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1586th day. In Slavyansk-on-Kuban, an oil refinery was hit - this is part of Zelensky’s 40-day “influence operation.” Trump may abandon the Anchorage Accords
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On the night of June 28, Ukraine attacked the Krasnodar region with drones; after the attack, an oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban caught fire. The attack left one person dead, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said. Another person was injured in the area of the Trudobelikovsky farm in the Krasnoarmeisky district, where debris from a drone fell.
The refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban is part of the Slavyansk ECO group of companies. It produces fuel oil, naphtha and marine fuel and processes about three million tons of oil per year.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed the attack on the refinery. As a result of the impact, fires were recorded in the area of a tank farm with crude oil, a petroleum products storage park, as well as in the area of a primary oil refining installation, the SBU said. The authorities of the Krasnodar region did not report the specific consequences of the strikes and damage.
The attack on the Slavyansk oil refinery was carried out as part of a 40-day operation to influence Russia, the SBU said. Vladimir Zelenskyannounced the approval of this operation on June 25, without specifying what it would consist of.
In addition, according to Zelensky, on the night of June 28, Ukraine hit another oil refinery - in the Yaroslavl region (this is about 700 kilometers from the border). The regional authorities kept silent about the consequences of the attack on the refinery. The governor of the Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Evraev, on the night of June 28 reported about the unmanned threat and drone attack in the region, and then about the blocking of traffic on the exit towards Moscow. Soon the road was open.
The NASA FIRMS map (Fire Information for Resource Management System, a project for satellite monitoring of thermal anomalies) shows that there are fires on the territory of the Yaroslavl Refinery. In addition, the fires are also evidenced by photos from the ground published by telegram channels.
Ukraine
Russian troops, in turn, attacked Zaporozhye and Kyiv at night. There are two casualties in the capital of Ukraine, said the mayor of Kiev Vitaliy Klitschko.
In Zaporozhye, according to the latest data from the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov, two dead and 16 wounded. One of the dead is a 53-year-old woman, the identity of the second is being established. According to Fedorov, Russian troops hit the city with guided bombs.
World
Trump, at the G7 summit, which took place from June 15 to 17, “expressed disappointment” with Vladimir Putin and “made it clear” that he could abandon the “Anchorage agreements,” under which Russia demanded the transfer of Donbass, Axios writes , citing two sources.
“Trump was skeptical about everything connected with Putin and talked about putting pressure on Russia. But other leaders don't believe he will actually take action,” one person told Axios.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiga said that the “spirit of Anchorage” (this expression was used in the Russian press to describe the results of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska) is “definitely dead,” if it ever existed at all.
“For Russia, the lesson of Anchorage is that any peace plan developed without the participation of Ukraine is doomed to become a ghost and disappear. Moscow should stop believing in ghosts and instead respond to serious proposals from Ukraine to come to the negotiating table and end the war,” Sibiga wrote.
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Kirill . I became gloating, almost angry. I used to think that Russians just needed to be taught to be responsible citizens. Explain to them that politics is not something distant, but a mechanism that will sooner or later affect them. It seemed to me that if this understanding appeared, then we would all feel better.
I left Russia in 2022. Four years later, I look from the outside at people who are just beginning to come to the conclusions that I have lived with since 2014. Only now, in 2026, when reality became too noticeable to ignore, did they begin to raise their heads and say something. And it makes me angry.
For more than ten years I have been trying to talk about responsibility and the cost of indifference. It was convenient for them not to hear, it was great and fun for them to live as if what was happening did not concern them. As if all this was somewhere far away, with someone else, not with them. And now that the consequences have come to them, I’m ashamed to admit it, but I’m gloating. I think: this is it, this is what I was talking about! This is the result of elections, silence, ridicule, indifference and the eternal “not everything is so simple.”
I'm not proud of this emotion of mine, but I validate it, and it exists. And some part of me wants them to feel bad now, but not abstractly and symbolically, but for real, so that they finally suffer. And I know that I am not the only one, and many who migrated are simply uncomfortable admitting it.