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News & Current Events Apr 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM

Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russian oil storage tanks in Tuapse before flames from previous attacks extinguished.

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Russia's Tuapse oil refinery disaster deepens after Ukraine's drones strike yet again
The Kyiv Independent
Russia's Tuapse oil refinery disaster deepens after Ukraine's drones strike yet again
Tuapse has faced intensified strikes in recent days, including strikes on an oil refinery on April 20 and April 16, leaving multi-day fires burning in the Russian town.
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RadiumJuly Apr 28, 2026 +448
It's not going to stop. Drone technology has clearly surpassed any viable countermeasures for the time being. Anything worth destroying in Russia is going to keep getting hit until they decide to make serious concessions for peace.
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OkArm8581 Apr 28, 2026 +210
Until they decide to GTFO
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throwburgeratface Apr 28, 2026 +55
We need to tell that to the Americans at Hormuz too.
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Molteninferno Apr 28, 2026 +28
Oh they know, they just hide it from their populace
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CronosWorks Apr 28, 2026 +21
Except Iranian drones aren’t a threat to the US like Ukrainian drones are to Russia, which is the entire point of this comment chain.
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Ok_Wasabi8793 Apr 28, 2026 +7
US allies, global oil production, US military bases… they’re a threat to a bunch of stuff.  The point of the thread is that drones make it so the war in Ukraine is sufficiently bad for Russia that they’re unlikely to be able to sustain it. This is quite possibly true for americas war in Iran. 
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CronosWorks Apr 28, 2026 +6
Yes, they’re a threat to some of those things. It’s not comparable leverage to sharing a land border and being in an active ground war. Ukraine can strike Moscow. Can Iran strike DC?
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Ok_Wasabi8793 Apr 28, 2026 +2
Do you think Irans ability to strike American assets and allies assets has a massive influence on how America is forced to pursue diplomacy with Iran? Drones are a major factor in that war, so m not even convinced America could keep American troops on the ground safe at this point with how effective drones seem to be which largely negates americas ability to wage any kind of war that would be remotely popular. 
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CronosWorks Apr 28, 2026 +2
The most popular kind of war America could wage is a long range aerial campaign like has been happening for some time now. Not that a war needs to be popular. Drones have 0 impact on that. And how do you think direct action against US Navy would turn out for Iran? Diplomatic relations aren’t required if a country ceases to exist.
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xstreamReddit Apr 28, 2026 +1
They are a threat to anybody wanting to pass the strait and any local infrastructure. That's enough to cause global chaos. They don't need to threaten a carrier group directly.
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Vano_Kayaba Apr 28, 2026 +31
Viable countermeasures are there, Ukrainian ones are outpacing Russian drone attack scaling. Shaheds are less effective than a year ago, despite higher number of drones.
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HarithBK Apr 28, 2026 +35
There is a lot of western tech being developed and tested (some in Ukraine) to cost efficiently deal with drone threats that is showing promise. The issue is on the Russian side has very poor ability to develop these countermeasures. The really bad thing is that the US is being left in the dust here as it is Europe developing this tech which greatly harms the US military reach. All the while the parts are Chinese and they have the commercial sector locked down.
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TheZombieFish Apr 28, 2026 +28
Probably good timing on the US losing its excessive military dominance in all honesty, doubt it will last though unless theres somehow further idiocy
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clackerbag Apr 28, 2026 +25
> The really bad thing is that the US is being left in the dust here as it is Europe developing this tech which greatly harms the US military reach. Why is that a bad thing?
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pepejovi Apr 28, 2026 +24
He's American. Like most of Listnook is. For them, the U.S. losing at anything is a bad thing, no matter how deserved.
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fretkat Apr 28, 2026 +1
That's a really good thing. We can't trust the US anymore.
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crazedizzled Apr 28, 2026 +1
The US is not left in the dust. They've been working on anti drone shit for a decade at least, and have several options.
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Ippzz Apr 28, 2026 +3
Well countermeasures are also drone related in this case. So it's only Russia that is surpassed technology wise. Ukraine can fend itself off with a 95% interception rate with shahed drones.
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The_Only_Squid Apr 28, 2026 +4
I mean sure that is one outcome, the other grim one is they go YOU KNOW WHAT screw your drones we got something far bigger and stronger and then just cause human devastation, However i do feel that if they were going to use that weaponry they would of already done that by now.
