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Old-Glass-6967 Apr 26, 2026 +420

Their special operation isn’t going very well

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noir_lord Apr 26, 2026 +257

It’s like Day 1500 and something of not going very well. If I’d had 1500 bad days in a row I’d maybe look at the way I’m doing things. The stupid part is they can stop this any time by just leaving, Ukraine doesn’t have that option.

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Electromotivation Apr 26, 2026 +52

They should turn on their commanders instead of willingly marching to die. Of course they shouldnt sign up and should turn on Putin as well, but that might be too much to ask the cowed serfs.

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Ar4er13 Apr 27, 2026 +29

Why turn on your commander, if you can get lucky, get your sentence revoked, come back to your home village 5000km away from Ukraine, cut off your neighbour's head with an axe and go back to prison where you started?

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Hot_Charity_4803 Apr 27, 2026

Is this a reference to something?

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Ar4er13 Apr 27, 2026 +3

There are over 200 murder cases in Russia's last 2 years (that they themself report), done by ex-convicts who got released due to being drafted to war, go pick any one and it will likely feature the murder of a neighbour with an axe \ knife or a chair. Extra points if children found victim's head in the yard.

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Hot_Charity_4803 Apr 27, 2026 +2

Damn that's horrible

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SidewalkRacoon Apr 27, 2026 +12

There are towns in the occupied zone of Ukraine where all the factories have been shut down and the only way to make money to feed your kids is to join the Russian army. The far east end of Ukraine near Russia doesn’t have a strong sense of Ukrainian nationality. They either dont feel this is particularly traitorous or they literally have no other choice. Russia is waging a war on Ukrainians using Ukrainians. And you know they’re using them as front line fodder

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Desertcow Apr 27, 2026 +6

That was already tried back when Wagner launched their coup a while ago. It failed, the mercs got reassigned to frontline units to go die, and Wagner's head got killed

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idryss_m Apr 27, 2026 +9

I feel they really didn't try that hard with that while coup thing...

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Equivalent-Rice8083 Apr 27, 2026 +2

It's awful what russia is doing. But calling a serf a coward is just... Lame. If you see a poor broke serf with no options and if he accepts going to the military which will almost garaunted going to the front line and takes drone to the face. They're being used as cannon fodder, and know theyre being used as cannon fodder. That's not a coward. It's just a poor serf. Probably with very little education. And why the West needs to actually arm Ukraine to end this or get directly involved. At this point it feels like Ukraine/Russia is just background noise in the West. And the way Europe sees Russia as a direct threat at their doorstep, I don't know why they're p**** footing around

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Bunch_of_Shit Apr 27, 2026 +11

Pro russian account on twitter said Putin never gave a timeline for how long the war would take, and that it’s perfectly fine if it went on for many more years as long as the objectives are achieved, which, I guess, is to just seize territory and move in russian settlers. Sounds familiar.

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jakes1993 Apr 26, 2026 +13

1523 days so far after I google searched it since feb 23,2022

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Sislar Apr 28, 2026 +1

Trump was so jealous of Putin he was like. I want some of that and attacks Iran.

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Citizen-Kang Apr 26, 2026 +14

I think we can drop the "special" and put in "sub-standard" or "stupid" in its place.

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hazelnutcocoammm Apr 27, 2026 +3

It ain't special anymore

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Beautiful_Finger4566 Apr 27, 2026 +1

Let's go. In and out. 20 minute adventure.

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MrDerpGently Apr 26, 2026 +127

Makes sense, the US just gave Russia a hall pass to sell oil. That money will directly fund war against Ukraine, and at peak rates thanks to Iran. Russian oil infrastructure just became a primary objective for anything Ukraine can throw at it.

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Electromotivation Apr 26, 2026 +46

We f****** suck rn. At least some american weapons are still coming in as part of old contracts. But Trump better realize he just blew half our air interceptors in a two week war. Sure could use lots of guidance, tips, and technology from those "no cards" having Ukrainians eh Trump?

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FluffyGreenThing Apr 26, 2026 +27

Zelensky offered to work with the US military and share some of Ukraine’s hard earned expertise and drone technology but Trump basically spat in his face and said the US wasn’t interested so Ukraine went to the individual countries in the middle east and made agreements with them instead. Now Trump has even less pull in the middle east because the US was supposed to defend those countries. It was just lies from Trump of course since Trump took bribes from them all then just turned around and blew everything up by attacking Iran with zero forethought or insight into the potential consequences for other nations or the world at large. Now many of those countries have started to pull its funding of US projects and I expect that will escalate.

