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News & Current Events Apr 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM

Ukraine hits major Russian oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai, media, officials report

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Ukrainian drone strikes turn major Russian oil refinery into 'volcano' along the Black Sea
The Kyiv Independent
Ukrainian drone strikes turn major Russian oil refinery into 'volcano' along the Black Sea
The Tuapse Oil Refinery, a Rosneft facility, is one of the 10 largest refineries in Russia.
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shamblam117 Apr 16, 2026 +247
Z banking on Russia running out of gasoline by hitting their ports and refineries at the same time the Persian Gulf is essentially locked down is a smart move. Doubt Russia actually opens their exports back up in July like they said.
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DeeDee_Z Apr 16, 2026 +88
> Russia running out of gasoline Make sure you understand the difference between petrol and diesel fuels. **Petrol** production is already severely impacted; there are shortages of one kind or another across the country (minimized in Moscow and StPb, of course). Russia has long since ceased to export petrol. **Diesel** production is reduced, of course, but they had so much production overcapacity that export controls are not needed. The military -- whose tanks and trucks run on diesel -- have all the supplies they need, as do the railroads, which are the backbone of Russian logistics. Do not conflate the two fuels.
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CuttingTheMustard Apr 16, 2026 +36
“No export controls” on diesel isn’t quite right; they’ve imposed export restrictions on diesel multiple times in the past few years. Ukraine may be hitting FCCs and CDUs asymmetrically impacting highly refined products like gasoline, but the gap isn’t that big.
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Lastcaressmedown138 Apr 17, 2026 +4
Gas drives the citizens.. diesel drives wars..
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takeda64 Apr 17, 2026 +6
Is it just me that is convinced that Russia picked Z, V, O (first letters of Zelensky's full name using Latin alphabet) to intimidate him to running away? People gave different explanations, from "that's just random" to saying "this is just the direction from which they attack was coming from". But none of that is convincing to me. I think the idea was to intimidate with sending tanks with his name to make him run so then taking over Kyiv would be easy. If Zelensky would flee to US as he had opportunity, that would seriously hurt morale.
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Lost_the_weight Apr 17, 2026 +14
Luckily for the world, he needed ammunition, not a ride.
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EmotionalGuess9229 Apr 17, 2026 -1
What do you mean by Z? Are you referring to the russian invasion force? It doesn't make sense in this context
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OverSoft Apr 17, 2026 +2
Zelensky
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Virtual_Medium_6721 Apr 16, 2026 +205
Hit 'em all!
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BoppityBop2 Apr 16, 2026 -132
Europe going dark in 6 weeks with all this oil infrastructure going offline. Asia already is n
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LikeTheWater53152 Apr 16, 2026 +68
im in Denmark. weve been running on 100% green energy for a month straight. the Norwegians have the oil stuff covered too :)
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MiserableTennis6546 Apr 16, 2026 +10
Which is also not going to be fossil based, since Sweden has an even more decarbonized energy system.
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Big_Department4209 Apr 16, 2026 +7
Exactly, our grid in Sweden's is extremely low on carbon emissions, 99+% carbon-free, Denmark's is actually lagging a lot behind the other Nordics. No idea why, there's plenty of wind to be harvested year-long, could have a nuclear power plant somewhere to provide the baseline but alas, I don't mind them importing electricity from us but I do mind they still have around half of the emissions per GWh than Germany (which is f****** high, Germany is a letdown...).
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MiserableTennis6546 Apr 16, 2026 +24
We're energy independent here in Sweden when it comes to electricity and heat. We'll be fine. Same with many other western European countries. Turns out there are advantages to decarbonizing. 
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Bunnyhat Apr 16, 2026 +37
Europe has had 14 years to start weaning itself off Russian oil.
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LikeTheWater53152 Apr 16, 2026 +7
they removed your comment. in 2020 (6 years ago) we had a whopping 15% non-renewable energy source (everything else was green and thus not using oil). the thing i was saying was that as of a couple days ago we are the first country EVER to run on completely renewable resources for over a month which is really cool. so i dont think were gonna go dark anytime soon from a lack of oil 😅 idk where youre from so maybe stuff like that might seem completely alien
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Rexo7274 Apr 16, 2026 +91
Maybe ask putin to stop the war rather than blaming ukraine for defending itself?
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Kaarothh Apr 17, 2026 -8
Maybe tell Americans to stop expanding NATO east?
