Summary

A massive Ukrainian drone strike targeted Russian oil refineries and infrastructure, including Moscow’s largest refinery, which supplies 50% of the city’s fuel.

The attack also hit the Druzhba pipeline control station, halting Russian oil exports to Hungary. With over 337 drones striking multiple regions, the operation exploited gaps in Russia’s air defenses.

Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.

Analysts suggest continued strikes could pressure Russia’s economy and energy dominance, potentially influencing ceasefire negotiations.

  • takeda@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Hungary, heavily reliant on Russian energy, called the pipeline attack a threat to its sovereignty.

    You had fucking 3 years to look for alternatives.

    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      What alternatives do they have? We’re seeing Germanys economy in free fall, VW closing plants for the first time ever, because their only alternative is US LNG, which costs massively more than the energy they had been getting from Russia.

      • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 hours ago

        Fossil gas was a minor energy source for germany and the eu. It was costly to replace 2 years ago but at this point the cost has been paid and the energy is sourced from other fuels.
        The german car industry was bound to fall ever since they refused to research electric cars decades ago. Even before then they had been outsourcing but now they simply don’t own the profitable part of electric cars - the battery and power-train.
        With or without the war in ukraine they would be disappearing.
        The overall german economy is fine, there is increasingly unequal distribution of wealth like many western nations in recent decades, but the economy is ok.

        Ps: I don’t recall the numbers for germany, but pre 2022 the EU generated less than 20% of their energy with fossil gas, and less than 14% of their electricity. Germany had a higher ratio, but definitely less than a third.

      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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        3 hours ago

        If only there was some massive ball of super heated plasma in the sky from which we could draw energy from, that also moved the atmosphere of the planet which would open another avenue of energy capture, which also happened to move vast quantities of heavy things like water uphill which would also be an opportunity for energy, or if the ground beneath us was warm enough to use for energy, or if there were shiny green rocks the ground that could be used for power.

        Yup, surely there have been zero alternatives.

        • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world
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          3 hours ago

          Wow you’re right, those are all totally viable as primary generation methods, and totally possible to set up in the 2 years since the war started on the scale needed to replace the pipelines you’ve been relying on for decades.

      • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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        2 hours ago

        I don’t think a refinery strike in the Russia has any effect on Hungary. Except by weakening Hungary’s ally.

        This strike has no effect on availability of crude oil in the Russia or elsewhere, but it does have an effect on availability of refined oil products within a certain, rather large, radius around the refinery.