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Remarkable_Beach_545 Apr 27, 2026 +3

It's like putting a toddler in charge of a nuclear reactor. All the buttons and levers look fun to use, you can watch him use each one and be horrified at what you know are going to be the consequences, but he won't care and will get bored of it soon anyway

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DOSFS Apr 27, 2026 +3

Tbf, Trump is stupid but [US army less so as they went ahead with coop with Ukraine anyway despite Trump (he isn't king, he can shut up).](https://www.twz.com/land/c****-interceptor-drones-proven-in-ukraine-protected-u-s-troops-against-iranian-shaheds)

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Beautiful_Finger4566 Apr 27, 2026 -2

you realize that the US told NATO countries like Germany to stop buying Russian gas, and NATO's response was "f*** you mate"

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likbusch Apr 27, 2026

Hrs right Europe did it anyways.

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CalmSettled Apr 26, 2026 -5

Lol, they've been targeting these for years

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AverageLiberalJoe Apr 26, 2026 +178

God Damn how many of these things does Russia even have left?

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Vano_Kayaba Apr 26, 2026 +155

It takes way more than a couple of drones to completely destroy a refinery. I've heard Kremenchuk refinery is still operational. And Russians shot dozens of missiles at it in 2022-2023. But it does reduce output, cause pauses and increase operational costs. And Russia has money issues even without these attacks

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wpgrt Apr 27, 2026 -72

>And Russia has money issues They can print money. The issues are generally very high inflation and very high interest rates.

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whorificustotalus Apr 27, 2026 +98

Also known as money issues.

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Drak_is_Right Apr 26, 2026 +54

The oil refinery here covers 6 square kilometers. While drones could hinder and delay operations in a complex of that size, to truly take one out you would need a few hundred 500lb bombs. And even that might still leave large sections standing.

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Comfortable_Shoe358 Apr 26, 2026 +50

But isn't oil refining complicated? Like don't all the parts need to work for it to work? How can you take out even 10% of it and have it doing its job at all? I can't shoot a hole in my computer and say "it's only 3% of the surface area, it still works.

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Ludwigofthepotatoppl Apr 26, 2026 +38

there are different parts in a refinery, from my experience working at one (scaffold for a turnaround). there's different places where different stuff is done, and if one's fucked up, i assume they probably just stop that part of it and send the feedstock for it to some other refinery.

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Drak_is_Right Apr 26, 2026 +28

They often have many identical units running in parallel. Why you see things like "11% reduction for 7 months" would mean 1 of 9 units producing diesel production got blasted. Think more of it as multiple server banks, and you lost 1. Note - I also said "truly take one out". Drone attacks tend to cause a partial halt in operations for a number of weeks.

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Affectionate_Oven_77 Apr 27, 2026 +3

> I can't shoot a hole in my computer and say "it's only 3% of the surface area, it still works. Correct, but if that hole was in the hard drive, you can replace a hard drive in 5 minutes. If the hole was in the graphics card, you can replace that in 5 minutes. If the hole was in the motherboard, you can replace that in 5 minutes…. Each one of these attacks on energy infrastructure and oil infrastructure is certainly damaging, but the damage is repaired relatively quickly after any fires are out.

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Comfortable_Shoe358 Apr 27, 2026 +1

They just have loose refinery parts for every apparatus laying around? I mean. I guess they do of these things go back online within a week or two.

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Affectionate_Oven_77 Apr 27, 2026 +1

It really depends on the parts. I would guess that some parts they have spares available, some parts they would need to order, and some parts they would manufacture. Volgograd refinery has been hit many times (I think 4 waves?) over the past 2 years and they keep bringing that back online after a month or two of repairs

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trippknightly Apr 26, 2026 +73

Many are getting hit over and over again. There are bullseye spots in the refineries that would really really take them out for a long time. Source: am armchair petrochemical operations engineer.

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Zolo49 Apr 26, 2026 +48

I agree. I'm not an armchair petrochemical operations engineer, but I have played Petrochemical Operations Engineer Simulator 2024 on my PC.

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cammcken Apr 27, 2026 +3

This guy's not a real simulated petrochemical operations engineer. The game where he claims to have his experience doesn't even exist!

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Fitz911 Apr 27, 2026 +2

It's a part of the game gaming simulator franchise. It's a game in a game. Fun fact: farming simulator was first simulated in game gaming simulator '93.

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cammcken Apr 27, 2026 +1

Oh I actually didn't know lol. I had done a quick google search because I would be interested in a game like that. Trying again with the keywords you provided, and it's really hard to search for... Is it mostly first-person interactions, or can you also design the systems à la Factorio?

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Linclin Apr 27, 2026 +1

They just destroy parts. It's still way better because no one really helps Ukraine and still buys oil from them and imposes sanctions then quietly the next day or so drops them again. Ukraine needs to win this war by tipping the scales within their own country vs relying on aid from people who want a stand still instead of a win.

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No_Intention_8527 Apr 26, 2026 +51

yaroslavl is way the hell out there for a drone strike. russia's air defense is actually nonexistent at this point.

