Biden Loses Control of Zelensky, Makes Deepest Strikes In Russian Territory

April 3, 2024 — bunkerville

Zelensky keeps striking oil refineries deep into Russian territory, blowing off Biden’s hard stop requests.

As Tweedle dee Speaker Johnson gets set in the blocks to give away Billions more to Ukraine, Tweedle dum Biden loses control of Zelensky. The strikes yesterday were the furthest into Russia. Last week’s post: Ukraine Defies U.S. Order to Stop Attacking Russian Oil Refineries

The response to the request:

“Nobody after two years of large-scale war can dictate conditions for waging this war in Ukraine.” So says Zelensky’s aide, Mykhailo Podolyak. Senior Ukrainian officials defended Kyiv’s attacks on oil infrastructure deep within Russian territory. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister, Olha Stefanishyna, said refineries in Russia are legitimate targets. 

Video from Last week’s post if you missed it:

The latest attack

Picking up latest in the story: Oil prices up up and away:

As OilPrice details, Ukrainian drones hit the primary refining unit of Russia’s third-largest refinery southeast of Moscow more than 800 miles from the front line, Reuters reported on Tuesday. Ukraine keeps striking Russian oil assets despite the Biden admin’s unequivocal demands for a hard stop, suggesting that diplomatic fallout is now imminent.

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The refinery has a capacity to process 340,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude. Its primary refining unit, with a capacity to process about 155,000 bpd, was hit in Tuesday’s attack, according to pictures seen by Reuters. The unit caught fire, which was swiftly extinguished, Russian media report.

They also quote Ramil Mullin, the mayor of the city of Nizhnekamsk, where the refinery is located, as saying that there have been no injured people in the attack.

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Ukraine has stepped up attacks on oil refineries in Russia in recent weeks, which have reduced Russian refining capacity, and which, reportedly, have the White House concerned about rising international prices.

The United States has repeatedly urged Ukraine to halt its drone attacks on Russian oil refineries due to Washington’s assessment that the strikes could lead to Russian retaliation and push up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported last month, citing sources familiar with the exchange.

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Meanwhile, Blinken winds his way to Macron, the major European force in ramping up a war with Russia. As I posted previously

I could ask where is our President in these discussions…. We already are into setting up the rebuilding….

Bunk posted:

Where in the World Is Buttigieg? In Ukraine Getting Ready for the Next Grift

Beside starting wars, what this nonsense is doing to our cost of living.

From The View from Lady Lake

which by the way, is a neat blog with an interesting collection of stuff and Libs hate it!

What a great move on the part of the Trump campaign. They’ve come up with this website where you can compare prices then and now side by side, and the prices appear to be fairly legit.

Check off the items from the to compile your weekly grocery list and see how much more expensive your bill has become under Joe Biden.

 
Check this out – they really did a cool job on this site –

https://www.biden-mart.com/

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Ukraine Defies U.S. Order to Stop Attacking Russian Oil Refineries

March 26, 2024 — bunkerville

“Nobody after two years of large-scale war can dictate conditions for waging this war in Ukraine.” So says Zelensky’s aid, Mykhailo Podolyak.

The United States has urged Ukraine to stop attacking Russia’s oil refineries, fearing a surge in global oil prices and Russian retaliation. Washington issued warnings to senior officials at Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, and its military intelligence directorate, known as the GUR, as per the Financial Times. Oil has risen 12 percent since March 12, 2024.

Mar 25, 2024

Ukraine has knocked another Russian oil refinery out of commission along with one of the country’s largest power plants in another long-range drone attack. Video from the Kuybyshevsky oil refinery in Samara, 560 miles from Ukraine, shows drones circling overhead and slamming down into the refinery, causing large fires to break out.

The drones, which have a distinctive V-shaped tail fin are the same ones used to target the Ryazan oil refinery a fortnight ago, blowing up the distillation towers and putting the facility out of action long-term.

More footage shows Ukrainian drones hitting the Novocherkassk power plant, located in the city of the same name just a short distance from the border. Again, flames could be seen lighting up the night sky as the plant – one of the largest in Russian – was repeatedly struck, though the extent of the damage was not immediately clear. Ukraine is in the midst of a campaign of long-range drone strikes against Russia, designed to rob the state of lucrative oil exports it uses to fuel its war machine and cause as much disruption to the lives of ordinary Russians as possible.

However, senior Ukrainian officials defended Kyiv’s attacks on oil infrastructure deep within Russian territory. Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister, Olha Stefanishyna, said refineries in Russia are legitimate targets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s aid, Mykhailo Podolyak, said, “Nobody after two years of large-scale war can dictate conditions for waging this war in Ukraine.”

