Ukraine is inflicting increasingly devastating blows on Russian infrastructure

#Kanal13​ #likekanal13​ #subscribekanal13 #warinukraine https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13a... - SUBSCRIBE TO US! As reported on June 3, a thick column of black smoke rose over the port of St. Petersburg . Just three days later, Ukraine struck again, blowing up a nearby oil storage facility and a naval base. The head of the regional administration called it an "unprecedented" attack, according to The Economist . "The previous strike on Tuapse, a major Russian oil export hub, followed a similar pattern. First, the marine terminal caught fire. Then, a second strike caused an oil spill. Ukraine launched two more strikes, including one on the main oil refinery," the report noted. Such attacks by Ukraine bring the war closer to ordinary Russians far from the front lines. They demonstrate that Russia is not invincible. "However, this data doesn't provide a complete picture of the scale of the strikes' devastating consequences, so we attempted to determine this ourselves. Our data analysis suggests that Ukraine's strikes deep into Russia's territory were more extensive and caused greater damage to the Russian economy and military production than is commonly believed. The intensity of these strikes continues to escalate," the publication's journalists write. Specifically, they analyzed data on 1,289 Ukrainian strikes from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data or ACLED project. From late 2022 to late 2024, 335 strikes met these criteria. In 2025, Ukraine carried out 658 such strikes—almost twice as many in one year as in the previous three combined. This year, at the current pace, Ukraine is on track to carry out over 800 deep strikes. "The Ukrainian campaign's footprint is also expanding. We compiled a list of 6,351 Russian strategic facilities located at least 100 kilometers from the border, based on open-source intelligence and reports from energy monitoring groups. We found that 2,377 of these facilities were within a 5-kilometer radius of the deep strike site reported by Ukraine by ACLED last year. By comparison, in 2022, there were only 32 such facilities," the report emphasized. Also, the number of registered strikes is likely underreported. The expansion of Ukraine's air campaign has made it difficult even for monitoring groups to track them. To estimate how many strikes are being missed, The Economist created a model that uses fires near strategic sites as a way to detect Ukrainian attacks. "Throughout 2025, our model recorded approximately three times more strikes than ACLED. Much of this difference is explained by repeated attacks on the same targets: if each target is counted only once, the model detected only 44% more strikes than ACLED. This is consistent with Ukraine's new tactic of repeatedly striking critical Russian targets," the publication added. It is noted that this tactic causes economic damage in two stages. First, it hinders a rapid recovery – no sooner had the first fires in Tuapse been extinguished than Ukraine struck again, resulting in an oil spill. "Repair work is expensive, diverting funds that would otherwise go to the military and civilian economies. Russian central bank data show that bank lending to oil companies for refining operations has increased by $22 billion since the first quarter of 2024," the article notes. At the same time, as The Economist notes, not all of Ukraine's deep strikes are successful. Most are carried out using unmanned aerial vehicles armed with small explosive devices. "The easiest targets to destroy in a single attack—large and flammable objects—have become more difficult to hit: Russian troops have significantly improved their skills in moving and concealing their ammunition depots, for example. But ports, oil depots, and refineries are impossible to conceal, and in this case, Ukraine has turned its lesser firepower to its advantage," the authors of the publication explained. The journalists' analysis shows that, since June 2025, Russia has been earning less from fossil fuels than would be expected given current Brent crude prices, and that this deficit is steadily growing. Specifically, from June to December 2025, the country's revenue from fossil fuel exports amounted to $18 billion, which is 12% lower than generally expected. Specifically, in the first four months of 2026, it was 34% lower. Journalists believe that faster, more powerful and accurate weapons will deliver stronger strikes and help expand the area of destruction. Click here and just subscribe to Kanal13 - https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13a... https://www.youtube.com/KANAL13AZ/join *ATTENTION: If you woul like to contact with US please, write to +49176 75077516 WhatsApp ▌▌►Website: http://kanal13.tv/   / tvkanal13     / kanal13az     / kanal13.az   Click & Subscribe to the main youtube Channel