north korea they deserve to be.

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