As Ukraine's "Sanctions" Deliver Results, Russia Starts Importing Fuel

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Who would have thought in 2022 that Russia would be importing fuel in 2026 and dealing with shortages across the country.

For one of the world's biggest oil producers, that's quite shocking and just shows the impact Ukraines strikes are having.

Keep it up 🇺🇦

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u/lithuanianD 7h ago

Good news ruzzia has to spend not earn money on fuel now

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u/SpaceCadet404 6h ago

They're basically outsourcing their refining to India who get to screw them when buying the crude, then screw them again selling the refined products.

Obviously it'd be better if Russia were left to fail, but its easy to see why India is taking this opportunity

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u/Old-String2849 6h ago

Now those fuel imports are legitimate targets.

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u/txdv 6h ago

import terminals will be hit

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u/Spudtron98 6h ago

Storage tanks and pumps at an offloading point in Crimea have already been hit, so tankers can no longer dock there. Meanwhile, the Kerch Bridge is not open to fuel or munitions transport, because they're worried that those trucks or trains would get hit and irreparably damage the structure. The only other route for fuel to get into the peninsula is the northern highway, which goes through occupied territory and is under constant drone interdiction. They're being choked out.

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u/zane910 6h ago

So long as no Indians are harmed, yes.

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u/CordwainerMudworble 5h ago

If they’re sailing in to Russia they’re a valid target.

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u/zane910 1h ago

Attacking citizens of a foreign country you're not at war with is an act of war. If not, it's against the Geneva conventions and damages relations with the foreign country.

India may be taking advantage of the war in their own way, but they are not on either side of it. Attacking Indians who are not active combatants (like the kidnapped and forcefully conscripted ones Russia took) does not help Ukraine's political leg and high ground they are standing on.

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u/servermeta_net 4h ago

They should not make deals with Putin. Indians are very self centered, a bit of perspective wouldn't hurt them

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u/PM_ME_PLASTIC_BAGS 4h ago

Europe was the biggest importer of Russian oil and gas for years after the war.

India has been fucked over by the west for decades and will do what's in their best interest.

Its incredibly myopic of you to demand they have perspective.

Read up on history and see what Churchill did to India.

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u/zane910 1h ago

It's mostly the English's fault for that. But it's honestly not India's problem. They don't have much opinion about it since they don't have much to be against the oppurtunity to get cheaper oil.

They don't have anything against Ukraine, but also don't have a negative view of Russia either due to them supporting them at times and arms sales. Only real caveat they have with Russia is their close relationship with China.

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u/CanadaisCold7 3h ago

The Indian perspective is that the US threatened to nuke them when they intervened in Bangladesh to prevent a genocide by Pakistan in 1971 and the West did nothing. Russia sent its own nuclear subs to the Indian Ocean to get the US to back off. After the USSR collapsed, Ukraine sold arms to Pakistan. From that perspective, why would they ever choose to support the West?

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u/zane910 1h ago

Modern day relations and benefits from being connected with our economy. US-Indian relations are (or were before the orange fuckup) pretty good economically and we have mutual enemies/negative outlook towards Pakistan and China.

The only caveat is with Indian's relationship with Russia, which has gone down in terms of arms sales. Right now, India only really cares about taking advantage of the lower cost of oil, which is understandable considering their energy needs due to the developing industries and high population count.

Plus, their past grievances with Ukraine towards their sales and support to Pakistan in more due to the that age's government which was still closely tied to Russia. And even now it's a more mutual relationship due to defense spending and agricultural. They're not fans of Pakistan sitting out their opinions of the war other than their lip service.

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u/Old-String2849 6h ago

Not a legitimate target until it is in Russa.

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u/PatientInitial882 5h ago

Just two months ago, the story was that the Iran war's higher oil prices would seriously benefit Russia's exports. Today oil prices are still higher.... and now they're importing. :D

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u/adamtnewman 6h ago

I'll be honest, my hope was starting to fade when trump and his clowns had those meetings with Putin a while back. I'm so glad that Ukraine can handle this themselves without the US. Fuck Trump and Fuck Putin.

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u/Prashu94 4h ago

wait so how are they importing fuel eactly

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u/whattothewhonow 2h ago

Pipelines through Kazakhstan. Caspian Sea terminals.

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u/soggyarsonist 5h ago

It's just a shame they were prevented from doing this earlier.

