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re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
Posted on 8/18/25 at 10:41 pm to Auburn1968
Posted on 8/18/25 at 10:41 pm to Auburn1968
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The Europeans are rightly saying that no country should have its borders changed by military force.
Damn near the entire history of every country in Europe is the exact opposite of this.
I just found that to be funny.
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Posted on 8/19/25 at 1:53 am to DMAN1968
Another Ru refinery hit last week is shut down -
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Syzran refinery stopped oil refining after UAV attack on August 15-sources
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MOSCOW, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Rosneft's Syzran refinery in the Samara has been stopped refining oil after its AVT-6 primary unit was damaged in an attack by unmanned vehicles (UAVs) on Aug. 15, two sources of industry Reuters.
According to your data, the AVT-6 installation will be bed before the end of this month.
The Syzarna Oil Refinery with a capacity of 8.5 tons of oil per year uses AVT-6 for oil primary refining, another exercise, AVT-5, was a year in a downtime for a long time.
It is possible that the plant will try to launch the AVT-5, one of the sources.
The capacity of AVT-6 at the Syzran Oil Refinery is 17,100 tons per day, AVT-5 - 7,100 tons per day. [177,000 Bbls/day].
UAVs attacked the Samara region on the morning of August 15, the region's governor's Vyacheslav Fedorishchev reported on his Telegram channel.
Posted on 8/19/25 at 2:08 am to Coeur du Tigre
There seems to be an additional team member at the adult's table and she lives in the White House. The topic of the kidnapped Ukrainian children is absolute poison to Putin - an issue which is easy to understand, impossible to defend and now seems to be a special interest of the US First Lady.
Posted on 8/19/25 at 2:22 am to Coeur du Tigre
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According to the Financial Times, Ukraine has promised to buy $100 Billion in American-produced weapons and other military equipment financed by Europe as part of a series of proposals aimed at receiving concrete security guarantees from the United States.
Under the proposals, Kyiv and Washington would also strike an additional deal worth roughly $50 Billion, which would see Ukrainian defense manufactures, such as UkrJet, jointly work with American companies to produce military attack drones for both the Ukrainian and the U.S. Armed Forces.
This proposal is a win-win-win for everyone not living in Russia:
- Ukrainians would get more US weapons guaranteed;
- TACO looks good as it is transactional, something his base can understand and accept;
- Europeans get US tied into Ukrainian support;
- US MIC gets back into the EU market;
- Putin, the Master Strategist, pays for it all.
Any security guarantees that are actually put in place (doubtful, but whatever...) would be langiappe. But the pipeline of paid-for US weapons continues on another highly defensible level. Brick by brick, the Western Coalition is winning over TACO.
Posted on 8/19/25 at 2:26 am to Coeur du Tigre
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This is what winning looks like, slow and easy, step by concrete step.
Posted on 8/19/25 at 5:04 am to Coeur du Tigre
Cope is feeling good boys, we might be past the Epstein spam posting for good this time I can feel it
This post was edited on 8/19/25 at 6:52 am
Posted on 8/19/25 at 6:32 am to Coeur du Tigre
Ukrainian drones hit oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd Oblast, governor says
August 19, 2025 11:41 am
Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd Oblast overnight on Aug. 19, regional governor Andrei Bocharov said.
The refinery, Russian oil company Lukoil's second-largest, is a major producer of petroleum products in Russia's Southern Federal District. According to Bocharov, a fire broke out at the site following the attack.
Residents told Russian pro-government media outlet Shot that they heard between four and 10 explosions, with drones flying at low altitude and bright flashes visible in the night sky.
Russia's Defense Ministry claimed 13 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region.
Lukoil's Volgograd refinery, which has an annual capacity of 14.8 million tons, had already been forced to halt production after earlier strikes on Aug. 13-14. Reuters reported on Aug. 18 that the damaged units together accounted for the plant's entire refining capacity.
Volgograd Oblast, along the lower Volga River, is roughly 470 miles (290 kilometers) from Ukraine-controlled territory and shares a border with Kazakhstan to the southeast.
The extent of the damage is not yet known. Ukraine has not commented on the attack.
The Kyiv Independent
August 19, 2025 11:41 am
Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd Oblast overnight on Aug. 19, regional governor Andrei Bocharov said.
The refinery, Russian oil company Lukoil's second-largest, is a major producer of petroleum products in Russia's Southern Federal District. According to Bocharov, a fire broke out at the site following the attack.
Residents told Russian pro-government media outlet Shot that they heard between four and 10 explosions, with drones flying at low altitude and bright flashes visible in the night sky.
Russia's Defense Ministry claimed 13 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region.
