Ukraine’s first 40-day strike campaign hit more than 100 strategic targets inside Russia—but it now appears that campaign was only a proof of concept. Zelensky has approved a new series of SBU operations, and Ukraine is preparing to increase the cost of Putin’s war through strikes on refineries, military production, air defenses, logistics, ships, and other critical systems.
I examine what Ukraine’s next operation could look like, why Russia is reshuffling its military leadership, how Moscow is preparing to intensify attacks on Ukrainian civilians this winter, and why Ukraine may soon expand its capabilities far beyond conventional long-range drones.
I’ve said this more than once, but the destruction of the Yamal cross would devastate mafia land.
This is what Google says.
Immediate Domestic and Economic Consequences
Severe Energy Collapse: The junction coordinates a vast percentage of Russian gas extraction. Knocking it out would sever the transit arteries moving fuel from Siberian mega-fields.
Domestic Paralysis: The loss would disrupt not just export pipelines, but the internal circulation of gas that heats cities and powers local Russian industry across multiple regions.
Fiscal Deficit: Loss of control or capacity at this central nervous system would cause an immediate, catastrophic shock to federal budget revenues tied to gas extraction.
Strategic and Geopolitical Fallout
Loss of Leverage: Moscow’s remaining geopolitical leverage via energy supplies to external markets would drop to near zero.
Shrinking Zones of Immunity: It would shatter the Kremlin’s long-standing narrative that core strategic infrastructure deep inside Russian territory is untouchable by the ongoing war.
Absolutely!!! mafialand must BURN!!!
Interesting noted from a Facebook post:
Yamal Cross is located approximately 2700km from the Ukrainian border.
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And it is worth paying attention that on the map of main gas pipelines there is a place where 17 large gas pipelines intersect at once. The place is known as the “Yamal Cross”. It is located on the banks of the Pravaya Khetta River, near the village of Pangoda, and indeed from a satellite it looks like two crosses drawn directly on the tundra.
Gas pipelines cannot be disguised, they are perfectly visible on satellite and aerial photographs, mainly because for safety reasons all trees and bushes in the right-of-way for gas pipelines are cut down. And in general, the entire gas and gas transportation infrastructure is perfectly visible from the air: wells, gas compressor stations, gas pipelines, underground gas storage facilities.
A warhead explosion can break the tightness of the pipeline and cut out a spark, and then gas under pressure of 54 atmospheres will do everything else. The force of the explosion is such that it tears out and throws tens of meters of large-diameter steel pipe to the side and creates a large crater, above which a column of burning gas appears.
The loss of 85% of gas will lead to the shutdown of most power plants, to the cessation of the supply of electricity and heat to residential buildings, to a sharp reduction in the work of railways.
Electricity will remain only in the very margins, only for the most important facilities and the most urgent needs. If the impact occurs in winter, in severe frosts, the damage will be much greater than from a nuclear bombing.
European Russia, particularly Moscow & St Petersburg, is where the elites of Russian society live, prospering from the wealth they take from the rest of Russia while avoiding many of the consequences of their war against Ukraine.
They will not be prepared to suffer themselves.
[See the original post for maps showing the pipelines.]