On Sunday, 3 September, a big fire broke out at an oil depot in Krasnogvardeysky District, St Petersburg, Russia.
I dunno about this. Munitions factories and military equipment is one thing, but that’s an economic target.
Kinda unpleasantly similar to Red Storm Rising.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_Rising
Red Storm Rising is a war novel, written by Tom Clancy and co-written with Larry Bond, and released on August 7, 1986. Set in the mid-1980s, it features a Third World War between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Warsaw Pact forces, and is unique for depicting the conflict as being fought exclusively with conventional weapons, rather than escalating to the use of weapons of mass destruction or nuclear warfare.
Militants from Soviet Azerbaijan destroy an oil production refinery in Nizhnevartovsk, threatening to cripple the Soviet Union’s economy due to oil shortages. After much deliberation, the Soviet Politburo decides to seize the Persian Gulf by military force in order to recoup the country’s oil losses.
Almost every piece of equipment that Russia is using in its war runs on oil. I can understand it, to hit that branch if military support as well. It’s just that oil is also used for civilian stuff. On the other hand, russia attacked the electric infrastructure of Ukraine and that was heavily critiziced because of the effects on the citizens. So I get your point.
However, as soon as Russia leaves Ukraine, their oil depots will stop to blow up. Ukraine does not have that kind of choice