Lukoil's Volgograd refinery, which has an annual capacity of 14.8 million tons, had already been forced to halt production after earlier strikes on Aug. 13-14. Reuters reported on Aug. 18 that the damaged units together accounted for the plant's entire refining capacity.
Volgograd Oblast, along the lower Volga River, is roughly 470 miles (290 kilometers) from Ukraine-controlled territory and shares a border with Kazakhstan to the southeast.
The extent of the damage is not yet known. Ukraine has not commented on the attack.
The Kyiv Independent
Posted on 8/19/25 at 6:49 am to cypher
It is likely the second strike and third fire at the same Volgograd refinery in recent days.
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Posted on 8/19/25 at 6:57 am to cypher
Posted on 8/19/25 at 7:11 am to cypher
Russian Fuel Train Blown Up Near Occupied Tokmak
August 19, 2025 13:30
A train with burning tanks in Zaporizhzhia. August 19, 2025. Photo: Petro Andriushchenko
Ukraine’s Defense Forces blew up a Russian fuel train in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Activist Petro Andriushchenko published a photo of the damaged train.
According to him, the incident took place in the temporarily occupied territory between Urozhayne and Tokmak.
Images captured by a Ukrainian drone show burning fuel tankers and the immobilized train.
“The train derailed and is now being finished off with everything that can fly. It’s burning beautifully. The Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region are once again reducing Russian logistics to zero and showing how it should be done,” Andriushchenko wrote in the morning.
It has not yet been officially reported who had carried out the operation. It is likely that strike drones were used to hit the fuel tankers.
Militarnyi
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Russians confirm: Around 06:30 this morning, a drone strike hit a Russian fuel train near Ostrykivka, Zaporizhzhia region. Several cars were damaged, and the aftermath shows heavy fire. The number of injured is still being clarified.
August 19, 2025 13:30
A train with burning tanks in Zaporizhzhia. August 19, 2025. Photo: Petro Andriushchenko
Ukraine’s Defense Forces blew up a Russian fuel train in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Activist Petro Andriushchenko published a photo of the damaged train.
According to him, the incident took place in the temporarily occupied territory between Urozhayne and Tokmak.
Images captured by a Ukrainian drone show burning fuel tankers and the immobilized train.
“The train derailed and is now being finished off with everything that can fly. It’s burning beautifully. The Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Zaporizhzhia region are once again reducing Russian logistics to zero and showing how it should be done,” Andriushchenko wrote in the morning.
It has not yet been officially reported who had carried out the operation. It is likely that strike drones were used to hit the fuel tankers.
Militarnyi
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Russians confirm: Around 06:30 this morning, a drone strike hit a Russian fuel train near Ostrykivka, Zaporizhzhia region. Several cars were damaged, and the aftermath shows heavy fire. The number of injured is still being clarified.
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Posted on 8/19/25 at 7:14 am to cypher
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It is likely the second strike and third fire at the same Volgograd refinery in recent days.
Looks like Ukraine is using the 15th Air Force's playbook in dealing with Ploesti. Just go back time and again until it's finished. Briefing officers described the follow up missions as, " bouncing the rubble".
Posted on 8/19/25 at 7:54 am to Coeur du Tigre
A refinery doesn't need a vacuum unit to operate if feedstock is intermediate or light crude oil. In fact, I know a refinery built in 1957 which never used the installed vacuum unit. There was not market for asphalt for the refinery. The bottoms from the crude unit went straight to the FCC
Posted on 8/19/25 at 8:15 am to VolSquatch
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Cope is feeling good boys, we might be past the Epstein spam posting for good this time I can feel it
0% chance of that.
He is the Joy Reid of the Ex OT Ukraine Warrior Brigade.
Trump could cure cancer and the stupid fool would still condemn him. There are 3-4 of those type in this thread.
TDS has destroyed their mental health.
This post was edited on 8/19/25 at 8:25 am
Posted on 8/19/25 at 8:17 am to cypher
Ukrainian long-range drones destroy two Russian ammunition depots in Luhansk region
19.08.2025 15:43
Long-range drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have destroyed two ammunition depots used by Russian forces in the Luhansk region.
According to Ukrinform, the SBU reported that on the night of August 18-19, drones struck two Russian ammunition depots in the town of Bilokurakyne, located in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region. The town sits on a key railway line used to deliver ammunition from Russia to the front, particularly to the Pokrovsk sector.
Preliminary reports indicate the drones hit the depots at least seven times. The explosions triggered a large fire, which was also recorded by FIRMS, the international real-time fire monitoring system.
