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Ukraine strikes two Russian oil refineries · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Some breaking news this hour. Black smoke is hanging over
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  Speaker 1: the Russian city of Yaroslavl, the home of one of
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  Speaker 1: the country's biggest oil refineries, after a Ukrainian drone attack.
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  Speaker 1: President Zelenski of Ukraine said they had targeted the refinery
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  Speaker 1: and another in Bashkortostan as part of the effort to
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  Speaker 1: cut the oil revenues that fund Russia's war effort. The
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  Speaker 1: region's governors called it the largest ever attack, saying ninety
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  Speaker 1: three drones were destroyed. But that's only part of the picture.
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  Speaker 1: Across Russia, the military says it has intercepted and destroyed
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  Speaker 1: over six hundred Ukrainian drones. The attacks have also continued
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  Speaker 1: the other way. Five Ukrainians were reported to have been
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  Speaker 1: killed in Russian attacks overnight. These are images from Zaparizia,
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  Speaker 1: where Russian drones hit an apartment block injuring two civilians. Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's speak to our correspondent from BBC Russian, Olga Ivshina.
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  Speaker 1: Hello to you, Olga. Just bring us up to date
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  Speaker 1: with what's been happening overnight.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, yes, so there have been missile strikes, drone strikes
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  Speaker 2: on both sides. So as you re asually said, the
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  Speaker 2: Ukraine have been hit ninety four drones and two ballistic missiles.
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  Speaker 2: Only sixty six of those drones have been intercepted, as
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  Speaker 2: stated by Ukrainian officials. So this shows one of the
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  Speaker 2: big problems which exists now for Ukraine. They lack intercepting
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  Speaker 2: facility and of course most importantly, they don't have capabilities
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  Speaker 2: currently to intercept Russia's ballistic missiles, which can bring significant
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  Speaker 2: troubles and significant destructions for different facilities in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: On apology to carry on.
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  Speaker 2: On the other side, the Russia has also been hit,
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  Speaker 2: so Russian mod this morning reported over six hundred drones
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  Speaker 2: being flown over Russia. They claim most of them have
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  Speaker 2: been intercepted, but there has been successful strike on Russian
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  Speaker 2: facilities in Yarrasau that's roughly three hundred kilometers from Moscow,
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  Speaker 2: and that's one thy three hundred pilmetters from Moscow. This
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  Speaker 2: shows what the deep range Ukrainian drones are now reaching.
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  Speaker 2: And it has been quite a long and successful campaign
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  Speaker 2: of Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian facilities, mostly industrial but
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  Speaker 2: also some civilian fertilities have been hit, while various storage
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  Speaker 2: facilities that's Russian analog of Amazon. Ukraine claims it's being
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  Speaker 2: hit because it sells some military related products. Moscow strongly
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  Speaker 2: denies that.
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  Speaker 1: And do we know to what extent the strikes by
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine far inside Russia are having an effect on Russian
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  Speaker 1: public opinion.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good question. First of all, you know, Russian
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  Speaker 2: is a nousthor Italian society, so it's very hard to
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  Speaker 2: measure the reals of public opinion, public climate and side.
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  Speaker 2: But based on the polls we get a public opinion
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  Speaker 2: of public mood is being affected. Putting's rating is it
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  Speaker 2: flows Since the start of the invasion in February twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, it has dropped from eighty seven percent last
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  Speaker 2: year to seventy six seventy four percent in July. So
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  Speaker 2: that's a big job. But the trouble is the amount
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  Speaker 2: of people who according to the Post, people who support
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  Speaker 2: possible peace negotiations piece deal is around sixty percent. But
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  Speaker 2: the big problem is public opinion. They don't decide. There
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  Speaker 2: is one man in the Kremin who calls the shots,
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  Speaker 2: and he repeatedly says that he wants to continue this image.
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  Speaker 1: And as well as all the strikes on oil refineries,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen strike after strike by Ukraine on the Russian
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  Speaker 1: retail chain wild barriers. What sort of effect is this
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  Speaker 1: having on life in Russia.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it depends which part of Russia we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Russia is huge, right in those particular places where those
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  Speaker 2: storage facilities who were placed, of course people feel the effort,
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  Speaker 2: people are in shock, et cetera. But overall we don't
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  Speaker 2: see significant disturbance. So the overall the business continues. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: people lose their money the while there is a chain
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  Speaker 2: itself is significantly effective, but the sales continue. People can
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  Speaker 2: get the everyday goes they need. Of course, there are
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  Speaker 2: some minor disruptions, but Russia tries to find alternative ways.
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  Speaker 2: For example with petrol because of oil strike oil facility strikes,
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  Speaker 2: Russia started buying petrol from Morocco, from India, so they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to play things down and to try to find
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  Speaker 2: alternative fruits.
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  Speaker 1: Olga, thank you very much. If BBC Russian