Edition No238 | 01-09-2025 - Ukraine is hitting Russia where it hurts. Russian pipelines are going boom, queues for petrol are lengthening in Russia’a far east, and as time goes on, extending far further afield across the country. The Kremlin Tsar for life finds that Russia’s size, thought to be an advantage that made it invulnerable to defeat, have now turned it into a brittle and vulnerable empire, practically indefensible. We’ll unpack fresh strikes that threaten Moscow’s fuel lifelines, meet Ukraine’s new long-range “Flamingo” missile, and follow the spider silk of a campaign that’s shredded Russia’s aura of invulnerability. Has the siege of Moscow begun in earnest? Why Moscow’s fuel supply is at risk – Russia’s resources are not found in Moscow, but in its provinces – it’s colonies. Moscow is a voracious consumer of energy, materials and resources, food, oil and gas. It drinks fuel through pipelines and refineries strung along hundreds of kilometers — particularly from Ryazan, a major refining hub that has repeatedly been hit since 2024–25. Independent reporting this spring noted the Ryazan refinery’s output was halved or suspended after drone strikes; analysts warned that Moscow’s downstream supply was unusually concentrated in a small number of chokepoints. One Ukrainian frontline report put it bluntly: Ryazan “supplies up to 50% of” the Moscow region’s fuel needs. (POLITICO)----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------SOURCES: https://kyivindependent.com/powerful-explosion-hits-russian-oil-pipeline-supplying-moscow-intelligence-source-claims/https://www.reuters.com/breakingviews/putins-economic-resilience-rests-war-addiction-2024-10-15/https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-deep-russia-lays-bare-putins-vulnerabili-rcna210300https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-flamingo-cruise-missile-russia-2119358https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/08/27/ukraine-shows-off-a-deadly-new-cruise-missilehttps://www.euronews.com/next/2025/08/26/flamingo-will-ukraines-new-wonder-weapon-replace-the-taurushttps://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-making-long-range-missile-flamingo-1000-kg-warhead-2025-8https://www.politico.eu/article/flamingo-ukraine-3000km-cruise-missile-woman-vladimir-putin-donald-trump-volodymyr-zelenskyy-drone/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/18/ukraine-flamingo-missile-3000km-1tonne-warhead/----------