Russia's Oil Industry Suffers Fatal Blow After Recent Strikes

Summary

In this video by Jake Broe, he discusses the severe impact Ukraine's drone strikes have had on Russia's oil refineries and the broader implications for the ongoing conflict. Several strategic oil and military facilities have been hit, leading to significant disruptions in Russia's oil industry. The strikes have also led to decreased morale among Russian forces and citizens, and heightened international tensions as China and India halt Russian oil purchases. Broe delves into the geopolitical consequences, including Ukraine's resilience supported by Western allies, and Russia's increasing economic struggles and internal criticism.

Highlights

• Ukraine's drone strikes severely damaging Russia's oil refineries. 🚀
• Russia unable to adequately defend its infrastructure, causing internal debate and criticism. 🛡️
• China and India halt Russian oil purchases due to geopolitical uncertainties. 🌏
• Ukraine's unexpected resilience and continued support from Western nations. 🇺🇦
• Putin's rhetoric focuses on blaming others while dodging responsibility. 🎭

Key Takeaways

• Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts—in its oil industry—with strategic drone strikes causing significant disruptions. 🚁
• Russia is struggling to respond to these attacks, leading to criticism and questions about infrastructure protection. 🛡️
• International ramifications are unfolding as China and India pause their oil purchases from Russia. 🌍
• Despite the dire situation, Ukraine remains resilient with continued support from Western allies. 🤝
• Putin continues to shift narratives, blaming international players and questioning Ukraine's leadership. 🎭

Overview

Jake Broe dives into the heart of the ongoing conflict, showcasing how Ukraine's strategic drone strikes have thrown a wrench into Russia's oil industry. With refineries set ablaze and military facilities attacked, the strikes spell big trouble for Russian infrastructure, leading to wider economic and strategic ramifications. It's a bold move that highlights Ukraine's relentless tactical ingenuity in the face of adversity.

The repercussions of these strikes are being felt far and wide, with international players like China and India pausing their oil transactions with Russia due to the mounting instability. This decision underscores the precariousness of the global oil market amidst geopolitical tensions. Meanwhile, the Russian public and military are buzzing with uncertainty and criticism, raising concerns about their country's ability to protect their critical assets.

Despite these challenges, Ukraine appears unfaltering. The nation is bolstered by robust support from Western allies determined to thwart Russian advances. Amidst this dynamic, Vladimir Putin is seen shifting blame and creating narratives in an attempt to manage the crisis. Broe underscores the delicate dance of geopolitics, where tactics and narratives shape the battlefield as much as physical confrontations.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 10:00: Introduction and Refinery Attacks The chapter titled 'Introduction and Refinery Attacks' discusses a recent series of drone attacks by Ukraine on Russian oil refineries. Specifically, it highlights a major attack on the Nizi Novag Grad oil refinery, one of Russia's largest, which had previously been targeted in early 2024. The attack resulted in significant equipment damage that took two months to fix. These actions by Ukraine are referred to as sanctions against Russia.
• 10:00 - 20:00: Russian Response and Military Impact The chapter 'Russian Response and Military Impact' discusses the geographical location and strategic detailing of an oil refinery east of Moscow, within Russia's borders. Situated 800 km or 500 miles from Ukraine, the refinery is large and designed to minimize damage in case of a fire or explosion as evident from satellite images. These designs aim to contain potential disasters from spilling over extensively.
• 20:00 - 30:00: Economic Impact on Russia The chapter discusses the significant impact on Russia caused by attacks on its oil refineries, emphasizing a recent incident where drones, presumably Ukrainian, struck a refinery that processes 15 million tons of crude oil annually, resulting in a massive fire. This event follows another attack on the Ryazan oil refinery, highlighting the mounting challenges faced by Russia's oil industry.
• 30:00 - 40:00: Russia-Ukraine War Developments The chapter discusses a massive drone strike on strategic oil and military facilities in Russia's Tver region. The operation was coordinated and targeted the fourth largest facility east of Moscow. Ukraine had been preparing for this operation for the last two weeks, accumulating drones to execute the strike aimed at crippling Russia's oil capabilities.
• 40:00 - 50:00: Recruitment and Censorship in Russia The chapter details recent developments in Russia, focusing on military and infrastructure targets being attacked by drones in Tver and the Ukrainian strike on the 23rd Arsenal military facility. It discusses changes in Russian military strategy, specifically the storage of ammunition in reinforced bunkers for better protection.
• 50:00 - 60:00: International Support for Ukraine The chapter discusses Ukrainian drones targeting the Druzhba pipeline in Russia's Bryansk oblast, a critical channel for sending oil westward to Europe. It emphasizes the ongoing tensions and actions affecting international energy supplies, particularly oil and gas pipelines, many of which have been destroyed or shut off, except for a segment referred to as the 'Turk'.

