{"id":934303,"date":"2026-10-15T19:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934303\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:40:23","slug":"ukraine-resumes-attacks-on-russian-refineries-as-zelenskyy-expresses-frustration-with-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934303\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine resumes attacks on Russian refineries, as Zelenskyy expresses frustration with U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine has resumed \u200cits attacks on Russian refineries with a strike at an installation in the Ryazan region, the regional governor said Thursday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced his anger at the withdrawal of U.S. intelligence.<\/p>\n

Since U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday, Zelenskyy said Kyiv had \u200brefrained from attacking Russian refineries, which the U.S. leader had blamed for \u200braising diesel prices on global markets. <\/p>\n

But Zelenskyy had expressed increasing frustration with Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, which on Wednesday had left 600,000 people without power, he said. He warned that \u200bUkraine would not suspend its own attacks indefinitely if Russia did not reciprocate and also criticized what \u2060he said was Trump’s favouritism \u2060toward Russia. <\/p>\n

In an interview with the Financial Times published \u200con Thursday, he said Ukraine’s patience had run out. “The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done.”<\/p>\n

Pavel Malkov, the governor of Russia’s Ryazan region, said in a post on Telegram that a major Ukrainian drone attack on the area had sparked a fire at an oil refinery.<\/p>\n

“The material damage is now being \u2060assessed. Emergency services are working at the scene,” he said.<\/p>\n

The Ryazan refinery is owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft and feeds Moscow with fuel. It has been attacked several times by drones in recent months. The refinery accounts for almost five per cent of Russia’s total oil refining throughput.<\/p>\n

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the recent Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries had not caused \u200bsignificant damage and vowed \u200bthat Moscow would respond, Interfax reported.<\/p>\n

“They hit here and \u200bthere. Nothing particularly significant. Nevertheless \u2060they are \u2060carrying \u200con,” Putin said.<\/p>\n

The Current19:20Is President Trump\u2019s diesel deal reshaping the Ukraine war?<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump says a deal with Russia will see 300,000 tonnes of Russian diesel released to the global markets this month, in an effort to lower prices for Americans. Simon Shuster, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of \u201cThe Showman,\u201d describes how the deal is shaping the dynamics of the conflict.No European alternative to Starlink<\/p>\n

In his interview, Zelenskyy criticized Washington’s eagerness to strike business deals with Moscow and Trump’s apparent admiration for Russia’s Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Trump on Saturday called for Ukraine to replace Zelenskyy and railed against Ukraine’s attacks on \u200cRussian oil infrastructure, one day after announcing a diesel supply deal with Russia, aiming to lower fuel prices that have soared since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine says Starlink restrictions are disrupting military operations<\/p>\n

Ukraine says restrictions on the military version of Starlink have disrupted its defence capabilities against Russia and prompted questions about whether changes to Elon Musk’s SpaceX internet service were politically motivated.<\/p>\n

Despite Ukraine’s suspension of refinery attacks for three days, Ukrainian officials complained that they had not received any U.S. early-warning alerts in recent days for incoming Russian ballistic missiles.<\/p>\n

They also \u200bsaid the military version of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite communications service had been slowed across the country, hampering front-line operations and medium-range strikes against Russian military sites.<\/p>\n

Musk said Wednesday in a post on X that Starshield \u2014 the military version of Starlink \u2014 was owned and controlled by the U.S. \u2060government, which decided on any limits on speed.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy has said that Ukrainian military officials were warned by their U.S. \u2060counterparts \u2060that Washington would block intelligence unless they halted \u200bstrikes on Russian energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

In the FT interview, Zelenskyy said the suspension was presented to Kyiv as a technical glitch, but he \u200bdismissed that possibility, calling it a matter of “will.”<\/p>\n

Europe does not have a ready-made alternative to Starlink that Ukrainian soldiers could attach to their drones, although European governments and companies are working on long-term options.<\/p>\n

Asked whether Ukraine would be open to halting energy strikes as a way of repairing relations with the White House, Zelenskyy told the newspaper he could only agree if in return he was given more U.S.-made Patriot interceptors, calling it the “minimum” that would be \u2060acceptable.<\/p>\n

Trump has had a contentious relationship with Ukraine’s president, dating back to 2019 when he was impeached by the Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives for pressuring Zelenskyy for a political favour in exchange for military aid for Ukraine. Trump was acquitted in the U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n

Trump has also been highly critical of the amount of military and humanitarian aid given to Ukraine by Joe Biden’s presidential administration after Russia’s 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n

3 killed in central Ukraine<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s \u2060air \u200bforce said 580 Russian drones \u200battacked \u2060the country overnight, with 536 shot down.<\/p>\n

The central Ukrainian region of Kirovohrad was hit \u200cby the largest Russian attack on its territory during \u200bthe war, killing \u200bthree people and wounding another six overnight, \u200bthe local governor \u2060said Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Firefighters work at the site of an enterprise hit by a Russian drone strike on Thursday in Kropyvnytskyi. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

The region, a relatively infrequent target of bombardment, was hit by \u2060more than 360 drones, local governor Andriy Raikovych wrote \u200con Telegram.<\/p>\n

Russia also hit Ukraine’s \u200cNaftogaz gas-extraction \u200bfacility in the \u200bcentral Poltava region \u200bovernight, \u2060the company \u2060said. It said in \u2060a statement on Telegram that the \u200battack suspended \u2060the \u2060operations, \u2060damaged \u2060equipment and \u200bcaused a \u200bfire.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s military said Thursday it had damaged six Russian Su-34M military aircraft in an overnight strike on the Borisoglebsk airfield in Russia’s Voronezh region. The Su-34M is a large fighter-bomber, costing tens of millions of dollars apiece and frequently used by Russia to drop devastating glide bombs onto Ukrainian cities near the front line. <\/p>\n

Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield reports.<\/p>\n

At sea, rescuers were searching Thursday for seven missing crew from one of two chemical tankers that \u200ccaught fire overnight just outside Romanian territorial waters in the Black Sea, after Russian drones strayed into national airspace, Romanian officials said. <\/p>\n

The incidents follow drone strikes on at least five other cargo ships near the coasts of Romania and neighbouring fellow NATO \u2060member Bulgaria over the past 10 days. \u2060At least 23 sailors were lost from those strikes, which took place just outside NATO’s \u200cterritorial waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine has resumed \u200cits attacks on Russian refineries with a strike at an installation in the Ryazan region,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-934303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}