Refinery Attacks and North Korea

Nadin Brzezinski
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…

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Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB