"Criticism is inappropriate": analysts explained the benefits of strikes on the refinery of the Russian Federation

What the real effects of drones on the refinery are, were told on the Foreign Affairs portal. The portal published an analysis of the situation made by three experts in the field of energy, economics and hostilities: Michael Libreich from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Lauri Millovirta from the Energy Research Center, Sam Winter-Levi from Princena University, expert on Neregel.

Experts calculated the number of blows of drones on oil depots and refineries of the Russian Federation-there were 20 of them for eight months (from September 2023 to March-April 2024). As a result, the Russian Federation has damage to 14% of plants, and the Kremlin introduced a moratorium on gasoline exports and even began to import it.

At the same time, Ukraine has heard criticism from the United States: it was advised not to beat the refinery, because the consequences will be - the price of oil will increase. However, experts who wrote an article for Foreign Affairs are sure that the US has no reason to be afraid. "Criticism from Washington is inappropriate: attacks on oil refineries will not have such an impact on global energy markets," - wrote on the portal.

The experts explained why the strikes on the NSPZ are useful for Ukraine and harmful to the Russian Federation: as a result, Ukrainian drones were able to achieve the goal that had a world community, imposing sanctions. "[Stri - ed. ] Deteriorated Russia's financial and logistics capacity to wage war, while limiting the wider damage to the world economy," experts explained.

Also on the portal there were several digits that describe the situation with oil development in the Russian Federation: we note, earlier, focus wrote about two waves of drones attacks on objects of oil refining of the Russian Federation. The first wave took place from September 2023 to February 2024, the second - from February to April 2024. The first blows occurred at a distance of 100-300 km.

Subsequently, the drones were taken to the plants located at a distance of 900 km-for example, to the oil terminal in St. Petersburg. In addition, in March, drones flew to Tatarstan. In the video from the scene, you could see a mini -ilic, which crashed into the Shahaneda production shop near the plant. We remind you that on May 4, the network showed footage of a burning substation in the Belgorod region.