"The SBU continues systematic strikes deep behind enemy lines to reduce the offensive potential of the Russian army at the front. Destroying enemy ammunition directly helps our warriors bravely holding back Russian assaults. The demilitarization of enemy stockpiles and equipment will continue," the agency said.
Ukrinform
19.08.2025 15:43
Long-range drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have destroyed two ammunition depots used by Russian forces in the Luhansk region.
According to Ukrinform, the SBU reported that on the night of August 18-19, drones struck two Russian ammunition depots in the town of Bilokurakyne, located in the temporarily occupied Luhansk region. The town sits on a key railway line used to deliver ammunition from Russia to the front, particularly to the Pokrovsk sector.
Preliminary reports indicate the drones hit the depots at least seven times. The explosions triggered a large fire, which was also recorded by FIRMS, the international real-time fire monitoring system.
"The SBU continues systematic strikes deep behind enemy lines to reduce the offensive potential of the Russian army at the front. Destroying enemy ammunition directly helps our warriors bravely holding back Russian assaults. The demilitarization of enemy stockpiles and equipment will continue," the agency said.
Ukrinform
Posted on 8/19/25 at 8:19 am to VolSquatch
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Really moving speech there gramps
Posted on 8/19/25 at 8:46 am to CitizenK
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The key ELOU-AVT-6 crude oil distillation unit at the Syzran Oil Refinery was hit, along with significant damage to several storage tanks.
AVT-6 is the refinery’s main processing unit, handling atmospheric and vacuum distillation, as well as secondary distillation and gasoline stabilization, with a capacity of 6 million tonnes per year.
So at Syzran both vacuum and atmospheric units are connected, thus their current problem. I'm thinking the original design parameters didn't include drone strikes.
In any case, the point is whatever design this refinery has, it's shut down.
Here's one of them shortly after the bad news arrived -
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Posted on 8/19/25 at 8:49 am to Coeur du Tigre
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This one is for you. Trump floats the scenario of what exists in Ukraine in regards to elections, something that all of you support btw, occurring in the US in 3.5 years. Would you support that?
Posted on 8/19/25 at 9:10 am to Coeur du Tigre
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So at Syzran both vacuum and atmospheric units are connected, thus their current problem. I'm thinking the original design parameters didn't include drone strikes.
Vacuum units are almost always part of the crude unit as a sub unit. The photo is of a vacuum tower. Turning some valves can bypass the vacuum unit fired heater and tower. A vacuum is pulled on the tower so the feed "boils" at a lower temperature to extract more light ends. The atmospheric pressure crude unit can still separate oil into fractions and the bottoms go straight to an FCC or used as heavy fuel oil, called Mazut by Russians. The USSR was more into simple refining that complex refining and like Mazut to fuel boilers for power plants. To use and arcane term, it is similar to Bunker C used for steam boilers in steam turbine driven ships.
The grassroots 50,000 BPD refinery built in Galveston and completed June 2020 was designed for very light (undesirable) Eagle Ford crude. It is a crude unit designed to provide low sulfur heavy fuel oil for a bunkering company, the rest is shipped to other refineries for finishing.
To be safe, never ever expect ANY news article to get anything correct when reporting on refining or chemical news. Even with expert guidance they almost always get it all wrong. That includes government officials
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Posted on 8/19/25 at 9:34 am to CitizenK
I see that the price of natural gas is a lot cheaper in Europe than in 2021 at under $10 per mmBTU. So much for actual need of Russian natural gas except for the fat boy in Hungary
Posted on 8/19/25 at 9:41 am to CitizenK
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Key Takeaways: The Kremlin did not publicly commit to a bilateral or trilateral leader-level meeting, contrary to US President Donald Trump's announcement following the August 18 multilateral summit. Western leaders reaffirmed the importance of strong security guarantees for Ukraine to ensure a just and lasting peace at the August 18 summit. Russian officials largely rejected Europe's proposed security guarantees for Ukraine in a potential peace agreement. Western leaders expressed support for a ceasefire that may follow a possible future trilateral meeting between Trump, Zelensky, and Putin. Russian forces conducted long-range strikes against Ukrainian rear areas that resulted in civilian casualties ahead of the August 18 White House meetings. Russian budgetary constraints are forcing Russia to employ alternative mechanisms to fund enlistment bonus payments and recruit soldiers for its war in Ukraine. Russian forces are struggling to exploit the infiltration in the Dobropillya direction in the face of continued Ukrainian counterattacks. A Russian servicemember recently murdered a Ukrainian woman in the Pokrovsk direction in clear violation of international law. Ukrainian forces recently advanced near Dobropillya. Russian forces recently advanced near Lyman, Toretsk, and Pokrovsk.
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