According to the General Staff, Ukrainian forces hit the Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery in the city of Kstovo in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on July 2 as part of efforts to "reduce Russia's military and economic potential."
  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I am continually impressed that Ukraine never goes after soft civilian mass casualty targets despite having plenty of capability at this point, even as Russia does exactly that over and over again.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      Waste of weaponry in terms of fighting a war. Ukraine chose a target that would be a severe bottleneck and focused on it.

      Early in the war, back when Russia was throwing thermobaric rounds into…IIRC it was Mariupol…torching large areas, I remember commenting, saying “there may come a time when you will be short of munitions and regret having expended those munitions like that”.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        6 days ago

        maybe. but the idea is to kowtow the citizenry and have them wanting peace… at any price.