-15ed15eec5283a11e7856ddc39ce57c1.jpeg "A massive plume of smoke rises over residential buildings following a Ukrainian drone strike on the Edelweiss-95 fuel depot on September 28. (Source: OSINT channel Exilenova+)")
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-16e06bcee8d923e365ee7ea8d19c5282.jpeg "Black smoke billows over the LUKOIL-Permnefteorgsintez oil refinery following a Ukrainian drone strike on September 25. (Source: OSINT channel Supernova+)")
-b6bffc7cd0690a34f106e9391b5a794e.jpg "An RQ-35 Heidrun drone used for reconnaissance and artillery fire correction flies in the sky in the Zaporizhzhia direction in Ukraine on February 22, 2026. Illustrative photo. (Source: Getty Images)")
-91ea40b37043b5ef58c8aceb58a7b970.jpeg "A dark plume of smoke rises over Samara following Ukrainian drone strikes on the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery. (Source: OSINT channel Exilenova+)")
![Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to launch Russian oil company Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project via video link in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Source: Getty Images)]( "Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin attends a ceremony to launch Russian oil company Rosneft’s Vostok Oil project via video link in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Source: Getty Images)")
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![The pump nozzle at a gas station is labaeled “Diesel B7”. (Source: Getty Images)]( "The pump nozzle at a gas station is labaeled “Diesel B7”. (Source: Getty Images)")
![Ukraine Is Hitting Russia’s Diesel Production. How Much Does It Hurt the Kremlin’s War Machine?]( "Ukraine Is Hitting Russia’s Diesel Production. How Much Does It Hurt the Kremlin’s War Machine?")
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- War in Ukraine
Russian oil helps bankroll its war in Ukraine, allowing Moscow to pour roughly $150 billion a year into its military. For Ukraine, cutting that revenue is a way to make the war too expensive for the Kremlin to continue and bring Putin to the negotiating table.![A general view of the Novokuibyshev Refinery owned by Rosneft oil company on March 15, 2012 in Novokuibyshevsk, Samara region, Russia. (Source: Getty Images)]( "A general view of the Novokuibyshev Refinery owned by Rosneft oil company on March 15, 2012 in Novokuibyshevsk, Samara region, Russia. (Source: Getty Images)")
![A massive fire glows over the cityscape following a Ukrainian drone strike on the Syzran Oil Refinery in Russia’s Samara region. (Source: OSINT channel Exilenova+)]( "A massive fire glows over the cityscape following a Ukrainian drone strike on the Syzran Oil Refinery in Russia’s Samara region. (Source: OSINT channel Exilenova+)")
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-29a1a43aba23f9bb779a1ac8b98d2121.jpeg "Photo of Illia Kabachynskyi")