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A1Wow Apr 28, 2026 +1
They didn’t use nukes when Ukraine took land in Kursk, and they won’t in the future. That would turn everyone against Russia including China. They would be a lot more fucked than they already are.
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theevilphoturis Apr 28, 2026 +1
Putin is just as narcissist as Trump. I highly doubt he'll concede anything.
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GregorGreenberg Apr 28, 2026 +1
Not peace, but absolute victory.
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nawicav Apr 28, 2026 +98
Doing more to end fossil fuels than any environmentalist could. Thank you Ukraine.
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DotFX Apr 28, 2026 +13
As much as I agree, but there's now kind of an ecological catastrophy in the region, like oil rains and spills that kill animals (apart from humans, but we don't care about them).
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Red_black_flag_07 Apr 28, 2026 +58
The Russian people always have the opportunity to stop this catastrophe, but they don't have the will. Just in one day.
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KyoshiroSDK Apr 28, 2026 -29
Easy for you to say when you are not the one getting the bullets
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Red_black_flag_07 Apr 28, 2026 +19
Residents of Tuapse under bullets? What a horror! Who is shooting at them?
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Banaanisade Apr 28, 2026 +12
Then this will keep happening. There is no third option.
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ContentsMayVary Apr 28, 2026 +31
The Ukrainians are in an existential battle for survival. If the Russians take over Ukraine, the Ukrainians will be systematically erased, like is already happening in the Donbas. If the Russians stop fighting and go home, the war ends and attacks on Russian infrastructure stop. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, they will be erased.
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DotFX Apr 28, 2026 -6
I am all in for Ukraine to erase ruzzia's money making factories. I just wish they continued how they did it previously - attack the expensive, most difficult to replace, equipment. Not make it harder for the animals (I mean literal animals, not ruzzians) to exist.
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Galaghan Apr 28, 2026 +1
If only one of the sides had the power to stop all of it in a heartbeat..
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Machinencio Apr 28, 2026 +131
>***It's even funnier the second time***
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Decimated_zx Apr 28, 2026 +30
This is 3rd strike on same plant next day after previous attack fires were extinquished
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Heavy_Secret_203 Apr 28, 2026 +14
Third strike in 2 weeks, to be precise. Russian air defence systems shortage is a thing now. That place used to be heavily protected last year. 
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CroGamer002 Apr 28, 2026 +5
All the while Putin is hoarding anti-air weapons around his personal palace.
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Heavy_Secret_203 Apr 28, 2026 +3
Not only around Valdai, but around Moscow, Novorossiysk, Alabuga, and many military airfields. There are still many air defence systems in russia. But russians are forced to set their priorities. As you can see, that particular port is no longer a priority.
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Decimated_zx Apr 28, 2026 +1
Hitting alabuga plant would be massive
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DespairTraveler Apr 28, 2026 -21
I know listnook likes to hate anyone from Russia these days, but it's not really funny with whole region swamped with black rain. Everything is coated in black and oil contaminating earth and water sources. 
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mewt6 Apr 28, 2026 +22
And who is to blame for that ?
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LLJKCicero Apr 28, 2026 +14
The environmental damage does really suck, it's just that this is 100% Russia's fault.
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Red_black_flag_07 Apr 28, 2026 +6
[The city of Volchansk, completely destroyed by the Russians. Is that funny?](https://glavcom.ua/img/article/10239/85_pb-v1728015945.webp)
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DespairTraveler Apr 28, 2026 +1
No, war is never funny. I am not endorsing Russian government here, it just grates me when people think it's funny when something that destroys innocent life happens. Whatever the side.
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ordnance_inbound Apr 28, 2026 +92
The flames from burning Russian oil tanks warms my soul 🙏🥺
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Far_Out_6and_2 Apr 28, 2026 +6
Great
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JimTheSaint Apr 28, 2026 +1
It really is beautiful 
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DruidDog Apr 28, 2026 +82
make Muscovy small again
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oluga Apr 28, 2026 +68
Sooooo anything withing drone distance is just a shooting gallery for Ukraine? "What air defense doing?" -Famous russian saying
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ahrzal Apr 28, 2026 +4
Tbh what can air defense do? Are the drones flying lower…like less than 75 feet above ground all the way there?