Russia's Oil Industry Suffers Fatal Blow After Recent Strikes Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 welcome back Defenders today's video we're going to start by talking about sanctions placed by Ukraine on Russia and when I say sanctions I mean drone attacks luo Refinery set a blaze by Ukraine's 100 plus drone barrage the ninzi novag grad oil refinery one of Russia's largest was previously attacked by Ukraine in early 2024 causing equipment damage that took 2 months to repair
• 00:30 - 01:00 this is where this Refinery is located on the map east of Moscow and deep into Russia this is 800 km or 500 mil from the Ukrainian border and this is what the oil refinery looks like from satellite images these refineries are designed to be massive to be spread out in the event of an accidental fire or explosion you want to contain it you don't want it spreading everywhere
• 01:00 - 01:30 so explain to me this this video these pictures I'll link this down below but it looks like the end of days and this oil refinery was annually processing 15 million tons of crude oil I don't know how many Ukrainian drones successfully Struck it but they overwhelmed the Russians and this is a massive fire and this just and this comes just days after the ryzon oil Refinery Russia's third
• 01:30 - 02:00 largest completely went offline so I believe this one east of Moscow is the fourth largest strategic oil and Military facilities hit in a massive drone strike in Russia's tver region this was coordinated this was massive this was across the board and especially the last two weeks Ukraine has been saving up these drones preparing for this operation to to Crush to annihilate Russia's oil
• 02:00 - 02:30 refining industry 29 drones struck Russia's critical oil and Military infrastructure in t tver this is a different Refinery different location Ukraine also struck the 23rd Arsenal military facility they've hit this before but I don't think it'll be as as successful this time because the Russians have finally started storing their ammunition inside the reinforcement bunkers as opposed to
• 02:30 - 03:00 just leaving it out in the open like they were doing last summer Ukrainian drones also struck the internationally vital duaba pipeline in Russia's Brians oblast there's pictures and videos online I'll link them down below but this is an oil pumping station sending oil West to Europe and there's a difference in the pipelines there's the gas pipelines which all of them have been destroyed are shut off except for the uh Turk
• 03:00 - 03:30 stream in the South but these are the oil pipelines and I don't know if the pipelines uh were completely disrupted the pumping station is on fire I I imagine you would have to shut down the flow of oil but Ukraine's not holding back something has changed in the last two weeks and Ukraine doesn't care anymore and I do believe this is a coordinated effort to economically pressure the Russians to
• 03:30 - 04:00 stop this war whether the EU and the United States can increase sanctions whether OPEC can produce more and if Ukraine can knock off these pipelines and refineries and Depots it's all happening at the same time it's all happening in unison to force the Russians to stop this war so if you're playing oil refinery bingo at home the boards are filling up I think this is the most uh accurate and
• 04:00 - 04:30 up-to-date chart based on uh what refineries have been struck in the last year you have to remember this new tactic from Ukraine started in January of 2024 and the effects take time the effects take time and the Russians are going to be hurting over the next couple months and you can zoom in we don't have closeup pictures I imagine some will be leaked at some point
• 04:30 - 05:00 but these are very delicate distillation Towers this is how you separate the carbon chains in order to make refined oil products and I don't know if Russia has the parts or the expertise or the technicians and even if they did how do you fix this in January it is the middle of winter in Russia and you're going to try and send uh repair Crews outside to scale these towers in the frigid
• 05:00 - 05:30 cold none of this stuff is going to get fixed until it's warmer none of this stuff is going to get fixed until this summer so the Russians have noticed and they're freaking out increasingly SV off is sounding the alarm on Kremlin State TV and it is it's interesting to see how they're reacting because they're looking for people to blame let me read for you what SV off is saying there's been another hit on our refineries
• 05:30 - 06:00 and who's going to protect them what is the problem why has this issue not yet been raised at the level of the legislature the state Duma write requests ask who is responsible for the protection of all our critical uh infrastructure who is responsible if we want to say that let the owners protect them no problem but let us give them this opportunity they are ready to invest so so office suggesting that