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noir_lord Apr 26, 2026 +28

Gigantic f****** country, they simply don’t have (and realistically can’t make enough) AA systems to cover everything all the time. And the area of a circle goes up as the square of its radius so it gets worse every time Ukraine fields longer range munitions.

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SmegmaWarrior0815 Apr 26, 2026 +17

I mean, oil refineries seem like something that should be near the top for your air defenses.

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Electromotivation Apr 26, 2026 +13

Thats why these hits on obvious targets are such good news. Russia is scrambling to try to cover areas with depleting air defense. Of course Putler's houses have full coverage though.

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noir_lord Apr 26, 2026 +12

And likely are for whatever they do have but drones are a b**** to combat (ask the US/Middle East countries). Plus they are large themselves and given they are full of fuel by definition *fragile*. The only winning move is to just declare a unilateral ceasefire and leave because Ukraine is just going to keep hitting them, they are also a nightmare to repair in cost, take a long time to repair and they’ll just keep hitting them when they do repair them.

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Drak_is_Right Apr 26, 2026 +4

Detecting these is harder than the interception.

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Fantastic_Scar_6601 Apr 26, 2026 +2

Just google how many aa systems are not far from pootin palace.

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DaySecure7642 Apr 26, 2026 +41

Keep it up and make sure after the war Russia won't have the money to support another invasion for decades.

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PlaneswalkerHuxley Apr 26, 2026 +43

We need full Russian demilitarisation. As a nation they have done nothing but spread terror and hatred for the last century, we have given them chance after chance and they just chose violence and tyrants every time. So now we have to grind them down until they have no more ability to make war, and then force them to trade their nukes for aid. Do to them what was done to Japan after WW2. Moscovia Delenda Est

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Ansh339 Apr 27, 2026

Same can be said for America at this point.

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PlaneswalkerHuxley Apr 27, 2026 +1

Half the problems with the US is because Putin has been funnelling money to the worst of the worst. The other half are their own home grown oligarchs, who see Russia as how they want to reorganise the US. It's all just different parts of the same monster.

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Ansh339 Apr 27, 2026

There is definitely a need of change in the mindset and the goals.

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vocosa Apr 27, 2026 -7

You are funny little goblin

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Mystohaxen Apr 26, 2026 +21

Russia getting tired of ”winning” soon?

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DeadJango Apr 26, 2026 +14

The more they destroy the longer and more expensive Russia's recovery post war. More time Ukraine has to rebuild and prep for any future aggression. Hit everything.

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A_Nonny_Muse Apr 27, 2026 +13

Not taking a war to the enemy's territory has always proven to be a fatal mistake. Which is why I've always bridled at the US insistence that Ukraine remain completely defensive to qualify for US arms. Yeah, leave your enemy completely intact while they devastate your cities, your infrastructure, your hospitals, your schools. Sure, that wins wars. NOT!!!

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PloppyTheSpaceship Apr 26, 2026 +10

Y'know, now could be a pretty good time for other countries to start eyeing up a weakened Russia.

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Far_Out_6and_2 Apr 26, 2026 +13

Good work

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Internal_Bonus_5931 Apr 27, 2026 +2

How does Ukraine strike so deep into Russia? What drones are they using for these deep strikes?

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Aware-Line-7537 Apr 27, 2026 +4

Russia doesn't have the air defence capacity to defend its ridiculously huge airspace.

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WayExcellent5595 Apr 27, 2026 +1

Sent by Rico rodriguez

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Vitylervi Apr 27, 2026 -23

Any damage Ukraine might inflict on Russia is just a mosquito bite. While it may be annoying or irritating, it won't change the course of the war. It's a shame few in the West soberly assess Ukraine's dire prospects. Ukraine will continue to lose many people in this war of attrition, plus territory will be lost little by little. In a war of attrition, real territorial losses will come at the very end, when the front collapses.

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K_R_A_K_E_N_540 Apr 27, 2026 +9

Russia was poor before the war, these "mosquito" bites are making it exponentially more poor and weak... Since it can't even defeat Ukraine, a much smaller and militarily "weaker" country.

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Aware-Line-7537 Apr 27, 2026 +5

The same wishful thinking from Russia supporters that I've been hearing for four years. Russia has some people left coping for it, but it doesn't have a plan for victory, except throwing more bodies at the Ukrainian defences for tiny gains.

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CaribouJovial Apr 27, 2026 +2

>Any damage Ukraine might inflict on Russia is just a mosquito bite. While it may be annoying or irritating, it won't change the course of the war. This really reads as wishful thinking.

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Killerfisk Apr 27, 2026 +1

I can sort of understand going with this rhetoric in 2022, but in 2026? You're gonna need some new propaganda.

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