Mr. Ernst and Mr. Krutikhin noted that, unlike in other oil infrastructure such as pipelines, a lot of complex machinery and sophisticated engineering goes into refineries, and they can take several months to fix. Some analysts say the repairs could take longer than usual because sanctions prohibit Western sales of certain components to Russia.
Ukraine is still bleeding more than Russia. Instead of gloating over human waves they should have used the moment when the Russian military was obviously incompetent and inexperienced. Now the gap in expertise is smaller.
Time for the comeback? 😱