• 06:00 - 06:30 these uh oil companies have their own private militaries to provide air defense for their refineries and Depot of course it's forbidden who will they put there are they going to take people off the street and give them combat weapons no they can't do that they can financially do it they're willing to invest but then who's in charge maybe it is necessary to create troops to protect especially important
• 06:30 - 07:00 objects with different functions there must be someone in the country responsible for this we talk about this all the time but Time After Time strikes are carried out and huge losses are incurred that actually is a good question who is responsible for protecting these oil refineries and Depots with active air defense systems with uh you know guys on the ground with machine guns trying to shoot down these
• 07:00 - 07:30 planes uh packed with explosives these oil refinery strikes have been going on for a year and the Russians still don't know what to do about them and this is incredibly demoralizing for the average Russian and especially for Russian forces here are some translations off telegram these are Russian military bloggers responding to these Refinery attacks honestly I never thought I would read news about massive drone and
• 07:30 - 08:00 missile strikes on Russia more often than on Ukraine that's why the ukrainians are laughing at us no one is going to fix it yet here's another one the war is in its third year the enemy continues to successfully destroy the Russian oil refinery and fuel storage system with moped planes that fly a maximum speed of 120 kmph and were assembled from stuff and sticks in ke garages the oil refineries
• 08:00 - 08:30 were not protected by air defense and they're just not protected there are not even mobile groups with small arms or if they are their work is not noticeable at all I do think there are mobile units with small arms protecting these oil refineries but if Ukraine just sends a 100 at the same refinery in the same night you're going to blow it up you you can't you can't stop that
• 08:30 - 09:00 and the news for Russia gets worse China India halt Russian oil purchases for the month of March so oil contracts are always for the future you place an order and then it takes months for the oil to be delivered and at the moment both China and India are halting all their purchases of future Russian oil why would they do this well increase shipping cost I think that's what they're publicly saying but China and
• 09:00 - 09:30 India don't know what Donald Trump is going to do Donald Trump is threatening increased sanctions that could be applied in the next two months so at the moment China and India are just going to put on hold all oil purchases until they know exactly what Donald Trump is going to do because they don't want to make payments and place orders and then get caught in high level sanctions in which they can't accept the
• 09:30 - 10:00 purchases uh concerning the shadow Fleet tankers yeah I think this the treasury Department is going to place more sanctions go after more of these ships in either February or March and if that happens China and India have already told the Russians we're not going to violate us sanctions to help you out I think China and India are fed up and they want Russia to stop this war meanwhile inside Russia Russia faces
• 10:00 - 10:30 surge in corporate bankruptcy experts are warning more than 20% of manufacturing companies were paying interest costs exceeding 2third of their pre-tax profits this was as the end of 2024 compared to just 10% a year earlier the most affected sectors include investment intensive Industries with transport engineering companies experiencing the greatest strain business's ability to generate profits
• 10:30 - 11:00 to cover loan payments is declining it's a house of cards these Russian companies are borrowing money to make the payments on their borrowed money when you borrow money to make your debt payments on borrowed money eventually you can't pay it anymore this is just a nightmare for the Russian economy and even if the war is frozen today even if the war stops today
• 11:00 - 11:30 things have already been set in motion and the Russians are screwed in the long term but they're not thinking longterm so this is interesting Putin gave a weird interview in the back of his car maybe this is a new Russian series you know driving with dictators and Putin claims Ukraine's collapse uh Ukraine will collapse soon without Western Aid he also uh he also attacked
• 11:30 - 12:00 zelinsky's legitimacy to engage in negotiations so here's the interview I'm going to read for you about a minute of it I'll link the entire thing down below thank you so much to natala for these uh important translations here's what Putin says well yes if we start negotiations now they will be illegitimate I'm really talking about it I didn't talk about it but I'll tell you there's a problem why