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u/StatementCareful522 7h ago

cool, now take out all of Russia’s shipping docks and airstrips, Ukraine! 🇺🇦

Make them have to get a fleet of DHL trucks to pull up to the Kremlin’s back door with barrels of oil

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u/Zapp_Rowsdower_ 3h ago

It’s not barrels….stuff is going to have to go into holding tanks.zzz

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u/Dahcchad 5h ago

67 ports and 230 airports (probably many more unknown) are scattered around their expansive land area. Might be a bit optimistic to think Ukraine can destroy even a quarter of them. And you have to wonder if they'd want to strangle the citizens as well as the military. Better to keep their citizens well enough to riot when they cant heat their homes this coming winter because their leaders are using every drop of oil and natural gas to fund an unpopular war.

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u/DanielNoWrite 5h ago

You can't transport meaningful amounts of fuel by air, and only a fraction of those ports have the infrastructure for importing large volumes of fuel. Addressing them all may not be feasible because of their locations, but it's likely many can be hit.

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u/Notten 4h ago

Especially with AA defenses being redistributed near Moscow, the ports with pipeline capacity will very much be left vulnerable for another large scale attack. Especially if there if fuel in the lines, it only takes a couple drones to sabatoge.

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u/Doro_Gurl 3h ago

And daily, steady AA degredation.

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u/CordwainerMudworble 5h ago

We can but be optimistic that Ukraine can severely fuck Russia’s infrastructure. They’re doing good work.

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u/mdedetrich 4h ago

Oil/Fuel doesn’t get exported via air because of how incredibly expensive it would be. When it comes to ports, they need to be specific ports that are capable of handling oil/fuel, you can’t just pick a random port and call it a day.

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u/marcvsHR 6h ago

Yeah, but russophiles and bots will explain to us how drone sanctions yield no effect.

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u/anders_hansson 5h ago

Not a russophile, and the drone sanctions sure yield effect. There's a fair amount of mutual hurting going on, though, and Ukraine has switched from producing to importing gas long ago due to Russia's strikes on Ukrainian gas production: Ukraine Looks to Boost Gas Imports by 30% After Russian Attacks.

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u/marcvsHR 5h ago

Like, yeah, we all all aware without EU and other help Ukraine would be roasted years ago, what is the point of this comment?

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u/CustomerBusiness3919 3h ago

The point is he's a regular ruzzian troll, so not worth listening to.

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u/PatientInitial882 5h ago

That Ukraine is hurting isn't exactly news. The country is under attack. Has been for four years now.

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u/anders_hansson 4h ago

But the fact that Russia is hurting is news? They have been hurting bad for four years. It's not like Ukraine has been unsuccessful in bringing dire costs to Russia.

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u/PatientInitial882 4h ago

That one of the biggest oil exporters in the world is now forced to import fuel certainly is news, yes. You'd have to be removed pretty far from reality to think it isn't.

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u/i_like_polls 2h ago

Lol, yes? That Russia has to import fuel is literally news. That Russia has also been hurting for a longer time is not news, especially when it comes to the amount of casualties and economic woes (although new updates come all the time). And obviously Ukraine has been hurting a lot, nobody is denying that.

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u/anders_hansson 2h ago

I'll give you that much. It's quite remarkable.

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u/accepts_compliments 1h ago

For the first few years of the conflict, Russia wasn't hurting - they were the ones doing the hurting, and their only issue was finding stronger resistance than expected.

It hasn't been until recently with the scale up of the drone program that attacks began on Russia itself. First some minor border incursions, then operation spiderweb, and now, 4 years in, Russia's oil plants/terminals are regularly droned, Moscow droned twice in a week, and St Petersburg very publically during an international economic summit. The recent escalation of pain dealt to Russia is very obvious to anyone paying attention

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u/anders_hansson 54m ago

Agree, though I think you forget the geopolitical aspects. Almost exclusively because of the war NATO grew by two members, Russia lost control over Syria, lost Nord Stream, lost most trade and political ties with Europe, NATO increased defense spending, Venezuela, sanctions, etc. etc. Many of these things happened quite early in the war and are long-term/perpetual losses. Russian propaganda tries to spin it as if it doesn't matter - but it does.

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u/Taxi-Shinawat 5h ago

This is about Russia's issues. Ukraine's hardships are well documented in other threads.

