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Ukraine has begun striking pumping stations along the Druzhba pipeline. Since the majority of Europe no longer relies on Russian crude, these attacks mainly pressure those few holdouts…like Hungary. This is Kyiv’s way of dipping its toes in the water; if Europe and Washington tolerate it, expect to see an escalation in strikes.

Should that happen, Russia’s ability to fund the war effort would quickly diminish and we could see the most dramatic economic shift in the war so far.

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