• 12:00 - 12:30 because when the current head of the regime as it can be called today signed this decree he was still a legitimate president but now he can't nullify it because he is illegitimate so Putin is saying that he can't engage negotiations with zinski because three years ago ziny signed a decree saying that nobody in the Ukrainian government can engage
• 12:30 - 13:00 in negotiations with Russia seninsky did this to stop um smaller actors or Shadow actors in the Ukrainian government from holding secret talks with the Russians trying to prevent medich from claiming any kind of legitimacy to negotiate on Ukraine's behalf so Putin is saying seninsky was legitimate when he signed that decree but zilinski hasn't had an election in five years so today he's not
• 13:00 - 13:30 legitimate and is incapable of repealing this decree that he issued 3 years ago it's a it's a stupid argument but this seems to be what Putin is fixated on at the moment that's what's tricky it's an ambush do you understand it it's a trap so this is Putin uh channeling Admiral abbar please let the chairman of the Rada do it in accordance with the
• 13:30 - 14:00 Constitution this is this is if there is a desire any legal issue can be resolved but right now we don't see such a desire well I think his Western sponsors they can't exist they won't last a month if money and broadly speaking bullets stop coming everything will be over in a month a month and a half or two so this is Putin saying that if all mil Ary Aid to Ukraine stops today
• 14:00 - 14:30 Russia can completely win this war in two months so bookmark this clip we'll come back to it in two months the war the fighting is not going to stop hopefully there's a peace deal guys but I don't think it's going to happen in two months and I guarantee you the war is still going to be going in this sense Ukraine's sovereignty is almost zero if their Western sponsors have a desire
• 14:30 - 15:00 to achieve peace the path to it is very simple this is Putin saying just stop militarily supporting Ukraine I'll finish them off and then the war is over Putin's not looking for a ceasefire he's not looking for a peace deal he's looking for genocide he just wants to kill everyone he wants to kill and take all the territory he wants to take so now that Trump is president president we're not going to talk about
• 15:00 - 15:30 orik Putin wouldn't shut up about orik for over two months and the second Donald Trump has sworn in no mention of his new wonder weapon that can destroy every European Capital with nuclear weapons so this is what Putin is trying to do and it's so transparent and it's so stupid according to the institute for the study of War Putin's rejection of zelinsky's legitimacy sets the state for Russia to violate any future agreements
• 15:30 - 16:00 so if Putin signs something with sski a year from now two years from now 3 years from now he can just say that that agreement was illegitimate because zalinski was illegitimate and then he can start the war again take note this guy can't be trusted you cannot engage in negotiations with the Russians because the Russians will violate any agreement
• 16:00 - 16:30 anyone makes with them this is what they've been doing for well I mean if we go back to Soviet times we'll just say since the beginning of Russia in 1992 here is zelinsky's reaction and zin's a genius he knows what to say today Putin once again confirmed that he is afraid of negotiations afraid of strong leaders and does everything possible to prolong the war every move he makes and all his uh
• 16:30 - 17:00 cynical tricks are aimed at making the war endless so this is seninsky talking about strong leaders without mentioning Trump's name then down here world leaders should take into account the mistakes of previous years as well as the mistakes of those leaders who are no longer on the stage so this is cinsky referencing Biden without saying Biden's name pretty smart Putin has significant capabilities
• 17:00 - 17:30 to disrupt global stability but he is too faint-hearted to withstand real pressure from strong leaders like Trump that is why we must act decisively and in unity all those who have the courage to believe in peace and bring it closer through strength true peace is possible if Russia is forced into it okay we're getting there guys and this is incredible zilinski was invited to appear on Fox News and he got a
• 17:30 - 18:00 friendly interview from Shan Hannity now if you're not American and you're not familiar with Fox News or Sean Hannity probably this network has been the most critical of Ukraine the last three years but now that Donald Trump is President and Donald Trump is telling them we need to help Ukraine and stop the Russians all of a sudden people like Shan Hannity are changing their tune so I'll link the interview down below though I didn't think it was a good
