Dan Rice 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
American University Kyiv
West Point BS/Kellogg MBA/Medill MS/UPENN MSeD/UPENN Doctoral candidate ABD
Ukraine
Dan is the President & CEO of the American University and the Co-President of Thayer Leadership
Sept 12, 2025
Ukraine is methodically taking out key energy assets across large areas of Russia including Moscow.
Destroy Russia’s energy sector and Russia will be serious financial trouble over the next few years.
Meanwhile Russia suspended negotiations with Ukraine – because Russia does not want peace – but blamed the suspension on Europeans meddling in the illegal Russian aggression.
Every piece of news from Russia are lies, hyperbole and exaggeration. Every time Ukraine has a successful attack – Russia claimed the Ukrainian drones were “shot down but falling debris started fires” (coincidentally on the target).
Meanwhile Ukraine always tells the truth such as “Russia targeted the Kyiv children’s hospital with a ballistic missile and hit it, then hit it again 20 minutes later with a double tap to kill the civilian first responders who were trying to save the children”.
Sick Russian culture.
Burn down the gas station and end the war of aggression the gas station is funding.
Drones hit Russia’s largest oil port
ARTUR KRYZHNYI — FRIDAY, 12 SEPTEMBER 2025
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This is a good sign for Ukraine. The U.S. already hit India with 50% tariffs and will not have good relations until India stops buying Russian oil.
If India stops buying sanctioned Russian oil, Russia will be further squeezed at the same time as Ukraine is destroying Russia’s energy sector.
Modi and Trump signal mutual optimism for US-India trade negotiations moving ahead
Indian PM expresses confidence negotiations will unlock new opportunities between the two nations
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Petro Andriushchenko
Head of Center for the Study of the Occupation I Керівник Центру вивчення окупації I Consultant & Analyst
Center for the Study of the Occupation I Центр вивчення окупації Interregional Academy of Personnel Management
Ukraine
While Russia continues bombing peaceful cities, Ukraine is striking at the very foundation of Russia’s war machine – its economy.
💥 Summary of strikes on oil refineries and related facilities (August – early September 2025):
02.08
🔥 Novokuybyshevsk Oil Refinery — Novokuybyshevsk, Samara region (SBS)
🔥 Ryazan Oil Refinery — Ryazan, Ryazan region (SBS)
03.08
🔥 Fuel depot AE “Sochi” — Sochi, Krasnodar Krai (SBS)
07.08
🔥 Afipsky Oil Refinery — Afipskaya, Krasnodar Krai (SBS + HUR)
08.08
🔥 Fuel depot “Ertan” — Krasnodar Krai (SBS)
10.08
🔥 Saratov Oil Refinery — Saratov, Saratov region (SBS)
12.08
🔥 Oil pumping station “Unecha Transneft-Druzhba” — Unecha, Bryansk region (SBS + HUR + SOU)
14.08
🔥 Volgograd Oil Refinery — Volgograd, Volgograd region (SBS + HUR)
15.08
🔥 Syzran Oil Refinery — Syzran, Samara region (SBS + SSO)
16.08
🔥 “Nevinnomyssk Azot” chemical plant — Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai (SBS + SOU)
18.08
🔥 Oil pumping station “Nikolskoye-Transneft” — Nikolskoye, Voronezh region (SBS)
19.08
🔥 Repeat strike on Volgograd Oil Refinery — Volgograd, Volgograd region
20.08
🔥 Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery — Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region (“Graf” SBS)
21.08
🔥 Oil pumping station “Unecha Transneft-Druzhba” (repeat) — Unecha, Bryansk region (SBS + HUR + SOU)
22.08
🔥 Albashneft Oil Refinery — Albashi, Ulyanovsk region (“Graf” SBS + HUR)
24.08
🔥 Syzran Oil Refinery (repeat) — Syzran, Samara region (SBS + SSO)
28.08
🔥 Kuibyshev Oil Refinery — Samara, Samara region (SBS + SSO)
🔥 Afipsky Oil Refinery (repeat) — Afipskaya, Krasnodar Krai (SBS + HUR)
30.08
🔥 Krasnodar Oil Refinery — Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai (SBS + SSO)
🔥 Syzran Oil Refinery (repeat) — Syzran, Samara region (SBS + SSO)
05.09
🔥 Ryazan Oil Refinery (repeat) — Ryazan, Ryazan region
🔥 Luhansk oil depot — Luhansk, occupied Luhansk region
📍 Geography of strikes
Samara region — Novokuybyshevsk, Syzran, Samara (3 refineries, multiple hits)
Ryazan region — Ryazan (repeated strikes)
Krasnodar Krai — Afipsky (2), Krasnodar, Sochi fuel depot
Rostov region — Novoshakhtinsk
Saratov region — Saratov
Volgograd region — Volgograd (2)
Bryansk region — Unecha (2)
Stavropol Krai — Nevinnomyssk (chemical plant)
Voronezh region — Nikolskoye (oil pumping station)
Ulyanovsk region — Albashi (Albashneft Oil Refinery)
📊 Overall statistics
- Total strikes: 21 (including repeats)
- Unique targets: 13 (10 refineries + 2 oil pumping/fuel depots + 1 chemical plant + 1 oil depot)
Most frequently targeted:
Syzran Oil Refinery (3 times)
Afipsky Oil Refinery (2 times)
Volgograd Oil Refinery (2 times)
Unecha Oil Pumping Station (2 times)
Ryazan Oil Refinery (2 times)
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Comment from Marijn Markus :
This is how you win a war, by systematically dismantling the enemy’s ability to fight and resupply, one oil depot at a time.
Yes, mafia land MUST burn.
In Denny Davydov’s latest post, he said that russia’s economy is in big trouble, but it will still take years to bring it down.
This is because two of the biggest economies in the world are committed to aiding and abetting putler’s genocide. I refer of course to the foul, stinking criminal regimes of India and China.
I’ll take Deny’s statement with a pinch of salt. He’s a pilot and no economist. Mafia land can’t sell anything it doesn’t have, and this day will come when Ukraine has demolished more of their oil infrastructure.
There was a quote while ago from the orc leader where he admitted the oil reserves are declining, and will only last for a certian amount of time, and orcville should look towards coal….. This was in the contex of fueling autos!