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The average Russian citizen is extremely poor. If Ukraine can continue to damage Russian refining capacity to the point that domestic gasoline prices soar, that will disproportionately impact the average Russian to the point that the government may have to step in and subsidize costs so that the people can survive. That's less money that Russia will have to spend on their war effort.Another one
Just to understand and grasp how many were attacked.
Most importantly part is that all of them are not operational or are in repair state
By the way ruzzia goverment is discussing to import fuel and gas from iran. This will be short term situation, but nevertheless ruzzia is in shortage state
The average Russian citizen is extremely poor. If Ukraine can continue to damage Russian refining capacity to the point that domestic gasoline prices soar, that will disproportionately impact the average Russian to the point that the government may have to step in and subsidize costs so that the people can survive. That's less money that Russia will have to spend on their war effort.
Ukraine has already achieved one objective. They've done enough damage that they've forced Russia to ban the export of petroleum products and and distilates for a period of 6 months, out of fear for domestic shortage. That's billions of dollars worth of foreign profits that Russia won't receive this year. Even more importantly, that's billions of dollars worth of foreign currency that Russia won't have flow into its economy. Nobody wants the Ruble. It's Monopoly money. It's not worth anything. Forcing Russia to further exhaust their foreign currency reserves will not only hurt their ability to trade internationally, it will further inflate the Ruble, damaging their purchasing power.
More laughingly absurd statements followed by whataboutism.What is past is the past, Ukraine's democracy doesn't survive war, Russia's one does. Ukraine uses its martial law to not only roll back on freedom and democracy but also to roll back on human rights, men (and women) are dragged on the street in broad daylighs.
The Western occupation army in Afghanistan insisted that the Afghan government move on with elections even though there's always the threat of Taliban bombings in polls, why can't they do the same in Ukraine ?
More laughingly absurd statements followed by whataboutism.
Russians and Ukrainians are not the same. While Russians accepted as their government regressed from some semblance of democracy in the 1990s to dictatorship, Ukraine had two revolutions. In 2004, an attempt at election rigging sparked the Orange Revolution, and resulted in a recount that led to Yushchenko becoming president. The second, the Maidan Revolution in 2014, toppled a government after it reneged on earlier promises and tried to crush protests with riot police using live ammunition.
The Maidan Revolution peaked at 1 million protesters in Kyiv (a city of 3.5 million), among them the many different sides of Ukrainian civil society and members of parliament. Meanwhile the largest protests in Moscow totaled 50,000, despite Russia launching multiple wars, killing multiple opposition leaders and sliding further and further into dictatorship. And obviously Russia's protests never involved members of parliament, since Russia hasn't had any opposition in government since 2010.