Refinery Attacks and North Korea
10 min readJun 19, 2024
Let’s start with the increasing number of refinery attacks. This is the latest; it happened overnight. They matter because Russia not only needs the gas for the war machine; Russia is a petro-state. Even with sanctions, it is the best way to get hard currency. So this matters:
In Russia, on the night of June 18, in addition to the oil depot in Azov, Rostov region, an oil depot in the Temryuk district of…