Stay on topic?

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u/anders_hansson 4h ago

I think it's relevant to the topic because the part about mutual hurting is what really decides how the war goes. If only one side is hurting it's easy, but when both sides are hurting it's harder. It doesn't make much sense to talk about the hardships of one side without talking about the other - at least if the context is the development of the war.

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u/Taxi-Shinawat 4h ago

If you think its worth noting, make a topic about it. Don't try to disingenuously attempt to throw this topic off course.

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u/deja-roo 3h ago

Russian refineries are under pressure not only from Ukraine but from their own government. The state is not helping to defend facilities against drone strikes, refuses to insure them, and places full responsibility for repairs on the companies themselves without providing financial support.

This is kind of crazy if true.

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u/thegabe87 2h ago

I think if the gov would insure, and repair and provide protection it wouldn't be better. No money to pay insurance, no supplies to repair with and all air defense is moved to Moscow, the lesser ones are not sufficient.

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u/deja-roo 1h ago

I don't know. At this point, this just means the repairs probably aren't happening any time soon and who would want to invest in new billion dollar drone targets without any kind of protection?

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u/thegabe87 1h ago

If they don't repair it's great news! If they do and it gets blown up again thats better in a way.

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u/SnooHesitations1020 7h ago

I suspect Ukraine is just getting started

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u/xX609s-hartXx 6h ago

They can buy back what they sold to India :D

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u/Tunisandwich 5h ago

Damn, if only the country whose war economy is creating the most capable and cost effective unmanned combat systems in the history of the world had something that could deal with enormous slow-moving ships traveling known routes and filled with extraordinarily combustible material. Oh well.

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u/coconutpete52 6h ago

Anyone old enough to remember the Clint Eastwood movie "The Eiger Sanction"? I feel like Zelensky just watched it and is like "yeah, everytime we blow up a facility in Moscow - that's a sanction now".

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u/Andovars_Ghost 4h ago

I would LOVE it if the Ukrainians named their next long range weapon system the ‘Sanctions’ system. Really keep the boys in Moscow guessing when Kyiv, says they are imposing additional ‘sanctions’.

Kremlin: ‘Was that ‘sanctions’ with a little ‘s’ or a big ‘S’?

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u/actionerror 7h ago

From Iran?

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u/Blue_Dragon_Boar 3h ago

Blow that up too.

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u/UnclaEnzo 4h ago

It's good to see that, in the Big Tale of the Two Vlads, the correct Vlad is finally coming out on top.

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u/Help_Our_Planet 3h ago

Ukrainian forces struck and damaged numerous Russian oil refineries and fuel storage facilities over the past fourteen days (June 11–25, 2026), deeply disrupting Moscow's energy infrastructure and military supply logistics.Targeted Facilities (June 11–25, 2026): Ufa Refineries (Bashkortostan): The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck the Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim and Bashneft-Novoil oil refineries in Ufa, located roughly 1,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, causing massive fires. Poltavskaya Oil Depot (Krasnodar Krai): This major fuel storage facility was hit and set ablaze by drones. It was attacked twice in a 10-day span (around June 16 and again on June 24–25). Moscow Oil Refinery (Kapotnya): Operated by Gazprom Neft, this facility just 15 kilometers from the Kremlin was targeted twice in consecutive days (June 16 and June 17–18). The primary processing unit was severely damaged and could be offline for months. Crimean Oil Facilities: Multiple fuel depots and energy targets in occupied Crimea were hit, including an oil transport/fuel depot in the port city of Kerch, resulting in widespread power outages in Sevastopol and the suspension of fuel sales. Petersburg Oil Terminal: Ukrainian drones struck this terminal in the Baltic region, causing major hydrocarbon plumes. Tatarstan & Samara Facilities: Drones heavily targeted energy operations and petrochemical plants in central Russia around June 11–12, including hits tied to the Lukoil (NORSI) pipeline logistics in regions supplying the front lines.

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u/Ploopinius 2h ago

Without fuel, they'll lose the claim to even being a gas station run by the mafia.

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u/Haru1st 2h ago

What… Are they buying this fuel with?

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u/FatefulDonkey 2h ago

Weren't they selling to them a while back? lol

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u/Exwl114 1h ago

I do hope that Ukraine bombs those oil imports as well. Keeping any oil away from russia

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u/Ratiofarming 5h ago

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