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TexasTowelie

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Mon Apr 20, 2026, 11:01 AM Apr 20

Ukraine Strikes Tuapse Oil Port - in Defiance of US that is Actively Helping Putin! - Silicon Curtain



Silicon Bites Ep320 | 2026-04-18 | Ukraine's war on Russian oil, the allies who begged them to stop, and the sanctions waiver that proved whose side Washington is on. On the morning of April 16th, a plume of black smoke rose from the Russian port city of Tuapse on the Black Sea coast. It stretched over a hundred kilometers out to sea. It was visible from space. NASA published the satellite image.

The Tuapse Oil Refinery — a Rosneft facility, one of the ten largest in Russia, with an annual processing capacity of twelve million tons — was on fire. Ukrainian drones from the Security Service's Alpha special operations center had struck fuel storage tanks, deepwater oil-loading arms, pipeline infrastructure, and a multifunctional radar station. The fire spread to neighboring reservoirs and burned through the day. Ukraine's General Staff confirmed the strike. The OSINT project CyberBoroshno reported the fire had intensified. OSINTtechnical posted the satellite footage. The port of Tuapse handles up to ten percent of Russia's total petroleum product exports.
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Ukraine Strikes Tuapse Oil Port - in Defiance of US that is Actively Helping Putin! - Silicon Curtain (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 20 OP
Ukraine is at war with Russia gab13by13 Apr 20 #1

gab13by13

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1. Ukraine is at war with Russia
Mon Apr 20, 2026, 11:12 AM
Apr 20

It needs to do what it needs to do to survive.
Ukraine isn’t in defiance of the US, the US is in defiance of Ukraine.

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