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Tall-Reputation-9519 Apr 28, 2026 +2
No, these are essentially cruise missiles hitting the oil facilities now. I'm GUESSING it was the Ukrainian made Flamingo missile that did this. What drones have been doing this year is extending their reach beyond the Ukrainian lines to about 30 miles and going after the air defences in that zone. Before this year (ish) they were pretty much immune to drones unless a recon drone found them, reported the position back, HIMARS was brought up, fired while the defence system didn't move. Now they can send FPV drones in that far. This has thinned out the air defences a LOT allowing the cruise missiles to get through.
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Ziodyne967 Apr 28, 2026 +23
Drone strikes will not stop until situation improves on the home front.
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PuzKarapuz Apr 28, 2026 +13
russian oil and infrastructure should burn none stop, dvizuha.
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darkstar107 Apr 28, 2026 +40
Slava Ukraine!
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cinciNattyLight Apr 28, 2026 +25
Hit it again!
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appleadamspdx Apr 28, 2026 +6
Slava!
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Mistral-Fien Apr 28, 2026 +12
Double-tap!!
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babecafe Apr 28, 2026 +7
Ukranians have c**** anti-drone and anti-missile technology that can counter Iran's Shahed offensive missiles. The current US technology is orders of magnitude more expensive and rapidly being depleted. So it turns out that Ukraine *does* have some cards in hand to trade with the US after all. It's time for Trump to apologize for failing to seriously trade support and technology with Zelenskyy.
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fretkat Apr 28, 2026 +1
Apologies would be appreciated, but the US will not be trusted again
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MorrowDisca Apr 28, 2026 +3
Kinetic sanctions.
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patrickthunnus Apr 28, 2026 +1
I think it would have been better if UKR allowed RUS to fully rebuild the facility and then level it the day before it reopened for business.
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jc-from-sin Apr 28, 2026 +3
No, that would be a waste of a drone. It should be filled up first.
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Pharazonian Apr 28, 2026 +1
pour it on... keep it coming
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TxM_2404 Apr 28, 2026 +1
Apparently the heat of the flames vaporizes se of the oil that then comes back down as toxic rain. I've read that the fire poisoned the ground and water supply in the Russian black sea region that was a popular tourist destination.
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_OdysseyNomad Apr 28, 2026 +1
Another oil price increase
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Autumn_Ridge Apr 28, 2026 -76
I'm rooting for Ukraine in the war. But in all honesty, the more Russian crude that gets taken offline, the more the Hormuz crisis will make prices go up. $200/barrel oil is coming. Edit: I thought there were only Russian listnook bots, but obviously the Ukrsnians have them too.
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Sometimes-funny Apr 28, 2026 +84
So what? Ukraine didn’t invade themselves. Be angry at russia
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ex0e Apr 28, 2026 +32
Be angry against Russia and everyone supporting it. That means the US, Iran, North Korea, EU, and China. Be angry against anyone who supports these evil economies.
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fretkat Apr 28, 2026 +1
The EU supports Ukraine. They are the biggest and most important supporter even. You are absolutely delusional if you think the EU supports Russia.
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crazedizzled Apr 28, 2026 +1
They're still buying Russian gas, lol
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Autumn_Ridge Apr 28, 2026 -20
You can be angry at whoever you like. If the US was supporting Ukraine like they should, then they would get better intelligence and technology, and they wouldn't have to attack oil. They could go after Putin and his generals instead. But we won't help them, which only drives up the cost of gas in the US.
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ponylicious Apr 28, 2026 +15
Short-term pain for long-term gain: [https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/nations-meet-discuss-fossil-fuel-exit-iran-war-drives-up-prices-2026-04-27/](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/nations-meet-discuss-fossil-fuel-exit-iran-war-drives-up-prices-2026-04-27/)
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Red_black_flag_07 Apr 28, 2026 +17
Yes, we'll sit around and do nothing, let Russians kill us so that it's 20 cents cheaper for you to get to work.
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fretkat Apr 28, 2026 +1
Let the aggressors of the US, Israel, and Russia leave the countries they are illegally invading and your problem would be solved. Don't blame the victim, blame the aggressor.
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