{"id":821296,"date":"2026-11-02T02:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821296\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T02:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T02:04:20","slug":"ukraine-defies-trump-to-resume-attacks-on-russian-oil-refineries-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821296\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine defies Trump to resume attacks on Russian oil refineries | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine has resumed its attacks on Russian oil refineries in defiance of pressure from Donald Trump<\/a> ahead of the US midterm elections, as a ceasefire in the occupied town of Oleshky ended on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Russian state media said on Sunday Ukrainian long-range drones had set fire to the Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod oblast overnight, soon after a major strike against another big refinery in Samara oblast, owned by the Russian state energy giant Rosneft.<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal had reported that Ukraine had given in to pressure<\/a> from the White House to stop bombing Russian energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials, however, told the Kyiv Independent newspaper that they never agreed to a demand<\/a> from Jared Kushner, the US president\u2019s son-in-law, to pause refinery strikes for 30 days. The raids on Russia restarted on Friday, Kremlin officials said, complaining that Kyiv was now \u201csimply ignoring\u201d US wishes.<\/p>\n

Trump has blamed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>, for the rise in global fuel prices, and last month lifted US sanctions on Russian diesel.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy has not acknowledged the latest refinery attacks, in an apparent attempt to avoid angry US reprisals. Instead, he said his armed forces had hit a defence industry enterprise in Russia\u2019s Rostov region that made missiles. A Pantsir missile system was destroyed, he said, as part of Ukraine\u2019s continuing \u201clong-range sanctions\u201d.<\/p>\n

A satellite image shows smoke rising from the Novokuybyshevsk oil refinery in the Samara region of Russia after a reported Ukrainian drone attack on Friday. Photograph: European Union\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said his country was obliged to retaliate because of a remorseless campaign by Moscow, using drones and ballistic missiles, against vulnerable city-based energy facilities. Four Ukrainian regions were hit by Russia overnight, with electricity cut as a result in hundreds of thousands of households.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intensity of the strikes is very high, and the Russians are seeking to maximally exploit the \u200bdeficit of ballistic missile interceptors,\u201d the Ukrainian president said on Telegram. Kyiv<\/a> experienced power cuts lasting eight to 10 hours on Sunday after a critical thermal power plant was damaged.<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said Russia was suffering record losses, with 54,400 military personnel killed and wounded in October \u2013 the highest monthly figure since the full-scale war began. He said Ukraine recaptured 96.2 sqkm (37 sq miles) of its territory last month, 10.4 sqkm (4 sq miles) more than Moscow managed to seize, and emphasised: \u201cRussia is losing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest attacks came before a six-day local ceasefire<\/a> brokered by the US first lady, Melania Trump, came to an end in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky. Hundreds of residents were reunited with their loved ones<\/a> over the weekend in northern Ukraine, with both sides hailing the evacuation mission as a success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ceasefire, which was in effect from October 27 to November 1, has ended,\u201d said Ukraine\u2019s human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, hailing what had been an \u201cimportant step in our joint humanitarian efforts\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Ukrainian observers say the Russian military used the truce to reinforce its positions and to swap hungry and exhausted troops garrisoned in Oleshky. The town sits on the left bank of the Dnipro River, to the east, and is opposite the larger city of Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured in autumn 2022. A renewed Russian onslaught is inevitable, the observers believe.<\/p>\n

The pope said on Sunday he hoped cooperation between \u2060Russia and Ukraine in implementing the Oleshky ceasefire \u2013 the most significant since 2022 \u2013 would \u2060pave the \u2060way \u200bfor broader peace efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that the cooperation between the parties, which made this necessary humanitarian gesture possible, will strengthen their willingness to engage in dialogue,\u201d he said during his Sunday prayer.<\/p>\n

Trilateral talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the US are likely to take place later this month, and Kremlin officials said on Sunday that Vladimir Putin<\/a> was willing to talk directly to Zelenskyy by phone. They added that European leaders who support Ukraine should not be involved in any such call.<\/p>\n

There is little prospect of a wider breakthrough, however, as the Russian president\u2019s maximalist demands remain unchanged.<\/p>\n

He is insisting that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donetsk oblast \u2013 which Russia has been unable to seize since 2014 \u2013 as well as further territory in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, which the Kremlin does not control but says it has \u201cannexed\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine has resumed its attacks on Russian oil refineries in defiance of pressure from Donald Trump ahead of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-821296","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}