You're completely skipping Ukraine's military strategy here:
It has been since 2023 to destroy the Russia's economy. Once that's dealt with, the rest will follow.
Also, look at the huge AD losses the Russia has suffered especially in Crimea! Attriting the Russian air defence in order to get to the refineries has been a part of Ukraine's core strategy.
Ukraine's current war goal is not to regain territory. It is to lay the groundwork for doing that in the future.
@NotMyOldRedditName @LaFinlandia
It's the second time this has happened. The previous one was roughly a year ago.
Regarding Switchblades... It was also very important that within days of ZSU beginning their news, we read articles on how inefficient they actually are. That a 80 % cheaper drone does a _better_ job! They turned out to be unreliable, inaccurate and extremely expensive.
That told a lot of western military industry in general!
I cannot understand why nothing is done about this. The problem is, when they say at the Finnish border "this product is going to Kyrgyzstan", but it actually stays in the Russia, it has earlier not been Finland's problem but one of the Russia – it means that the customs fees for the Russia have not been paid and the product lands there anyway.
Now it's different but we still behave like we did in 1996 and 2003 and 2021.
Why?
@MrMakabar @LaFinlandia
A tiny refinery might have less resources for fixing the damage?