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Rexo7274 Apr 17, 2026 +5
Guess what, independent countries can decide for themselves which alliances they want to join. Russia has noone but itself to blame for the NATO expansion. Why do you think east european countries want to join NATO? I'll give you a hint: it's because they fear russian aggression
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Kaarothh Apr 18, 2026 -2
You might want to read some history you high school dropout. “U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s famous “not one inch eastward” assurance about NATO expansion in his meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on February 9, 1990, was part of a cascade of assurances about Soviet security given by Western leaders to Gorbachev and other Soviet officials throughout the process of German unification in 1990 and on into 1991, according to declassified U.S., Soviet, German, British and French documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University” https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early
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Rexo7274 Apr 19, 2026 +1
Sorry, was there any kind of actual/official treaty regarding NATO expansion or just some words in a meeting? If you want to talk about broken agreements maybe take a look at the budapest memorandum, you might learn something. And again: why do you think countries want to join NATO? MAYBE if Russia wouldn't have been a massive d*** to its neighbors most of the time, east european countries wouldn't feel the need to join a defence pact against it.
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Kaarothh Apr 19, 2026
Words mean something otherwise you wouldn’t have Ukraine completly destroyed today.
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Rexo7274 Apr 19, 2026
The only thing being completly destroyed are russian oil refineries lol
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biologic6 Apr 16, 2026 +38
It went all Stranger Things in that neighborhood.
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AdOne5089 Apr 16, 2026 +21
Good. Russia can end this madness anytime by bringing their troops home. Putin and his regime are actively killing thousands for their own gain.
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AirshipCanon Apr 16, 2026 +25
Blow em all up
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Electromotivation Apr 16, 2026 +26
Putin can stop this madness anytime. Russia is all in on a suicide pact. Citizens are complicit. The volunteer troops would rather walk to certain death than turn on their officers who dont hestitate to torture or kill them for not doing so. Cowed serfs.
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Ultra_Metal Apr 16, 2026 +7
Excellent news!
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Harry_The-Bastard Apr 17, 2026 +3
Keep 'em coming! Burn Putin's petro-terrorist infrastructure down
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jert3 Apr 16, 2026 +4
I just don't see how Russia can ever be successful in their invasion attempt at this point. Even with their Trump card.
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spektre Apr 16, 2026 +3
No need to shoot celebratory fireworks, looks like its already taken care of.
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ledoscreen Apr 17, 2026 +1
Putin doesn't care what happens to these factories. It's the old Bolshevik slogan: “The worse, the better.” We need to end the war.
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KaQuu Apr 16, 2026 +84
This ain't escalation...
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siorge Apr 16, 2026 +120
Escalation, the f you're on about, mate? The only way to peace is a Ukrainian victory. one cannot negotiate with mass-murdering, war-crime-committing terrorists
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DubSket Apr 16, 2026 +59
If someone repeatedly punches you in the face and you punch back: eScALAtiOn
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Fizzy_Astronaut Apr 16, 2026 +17
Emotional damage!!
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Spirited_Bend3813 Apr 16, 2026 +81
Escalation? Russia just murdered a bunch of civilians including kids by hitting residential building with drones and missiles overnight. The f*** you talking about?
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LevoiHook Apr 16, 2026 +38
How do you mean ' how fragile things still are'? Russia never stopped bombing civilians. 
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vonGlick Apr 16, 2026 +2
Those fragile civilians, unable to withstand objects being thrown at them at high velocity. /s
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Virtual_Medium_6721 Apr 16, 2026 +24
Bro really thinks that Putin is interested in making negotiations lol
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Wonderful-Pause1048 Apr 16, 2026 +15
That’s “nipping the problem in the bud!”
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Prudent_Kiwi_2761 Apr 16, 2026 +17
This isn’t escalation, this is payback, it’s revenge, it’s justice
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SlightlyAngyKitty Apr 16, 2026 +7
Its also self defence
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pentox70 Apr 16, 2026 +12
I think you might be getting two different conflicts mixed up, slugger.
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ButterscotchTop194 Apr 16, 2026 +13
Are you high?
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Jopelin_Wyde Apr 16, 2026 +19
Gosh, so true, why won't people just think of the innocent oil?!
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Slimmanoman Apr 16, 2026 +7
We are invading your country and killing your people. Please don't escalate.
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demacnei Apr 16, 2026 +7
“So I was raping this dude, then he bit me and yelled for help … He escalated a situation I had total control over.”
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__Jimmy__ Apr 16, 2026 +5
Schools when the bullied kid fights back:
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Debt101 Apr 16, 2026 +2
funny how this is the escalation and not the bombs dropped on civilians in Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Kyiv this week. F*** russia, I hope Ukraine hits all their refineries.
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