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Elena Gold
Author “Russia’s Plot to Destroy America”
What strategies might Russia employ to protect its oil refineries from future strikes or accidents?
Putin’s strategic chance to protect his oil refineries from strikes or accidents just flew in—Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko is visiting the Russian tyrant in his Valdai residence for a private chat, after a meeting with Ukrainian representatives last week.

Putin is in a bad situation, which is getting worse by the hour.

  • Fuel shortages spread through the whole of Russia.
  • Oil refineries keep burning.
  • Crimea is isolated; Ukrainian drones are flying over the Kerch Bridge; there is no fuel, severe shortages of water, food, power. The chief of occupational administration announced state of emergency. Thousands of vehicles are queuing for hours to get out via Kerch Bridge.
  • Ukraine began striking Russian power plants (that’s why there are power outages in Crimea; a plant in Novomoskovsk was also struck).
  • Ukraine continues striking military industrial plants where components for missiles are made.
  • Ukrainian drones are flying over Moscow, despite its 3 rings of layered air defense.
  • Ukraine is about to get ballistic missiles that can fly over 800 km, able to reach Moscow.
  • The Russians are mad at Putin for putting them in this mess with no Internet, no fuel, and Ukrainian drone and missile attacks in their cities. They don’t care for the small Ukrainian village, capturing ruins of which Putin brags about —they just want to live normal lives.

And now, on top of that, a Russian military blogger posted a video about systemic torture and robbery of frontline soldiers in the Russian army, demanding a meeting with Putin and saying that if he doesn’t get it, the soldiers are going to turn their weapons against the Kremlin. The video went through the Russian internet like a wildfire.

Russian blogger Aleksandr Lunin released a video statement addressed to Putin, saying he has a message for him and warning that failure to meet him could lead to a military action against the Kremlin. (Video in the comments below.)

Now there are more videos by Russian soldiers saying they are backing up Lunin.

And now Alexander Lukashenko—the mediator who talked Prigozhin into halting his mutiny in June 2023—is flying for a personal meeting with Putin, after bending down to Zelenskyy’s ultimatum to shut down Russian equipment on Belarus border, which Russia used to direct missiles targeting Ukrainian cities. And now we know that Lukashenko met with Kyiv’s representatives last week in Minsk. Who obviously laid down everything for him in plain terms.

Lukashenko is Putin’s strategic chance to get out of this mess he put himself and Russia in.

Putin must end this war.

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