Ein anderer russischer Zivilist filmt ein ukrainisches Lyutyi-Drohne, das sich der bereits brennenden Raffinerie nähert, nachdem es eine Distanz von über 2.000 km zurückgelegt hat, bevor es auf das Ziel, den technologischen Teil der AVT-Anlage der Ukhtyn-Raffinerie, abstürzt, während Soldaten versuchen, es mit Kleinwaffen abzuschießen.

Not the best marksmanship ever displayed.

I guess that is an indication of the state of Russian civil defense generally. When the central government started devolving all internal security costs to the regions and provinces to pay, way back in 2023, there was bound to start being gaps big enough to drive a buzz-bomb through.

Still you’d think they’d value basic energy infrastructure more. It makes me wonder if there’s some angle here. Embezzling funds for air defenses might get you a million rubles, but as they say in *The Social Network*, a million rubles isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? An entire refinery repair and reconstruction contract’s worth of rubles.

So you let those UAF drones on through, and as the smoke billows up into the sky, you call your boss with the bad news, and your money launderer with the good news. Maybe? Like the old fire insurance scam? Except even better because no arson is required on your part, with unrelenting Ukrainian attack all you have to do is leave the front door unlocked, so to say.

Burn all Russian refinerys

2,000 km, holy sh!t. Is that a record for a drone attack?