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Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences@actfast · Sep 24, 2026

🧵The White House repeatedly begged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop bombing Russian refineries. Forty-eight hours later,…

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Ukraine has intensified strikes on Russian oil refineries despite US pressure for restraint, destroying 45% of Russia's refining capacity and forcing fuel rationing. The thread details Russia's military desperation, including manpower shortages, reliance on drone warfare, failed encirclement claims, and alleged corruption involving EU sanctions on oligarchs.

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    🧵The White House repeatedly begged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to stop bombing Russian refineries. Forty-eight hours later, Ukrainian drones incinerated Rosneft's Kuibyshev plant, wiping out 1.4 million tons of annual diesel capacity before dawn. 1/🧵

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    Zelenskyy offered zero apologies. He publicly thanked his warriors for applying "Ukrainian long-range sanctions." Washington asked for an energy truce; Kyiv answered by torching two more refineries in Samara and Bashkortostan. 2/

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    Ukraine's strikes knocked 45% of Russia's refining capacity offline. On the Chinese border, the Zabaykalye government officially posted a 20-day fuel countdown. A nuclear petro-state is now counting gasoline like a besieged garrison counts bread. 3/

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    At 9 AM, Moscow's Defense Ministry claimed it "completed the encirclement" of Dobropillya. Six hours later, top military blogger Yuriy Podolyaka confessed on Telegram: "There is no physical ring as such. But in modern war, one almost never exists." 4/

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    Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots revealed why: "There is of course no infantry chain around the city." Russia has no human wall left. They are replacing soldiers with drone eyes because the army ran out of men. 5/

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    The FSB traded freedom for an assassination. They dropped drug possession charges for an unemployed Melitopol woman, routed her through Belarus, and handed her a dead-dropped pistol in Kyiv to assassinate a kickboxing coach. 6/

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    Russia's Black Sea Fleet cannot enter dry docks for repairs without taking drone strikes. Frigates sail on active combat damage because nowhere is safe. Moscow's official solution for Sevastopol's air defense? The bones of a 14th-century saint. 7/

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    Dean Archimandrite Siluan credited Saint Dmitry Donskoy’s relics for a drop in drone attacks. Milbloggers openly mocked the brass: Romanov sarcastically thanked officials for "a clear sky," noting praying to skeletons is not air defense. 8/

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    While Moscow prays to skeletons, Brussels takes a payoff. The EU extended war sanctions but quietly scrubbed oligarchs Fridman and Usmanov. Russian state TV host Sergei Mardan laughed on air, boasting Europe's defenders of democracy were "under the bunk." 9/

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    Russia is out of infantry, counting 20 days of fuel, relying on holy relics, and bribing European officials. Ukraine sees a state running on pure desperation and answers by burning more refineries. The Full Report: 10/🧵 professorbonk.substack.com/p/ukraine-sanc…