• 18:00 - 18:30 interview for zinski because visually it didn't look good like the room is dark zilinsky looked tired uh and there's an English voice dub over I would rather zilinsky just do his best to speak in English but I understand why he's using a translator I just don't think with the American public uh the average Fox News viewer can be as sympathetic while listening to a
• 18:30 - 19:00 translation but these are actual quotes from Shan Hannity on Fox News while interviewing president seny he said Russia's unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine so we're not talking about NATO enlargement anymore being the cause of this War I am no fan of Vladimir Putin I think he is evil and I would like Ukraine to remain a country let me play for you about a minute of uh Sean
• 19:00 - 19:30 Hannity Russia's unprovoked war of aggression in Ukraine continues to rage many are dying infrastructure dying but with President Trump now in office all parties now seem to agree it is time for the violence to end my fear for Ukraine for your country and you have fought valiantly and I'm no fan of Vladimir Putin uh I think he's evil a murderer uh I think all of this was unnecessary all of it could have been negotiated from the beginning but we are where we are and I would like Ukraine to remain a
• 19:30 - 20:00 country and and not have all of its infrastructure destroyed in in all of this uh the president did say about Vladimir Putin he said the following that their economy is failing he said settle this stop this ridiculous War it's only going to get worse if we don't make a deal in soon I'll have no other choice but to put high levels of tariffs taxes and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the Us and other
• 20:00 - 20:30 participating countries let's get this war war which never should have started if I were president over with make a deal no more lives should be lost and I hope president Trump can assist with president with with Vladimir Putin not a fan of him I think that I I I think he never should have invaded Ukraine to begin with uh I think your people have fought valiantly but I am
• 20:30 - 21:00 you guys Russia has officially lost Fox News we still have to worry about oan and Newsmax repeating Kremlin propaganda but I think there's just too many connections between people in the Trump Administration genuinely trying to help Ukraine and then the executives at Fox News so we're now filtering out Russian disinformation from the largest conservative broadcasting network here in the United States this is very good news for Ukraine and I've been saying this for the last
• 21:00 - 21:30 two months Maga is divided on Ukraine this is a this is an issue they can't agree on I'd say about 50% of Maga they want to continue military aid to Ukraine the other 50% they're either crazy and they support Russia or they're sympathetic to Ukraine but they're just isolationist they just don't think the United States should get involved and this is what I've been telling you but Bill Browder agrees with me if you
• 21:30 - 22:00 don't know who Bill Browder is uh the Russians really hate this guy he's probably the most important person over the last 10 years to get anti-corruption legisl legislation passed through Western governments uh yeah the oligarchs hate Bill Browder but Bill Browder agrees with my assist assessment of the people in the Trump Administration today if you through and I don't want to read too much into this because you know he makes
• 22:00 - 22:30 one decision and he changes his decision but but you know the you know reading the tea leaves from mumblings in the first few days it's it's not disastrous for Ukraine who's he be so Bill Browder agrees based on the first week of Trump's presidency it's not a disaster for Ukraine or the NATO alliance listening to do you think well so there there's two camps in inside Washington there's the Elon Musk JD Vance Donald Trump Jr Camp who hate
• 22:30 - 23:00 Ukraine and then there's the Marco Rubio Camp the Secretary of State um the general Kellogg who is his special Envoy to Ukraine um and his National Security adviser Waltz who I would say you know fit a lot closer into my my seat in terms of being um you know tough tough on Putin trying to help Ukraine and he's apparently at least in the first few days listening to the um I would call them the professionals so we've got
• 23:00 - 23:30 Rubio Waltz and Kellogg being the professionals advising Donald Trump and then you've got the pro-russia crazy people like um Elon Musk and JD Vance who basically is just uh Elon musk's proxy in the administration but Trump is listening to the professionals Trump is actually trying to help Ukraine at the moment and trying to stop the Russians uh from continuing this
