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Ukrainian drones hit oil refinery in Russia's
Volgograd Oblast, governor says

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Posted By: JoElla Bee, 8/19/2025 6:24:52 PM

Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia's Volgograd Oblast overnight on Aug. 19, regional governor Andrei Bocharov said. The refinery, Russian oil company Lukoil's second-largest, is a major producer of petroleum products in Russia's Southern Federal District. According to Bocharov, a fire broke out at the site following the attack. Residents told Russian pro-government media outlet Shot that they heard between four and 10 explosions, with drones flying at low altitude and bright flashes visible in the night sky. Russia's Defense Ministry claimed 13 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Timber Queen 8/19/2025 6:38:12 PM (No. 1992880)
The Z-Man wore a "suit" (sort of) to show he definitely wants peace! /s What an arse.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: laurenc 8/19/2025 6:39:56 PM (No. 1992881)
Putin is going to kill a lotta Ukraines for this. Murderer!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Kate318 8/19/2025 8:41:05 PM (No. 1992904)
Well, so much for cease fires and peace talks. Nice move, Little Dancer. I’m beginning to hope Putin wipes you off the map.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 8/19/2025 10:35:05 PM (No. 1992917)
I always love a story with a happy ending, like a burning Russian oil refinery, at the end.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 8/19/2025 10:38:08 PM (No. 1992918)
So, Putin dropping 150 attack drones on Ukraine civilians every night, like right after the "peace summit", but if the Ukrainians attack a legitimate military target like a refinery, that makes him a war monger?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: franco 8/20/2025 1:54:17 AM (No. 1992943)
#5: Da! Of course... and as you know perfectly well, Putin is a "family values" kind of guy who has sired four children out of wedlock with a woman half his age whom he's never married... And Russia is a "family values" country, too... with the highest divorce rate in the world and the highest incidence of HIV in the world.... / sarc off
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Reply 7 - Posted by: franco 8/20/2025 10:27:32 AM (No. 1993033)
The amazing thing to me here is how the Ukrainians carefully target military and dual-use targets (e.g. oil refineries) -- generally avoiding civilian casualties -- and yet lots of people drop comments condemning Zelensky. It's almost as if they're being "influenced" (and probably by "influencers" who are having their palms greased by flows of cash originating in Moscow)....But then Putin indiscriminately hits apartment buildings, hospitals, schools, and you don't hear a peep out of these same people. Yet the latter are war crimes, while the former are legitimate conduct in the prosecution of a war. Some people have a real problem with perspicacity...
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Reply 8 - Posted by: chumley 8/20/2025 1:34:21 PM (No. 1993111)
I find both countries and their leaders pretty odious, so dont really care who gets killed or how many. Russia has been evil forever and the cold war with them cost us trillions, and kept us on a war time footing for decades. Ukraine bribed our politicians so blatantly they didnt even care who knew. They also hosted the illegal bio weapons labs our government built to skirt the US law prohibiting such things. To blazes with the lot of them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: DVC 8/20/2025 2:56:25 PM (No. 1993137)
Re #8, that "biolabs" story is Russian disinformation. I happened to be working in Ukraine for a number of years, often overseeing bioresearch projects, looking for new cancer drugs, and new antiviral drugs. And I toured their biolabs....which were pre-existing "research institutes" left over from soviet times. US DTRA, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, funded a lab expansion in two labs that I worked with, and I toured them. They were safer for the biosamples that they ALREADY HAD, which, like almost any other bio research lab, did include some not so good viruses and bacteria. The new DTRA labs had better locks, but far, and a diesel backup generator to keep the freezers with samples going. And as to "US weapons labs" overseas, DTRA blocked one of my projects because it would have involved Armenians learning new, modern lab techniques while developing a bioweapons detection system. That was not approved. Previously, a four dollar hardware store lock on a hardware store hasp locked the ordinary freezers that they stored their samples in....subject to power outages, too.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 8/20/2025 2:57:41 PM (No. 1993138)
that should be "better locks by far..."
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