As everyone knows, Russia has huge surplus of oil and processed oil based products, which it exports. So hitting those Russian oil refineries hits Russia financially and lowers supply of refined petroleum products on the market, meaning higher costs at the pump in Europe. Ultimately it hits both sides financially. Now, the real question here is who does it hurt more. Crimea is not "cut off", there's no shortages of food or anything else there besides petrol products. It appears to be a stunt to force Russia to reroute oil deliveries to Crimea over Kerch Bridge (Russia stopped doing that after last attack) for the purpose of attacking that bridge once again. EU is trying so hard to paint Putin as this illogical, irrational, madman, that they themselves started to believe it, and are paying for that. Russia didn't succumb to pressure and didn't pull troops from Pokrovsk to sent them to Kursk, and so far, the Kerch bridge stands.
"mostly related to internal affairs" you funny, right right, of course how could i forget that nothing that happens in EU could be related to Ukraine. Should we all just act surprised when ultra rights come to power in EU, its kinda hard to deny them leading in polls everywhere. Perhaps it'd be easier to convince everyone that it's just a coincidence and totally not related to EU sending billions to Ukraine instead of their own schools, infrastructure, making its manufacturing competitive, or preferring expensive "freedom" gas from US instead of cheap pipeline gas?
And for the record, how would things look if it was related to external affairs? That is, how else can Europeans show their disapproval at sending billions to Ukraine and refusing cheap Russian resources?
I doubt that Ukraine has task to make shortage of food or anything else in Crimea. While lack of petrol is something what affects daily life very significant and also makes supply to frontline more complicated. BTW, big part of Crimea also faced blackout of electricity:
https://www.ft.com/content/7107a1c1-8025-4237-947f-40fa39c9d2fe?syn-25a6b1a6=1These strikes aren't going to affect Europe because % of petrol based products that Europe is buying from Russia is so insignificant that it can't have impact. Only thing that EU is buying from Russia is is LNG.
Yeah, PM's is changing often in UK, but which one resigned because of Ukraine question? Johnson resigned after domestic scandal, Sunak lost elections, Starmer was changed because of economics in UK and affairs in their own party. But as you see, despite all these changes their stance on Ukraine question doesn't changes, unlike in some other countries like Slovakia or Bulgaria.
