"We will burn their refineries": Ukraine to continue strikes on Russian oil refining – FT
Ukraine will continue to target Russian oil refineries, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to allow Russian diesel fuel to be supplied to the U.S. and global markets.
Financial Times journalist Christopher Miller reports this, citing a Ukrainian official, according to Censor.NET.
"We'll burn down their oil refineries," said the source.
According to Miller, "disappointment and anger prevail in Kyiv tonight" due to Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russian diesel fuel.
In comments to Axios, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that President Trump's decision to lift sanctions on Russia and allow it to export diesel fuel was "unfair and dishonest."
"You know, it's like a birthday present for Putin. It looks terrible," he said.
What led up to this?
- On October 9, U.S. President Donald Trump stated that he had spoken with Russian dictator Putin, with whom he had agreed on the supply of diesel fuel from Russia to markets in the United States and around the world.
- According to him, Russia will "immediately" supply more than 300,000 metric tons of diesel to the U.S. and global markets, another 500,000 metric tons in November, and another million metric tons "immediately afterward."
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that, at Trump's direction, the Office of Foreign Assets Control is immediately issuing a temporary general license to allow the supply of Russian diesel fuel to the global market.
- In response, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russia's authorization to sell petroleum products "an investment in war" and urged the U.S. to have a firm conversation with Moscow and impose sanctions under the Lindsey Graham Act.
- As a reminder, amid Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries, Russian authorities have extended the ban on diesel fuel exports several times, at least through the end of October.
- The U.S. president has publicly stated that Ukraine must stop its attacks on Russia’s energy sector because, he claims, this is leading to a diesel fuel shortage. According to him, the shortage is due specifically to the war in Ukraine, not to the U.S. war against Iran.
- Similar statements have been made by other American politicians. For example, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy sector are leading to an energy crisis. He cited the war with Iran as the second cause of the crisis.
