Overview
- Ukraine’s president announced Kyiv has ended a short pause and resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries in direct response to renewed Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
- Russian officials reported a fire at a Rosneft refinery southeast of Moscow that they attributed to Ukrainian drones after Ukraine said it had struck the facility in retaliation.
- Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces were deprived of U.S. early‑warning alerts and faced reduced Starlink speeds that hampered frontline operations while SpaceX and U.S. officials maintained that some military controls sit with U.S. authorities.
- President Trump publicly called Ukraine’s resumption of refinery strikes “a disgrace” over the effect on fuel supplies even as U.S. officials denied cutting intelligence sharing to Kyiv.
- The dispute follows U.S. mediation moves, including temporary licenses to allow some Russian diesel exports, and highlights deep verification and reciprocity problems that make any energy‑sector truce fragile and could keep pressure on global fuel markets.