• 23:30 - 24:00 war let's now quick switch to the battlefield because I think something relatively significant happens um every day Russia is still gobbling up a wheat field here or a tree line there it's honestly not going to change the course of the war and neither will this but I do think this was symbolic chavar Falls to Russian forces after nearly a year of intense fighting this headline is not correct it it's not one year it's 2 years so the pre-war
• 24:00 - 24:30 population of chivar was 12,000 and who knows how many casualties the Russians took to take this city but if you remember fell to prosan and the Vagner mercenaries two years ago so the regular Russian military for two years has been trying to go from to take CH ofar this was the next city on on the
• 24:30 - 25:00 road and this is 10 km 10 km the Russian military with daily attacks daily meat waves continuous assaults and bombardments for two years they finally took chavar a city with a pre-war population of 12,000 people so here's Russia's Mighty Victory this is what remains of the city of chavar after 2 years of intense fighting and aerial
• 25:00 - 25:30 bombardments I don't understand how anyone who supports Russia can view this as a victory all the casualties they took all of the resources they wasted to take Rubble where there's nobody and nothing left Russian Army Recruitment centers in Moscow see five-fold drop in applicants according to Russian media the daily number of volunteers signing up reached
• 25:30 - 26:00 a high following Ukraine's kers offensive last summer when Moscow started offering a one-time signup bonus of about $199,000 since then daily applicants uh number around 40 which is a fivefold decrease from 6 months ago in August we could barely cope people came in Mass about 200 to 250 a day the recruitments are dra up even though Putin is willing to offer an
• 26:00 - 26:30 ungodly amount of money for the average Russian $20,000 as a signup bonus $2,000 a month they're just not getting the recruits ordinary Russians are figuring it out that there's no point to having $20,000 when you're going to be dead in three months dead men can't spend money the Russians are slow but they figure it out Russia blocks a record 417,000 websites
• 26:30 - 27:00 just in the year 2024 cens censorship in Russia is going insane they recently blocked YouTube and I I do believe guys that when the Revolution in Russia comes they're going to shut off the internet and it's going to be really hard to get pictures and videos and information in and out but it's inevitable every day Russia just gets closer and closer to becoming a
• 27:00 - 27:30 larger version of North Korea Ukrainian lawmakers seek to temporarily replace us Aid with European funding so the concern through the state department uh there was a 90-day freeze put on this uh humanitarian aid from the United States to Ukraine but I think this is going to get reversed in the next couple weeks I think Marco Rubio is going to make an announcement before the 90 days that they're going to unfreeze
• 27:30 - 28:00 These funds and continue these programs but in the short term either the government of Ukraine or uh humanitarian Aid coming from the EU can cover these projects and programs so they're not interrupted we're doing our best guys let's get to the good news for Ukraine Italian parliament extends military support through 2025 thank you so much the people of Italy Sweden commits record 1.2 billion in
• 28:00 - 28:30 military aid to Ukraine with combat boats and missiles thank you so much to the Fantastic swedes we now have confirmation what this plane was Israel sends 90 Patriot missiles to Ukraine uh possibly through a pilgrimage deal and open source intelligence noticed this military plane flying from Israel to the Polish border and people thought this might be captured Russian weapons from Hezbollah
• 28:30 - 29:00 being given to the ukrainians but we now got confirmation that this was uh Patriot missiles because Israel has their own preferred air defense systems they're currently retiring their Patriot systems and some of these missiles and systems might make their way to Ukraine so thank you so much the people of Israel okay for my last video I have to issue a correction I called this animal a beaver CU I didn't know what it was
• 29:00 - 29:30 but you in the comment section many people figured it out and this animal apparently is a nutria I've never heard of this animal before but the nutria is a herous semi-aquatic rodent indigenous to South America that's what it looks like yeah okay it's not a beaver it's a nutria thank you final video I have for you is a typical day in the Russian military uh
• 29:30 - 30:00 this uh armored vehicle has become stuck and this is how the Russians try to unstuck it
• 30:00 - 30:30 oh H you
• 30:30 - 31:00 the Russians are incompetent that's all for this update video glory to Ukraine glory to the heroes if you found this video informative give me a thumbs up best way to support the channel comments and questions let me know down below I love hearing from you guys till the next video keep defending the truth keep defending democracy