All of the key oil refineries in Russia have been hit by Ukraine’s Defense Forces, with today’s strike on the Omsk refinery in Siberia, 2,500 kilometers (1,550 miles) from Ukraine, being the 11th and final target on Ukraine’s list.
The Omsk refinery had almost twice the capacity of the Moscow refinery and, more to the point, it was the refinery that did primary processing. With the Omsk refinery out of action, secondary processing at other plants is not possible.
Bottom line: Russia’s entire petroleum chain has been disrupted. Gasoline was already in short supply and rationed in pump lines so long that port-a-potties have been installed for drivers in elimination distress.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drone and missile strikes on Moscow, combined with strikes on Russian radar and communication links, has forced the Russians to withdraw front line assets to protect the capital. Russian fuel shortages on the front line are now making it hard to run electrical generators needed to power electronics.
On top of 1.4 million war casualties, Russia is now losing over a thousand soldiers a day. Fortune magazine reports that Russia’s economy is sputtering, and that Putin’s wartime spending model has pushed the country to an economic, political, and military abyss.
The scale of Russian destruction is hard to overestimate. Russian fatalities in Ukraine are more than four times greater than all U.S. fatalities in all wars combined since World War II, and more than nine times greater than all Soviet and Russian fatalities in all wars combined since World War II.
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