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Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine hits more refineries, pumping stations [1]

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Date: 2025-09-20

Ukraine hit two more refineries and three pumping stations. The two refineries were hit previously as well.

x 🔥🛢️ Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery was the second one targeted tonight. This refinery has the capacity of 7.9mln tons of oil per year. It’s the second time it’s targeted during the new campaign of strikes on Russian refineries. Previously it was hit on 2nd of August.



[image or embed] — 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM

The Saratov refinery is on fire again.

Someone should do something about those careless smokers and all that falling debris.

When the Russians aren’t putting out fires there, Saratov processes 6 million tons of crude oil a year.

x 👌 Drones of the Unmanned Systems Forces attacked the Saratov Oil Refinery, - Dnipro Osint The torch is burning, several arrivals were recorded, one of them to the primary oil processing unit ELOU-AVT-6, the main and only one at the plant.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM

Ukraine apparently attacked Saratov with drones equipped with cloaking devices. Must be part of that aid package from the Klingons.

The pumping stations that were attacked have reportedly shut down.

x Ukraine media report 3 hits on Russian pumping stations, not just the one in Samara. They're all on the Kuibyshev-Tikhoretsk pipeline, which exports oil through Novorossiysk Zenzevatka (Volgograd) & Sovkhoznaya (Samara) struck as well as the linear production dispatch station mentioned earlier. — Tim White (@twmcltd.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM

Storing ammunition at an oil facility doesn’t seem like a great idea.

Four warheads of 100 kg each probably didn’t leave much unscathed.

x 💥Four FP-2 attack drones with a warhead weighing more than 100 kilograms hit the location of the Russian Rubicon UAV unit in the Pokrovsk sector. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) September 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM

A big ole pile of Grad rockets goes bavovna.

x Ukrainian Atesh group's partisan embedded in a unit of Russia’s “South” grouping, passed precise coordinates of a field depot storing shells for BM-21 Grad MLRS used to bombard Ukrainian towns Ukrainian forces struck the site and destroyed the stockpile

📸 Atesh



[image or embed] — Euromaidan Press (@euromaidanpress.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM

How long can the Russians in this salient hold out?

x Russian milblogger Anatoly Radov confirms worsening conditions for Russian troops near Dobropillia. Ukrainian forces have been counterattacking for weeks, reportedly encircling one Russian group, and possibly a second. Pressure on this sector for Russians is really mounting.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM

Another dead Russian executive. Alexandr Tyunin supposedly left a suicide note.

Umatex Group is Russia’s only manufacturer of carbon fiber and provides critical parts for the production of Shahed drones.

x ❗️The CEO of Umatex Group, Russia's only carbon fiber manufacturer and a key supplier of raw materials for the production of Shahed/Geran drones, was found shot dead in the Moscow region. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/head...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) September 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM

The body of the Russian company’s CEO, Alexandr Tyunin, was found on the roadside near a village near Moscow, along with a gun and a suicide note. “I did it myself, I’m tired of fighting depression for 5 years, it’s getting worse, I have no strength,” Tyunin’s note reads.

Russia reaches the next milestone on the Odometer of Death — 1,100,000.

x While Putin burns billions terrorising Ukrainians with drones & missiles, his army bleeds out. 🇷🇺 Losses now:

•110,600+ personnel

•11,192 tanks

•32,927 artillery systems

•61,000+ drones



[image or embed] — Shaun Pinner (@olddogua.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM

Here’s a list of the Russian officers killed when that grass fire spread to their compound.

x Eighteen operational officers of the 35th Combined Arms Army headquarters were killed in an act of sabotage in the Zaporizhzhia region on 30th August 2025



[image or embed] — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Boris pushed his luck by going back.

x Lieutenant Несмеянов Борис Александрович (Nesmeyanov Boris Alexandrovich) served from the first day of the invasion, was blown up by a mine and wounded, promoted, retrained in drone reconnaissance, left for the front line at the end of June 2025, and finally eliminated on 8 July.



[image or embed] — KIU • Russian Officers killed in Ukraine (@killedinukraine.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM

Russia struck a grocery store and an apartment building in Dnipro.

x One of the targets of Russia’s strike on Dnipro was the warehouses of ATB. ATB is one of Ukraine’s largest supermarket chains, with thousands of stores nationwide. Its warehouses store food and essential goods, making them a critical part of civilian supply infrastructure.



[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM

Naturally Russia tried to kill as many civilians as possible.

x This is what the Russian munitions that struck Dnipro this morning were loaded with. People are finding these fragments scattered across the streets and stuck in the walls of their apartments.



[image or embed] — Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM

Gosh. I wonder who is responsible for this.

Perhaps a sternly worded letter will solve the problem.

x A cyberattack disrupted operations at several major European airports today, including Brussels Airport and London’s Heathrow, causing flight delays and cancellations.



[image or embed] — POLITICO Europe (@politico.eu) September 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM

Sanctions alone are obviously not working.

x 🛳️❗️NYT: Sanctions are taking Russian shadow fleet out of the legal business, but not out of the market altogether. The shadow fleet is growing rapidly — now 940 vessels, 17% of the world's oil tankers, and allows Russia and Iran to supply oil directly to India and China.



[image or embed] — MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM

The EU may have found a way to rein in Hungary and Slovakia on oil imports.

x The EU is considering trade measures to curb remaining Russian oil imports via the Druzhba pipeline, which supplies Hungary and Slovakia, Bloomberg reports. Unlike sanctions, tariffs need only a majority vote. This move could fulfill a key Trump demand for stronger EU alignment on Russia.



