In recent months, Russia’s oil infrastructure has been repeatedly set ablaze. Refineries, storage facilities, and export terminals have turned into targets, with fires breaking out again and again. The reported Ukrainian strike near Taman port, close to Novorossiysk, is only the latest example of a strategy that appears increasingly deliberate. These are not random attacks. They are aimed at the very system that keeps Russia’s war effort alive.Oil has always been central to Russia’s power. It funds the state, sustains the military, and anchors its global influence. But the same infrastructure that makes Russia strong also makes it vulnerable. Fuel depots and export hubs cannot be hidden. When they are hit, they burn, often uncontrollably,........

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