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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 1m

the Moskva sank “because of a fire,” conveniently leaving out the source of that fire: the two missiles that hit it.

I wonder if the russians have already struggled to maintain a proper maintenance schedule and are now acknowledging they *can’t* without further crippling production numbers.

An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5m

So how often does any specific refinery have maintenance scheduled, assuming no sanctions or unscheduled explosions? And would sanctions complicate this scheduling?

I ask because I wonder if this is the russians hiding an ugly truth instead of establishing a new policy, sort of how they claimed

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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 6h

Updated map of the regions of Russia where there are shortages of gasoline or diesel and how early was it first reported. As always it's worse in the occupied territories. Added 3 new regions since last update, Tomsk, Kemerovо and Bashkortostan.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 6h

Now that they've figured out that they can, they just need to figure out how.
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 6h

"This [import] opportunity exists. Our legislation allows for this, and the government has eliminated the import duty—previously, there was a prohibitive 5% duty. Therefore, economic operators can supply gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum products," he said.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 9h

Hope you enjoyed your vacation. There are claims that Volgograd and one of the Burning Bashneft Brothers were hit again overnight.

While you get the enviable job of sorting that out, I'll just go back to watching Feodosia burn some more.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 2d

“More often” denied compared to who? Who else needs continuous glucose monitoring more than diabetics? Medvedev?

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when the ministry of finance thought they wouldn’t have to offer billions in subsidies to oil companies for gasoline refining? Last week? Good times.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 3d

It’s enjoyable watching the oil companies get squeezed, but having the gov’t fork over money that they thought they were going to be able to keep in their pocket works pretty well too. Eagerly awaiting this month’s daily deficit updates from @prune602.bsky.social.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 4d

More unknown debris arrivals overnight.

Kostiantyn Hoholenko @hoholenko.bsky.social · 4d

update 11.10.2025

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Huh.

An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Mass bankruptcies followed by government supported “consolidation” can do that, yes.

An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Let the great harvest of fines begin!

An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

(Or selling to foreign customers for their winter storage needs)

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Wait, consumption as in use or in putting away for storage?

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Can we assume that this means they have no room to put anymore and no customers to buy anymore?

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Time to raise taxes on the plebs!

That always works great in russia.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Being free of the burden of having to pay for new railway cars should help russian railways meet the challenge of trying to ramp up business to offset the coming collapse of russian road transport as gas and diesel disappear just at the same time shipping companies drown in a sea of lease debt.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

Ok, I’m not sure making me break out the Malört in celebration is a “warning” but ok.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

When properly motivated, changes can happen fast enough.

It took one year after 1904, three years after 1914, and two years after 1989.

It’s been three years since 2022, and lines at the gas stations are growing.

An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 5d

“His enemies” in this case referred to the people that have his bar tab. They were afraid he was skipping out on them.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 6d

Even better, the government is considering tax holidays for some (or most) of these industries. Because what the government needs right now is less tax revenue. That they’ll never recover because it’s not the tax rates that are causing the businesses to go bankrupt.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 6d

What another delightful way to learn russian geography.

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 7d

That was it, thank you!

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 7d

This is the second time that this has happened that I’m aware of. The first was a few weeks ago, I believe?

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An Annoyed Ukrainian American @annoyeduke.bsky.social · 8d

Better get to it before everyone empties their bank accounts in order to pay for gas in buckets on the street corner.

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