Ukraine to Resume Russian Oil Refinery Strikes After Failed Energy Ceasefire

Tsvetana Paraskova

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By Tsvetana Paraskova-Oct 15, 2026, 4:30 AM CDT

Ukraine will resume drone strikes on Russian refineries after Russia kept striking energy facilities and eliminating civilians in Ukraine regardless of U.S. President Trump’s claim of an”energy ceasefire “, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy informed the Financial Times

In the interview in London, the Ukrainian President informed feet he had actually bought a time out in strikes on Russian refineries for 3 days to adhere to the U.S. desires. Russia continued to strike Ukraine’s energy facilities and eliminate civilians, Zelenskyy stated.

” The block is out. We’re done, “the Ukrainian President informed feet, while likewise slamming the U.S. passion to concur organization offers with Russia, consisting of in the energy sector.

Zelenskyy has for days firmly insisted that Russia isn’t adhering to any “energy truce” and continues to target with ballistic rockets energy facilities–“the extremely facilities covered by the ceasefire revealed by the American President.”

A strike early on Wednesday on Ukraine’s energy and crucial facilities in Kyiv, the Kyiv area, and Kharkiv “was completely intentional and demonstrative in its scale– Russia has actually never ever before revealed such extravagant disrespect towards the United States,” Zelenskyy published on X the other day.

In the interview with feet, the Ukrainian President likewise revealed his aggravation with the “unsafe” withdrawal of U.S. intelligence and the synchronised weakening of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite interactions throughout Ukraine.

President Trump has actually pressed Zelenskyy to stop striking Russian oil refineries, due to the fact that part of the international diesel crunch is the absence of Russian exports. The other significant motorist of record-high diesel costs and the highest-ever October gas costs in the U.S. is, naturally, the war in Iran President Trump picked to participate in early this year.

Early on Thursday, petroleum costs fell by about 1% in Asian trading as reports emerged that President Trump was thinking about raising sanctions on tankers utilized to carry oil and fuels from Venezuela, Russia, and Iran in a quote to reduce a deepening tanker crunch.

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

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