Russia returns the favor

Three days ago-

Europe has been egging on Zelensky to expand his horizon in land to bomb. They have gotten more than they expected.

Feeling pert with his new weapons as I reported last week Zelensky’s new BFF

UK Tells Ukraine to Pivot Towards Crimea

The British seem to think Crimea and the British long range missiles are the way to go. No doubt because Ukraine is running out of humans to put into the meat grinder. More on what we are not being told regarding Ukraine.

…British military officials advised that Ukraine should focus on defense in its ground fight against Russia in the east while focusing on targeted strikes against Crimea and Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, The Sunday Timesreported.

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“This will allow the Ukrainians to focus their efforts on the Black Sea and Crimea, where their forces, with the help of Western long-range missiles, have landed significant blows over the past six months,” the report said.

A recording of a conversation between German military officers that was recently published by Russian media revealed that the UK has soldiers “on the ground” in Ukraine helping Ukrainian forces use Storm Shadow missiles, which have a range of 155 miles, making them capable of hitting targets throughout Crimea.

Attacks on Crimea have always been considered a red line for Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the risk of escalation hasn’t stopped Ukraine’s Western backers from assisting with such strikes, as Storm Shadows have been reported to be used in multiple Ukrainian attacks on Crimea.

OK so the new toys are being employed. There is no sound in the beginning clip. Later at about 4:50 Ukraine gives the spin. Describes the full range of the attack Two days ago.

Another BFF is Macron. He too sees no problem with Ukraine going rogue and what after all is the problem with another world war.

Then we have DW News- German Public Broadcasting Service

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė was in Berlin Thursday for defense and security talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Support for Ukraine’s war with Russia and German plans to station troops in Lithuania were on the agenda. After the meeting DW News spoke to Prime Minister Lithuanian Šimonytė.

News from the “Front” wherever that may be….. Europe will start another war, and it will be expected that the U.S. will clean up the mess.

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Phildadelphia Oil Refinery coming to an end

September 29, 2011 — bunkerville

Unless China steps in and buys our refineries, Obama’s wish via the EPA has made it cost prohibitive to Refine our crude oil apparently. “Level of investment needed”  was the operative statement for the closure of the facility. Anyone who has been through the Philadelphia area knows what  huge Oil farms and refineries there are. Now thanks to Obama, there will be no refineries. Where are the jobs?   Here is a hint: We can have all the oil in the world, and without the capacity to refine it, it is worth zilch. Sunoco, BP, Conoco Phillips, gone in a year.

By next summer, Philadelphia could switch from being the center of the East Coast’s oil-refining industry to a historical footnote.

Willie Chiang, ConocoPhillips’ senior vice president of refining, marketing, transportation, and commercial, said in a statement that “the decision to sell is based on the level of investment required to remain competitive.

Even though the economy is down and there are concerns about the oil industry, Meehan (House Representative for the District)  said, the demand for oil in the region and across the country will increase as the economy strengthens. The country needs to keep its production up, he said.

“We’re surrendering this industry to Nigeria, to China and to India,” Meehan said, adding that deals would likely need to be struck in the next six months to a year.

ConocoPhillips’ announcement Tuesday that it plans to sell or shut down its Trainer, Delaware County, refinery was expected, especially after Sunoco Inc. announced a similar decision three weeks earlier.

But that does not lessen the impact of the potential loss of 410 jobs at the 91-year-old refinery that ConocoPhillips has owned since 2002, when Conoco Inc. acquired Phillips Petroleum Co.

The shutdown has already begun. Spokesman Rich Johnson said that by the end of the week the Trainer refinery would no longer process crude oil. All employees will work through the end of the year, he said. Philly.om

Back in February we posted about the sad state of our Refineries:

BP to sell two U.S. Refineries-who will be the buyer

There are two major refineries in the United States going up for sale and people are wondering who will buy them. BP has decided to sell two of the refineries it owns, one in California and the other in Texas. From USA Today:

“The market may be slightly underwhelmed by the lack of a more radical restructuring plan, but with Macondo still an ongoing issue it may be too early for BP to implement more radical plans,” said Richard Griffith, analyst at Evolution Securities.

BP did not say how much it expected to gain from the sale of its U.S. refineries, which include the Texas City refinery where 15 workers died in an explosion in 2005.

It said it had spent more than $1 billion modernizing the Texas City plant, but noted it “lacks strong integration into any BP marketing assets.” However, BP said it will keep the chemicals complex at Texas City.

The company said it also hopes to sell the Carson refinery near Los Angeles along with its marketing business in southern California, Arizona and Nevada. The company plans to concentrate its U.S. refining and marketing activity at Whiting, Ind., and Cherry Point, Wash., as well as in its 50% stake in the Toledo, Ohio facility…

H/T:Blue Collar Philosophy

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