[image or embed] — NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) September 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM

A Russian soldier wrote a piece about how Ukraine is way ahead when it comes to effective utilization of drones. Naturally, this didn’t bring about reform. It brought about retaliation against him.

Russian war bloggers have been incensed. One points out the soldier’s key points:

x 12/ 📌 1. Tactical weaknesses in use - Drones are used without a clear understanding of their role in conjunction with other assets. - The enemy's FPV drones are integrated into tactical schemes: reconnaissance, suppression, and finishing. — ChrisO_wiki (@chriso-wiki.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM

13/ - Our side often employs them in a fragmented manner, without coordination or analysis of the results. 14/ 📌 2. Lack of rapid adoption of advanced methods. - The enemy quickly adapts tactics to new conditions: changing routes, camouflaging equipment, using decoys. - Our system is slow to respond to changes, often continuing to use outdated schemes. 15/ 📌 3. Problems with management and initiative - Initiative groups and developers in Russia face bureaucracy, a lack of support, and sometimes even outright resistance. - Our opponents, especially in the volunteer and private sectors, act flexibly: quickly testing, implementing, and scaling. 16/ 📌 4. Communication and control quality - The enemy has a better-organized digital infrastructure: secure channels, precise navigation, and integration with combat systems. - Russian units often suffer from communication outages and the lack of a unified UAV control system. 17/ 📌 5. Command Psychology - The enemy is quicker to admit mistakes and adjust their approach.- Our system is prone to complacency, ignoring criticism, and suppressing inconvenient voices—as Filatov points out, this leads to a loss of touch with reality. 18/ 📌 6. Logistics and Supply - The enemy has an established supply chain for components, including civilian solutions. We have supply chain interruptions, dependence on a limited number of suppliers, and a lack of systemic support at the Ministry of Defense level.

Yesterday there was a report about Ukraine attacking Russian units on the Tendra Spit, which is a narrow island that juts into the Black Sea south of the Kinburn Spit.

The attack destroyed this DT-10 Vityaz all-terrain tracked vehicle that was designed to operate in difficult terrain like the Arctic or in this case in sand.

x 💥 The soldiers of the Maritime Center Viking of the Active Operations Department of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Vityaz tracked two-section all-terrain vehicle on the Tendra Spit. militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...



[image or embed] — Militarnyi (@militarnyi.com) September 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Here's video of the assault:

x YouTube Video

This isn’t just stupid. It’s extra fucking stupid.

x The Pentagon has informed European diplomats it will halt part of its military assistance to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and all NATO members bordering Russia in Baltic Sea in a meeting last month, per Reuters

www.reuters.com/world/europe...



[image or embed] — Michael Horowitz (@michaelhorowitz.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM

The problem with sanctions is enforcing them when there are so many people trying to evade them.

x ⚡️Russia, Vietnam concealing arms deals via joint energy profits to evade US sanctions, AP reports. The two nations used profits from joint oil and gas enterprises to fund defense contracts, bypassing the global banking system, Vietnamese government documents show.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) September 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM

Maybe the closing of this airspace means Russia will try once again to launch one of their Oreshnik missiles (Oreshnik is Russian for Hazel Tree). The Oreshnik is a hypersonic intermediate-range missile capable supposedly of Mach 10. That’s pretty damn fast and one of the only systems that could bring it down is America’s THAAD high-altitude missile defense system, although Israel’s Arrow 3 might do the job.

Russians think this missile will make them masters of the universe but they haven’t used them in combat since that first launch and they are reported to not have very many of them. They have mostly been making noises about deploying them to Belarus.

Kapustin Yar is east of Volgograd (what used to be Stalingrad) and northwest of the Caspian Sea shore. There was a launch of an Oreshnik from Kapustin Yar last November toward Dnipro in Ukraine. That missile had dummy warheads and was apparently launched as a message.

x Russia will close the airspace over the Kapustin Yar missile base from September 22nd through 27th.

The implied threat is to launch a ballistic missile against Europe in case Europeans decide to do anything beside doing what they do best - obediently "stand" as Russia attacks.



[image or embed] — Igor Sushko (@igorsushko.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM

Russia claims it never violated Estonian airspace.

Estonia has requested Article 4 consultations with NATO.

x Estonia has requested NATO consultations under Article 4 after Russian MiG-31 jets violated its airspace. “Such a breach is completely unacceptable,” Prime Minister Kristen Michal said.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM

But don’t worry, because Trump is on the job.

He’ll have an announcement later — maybe two weeks.

x ⚡️Update: Trump says Russian fighter jets in Estonia could spell 'big trouble.' "I don't love it. I don't like when that happens. This could be big trouble, but I'll let you know later, they're going to brief me in about an hour," Trump told reporters on Sept. 19.



[image or embed] — The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) September 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM

I’m sure Russia will comply immediately.

x The IAEA adopted a resolution demanding Russia immediately withdraw from the occupied Zaporizhzhia NPP. Backed by 62 members, the document reaffirms that all nuclear facilities must operate under full Ukrainian control.



[image or embed] — WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM

A non-Russian doctor in Russia deals with a Russian version of a Karen. His patience is admirable.

x "What didn't you like about the consultation?"

"You are not a f*cking Russian." In Russia,a woman made an appointment with a doctor who was not of Russian nationality,after the consultation,she began to insult him on this basis "I consider it my duty to help everyone," he wrote in the comments



[image or embed] — Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) September 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM

Maybe they could also force Russians to pay to wait in line at gas stations.

Disappointing to say the least.

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